Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 876

“I’m not sure how the two of you ended up in the Spirit Realm. However, I do know why you didn’t fall into the territory of the human race. It’s probably because the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Incantation [a powerful cultivation technique] prevented the human race’s Spirit Guard from accepting you.”

“Yuan Yao and I thought that might be the case as well,” Lian Luo said.

Yuan Yao nodded in agreement.

“Well, let’s talk about the past later when we have time. You must have come to me for another reason.”

Han Li raised an eyebrow. Yuan Yao and Lian Luo exchanged glances. After a moment, Lian Luo hesitated before revealing something that surprised Han Li.

“Since Brother Han has known Lian for a long time, I won’t beat around the bush. The reason we sought you out this time is because we have no way to survive and need your help.”

“Lian, what are you talking about? Who in the Earth Abyss [a dangerous realm] would dare to touch the two of you under Gui Pa’s tutelage?”

“The one who wants to take our lives is Gui Pa himself.”

Lian Luo sighed deeply at Han Li’s question. Her eyes trembled with fear.

“Miss Yuan, is this true?”

Han Li was startled and turned to look at Yuan Yao.

“Brother Han… If there were any other way, my senior sister and I wouldn’t have risked being discovered by Gui Pa to secretly seek you out. But don’t worry, Brother Han. Gui Pa is currently refining the Great Yin Armor Ghost King because of the Netherworld [a dark and dangerous place], so he won’t be able to leave seclusion for a while. So now is the only chance for my senior sister and I to ask for help. We can’t usually leave the Earth Palace.”

Yuan Yao nodded with a dark expression.

“I’ve heard many times that Brother Han helped my junior sister in the human realm. We have nowhere else to turn, and after much deliberation, we came to you, so please save our lives!”

Lian Luo, with reddened eyes, pulled Yuan Yao, who was standing next to her, and tried to kneel together.

Then, Han Li’s expression changed, and he lightly flicked his sleeve. An invisible force supported Yuan Yao and Lian Luo, who were about to bend over, and lifted them up.

The two women were surprised and delighted. They had not expected Han Li’s cultivation to be so high. If he helped them, they really might be able to escape.

“You two are overestimating me. You should know the situation here. I’m also trapped here, so how can I save you from Gui Pa’s grasp? Besides, why is Gui Pa after your lives? There must be a reason. I’m asking if there might be a misunderstanding.”

Han Li asked in a slightly darkened voice.

“If only it were a misunderstanding. I can’t go into details, but from the moment he took us in, he had his eye on the Yin-Yang Reincarnation Incantation and the pure Yin energy we possess. It’s because Gui Pa has a technique that allows him to greatly enhance his cultivation by swallowing the Yin energy linked to our souls.”

Lian Luo said with a face that showed she was disgusted just thinking about it.

“Besides, we secretly found out that he had taken in disciples in similar situations before. They all suddenly disappeared.”

Yuan Yao added, her face slightly pale.

“Even so, do you think Gui Pa will let you go just because of my words? Even if I’m of use to them, it’s difficult for me to save my own life if I enter the Netherworld.”

“Don’t worry about that. We’ve already prepared a way for you to help us, and it will be a trivial matter for you. Moreover, helping us will be the way to save yourself. My junior sister and I know how to remove the mark placed on your body in the Netherworld within a short period.”

Lian Luo smiled and said firmly.

“Is that true?”

“Haha, how could we lie about such an important matter? We can tell you the method directly and let you judge its validity.”

“Alright. If the method is useful, I will risk helping you.”

Han Li stroked his chin, looked at Yuan Yao, and made a decision.

“Indeed, we came to the right person. Brother Han, listen carefully!”

Lian Luo’s face lit up at Han Li’s answer, and she moved her lips to send a telepathic message. He listened intently to her words.

“That method seems like it would work. But it’s a method that requires both of you to work together in the Netherworld.”

Han Li sighed deeply after hearing the telepathic message.

“As Brother Han said, the Yin energy of the Netherworld will only resonate with the pure Yin energy of my junior sister and me. Of course, Gui Pa can do it too, but she wouldn’t erase her own mark!”

Lian Luo smiled.

“Alright. Then how can I help you?”

“It’s impossible to make Gui Pa completely give up on us. But we can delay the time when she makes a move on us! If we can just hold out until we enter the Netherworld, all three of us will have a chance to escape.”

“We know that Gui Pa and the other Ghost Kings are trying to use your power. We’ll let Gui Pa know that we’ve known you for a long time. Then, if you tell Gui Pa that you have feelings for Yuan, they won’t be able to touch us for a while, even if they don’t completely believe it.”

Yuan Yao spoke first, followed by Lian Luo.

“You want me to say I have feelings for Miss Yuan?”

Han Li paused slightly and looked at Yuan Yao. Yuan Yao, who had cultivated for many years, also blushed for a moment at Lian Luo’s words.

“If it’s just that much, I can do it. But Gui Pa has already made a deal with Mu Qing. So I’m not sure if this method will work.”

“Did that happen?”

Lian Luo’s expression changed slightly, but she soon gave a wry smile.

“If that’s the case, it’s really dangerous. But we have no other choice. We can only rely on fate! Everything will depend on how much Gui Pa and the other Ghost Kings value you.”

Yuan Yao also smiled wryly and replied.

“Then we should do this. Brother Han, please express your feelings more actively. Make Gui Pa think that you are completely infatuated with Miss Yuan. Then Gui Pa will think twice before making a move on us. Also, Gui Pa knows about our inner strength to some extent. So everyone will know that you are pretending to be a Spirit Guard [a guardian of the Spirit Realm].”

Lian Luo said cautiously after thinking for a moment.

“Even if Gui Pa knows, she won’t harm me. What they value is not my identity but the Evil-Repelling Divine Thunder, isn’t it?”

“We’re relieved to hear you say that, Brother Han. Time is running out, so we’ll execute the plan as soon as Gui Pa returns. So please cooperate with us. It would be good to leak some of the things that happened in the human realm. Nothing hides a lie better than the truth.”

“Alright. I will do my best to cooperate.”

Han Li, who had been pondering with his head down for a moment, replied, thinking that there was no major problem. At that sight, Lian Luo and Yuan Yao were relieved, and their gazes towards him became much softer.

After discussing a little more, they returned to their respective places. Although Gui Pa was in seclusion, they could not let their guard down.

Han Li watched the two women turn into Yin winds and disappear into the sky before flicking his sleeve.

He transformed into a giant peacock the size of a mat, showing off his splendid and beautiful feathers.

Whoosh.

As he flapped his wings, a glow burst forth, and the surrounding space vibrated. In the midst of the five-colored light, the peacock’s form became blurred and flew away. A moment later, Han Li appeared in his secret chamber in the east.

Two months later, a black Yin wind flew from the end of the sky into Han Li’s eastern chamber. As if the golden restriction that Han Li had set up had never existed, the black Yin wind entered without hesitation.

An hour later, the main door of Han Li’s eastern chamber opened wide, and the black Yin wind came out and disappeared into the sky.

* * *

Time flew by like an arrow, and another two years passed.

The Earth Abyss was made up of a total of seven layers, and the black energy was most concentrated in the lowest layer, the seventh layer. Among the unintelligent monsters living there were some that even the four Great Demon Kings avoided.

That was why the white-haired beautiful woman, who liked Yin energy, had built the Earth Palace on the sixth layer of the Earth Abyss. But one day, countless Earth Abyss monsters were densely gathered in the desolate gray desert of the seventh layer of the Earth Abyss. There seemed to be tens of thousands of them.

Most of them were ordinary low-level Earth Abyss monsters, but some were a little strange. One of them was surrounded by a pitch-black Yin wind, and countless ghost shadows flickered. The cries of ghosts and the roars of beasts could be heard with the wind, preventing even the Earth Abyss monsters from getting close.

However, the white-haired beautiful woman was floating above the black Yin wind, and behind her were eight other black shadows.

They were all large and wearing bizarre armor. Some shadows held weapons, while others were empty-handed. The common point was that all the black shadows had blurry faces.

And behind the eight shadows, Yuan Yao and Lian Luo were floating in the air. Also, behind the black wind barrier, there were puppets of various sizes.

Most of them were puppets made of mud and stone, but there were also dark green wooden puppets and black metal puppets.

The most noticeable among the puppet group was, of course, the thirty-foot-tall, six-eyed crimson puppet standing in the center.

It was the large crimson puppet that the Old Fiend of the Earth Vein had been refining below the Blood Flame Palace. On the two shoulders of the crimson puppet, men wearing blood-colored robes stood with their hands behind their backs, facing the wind.

And in the high sky, a six-legged creature wearing a black bamboo hat and covering its whole body in black clothes was floating. Surprisingly, a giant eyeball the size of a mat was shining with a strange gray light above the six-legged creature’s head.

Also, not far from the six-legged creature, a huge golden flower was floating. Mu Qing was sitting on it, looking up at the sky, and next to her, a golden old monkey with twin swords was glaring coldly.

In addition, below them, over a hundred high-level monsters were gathered with solemn expressions. Finally, Han Li, wearing a blue robe, was standing next to the golden monkey, looking at the puppets and monsters with surprise.

‘There are so many low-level monsters. The four Demon Kings have mobilized most of the forces they can use in the Earth Abyss!’

In particular, the ghost soldiers in the black wind and the tens of thousands of puppets formed the main force. The Demon Kings must have combined their forces over hundreds of years to gather such a massive force.

Seeing them putting in so much effort, what they had to obtain in the Netherworld must be very important.

‘What on earth is it….’

While Han Li was thinking about this and that, the six-legged creature in front ordered in a cold tone.

“Immortal Mu, it’s time. Offer the blood meal and proceed with the final blood sacrifice.”

Mu Qing nodded at those words and raised one hand. In response, about a dozen high-level monsters flew up from below. They all had blood-colored pouches on their waists, and as soon as they rose into the high sky, they opened the pouches and shook them.

Splat! Splatter! Splat!

Blood-colored light flashed, and a dozen streams of scarlet liquid flowed out of the pouches like a river of blood. Then, a thick stench of blood spread everywhere. The blood-colored liquid merged into one mass and simultaneously turned into a blood-colored bead with a diameter of three or four feet.

At that time, Mu Qing stepped on the golden flower, and a black light formation floated above the petals.

Mu Qing, who had disappeared with the black light, appeared in front of the giant blood-colored bead the next moment. She carefully spread her hand, and a black bottle rose above the giant blood-colored bead.

Whoosh!

The black bottle opened on its own according to Mu Qing’s hand seal, and fist-sized dark red objects came out of it and disappeared into the blood-colored bead.