Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 938

The armored soldiers and giant eagles were no match for the puppet and golden bead attacks, suffering heavy losses. The long-haired alien was on the verge of breaking through the encirclement and escaping.

But suddenly, the lion puppet stopped spewing fireballs. Its seven heads drooped and ceased moving. The horse puppet did the same.

At this, the surrounding soldiers were startled, then cheered. They combined their strength and covered the lion puppet with several large nets. As the soldiers pulled with all their might, the puppet was forcibly dragged away.

With the lion puppet’s protection gone, the two-headed eagles that had been circling overhead swarmed in, flapping their wings wildly.

Swish, swish, swish!

Wind blades struck the golden bead, creating sonic booms. The golden light flickered, and its rotation speed drastically decreased. It seemed it wouldn’t last long against the attacks from various weapons and sword energies.

Han Li sighed. Judging by the fact that he controlled puppets with higher cultivation levels, the long-haired alien was likely of a very special status. However, in the current situation, he would soon be captured.

Han Li didn’t know why the Horned-Tooth Clan was trying to capture this person alive, but he didn’t want to reveal himself and get caught up in unnecessary trouble.

Just as Han Li was about to quietly leave, the long-haired alien’s voice suddenly rang out clearly from inside the golden bead.

“Senior! I am Gap Cheon-mok of the Mago Clan. If you help me return to my clan, I will offer you the Commander Puppet.”

The long-haired alien didn’t use sound transmission; instead, he amplified his voice with spiritual power and shouted towards the surrounding soldiers.

‘What?’

Han Li was dumbfounded by those words. He didn’t know how the alien had found him, but shouting like this was not a good idea.

As he expected, the Horned-Tooth Clan members were startled and began searching the surrounding mountains. Soon, they cast suspicious glances at the large tree near where he was hiding.

Han Li’s lips twitched.

‘I can’t hide any longer!’

The Horned-Tooth Clan soldiers and two-headed eagles were no threat to him now. The only things he was concerned about were the two battleships. Even so, he was very angry that the long-haired alien had revealed his presence to everyone.

Han Li’s eyes turned fierce as he summoned dozens of small flying swords. As the sword light flashed, the flying swords transformed into blue threads and disappeared into the void.

Swish!

The blue threads sliced through the Horned-Tooth Clan soldiers and two-headed eagles. Han Li revealed himself from under the large tree. A pair of wings sprouted from his back, and he instantly disappeared on the wind.

Boom!

Amidst the Horned-Tooth Clan soldiers who were surrounding the long-haired alien, a thunderous sound was heard, and blue-white lightning flashed as Han Li appeared. As Han Li formed a hand seal, 72 blue threads shot out from his body in all directions.

The blue threads blurred and then split into two or four strands. In an instant, blue light covered the surrounding hundred-zhang [approximately 330 meters] area, and the miserable screams of the soldiers and two-headed eagles echoed from all directions.

They were all sliced apart by Han Li’s blue threads. Now, there were no enemies left around him. The nearby Horned-Tooth Clan soldiers were terrified and retreated.

However, Han Li had no intention of stopping there. He flicked his sleeve again, and golden and black lights shot out. It was Piao Lin-su and Je Hon.

“Kill them all. Leave no one alive!”

Han Li shouted with killing intent.

No sooner had Han Li’s words fallen than the small beast’s form blurred, splitting into a dozen phantoms that charged towards the soldiers. The soldiers’ armor and weapons were torn apart like paper by sharp claws.

And the small monkey flashed with black light, growing dozens of times larger and transforming into a giant ape. The ape pounded its chest with both fists and snorted.

Then, yellow energy soared into the air, and the two-headed eagles staggered and fell, caught in the yellow light.

Thud, thud, thud!

The giant ape wildly swung its arms, destroying all the falling two-headed eagles. Hundreds of Horned-Tooth Clan soldiers and two-headed eagles began to be slaughtered by Han Li and his two spirit beasts.

The remaining soldiers were terrified and began to flee, desperately running towards the battleships. But Han Li transformed into a streak of blue light and pursued them.

Where the sword light flashed, the soldiers’ corpses fell to the ground.

Kuurrrung!

Suddenly, a roar echoed from the sky. Han Li was startled and looked up to see beams of light erupting from the silver battleship. They were launching a large-scale attack, disregarding the safety of their own soldiers.

Han Li scoffed and flapped his wings, disappearing from the spot. The area covered by the light beams was quite extensive, but they failed to hit him.

The next moment, Han Li’s figure appeared above the silver battleship. He looked down at the battleship with a blank expression and took something out. It was a black mountain that shimmered with gray light.

The small mountain swelled madly, transforming into a mountain peak larger than the battleship, and fell down fiercely. The momentum of the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain was tremendous. The Horned-Tooth Clan members guarding the battleship were shocked and tried to move to the battleship, but it was already too late.

Kukwakwang!

The moment the mountain peak collided with the battleship, the light of spiritual energy flickered, and the mountain peak was lifted by a slight rebound.

The battleship shook violently, its surface caved in, and it crashed to the ground. Half of the battleship was buried in the dirt, and it seemed unlikely to rise again anytime soon.

Han Li looked surprised at this. The battleship hadn’t been destroyed even by the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain’s strike. He didn’t know what it was made of, but creating such a large battleship would have required a tremendous amount of materials.

He recalled the large silver battleship he had seen in Greenlight Star and felt a chill in his heart.

‘The most powerful clans among the Spirit Race are indeed different!’

Han Li was momentarily surprised, but he had no intention of stopping his attack. As his fingertips pointed towards the black mountain peak, the Yuan Magnetic Divine Mountain fell with a clear sound.

A world-shaking roar erupted, and the silver battleship was crushed like scrap metal. Even if the Horned-Tooth Clan soldiers inside hadn’t lost their lives, they would have suffered serious injuries.

But for some reason, a silver light flickered on the battleship, and the crushed parts began to swell up little by little.

It was trying to return to its original state. At this, Han Li raised his eyebrows and gathered dozens of blue threads in his hand again.

Swish!

A dazzling blue light flashed, and a giant sword the size of a mat appeared. He was about to swing it at the battleship when the long-haired alien’s voice was heard.

“Senior, be careful!”

At his voice, Han Li paused, and he felt a powerful spiritual force explode from the side. Han Li turned and swung the giant sword, splitting the powerful spiritual force.

The sword energy and spiritual force collided and exploded about thirty zhang [approximately 100 meters] away from him, and blue and black vortexes soared into the sky.

Even from a distance, the momentum was tremendous. As the power of the explosion gradually dissipated, four aliens appeared on another silver battleship.

Among them, a pale-faced, barefoot weirdo stood on a transparent blade, looking at him with a strange expression.

This surprise attack was probably his doing. And next to him stood an old woman, a dwarf, and a giant wearing leather clothes.

Han Li released his consciousness to examine their cultivation levels. The barefoot weirdo was in the mid-Void Refinement stage, and the others were in the early-Void Refinement stage.

They had definitely not been there a moment ago. He didn’t know where they had come from.

The appearance of Void Refinement cultivators made things troublesome, but it wasn’t something to worry about. He was just curious how they had suddenly appeared.

“How dare you damage our Horned-Tooth Clan’s battleship? You don’t seem to be a member of the Heavenly Fortune Thirteen Clans. But it doesn’t matter. If we capture you and torture you, we’ll soon find out who you are!”

The barefoot weirdo said coldly. Then, his head turned to the side.

His gaze landed on the long-haired giant who had escaped from the golden bead, who was looking at the Void Refinement cultivators with a troubled expression.

“Mister Gap, I heard that your bloodline isn’t purely Mago Clan! Then, there’s no need to help the Heavenly Fortune Thirteen Clans. Before being dispatched here, I heard the elders mention your name several times. They didn’t spare any praise for your excellent puppet techniques.

If you surrender to our Horned-Tooth Clan, we promise to change your bloodline to our clan’s through Blood Cleansing and Marrow Washing [a process to purify and strengthen one’s bloodline] without any cost. We will also fully support you so that you can reach the highest level of the Upper Clan. If you’re lucky, it’s not impossible to become a Saint Clan-level being.”

The barefoot weirdo spoke with a much gentler voice and attitude than when he had spoken to Han Li.

“Surrender to you? I have no interest in that. Although my bloodline isn’t purely Mago Clan, I have lived with great grace from my clan’s elders. I will never surrender to another clan. Besides, isn’t the reason you’re trying to capture me not only for my puppet techniques but also to extract information about the Heavenly Fortune Thirteen Clans!”

“Mister Gap, do you think you can escape in this situation? No matter how great your puppets are, you must have used up almost all the spirit stones you had when you broke through the encirclement last time. With your own cultivation, you are no threat to us. We don’t want to be rude any further, so surrender yourself.”

The weirdo maintained his smile despite the other’s refusal. Gap Cheon-mok glanced at Han Li upon hearing those words.

“Do you trust that person? Haha, then let’s deal with the obstacle and talk again.”

The weirdo muttered calmly, watching Gap Cheon-mok’s actions. Then, he looked at Han Li again.

“It would be best if you were captured quietly. We’ll break your body and take only your Nascent Soul [the core of a cultivator’s being] back.”

“Your confidence is admirable, but let’s see if your skills are up to par.”

At his words, the weirdo was puzzled, then he examined Han Li’s face closely, and his expression changed. He turned to the old woman behind him and asked,

“He looks familiar. Isn’t he the person that Dao Saja asked us to capture a few days ago?”

“Now that you mention it, it seems to be him. He certainly matches the wanted poster! Then, we must be careful. If he managed to escape from Dao Saja’s grasp, his divine abilities must be extraordinary.”

The old woman looked at Han Li’s face and slowly nodded. The other two seemed a little surprised by the conversation between the weirdo and the old woman.

“Hahaha! Then, isn’t this a great opportunity to make a big contribution? It’s fortunate that one battleship was shot down and other units couldn’t be transmitted. Otherwise, we would have had to split this credit in half.”

The giant wearing leather clothes laughed wildly.

“Hmph, Mister Ryeo, please be careful. His cultivation is similar to ours, so if you’re so careless, you’ll suffer a great disaster.”

The dwarf cultivator sneered.

“Hehe, no matter how outstanding his divine abilities are, how can he face the four of us alone?”

“If a battle breaks out, he might not be able to defeat all four of us, but he might be able to escape.”

The dwarf pouted and grumbled.

‘Transmission?’

Listening to their conversation, Han Li shifted his gaze to the two battleships. He seemed to understand why they had suddenly appeared. Surprisingly, a transmission formation was deployed on the battleships.

However, this kind of transmission formation was different from a fixed transmission formation. Perhaps the cost of transmission was much higher.

From what they said, they were supposed to be transmitted with other units, but it seemed that only they had come because he had destroyed the battleship.

For just one Nascent Soul cultivator to move so many Void Refinement cultivators, the alien who controlled the puppets must be of a very important status.

But it was unexpected that they recognized him at a glance. It seemed that the Composite Body cultivator he had encountered in Greenlight Star had not given up on him yet. Or rather, he hadn’t given up on the two jade boxes.

Looking at the situation, the Great-Headed Man’s words were true. Han Li finally understood the whole situation.

At that moment, Piao Lin-su and Je Hon also gave up chasing the Horned-Tooth Clan soldiers and returned to his side, glaring at the four cultivators with fierce eyes.

The spirit beasts also knew that these were different from the soldiers they had killed before, so they didn’t attack recklessly.