Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 939

The Barefoot Man finished talking with his companions and was about to speak to Han Li. But at that moment, dozens of blue threads that Han Li sent out split into four streams and rushed toward them.

They were so fast that the moment the blue light flashed, they were already upon them. The Barefoot Man and the Horned-Tooth Clan cultivators were startled. They had clearly seen Han Li use his sword threads to kill other soldiers.

The startled cultivators each used their own methods to dodge or defend. The Barefoot Man’s figure blurred, turning into white smoke and disappearing. The old woman’s body glowed with a shimmering aura, creating identical illusions.

The moment the blue threads pierced the illusions, the old woman had already vanished. And the dwarf formed a hand seal, summoning a dazzling silver cloud beneath his feet. The cloud carried the dwarf away at a speed no less than the blue threads.

The giant in leather armor made one hand glow red and pulled out a large axe from the crimson flames. He swung the axe to block the front, making it like a giant shield. The axe, refined with fire-attribute materials, was not only powerful but also as sturdy as a top-grade defensive treasure.

The giant firmly believed that his axe would be unscathed. However, the moment the giant raised his axe to block, a blue light flashed before his eyes, and nothing remained in his hand.

The giant axe had been sliced into a dozen pieces in an instant. The giant didn’t even have time to scream before he was shattered into pieces and fell to the ground. Even his nascent soul [a cultivator’s core of spiritual energy] could not escape and vanished like smoke.

“Damn it, Fellow Cultivator Lyu…!”

The Barefoot Man shouted in anger at the sight of the giant. The old woman and the dwarf, who had appeared elsewhere, were also horrified. They knew that Han Li’s divine abilities were extraordinary, but they did not expect him to kill a cultivator of the same level with a single blow.

However, the blue threads did not give them time to be angry about the giant’s death, and they changed direction, rushing straight at them. Having seen the power of the blue threads with their own eyes, it was best to use divine abilities to escape rather than block them with treasures. The Horned-Tooth Clan cultivators were frantically flying around the sky to avoid them.

Kuururung!

At that moment, a roar was heard in the void. When Han Li looked up, the sky was all white, and hundreds of pillars of light were falling. The remaining battleships had launched an attack to help the Void Refinement cultivators [a high level of cultivation].

However, Han Li did not seem to have any intention of dodging. He disappeared into the roar and the white light. Then, the blue threads that had been closely pursuing the three cultivators suddenly stopped moving.

At this, the Barefoot Man and the old woman breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly released various treasures.

The old woman took out a golden scroll with complex golden formations drawn on it, and the dwarf opened his mouth and spat out a turquoise wooden bowl, sending out a dozen yellow throwing knives that circled around him. And the Barefoot Man summoned a jet-black shoulder armor, a ‘fubo’ [a type of ancient armor].

Even after releasing their dazzling treasures, they still stared at the white light with tense expressions.

After a while, a tremendous sound came from the white light, and a blue light flashed, and a giant Peng bird [a mythical bird] soared out of the white light. It was small at first, but as the light of spiritual energy flowed through its body, it became a giant Peng bird spanning 70 to 80 feet.

The Peng bird flapped its wings, turning into a gale, and appeared above the old woman’s head. Then, with a flash of white lightning, it slashed through the void with a claw as large as a house. A pressure like a mountain surged forth.

“Be careful!”

The Barefoot Man and the dwarf shouted in surprise at the same time from afar.

At the same time, the Barefoot Man raised both shoulders, and two black pillars of light were fired from the black armor on his forearms, accompanied by wailing sounds. The dozen yellow throwing knives circling the dwarf also turned into beams of light and shot out.

Only then did they realize that Han Li’s divine abilities were superior to theirs. The old woman’s face turned pale, crushed by the immense pressure of spiritual energy emanating from the claw. The Peng’s speed was too fast, and it was already too late to dodge.

She had no choice but to grit her teeth and spit out a mouthful of essence blood onto the scroll.

Bang!

The essence blood scattered into a blood-colored mist and was absorbed into the scroll. At that moment, a dazzling golden light was emitted from the scroll, and the golden formation flew up, growing to a dozen feet in size. The Peng ignored the incoming black pillars of light and the dozen yellow beams of light and fiercely slashed the golden formation with its giant claw.

Ku-kwakwang!

The white lightning and golden light exploded, and the nearby space was vaguely distorted.

“Ugh!”

The Peng was unharmed, but the old woman under the golden formation groaned and spat out blood. Fortunately, the golden formation barely held, and the old woman showed a look of relief.

However, the Peng’s eyes turned cold, and it swung its other claw. The old woman, becoming anxious, spat out another mouthful of essence blood and absorbed it into the golden formation.

She seemed to believe that if she could just withstand this one blow, her fellow cultivators would help her. The enemy in front of them could only be defeated if the three of them joined forces. But the old woman’s thinking was a gross underestimation of Han Li’s Kun Peng Transformation [a powerful transformation technique].

The Kun Peng Transformation was the transformation technique that Han Li was most familiar with among the five transformation techniques, and its power had been enhanced by absorbing four types of True Spirit blood.

The Kun Peng that Han Li had transformed into was truly comparable to a spiritual bird that had inherited the blood of a Kun Peng. Moreover, his physical strength had reached its peak, making him like a tiger with wings.

The Peng struck the golden formation with its claws and opened its mouth, spewing out thick lightning. All attacks fell on the fluctuating golden formation. When the lightning touched the golden formation, a huge explosion erupted.

The formation emitted golden light like crazy before being torn apart to the left and right. The old woman was terrified and tried to use another divine ability, but she was grazed by a claw and spewed out a tremendous amount of blood from her body.

At that moment, the black pillars of light and yellow beams of light reached the Peng, seemingly about to attack the giant bird’s body. However, suddenly, a light of spiritual energy flashed from the Peng’s body, and a crystal barrier bloomed.

The attacks of the Barefoot Man and the dwarf suddenly changed direction and grazed the void due to the suddenly appearing barrier. The pillars of light disappeared in the distance, but the dozen yellow beams of light flickered and circled back, aiming at the Peng again.

At that sight, the Peng spread one wing, and a white gale blew, sweeping the yellow beams of light somewhere. The Peng flashed with lightning and charged toward the dwarf.

The dwarf’s face turned pale as the Peng suddenly changed direction and rushed at him. He immediately used the silver cloud beneath his feet, turning into a silver mass and fleeing, but strangely reappeared next to the Barefoot Man.

However, the Barefoot Man’s face was also pale. He quickly summoned black mist from his armor, concealing the dwarf and himself. The Barefoot Man and the dwarf were completely hidden in the mist, and the black mist billowed out, spreading across the nearby sky in the blink of an eye.

‘Yin energy!’

He recognized the true nature of the black mist at a glance. It was very pure yin energy, so dense that an ordinary cultivator would wither away the moment they were caught in it.

However, Han Li looked at it with a strange gaze.

Hmph!

As the mist appeared, Je Hon became excited, pounding his chest with both fists and snorting. Then, a large amount of yellow energy escaped from his nostrils and flew toward the black mist.

The Peng also let out a clear cry and spread its wings, explosively generating white lightning. The moment the light flashed, with a ‘thud!’ the white lightning struck the black mist, and the Peng tried to charge into the black mist within the lightning.

“You’re courting death!”

The Barefoot Man was not afraid but rather delighted when Han Li charged at him. He shook a black flag, using a large amount of black mist to create a huge demon face.

Its two eyes flickered with green flames as if it were alive, and it opened its large mouth to meet the Peng. Just then, Je Hon’s yellow Soul-Seizing Divine Light [a powerful spiritual attack] flew in. When the yellow light touched the black mist, the demon face screamed in terror.

The huge face scattered into black energy and began to be sucked into the yellow light, and the black mists also fluctuated the moment the yellow light shone on them. Wherever the yellow light went, the black mist turned into countless threads and disappeared strangely.

If it had been the previous Je Hon, it would have taken some time to absorb so much yin energy. But after several evolutions, the Soul-Seizing Divine Light had multiplied several times and its power had also increased.

The black mist disappeared in an instant, revealing the figures of the Barefoot Man and the dwarf hidden within. At this, the Barefoot Man was shocked.

The Peng flapped its wings and charged fiercely as soon as they appeared. Then, the air around the Barefoot Man and the dwarf froze, crushed by an invisible pressure.

The Barefoot Man managed to withstand it due to his high cultivation, but the dwarf’s knees buckled, and the barrier protecting the dwarf was dented, looking as if it would collapse at any moment.

The dwarf could not escape, even as he saw the giant claw flying toward him, because his body was too heavy. But it was not as if they were going to be helpless.

The Barefoot Man struggled to form a hand seal, and the black flag wriggled, turning into a black mist flood dragon and flying up. The armor on his forearms emitted a strange light, creating illusions.

Han Li carefully examined the illusions he had created and realized that they were red and green demons. The demons, with their horned, ferocious appearances, were naked from the waist up and covered with unknown beast hides from the waist down.

The two demonic creatures raised their hands and closely pursued the black mist flood dragon. And the dwarf sent a white jade flying sword from the top of his head, which turned into a white beam of light and slashed at the giant claw.

Also, from high above, the silver battleship fired white pillars of light at the Peng. However, the Peng did not slow down and emitted light from its body, creating a crystal shield.

The shield, which was initially the size of a single sheet, quickly transformed into a giant shield of over twenty sheets, reflecting light with a transparent shimmer. The pillars of light flew toward the giant shield, were distorted, and headed elsewhere.

Ting!

The beam of light that the jade flying sword had transformed into struck the giant claw first. However, the flying sword was weakly repelled and was instead caught by the claw. It struggled to escape, but it could never break free from the Peng’s claw.

Clang!

The flying sword was instantly crushed, unable to withstand the power of the claw. At this, the dwarf below screamed and spat out blood from his mouth. The claw did not stop and wildly scratched at the blue barrier below.

However, the blue barrier was not ordinary, as it only made a friction sound even as the Peng’s claw tightened, and it did not break.

Meanwhile, the flood dragon with black light roared and collided with another of the Peng’s claws. Surprisingly, the claw was locked in a standoff with the black flood dragon.

Han Li was surprised, but he immediately opened the Peng’s mouth and spat out a silver fireball, pecking downward with its beak.

Bang!

The black flood dragon that had been blocking the giant claw was hit by the silver fireball and burst into flames, and the black flood dragon shrank at a visible speed. It was as if the silver flames were devouring the black flood dragon.

At that moment, the Peng’s sharp beak and another giant claw pierced the blue barrier.

Jjeong!

A crisp sound was heard, and the trembling barrier finally shattered. The dwarf inside was crushed by the giant claw and disappeared into a bloody mess, his nascent soul unable to escape.

The Barefoot Man’s situation was not much different. The size of the black flood dragon had shrunk to one-third, and it could no longer withstand the power of the giant claw. The claw scattered the black flood dragon and aimed at the Barefoot Man along with the silver flames.

The Barefoot Man, seeing that even his treasures could not block the claw, gritted his teeth and whistled.

Puh-pung!

The Barefoot Man’s body was surrounded by blood and suddenly exploded. The blood expanded and contracted, swelling up. Even the giant claw surrounded by silver flames paused for a moment, blocked by the red sun.

At that moment, a faint red shadow shot out dozens of feet away. When it flashed again, it had moved over a hundred feet away, and the distance to the battleship was not much left.

However, Han Li, with his Brightsight Spirit Eyes [a special vision ability], could not miss the blood-colored shadow. He ignored the blood-colored sun below and turned his body to chase the blood-colored shadow.

But then, a golden pillar of light flew from somewhere and collided with the blood-colored shadow that was moving toward the battleship.

Kwakwang!

As thin golden lightning flashed around the blood-colored shadow, the blood-colored shadow disappeared into blue smoke with a miserable scream.

‘That’s the Evil-Slaying Divine Lightning?’