Bachelor [EN]: Chapter 979

980. Mirror

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With a nod from Green Bee, hundreds of demonic bees scattered at once, searching through the mist. O-eup and Green Bee also moved their lips, exchanging messages telepathically.

Unlike the blue bees frantically darting through the mist, Green Bee’s main body moved slowly. O-eup didn’t scold him, understanding it was unavoidable when using the Thousand Bee Clone Technique [a technique that creates multiple bee clones].

The demonic bees meticulously flew through the mist, slowly advancing. Since the gray mist wasn’t very wide, they had searched about half of it after an hour.

However, with no results, O-eup’s face gradually hardened, and the other demonic beasts also showed signs of tension.

Swoosh!

Several dozen demonic bees searching through the denser mist were sliced in half by a flash of golden light. It was an incredibly fast and sharp attack. Following that, a golden shadow shot out at high speed.

“Catch it! Quickly!” Green Bee urged his clones, excited.

Buzz buzz buzz!

The swarm of demonic bees hurriedly gave chase, and O-eup and Ma-eung exchanged glances and took off.

Whoosh.

The two demonic beasts created a black demonic wind together and headed in the direction the golden light had flown. The giant blue bee flapped its wings, following behind at a normal pace. In an instant, the golden shadow, the swarm of demonic bees, and the black wind disappeared into the mist.

Seeing this, Green Bee blinked and stopped flapping his wings, taking a breather.

Swoosh!

Right then, a sound of air being torn apart was heard above the demonic beast’s head, and golden light flew in. The golden light was dazzling, and an immense pressure of spiritual energy was felt even before it hit.

He was the weakest in cultivation among the three demonic beasts, and his power was restricted due to using the Thousand Bee Clone Technique. But strangely, Green Bee didn’t think of dodging while floating in the air.

Just before the golden light pierced Green Bee’s head, a white bone spear appeared and blocked it.

Clang!

Black flames rose from the bone spear, repelling the golden light. The golden light, which had spun around and returned in a circular motion, was also a long spear. A yellow light appeared in front of Green Bee, and the figure inside was clearly the yellow-robed man who had left earlier.

The yellow-robed man reached out and retrieved the bone spear, then raised a black light shield to block the front. He was wary of the gray energy from which the golden light had emerged.

At that moment, a black light suddenly flashed in the air, and two black shadows fell down.

Whoosh!

A gale blew, and space distorted where the black shadows had passed. Then, the golden shadow below revealed its form.

The golden shadow was Han Li. Upon being discovered, he hurriedly stretched his fist upward in a flustered manner, launching a golden fist phantom and trying to escape by turning into a golden beam of light.

“Where do you think you’re going!” A black light flashed, and a monstrous cry echoed in the air.

Bang!

The black shadows that had fallen shattered the golden fist and revealed their true forms: giant black hammers.

The hammers spun around, displaying a powerful suction force. As a result, the golden figure couldn’t go far and was slowed down by an invisible force.

Seeing an opportunity, the yellow-robed man threw the bone spear like lightning, and Green Bee shook his tail, spewing out blue threads.

The bone spear and the blue threads attacked the golden figure from the front and back. The seemingly insignificant blue threads seeped into the golden figure first. The golden figure trembled, emitted a bloody smell, and its light weakened.

Thud!

Next, the black spear pierced the golden figure’s core. Black flames spread from the surface of the spear, starting to burn the figure fiercely. One of the black hammers in the air rushed straight into the black flames.

Boom!

A tremendous roar that seemed to make the ground collapse resounded, and the golden figure in the black flames disappeared into dust. Only then did a ripple appear in the air, and the two-horned demonic beast O-eup appeared.

As he smiled contentedly, Ma-eung and Green Bee, who were watching from afar, also smiled. As planned, they had cornered the opponent with Green Bee’s swarm of bees and then deliberately exposed a weakness to lure him in.

The moment the three demonic beasts relaxed, a blue longsword suddenly appeared behind Green Bee, turning into a dazzling sword light and charging forward.

“Hah!” Green Bee sensed the anomaly behind him and shook his cone-shaped stinger area. Then, blue poison needles burst out, enveloping him.

However, the blue sword light brushed past it, and Green Bee trembled and fell apart in half. The protective barrier created by the poison needles also shattered silently, providing no help at all.

Splat!

A green flame mass escaped from Green Bee’s fragmented corpse.

“Ma-eung Investigator, save me!” Green Bee in the green flames cried out urgently and flew towards the yellow-robed man. Ma-eung also realized that something had gone wrong and tried to save Green Bee’s nascent soul [a soul in its initial stage of development] by emitting black light. But a sneering sound echoed in the air.

At that sound, the yellow-robed man felt a headache as if his head had been pierced with an awl, screamed, and lost his balance, falling down.

Crash!

As he fell, a pale blue lightning flashed nearby, and a pure white palm suddenly appeared, enveloping the yellow-robed man in five-colored flames.

In an instant, the pure white palm shone with golden light and struck the yellow-robed man’s chest. The yellow-robed man’s face turned pale. The extreme pain was unbearable, but as it was a matter of life and death, he desperately moved a single thread of consciousness.

Then, the golden shield that was blocking his front shone brightly and grew several times larger, and a dozen large and small magic characters appeared on its surface. He believed that the shield’s power would be able to block the golden palm.

The headache was quickly subsiding, so if he could just withstand this attack, he could launch a counterattack and take revenge. At that moment, golden light flashed, and the golden palm collided with the shield.

A sharp collision sound was heard, and the palm surprisingly pierced through the shield and extracted the yellow-robed man’s core from his body.

Whoosh.

The palm shone with silver light and released silver flames, burning Ma-eung’s corpse. Ma-eung’s nascent soul couldn’t escape and was extinguished into blue smoke.

A pale blue lightning flashed, and a winged blue-robed youth appeared from within. He calmly retracted one arm, and in his hand was a pitch-black core of light.

It was Han Li.

Green Bee’s nascent soul, which was flying towards the yellow-robed man with all its might, was terrified and tried to change direction, but it was too late. Seeing this, Han Li chuckled and emitted gray energy, trapping Green Bee’s nascent soul.

As the gray energy of the Origin Divine Light [a powerful energy source] shone brightly within, the tiny Green Bee was crushed by the pressure and scattered into green light.

As Green Bee’s nascent soul was destroyed, the demonic bees in the mist exploded with small bangs. Green Bee and Ma-eung had lost their lives in an instant.

Han Li didn’t even look at Ma-eung’s fallen corpse and turned his gaze to the last high-level demonic beast. It was a gaze that made one’s hair stand on end.

At his gaze, the two-horned demonic beast O-eup’s face turned pale. Even if Green Bee and Ma-eung’s cultivation wasn’t as good as his, the difference wasn’t that great. The fact that they were easily killed and even their nascent souls were dealt with sent shivers down his spine.

The more O-eup thought about it, the stranger it seemed. If the youth in front of him was real, then what were the one who lured them in and the golden shadow who tried to ambush Green Bee later and was killed by the hammer?

Both of them emitted considerable spiritual energy pressure, so they had no choice but to be deceived.

‘If I engage in a full-scale battle like this, I will die. I need to retreat and seek help first.’

O-eup quickly regained his senses and stretched out both hands, and the hammers returned to their original size. Then, he opened his mouth and took out a triangular bronze mirror, forming a hand seal.

Buzz!

The bronze mirror emitted a cold light, and strangely, O-eup’s figure, which was bathed in the light, disappeared from the spot.

Han Li was also flustered by the opponent’s unexpected action. As his face hardened, a navy blue light swirled in his eyes. It was a gaze that seemed to pull in even souls.

Sensing something, Han Li formed a hand seal with one hand and tapped his forehead with the other. Then, a black light flashed, and the Eye of Destruction [a powerful eye technique] appeared. The demonic eye shone with pitch-black light, and faint magic characters fluctuated.

Swoosh!

A black pillar of light left the Eye of Destruction and seeped into the air. A moment later, an earth-shattering explosion resounded somewhere, and the air trembled violently, creating a wave.

Thud.

A dull sound was heard, and a cold energy bounced out, causing him to stagger. And in the place where the light had faded, the terrified two-horned demonic beast was standing. At the same time, a pale blue lightning flashed above the demonic beast, and someone appeared.

“No!” The two-horned demonic beast shouted fiercely and threw the hammers he was holding with all his might, and the hammers rushed to crush the one who had appeared in the lightning.

At the same time, the front of his robe flashed, and a blue flag flew up, turning into a navy blue protective barrier that enveloped the demonic beast. The demonic beast shot out like an arrow, trying to create distance from Han Li.

However, the pale blue lightning turned into a silver, brilliant lightning with a thunderous sound, and then transformed into a giant blue roc [a mythical bird]. The roc, which contained silver lightning, flew at an incredible speed and cut off the black shields that were rushing at it with its claws.

Clang!

A thunderous sound was heard, and the hammers, torn like paper, bounced off and exploded. The giant claws didn’t hesitate for a moment and targeted the two-horned demonic beast O-eup’s navy blue protective barrier.

But unexpectedly, the seemingly ordinary navy blue protective barrier absorbed light and turned into a crystal protective barrier. The immense power of the giant claws and the silver lightning didn’t work on the crystal protective barrier.

O-eup inside the barrier breathed a sigh of relief and regained his smile. Right then, the roc’s beak pecked at the barrier.

Bang! Bang! Crash!

Blue light struck in succession, and as the roc continued to peck, the crystal protective barrier eventually cracked and scattered into navy blue light.

“Eek!” O-eup was startled and swung his arms. Countless black lights shot out from his ten fingernails, forming a dense black net to protect him.

However, as blue light flashed, silver lightning passed through the tiny holes in the black net. O-eup, who was frantically swinging his fingernails in the air, stared blankly at his own body.

A bloody hole had already been pierced in his chest, and silver light was shining inside. Before the terrified O-eup could even scream, silver lightning exploded, engulfing the demonic beast’s body.

The thunderous sound continued for a long time before stopping. O-eup’s body, as well as his nascent soul, disappeared from the world due to the aftermath of the fierce lightning explosion.

Only the triangular bronze mirror was floating in the spot. The blue roc’s body shrank and returned to human form, and Han Li pulled the blue mirror over and examined it.

He couldn’t tell much from a quick glance, but it was still an interesting item. The mirror connected the magical power of several cultivators and allowed them to use teleportation techniques with others. He was just curious how the demonic beast had obtained it.

Han Li put the mirror into his storage pouch. He had used two Talismans of the Grand Azure [a type of talisman] and two Armor Talismans at once to quickly kill the persistent demonic beasts, but it wasn’t a loss since he had obtained this. Han Li turned back into a blue beam of light and flew back into the mist.

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Time passed, and a black demonic wind blew from the far side of the sky. Five demonic beasts appeared from within the demonic wind that was circling in front of the mist.

“This is the last place where the energy was felt,” a small beast scanned the mist and spoke with a cautious face.

“It’s strange that O-eup and the other investigators lost contact so quickly, even though they joined forces. Could something have happened?” a snake-headed demonic beast asked in a dark voice.

“We don’t know. But in any case, everyone must stay alert and move carefully,” the demonic beasts, including the small beast, created a demonic wind and entered the mist.

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After half an hour, they arrived at the spot where Han Li had killed the two-horned demonic beast, Ma-eung, and Green Bee. They looked around with surprised expressions, and among them, a goose-like monster turned into white light and permeated the surroundings.

A moment later, demonic energy fluctuated from below, and the goose demonic beast popped out. In its webbed feet, it held broken pieces of small horns.

“Aren’t these O-eup’s horns! For them to be broken like this, he must have really lost his life,” the small beast narrowed its eyes and muttered.

“What should we do now? The spirit cultivator has run away, and there’s no way for us to catch up,” the snake demonic beast sighed and looked at the small beast.

“Since the opponent killed O-eup and the rest of the investigators, it’s useless even if we catch up. We wouldn’t be a match for them even if we went. Let’s go back,” the small beast snorted and made a decision without hesitation.

“If we go back like this, we won’t have anything to say to our master later. He will definitely be furious…” another demonic beast looked around cautiously, worrying about the future.