However, in the next moment, the black spirit beast ring was simultaneously struck by hundreds of arcs of lightning, instantly shattering into pieces.
A mass of black mist abruptly emerged amidst the flashes of thunder. Despite countless lightning bolts striking it, the black mist swirled nimbly, absorbing all the electrical energy without sustaining any damage.
Seeing this, the two-headed avian beast flashed a hint of surprise in its eyes but snorted coldly. One of its silver hands made a grasping motion toward the black mist.
With a slight twist, over a thousand arcs of lightning coalesced with a thunderous boom, forming a massive five-colored hand above the black mist. The giant hand crackled incessantly, countless fine electrical discharges flickering across its surface. In the blink of an eye, it descended and seized the black mist in its grasp.
As the fingers tightened, a brilliant burst of lightning erupted!
The giant hand intended to crush the black mist into nothingness.
Yet, from within the black mist came an enraged screech, followed by a streak of bloody light that shot out, piercing through the five-colored hand in an instant.
A bizarre scene unfolded.
The five-colored hand, formed from condensed lightning, disintegrated and vanished as if encountering its nemesis the moment the bloody light flashed past.
The black mist regained its freedom and swiftly solidified into the form of a small, pitch-black monkey—none other than the Soul-Crying Beast.
However, this time, the Soul-Crying Beast was clearly different from usual. Staring down at the two-headed avian below, its face was filled with excitement and joy. Without waiting for Han Li’s spiritual command, it let out a furious roar. Black light swirled around its body as it rapidly expanded, transforming into a massive black ape over thirty zhang tall.
Then, the beast’s eyes glowed crimson, its fists swelling to half a zhang in size before it violently pounded its dark chest.
In an instant, its fur bristled, horns sprouted from its head, and fangs protruded, morphing it into a three-eyed demonic giant. Three black bone spikes emerged from its back, exuding a chilling, sinister aura.
“Punishment Beast!”
The moment the fish-shop-owner head of the two-headed avian recognized the demonic form of the transformed Soul-Crying Beast, it let out a terrified shriek. The lightning filling the sky instantly condensed into countless arcs, forming a massive lightning shield in front of it—hundreds of zhang wide and dozens of zhang thick.
Meanwhile, the avian itself flapped all eight wings, its massive body surging with five-colored lightning before vanishing with a thunderous crack.
In the next moment, a flash of five-colored lightning appeared over ten li away, and the avian silently reappeared.
Without hesitation, the avian flapped its wings again, lightning surging over its body as it prepared to teleport once more.
However, the demonic giant transformed from the Soul-Crying Beast let out an earth-shaking roar, seemingly enraged by the avian’s escape.
Amidst the roar, the demonic giant’s body swelled slightly, and golden and silver runes emerged across its skin. Its third demonic eye flickered, and a blood-red beam shot out, vanishing the moment it pierced the air.
Simultaneously, the distant avian’s figure blurred and disappeared in a flash of lightning.
Almost at the same time, the blood-red beam reappeared nearby, but with a crisp *crack*, it transformed into a blood-red chain.
The chain writhed strangely in the air, forming a large loop before half of it vanished into the void once more.
The entire chain hummed loudly, blood-red lightning crackling across its surface.
Suddenly, the chain trembled, and a scream echoed from the void. The chain tightened with a sharp pull!
With a *thud*, blood-red arcs flashed at the chain’s end, and the surrounding space twisted violently. The massive body of the two-headed avian was forcibly dragged out of thin air.
The avian’s two heads shrieked in terror, its eight wings flapping desperately, but the blood-red chains held it immobile.
Its lightning-based abilities seemed utterly ineffective.
The mysterious law power that had previously enveloped the entire space had also vanished without a trace.
The demonic giant let out a sinister chuckle, its brow flashing as several more blood-red chains shot out, thoroughly binding the avian.
With another shake of the chains, the avian’s body trembled and vanished once more.
Immediately, space rippled dozens of zhang in front of the Soul-Crying Beast, and the chains and the two-headed avian reappeared together.
The demonic giant’s eyes flashed crimson as one of its furry hands reached behind its back.
One of the three black bone spikes vanished from its back without warning.
In the next moment, black light flashed in the giant’s hand, and the missing bone spike reappeared, firmly gripped.
An ancient, cryptic chant spilled from the demonic giant’s mouth. The pitch-black bone spear suddenly lit up with rows of golden inscriptions, exuding an eerie mystique.
Without warning, the spear began to vibrate, emitting a growing hum.
With a *whoosh*, a golden wave spread from the spear’s tip, erupting into a dazzling radiance.
Runes similar to those on the spear materialized in the surrounding void, swirling and dancing.
The moment these runes appeared, the spear unleashed a terrifying, overwhelming aura of slaughter!
The two-headed avian let out a piercing cry upon seeing the spear, both heads displaying sheer terror as it struggled madly against the chains.
Despite its body flickering between light and dark and internal rumbling, it remained utterly bound.
Then, with a deafening *boom*, the golden bone spear shot forth like a crystalline beam.
Moving with incredible speed, it pierced through the avian’s lightning-beast head in a single flash.
A fist-sized hole appeared between the brows of the avian’s head, blinding golden light gushing forth. The lightning-beast head instantly petrified before shattering with a crisp *crack*!
Countless golden fissures spread across the entire head before it exploded with a muffled *bang*.
Strangely, instead of flesh and bone, the explosion scattered dazzling five-colored light. At the same time, golden cracks spread from the avian’s severed neck, rapidly covering its entire body.
Seeing this, the demonic giant’s eyes gleamed oddly. With a snort, it exhaled a wave of yellow light.
The avian’s fish-shop-owner head, though unharmed, was terrified. In desperation, it suddenly spat out a silver short sword, which transformed into a ten-zhang-long streak of cold light and slashed downward at itself.
With a scream, the fish-shop-owner head rolled off the massive body, transforming into a streak of bloody light and vanishing.
The avian’s entire body then exploded into more five-colored light, chaotically surging within the chains but unable to escape.
The yellow light swept in, effortlessly engulfing the five-colored lightning before swirling back.
The Soul-Crying Beast opened its mouth wide and swallowed it all, then joyfully pounded its chest in excitement.
The blood-red chains emitted a low hum before dissipating into motes of light.
The bone spear, meanwhile, reappeared on the demonic giant’s back in a flash, its golden glow dimming as the black light around it faded almost entirely.
It seemed the spear had exhausted its power in that single strike.
Han Li was naturally stunned.
Fortunately, he was no ordinary man. The moment the fish-shop-owner head fled as a streak of bloody light, he snapped back to attention.
Without hesitation, he let out a long cry. The golden blade fragment and golden beetle vanished simultaneously as his body swelled a hundredfold, transforming back into a hundred-zhang-tall golden ape.
With a flash of golden light, the ape took a massive step and vanished on the spot.
In the next moment, its enormous figure materialized hundreds of zhang away, directly blocking the path of the bloody light. Without mercy, it threw a punch.
Before the fist even connected, an overwhelming force descended upon the bloody light.
An ordinary cultivator would have been immobilized instantly under such pressure.
Yet, the bloody light twisted free of the force’s grip, reappearing thirty zhang away.
A furious cry rang out from the light as it condensed, revealing a figure—none other than the fish-shop-owner!
However, his face was deathly pale, and his spiritual power had weakened significantly, barely maintaining his early Body Integration stage.
“Do you truly intend to annihilate me? If so, I’ll abandon my tens of thousands of years of cultivation and fight you to the death!” the fish-shop-owner snarled, his eyes flickering with bloody flames.
As he spoke, his body flashed crimson, transforming into a massive, blood-red peacock over ten zhang in size. With a flap of its wings, a wave of bloody aura surged forth, its presence even more terrifying than before.
Han Li’s heart tightened. He glanced toward the distant Soul-Crying Beast, only to find it gleefully playing with a head-sized crystal core, showing no intention of assisting him.
Attempting to command it via spiritual sense yielded no response.
Having devoured the five-colored lightning, the demonic giant seemed utterly disinterested in the fish-shop-owner.
Han Li sighed inwardly before his gaze turned icy.
The golden ape raised its head and roared. With a flip of its massive hands, two spheres of light—one azure, one black—appeared, materializing into two mountains over ten zhang tall.
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