“It’s not that easy to comprehend. I’ve only grasped a fraction of it. As for the battle below, I’ll have to trouble Uncle Yi to continue. After all, our opponent is a formidable figure among the Mahayana cultivators. How could Ying’er dare face him alone? I can only assist you from the side,” the blood-robed girl said with a smile to the old man.
“Heh, if you’ve already mastered the ‘Spirit Reversal’ technique, it’s hardly just a fraction. With Ying’er restraining him, I can fight him again,” the old man surnamed Yi replied after inspecting his body and finding that the reversal technique had even replenished some of his depleted vitality, boosting his confidence.
With a long cry, his head transformed back into the eerie bird-faced human form. His hands flipped, and a silver light and a golden light flashed as the golden mirror and silver scroll reappeared.
With a low shout, the silver scroll in his hand blurred and exploded into countless silver runes, coalescing into a silver armor that encased his body tightly. Meanwhile, the golden mirror in his other hand glowed brightly before splitting into two massive golden swords, which he gripped firmly.
Seeing this, the girl smiled slightly, formed a hand seal, and the two wolf-headed beasts before her exploded into blood mist, which surged into her body. Her palms glowed with an eerie blood light as she chanted incantations and pointed at the old man.
With a series of soft pops, blood-red runes shot from her fingertips and vanished into the old man’s armor, forming shifting crimson patterns.
At the same time, Old Man Yi felt a surge of heat coursing through his body, his strength doubling in an instant. A wave of violent fury rose within his heart, causing the blood vessels in his eyes to bulge and igniting an intense battle lust.
“Bloodlust Technique? Excellent! Just what I wanted!” the old man laughed wildly, shaking his arms and charging out as a silver light, unleashing two golden sword beams over a hundred zhang long. The air tore as if the sky itself were being split.
Han Li glanced at the incoming golden sword beams and the blood-robed girl on the stone city, then smiled and pointed upward.
With a whoosh, the three Extreme Mountains blurred and vanished from the void.
The next moment, the air before him rippled, and the three mountains reappeared in a row, blocking the golden sword beams.
A loud boom echoed as the two golden beams struck the mountains, only to be deflected with a slight tremor.
But Old Man Yi’s eyes flashed with ferocity. He hurled his two massive swords into the air, chanting incantations. The swords merged into one, forming a thousand-zhang-long golden blade that descended with a deafening roar, accompanied by thunder and wind.
“Bring it on!” Han Li snorted. The giant ape’s six arms formed seals, and seventy-two small green swords shot from his body, merging into a towering emerald blade hundreds of zhang long. With a clear chime, it met the golden blade midair.
A colossal clash erupted as the two blades locked, filling the sky with intertwined golden and green sword beams, their brilliance blinding.
The standoff lasted only a moment before Old Man Yi, with a dark expression, repeatedly pointed toward the sky, channeling his magical power into the golden blade. The blade gleamed fiercely, emitting dazzling golden rays.
Simultaneously, the giant ape’s three heads tilted back, spewing three thick golden arcs that vanished into the void. The next moment, the emerald blade crackled with lightning, countless golden serpents lashing at the golden blade.
With a dull thud, the golden blade shattered under the combined assault.
Old Man Yi froze in shock.
But the giant ape, with a ferocious grin, stepped forward and disappeared.
Alarmed, the old man shouted, “Fellow Daoist Ying!” He formed a seal, summoning eight five-colored crystal shields around him and a purple-black wooden ruler that spun rapidly in his palm.
The girl in the blood-red robe smiled and clapped her hands. A wolf-headed beast burst into a bloody mist, revealing the looming silhouette of a massive wolf’s head.
At that moment, space beside Old Man Yi rippled, and a golden figure with three heads and six arms lunged at him.
The old man slid backward, hurling the wooden ruler. Countless purple needles shot out, but the golden figure charged through, most needles bouncing off, though a few pierced its body, releasing a foul stench and slowing its advance.
Old Man Yi smirked. The needles were laced with potent poison and mind-disrupting agents, lethal even to Mahayana cultivators.
But the golden figure showed no reaction. Its six arms blurred, unleashing a storm of fists, and it lunged again, unaffected by the needles.
The old man’s eyes widened in disbelief. Sweating profusely, he gritted his teeth and spat out a small green seal, which enlarged to the size of a vat, covered in faint runes, and smashed toward the golden figure, seemingly resolved to fight to the death.
The seal emitted a strange gravitational force, diverting the fist shadows, but the golden figure crashed into it head-on.
A deafening clang echoed as golden and green light exploded. The golden figure staggered back over a dozen steps.
Suddenly, a massive blood-red wolf head materialized behind it, sinking its fangs into the figure’s waist. The golden figure shuddered, its six arms striking the wolf head, but the jaws held firm.
Old Man Yi, delighted, raised his purple-black spear to hurl at the golden figure.
But a breeze brushed his back, and another golden figure—Han Li’s true form—appeared inches away, its fists adorned with silver patterns striking silently.
This golden ape, faintly tinged with shifting silver patterns, was Han Li’s true form. The three-headed figure was his detached Brahma Sacred Golden Body, serving as a decoy to divert the attention of the old man and the girl.
The girl paled, too late to warn.
Old Man Yi, sensing danger, whirled and hurled his spear backward.
With a thunderous crash, Han Li’s fist deflected the spear, and his other fist smashed into a crystal shield.
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