As days passed, the intervals between the eruptions of the Wind Spirit Force within Han Li grew longer. What initially occurred every few hours reduced to twice a day, and eventually, he only needed to suppress it once per full day. Moreover, the intensity of each eruption weakened progressively. Finally, after one last outburst spaced two days apart, the Wind Spirit Force settled down completely. The Tornado Beast had actually given up on controlling it.
Naturally, Han Li was overjoyed. Whether the beast had moved too far away for its technique to work or had encountered some other trouble, this was the perfect chance to escape. Without hesitation, he drank a drop of spiritual liquid, identified a direction, and flew away at full speed without any further concern, putting great distance between himself and the nearby sea.
Tens of thousands of miles away from Han Li, on a small island, the Tornado Beast sat cross-legged in a deserted cave, its face dark with fury as it meditated. After such a prolonged chase, its magic power was finally depleted, and it could no longer suppress the foreign object inside its body. Unlike Han Li, who could extravagantly use ten-thousand-year spiritual liquid to instantly recover spiritual power, the beast had no such luxury. Left with no choice, it had to stay on the island, planning to spend some time completely resolving the internal threat before resuming its pursuit of Han Li. It was determined to reclaim the Wind and Thunder Wings it had painstakingly refined.
After inwardly swearing a bitter, venomous oath, the ninth-grade Tornado Beast resentfully closed its eyes and entered a state of self-forgetfulness in its divine consciousness. Over a month later, Han Li also arrived at an unfamiliar, deserted island.
After confirming that there were no human cultivators or high-level demon beasts nearby, he plunged into the island and swiftly carved out an extremely simple stone cave.
Setting up a few concealment arrays at the entrance, he hurried inside, sat down, and took out the pair of Wind and Thunder Wings.
Looking at the wings, now shrunk to the size of his palm, Han Li couldn’t help but show a pleased expression.
Since these spirit wings required both wind and thunder power to operate, and the ninth-grade demon cultivator Feng Xi only possessed wind power, it suggested that one didn’t need to possess both forces simultaneously. Merely having one would suffice to use this treasure. Han Li, capable of wielding the Evil-Subduing Divine Lightning, naturally had the ability to control this treasure. If it was truly as miraculous as the Tornado Beast had claimed, mastering it sooner would greatly benefit his survival in the future.
However, upon closer inspection, Han Li noticed that the silver-white long feathers on the wings seemed slightly unstable and wavering.
He immediately understood that this was because the treasure had been taken out too early, before it had fully solidified. Although it wasn’t as disastrous as the beast had alarmingly claimed, prolonged delay would indeed significantly reduce its power.
But Han Li showed no panic. Instead, he used a nail to make a small cut on his index finger, letting a drop of essential blood fall onto the wings. He then activated a spell, first completing the ownership ritual.
Watching as the wings absorbed the essential blood, a cold glint flashed in Han Li’s eyes. He tossed the Wind and Thunder Wings into the air with one hand. They floated there weightlessly, completely still.
Without even looking, Han Li flicked his ten fingers, sending out slender electric arcs that shot onto the spirit wings, erupting in low, rumbling thunder.
With a solemn expression, Han Li increased the density of the golden arcs he was emitting.
Soon, a pale golden electric arc shield formed in the air, enveloping the Wind and Thunder Wings. The sound of thunder gradually softened from high to low.
Watching the Wind and Thunder Wings slowly absorb the arcs of the Evil-Subduing Divine Lightning within the electric shield, Han Li finally felt relieved.
Over the next ten-plus days, Han Li used his divine lightning to gradually stabilize the wind and thunder feathers on the spirit wings. Moreover, due to absorbing the Evil-Subduing Divine Lightning, some golden threads appeared among the silver long feathers, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye unless examined closely.
After completing the shaping process that the Tornado Beast and its companions had left unfinished, Han Li immediately withdrew the thunder arcs. A spray of blue light shot out, enveloping and drawing the Wind and Thunder Wings into his body. He then exited the stone cave, flew above the island, and prepared to test the usage and supernatural abilities of this treasure.
Standing high in the air, Han Li took a light breath, secretly circulating his magic power to activate the Wind and Thunder Wings treasure within him. He felt a surge of spiritual energy behind his back, followed by two soft “puff” sounds. A pair of wings, about ten feet long, materialized out of thin air behind him. The silver-white long feathers were subtly interwoven with fine golden light.
Han Li turned his head to look, and with a thought, the wings gently flapped twice. They felt weightless, as if they weren’t even there.
Curious, he reached out and touched one of the Wind and Thunder Wings. It felt cool and slightly numb.
Frowning at this, Han Li applied a bit more force with his five fingers, and his entire hand easily sank into the wing.
“What is this?” Han Li was startled and immediately performed an internal inspection.
The pair of palm-sized Wind and Thunder Wings was still resting quietly above his dantian, faintly emitting white light. What had appeared outside his body wasn’t the actual treasure but wings entirely conjured from spiritual energy.
This surprised Han Li!
After steadying himself, Han Li began to inject magic power into the wings. The pair of wings behind him shimmered with silver light. With a slight flap, he shot forward effortlessly with a “whoosh” sound.
After flying around in circles a few times, Han Li stopped, stroked his chin, and pondered for a moment. The speed wasn’t particularly remarkable, no faster than before. It seemed he really needed to try infusing it with lightning power.
Thinking this, Han Li didn’t hesitate to summon the Evil-Subduing Divine Lightning. Two pale golden electric arcs transmitted into the spirit wings within him. Instantly, thunder rumbled from behind. Han Li quickly glanced back and saw silver-white lightning flickering on the wings, which involuntarily spread out to the sides, exuding an eerie aura.
With a thought from Han Li’s divine sense, a low “boom” sounded, silver light flashed before his eyes, and he instantly teleported over thirty feet away.
“Lightning Evasion Technique!”
Han Li was first astonished, then overjoyed. Next, with a gentle flap of the wings behind him, he appeared another sixty to ninety feet away amidst the sound of thunder.
In the following moments, Han Li transformed into a silver lightning arc, covering hundreds of feet in an instant. He appeared far away one moment and vanished nearby the next, his entire form elusive and ghostly.
Truly worthy of being called the most elusive evasion technique—Lightning Evasion. Its speed far surpasses that of ordinary Five Elements Evasion Techniques! I wonder just how much more heaven-defying this treasure will become after long-term cultivation. No wonder the ninth-grade Tornado Beast went to such great lengths to refine it. With its inherently rare speed and the aid of these Wind and Thunder Wings, there are likely only a handful of beings in this world capable of killing it. Han Li, reappearing within a silver arc, murmured delightedly as he gently stroked one of the wings. Then, a white light flashed around him, and the wings vanished on their own.
Han Li had no intention of staying long. He planned to quickly leave the Outer Star Seas and return to the Inner Star Seas. He clearly understood that although he had temporarily shaken off the pursuit of the ninth-grade Tornado Beast, with its monstrous speed, it wouldn’t be long before it searched the nearby seas and came after him again. He wasn’t about to wait obediently for the beast to find him.
The Inner Star Seas were the domain of human cultivators. No matter how powerful the beast was, it likely wouldn’t dare venture deep inside. Once he formed his Nascent Soul in the Inner Star Seas, he would no longer need to fear this beast.
As for being pursued by those old Nascent Soul monsters because of the Virtual Sky Cauldron, thirty or forty years had already passed. The heat should have died down considerably. Moreover, with his late Core Formation cultivation, unless he encountered tough opponents like Barbarian Beard, even if he couldn’t defeat someone like Ji Yin, he could still manage to escape.
Having settled on a plan, Han Li returned to the stone cave on the island. He briefly inspected the storage pouches of the Turtle Demon and the Venomous Flood Dragon. They were actually filled with numerous demon beast cores and some extremely rare materials.
Among these materials, he even found a fist-sized, jet-black turtle shell and over a hundred blood-red scales. These were likely items shed by the two demons during their transformation, making them exceptionally precious. Han Li was pleasantly surprised. If he used these two items to refine armor, it definitely wouldn’t be inferior to Barbarian Beard’s Imperial Scale Armor.
However, naturally, Han Li wouldn’t busy himself with this now. He collected the formation flags from the cave entrance, left the island, and headed directly towards the sea area where the Miaoyin Sect’s market was located.
Since the Miaoyin Sect had already built a teleportation formation, he estimated that after all this time, preparations should be nearly complete. Whether through a combination of persuasion and force or simply barging in, he intended to use that teleportation formation to return to the Inner Sea.
Han Li didn’t know where the Miaoyin Sect had relocated their market, but he believed any well-informed human cultivator could point him in the right direction.
What he also didn’t know was that the escaped Turtle Demon, in an underwater cave mansion thousands of feet deep somewhere in the ocean, was reporting Han Li’s killing of the Venomous Flood Dragon to the patriarch of the nearby sea’s flood dragon clan—a ninth-grade Lihuo Flood Dragon whose cultivation had also reached the mid-transformation stage.
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