Upon hearing Han Li’s words, the Silverlight Fairy’s eyes flashed behind her mask, but in the end, she voiced no objections.
The nearby guards, seeing this, naturally complied immediately.
They instructed the others to quickly activate the teleportation array.
Without a word, the Silverlight Fairy floated in her white robes to the center of the formation.
Han Li smiled faintly and calmly stepped onto the teleportation array as well.
Moments later, the formation beneath their feet emitted a low hum, and a milky-white spiritual light surged around them.
With a flash, their figures vanished without a trace amidst the bright glow.
Han Li felt a swirl of light around him, and everything before his eyes blurred abruptly.
Given his current abilities, this short teleportation distance caused nothing more than a slight heaviness in his head, with no other discomfort.
Yet the moment the surrounding light dissipated and his feet touched solid ground again, Han Li immediately released his spiritual sense, enveloping everything nearby.
His expression darkened instantly, and a cold glint flickered deep within his pupils.
Almost simultaneously, countless black streaks shot toward them from all directions—hundreds of them, dense and unrelenting.
Without hesitation, Han Li formed a single-handed seal, and a grayish halo abruptly appeared around him. Initially only about ten feet wide, it expanded explosively in a flash, covering the incoming black streaks.
The streaks trembled and froze mid-air within the gray light, revealing their true forms—black crossbow bolts, each about a foot long, gleaming darkly with eerie purple tips, likely coated with some deadly poison.
Only then did Han Li calmly survey his surroundings.
He found himself in a vast hall spanning over a hundred feet, surrounded by fifty to sixty armored demon soldiers clad in black, each holding a dark hand crossbow and staring at him and the Silverlight Fairy in shock.
Most of these demons were around the Core Formation stage, with a few at the Nascent Soul level.
The strongest among them was a one-horned demon at the Deity Transformation stage, his skin rough and eyes glowing green.
Yet now, this leader stared at Han Li and the Silverlight Fairy in horror before suddenly shrieking, “Bad news! It’s a human Body Integration old monster! Retreat!”
As soon as he spoke, a thick burst of demonic energy erupted from his body, filling the entire hall in an instant.
Under this cover, he transformed into a black streak and fled toward the exit.
The other demon soldiers, equally terrified, scrambled to escape as well.
But Han Li had no intention of letting them go. A cold glint flashed in his eyes as the gray light around him pulsed. The frozen black bolts abruptly reversed direction, shooting back at their owners with ten times their original speed.
In a flash, the demon soldiers screamed and collapsed, their bodies torn apart by the gray threads that now filled the hall.
Even their Nascent Souls were obliterated in the storm of gray light.
But Han Li wasn’t done. With a cold glance at the fleeing leader—now nearly at the door—he raised a hand and made a grasping motion in the air.
A massive azure hand materialized above the demon and slammed down like lightning.
A bloodcurdling shriek followed as the Deity Transformation demon was crushed into paste before he could even activate his protective treasures.
Han Li flicked his sleeve, dispersing the gray threads and the azure hand as if they were mere illusions.
Turning to the Silverlight Fairy, he remarked, “It seems the demons have indeed discovered this place, but they didn’t deem it important enough to station more than a token force.”
“It’s not that they don’t value it,” the Silverlight Fairy replied calmly. “But our human cities have too many hidden teleportation points. The demons can’t possibly guard every one heavily. The fact that a Deity Transformation demon was stationed here already shows they considered it significant.”
“I see. Your words make sense,” Han Li conceded with a chuckle.
He flicked a finger, sending out a fireball that transformed into a crimson bird, swooping down to incinerate the demon corpses. Only their storage belts remained.
Unlike the storage bracelets of the spirit realm, these demons used belt-like artifacts.
Han Li swept them up with his sleeve and scanned them briefly with his spiritual sense.
His brow furrowed slightly.
The belts contained little—mostly dark, gleaming crystals and some formation disks and flags.
The black crystals were likely the fabled demon crystals unique to the demon world, equivalent to spirit stones but infused with pure demonic energy.
Shaking his head, Han Li stored the belts away and strode out of the hall.
His spiritual sense had already confirmed no other demons lurked nearby.
The Silverlight Fairy followed, her expression unreadable.
Beyond the door, they found themselves in an underground cavern with only a narrow, winding passage leading upward.
How the demons had discovered such a hidden place was a mystery that intrigued Han Li.
Soon, two streaks of light shot out from the base of a small mountain, circled briefly in the air, then sped off in a chosen direction.
After flying barely a hundred miles, the green streak flickered and gradually turned translucent, nearly vanishing.
Meanwhile, the white streak burst into an inconspicuous cloud, drifting lazily yet matching the other’s speed.
In this manner, they vanished over the horizon.
Yet barely half a day after their departure, the sky darkened as a rolling cloud of demonic energy surged toward the mountain they’d left.
The cloud condensed into a white-armored elder with short horns, his face bearing a resemblance to the slain demon leader.
A Body Integration demon, his expression was frantic as he shot into the hidden passage.
Moments later, a roar of grief echoed from below, and the elder reappeared atop the mountain, scanning the surroundings with fiery eyes.
“Whoever dared kill my grandson, I will hunt you to the ends of the earth!” he bellowed, pinpointing Han Li’s direction almost instantly.
With a wave of demonic energy, he summoned a ten-foot-long black crane, mounted it, and spurred it into a blur of speed.
As they vanished, a colossal black rod materialized from the demonic cloud and smashed into the mountain, reducing half of it to rubble in a single strike.
Two hours later, a million miles away, two other high-ranking demons conversed atop a towering peak.
“Brother Mi, why is Elder Li taking so long? He said he’d just deliver some protective treasures to his grandson and return immediately. Are we to believe he’s still indulging in familial affection? We have urgent matters to attend to. Delaying further will displease Lord Bloodlight,” grumbled a demon with blue markings on his face.
“Patience, Blue Venerable,” replied a bald demon with long fleshy tendrils at his mouth. “Elder Li isn’t reckless. He’s likely on his way back. Besides, that grandson is his only direct descendant. It’s natural for him to dote on the boy.”
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