Published: August 27, 2025
Chapter 421: Spirit Sealing Pillar
In the distance, the sky suddenly filled with a vast swarm of insects stretching dozens of zhang long, almost dyeing half the sky in golden and silver hues. The tremendous humming noise faintly came from within this insect cloud.
Beneath the swarm, Han Li stared expressionlessly at the strange man, his gaze icy cold, as if looking at a corpse, and uttered a single word: "Go."
Immediately, the immense insect cloud descended like a dark storm, overwhelming the strange man.
The stranger's hands and feet turned icy cold. This swarm was at least ten times larger than before—there was no way he could withstand it. Fear surged within him, and he instinctively wanted to retreat.
His face darkening, he motioned and transformed the Flower Basket ancient treasure into a stream of white vapor, retracting it into his hand. Then, he fiercely struck out two blood-red spell formations toward the two ghost heads, muttering a somewhat obscure incantation under his breath. He didn’t even bother to retrieve his entangled flying sword and turned around without hesitation to flee.
The stranger’s decisiveness caught Han Li off guard.
The two ghost heads spat out several bursts of fierce phosphorescent flames and attempted to flee after him, but Han Li would not let them slip away so easily.
Under his command, the massive insect cloud instantly engulfed them completely. No matter how much phosphorous fire they spewed, tens of thousands of golddevourer worms immediately devoured every bit without leaving a trace.
Soon, countless golddevourer worms swarmed all over the bodies of the ghost heads.
Seeing this, Han Li knew they were finished. Just as he was about to recall the worms and chase the strange man, two loud explosions suddenly rang out.
The place where the ghost heads had been swallowed exploded open, and a green flame enveloped a large number of the golddevourer worms.
Han Li was initially shocked but quickly relaxed.
Through spiritual awareness, he sensed that aside from several hundred worms at the center being incinerated by the strange fire, most of the golddevourer worms remained unharmed.
It was clear these immature worms were not invincible; beyond a certain threshold, they could be destroyed.
Still, this was more than satisfactory for Han Li. After all, the mere appearance of the golddevourer worms forced two extremely powerful ghost heads to self-destruct. He was confident that ordinary foundation formation cultivators would have no chance against such a swarm.
With that in mind, Han Li transformed into an azure rainbow without hesitation, gathering all the golddevourer worms scattered in the sky and pursuing the fleeing stranger.
His intentions were simple. Since he had already incurred a deep grudge with this strange man, he was determined to settle it once and for all—how could he allow this person to slip away right under his nose?
At the same time, the quhun turned into a streak of yellow light and flew into Han Li’s green rainbow, chasing after the target together.
As for Jin Qing, Hu Yue, and the others, they stood rooted in place, exchanging glances as if struggling to accept the fact that Han Li alone had forced the stranger into a panicked retreat.
The stranger’s escape technique was quite clever. Han Li pushed the Green Radiance Sword to its limits but still found the gap between them widening little by little.
In a blink, the three had rushed dozens of li ahead, almost beyond the boundaries of this barren island.
Seeing this, Han Li’s eyes flashed coldly. He inhaled deeply and suddenly shot seven palm-sized emerald green small swords from within his body.
The small swords circled his body rapidly and then merged into a single giant green greatsword.
Han Li’s figure flickered, and both he and the quhun stood atop the greatsword.
The green light flared brightly as Han Li accelerated to nearly one and a half times his prior speed, transforming into a greenish long rainbow over ten zhang long that tore through the sky.