Published: September 8, 2025
Chapter 740: The Battle to Break the Formation (Part Five)
That white lotus did not appear to be some kind of treasure transformed; it was entirely condensed from the green-clad woman’s own magical power, yet it possessed such formidable strength. This truly surprised Han Li greatly.
However, the astonishment flashed by only briefly in his mind before his expression darkened. He took a deep breath, and his right arm suddenly stood upright, cloaked in a faint black energy.
The black energy stretched and contracted as if alive, gradually thickening. When it became pitch-black like ink, a solemn look appeared on Han Li’s face.
At the same time, his entire arm rapidly swelled, becoming two or three times thicker than before. A layer of dazzling blood aura appeared on its surface, and under the cover of the black energy, it looked incredibly eerie.
This was Han Li’s cultivated technique: the Shadow Demonic Slash.
At that moment, Han Li cast a cold glance at the green-clad woman.
Coincidentally, she had also finished casting her spell. Raising her delicate head, her bright eyes flowed as they met Han Li’s gaze. Her eyes quickly landed on Han Li’s unusually single arm.
A flash of cold light passed through her eyes.
“Go!” Han Li said without hesitation, his voice low and commanding.
His arm fell, sweeping through the void.
A semicircular black-red energy blade shot out from his arm. Once released, it expanded to several meters wide.
The sound of air being cut thundered suddenly as the energy blade left a long, blazing trail. In an instant, it reached the white lotus’s spiritual light shield.
The green-clad woman’s beautiful brows twitched. She opened her mouth and sprayed a cluster of crystal-clear white vapor over the white lotus. Instantly, a lotus illusion bloomed out of thin air atop the white lotus, like a solid shield enveloping her.
The energy blade flashed and struck the lotus illusion firmly. At first, it easily sliced through and penetrated several meters deep, but then its speed slowed dramatically, and it was trapped inside, unable to move even an inch.
A trace of pride appeared on the woman’s face, but her eyes suddenly shifted.
Because Han Li on the opposite side, without a word, threw out a black object.
Once released, the object surged violently against the wind. In the blink of an eye, it transformed into a towering black mountain over a hundred meters high, fiercely crashing down toward the lotus illusion and the woman inside.
“Thousand Layer Peak!” The woman exclaimed upon seeing the imposing mountain descending.
This ancient treasure was quite famous even among spellmasters. How could Han Li not recognize it?
Even with her mid nascent soul cultivation and the ancient Buddhist secret arts she wielded, she would never dare to take the mountain head-on.
Without hesitation, the green-clad woman formed hand seals. Her figure, along with the white lotus above her head and the small yellow cauldron, linked together in white light and instantly transformed into a breeze, vanishing from within the lotus illusion.
The next moment, after a flash of light more than twenty meters away, her graceful figure reappeared, glowing in azure light.
The pale white lotus illusion at the original spot, lacking the woman’s magical power support, dimmed but did not disappear immediately. Pressed down by the black mountain, it held for a moment before shattering and dispersing.
“Wind escape technique?” Han Li showed no sign of joy on his face; instead, he murmured bitterly to himself.
He hadn’t expected the woman to possess such a strange escape technique, no less effective than the thunder escape technique.
With this, unless he trapped her in a desperate situation, there was almost no way to defeat her.
Still, Han Li intended to give it a try.
He was unwilling to fully believe it. Her wind escape technique was as skillful as his Wind Thunder Wings. As long as he could get close, he believed the terrifying power of the Qian Blue Ice Flame could easily seriously injure her, no matter how strange that white lotus was.