Published: September 8, 2025
Chapter 745: Return
After the battle at Huanglong Mountain that day, with the three great divine masters of the spellmasters leading the charge, the spellmaster army advanced unexpectedly to the foot of Tiantian City in just half a month.
Caught off guard, the Nine Nations Alliance could only stand alone to face the enemy in anger and shock.
Fortunately, the Chief Elder of the alliance, Wei Wuya—one of the three major cultivators of Tian Nan—had just arrived in the city upon hearing the news. Relying on the restraining great formation of Tiantian City, they managed to hold out for over a month under the spellmaster army’s fierce assault.
But the three divine masters eventually gathered together, and with the help of some black-robed cultivators, they unleashed seven or eight massive giant beasts all at once.
As a result, it wasn’t long before the great formation was broken, and Tiantian City fell into the hands of the spellmasters.
Fortunately, most of the main forces of the Nine Nations Alliance remained intact. In haste, they retreated all cultivators to the neighboring Northern Liang Country of Yu Country.
At the same time, reinforcements from the righteous and demonic paths and the Heavenly Dao Alliance also arrived.
The four great powers of Tian Nan joined forces, and after several small skirmishes, they temporarily held back the sharp edge of the Mulan people.
But both sides knew very well that the true life-and-death battle had yet to begin.
After the Mulan people took Tiantian City, they immediately made it the first stronghold of the spellmasters in Tian Nan, sending large numbers of allied spellmasters from various tribes continuously from the Mulan Prairie.
Except for the largest Mulan tribe, the Jinyang Tribe, which was monitoring the Tuwo people’s movements and could not spare forces, the other elite tribes had sent out their best, pinning all hopes on occupying Tian Nan in one decisive battle.
The Mulan people awaited the arrival of all allied forces before launching the life-or-death battle.
The Tian Nan side, holding the advantage of terrain, naturally refused to show weakness.
Besides mobilizing the four great powers as a whole, several sects outside these powers also sent people to join the fight. Even some rogue cultivators, aware of the grave importance of this battle, which even involved the fundamental issues of the Yan tribe in Tian Nan, came voluntarily without needing to be called upon.
Seeing the goodwill of the people, the four great powers immediately used great supernatural abilities to construct a large stone city overnight near the boundary of Northern Liang Country close to Yu Country, as a temporary stronghold against the spellmasters.
They also needed to organize and arrange various sects’ and rogue cultivators’ forces before launching a decisive battle to drive the Mulan people out of Tian Nan.
For the moment, the spellmaster cultivators paused their conflict, like the calm before a storm. Both sides appeared unusually quiet.
During this period, however, Han Li’s reputation grew rapidly as certain matters spread.
He did not know that, besides himself, the only other nascent soul cultivator to survive the fog sea on Huanglong Mountain that day was an elder surnamed Ma.
But this elder of the Haoran Sect, when faced with the wind escape technique of the woman surnamed Le, could only abandon his physical body, with only his nascent soul escaping back to the Nine Nations Alliance.
Besides the elder, Ying Ning of the foundation formation stage and the Murong Brothers also sensed danger and escaped early, returning safely.
As a result, Han Li’s instant killing of the black-robed nascent soul cultivator became known to others.
His reputation grew!
As for Han Li and the burly man surnamed Lu capturing and eliminating the Imperial Spirit Sect spy, only high-level cultivators from the major powers knew of this. It was not spread outside.
But what truly made Han Li famous was not only this matter but the news from the Mulan people that he had escaped from a Mulan divine master.