Published: September 8, 2025
Chapter 766: The Border Battle (3)
As soon as the man in the black robe saw the light shield reappear, he fell silent and quickly formed hand seals with both hands.
A low, ancient, and hoarse incantation came from his mouth. The cold and sinister demonic aura on his body surged several feet, instantly transforming into jet-black, ink-like tentacles that wildly flailed about.
Han Li narrowed his eyes, staring motionless at his opponent, but his hands, hidden in his sleeves, emitted faint crackling sounds, faint golden light flickering within.
When dealing with demonic cultivators, Han Li already had the confidence to instantly kill those of the same stage. As long as he seized the momentary gap when the opponent attacked, he could kill them in one strike.
But in that split second, the man in the black robe’s pupils turned blood red, and a beast-like roar escaped his mouth. Then the demonic aura on his body dissipated, and his lower body suddenly began to swell.
In the blink of an eye, his body size grew more than twice as large.
“Eh!” Han Li was slightly taken aback at this scene.
It wasn’t because of the change in the opponent’s body size, but rather because the opponent’s demonic aura completely vanished without a trace, replaced by a strange and unsettling aura.
The man in the black robe’s blood-red eyes revealed a look of madness. His swollen body suddenly shrank his hands, and in the blink of an eye transformed into a three-foot-tall dwarf. His figure then suddenly shot backward toward the shield wall behind him.
Han Li was shocked and his mind raced, faintly sensing that something was amiss.
He raised both hands, and two thick golden arcs shot out from his palms, forming a massive golden net in the air that headed straight for the man in the black robe.
Immediately after, he shook his sleeve, and a small blue shield flew out from his sleeve to become a giant shield that blocked in front of him. At the same time, his other hand slapped the storage pouch on his waist, and the restriction bead fell into his palm.
If the situation went wrong, he would immediately use this bead to break the restriction and leave.
Knowing full well that the opponent was about to use some trick, he would not be caught powerless here.
While Han Li’s thoughts were in turmoil, the man in the black robe beneath the golden electric net let out a piercing, miserable scream. With a loud “bang,” his entire body inexplicably exploded, every inch of flesh turning into blood foam that splattered everywhere.
Han Li was startled at first but quickly wore a look of astonishment.
He had thought the opponent wanted to use some brutal self-destruct secret art, but the blood and flesh splattered onto the shield wall and didn’t affect the shield itself at all. It looked as if it had no power whatsoever.
Confused, Han Li grew somewhat suspicious.
But soon, he noticed something unusual.
The opponent’s blood foam and flesh were all stuck to the opposite shield wall and showed no signs of falling off. Under his watchful gaze, the blood and flesh began to creep and wriggle strangely on the shield wall.
Seeing this, Han Li was dumbfounded.
“Puff puff,” several sounds came as the blood and flesh suddenly transformed into swirling blood mist and rapidly spread along the shield wall.
So fast that in the blink of an eye, it turned most of the white light shield into a blood-red color, emitting a nauseating stench of blood that was extremely pungent.
Han Li's heart was terrified. He hastily threw the restriction bead in his hand at the shield wall behind him with full force.
With a loud “bang,” the restriction bead exploded into a ball of pitch-black dark light upon contact with the shield wall.
Then, that section of the shield wall flickered unsteadily, and the entire light shield trembled slightly.
Han Li was overjoyed. His ten fingers quickly followed with rapid flicks, sending ten streams of cyan sword qi one after another at the same spot. The white light flickered rapidly, and the shield wall was about to shatter.