Published: September 9, 2025
Chapter 805: Killing Intent in the Valley
Not far behind him, there was actually a sunken area. It was about a hundred zhang wide, with barren surroundings—no grass growing at all. It was clear at a glance that this was not naturally formed.
Han Li’s expression shifted slightly, but he first released his spiritual awareness and quickly scanned everything within twenty to thirty li. He did not detect any other cultivators’ traces. Only then did he relax and look carefully at the sunken ground, slowly walking over.
Standing at the edge of the depression, Han Li examined it closely, a flicker of surprise passing across his face.
This was not a sunken ground at all—it was an extremely neat circular pit.
Inside the pit, it was covered in thick gray dust, of unknown depth, making it impossible to see clearly.
Han Li stared at the large pit for a moment, then showed a thoughtful expression.
After a short pause, he formed hand seals with both hands and raised his palm. A hurricane more than ten zhang high suddenly formed out of thin air in front of him.
Han Li uttered a single word, “Go,” and flicked his sleeve.
Immediately, the hurricane swept up the dust on the ground, roaring toward the center of the pit.
Where the wind passed, the scattered stones and dust were all swept up. In moments, the true form of the stone pit was revealed.
Below was a stone wall with a dark red, molten lava-like surface, extraordinarily smooth.
“This is…”
Han Li immediately recognized that this was clearly formed by extremely high-temperature fire. Connecting this with the shape of the pit,
he pondered for a moment, then his face showed shock.
Could this be a giant pit caused by a fireball similar to the fireball technique? If he released a fireball to strike the stone wall, a similar stone pit would appear, but its diameter would only be a few zhang at most. Compared with this hundred-zhang stone pit, it was like a small fry next to a giant.
Could this be one of the magical abilities of ancient cultivators? Truly formidable.
Han Li stood stunned, thinking for a long time before exhaling deeply and shaking his head.
He had been overthinking. This pit might have been caused by an ancient fire-attribute magical treasure’s attack. Even so, the magical abilities of ancient cultivators were indeed incomparable to those of modern immortal cultivators.
Next, Han Li slowly circled around the stone pit but found nothing else particularly notable. He stopped and looked up at the sky.
It should be around noon now, but the blazing sun that had been dazzling before the teleportation was nowhere in sight. Instead, a yellowish, endless overcast covered the sky, emitting a faint glow.
Han Li was not surprised; he had seen this many times before.
This was the result of a certain restriction covering the entire sky. Judging by this, it was probably impossible to ascend too high now, or else he would trigger the restriction.
Even so, Han Li flicked his finger, releasing a golden golddevourer worm, which he had somehow taken out without noticing, sending it flying straight into the air.
He raised his head to watch the insect, expressionless.
Sure enough, when the worm reached about fifty to sixty zhang above the ground, a blue lightning bolt suddenly struck it.
The worm tumbled and fell directly from the sky but spread its wings at about seventy or eighty zhang above the ground, resuming normal flight as if nothing had happened.
Seeing this, Han Li’s expression turned thoughtful. He then recalled the flying insect with his spiritual awareness.
After determining the direction, he shone with spiritual light all around and flew westward slowly amid a swirl of azure light.
In such a strange place, he dared not accelerate to full escape speed. Otherwise, if he accidentally collided with some restriction or spatial rift, it would be certain death.
Since he had appointments with Zi Ling and the marquis of Nanlong, Han Li planned to accomplish two tasks.
He would postpone dealing with the Spirit Candle Fruit a bit and first team up with the marquis of Nanlong to eliminate the fire toad beast.