Published: September 9, 2025
Chapter 879: Unforeseen Disaster
By now, it had been more than half a year since Han Li left the Luoyun Sect.
After departing from Tian Nan that day, he went straight into the Tianlan Prairie.
Under careful concealment of his cultivation base and identity, things initially proceeded very smoothly. He even disguised himself as an immortal master with a freelance status, infiltrating several Tuwo people tribes, exchanging cultivation insights with some Tuwo immortal cultivators, and had remained safe and sound all along.
However, when he crossed more than half of the prairie and reached the southern part on this side, an unexpected catastrophe struck.
In a wilderness far from the Tuwo tribes, during a routine release of all his golddevourer worms, intending to nurture the strongest batch among them, he happened to encounter a mid nascent soul elder of the Tuwo people chasing an unknown demonic bird. Strangely, the elder was controlling a mature golddevourer worm.
Since it was very convenient to ripen Nishang Herb by using coral he carried with him, Han Li had been doing this for a long time without incident. But this time, he was careless and did not set up any high-level concealment magic formation.
The encounter between the two and Han Li’s swarm of worms was inevitable.
As soon as the Tuwo high-level immortal master saw the tens of thousands of golddevourer worms densely packed above Han Li’s head, he nearly fainted in shock.
Without hesitation, he abandoned the pursuit of the demonic bird and immediately ordered Han Li to follow him to meet some holy maiden.
Han Li would never agree to such a thing and instead immediately launched a killing intent.
He instantly unleashed several great supernatural abilities in one breath, even activating his secondary nascent soul, striking the opponent’s physical body to ashes.
But then, something frustrating happened.
This Tuwo elder’s main cultivation technique was extremely strange — he could split his nascent soul into seven parts, each proficient in wood escape techniques.
By accident, one of these escaped.
At this point, Han Li knew he had definitely stirred up a hornet’s nest. Without hesitation, he fled southward through the night using flying escape.
However, no one knew how the Tuwo immortal cultivators communicated, but just a few days later, numerous high-level immortal masters at the nascent soul stage blocked and pursued him on the road. Eventually, even one of the four great immortal masters of the Tuwo appeared.
After several battles, although Han Li killed several high-level immortal masters, he was still severely injured by the great immortal master due to distraction. If not for repeatedly using Ten-Thousand-Year Spiritual Liquid to activate blood shadow escape, his life would have ended there.
Though he escaped with his life and temporarily evaded his pursuers using some tricks, Han Li realized that the real trouble had only just begun.
Perhaps due to the severe injury to his vital energy from the battles, the deadly aura that should have taken a long time to manifest suddenly triggered a premature backlash.
Fortunately, his spiritual awareness was strong and he sensed it early enough, forcing it down with secret arts.
This only made matters worse.
Helpless, he could only seek advice from the great yin divine lord on how to resolve the crisis.
The great yin divine lord, a monster who had lived for ten thousand years, immediately passed on the “five ghosts locking the spirit great technique” to him. It could temporarily seal the deadly aura, but the consequences were extremely serious. Most of the cultivation base would be sealed inside the body until a method to remove the deadly aura was found. Otherwise, if magical power was used recklessly, both the deadly aura and the five ghosts would retaliate simultaneously, resulting in a life-or-death dilemma!
Han Li fully understood the severity and hesitated to use the technique even after receiving it.
But when he flew to this place to escape the pursuit, the deadly aura once again fiercely backlashed, much stronger than before. His own cultivation base was simply unable to suppress it!