Published: September 9, 2025
Chapter 888: Crisis
“That goes without saying. As for other matters, I have no interest in knowing. This deal is settled then. This place is a bit conspicuous—come with me to another location before casting any spells.”
Han Li showed a faint smile on his face. Without waiting for the other party’s consent, he flicked his sleeve towards the young man.
A swirl of azure mist flew out and directly enveloped Feng Yue’s head. The young man suddenly toppled over, but was caught at the waist by the azure mist and gently floated upward.
Although Han Li’s cultivation base was sealed, his use of magical power and techniques remained superb, far beyond that of a foundation establishment cultivator.
At this moment, the secondary nascent soul, which had taken the form of a dark cloud, shot out from the nearby forest. In a flash, it transformed back into its baby-like form and appeared in front of Han Li, one hand still clutching the Triangular Dagger, the other gripping the primordial spirit of the eagle-eyed elder.
“There’s no use keeping it. Let’s destroy it,” Han Li said indifferently after glancing at the elder’s primordial spirit.
Upon hearing this, the secondary nascent soul grinned mischievously, and black-green flames suddenly flickered on its clenched little hand.
The green light orb trembled and silently dissolved into a wisp of blue smoke within the flames.
At the same time, Han Li flicked his fingers, and an egg-sized fireball struck the remains of the elder’s corpse.
Flames roared skyward, and the eagle-eyed elder was utterly annihilated, body and spirit extinguished from the world.
Afterwards, Han Li reached out and summoned a storage bag and the Fiery Red Short Sword to his hand.
Once he cleaned up other obvious traces, Han Li mounted his magical artifact with Feng Yue and soared into the sky, heading toward the previously meditated rubble pile to make his escape.
Until his cultivation base was unsealed, naturally he had to be extra cautious.
That said, Han Li was somewhat frustrated at the moment.
Although his spiritual awareness was incredibly powerful, comparable to that of a late nascent soul cultivator, under normal circumstances he dared not extend it too far. Instead, he had to deliberately limit it.
Otherwise, if the great immortal masters or other immortal cultivators of the Tuwo people who specialized in spiritual awareness techniques detected him, that would be a dead end.
But if he kept his spiritual awareness too close, he risked being approached by high-level Tuwo immortal cultivators nearby without knowing it.
Previously, when he was nurturing the golddevourer worms in the central prairie, part of the reason he was discovered was due to some carelessness.
But more so because he had kept his spiritual awareness too close.
As a result, a mid nascent soul stage cultivator pursued the demonic beast at tremendous escape speed — seemingly not slower than a late nascent soul cultivator — covering over twenty miles in an instant.
Even though Han Li noticed in time, it was too late to retrieve the worms and escape, resulting in an unexpected calamity.
But in such a vast Tianlan Prairie, he had just run into a mid nascent soul stage Tuwo immortal cultivator skilled in the flying escape technique.
Whether the other party was just unlucky or Han Li was more unfortunate, no one knew.
Han Li believed that if both sides had just slightly sensed each other’s magical abilities, they probably wouldn't have fought.
Thinking back on this, Han Li felt a mixture of laughter and tears.
Although he suffered backlash from the deadly aura, causing his magical power to be sealed, the opponent had used that strange magical ability to escape with only one-seventh of his nascent soul remaining, likely suffering great damage to their cultivation base.
How long it would take to recover was anyone’s guess.
For some reason, Han Li thought about this again while in midair. Sighing, he returned to the rubble pile and calmly descended.
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One day later, Han Li returned to the camp as promised.