A Record of a Mortal’s Journey to Immortality

The Battle at the Border (3)

When the black-robed man saw the light barrier reappear, he silently formed an incantation gesture with his hands.

An ancient incantation came out of his mouth, and the Yin devilish Qi around his body swelled by several feet before transforming into pitch-black tentacles that wildly danced in the air.

Han Li narrowed his eyes and stared at the other party without moving. However, his hands that were hidden in his sleeves emitted a faint sound of thunder, and there was a faint golden light flashing.

Han Li already had the confidence to kill a demonic cultivator of the same cultivation level in an instant. As long as he seized the opportunity after the other party attacked, he could kill the other party in one fell swoop.

However, in that instant, the black-robed man’s pupils turned crimson and he let out a beast-like roar. Soon after, the devilish Qi on his body dissipated and his body began to expand.

In the blink of an eye, he had grown to over twice his original size.

“Huh!” Seeing this, Han Li was slightly stunned.

It wasn’t because of the change in the enemy’s body size, but rather because the guy’s devilish Qi had disappeared without a trace and was replaced by an extremely unsettling and strange aura.

The black-robed man’s blood-red eyes revealed a frenzied expression. His inflated body suddenly shrank and in the blink of an eye, he became a three-foot-tall dwarf. In addition, his body shot towards the barrier behind him.

Han Li was shocked, and his thoughts quickly turned, faintly having a bad feeling.

He raised his hands, and two thick arcs of golden lightning shot out from his hands, forming a huge golden net in the air that swept toward the black-robed man.

Soon after, he shook his sleeve and a small blue shield flew out, transforming into a huge shield in front of him. He patted the storage pouch at his waist with his other hand and the restriction bead fell into his palm.

As long as the situation was amiss, he would immediately take out the bead and break through the restriction.

He clearly knew that the other party had some tricks up their sleeve, so he wasn’t going to be restrained here.

Just as Han Li’s thoughts were running wild, the black-robed man under the golden lightning net let out a miserable scream. With a loud bang, his entire body inexplicably exploded, and every inch of his body turned into blood foam, flying in all directions.

Han Li was shocked at first, but he was immediately stunned.

Originally, Han Li thought that the enemy was going to use some sort of self-detonating secret technique, but his blood and flesh had splattered all over the barrier and hadn’t affected Han Li in the slightest. It appeared that the attack was completely powerless.

Han Li was puzzled and bewildered.

However, he immediately discovered something unusual.

The other party’s blood and flesh were stuck to the wall of the barrier without the slightest intention of falling off. Furthermore, under his gaze, the flesh began to strangely squirm on the wall of the barrier.

Seeing this, Han Li was dumbfounded.

With a few puffs, the flesh and blood suddenly turned into a cloud of blood mist that spread along the barrier. Its speed was so fast that in the blink of an eye, most of the white light barrier had turned blood-red. Furthermore, it released an extremely pungent and nauseating smell of blood.

Han Li was shocked and hurriedly threw the Restriction Breaking Bead behind him.

In the instant that the Restriction Breaking Bead came into contact with the barrier, it exploded into a ball of pitch-black light.

Soon after, a portion of the barrier flickered, and the entire light barrier began to tremble.

Han Li was overjoyed when he saw this. He hurriedly flicked his fingers, and ten azure sword Qi struck the same spot one after another. After a few flashes of white light, the barrier was about to shatter.

Just as he rejoiced, crimson light flashed in front of him, and a large expanse of blood mist covered the barrier in front of him, turning it crimson.

Han Li’s heart suddenly sank. He raised his head and looked around, only to discover that the entire light barrier had turned blood-red. The blood mist on it churned and condensed into drops of viscous blood out of thin air. The smell of blood instantly increased.

Without another thought, he opened his mouth, and a thunderclap erupted as a bowl-thick bolt of golden lightning struck the crimson light before him.

After the golden light exploded, the blood mist dissipated for a moment before immediately returning to its original state as if it were completely unharmed.

This greatly surprised Han Li.

The Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords that he was about to shoot out suddenly stopped, and a solemn expression appeared on his face.

At the same time, the scene of the opponent’s self-detonation turning the light barrier into blood was playing out in all ten arenas.

The ten Nascent Soul cultivators participating in the wagered battle were all caught off guard and trapped within the mutated light barrier.

The ten Core Formation cultivators who were supervising the operation of the spell formation naturally knew that the situation was far from good. As they vigilantly looked at the spell warriors in front of them, they hurriedly formed hand seals in an attempt to stop the spell formation.

However, to their surprise, when they saw the light barrier turn blood-red, these spell warriors didn’t say a word. They immediately turned around and left the formation, flying directly back to their own formation.

At this moment, not only were the ten cultivators not at ease, but they also realized the severity of the matter.

From the looks of it, the change in the light barrier was definitely caused by the spell warriors.

As expected, although the spell formation had been stopped, the blood barrier in the air was still quite strange. Furthermore, the blood mist was beginning to fade away, and the barrier was covered in a thick layer of blood. It was as if the blood of several hundred people had been used on the barrier.

It was truly an extremely terrifying sight!

When Master Sunreach and the others saw this, their hearts trembled. Seeing that the ten cultivators were unable to stop the spell formation, they couldn’t hold their breath any longer and flew off in three streaks of blinding light.

“Go down! This isn’t a situation you can handle.”

When Master Sunreach arrived above the spell formation, he glanced at the light barrier with a sullen expression.

When the cultivators below heard this, they heaved a sigh of relief and hurriedly flew back to the formation.

As for the woman surnamed Song, she looked at the blood barrier where Han Li was and a trace of worry flashed past her eyes. She also helplessly left.

When the shriveled old man and the others saw that Han Li and the others had been trapped, a trace of excitement naturally flashed across their faces. Now that they saw the three great cultivators flying to the spell formation, their expressions were still extremely calm, as if they were not worried at all that the three great cultivators had the ability to break through the blood barrier.

A black-robed man and a woman had appeared behind them.

The shriveled old man turned to the black-robed man with a dry smile and said, “Sect Master Fang has succeeded. I hope the Blood Sieve Barrier is as powerful as your sect says and it can trap ten Nascent Soul cultivators for half a day. If the Heavenly South loses these ten, their strength will greatly decrease. Half a day will be enough for us to fight and defeat them.”

The black-robed man glanced at the old man and coldly smiled, “Don’t worry! This Blood Sieve Barrier is one of our sect’s six great secret techniques. Not only does it require the sacrifice of ten Blood Corpses that have been reared for a hundred years, but it also requires the use of Devil Spirit Pills to prevent them from becoming suspicious. Ten people, including me, had to use our spiritual sense to control them in order to conceal them from the other party’s detection. Even if a late Nascent Soul cultivator wanted to break this barrier, they wouldn’t be able to do so without expending a bit of magic power and half an hour. Would you give them this opportunity?”

As if to verify the black-robed man’s words, Master Sunreach charged toward the blood barrier beneath him and slashed down with a blinding streak of sword Qi.

After a series of violent rumbles, the blood barrier only trembled slightly before returning to its original state.

When Master Sunreach saw this, his expression darkened.

When Wei Wuya and Devil Concord saw this, they had no intention of attacking.

With their eyesight, although only one of them had tested it, they were able to immediately assess the strength of the blood barrier’s restrictions. This strange blood barrier was extremely durable, and there was something strange about it that made it difficult to break.

However, the three of them were able to tell that the barrier was only focused on trapping enemies and had no harm on them.

The three glanced at each other and bitterly smiled.

They originally thought that the other party would use a powerful killing move against the ten betting cultivators in order to severely injure them. However, they didn’t expect that the other party would have the intention of temporarily trapping the ten cultivators.

This caught the three old cultivators off guard and they had miscalculated. The preparations they had made in advance had most likely been rendered ineffective.

Wei Wuya sighed and slowly asked, “Brother Huh, what kind of Devil Dao cultivation technique is this? Your six sects don’t have such a cultivation technique, right? They actually had someone self-destruct in order to perform this technique. This is truly unexpected.”

Devil Concord frowned and said, “No, this is the first time I’ve seen such a strange secret technique. It seems the cultivators of the Great Jin are not to be underestimated!”

The three of them were vexed and did not have the mood to question the other party!

This was because the war drums of the opposing spell warrior army had begun to sound. A portion of the spell warriors rose into the air and stopped in mid-air. Meanwhile, the spell warriors on the ground began to change their positions. Waves of incantations could be heard as they assumed an offensive stance.

Although the army of cultivators behind them had witnessed the strange scene of the battles, they didn’t panic under the guidance of the high-grade cultivators. They also began to move in formation, and spiritual light of various colors began to shine from their formations.

After a moment of thought, Master Sunreach said, “We’ve suffered a great loss this time. Fortunately, they’re only temporarily trapped and their lives aren’t in danger. So long as we drag this out, they’ll still have a chance to come out. We have more high-grade cultivators than the Moulans. Even if we lose ten of them, we won’t be much weaker than spell warriors.”

Although Devil Concord and Wei Wuya knew that Master Sunreach was trying to console himself, they had no choice with everything that had happened.

Of course, the two of them were naturally quite angry.

A fierce light flashed from Devil Concord’s face as he sinisterly said, “Alright, there’s no need for us to command the war. We just have to try our best to delay the Moulan Divine Sages!”

He then ignored the other two and raised his head, shouting sternly at the army of spell warriors.

“I’ve long heard that the Moulan Divine Sages possess unfathomable Heavenly Spirit Techniques. The three of us would like to experience it. I wonder if the Divine Sages are willing to come out and fight.”

Devil Concord’s shout was clearly a secret technique. It was like a bolt from the blue, shaking the sky and earth for several kilometers around him.

The incantations from both sides were suppressed for a moment. The spell warriors with low cultivation even swayed a few times and almost fell.