Chapter 776
The Might of Spirit Descent
At this moment, Han Li was very depressed, partly because the two Heavenly Tigers were extremely cunning.
They stuck to him like a plaster, but they didn’t dare to face him head-on. They just kept pestering him nearby.
Not long ago, he deliberately revealed a flaw and lured the two demonic beasts close to him. Then, he suddenly launched an attack and used several sword lights to cut off half of a demonic beast’s claws. From then on, the two demonic beasts were unwilling to be tricked. They only kept attacking from afar with light bullets and would not approach Han Li within 100 feet.
However, every time Han Li used the Thunderstorm Wings to shake them off, the two demon beasts would immediately teleport and follow him, harassing him non-stop, forcing him to stop his lightning movement and block a few attacks.
The other reason for his depression was naturally the azure projection.
Speaking of which, this azure light seemed to be formed entirely from pure wood spiritual Qi. The Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword was completely useless against it. No matter how much sword Qi shattered it, it would immediately condense into a single body and was not afraid of Han Li killing it at all.
This was the first time Han Li had encountered such a situation since he entered the cultivation world. It was an eye-opener.
When Han Li saw this, he naturally used the Celestial Ice Flame.
Unexpectedly, the azure shadow spat out a blue alms bowl. The Celestial Ice Flame flew over and was absorbed into the alms bowl. This frightened Han Li so much that he broke out in a cold sweat! Fortunately, these ice flames had already been refined into one with him. After being activated by his spiritual sense, the flames finally struggled to fly out of the alms bowl and return to his body.
Originally, he hadn’t refined a lot of the ice flames. If he were to lose a portion of them, he would suffer a great loss.
As such, Han Li did not dare to use the Purple Apex Flames.
As for the silver bell, Thousand Layer Mountain, and other treasures, Han Li had also used them once, but they were also useless against the enemy.
The azure shadow wasn’t immortal, and the azure light on its body would dim with each injury. However, it wasn’t an opponent that could be dealt with in a short amount of time.
Fortunately, the other party did not have any incisive attack methods or magic treasures. It would only release streaks of green spiritual threads to attack, so Han Li was able to deal with them very easily.
It seemed that this so-called avatar was only trying to stall him.
On the other side, although Feng Bing was at the peak of the mid-Nascent Soul Stage, she was still far inferior to her late-Nascent Soul opponent. Although she had unleashed all of her abilities, she was still at a complete disadvantage.
From time to time, the fourth Divine Sage would look at Han Li with a cold gaze, causing Han Li to feel extremely uncomfortable.
At this moment, a holy bird with unfathomable abilities appeared on the side of the spell warriors. There were actually seven Nascent Soul cultivators holding treasures, but they were all beaten to the point of being unable to retaliate. This caused Han Li’s heart to sink.
Right now, the only hope of victory was to rescue the trapped cultivators. This would allow them to turn the tables. Otherwise, they would truly be defeated.
Han Li thought for a moment and made up his mind. He was not going to drag this on any longer.
A few streaks of sword Qi immediately shot out and repelled a Heavenly Tiger. He slapped his storage pouch with his other hand, and a wooden box covered in talismans appeared in his hand.
When the azure shadow saw Han Li’s actions, it let out a soft cry of surprise. However, it raised its hand, and countless wood spirit azure threads directly enveloped Han Li.
Han Li’s body did not move. With a thought, the sword light outside his body automatically turned into multicolored light, cutting all the green threads into countless pieces. The surface of the wooden box flashed with azure light, and the talisman fell off. A streak of blood light shot out from the box, circled around, and landed in his palm.
It was the Spirit Subjugation Talisman.
Han Li slapped the blood talisman on his body without any hesitation. Blood light flashed and the talisman disappeared in a flash.
A green light flashed on Han Li’s face, and he suddenly let out a breath.
A huge flood dragon shadow appeared on Han Li’s body. It was over 100 feet in size and its entire body was blood-red. It was the appearance of the grade-eight Venomous Flood Dragon.
After this flood dragon shadow appeared, it coiled above Han Li’s head and let out an earth-shattering long cry, shocking the nearby cultivators. The two people fighting over there looked over in surprise.
Upon seeing the flood dragon shadow, Tian Zhong’s brows furrowed, and a trace of seriousness appeared on his face. Meanwhile, Feng Bing’s bright eyes flickered with a trace of anticipation.
The dragon’s roar retracted and the flood dragon’s shadow soared into the sky. After circling around, its body shrunk rapidly and it rushed down. The flood dragon’s shadow drilled into Han Li’s back and disappeared.
At this moment, Han Li felt a scorching heat behind him. After the blood light penetrated his body, a blood flood dragon pattern appeared. It was several inches in size and was bright red.
At this moment, Han Li’s entire body flickered with blood-red light. Then, blood-red scales appeared from his face to his arm. They were the size of a thumb and were exceptionally translucent. After a sharp pain on his head, a small and translucent flood dragon horn emerged. The tips of his ten fingers had unknowingly transformed into sharp armor.
Han Li had turned into a half-dragon and half-human body.
“Well…” Han Li felt the astonishing spiritual Qi in his body. He was a little surprised and shocked.
The effect of the Spirit Subjugation Talisman was mentioned at the end of the incantation. It said that a portion of the cultivation of refined demon soul could be stacked on the caster’s body, greatly increasing the caster’s magic power and cultivation.
However, it didn’t mention that the caster would turn into a half-demon and half-human, similar to the Spirit Augmentation Technique.
Of course, this demonic transformation was clearly much lighter than the true Spirit Augmentation Technique. At the very least, Han Li didn’t have fangs or a flood dragon tail. Rather, it was somewhat similar to the barbarians’ Heavenbearing Devil Arts.
Han Li sighed and touched the horn on his forehead, remaining silent.
Of course, Han Li did not know that this so-called Spirit Subjugation Talisman was actually developed by the founder of the Heavenly Talisman Sect based on the Spirit Augmentation Technique. He had fixed the several flaws of the Spirit Augmentation Technique. Not only did it allow the user to maintain their original consciousness, but it also did not have the huge harm of overdrafting their lifespan due to the mix of demonic Qi and spiritual Qi. Furthermore, the user would not turn into a mindless monster.
The only flaw of this technique was that the refinement of the Spirit Subjugation Talisman was too difficult.
In this world, let alone having a grade eight demon soul, even many cultivators would never have the opportunity to see a grade eight demon beast in their lifetime.
However, only grade-eight demon beasts that had undergone metamorphosis would not cause harm to the user after their demon souls were refined. Although low-grade demon souls could also be used to refine the Spirit Subjugation Talisman, there was simply too much turbid Qi. After refining the talisman, it would actually be as harmful as the Spirit Augmentation Technique. As a result, the refinement method repeatedly emphasized that one had to use demon souls of grade-eight and above to refine the talisman.
Although Han Li was a little surprised, he felt that his cultivation base had skyrocketed to the peak of the early-Nascent Soul Stage. It seemed that the effect of the Spirit Subjugation Talisman was real.
After Han Li possessed the flood dragon soul, the two Heavenly Tigers sensed the flood dragon aura on Han Li’s body and revealed an uneasy expression again. However, the azure shadow shouted a few times and the two Heavenly Tigers calmed down.
Han Li sneered and spread the Thunderstorm Wings on his back. He disappeared from his original spot and appeared more than 100 feet away.
When the two Heavenly Tigers saw this, they hurriedly flashed with azure light at the same time and quickly teleported near Han Li. One of them even opened its mouth and spat out several beams of light.
Han Li’s eyes flashed, and a thunderclap sounded behind him. He suddenly disappeared again, and in the next moment, he appeared behind the demon beast.
However, at that moment, the other demon beast also took advantage of the opportunity to shoot out a ball of light.
According to their original method, Han Li had to use his sword light to block this attack, and the Heavenly Tiger in front of him would be able to take the opportunity to escape.
However, this time, Han Li, whose cultivation base had greatly increased, did not need to control the sword light. The green and blood spiritual light flashed on his body, and he actually planned to take the risk to use his protective spiritual Qi to block these light bullets. His body swayed slightly, and he raised his hand, and a streak of azure light flew down. His speed was like that of an immortal from the heavens, unstoppable.
The Heavenly Tiger was so shocked that it had no time to use teleportation techniques. It could only open its mouth and spit out an azure-yellow demon core in an attempt to block the attack.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the azure shadow also rushed over. With a wave of his hands, dense green threads shot towards Han Li.
With a loud rumble, a few light bullets exploded beside Han Li. However, Han Li’s body only swayed for a moment, and he was completely unscathed. Instead, under the full force of his flying sword, not only did he split the demon core into two, but even the demon beast’s main body was cut into two.
This beast, which did not have the time to use teleportation, was no match for Han Li, whose cultivation base had increased greatly.
However, the green spirit threads of the azure shadow instantly wrapped around Han Li’s body. Unexpected, a blood-red light flashed on Han Li’s body, and the green threads turned black the moment they came into contact with Han Li’s protective spiritual light, then disappeared.
“What a powerful flood dragon venom!” Han Li was shocked at first, but then he was overjoyed.
Originally, he had only wanted to use his protective spiritual light to block the green threads, but he hadn’t expected that he would be able to easily block it.
It seemed that this azure shadow was actually afraid of strange poisons.
A mournful roar sounded. When the other Heavenly Tiger saw that its companion had been killed, its eyes were filled with madness. With a flash of azure light, the beast directly teleported to Han Li’s side. Its two sharp claws glowed with a foot-long light as it grabbed fiercely at Han Li, as if it had lost its mind.
Han Li was expressionless and did not use the sword light. Instead, he raised his hand and revealed his sharp claws that were covered in scales. With a sway of the air, a blood-red light shone brightly and directly faced the other party’s claw light.
With two light bangs, the blood light on Han Li’s sharp claws easily pierced through the opponent’s beast claws. Then, with a sway of his body, his arm easily pierced through the opponent’s body and he grabbed the greenish-yellow demon core that was the size of a bean.
The corpse fell to the ground.
Since Han Li used the Spirit Subjugation Talisman and his cultivation base greatly increased, he had killed the two beasts in a row in the blink of an eye.
This caused the azure shadow’s body to stagnate, and it didn’t continue to tangle with him. Instead, it began to hesitate.
Han Li’s figure flashed, and he was already facing the azure shadow, coldly sizing it up.
On the other side, Tian Zhong, who was suffocating the beautiful woman, had already seen the scene clearly. Naturally, he was shocked and furious.
He suddenly commanded the five-colored wheel to wildly attack the beautiful woman in front of him a few times before his body swayed. He abandoned the opponent in front of him and turned into a streak of light that shot towards Han Li.
However, right at this moment, a muffled boom sounded from below, and the blood barrier nearby suddenly exploded.
A white glacial air wave wildly gushed out from the hole, and a silver streak of light flew out. It circled around and stopped near Han Li.