Chapter 1063: Another Battle with Qimozi

While Han Li sat cross-legged in meditation, not far away, the Heavenvoid Soul was locked in a fierce battle with the Nest Ghost King.

After dodging a large swath of claw light that seemed almost solid, it suddenly opened its mouth and let out a thunderous roar.

Amid the roar, its body abruptly swelled, and streaks of gold and silver runes emerged across its surface, radiating powerful fluctuations.

At the same time, the third demon eye on its brow flashed, and a thick beam of blood-red light shot out, hurtling toward the Nest Ghost King.

A flicker of wariness passed through the Nest Ghost King's eyes. With a wave of his hands, the dozens of figures that had split off from him flew back and merged into his body, becoming one with him.

Then, with a sweep of his sleeve, a vast expanse of black mist swirled and spread out, from which a bone-white claw emerged.

In the center of the claw's palm, a crimson light flared up, revealing a blood-red giant ghost face with protruding fangs and sharp horns, looking utterly ferocious.

The giant ghost opened its bloody mouth wide, revealing a black vortex spinning unsteadily within.

The blood-red beam from the Heavenvoid Soul's brow just arrived and was swallowed by the black vortex, the two forces locked in a stalemate.

Meanwhile, the Nest Ghost King formed a strange hand seal with his other hand and pressed it down toward the ground.

A cryptic blood-red mark shot out and vanished into the earth in a flash.

Immediately after, a ring of blood-red light appeared beneath the Heavenvoid Soul, from which a pool of blood emerged and rapidly spread in all directions.

Sensing something amiss, the Heavenvoid Soul tried to dodge, but found an incredibly powerful suction force pulling from below. It tried to lift its feet, but they remained stuck, unable to move.

In that brief moment of delay, the blood below surged up and instantly entangled the Heavenvoid Soul's feet.

The foul blood in the pool bubbled as if boiling, churning and spewing large bloody bubbles. The blood rose rapidly, submerging half of the Heavenvoid Soul's body in the blink of an eye.

From the pool came the sounds of ghostly wailing, and thousands of blood-red evil spirits, as if freshly flayed, covered in blood, clawed and climbed onto the Heavenvoid Soul's body.

Wherever it crawled, black smoke billowed as if scorched by raging flames.

Fortunately, after transforming into the true form of the Vengeful Soul Beast, its body was tough and resilient, so it suffered no major harm in the short term. However, with both sides locked in a stalemate, they had fallen into a deadlock.

Not far away, Han Li's eyes snapped open, and his body rose from the ground.

His gaze fixed on the Ghost King of the Crow's Nest. He turned his wrist, and golden light surged beside him as the thirty-six Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords reappeared. At the same time, he tapped the ground with his toe and was about to dash forward when a violent fluctuation suddenly erupted beside him.

The black night that shrouded the surroundings seemed to have a tear ripped open, and a figure flashed out from within, reaching a hand toward him.

The figure appeared so abruptly, influenced by the night, that Han Li had no prior awareness whatsoever.

His pupils abruptly constricted. The True Word Wheel within him spun in reverse at extreme speed, and with a flicker, his figure vanished from the spot.

However, when his form reappeared hundreds of feet away, the outstretched hand still followed him like a shadow, appearing right beside him.

In the center of the palm, a brilliant golden light blazed, and a scorching golden flame surged forth, instantly transforming into a hemispherical cage of fire that enveloped Han Li.

"Qi Mozi!" Han Li exclaimed in a low voice as he recognized the newcomer's face.

The figure that had suddenly appeared was none other than Qi Mozi, who had been acting alone earlier.

Sensing the flow of time around him changing, Han Li was startled. Golden light surged behind him, and a golden wheel materialized, spinning with a whistling sound. The Dao patterns on it blazed with light, releasing layers of golden rays.

The golden rays clashed with the encroaching flames, creating a distinct barrier of spatial separation between them.

In the area where the barrier formed, the flow of time nearly froze. The golden rays dissipated rapidly, but the golden flames melted away only slightly.

Over a thousand feet away from Han Li and the others, half of Ti Hun's body was already submerged in the blood pool, but a ring of black light encircled her waist, preventing the blood water from rising further.

The moment Qi Mozi appeared, she was anxious to come and help, but the Ghost King held her tightly, making it impossible for her to break free.

"Impressive, boy. Since our last parting, your cultivation has grown again. If I don't eliminate you today, you will surely become a future calamity," Qi Mozi said coldly, his five fingers forming a claw as he fully activated the Time-Severing Flowing Fire.

Rolling golden flames grew increasingly fierce, forcing the golden rays to retreat step by step, constantly encroaching upon Han Li from all sides.

Han Li let out a thunderous roar, as over nine hundred acupoints on his body blazed with light. He activated the Heavenly Fiend Prison Suppression Art to its fullest, raised a fist, and punched straight ahead.

A brilliant burst of starlight exploded at his fist, transforming into a dazzling curtain of light that pressed forward, compressing the layers of void and forcing the space ahead to fracture as it crushed toward Qimozi.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Explosions rang out incessantly in the void. At the fractured spaces, countless golden flames were sucked in, and the pressure from the golden rays momentarily eased.

Seizing the opportunity, Han Li raised his hand and waved. Thirty-six Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords scattered behind him, whistling as they shot into the sky, leaving trails of sword qi before vanishing.

In but a moment, the flying Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords arced back from the distant heavens, their tips aimed at Qimozi's back. Golden electric sparks crackled on their surfaces as they arrived in an instant.

Yet, as they approached within a hundred zhang of Qimozi's back, a patch of golden flames materialized in the void, instantly pinning all the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords in midair, even the golden lightning upon them frozen solid.

Qimozi swung his hand fiercely and let out a thunderous roar.

A flash of golden light appeared before him, and a torch burning with blazing golden flames materialized out of thin air.

"Not good!"

Han Li's heart jolted. He quickly beckoned, retracting the Truth Dharma Wheel into his body.

Immediately after, rings of fiery spiritual light expanded from the torch's head. As the ripples of light passed through, everything in the void came to a standstill, frozen solid.

Although Han Li had released his time domain the moment he sensed this phenomenon and had also drawn the Truth Dharma Wheel into his body, rapidly reversing it, he still failed to escape the pursuit of the fiery spiritual light. Two breaths later, he was enveloped within it.

In an instant, Han Li's movements became extremely sluggish. Though he was not completely immobilized as before, he still appeared utterly unable to resist.

Moreover, without the lightning formation set up this time, even if he could briefly break free, he had no means of escape.

However, Han Li's improved cultivation was not entirely useless. Though his movements were slow, he could still move, and his mental commands were not completely blocked by the time confinement.

In the next moment, silver light flickered on Han Li's body. A layer of silver flames slowly spread out, covering his form like a suit of silver armor, from which waves of intense fire-attribute law power emanated.

With the appearance of the silver flames, the void around Han Li seemed to be covered by a film of light, becoming somewhat distorted and illusory. Even the fiery spiritual light, upon landing on it, was scorched into slight ripples.

"Impossible! How can mere five-element laws shake the supreme laws?" Qimozi exclaimed in disbelief, his eyes wide with shock.

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and the black short axe shot out again, turning into a streak of black light that sped toward Han Li.

This time, without the golden ripples from the Truth Dharma Wheel to block it, the black short axe pierced through layers of spiritual flames and slashed at Han Li, who was wrapped in the Essence Fire Bird.

The silver flames were split open by the powerful force carried by the axe. Just as it was about to land on Han Li, a layer of golden sand grains, condensed from void light, drifted out from the golden hourglass floating nearby and blocked the axe blade.

At the same time, a golden vase appeared above Han Li's head. Inside, half-filled with translucent golden liquid, it swayed. A liquid-like golden light surged from the vase's mouth and coiled around the handle of the black short axe.

The axe blade sank into the golden sand grains as if caught in a time vortex. It kept descending but could never break through the sand to land on Han Li.

Meanwhile, the handle of the short axe, a celestial artifact in rank, was entwined by the Time Water flowing from the Vase of Time. Patches of decay spots began to appear on its surface, though only superficial, it was still astonishing.

Seeing the short axe trapped and unable to fall, Qimozi's expression grew even colder.

He leaped up, stepping through the void as he approached Han Li. Han Li's domain space had little effect on him.

As Qimozi drew closer step by step, the golden torch floating before him also advanced inch by inch, and the fiery spiritual light it emitted pressed down with increasing intensity.

The silver flames on Han Li's body blazed fiercely, but their ability to resist the Time Severing Flowing Fire grew weaker.

"Ah..."

A roar came from deep within Han Li's throat. His immortal spiritual power circulated at full force, and the Grand Five Elements Illusory World Art was pushed to its extreme in an instant.

At this moment, vast swaths of dazzling golden light surged wildly before and behind him. The Truth Dharma Wheel, the Time Severing Flowing Fire, and the Eastern Yi Divine Wood all manifested simultaneously.

The five manifestations of time laws flickered with spiritual light on their surfaces, each releasing its unique fluctuation.

But this time, though golden light resonated among them, they did not combine as before to form the golden ring.

Thus, the five powers remained scattered, still unable to stop Qimozi's advance.

Yet at that moment, a scene occurred that shocked both Qimozi and Han Li!