Chapter 1274: Breaking Free

The entire sea of consciousness space roared with noise, instantly filled with raging winds and thunder, growing ever more intense.

The evil corpse and Han Li stared at each other, neither speaking, before both charged fiercely toward the other.

As their bodies surged forward, the divided sea of consciousness space also fell into a狂暴 state, surging and pressing against each other.

With a thunderous roar!

Han Li and the evil corpse made no further fancy moves—one threw a punch, the other used a palm, colliding in a seemingly calm confrontation.

Immediately after, the two seas of consciousness touched and merged together.

High above, blood clouds churned, lightning interwove; below, the sea surface surged with towering waves, each side侵染 the other, neither yielding, as if eager to devour the other.

Han Li felt his divine soul shake violently, as if about to be torn apart. Without time to think, he frantically activated the Spirit Refining Art, pouring all his divine sense power toward the evil corpse.

“Still don’t understand? Within the sea of consciousness, I already hold the advantage. The more enraged you are, the stronger I become. Haha, let your anger burn even more fiercely!” The evil corpse, steady as a mountain and unmoving, taunted him.

With that, he suddenly exerted force, pushing his palms forward, and a surge of powerful energy swept forth.

The oppressive force from half the space pressed in relentlessly. Despite his utmost efforts, Han Li was pushed backward.

Correspondingly, the blood-colored sea of consciousness representing the evil corpse took the initiative, pressing toward this half-space.

And as it occupied more space, the blood-red color within quietly faded, seemingly gradually returning to normal.

Seeing this, Han Li felt no joy, only growing more alarmed.

This scene meant the evil corpse was gradually replacing him, becoming the rightful master of this sea of consciousness space. Once his half of the sea was completely overwhelmed, his main divine sense would become a guest instead of the host, rejected by the sea.

At that point, the best outcome would be to flee the sea of consciousness, driven out like a stray dog.

Otherwise, he would be completely devoured and assimilated.

“Haha, you’ve lost… I will completely replace you. Rest assured, I will make your name resound throughout the entire immortal realm!” The evil corpse, seeing Han Li retreat step by step, felt immense satisfaction.

Just then, Han Li suddenly sneered and said, “Rejoicing too early is not a good habit.”

The next moment, a massive yin-yang fish diagram suddenly appeared beneath Han Li and the evil corpse, like a huge round mirror supporting them, with each standing on one of the fish eyes.

“No… how can this be…” The evil corpse looked down at what was beneath him, his expression stiffening, and he let out a furious roar.

Then, black and white light blazed from the yin-yang fish, which suddenly rotated, instantly reversing the entire momentum of the sea of consciousness space.

“Sever.”

Han Li’s eyes focused, and with a loud shout, he slammed his fists downward.

In the sea of consciousness space, giant waves instantly surged, pressing forward, and the split space finally reunited at this moment.

At the same time, on the Heavenly Frost Island altar, Han Li, who had long been bleeding from all seven orifices, suddenly opened his eyes, and a mass of black light separated from his eyes.

Behind it, a powerful,凝实 immortal spiritual power trailed like a coat, wrapping around the black light.

The moment it left his body, the black light seemed unwilling to stop, turning back to charge at Han Li’s brow.

But as soon as it moved, the yang fish’s yin eye beside Han Li suddenly lit up with a dazzling light, sucking it in.

The next moment, from the yin fish’s yang eye on the other side, the black light flew out again, directly into the brow of the earthly immortal body, vanishing without a trace.

“No…”

After the altar fell silent for over ten breaths, a resentful roar suddenly rang out.

The earthly deity incarnation’s eyes reopened, filled with fierce anger. It sat cross-legged, clutching its head with both hands, a look of struggle on its face.

In midair, waves of Buddhist chanting sounded incessantly, agitating the evil corpse. But when it tried to struggle to its feet, it found it could not control this body at all, growing even more furious.

Han Li, sitting opposite, still had streaks of blood on his face, his aura fluctuating unsteadily, looking quite miserable. Yet his eight hundred and forty immortal apertures had all been opened, and his cultivation had clearly reached the mid-Daluo stage.

However, the evil corpse’s departure had taken a considerable portion of his immortal spiritual power. To stabilize his aura and fully secure the mid-Daluo stage, he still needed to meditate with all his might for some time.

“Don’t say I didn’t warn you. This body will take some effort to drive and use. Take care of yourself.” Han Li said calmly, then closed his eyes again on his own.

Hearing this, the evil corpse looked at the chains piercing its body and quickly understood Han Li’s intent: he was using this body as a cage to trap it.

Though furious to the extreme, it had to immediately calm down and try to refine this body.

However, as the evil corpse’s power flowed through the earthly immortal body, the immortal body, which had no life aura, rapidly changed. The blue crystal-like body began to transform into flesh at a visible rate.

Inside, streams of spiritual power circulated unceasingly, as if carving channels, smoothly opening meridians in the earthly immortal body, connecting all the internal organs.

The earthly immortal body’s chest rose and fell slowly, truly coming to life.

Han Li, meditating quietly, had naturally already split off a thread of divine sense to constantly monitor the changes in the earthly immortal body.

Seeing this, his heart tightened, and he had to wake up again.

The evil corpse’s compatibility with this immortal body far exceeded his original expectations, and the speed of its transformation now filled him with concern.

Just as he was about to pause his cultivation and activate the formation to suppress the evil corpse, a sudden change occurred.

The evil corpse sitting opposite him struck first.

A blue, hazy light suddenly lit up around it. The previous soaring baleful aura vanished without a trace, and what spread from its body were circles of dense water-attribute law power.

Its aura also rose steadily.

“Not good,” Han Li muttered, looking up at the golden light barrier above.

The golden light barrier was inscribed with Buddhist true words and chanting, originally meant to suppress the evil corpse with its soaring baleful aura. Who would have thought that after merging with the earthly immortal body, it would completely conceal its baleful aura?

“Boom!”

With a loud crash, the earthly immortal body occupied by the evil corpse erupted with blue crystal light. A layer of blue water waves, almost solid, burst forth, scattering the surrounding chains.

Then, its figure, borne by a blue water dragon formed from the waves, shot upward, crashing straight into the golden light barrier.

“Hum…”

A dull sound rang out. The golden light barrier did not collapse, but the water dragon disintegrated, scattering a spray of water.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

Han Li shouted loudly, his fingers curling like claws, reaching for the evil corpse’s ankle.

Just as he was about to grab it, the evil corpse’s ankle suddenly flashed blue, turning into liquid and flowing away.

Han Li’s grasp missed, and as he was about to grab again, a loud “bang” came from above.

The golden light barrier burst apart, and the evil corpse’s figure flashed out, flying away from the altar, heading straight into the sky without looking back.

Just then, high above, golden light blazed, dazzling and blinding.

Wrapped in golden light, a seven-story golden pagoda, radiant and resplendent, suddenly appeared in the void, falling rapidly, directly trapping the evil corpse.

Han Li’s figure then flew down from the altar, chasing after it into the sky.

But before he could get close, another thunderous roar came from above.

At the top of the golden pagoda, a burst of golden light exploded, tearing open a huge hole. A dense black light gushed out, within which a broken black wheel was faintly visible.

Han Li stared, the veins on his forehead bulging. The evil corpse, to escape, had actually self-destructed the Heavy Water True Wheel.

“This time I was careless. I’ll take this body. I’ll bother you another day.” A resentful shout came from high above.

Then, a black light shot down from the sky, instantly plunging into the sea, stirring up a towering wave.

Han Li’s expression darkened, and he quickly gave chase.

Compared to the risk of an unstable cultivation base, letting the evil corpse escape his control would bring unpredictable trouble in the future.

He would spare no effort to thoroughly suppress it while it was still weak.

All this, though lengthy to describe, from the evil corpse breaking free of the隔元法链 and rising, to being suppressed by Han Li using the formation, to the evil corpse taking control of the earthly immortal body and escaping, took no more than the time it takes to burn an incense stick.

Gold Boy and Soul-Devouring Beast, stationed at the north and south ends of the island, had no idea what had happened. Seeing this, they hurriedly gave chase.

In the blink of an eye, Han Li had chased a thousand li. Looking around in confusion, he found no trace of the evil corpse. He had to hover in midair, activating the Spirit Refining Art to search for its trail.

“Uncle, what happened? Did the corpse-severing go wrong?” Gold Boy caught up and asked hastily.

“The earthly immortal body was eroded by countless people’s faith power, including many vicious obsessions of revenge and murder. Its compatibility with the evil corpse is extremely high. Its control over the immortal body far exceeded my expectations, and it escaped. Now it’s fled into the sea. My aura is unstable, and I can’t fully use the Spirit Refining Art. I’ve lost its trail.” Han Li’s face was ashen. He sighed and spoke slowly.

Just then, Soul-Devouring Beast, who had caught up, pressed a finger to her brow and pointed ahead, shouting to the two:

“In that direction, very fast. Should we…”

“Chase!”

Hearing this, Han Li quickly followed the direction Soul-Devouring Beast indicated and gave chase.