Chapter 1340: I Am Han Li

Yi Qiu had long been waiting for the actions of the purple-clad woman and the other two.

With a flicker of her form, she landed on the scorpion head of the Scorpion Extermination Grand Array. A burst of light shone beneath her, and her slender jade legs transformed back into the ant queen's body, merging with the giant scorpion. All the spirit insects within the Scorpion Array also emitted glimmers of light, and a powerful aura surpassing the Great Luo peak radiated forth.

They were clearly burning their own lives to provide the array with an enduring supply of energy!

Yi Qiu's eyes glowed with white light, devoid of her original spirit. She waved her hands, and the scorpion pincers on both sides struck out simultaneously, with white and cyan light surging on the pincers.

In an instant, a formidable icy aura spread through the void, instantly freezing the charging green-robed elder. On the other side, a sea of green flames erupted, colliding with the rolling purple flames of the purple-clad woman, sending countless blazing sparks flying.

The scorching green flames seemed sticky, rolling together with the purple flames, quickly merging and devouring the purple flames, then pressing toward the purple-clad woman.

With the ice wall and sea of fire deployed, they closed like two doors, shielding Jintong within.

Yin Wushuang, flying overhead, merely glanced at the high-rising stinger hook and did not force her way through.

Clearly, the power of the Scorpion Extermination Grand Array far exceeded their expectations.

Seeing this, Xuanyuan Jie frowned slightly.

He had not wanted to act personally, as using the power of laws would invite celestial erosion. But if the delay dragged on, and Qu Lin managed to reclaim the Dao Ancestor position, the loss would outweigh the gain.

Waste, get out of the way.

With a fierce shout, he stepped forward into a lunge, a clenched fist gathering earthy yellow light into a massive yellow vortex, poised to strike forward.

At that moment, behind him in the void, light flickered, and a middle-aged man in cyan soft armor materialized, gripping a dark green spiral spike, thrusting straight at Xuanyuan Jie's ear.

The man was naturally Qing Feng. He had already cleared the heavenly demons there; he had not dispersed the demon clouds precisely to better conceal his movements and launch a surprise attack at this critical moment.

The spiral spike in his hand was his lifebound treasure, a rare third-grade immortal artifact. A direct hit, while unable to kill a Dao Ancestor-level being, would still inflict injury.

But at that moment, Xuanyuan Jie suddenly grinned, and the earthy yellow vortex in his hand dissipated, while behind his ear, a metallic luster shone brightly.

Realizing he had been tricked, Qing Feng panicked, twisted midair, and flew back, abandoning the attack on Xuanyuan Jie to land on the giant hand gripping Shuang Bai.

With a swipe of his spike, two sharp beams flashed, severing the law chains binding Shuang Bai. He then grabbed Shuang Bai's collar and yanked him out of the giant hand.

Xuanyuan Jie watched him rescue Shuang Bai without stopping, instead praising, "Your concealment law is indeed impressive; even I didn't notice you at first. But you shouldn't have set foot on this earth."

Hearing this, Qing Feng looked at the ground beneath and suddenly understood.

With his current mastery of concealment laws, hiding from a Dao Ancestor like Xuanyuan Jie in the void was difficult but not impossible. However, once he landed on the ground, Xuanyuan Jie, as the Earth Dao Ancestor, would immediately detect him.

Thus, he had to settle for the next best option, abandoning the assassination to rescue Shuang Bai.

"I have no time for you now. Once I finish off your master, I might spare your lives and let you serve by my side," Xuanyuan Jie said, waving his hand casually.

The entire floating continent trembled violently. The once solid earth churned wildly, and massive yellow earth waves surged toward Qing Feng and the others, blotting out the sky.

Still hundreds of feet from the earth waves, Qing Feng and the others felt their bodies grow sluggish, their flight speed plummeting, and they were soon engulfed by the onrushing earth waves.

Xuanyuan Jie no longer looked behind him. He focused on the Scorpion Array, raising the unthrown fist to his waist, gathering a power far greater than before.

His bare upper body began to glow with layers of earthy yellow light. Strands of powerful earth-attribute law power coalesced around him naturally, causing the entire void to tremble slightly.

"Ha!"

With a loud shout, Xuanyuan Jie's massive fist, held at his waist, suddenly punched out.

An earthy yellow vortex, condensed with powerful law power, instantly magnified a hundredfold into a ten-thousand-foot storm, spinning madly toward Jintong.

All the Heavenly Court cultivators dodged, fleeing to the sides, but the insect swarm advanced instead of retreating, charging toward the yellow vortex storm.

In an instant, millions of insects in the swarm were annihilated upon entering the storm's range.

Shuang Bai and Qing Feng, unable to escape the earth waves, saw this from afar and their expressions changed drastically.

Yi Qiu faced this strike head-on, feeling the terrifying aura most directly. Her heart turned icy, and she could only gamble her life to meet this blow.

With a long cry, white light blazed in her eyes, and her law power burned. The insects in the Scorpion Array, disregarding life and death, burned their own lives to the fullest.

The entire Scorpion Array finally unleashed its full power, shifting from cyan-black to pure white and translucent. The figures of the spirit insects within were gone, leaving only specks of bright light.

The cyan and white light on its two pincers also reached their peak, with frost and green flames spreading over a hundred thousand feet, forming two seas of ice and fire that simultaneously crashed into the yellow vortex.

"Boom, rumble..."

A fierce series of explosions rolled from the point of impact. Different law powers collided, distorting the void and collapsing into a pitch-black spatial vortex black hole.

All the frost and green flames were sucked into the black hole and vanished.

In the already dim outer space, in that instant, almost all light was absorbed by the vortex black hole, plunging the surroundings into complete darkness.

After more than ten breaths, the vortex black hole gradually disappeared, and the light slowly returned to normal.

The original Scorpion Extermination Grand Array was gone. All the million spirit insects that formed it had turned to ash, leaving only the crippled half-body of Yi Qiu, still floating before the golden beetle.

"Blocked... blocked it..." Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth, her expression miserable, but a glimmer shone in her eyes.

Yet before Yi Qiu could rejoice, the void before her suddenly shook violently, and another ten-thousand-foot earthy yellow fist shadow flew through the air, about to strike.

She floated motionless in the void, not dodging. They had exhausted their lives to block a single blow from a primal Dao Ancestor. Since they could not protect the Insect Ancestor's attainment of the Dao, they would fall together with him.

This chasm in strength was utterly despairing...

Yi Qiu slowly closed her eyes. She had fled once; this time, she would not flee.

The vast, sea-like earth-attribute law power surged in, compressing the space, causing it to collapse layer by layer.

"No..." Qing Feng and Shuang Bai roared in anguish at the sight.

But at that moment, a sudden change occurred!

From the spatial rift above Yi Qiu, a Taiyi-level Devouring Gold Beetle burst out, carrying on its back a tall man in a cyan robe.

The moment he appeared, he stepped on the beetle's back, leaped nimbly, and landed gracefully before Yi Qiu, raising his hand to strike forward.

A golden light shot out, transforming into a massive golden wheel suspended in midair. Dao patterns on it lit up, emitting dense golden rays that coalesced into a giant beam, colliding with the earthy yellow fist shadow.

They struck together without any explosive sound. The fist shadow seemed to hit a mass of cotton, undamaged but slowing down bit by bit.

"Crackle..."

With a sound of electric current, seventy-two Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords spiraled around the golden beam, like seventy-two golden dragons, plunging into the massive fist shadow.

"Boom!" A deafening explosion!

Ten thousand golden thunderbolts burst violently, shattering the earthy yellow fist shadow into countless fragments that dissipated.

"He is..."

Feeling the change in the fluctuations before her, Yi Qiu slowly opened her eyes, only to see the back of a human man.

Just as she wondered, Xuanyuan Jie's voice came from the opposite continent:

"Who goes there?"

"I am Han Li!" The human cultivator stood with his hands behind his back, answering clearly.

The tall human man was naturally Han Li, who had been riding the Taiyi Devouring Gold Beetle in pursuit.

As his words fell, the golden wheel instantly reversed and hovered behind Han Li. The seventy-two Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords also turned into flowing light and hung behind him, making his silhouette appear heroic and unrestrained, indescribably elegant.

"Han Li? I didn't expect it to be you! Good lad, plenty of courage, daring to appear before me!" Xuanyuan Jie looked Han Li up and down, saying coldly.

Clearly, he already knew of Han Li's existence.

"You are Xuanyuan Jie, right? It was you who caused Jintong to fall from the Dao Ancestor position, forcing him to destroy his own Dao Ancestor body and scatter it across the vast immortal domain?" Han Li's expression unchanged, fearless, he asked loudly in return.