Chapter 1341: Breaking the Dao

"Golden童... you mean Qu Lin? What is she to you?" Xuan Yuanjie asked, somewhat surprised.

"She is my spirit pet," Han Li said slowly.

"How dare you, a reckless scoundrel, claim the Insect Ancestor as your spirit pet?" Yi Qiu, upon hearing this, flew into a rage and rebuked him.

"You'd better focus on recovering from your injuries. At most, I can hold off Xuan Yuanjie alone. If the others swarm in, I won't be able to stop them all," Han Li said calmly, half-turning his body slightly.

Yi Qiu looked at Han Li's rather ordinary face and felt a slight disappointment, for the silhouette he had seen earlier, set against that moment, had been truly stunning.

After speaking, Han Li turned back, once again leaving Yi Qiu with his back.

The latter, gazing at Han Li's back and sensing the increasingly powerful aura emanating from him, was inwardly shocked: "Who is he? How can he possess such a strong fluctuation of the Time Law..."

"Enough, I asked needlessly. Since you've delivered yourself to me, I'll eliminate you as well—a nice bonus for this trip," Xuan Yuanjie sneered, speaking slowly and deliberately.

Han Li said nothing, waved his hand, and his aura surged again. A golden light curtain instantly expanded, transforming into a massive Time Domain that enveloped an area of several hundred thousand li.

The Heavenly Court cultivators who had retreated to the sides suddenly felt as if trapped in a quagmire, unable to move an inch.

Among them, aside from Yin Wushuang and his two companions, only a very few could still move freely, though their speed was far from what it had been.

"To think you've cultivated the Time Law to such a level—what is Gu Huojin playing at?" Xuan Yuanjie felt the vigorous power within Han Li's domain, his expression calm but his heart full of astonishment.

Yet this only strengthened his resolve to kill Han Li here.

With a wave of his hand, the entire floating continent shot toward Han Li like a warship.

Seeing this, Han Li formed a sword seal with one hand, and seventy-two Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords instantly transformed into streaks of sword light, wrapped in rolling thunder, and shot toward Xuan Yuanjie.

The latter pressed his palms together and reached forward, and two patches of yellow light appeared before him. The moment all the flying swords struck the yellow light, even before unleashing their thunderous power, they slid off as if across ice.

"Is that all you've got?—" Before Xuan Yuanjie could finish, he saw Han Li's figure charging straight at him with extraordinary speed.

He was inwardly pleased. Using the Time Law to forcibly break the Dao of the Earth Element's origin law was like throwing an egg against a rock. If Han Li dared to use such a foolish method of brute force to clash with him, he was confident he could destroy him in one blow.

However, Han Li was clearly no fool.

Just as they were about to collide, a flash of lightning suddenly lit up on Han Li's body, and his figure vanished from the spot like a bolt of lightning.

In the next instant, one of the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords that had just slid off Xuan Yuanjie's defense flickered with electric light, and Han Li appeared out of thin air, standing on the flying sword.

"So fast!" Xuan Yuanjie whirled around, a hint of gravity finally flashing in his eyes.

Han Li's instantaneous movement seemed not to be caused by a Time Law technique, but rather related to those flying swords imbued with the aura of the Lightning Law.

Arriving on the continent behind Xuan Yuanjie, Han Li pressed his fingers together and swept them horizontally. A golden light, condensed with the power of the Time Law, slashed out, turning into a golden tide that swept across most of the floating continent.

The earth-yellow tide rampaging across the continent was covered by this layer of Time Law power, and the dust and smoke scattered, nearly coming to a halt. Frost White and Green Edge, trapped within, took the opportunity to escape and rose into the sky.

"Leave this to me. Go protect Qu Lin..." Han Li said, his back to the two.

Green Edge and Frost White exchanged a glance. Though still somewhat resentful of Han Li's earlier words, under the current circumstances, they could only clasp their fists at Han Li and then sped off toward Golden童.

Seeing this, Yin Wushuang and his two companions also attacked Golden童, engaging Yi Qiu and the others in a melee.

As for the Heavenly Court cultivators, nine out of ten could not withstand the power of Han Li's domain and remained trapped in place, unable to break free.

"Just a mere Great Ascension cultivator—do you really think you're a Dao Ancestor?" Xuan Yuanjie let out a long cry and waved his hand fiercely.

The continent beneath Han Li's feet instantly lit up with a yellow halo. An immensely powerful attraction came from it, like the quagmire of the Yellow Springs, firmly sucking his legs to the ground.

Then, Xuan Yuanjie raised his hand, clenched his fist toward the sky, and then swung it downward.

"Rumble..."

A tremendous roar sounded from the deeper void of outer space.

Han Li looked up and saw hundreds or thousands of meteorites of various sizes and shapes, pulled by a powerful force, hurtling down toward him.

The immense friction set all the meteorites ablaze with crimson flames, against the pitch-black sky, they were as dazzling as a rain of fire and shooting stars.

However, these meteors, empowered by Xuan Yuanjie's Earth Element Law, were naturally more than a hundred times more powerful.

Han Li frowned. The Heavenly Fiend Prison Suppression Art within him began to circulate, and all one thousand eight hundred acupoints on his body lit up. He suddenly lifted his leg and stepped forward, forcibly pulling himself out of the yellow light on the ground.

Seeing this, Xuan Yuanjie frowned and immediately formed hand seals, clapping his hands together in front of him.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Accompanied by a series of rapid rumbles, the earth on both sides of the floating continent surged rapidly. The originally flat terrain instantly swelled into two mountain peaks, crashing toward each other in the center.

Han Li had only just freed one leg when he was heavily crushed between the two roaring mountains.

A thunderous "boom" resounded!

The entire floating continent trembled violently. The two colliding mountain peaks almost simultaneously shattered and collapsed into one another.

"Not good..." Yi Qiu sighed inwardly as she looked at the battlefield shrouded in dust.

Although she was unclear about the true relationship between Han Li and Jintong, she knew he had come to help her Insect Ancestor. Seeing him suppressed by Xuan Yuanjie, she naturally grew deeply worried.

Before she could finish worrying, terrifying spatial fissures tore open above the continent. The falling meteorites from beyond the sky crashed down, and explosions immediately rang out one after another.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The entire floating continent was almost submerged by a rain of meteoric fire. The violent rumbling lasted for over ten breaths.

When the sound finally ceased, all the mountains and terrain on the continent had been leveled to the ground by the immense force of the bombardment.

Everywhere one looked, the land was riddled with holes and in utter disarray, as if the entire continent's soil had been churned over. Embers and lingering smoke still remained scattered across the ground.

Xuan Yuanjie glanced at the scene, quite satisfied with his handiwork. He turned around and was about to head toward Jintong.

But at that moment, his brow suddenly furrowed, and he spun back around.

On the already ruined continent, the ground shook violently. A towering figure slowly rose from beneath the scorched earth. Three massive true spirit heads turned left and right, and six arms shook, shaking off all the dust. Then it gazed into the distance at Xuan Yuanjie.

"A demon race body-tempering technique..." Xuan Yuanjie said, narrowing his eyes.

"Your stones aren't hard enough. Try my fists instead," Han Li said, all three heads speaking simultaneously in a clear voice.

As his words fell, the Grand Five Elements Illusory World Art within him began to circulate. He stepped forward into a bow stance, assuming a seemingly casual boxing posture, all six arms drawn back to his waist, poised to strike.

At the same time, the power of the five types of time law began to condense rapidly. Five colored radiances shimmered around him, merging bit by bit into one.

"This child has cultivated the power of time law to such a degree?" Xuanyuan Jie's expression finally changed at the sight.

He too sensed that the move Han Li was brewing was extraordinary, and dared not be careless. He immediately clasped his hands before him and slowly closed his eyes.

As his eyes shut, strands of yellow light began to spread outward from his body, extending into the void until they vanished.

Accompanying this, an extremely peculiar aura began to emanate from him.

Han Li, who was focusing on launching his attack, was also drawn by this strange aura and couldn't help but look at Xuanyuan Jie.

Though Xuanyuan Jie was visibly suspended there, Han Li felt a sense of disorientation, as if he were not there at all.

He was the body of a Dao Ancestor, also the manifestation of the Great Dao.

"So this is what it's like after merging with the Dao?" Han Li mused, somewhat moved.

But this was not the time for reflection. His eyes sharpened, the power of the five time laws had finished condensing, and black patterns began to emerge on his skin.

On his back, the images of time law manifestations like the Truth Dharma Wheel appeared one by one, arranged like rings, radiating dazzling golden light.

"Break for me!"

Han Li bellowed, the spiritual patterns on his six arms blazing with light. Six massive fists struck out simultaneously, transforming into countless black and gold fist shadows that crashed forward.

Those enormous fist shadows flickered repeatedly in the void, appearing almost instantly before Xuanyuan Jie.

At the critical moment, Xuanyuan Jie's tightly shut eyes suddenly opened. His pupils were gone, replaced by a murky yellow glow, looking hollow yet filled with boundless power.

"How can brute force break the might of the Great Dao?" Xuanyuan Jie muttered softly.

He raised a palm and slowly pushed forward, causing the entire void beyond the realm to tremble violently.

In his palm, a vortex emerged, and countless yellow lights surged forth, solidifying into a massive golden wall that rumbled forward, pushing against the oncoming attack.