Chapter 1342: Unchanged Countenance

Han Li's Great Five Elements Annihilation Fist slammed heavily into the golden-yellow high wall condensed from Xuan Jie's palm, exploding instantly.

With a thunderous roar!

All the giant fist shadows burst first, turning into waves of immense power that swept in all directions.

The golden-yellow high wall also shook with it, cracking into countless huge fissures, but it did not immediately shatter; instead, a powerful impact force rebounded from it, rushing toward Han Li.

Having just executed the Great Five Elements Annihilation Fist, Han Li could not avoid it and was struck by this force, sending him flying backward.

Behind the high wall, Xuan Jie was also not faring well. Bathed in the fluctuations of time law power stirred up by the divine fist, his body was almost frozen in place, unable to move for a long time.

Just then, a sudden change occurred.

The seventy-two Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords, which had somehow circled behind, had transformed into seventy-two exquisite jade children, each darting through the void without any need for control.

All the sword-spirit children flew to the sword formation positions, their bodies blazing with golden light, and reverted into giant flying swords hundreds of feet long, hovering in the air.

Rumble...

Amidst a rolling thunder, within the pitch-black outer space, a majestic ten-thousand-zhang heavenly gate emerged.

Around the heavenly gate, countless golden clouds gathered and churned endlessly, presenting a magnificent spectacle.

At this moment, although the heavenly gate remained tightly shut, rumbling sounds came from within, and the dense aura of lightning law could not be suppressed, leaking out.

"How is this possible... Clearly, he cultivates time law power, yet with just a set of sword formations, he can contain such powerful lightning law might?" Yin Wushuang, in the midst of his battle with Shuang Bai, was also shocked upon seeing this.

How could he know that Han Li's seventy-two Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords, like Han Li himself, had undergone countless refinements, and each one had absorbed the law power of the Thunder Kui's Eye, making them comparable to third-grade immortal artifacts.

A third-grade immortal artifact, which an ordinary Daluo realm cultivator might not obtain even one of, was here in seventy-two pieces, equivalent to seventy-two Daluo realm cultivators joining hands—the power was unimaginable!

Han Li and the sword formation were far apart, but their minds were connected.

As soon as a thought arose in his mind, the ten-thousand-zhang golden gate let out a rumbling roar and slowly swung open.

Within the gate, in a vast golden ocean, countless lightning waterfalls cascaded from on high, and tens of thousands of lightning dragons of various colors churned up and down, each holding a lightning bead in its mouth, all surging toward the gate.

"Rumble..."

Peals of deafening thunderclaps interwove, and the void crushed by the gate's pressure trembled violently, the tremors long in subsiding, as space cracks began to appear around it, shocking to the eye.

"Try this move again, how about it?" Han Li suddenly rose from the ground and pulled his hands downward with force.

The binding force within the gate vanished instantly, and the countless lightning dragons, no longer restrained, madly surged out of the lightning sea within the gate and rushed toward Xuan Yuanjie.

In an instant, the entire extraterritorial space was submerged in a thunderous tide that shook the spirit.

"Protect the Insect Ancestor!" Qing Feng shouted.

Yi Qiu and Shuang Bai both flew back, no longer entangled with Yin Wushuang and the other two, and stood in front of Jintong.

At this moment, the golden vortex around Jintong had disappeared, and no more Devouring Gold Beetles flew in from the space cracks around. Clearly, all the Devouring Gold Beetles scattered across the vast Immortal Domain had returned to her body.

Yet, for some reason, her aura continued to expand but could not break through the final barrier, unable to restore her true form as the Dao Ancestor of the Devouring Law.

Seeing this, Yin Wushuang and the other two dared not continue their entanglement and instead distanced themselves from the thunderous tide, retreating far away.

Those天庭 cultivators who still had the strength to move naturally fled in all directions, while those unable to escape were soon engulfed by the thunderous tide.

"Zzzz..."

The sound of electric currents echoed continuously, and the entire void had become an ocean of lightning.

Tens of thousands of lightning dragons of various colors swam within, churning endlessly as they charged toward Xuan Yuanjie.

The lightning beads held in the mouths of these lightning dragons, containing the purest true essence of lightning between heaven and earth, also pressed closer and closer to Xuan Yuanjie.

"If I don't slay you here today, you will surely become a calamity no less than the Reincarnation Palace Master in the future." Xuan Yuanjie's eyes flashed with murderous intent as he let out a great roar.

He clasped his hands together in front of him, forming an extremely ancient hand seal, and a chanting sound began to emanate from his mouth.

In an instant, from somewhere in the entire void beyond the realm, a chanting sound like an eternal Buddhist hymn drifted in, echoing in harmony with Xuan Yuan Jie's voice, gradually resounding like a great bell or bronze drum.

The space within a million li seemed to freeze for a moment, and then a series of explosive roars swept through, shaking the entire void.

Han Li's expression changed, and he was enveloped in golden light as he soared into the air.

The floating continent beneath him exploded completely amid the rumbling sounds; all the rocks, trees, and earth turned to ashes, and only the earth-attribute law power contained within them coalesced into a yellow river of light.

Xuan Yuan Jie punched out, and the entire yellow river of light was drawn by him, charging toward the great tide of lightning.

With a thunderous boom!

The deep, dark void blazed with light; countless lightning dragons, holding pearls in their mouths, plunged into the river, exploding into enormous lightning whirlpools that wildly swept in all directions.

In the sky, lightning whirlpools of purple, cyan, gold, and silver churned the river containing the purest earth-attribute law power, and lightning whips tens of thousands of zhang long lashed out everywhere, shattering the surrounding void inch by inch.

The remaining Heavenly Court cultivators, caring about nothing else, fled toward the spatial rifts leading to various immortal domains.

The residual power of this strike was far too great; the void around the area where Jin Tong was located also kept shattering. The three of them, Yi Qiu and the others, jointly supported a spherical light barrier, barely resisting this force, but it seemed on the verge of breaking.

Han Li formed a sword seal with one hand, activated the sword formation's lightning teleportation technique, and a golden electric light flashed on his body. His figure instantly vanished from its spot, then reappeared beside a Green Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword.

He waved his hands toward the high sky, and time law fluctuations rippled out. The True Word Wheel, the Time Vase, the Illusory Hourglass, the Eastern B Wood, and the Time-Breaking Torch—five law objects—flew out and took their respective positions.

On the canopy of the void, a golden moon and a sky full of crimson stars suddenly appeared. Below, mountains, rivers, and land emerged, with forests and trees growing thickly, as if they had instantly arrived in another world.

As the Five Elements Illusory World enveloped the surrounding millions of li of space, Yi Qiu and the other two immediately felt the pressure on them ease, but none dared to relax their strength in the slightest; they still struggled to support the light barrier, shielding Jin Tong.

"Han Li, you have successfully angered me. Today, let me show you what it truly means when an Ancestor is enraged," Xuan Yuan Jie's voice came from the opposite side, rolling like thunder, unceasing.

"I look forward to it," Han Li said with a carefree smile.

Yi Qiu looked from afar and even saw a hint of a smile on Han Li's profile; his admiration for him reached its peak at this moment.

In his view, daring to face an Ancestor with the cultivation of a Great Vehicle was simply unimaginable. After all, the gap between each minor realm of a Great Vehicle cultivator was like a chasm, and comparing a Great Vehicle cultivator to an Ancestor was like comparing the light of a firefly to the brilliance of the bright moon.

Especially since the opponent was Xuan Yuan Jie, the one who had once forced even the Ancestor of Insects, also an Ancestor, to split into countless avatars just to escape with his life.

Now, after so many years, Xuan Yuan Jie's strength was far beyond what he could imagine.

"So there really are people in this world who can remain calm and even smile in the face of a collapsing mountain..." Yi Qiu sighed with a myriad of emotions, even though he believed Han Li would face a slim chance of survival.

In reality, however, Han Li's palms were already covered in sweat.

The reason he could remain so composed was merely to further provoke Xuan Yuan Jie, because only by pushing him to that point would he have a real chance to defeat him.

Nevertheless, what Han Li hoped for even more was that Jin Tong would immediately advance to the position of Ancestor.

After lasting for a long time, the clash between the great tide of lightning and the yellow river finally gradually subsided, but the black hole whirlpools that appeared in the void remained for a long time, unable to disappear.

Xuan Yuan Jie strode forward through the void; with each step he took, a golden halo rippled beneath his feet, and a deafening boom echoed through the void.

Han Li's gaze fixed on him, and his expression immediately changed.

He noticed that Xuan Yuan Jie's eyes were completely devoid of emotion, his pupils hollow, with faint traces of two ancient, peculiar runes visible within.

Around him, layers of barely perceptible spatial fluctuations rippled outward with each step, spreading into the deep void until even Han Li's eyesight could no longer follow.

Han Li understood that what those fluctuations contained was the true essence of earth, which had existed since the dawn of time.

At this moment, he seemed to be one with the earth, his will united with the Dao of Heaven.

Xuan Yuan Jie suddenly stopped, and between the opening and closing of his lips, he uttered two words like the sound of a great bell:

"Earth Annihilation."

As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere in the entire void changed instantly. A powerful force of attraction converged from all directions, pouring into Xuan Yuan Jie's body.

Xuan Yuan Jie spread his arms, and a layer of golden light began to ripple over his entire body. The aura emanating from him no longer held any trace of human vitality; he looked like an eternal divine being of heaven and earth.

"The time has finally come..." Han Li, instead of being alarmed, was delighted, murmuring to himself.