Chapter 171: Forced into a Corner

Whoosh!

All the giant octopus's tentacles suddenly retracted inward, and its massive body abruptly turned into a blurry black shadow, pressing toward Fang Pan.

This scene looked as if a purple-black mountain was moving swiftly across the seabed, extremely eerie.

Before its body arrived, an indescribable oppressive force surged toward Fang Pan in waves under the violent churning of the surrounding seawater, causing his body to sway, the cyan light on his surface trembling wildly, and his figure shooting backward like a giant crossbow bolt.

Fang Pan staggered several times before barely steadying himself.

And the giant octopus had already appeared less than a hundred zhang away, its eight tentacles striking down fiercely, leaving streaks of snow-white traces in the seawater, emitting a thunderous roar.

Though startled, Fang Pan did not panic. A flash of cyan light on his body, and he instantly transformed into five identical figures, darting away in different directions like lightning.

The eight tentacles of the giant octopus, shooting down, paused slightly, as if it hadn't expected Fang Pan to have this trick. But the next moment, the eight tentacles still crashed down with overwhelming force.

Instantly, rocks splashed, and the seabed below was lashed into several deep trenches hundreds of zhang long.

Taking advantage of this momentary gap, Fang Pan's five doppelgangers narrowly dodged the tentacle strikes and shot upward toward the sea surface like lightning.

The giant octopus let out an angry low roar, its eyes flashed green, and its mouth opened wide.

With a crackling sound, five purple-black lightning bolts as thick as water barrels shot out.

These five purple-black lightning bolts appeared ordinary on the surface, but their speed far surpassed ordinary lightning. In a flash, they caught up with Fang Pan and accurately struck the five Fang Pans.

Five explosive booms!

Four of the Fang Pans shattered and disappeared in the purple-black electric light, leaving only the leftmost one intact, which was blasted forward, spitting out a large mouthful of blood.

However, he did not seem too seriously injured; he rolled and steadied himself.

Under the torn clothes on his back, a dark golden inner armor was revealed, its surface covered with dark golden scales.

The inner armor now had a deep scar, and many scales on it were broken, its spiritual nature greatly diminished, but it had not been pierced through.

Seeing this, Fang Pan, almost without thinking, transformed into a dazzling cyan rainbow again and flew forward at an incredible speed.

Roar!

The giant octopus let out an angry roar, its eight tentacles stretching and contracting, its body again turning into a blurry black shadow, closely chasing behind the cyan rainbow.

Its speed in the sea was not much slower than Fang Pan's.

One chasing, one fleeing, they disappeared into the distance in an instant, and the turbulent seawater slowly returned to calm.

At this moment, Han Li's figure flew out from the seabed crevice, looking in the direction where Fang Pan and the giant octopus had fled, a hesitant expression in his eyes.

Then, he still transformed into a cyan shadow and shot toward that direction.

The plan seemed to have initially succeeded, but although this sea beast was powerful, it might not necessarily kill Fang Pan, so he still couldn't be completely at ease.

Han Li's flying speed was now far inferior to Fang Pan's and the giant octopus's, and they had long since flown out of his divine sense detection range.

However, the traces of immortal spiritual power left behind were too obvious.

Following these traces, he tailed them for nearly half an hour.

After a moment, he stopped abruptly.

The seawater hundreds of miles ahead was churning wildly like boiling water, countless whirlpools rising and falling, rolling endlessly. Even from here, one could feel waves of giant surges carrying immense force rushing over.

At the center of this chaos was a huge light mass dozens of miles in size, with countless dazzling purple arcs and black mist dancing on it.

These arcs and mists interweaved, forming clusters of purple-black halos, which then exploded.

Waves of earth-shattering power burst forth in all directions, even tearing apart the seabed, and streams of dark red magma began to emerge from it.

"A spirit domain... no, not quite the same. It should be some kind of domain-like divine ability." Han Li muttered to himself, feeling the terrifying spiritual pressure emanating from the huge light mass, a lingering fear rising in his heart.

Although the giant sea beast he had lured out possessed terrifying strength no less than the late True Immortal stage, it seemed to be a primitive species that had not fully awakened its intelligence. Otherwise, if it had activated such a domain ability when it appeared, he would have suffered as well.

This thought flashed through his mind and was quickly dismissed.

Then, a layer of blue light appeared in his eyes as he looked toward the light sphere ahead, vaguely seeing two figures, one large and one small, moving swiftly within, occasionally colliding and clashing.

The larger figure was naturally the octopus monster, but its originally mountain-like huge body had now shrunk to over ten zhang tall, appearing more agile and flexible. The other figure was Fang Pan.

Fang Pan seemed to have his speed greatly restricted within this light sphere space, at an absolute disadvantage, frequently being knocked away by tentacles.

He now looked extremely狼狈, pale-faced, disheveled, and the cyan light on his body dim.

However, a silver scroll hovered above his head, spewing countless silver runes that formed a silver rune light screen around him, so although he was constantly knocked away, he was not seriously injured.

Bang!

Fang Pan was again knocked flying by a lightning-fast tentacle, the silver rune light screen flickering wildly.

After a long battle, the octopus monster seemed to grow impatient, its tentacles swinging faster and faster, and the frequency of Fang Pan being hit also increased greatly.

At this moment, Fang Pan's heart was also filled with misery.

With his current cultivation, he could not break through this purple-black light sphere space similar to a spirit domain. Continuing like this was no long-term solution. Once the immortal artifact above his head was broken, he would surely fall here.

Thinking of this, his jealousy and hatred for Han Li grew even stronger.

Just then, the octopus monster's wildly dancing tentacles suddenly paused, and its mouth abruptly opened.

A large mass of pitch-black ink sprayed out, covering the sky and earth as it descended.

Fang Pan felt a pungent stench hit his face, and his mind went dizzy.

Greatly alarmed, he quickly activated his divine sense power to dispel the abnormality in his mind. At the same time, the silver scroll above his head hummed and shone brightly.

Countless silver runes gushed out, spinning slightly to form a disc-shaped silver light shield, like a silver moon, blocking above his head.

A loud sizzling sound!

Where the black ink touched the silver light shield, wisps of smoke emerged, and it was instantly corroded into a thousand holes.

Large amounts of black ink seeped through, continuing to envelop Fang Pan.

In desperation, Fang Pan changed his hand seal and uttered a few obscure incantations.

Pfft!

The silver scroll instantly burst into flames, and clusters of silver fire fell, igniting the silver rune light screen surrounding him.

From a distance, Fang Pan had turned into a blazing silver fireball.

The pouring black ink, swept by the silver flames, dissipated into wisps of black smoke.

But before Fang Pan could breathe a sigh of relief, the octopus monster's eight tentacles suddenly straightened like long rods, transforming into layers of stick shadows that swept toward Fang Pan from all directions.

A series of earth-shattering sounds came!

The silver fireball trembled violently, and the scroll floating above Fang Pan's head grew smaller as it burned, seemingly on the verge of collapsing and disappearing at any moment.

"No! I won't give up!"

Fang Pan roared, as if suddenly thinking of something, he flipped his hand and took out a cyan pill.

This pill was only the size of a thumb, but it emitted astonishing spiritual power fluctuations, and many tiny cyan runes faintly formed a lifelike miniature cyan flood dragon above the pill.

This pill, called the Cyan Flood Dragon Pill, was a spiritual pill he had prepared at great expense to break through to the late True Immortal stage. Although not a Dao Pill, its value was no less than that of an ordinary first-grade Dao Pill.

He took out this pill now, naturally not to break through his realm.

This pill had a special effect: it could stimulate the user's potential, allowing them to burst out with combat power far exceeding their own realm in a short time, thereby personally experiencing a higher realm and greatly increasing the chance of breakthrough.

Without much thought, Fang Pan opened his mouth and swallowed the pill.

Intense cyan light immediately burst from his body surface, and his originally declining aura rose step by step, quickly returning to its previous level and continuing to climb.

At this moment, all the potential within his body seemed to be forced out.

Wild immortal spiritual power fluctuations erupted from him, cyan light dancing like flames on his body.

Bright cyan light spots appeared all over his body, flickering on and off like blinking eyes, twenty-three in total.

But then, at a certain point on his body, another cyan light suddenly lit up.

The next moment, the twenty-four light spots seemed to resonate, suddenly brightening together, causing his aura to soar again, reaching a level comparable to that of the octopus monster.

Fang Pan suddenly bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of essence blood, which merged into the silver scroll above his head.

The scroll was already on the verge of destruction, but after absorbing his blood, the silver flames enveloping it suddenly flared up, forming a silver fireball several zhang in size.

The silver flame runes that had originally surrounded him suddenly flew back and merged into this fireball.

Boom!

The silver fireball shot into the sky and then exploded with a loud bang.

Countless silver lights mixed with violent air waves swept in all directions, forcibly blocking the eight tentacle shadows that were like mountains.

Taking the opportunity, Fang Pan transformed into a blurry cyan shadow and shot out of the light sphere like lightning, the black longsword already in his hand at some point.

In an instant, he reached the edge of the light sphere space.

Without a word, cyan light burst from his body, and he suddenly transformed into seven identical figures. The black longsword in his hand shone with unprecedented light, and they all slashed forward fiercely.

"Open for me!"

Seven black sword lights merged into one mid-flight, turning into a massive sword light nearly a thousand zhang long, slashing at the purple-black light screen in front of him.

Crack!

The purple-black crystalline light screen flickered wildly, split by a deep crack, then shattered, breaking a large hole.

Fang Pan's figure instantly turned into a cyan light and shot out with the speed of thunder.

All this, though a long story, actually took only one or two breaths.

By the time the octopus monster chased after him, Fang Pan's figure had already flown far away, disappearing into the vast seawater.