Chapter 183: Slaying Demons on Tai'e Peak

Seeing Han Li walking toward him, Bai Songshi's contemptuous expression vanished, a flicker of divine light flashing in his eyes as his gaze turned as cold as frost.

He waved his hands before him, and a roaring sound arose in the void as two massive fire wheels emerged, shimmering with five-colored light, from which five-colored spirit flames occasionally flew out.

It was evidently a five-flame radiance wheel spirit treasure of no ordinary grade!

"At this moment, you still refuse to reveal your true form?" Han Li sneered upon seeing this.

Bai Songshi across from him did not reply but waved his hands toward Han Li and silently recited a spell incantation.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh"

Amidst gusts of wind, the two five-flame radiance wheels rapidly expanded in the void, growing to several tens of zhang in size, and rolled along the ground toward Han Li.

"Clang, clang, clang"

A grating sound of metal and stone rang out as the hard mountain rocks of Tai'e Peak were gouged into two deep trenches by the wheels, within which five-colored flames blazed fiercely, even melting the rock.

Seeing this, the Bai family cultivators around exchanged glances, realizing they could not interfere in the battle between their ancestor and Han Li, and under the gaze of the green-robed elder, all turned to besiege Bai Suyuan.

Bai Suyuan clearly had no intention of confronting them head-on; she immediately offered up two or three defensive treasures, surrounded by clusters of fire clouds, and moved around the field, skirmishing with the Bai family cultivators.

Though this woman was of a much younger generation than the green-robed elder and the others, she was evidently quite talented, and as a late Deity Transformation cultivator, she managed to hold her own against multiple opponents without much trouble.

Han Li watched the two wheels hurtling toward him without any intention of dodging; instead, he stepped forward into a bow stance, golden scales rising on his arms as he reached out both hands ahead.

Two massive golden palms materialized in the void, reaching straight into the blazing flames of the wheels and grasping them firmly.

The forward momentum of the five-flame radiance wheels instantly halted, as if forcibly stopped in place.

Bai Songshi's pupils contracted slightly as he chanted louder and rapidly formed hand seals before him.

The stalled five-flame radiance wheels immediately shone even brighter, spinning faster, and the blazing flames on them burst forth like a rain of fire and meteors, scattering in all directions.

Feeling the immense force suddenly transmitted from the wheels and watching the flames falling across the peak, Han Li frowned slightly, let out a roar, and abruptly raised his hands, making a throwing motion toward the sky.

With a "whoosh" sound!

The two enormous wheels of fire flew uncontrollably up into the sky.

The next moment, Han Li's figure flickered, and he suddenly appeared before Bai Songshi. One of his arms emitted a crackling explosion and swelled to twice its size as he raised a fist and smashed it toward the other's head.

The latter was already on guard. With both hands reaching out in front of him, a round shield adorned with a beast's face materialized instantly, blocking before him.

With a thunderous bang,

a surging, mountain-toppling force struck, immediately caving in the shield's surface, which had been gleaming with spiritual light. The man holding the shield was sent flying backward by the immense force.

Before Bai Songshi could steady himself, a figure flashed before his eyes. Han Li, like a shadow, followed closely and threw another punch.

In haste, Bai Songshi could only raise the already heavily damaged shield once more to block.

With a roar!

This time, the beast-face shield flashed once and burst apart from the center.

Yet the momentum of Han Li's punch did not dissipate; it continued to surge forward without hesitation, striking Bai Songshi heavily in the chest.

A muffled thud sounded.

Like a thunderclap splitting the heavens, it was not loud but carried immense force.

Bai Songshi's chest suddenly caved in, but then he abruptly looked up to the sky, opened his mouth wide, and a thick black demonic energy rolled out, surging into the high sky like beacon smoke.

Soon, the streams of demonic energy enveloped the entire Tai'e Peak, darkening the sky for hundreds of li around, as if it had instantly turned from noon to dusk.

"What is this..."

"Stop it, all of you!"

"Su Yuan, could everything you said be true?"

The Bai family members who had been besieging Bai Suyuan had now all stopped, staring blankly at the falling body in the sky, now devoid of the Heavenly Demon, their faces full of disbelief.

Bai Suyuan stood still, the fiery clouds around her receding, a flicker of resentment in her eyes as she looked up at the sky.

"If you don't want to die, take the mortals down the mountain and leave Tai'e Peak." A cold voice suddenly came from the sky, Han Li's.

Hearing this, they finally came to their senses, collected Bai Songshi's remains, and flew down the mountain one after another.

The old man in the green robe of the Bai family slowly turned his head to look at Bai Suyuan, his expression extremely complicated. After hesitating repeatedly, he finally spoke: "Suyuan, come with your second granduncle..."

"I want to see that demon utterly destroyed with my own eyes..." Bai Suyuan said upon hearing this, without even glancing at him, her teeth clenched tightly.

The old man in the green robe hesitated for a moment, then sighed and flew down the mountain.

At this moment, the demonic clouds in the high sky had gathered thick as ink. Suddenly, the clouds surged and coalesced into a huge human face in the sky.

"Forcing me to abandon my human body and ruining my demonic cultivation, I will grind your bones to dust!" A cold voice came from the sky, echoing with a buzzing sound across the entire heavens.

As he spoke, the human face suddenly opened its mouth wide, and a scorching aura surged out, transforming into a vast sea of demonic flames that swept toward Han Li, blotting out the sky.

Han Li had somehow already drawn the black longsword and was holding it in his hand, gently swaying it.

Seeing the demonic flames rolling in, he suddenly rose, and the longsword in his hand flashed with black light as he slanted it upward from below. A huge blade shadow over ten zhang wide immediately flew out, cleaving toward the demonic flames.

The demonic flames around the blade shadow churned violently but were pushed back to both sides by the momentum carried by the shadow, opening a path about a hundred zhang wide in the middle.

Han Li's figure flew up through this passage, his longsword constantly dancing, transforming into a hazy, mountain-like mass of black blade shadows that twisted toward the huge face formed by the demonic clouds.

In the high sky, the void trembled, blade light crisscrossed, and large swaths of demonic clouds were sliced into pieces, churning endlessly.

From the giant face's mouth, demonic flames continuously surged, surrounding Han Li, but they were always broken apart by his blade light, proving ineffective.

Just then, the demonic clouds suddenly contracted, shrinking from a hundred li to ten li in an instant, coalescing into a solid, pitch-black giant demonic face with two horns on its head.

Its mouth suddenly opened wide, revealing a massive black qi vortex within, from which a tremendous suction force emerged, abruptly pulling Han Li inside.

The demonic face's giant mouth immediately closed, and Han Li's figure vanished from sight.

Bai Suyuan, standing atop Tai'e Peak, looked up and saw this scene. Her heart suddenly leaped, and her expression turned somewhat strange. The hand hidden in her sleeve suddenly turned over, and in her palm appeared a round golden ball.

The golden ball was covered with runes, and golden arcs of electricity flickered and leaped on its surface. It was actually a supreme weapon against the demon from beyond the heavens—a 'Golden Gang Demon-Slaying Thunderbolt'.

After a long while, seeing no movement from within the demonic face, a look of determination flashed in Bai Suyuan's eyes. A light shone on her body, and she was about to soar into the air.

“Zizi zi.”

Just then, wisps of silvery white light suddenly flickered at the corners of the demon face's mouth.

Immediately after, a thunderous sound erupted abruptly, and the giant demon face instantly burst apart amidst the sky-filling silver lightning.

A massive Thunder Roc, its body wrapped in silver electric arcs, shot out from within. Midair, its light converged, and it transformed back into human form, naturally none other than Han Li.

After that demonic face exploded, the scattered demonic clouds gathered again, forming the appearance of an entirely black-clad old man, who swiftly flew downward toward Tai'e Peak, heading straight for Bai Suyuan.

His features were identical to Bai Songshi's.

Seeing this, Han Li's gaze sharpened. The black longsword in his hand flashed out, and he swung it fiercely downward.

A black blade light flickered abruptly, moving with extreme speed. Just as the black-clad old man was about to catch up to Bai Suyuan, it struck him, cleaving him straight through the middle, splitting him in two.

A loud "crack" resounded!

After striking the black-clad old man, the black blade light did not stop at all, continuing to cut into the body of Tai'e Peak.

"Rumble, rumble."

A tremor like an earthquake came, raising dust and smoke on Tai'e Peak, rolling down rocks and stones, startling thousands of birds into flight.

It lasted for a good while before the shaking subsided.

Bai Suyuan, who had barely managed to steady herself amidst the chaos, saw in astonishment that a bottomless chasm had appeared before her.

The entire Tai'e Peak had been split in two by Han Li's single strike.

What Han Li did not know was that this casual slash of his had forcibly erased the name "Tai'e Peak" from the map of Baiyou Country. From then on, a "Two-Split Peak" and a legend of an immortal splitting a mountain and slaying a demon would appear in the Tai'e Mountain Range.

Of course, that was a story for later.

As for the Heavenly Demon's body, it was now also severed in two—one half on this side of the chasm, the other on the opposite side.

Han Li's figure descended from the high sky, landing beside the black-clad old man. His eyes indifferent, he raised his hand to smash him to pieces, but at the same time, a voice rang in his ears and heart: "Fellow Daoist, hold on."

The black-clad old man, lying on the ground in a miserable state, his eyes full of pleading, said to Han Li:

"Fellow Daoist, do not kill me. I am willing to sign a Heavenly Demon Contract with you, to be your slave and servant from now on, at your command."

Hearing this, Han Li did not speak, but a strange expression appeared on his face.

Seeing this, Bai Suyuan, afraid that Han Li might agree, quickly stepped forward, about to speak to stop him.

At that moment, the shadow before Han Li suddenly wavered, stretching abruptly, and from it emerged a pitch-black figure—it was none other than Mo Guang. It was he who had just used his mind link to stop Han Li.