Chapter 27: Carrying the Five Sacred Mountains, Suppressing the Five Ghosts

As soon as Han Li finished speaking, the surrounding space suddenly changed.

In the void, a haze of yellow sand arose, and yellow boulders the size of millstones appeared out of thin air, a full twenty or thirty of them, densely arranged, enveloping the Spirit Moon Flying Boat in an impenetrable encirclement.

Gu Yunyue's heart skipped a beat. Before she could think further, the surfaces of these boulders flickered with a faint light, then rapidly spun and hurtled toward the Spirit Moon Flying Boat with a piercing whistle.

Startled, the woman urgently urged her sword art. A black sword light shot up from her body, swayed left and right, instantly expanded, and transformed into a giant black sword over a hundred feet long.

The giant sword spun swiftly, suddenly erupting with a vast expanse of black sword radiance that vaguely coalesced into a dragon shape, trailing a long tail of light as it slashed at the nearest boulder.

A thunderous crash!

The boulder was barely shattered by the giant sword, but the black sword, as if severely struck, spun back in a flurry, its surface radiance completely dispersed.

Gu Yunyue's body shook violently. She staggered back several steps before steadying herself, her eyes filled with terror.

The force of this single falling boulder was almost comparable to a full-force strike from a Nascent Soul cultivator. Faced with the twenty or thirty gleaming boulders rapidly closing in, a chill ran through her heart.

But at that moment, Han Li's calm voice sounded in her ear:

"Take good care of Le'er and the others. Leave this to me."

Gu Yunyue only saw a blur before her eyes as Han Li leaped up from the flying boat, his hands gleaming with golden light. Spinning swiftly, he punched out in all directions into the surrounding void.

With a series of booming crashes from all sides, all the yellow boulders were simultaneously struck by a colossal force, bursting apart like eggs, scattering into countless fragments.

"Hmph, indeed a strength cultivator!"

A man's cold snort suddenly came from midair, the voice ethereal, its direction indiscernible.

Hearing the voice, Gu Yunyue snapped back to reality with delight. She looked around frantically, trying to locate the source of the voice.

Han Li, upon hearing this, curled his lips in a faint sneer. He turned abruptly, flicked his finger, and a cyan sword qi shot out like lightning, slashing at a corner of the yellow crystalline world, where it exploded.

Boom!

The void there rippled violently, and a large man in black clothes staggered into view.

This man was quite burly, with a square face and short beard, his face full of extreme surprise.

"Unexpectedly, you are also a sword cultivator. With your Nascent Soul cultivation, being able to see through the illusion array personally laid by me, Lu, you must not be an unknown figure. What is your name, and who is your master?" The man quickly regained his composure and spoke slowly.

"Who I am doesn't matter. The dead don't need to know too much." Han Li sneered coldly.

"Ridiculous! I only showed a fraction of this array's power just now, and you're already so arrogant. With my next strike, I'll annihilate both your body and spirit!" The large man in black was furious. He formed a single-handed seal, and yellow ripples spread over his body, then he blurred and concealed his tracks again.

Seeing this, a hint of surprise flickered in Han Li's eyes.

The large man's array was quite exquisite. At this moment, he must have slipped deeper into the array, and even with Han Li's current spiritual sense, he could no longer perceive him.

But then he snorted, and golden light spread over his entire body, intending to break the array with brute force and force the man to reveal himself.

Just then, an unexpected change occurred!

The entire sky suddenly darkened, and five massive figures wreathed in black qi emerged, surrounding the Spirit Moon Flying Boat.

Han Li's pupils contracted slightly, and a piercing blue light flickered in his eyes.

Beneath the black qi were five giant black ghosts, each thirty to forty zhang tall. Except for a pair of curved horns on their heads, they resembled apes magnified countless times, covered in short black fur, with green faces, fangs, and blood-red eyes, looking extremely ferocious, yet their expressions were very wooden.

Each giant ghost also held a black miniature mountain in its hand.

Compared to the five giant ghosts, Han Li and the others seemed as insignificant as ants.

Gu Yunyue's face changed drastically!

The aura exuded by each of these five giant ghosts surpassed her own, and a fine layer of cold sweat instantly broke out on her forehead.

As for Liu Le'er and Yu Menghan, under the terrifying spiritual pressure of the five giant ghosts combined, they could not withstand it and directly fell over, fainting.

Roar! Roar! Roar!

The five giant ghosts let out a deafening roar, their blood-red eyes flashing with fierce light. Swinging their ape-like arms, they suddenly hurled the five miniature mountains in their hands.

The miniature mountain emitted a dazzling black light, and as soon as it left his hand, it began to swell wildly, in the blink of an eye transforming into a mountain over a hundred zhang in size, crashing down towards Han Li and the others with a roar.

Before the giant peak arrived, a terrifying pressure that made one's heart pound howled over, the void near the spirit boat rumbling loudly as a sudden gale arose.

Gu Yunyue nearly screamed, but her last shred of reason drove her to frantically offer up several magical treasures and talismans in one breath, setting up several layers of light shields of various colors around herself and the two unconscious women.

Han Li merely frowned, and with a flash of golden light from his hands, his palm, as large as a winnowing fan, lightly brushed aside the roaring giant peak.

Five earth-shattering booms rang out in succession!

Ripples of immense power spread outward, the entire yellow space rumbling loudly, twisting and churning violently, growing more intense.

The yellow space could no longer bear it, and with a "bang" it shattered, the surroundings instantly returning to the previous desert, countless yellow chaotic rays scattering outward.

The massive impact found an outlet, spreading outward, causing the sandstorm for over ten li to churn violently, blotting out the sky and covering the sun.

Although the yellow space shattered and disappeared, it had only been an illusion; the ground flickered with yellow light, and the earlier great formation remained.

The five giant ghosts still stood in midair, but their expressions had returned to wooden indifference.

In a certain spot in the void, the figure of the man in black robes flickered into view, a smug, cold smile on his face.

This secret art of the Five Ghosts Moving Mountains was such that even a late-Nascent Soul cultivator without a superior spiritual treasure would find it extremely difficult to withstand.

But in the next moment, the smile on his face froze, his eyes wide as he stared downward in disbelief.

Below, five colossal peaks were piled up like a pyramid, and beneath them, Han Li stood calmly in the void, supporting the five peaks with one hand, looking as if he were handling a light load with ease.

As for the Spirit Moon Flying Boat below Han Li, including Gu Yunyue and the other two women on it, they were completely unharmed.

Before he could react, Han Li casually opened his mouth and blew, a stream of white air rolling out.

The five giant peaks, as light as a swan's feather, were blown away by the white air in an instant.

Black light flickered on the surface of the peaks, which rapidly shrank, returning to the size of the earlier miniature mountain.

Han Li flicked his hand, his five fingers plucking in succession, as if playing marbles.

A "whoosh" sound of air being torn rang out.

Five miniature peaks shot toward the man in black robes one after another, moving with incredible speed—they were upon him in a flash.

The man in black robes' expression changed. Black light blazed from his body as he plummeted sharply toward the ground, narrowly dodging the five miniature peaks.

Han Li's figure blurred, appearing like a ghost in front of the five miniature peaks. He plucked at the air with his fingers again, and the five peaks immediately halted.

His body spun around swiftly, and he kicked two of the miniature peaks with a pair of resounding thuds.

The two peaks instantly transformed into hazy phantoms, falling like shooting stars at nearly twice the speed they had risen.

The two miniature peaks flickered with black light, their size visibly swelling again. In the blink of an eye, they became two colossal peaks a hundred zhang in size, their sharp whistles turning into terrifying, rumbling roars.

One of the peaks crashed toward the formation below, while the other flew toward the man in black robes.

A thunderous boom erupted!

The former smashed heavily onto the yellow formation diagram.

The great formation immediately radiated dazzling light, attempting to resist, but it was easily crushed and torn apart by the astonishing force contained in the giant peak, bursting into countless streams of light with a bang.

With the formation shattered, the Spirit Moon Flying Boat was instantly freed, swept up by a fierce gale and blown far away like a leaf in the wind.

The other giant peak struck like lightning toward the man in black robes, catching up to him before he even touched the ground.

The man in black robes was greatly alarmed, spat out a mouthful of essence blood, and was suddenly enveloped in a blood-red glow. He twisted his body, transforming into a bizarre serpentine spiritual light that shot away, its escape speed multiplied several times.

Boom!

The black giant peak crashed into the ground, raising clouds of dust.

At the moment the peak landed, the serpentine遁光 grazed the ground and flew out, appearing a hundred zhang away, revealing the man's figure, his face covered in cold sweat.

Before he could catch his breath, a whistling sound exploded in his ear.

The light above the man in black robes dimmed as another massive peak descended rapidly. He had just looked up when the peak was already upon him, leaving no time to dodge.