Chapter 452: Imprisonment

Before the golden palace gate, Qu Ling suddenly turned around and saw Han Li and the others. She raised an eyebrow slightly, somewhat surprised.

But in the next moment, her gaze sharpened abruptly. Her eyes fell on the gray eyeball in Han Li's hand, and her face slowly turned livid.

“So it was you who killed my other Taifei, causing me to waste so much time here!” Qu Ling stopped her spellcasting, turned around, and looked at Han Li with eyes like knives, speaking word by word.

Han Li's mouth felt dry. At this point, how could he not understand? Back when he returned to the Northern Cold Immortal Domain from the Spirit Huan Realm, the Taifei he killed in the spatial turbulence happened to be Qu Ling's spirit pet.

Judging by the situation, Qu Ling seemed to value that Taifei greatly.

“Flee separately!”

His mind raced, and he sent a telepathic message to Lu Yuqing, then immediately turned and flew into the distance.

Lu Yuqing was momentarily stunned, as if she didn't understand the situation, but then quickly reacted. A burst of green light flared from her body, and she transformed into a green rainbow fleeing in another direction.

“Still trying to leave?” Qu Ling snorted coldly, raised her hand, and pointed a finger from afar.

With a “whoosh,” a white light shot out from her sleeve—it was a white rope.

The rope glowed with an ethereal white, exuding astonishing spiritual power fluctuations mixed with traces of law fluctuations. It was clearly an immortal artifact, transforming into a slender white light chasing after Han Li.

“Go kill that woman.” While unleashing the immortal artifact, Qu Ling instructed the small Taifei beside her.

The small Taifei glared at Han Li with resentment, but it clearly dared not defy Qu Ling's command. It stomped the ground with its single foot, and its body abruptly transformed into a yellow shadow, chasing in the direction Lu Yuqing had fled.

While flying, Han Li sensed the astonishing aura behind him, its speed terrifying. In the blink of an eye, it was already several li behind him.

His heart tightened. Golden light flickered behind him, and a pair of golden wings emerged, flapping rapidly, causing his speed to continuously increase.

A cold smile appeared on Qu Ling's face. She formed hand seals and pointed out.

The white rope suddenly accelerated, transforming into a blurry white shadow in a flash. In an instant, it caught up with Han Li and abruptly shook, conjuring five or six phantom images that wrapped around him from all directions.

At that moment, Han Li was startled. A loud crackling sound erupted from his body. Golden lightning appeared on his Wind Thunder Wings, and with a thunderous boom, his body barely escaped before the rope closed in.

The next moment, a flash of lightning appeared over a dozen li away, and Han Li's figure emerged.

His expression darkened. The spatial restrictions in this domain were greater than in the Nethercold Region; even a single lightning遁 only covered this short distance.

“Thinking you can escape from me with mere lightning遁术? Wishful thinking!” Qu Ling's voice suddenly came from behind Han Li.

Startled, Han Li didn't have time to turn and check behind him. Golden light blazed from his whole body, and a phantom of a True Wheel emerged, spinning rapidly.

His figure suddenly became blurry, and the golden electric light on his Wind Thunder Wings flared again.

With a crack of thunder, Han Li's figure vanished instantly again.

This series of actions was several times faster than before.

A flash of golden lightning, and Han Li's figure appeared over a dozen li away. He then turned to look.

He saw Qu Ling standing where he had just been, a look of surprise on her face.

“Not bad. I didn't expect you to have such acceleration techniques. But today, since you've run into me, don't think you'll leave alive!” Qu Ling snorted coldly. Silver light blazed from her body, condensing into a pair of faint silver wings.

With a spread of her wings, Qu Ling's figure suddenly turned into an afterimage and disappeared from the spot.

Han Li's expression changed slightly. The Reversed True Wheel inside him spun rapidly, and the lightning on his Wind Thunder Wings flashed. He vanished from the spot.

With the help of the Reversed True Wheel, his lightning遁 technique far surpassed its usual speed.

Just as his figure disappeared, Qu Ling's figure appeared above. She extended a hand, and five flickering gray rays shot from her fingers, stabbing straight down.

But just as the five gray rays descended, Han Li's figure had already vanished, and she struck nothing.

Qu Ling's expression remained unchanged. She turned her head to look in one direction.

There, a flash of golden lightning, and Han Li's figure emerged unsteadily.

Qu Ling sneered. The silver wings behind her moved, and her figure vanished again like a ghost, even faster than before.

Han Li's expression changed slightly. Golden light and lightning from behind flared simultaneously. With a thunderous boom, he lightning遁ed away again.

Booming thunderclaps rang out continuously.

In midair, a golden and a silver light chased each other, swift as lightning.

The silver light grew faster and faster, silent and ghostly.

For a moment, afterimages of silver light appeared everywhere in the sky, new ones appearing before the old ones faded.

The silver light was extremely fast, but the golden lightning was not inferior.

As the silver light accelerated, it became swifter, eventually turning into a golden phantom flying all over the sky, never caught by the silver light.

The thunderclaps grew denser, eventually merging into a continuous roar, almost indistinguishable in intervals.

Chasing each other, they somehow returned to the area near the golden palace.

In midair, a silver light flashed, and Qu Ling's figure emerged. She frowned slightly and did not continue the chase.

Over a dozen li away, a golden lightning flashed, and Han Li's figure appeared, slightly panting, his eyes fixed on Qu Ling.

Since Qu Ling didn't continue chasing, he didn't lightning遁 away either.

Simultaneously using the Reversed True Wheel and lightning遁, his immortal spiritual power could still hold out, but such high-speed movement placed a great burden on his body and mind. Even he found it hard to bear and needed to catch his breath.

“Unexpected. You, a mere True Immortal, have some skill, always dodging just as I'm about to catch you. It seems I must use some real methods.” Qu Ling snorted coldly. Silver light flashed on her body again, and her figure vanished.

Han Li frowned. Golden light blazed from his body, and with a thunderous boom, he transformed into a bolt of lightning and lightning遁ed away.

But at that moment, the void hummed and trembled. A large expanse of gray light emerged out of nowhere, forming a gray region that instantly enveloped the surrounding area of nearly a thousand zhang.

Streams of gray light danced within the region. Wherever the eye could see, there were clusters of gray shadows. Though the region was only a thousand zhang in radius, it seemed like a world of its own, extremely distant from the outside world.

At the edge of the gray region, a bolt of golden lightning emerged, like a fish caught in a net. No matter how violently it twisted and struggled, it was forced out of the void.

A flash of golden lightning, and Han Li's figure appeared, his face full of gravity.

“A domain!” He looked around and exclaimed.

Han Li had previously encountered a domain when he undertook a mission for the Wuchang Alliance and faced a Golden Immortal from the Northern Cold Immortal Palace. But that was a pseudo-domain, incomparable to this gray domain.

Now, trapped in this gray domain, he felt as if he were in a huge quagmire. Waves of spatial power, mixed with law power, pressed in from all directions, almost immobilizing him.

Countless gray shadows rolled within the domain, like countless ghosts swarming toward Han Li from all directions.

Strange law fluctuations emanated from these gray shadows.

Before the gray shadows arrived, Han Li suddenly felt a sense of weakness throughout his body. His limbs grew limp, and he found it difficult to muster his immortal spiritual power.

“What law is this?”

Greatly alarmed, Han Li let out a low shout. Golden light blazed from his body, and the Truthful Speech Wheel emerged, especially the time law threads on it, dazzlingly bright.

Waves of time law power surged out, enveloping his body.

Although the time dao patterns on Han Li's Truthful Speech Wheel were few, and the time power that emerged was thin, utterly incomparable to the surrounding gray domain, as one of the three supreme laws, the time law power greatly reduced the weakness in his body.

His spirits lifted. He formed hand seals and waved.

A flash of green light, and a giant green sword appeared before him.

The giant sword emitted dazzling green light, entwined with thick arcs of electricity, exuding a terrifying aura. It swiftly slashed four times around him.

Four enormous sword phantoms appeared and struck the surrounding gray shadows.

Rumble! The gray shadows around churned and were swept away by the four sword energies.

But more gray shadows continued to swarm from all directions, surrounding Han Li again.

Han Li took a deep breath, roused his divine might, and urged the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords to slash around him, blocking countless gray shadows and preventing them from getting close.

At the center of the gray domain, a figure stood with hands behind its back—it was Qu Ling.

She stared in astonishment at Han Li fighting the countless gray shadows, her eyes full of surprise and delight.

“This is... time law power! This person actually cultivates time law and has even condensed a thread of law! Haha, heaven helps me!” Qu Ling laughed heartily.

After laughing, she couldn't help but look thoughtful, as if troubled.

Qu Ling's eyes flickered, then quickly became resolute. She chanted incantations and waved her hands.

Gray light flickered behind her, and a gray throne emerged.

This throne looked like the dragon throne of the mortal world, very spacious. On each armrest coiled a five-clawed gray dragon. Unlike ordinary true dragons, these two five-clawed gray dragons had ferocious and vicious expressions, indescribably eerie.

An immense law fluctuation emanated from the gray dragon throne.

Qu Ling moved and sat on the throne. Her entire demeanor changed again. A layer of gray covered her face, blurring her features, making her appear majestic, as if she had instantly become a noble and aloof queen.

Qu Ling raised a hand and lightly patted the head of one five-clawed gray dragon with a motion that seemed heavy yet light.

The five-clawed gray dragon immediately opened its mouth wide and spewed out a thick mass of gray light, within which countless gray runes flickered, exuding law power of terrifying density.

The gray light flashed and merged into the gray domain. The domain suddenly brightened, and one gray shadow after another continuously generated, each twice as large as before, swarming toward Han Li.

The pressure on Han Li suddenly increased greatly, and his expression changed.

He shouted loudly, activating all his immortal spiritual power. The Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords blazed with even more dazzling green light and electric芒, sweeping toward the surrounding gray shadows.

At the same time, light flashed above Han Li's head, and four treasures appeared in succession.

They were a gray miniature mountain, a silver bell, a black fang-shaped strange sword, and a large black banner.