Chapter 629: Celestial Demon Battle

As a result, after this observation, Han Li made some new discoveries.

The scenes within these light spheres were all different, encompassing all kinds of bizarre environments, as if they contained countless realms, myriad beings, and all things.

Moreover, these light spheres varied in size, and from the scenes on their surfaces, it seemed impossible to determine any necessary relationship between the size of the sphere and the scene inside.

“Eh!”

Han Li raised an eyebrow, looking at a flowing giant water droplet light sphere, and let out a soft exclamation.

The scene in this light sphere was a black Gobi desert, where streaks of various colored lights flickered incessantly, as if many figures were engaged in fierce battle. Just then, a three-headed, six-armed purple-black dharma image burst forth with surging purple light and flashed by.

“Isn’t this the technique Shi Chuankong used that day?” he murmured to himself.

The giant water droplet light sphere passed before him without any pause, flowing swiftly into the distance.

Han Li’s eyes flickered, and he immediately sent out a wisp of divine sense to touch this water droplet light sphere.

The water droplet light sphere immediately radiated brilliant light, emitting a suction force.

With a “whoosh,” Han Li’s soul was swallowed by the water droplet without any resistance, and his vision went black.

After an unknown amount of time, his consciousness slowly recovered, and his ears were immediately filled with deafening rumbling and the sounds of battle, surging like waves, as if the surrounding void itself was trembling.

Han Li was slightly startled. He quietly opened his eyes a slit and looked around.

He was indeed now on that black Gobi desert. High in the sky floated thick patches of black clouds. Unlike ordinary clouds, these black clouds were extremely dense, like lumps of lead, giving a very oppressive feeling.

Thick black-purple lightning bolts, like giant dragons, shuttled through the clouds, appearing and disappearing, looking terrifying.

Beneath the black clouds, a dense mass of figures was surging—two groups of cultivators engaged in fierce battle.

One side was all clad in purple armor, mostly appearing to be humanoid cultivators, but there were also many with beast heads, wings on their backs, or tails behind them—all exuding surging demonic energy; they were all members of the Demon Race.

These demon cultivators were also extremely numerous, at least two to three hundred thousand, and their cultivation levels were not low, most at the Void Refinement or Combined Movement stage.

There were also many at the True Immortal and Golden Immortal stages, and even over a dozen at the Tai Yi stage, all standing in the air at the front of the demon army, radiating surging purple light, condensing various techniques to bombard the opposite side.

One of them had condensed a three-headed, six-armed purple dharma image behind him, presumably the one he had just seen by the river.

Han Li was secretly astonished. A battle gathering over a dozen Tai Yi stage cultivators was no small matter.

He shifted his gaze and looked toward the opposite side.

Not far from the demon army stood another group of people, all clad in golden battle armor, radiating surging golden light, their numbers no less than the demon army.

This attire was not unfamiliar to Han Li. Although it differed somewhat from the armor of the Inspection Envoys, it was generally quite similar, clearly indicating that these golden-armored cultivators were all members of the Celestial Court.

The strength of the Celestial Court army was not weak either. There were also over a dozen Tai Yi stage cultivators, who were engaged in one-on-one combat with the dozen or so Tai Yi stage demons in the air.

Behind the Celestial Court army, a huge golden vortex dozens of miles in size appeared in the void, rumbling as it rotated.

At the center of the vortex was a massive passage, about a mile in size, within which flickered a substantial golden glow, emitting strong spatial fluctuations—it was a spatial passage.

Teams of golden-armored cultivators continuously flew out from within, constantly joining the Celestial Court army.

The two sides clashed fiercely, with various colored lights colliding violently, producing earth-shattering roars. The battles of the Tai Yi cultivators were especially terrifying. The ground had been battered into a mess, covered with river-like cracks, within which crimson magma could be seen churning. The void itself was torn open, with spatial cracks continuously spreading outward.

This space seemed unable to withstand such intense fighting, on the verge of complete collapse.

“A battle between the Demon Race and the Celestial Court?” Han Li was shaken.

He was now attached to a demon corpse. This person wore ornate purple armor, appearing to be of considerable cultivation, but had died from a pierced abdomen.

Suddenly, a great roar came from underground, filled with fury.

The ground in front of the demon army suddenly bulged, forming a large mound, then exploded.

A massive figure slowly emerged from underground.

Han Li looked over and his face showed shock as he drew a cold breath.

That massive figure was a fat monster, barely humanoid, with long, narrow eyes, a flat nose, and a wide, turned-out mouth full of black-yellow fangs, constantly drooling saliva—both ugly and disgusting.

This monster was extremely tall, nearly ten thousand zhang, with a large belly. Its skin was a withered yellow, like rough rock, stained with some crimson magma, but it seemed unaffected. In its hand, it dragged a huge spiked club.

A suffocatingly terrifying aura emanated from this fat monster, no less than that of the Tai Yi cultivators in the air.

The fat monster let out a heaven-shaking roar, causing the nearby void to tremble violently. Then it took large strides, producing heavy footsteps, and the ground shook as it charged toward the Celestial Court army, shaking even the nearby Celestial Court cultivators so much that they could not stand steady.

“What kind of monster is this!” Han Li was startled.

But in the next moment, the ground shook violently again. More mounds bulged in front of the demon army, and one after another, fat monsters emerged from underground, a full twenty to thirty of them, charging toward the Celestial Court army, swinging their giant clubs.

Huge club shadows swung, crushing Celestial Court cultivators like little insects, and the army’s vanguard immediately collapsed.

But at that moment, a clear horn sound came from within the Celestial Court army.

The Celestial Court cultivators immediately retreated like a tide, and hundreds of silver giants emerged.

Each of these silver giants was nearly a thousand zhang tall, with steel needle-like straight silver hair, pointed mouths and monkey-like cheeks, and a pair of huge silver wings on their backs, surrounded by silver lightning.

In their hands, the left held a silver short spike, and the right held a silver hammer, both emitting a terrifying aura of lightning.

The twenty to thirty fat monsters charged forward. The silver giants had cold, expressionless faces. They quickly raised their hands, aiming the short spikes at the monsters.

Then, they swung their arms holding the hammers, striking the rear ends of the short spikes heavily.

A thunderous crash!

Hundreds of thick silver lightning bolts shot out from the silver giants’ hands, each over ten zhang thick, like giant silver lightning spears, all striking the fat monsters.

A terrifying law of lightning fluctuation emanated from the silver lightning, causing the black lightning in the black clouds above to churn violently.

A flash of surprise appeared in the fat monsters’ eyes. They roared, their bodies radiating yellow light, and swung their spiked clubs, creating layers of club shadows to protect themselves.

But before the silver lightning, the layers of club shadows were easily shattered like paper, and the thick silver lightning then struck the monsters.

Large holes were immediately blasted into the seemingly hard bodies of the fat monsters.

In an instant, most of the monsters’ bodies exploded directly, turning into flying flesh.

A few that did not die immediately were all severely injured.

However, the silver light on the silver giants’ bodies also completely disappeared, and they looked exhausted. The light on their hammers and spikes was extremely dim, even showing cracks, as if they were one-time treasures.

At that moment, the black clouds above the silver giants suddenly churned. The black lightning within hundreds of miles converged, instantly forming a black lightning giant palm the size of dozens of acres, slamming down toward the silver giants.

A terrifying aura, as if it would crush the entire void, burst forth from the black giant palm as it pressed down.

But just then, above the silver giants, the void flickered, and a ball of golden flame appeared out of thin air—a golden fire humanoid, its entire body wrapped in golden flames, its face unseen.

As soon as this figure appeared, one hand reached out and grabbed the air.

Immediately, a loud boom sounded in the sky. A giant golden flame dragon claw emerged out of thin air, colliding head-on with the lightning giant palm.

A loud, muffled thud!

The lightning giant palm immediately halted in midair, held up by the flame dragon claw.

“Li Mozi, you used these Taisuo giants to lure out my Thunder God Division. Did you think I wouldn’t see through such a trick?” the golden fire humanoid said with a laugh.

“Is that so…” A cold laugh came from the black clouds in the sky.

Before the voice faded, one of the severely injured fat monsters on the ground opened its mouth wide and spat out a ball of dazzling blood light, which shot out with incredible speed, appearing near the silver giants in a flash, revealing its true form—a fist-sized blood-red orb.

The orb was entirely blood-red, covered with fine blood threads that writhed like living things, radiating surging blood light.

“The Ten-Thousand Calamity Blood Source Pearl!” The golden fire humanoid exclaimed in shock upon seeing the blood-red orb, and its form flickered as it prepared to fly downward.

“Want to leave? Not so easy!” Another cold laugh came from the thunderclouds in the sky.

The black lightning giant palm blazed with lightning, immediately shaking the flame dragon claw and pressing downward, while one finger of the lightning giant palm moved slightly.

“Rip!”

Two thick black lightning bolts shot down from it, flashing to block the golden fire humanoid’s path, like a giant lightning scissors, snapping shut fiercely.