Chapter 665: An Unexpected Surprise

Ren Hao, seeing Han Li's terrifying offensive, turned pale and transformed into a streak of blue light, fleeing in another direction.

At the same time, he waved his sleeve, and eight or nine immortal artifacts glowing with various colors shot out, blurring into a radiance of immortal artifacts that filled the entire hall, surging toward the purple-gold demon god, blocking all gaps ahead.

But Han Li merely smiled faintly and waved one of the demon god's arms.

With a 'puff,' a vast expanse of emerald green light burst forth, enveloping all eight or nine immortal artifacts.

The spiritual light emitted by these artifacts quickly dissipated as they were caught in the emerald glow.

In an instant, all the radiance of the artifacts vanished, leaving only the eight or nine various immortal artifacts suspended motionless in the air, like fish in a net.

Han Li waved his arm, and the emerald light along with the artifacts vanished in a flash.

This entire series of changes occurred in the blink of an eye.

'How is this possible?' Ren Hao, fleeing, looked back at the scene behind him, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Han Li put away the artifacts with a flip of his hand, and the demon god he had transformed into took a step forward.

Its massive body blurred and disappeared from its spot, reappearing in front of Ren Hao the next moment, blocking his path, and the cyan giant sword in its hand slashed down.

Trapped within the time domain, Ren Hao was far slower than Han Li and had no way to escape.

'You're going too far... I'll fight you to the death!'

A hint of despair flashed in his eyes, and he roared wildly. The blue giant sword in his hand blazed with light, carrying a thunderous roar like a raging tide, and slashed out as well.

The two giant swords clashed in midair.

With a 'crack' sound!

The blue giant sword, as if made of paper, was easily cut in two by the cyan giant sword.

The cyan giant sword did not stop, continuing its slash, and struck Ren Hao fiercely.

Ren Hao's eyes bulged, the corners nearly splitting. He spat out a mouthful of essence blood, which merged into the armor on his body, while his immortal spiritual power surged out, all pouring into the blue armor.

The blue armor burst into towering blue light, instantly condensing into a thick blue light membrane, somewhat similar to Han Li's True Extreme Membrane, blocking the cyan giant sword.

But the cyan giant sword's sharp sword light flickered, containing waves of powerful time law power, and it still slashed in quickly, soon breaking through the blue light membrane and striking directly onto the blue armor.

The cyan giant sword hummed and trembled, pausing slightly, but still cut into the blue armor.

'No, you'll regret this...' Ren Hao let out a desperate scream, and his body exploded with a 'bang,' turning into a rain of blood.

This was because the fierce sword energy of the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords had invaded his body, causing it to burst.

Not only his body, but Ren Hao's Nascent Soul and divine soul were also instantly shredded by the sword energy, leaving not a trace.

The blue armor also shattered completely with his body, turning into millions of fragments.

The three-headed, six-armed demon god waved its hand, retrieving a sparkling blue storage ring from Ren Hao's remains. Its body flashed with purple-gold light, rapidly shrinking, and soon returned to human form.

The cyan giant sword also turned into nine Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords, which vanished into his body.

Seeing Han Li display so many abilities, Maple Forest's eyes flickered, and a hint of wariness appeared on her face.

But Han Li did not look at her; instead, he turned his gaze toward the corpse of the big-headed child on the other side.

Having been through a series of battles, though his consumption was not too great, he had no desire to start another conflict, so he had no intention of competing with her for the flute. Most of his attention was back on the child with the unusually large head.

Knowing the child's special identity, even while fighting the blue mermaid and Ren Hao, he had kept a fraction of his mind on the child, but had noticed nothing unusual.

After a brief hesitation, Han Li reached out with one hand, and a green light surged from his sleeve, gently wrapping the big-headed child's corpse and slowly pulling it up from the pool.

At that moment, a sudden change occurred!

The big-headed child's corpse, without warning, suddenly accelerated, instantly appearing before Han Li. Its massive head nearly touched his forehead, and its nose almost pressed against his chin.

Han Li's reaction was not usually so slow, but for some reason, the child's corpse moved at a bizarre speed, as if imbued with time law power, catching him off guard.

Then, the big-headed child's eyelids suddenly trembled and opened. A pair of clear, water-blue eyes looked Han Li over, and its mouth suddenly opened, spitting a mass of blue light at Han Li.

The blue light struck Han Li's brow, and a thunderclap seemed to explode in his sea of consciousness, causing his ears to ring incessantly.

Before he could examine the anomaly in his sea of consciousness, the big-headed child's mouth opened and closed again, uttering the words 'Kill Qimozi,' then closed its eyes and mouth once more.

Immediately after, countless fine, dense blue light marks appeared on its corpse, followed by a 'crackling' sound like shattering porcelain, and it turned into a stream of blue smoke, vanishing in an instant.

Han Li came to his senses with a start, his body trembling slightly, as if he had just woken from a dream.

Maple Forest, hundreds of feet away, raised an eyebrow slightly, a hint of confusion in her eyes. She had only seen Han Li pause briefly as he bent down, and had no idea what had happened.

But when she looked down at the pool again, she was surprised to find that the big-headed child's corpse had disappeared without a trace.

Just then, a 'splash' of water sounded from the pool.

Maple Forest looked over and saw a whirlpool about half a foot wide forming in the pool, swirling the blue liquid and rapidly draining it downward, soon leaving the pool dry.

Han Li, quick-eyed and quick-handed, reached into the liquid and scooped up a mass of blue liquid with a cyan hand that materialized out of thin air.

But he only managed to scoop once; the remaining liquid at the bottom had already drained away completely.

Han Li sighed, flipped his hand to produce a white jade bottle, poured the blue liquid, possibly Time Water, into it, and stored it in his storage bracelet.

He glanced at the bottom of the pool, where thousands of fist-sized blue pebbles were densely embedded, exuding rich spiritual energy. Though not law-based items, they were high-quality water-attribute materials.

'Fellow Daoist Maple, there are still some water-attribute materials in this palace. I think we can just split them without resorting to further conflict, don't you agree?' Han Li said, smiling at the demon clan woman.

'That would be best, naturally.' Maple Forest lowered her gaze slightly, covering her mouth with a smile, and said.

Han Li said no more and began collecting water-attribute materials from the pool and the palace along with the demon clan woman.

After finishing the collection, the two carefully searched the three-story palace again. Finding nothing else, they came together to the outside of the main hall.

'Fellow Daoist Maple, I plan to continue exploring inward along this route. Would you like to join me?' Han Li looked at the mist-covered area behind the palace and asked.

'There's no need to travel together. I intend to return the way I came and check the previous passage again.' Maple Lin naturally understood Han Li's intention and said.

Having witnessed Han Li's two displays of power, she was now very wary of him; how could she dare to walk the same path?

Of course, this was exactly what Han Li wanted, so he went along with it and said:

'In that case, I won't insist. Take care.'

After watching Maple Forest's graceful figure disappear into the passage, Han Li let out a long breath, focused his gaze, and sank his divine sense into his sea of consciousness to examine it carefully.

His sea of consciousness was calm, with only a mass of blue light floating leisurely, showing no fluctuations.

As soon as Han Li's divine sense touched it, the blue light mass burst open with a 'bang,' turning into a blue light screen. Ripples like water waves spread across it, and thousands of golden characters emerged.

Upon inspection, he found that it recorded the nine volumes of the 'Water Evolution Four Seasons Art,' two more layers than what he had obtained from the Cangliu Palace in the Northern Cold Immortal Domain.

At the end of the technique, there was also a record of the big-headed child's cultivation insights, over three thousand characters in length.

After Han Li memorized it all, the characters scattered with a bang, turning into golden powder that dissipated along with the surrounding blue light.

Han Li slowly opened his eyes, a hint of joy flashing through them, but it was fleeting.

Given his current location, it was not suitable to ponder over what he had obtained.

After calming himself, he moved and continued toward the rear of the palace.

Behind the palace was a sparse forest of verdant trees, filled with thin mist that obstructed vision and suppressed divine sense. Han Li had to slow down and advance cautiously.

Fortunately, the journey was uneventful. Apart from occasionally seeing corpses of True Word Sect disciples and a few Celestial Court members in the forest, he encountered no other architectural remains.

After about three hours, the trees in the forest grew sparser, but the mist ahead became thicker.

When Han Li emerged from the forest, he found a massive lotus pond, a thousand feet in diameter, filled with lush green lotus leaves like jade.

Inside the pond, milky white mist churned, and pink and white lotus flowers were scattered around, looking graceful and elegant, with a hint of immortal grandeur.

Unfortunately, Han Li had no time to appreciate such beauty and planned to cross the pond and continue inward.

But as he flew up into the air and glanced down at the lotus pond, he frowned slightly and hovered in midair.

'No wonder the world's spiritual energy is so rich here. Quite interesting...'