Chapter 672: Heaven-Startling Finger

Han Li, while flying swiftly, flipped his hand and took out several storage artifacts, immersing his divine sense into each one.

These storage artifacts were exactly those belonging to the True Word Sect disciples. He was not coveting the treasures inside but rather sought to find some information about the True Word Sect, which would help him avoid risks and also facilitate his subsequent treasure hunting.

Speaking of which, it had not been long since he entered the ruins, yet he had not only obtained the Water Evolution Four Seasons Art and the True Word Wheel Sutra but also two time immortal artifacts—a golden command flag and a blue small shield—and had just added thirteen strands of time law crystal threads and acquired dozens of storage artifacts. His gains had already left him quite satisfied.

Now, he was full of anticipation for what he would encounter next. As for the Reincarnation Hall's mission, he no longer cared. At worst, if the mission failed, he would just hand over tens of thousands of immortal spirit stones.

Han Li quickly examined those storage artifacts and soon finished inspecting all of them. However, to his regret, they only contained some materials, treasures, pills, and the like, but not the information about the True Word Sect that he most desired.

Feeling somewhat disappointed, he put these storage artifacts away. Suddenly, a thought struck him, and he took out the storage artifacts of the Heavenly Court cultivators and examined them as well.

"Eh!"

Han Li let out a soft exclamation. A white light flashed in his hand, and a jade slip appeared.

This was a map jade slip of the True Word Sect, found among the storage artifacts of that Heavenly Court Golden Immortal cultivator.

He had only checked these Heavenly Court cultivators' storage artifacts on the off chance, and unexpectedly, he had found a map. This was an unexpected delight.

Presumably, that Heavenly Court Golden Immortal, intending to thoroughly plunder during the Heavenly Court's invasion, had drawn this map through some unknown means, and today it happened to benefit Han Li.

He halted his flight and landed on a mountain peak. His divine sense delved into the jade slip, carefully examining the map.

This map seemed to have been made in haste, quite crude, only marking the main terrain and areas of the True Word Sect.

According to its description, the True Word Sect's sect grounds were extremely vast, far surpassing the Candle Dragon Sect, and were mainly divided into five regions: Water Evolution, True Word, Flowing Fire, Earth Chen, and Wood Emperor. Each region was enormous, covering an area no smaller than several Candle Dragon Sect territories.

Among the five regions, the True Word Region was at the center, while the other four regions were located in the east, west, south, and north.

"So that's it. The Water Evolution Palace I arrived at earlier should be in the Water Evolution Region, and now I should be in the True Word Region," Han Li murmured to himself after reading this.

He put away the jade slip, shot into the air, and looked around.

The void here also had some white mist, but it was much thinner than in the Water Evolution Region, greatly increasing the field of vision of his Nine Serenity Demon Eyes.

Below was a stretch of mountains with no distinctive terrain, and the map jade slip was too crude for him to determine exactly where in the True Word Region he was.

Han Li paid it no mind and continued flying forward.

Knowing the general distribution of the regions was already quite good, at least he was not blindly charging around everywhere. Moreover, the jade slip marked the locations of some important places in the five major regions. As long as he could roughly determine his bearings, he could follow the map to find some important sect sites of the Truthful Speech Sect.

In the blink of an eye, seven or eight days had passed.

A beam of green light shot over from afar and landed on a mountain peak.

With a flash of green light, Han Li's figure appeared.

During this time, as he searched along the way, he had made some more gains.

Based on his investigations along the route, he became increasingly convinced that he was currently on some fragmentary region of the Truthful Speech Domain. Unfortunately, he still hadn't encountered any places marked on the map and thus couldn't determine exactly where in the Truthful Speech Domain he was.

Han Li now showed a trace of fatigue on his face. He flipped his hand to take out a pill and swallowed it, then sat cross-legged to regulate his breathing for a moment before quickly moving on.

After flying forward for a short while, his expression changed slightly, and he veered to the side.

In the void ahead hung a spatial rift over ten zhang long, emitting faint, eerie light.

Han Li carefully circled around the spatial rift before continuing forward.

Previously, he had been carelessly swallowed by a spatial rift and nearly lost his life, so now he was even more cautious.

Before long, another spatial rift appeared ahead, and waves of spatial fluctuations came from the front.

"Could it be..." Han Li's brows twitched. He flew forward cautiously and soon landed before a cliff.

Here, the continent came to an end.

In front of the cliff stretched a vast, boundless void, filled with countless spatial rifts of all sizes, their eerie light flickering like terrifying gaping mouths that could devour everything.

In the void further away, there was a huge, crystal-clear light screen that connected heaven and earth—exactly the same kind of spatial barrier he had encountered before.

Beyond the spatial barrier, there were countless surging and raging void currents.

Han Li looked at the void ahead but paid no attention to the spatial rifts and barriers before him; instead, he gazed deeper into the void.

Deeper within the void currents, another crystal-clear light screen could be seen—another spatial barrier.

Behind that barrier, there was a dark shadow, seemingly a corner of another continent.

Even across the void currents and spatial barriers, he could still feel faint fluctuations of time law emanating from that continent.

Han Li looked at the rolling void currents ahead, a hesitant expression on his face.

But soon, his expression became resolute. He formed a hand seal and waved.

A flash of gold and blue light passed, and beside him appeared a golden command flag and a small blue shield—the two time immortal artifacts he had obtained earlier.

Over these days, Han Li had been continuously refining them and had already refined the two immortal artifacts to a considerable extent.

He muttered incantations under his breath. The small blue shield's surface blazed with blue light, and waves of blue radiance rose from it, protecting his entire body.

The golden command flag also shone with golden light, expanding several times in size out of thin air.

Countless golden specks burst forth from the flag, rapidly swirling around his body, forming a rumbling golden river of stars that looked extremely spectacular.

Han Li glanced at the two immortal artifacts around him, nodded, and shot forward, flying straight into the void ahead.

The void here was extremely unstable, with spatial cracks suspended everywhere, emitting faint glimmers.

These spatial cracks were not like those in the chaotic void currents that tumbled and drifted, but they were also unstable, trembling incessantly.

He activated his Netherworld Pupils to their fullest extent and carefully flew through the cracks.

Although the spatial cracks ahead were dense, and occasionally some drifted, they posed no difficulty for Han Li.

His figure was like a wisp of smoke, quickly passing through the spatial cracks ahead and reaching the vicinity of the spatial barrier.

"Chop!" He raised his arm, formed a sword seal with his hand, and flicked it out.

A greenish sword light shot from Han Li's fingertip and, in a flash, struck the spatial barrier.

With a loud bang!

The green sword light instantly shattered, turning into a green flying sword that rebounded back.

The spatial barrier merely trembled slightly, then immediately returned to calm.

Seeing this, Han Li was slightly surprised. He flipped his hand to put away the flying sword and suddenly raised a finger to point.

Golden light blazed from his body, and thirty-six golden crystal threads emerged, all converging on his finger.

A blurry golden finger shadow shot from his fingertip, striking toward the spatial barrier.

This finger shadow was condensed from thirty-six time law crystal threads, with strands of time law force interwoven within, striving to imitate that golden finger shadow technique, yet the difference between the two was still immense.

The finger shadow Han Li executed was very blurry, and the operation of the time crystal threads and time law within it was full of flaws, imitating less than ten percent.

Even so, this vague finger shadow still exuded an extremely fierce aura, far surpassing the sword strike from just now.

With a soft "puff" sound, as if a finger had pierced through a sheet of paper, a large hole was punched through the spatial barrier.

"Not bad, let's call it 'Heaven-Shaking Finger.'" A hint of joy appeared on Han Li's face as he lowered his arm.

As his words fell, his form flickered and transformed into a streak of green light that shot out through the large hole, entering the void turbulence.

Rumble!

A massive gray whirlwind swept in from the side, slamming fiercely into Han Li and immediately sending his body tumbling away.

Han Li had prepared in advance and sacrificed two immortal artifacts to protect himself, so he was not seriously harmed.

He let out a soft shout, and the golden river of stars around him suddenly expanded, rumbling and surging, instantly shattering that gray whirlwind.

This golden command flag was a rare immortal artifact that combined offense and defense.

Without any pause after shattering the gray whirlwind, Han Li immediately flew toward another continent in the distance.

The sounds of howling winds and rushing torrents came from all around, as whirlwinds, cold currents, and even torrents of flame surged in from every direction, interspersed with spatial vortices and spatial rifts, overwhelming everything.

The void turbulence here was far more powerful than what he had encountered earlier.

Seeing this, Han Li felt a secret curiosity in his heart.

He had entered the Truthful Word Sect ruins and ventured into the void turbulence three times, and each time the turbulence was stronger than the last.

Though his mind was racing, his actions were decisive as he fully activated the golden river of stars around him to block the waves of void turbulence and pressed forward with all his might.

The void turbulence itself was manageable—the golden star sea could withstand it—but the spatial rifts within the turbulence were extremely powerful, containing immense spatial force. Like spatial blades, they cut into the golden river of stars, and even the golden star sea found it difficult to shatter them. Han Li could only barely deflect them with his spells, making his progress extremely slow.

Fortunately, the distance between the two continents was not great, and he pushed forward with effort, soon covering most of the journey.

At that moment, a rumbling sound came, like the roar of a dragon.

Han Li turned to look, and his expression immediately changed.

A massive white storm spanning a hundred li easily tore through the surrounding void turbulence, howling as it rushed forward—another spatial storm.

This spatial storm was even more formidable than the one he had encountered when first entering the void turbulence. The storm was filled with countless white blades of light, each brimming with狂暴 spatial force, shredding everything in its path.

The spatial storm moved with incredible speed, arriving in an instant and sweeping him up within it.