Chapter 771: Imminent

Han Li, seeing that the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords were smoothly devouring the law power of the lightning pool without incident, felt relieved and closed his eyes to sense his internal condition.

The advancement of the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords to immortal artifacts was certainly a joyous event, but his most important task now was to quickly imbue his own body with the aura of the lightning pool.

With this thought, he closed his eyes again, and various colored strange glows emanated from his body, coalescing into true spirit projections of true dragons, azure luan, five-colored peacocks, mountain giant apes, and others.

These true spirit projections now appeared much clearer than before, almost solid, each exuding a powerful true spirit bloodline aura.

Han Li's body kept swelling and deforming, but his physical strength had greatly increased, and the influence of the true spirit bloodline power on him was far less severe than before.

Besides these true spirit projections, streaks of golden lightning also emerged on his body surface, gradually brightening.

Soon, these golden electric arcs reached a limit, connecting and merging with each other, forming a layer of golden lightning halo that flickered incessantly, like a golden radiant robe.

The next moment, Han Li's eyes suddenly opened, and his form transformed into a golden shadow shooting into the sky.

However, the golden lightning in the pool around him, like the previous three pools, immediately pursued him, condensing into a huge golden electric net that entangled his body.

This golden net was extremely dense, with countless lightning law runes attached, making it very tough. His body had only flown a few zhang before being held back, unable to advance further.

Han Li frowned, golden light flickering on his body as he was about to take action.

At that moment, the lightning pool below suddenly surged, and after a rumbling thunderous roar, massive azure sword qi shot out, forming a forest of swords.

Each strand of sword qi was entwined with threads of golden electric arcs, and countless lightning runes danced around, cutting indiscriminately in all directions, easily slicing space cracks wherever they passed.

The golden net above the lightning pool bore the brunt; struck by the sword qi, it was instantly shredded like paper and exploded into pieces.

Although Han Li was also swept up by these sword qi, they automatically veered around his body as if sentient, not harming him in the slightest.

Hu San, standing near the golden lightning pool, changed expression and immediately shot backward, retreating a hundred zhang in a single flicker.

Drip!

Drops of blood fell from Hu San's arm, where a rather deep wound had appeared, blood gushing out.

Although he had retreated quickly, the sword qi burst out too suddenly, and he was still injured.

"Hmph!" Hu San snorted lightly. Green light dots appeared on the wound on his arm, and with a flicker, the wound quickly healed and disappeared.

He looked at the sword qi in the golden lightning pool, a trace of fear in his eyes.

This sword qi was so sharp it could probably poke a hole in the sky. Fortunately, he had stood far away and retreated quickly; otherwise, he would have been caught up in it, with unimaginable consequences.

Liu Qi Ancestor also nodded slightly at the sight of the endless sword qi.

Just then, Han Li's figure flew out from the sword qi, landed beside the lightning pool, and took out a pill to swallow.

Green light also appeared on the wounds on his body, enveloping his form, and the wounds quickly healed, recovering within a few breaths.

The endless sword qi in the lightning pool also rapidly converged, vanishing without a trace, and the torn space nearby quickly mended, returning to normal.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

One after another, flying swords flew out from the lightning pool—the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords.

The Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords now looked almost completely transformed; the entire sword body was a vivid green, almost transparent.

On the jade-green sword body, streaks of golden lightning patterns appeared, and around the sword body, finger-thick crystalline golden electric arcs coiled, flickering and crackling, with tiny golden runes swirling around, a sight to behold.

In a flash, all seventy-two flying swords shot out from the lightning pool, each emitting powerful sword qi fluctuations, several times stronger than before, no less than the few graded immortal artifacts on Han Li.

The Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords transformed into seventy-two golden lightning shadows, swiftly circling Han Li's body a few times before plunging back into his dantian, lying quietly within.

Feeling the surging power contained in the seventy-two Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords in his dantian, Han Li couldn't help but curl his lips slightly, unable to hide his joy.

"Fellow Daoist Li, congratulations! But have you successfully imbued yourself with the aura of the golden lightning pool?" Hu San flew over, first offering congratulations, then immediately asked.

Being a man of extensive experience, he quickly guessed what had happened to the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords.

"Brother Hu, rest assured. If I hadn't succeeded in imbuing the lightning pool's aura, I wouldn't have come out," Han Li said with a smile.

As he spoke, the layer of golden lightning halo appeared on his body surface.

Seeing this, Liu Qi Ancestor couldn't help but show a trace of joy, even mixed with some excitement.

"Master!" Ti Hun, who had been sitting cross-legged nearby, stood up upon hearing Han Li's voice and walked over.

Her pale complexion had recovered somewhat, and her aura had mostly restored, having recovered so quickly through some unknown secret technique.

Han Li nodded at Ti Hun and was about to speak.

At that moment, a clear whistle came from the silver lightning pool, and Shi Chuankong's figure shot out.

Han Li looked over and his expression changed slightly.

Shi Chuankong now looked battered, his body almost stripped of a layer of flesh, ribs exposed on his lower abdomen, the flesh on both arms almost completely gone, revealing two white bone arms, making him seem to have shrunk a whole circle.

Though he looked miserable, a layer of white jade crystalline light now appeared on his body, clearly having passed the baleful tribulation.

At that moment, streaks of silver electric arcs from the lightning pool shot over, instantly entangling Shi Chuankong's body.

His expression darkened, and he formed hand seals with both hands, waving them. A dazzling silver light appeared at his waist—the silver pipa.

Shi Chuankong plucked the strings, and with a "buzz," circles of silver sound waves surged out.

The silver electric arcs entangled around him, upon contact with the sound waves, instantly dissipated and vanished amidst rumbling.

He seized the opportunity to fly out, his form flickering as he landed on the shore of the lightning pool, gasping heavily, almost unable to stand. He quickly took out several pills and swallowed them.

Though severely injured, Shi Chuankong's face was full of joy.

Regardless, he had finally passed the baleful tribulation, crossing this hurdle.

His body glowed with black, red, green, and other colors, and new flesh rapidly grew on the wounds, his body soon largely recovered.

"Brother Shi, congratulations on passing the baleful tribulation. Your journey has not been in vain," Hu San said with a cupped fist smile.

"Thanks for your kind words. It was sheer luck," Shi Chuankong laughed heartily.

"Save these words for after we completely escape! Now quickly cut the golden chains. I sense someone rapidly approaching this place. Hurry!" Liu Qi Ancestor's voice suddenly came, extremely stern.

Everyone's expression changed, and they dared not delay any longer, immediately setting to work.

A dark red light flashed in Han Li's hand, and the Heavenly Fox Blood-Transforming Blade appeared.

He took a deep breath, gripped the Blood-Transforming Blade tightly with both hands, golden light blazing on his body, and his immortal spiritual power surged out, pouring into the long blade.

Hu San and the others flickered and instantly appeared behind Han Li, raising their hands to push in the air, their immortal spiritual power gushing out and pouring into Han Li's body.

A golden lightning flashed beside Han Li, and the Crab Daoist's figure emerged.

The Crab Daoist had replaced all his immortal essence stones with new ones, his aura restored to its original state. He also raised his hand, sending two beams of golden light into Han Li's body.

"Buzz..."

The Heavenly Fox Blood-Transforming Blade blazed with light, even more brilliant than the previous three times, like a blood-red sun.

The blade hummed and trembled violently, and countless blood-red blade shadows emerged, tens of millions of them, filling half the great hall.

The fox head on the Heavenly Fox Blood-Transforming Blade lit up, and a huge blood-red fox shadow suddenly appeared, its eyes showing a human-like quality.

Han Li was startled; the light in the fox shadow's eyes was very familiar to him—it was Shi Qinghou.

As soon as the blood-red fox shadow appeared, it made a pouncing motion downward and merged into the blade.

Countless blood-red blade shadows nearby seemed to converge, merging into the blade.

The Heavenly Fox Blood-Transforming Blade suddenly enlarged several times and drastically changed shape, becoming a giant crescent-shaped curved blade.

On the blade, dozens of blood-red eyes flickered into existence, covering the entire blade, looking extremely eerie.

Han Li and the others, seeing this, all changed expression.

"Roar!"

The Heavenly Fox Blood-Transforming Blade trembled, emitting a beast-like roar, and then a viscous, blood-like light burst from the blade.

Han Li, holding the Heavenly Fox Blood-Transforming Blade, bore the brunt, feeling an abyssal sea of baleful qi suddenly transmitted.

His ears rang, his internal organs nearly turned over, his whole body felt weak and limp, and his hand gripping the blade almost let go.

Hu San and the others also showed pained expressions, but they were affected much less than Han Li.

Han Li gritted his teeth fiercely, his divine sense in his mind operating frantically, barely stabilizing his mind. He gripped the hilt tightly and was about to swing down.

But at that moment, the Heavenly Fox Blood-Transforming Blade shot out from his hand on its own, turning into a blood shadow and slashing heavily at the golden chains.

The golden chains vibrated violently, and the runes inscribed on them blazed with golden light, like a sun exploding!

"Boom!"

The entire golden lightning pool seemed to boil over, lightning wildly churning, stirring up hundreds of zhang high golden radiant light, as if stimulated, about to sweep in all directions, but restrained by some prohibition from fully leaving the pool.

Large swaths of golden lightning radiance intertwined and coiled in midair, countless fine golden arcs bouncing and weaving, a terrifying sight.

The Heavenly Fox Blood-Transforming Blade cut into the golden chains with difficulty, but only halfway before stopping, unable to advance further.

A surging blast wave erupted from the intersection of the Heavenly Fox Blood-Transforming Blade and the golden chains, instantly forming blinding white hurricanes shooting into the sky.

Han Li and the others were all swept away by the hurricanes, crashing heavily into a wall.

At that moment, a sudden change occurred!

With a "boom," the entire great hall seemed to suffer a heavy blow, shaking violently, and Han Li and the others felt unsteady on their feet.