Chapter 79: Shattering the Void

Deep night.

Above the pitch-black sky, the stars appeared unusually dim, leaving only the ring-shaped Big Dipper, like a silver-purple sun, radiating strange and brilliant light.

The silver-purple beam of light, over a hundred zhang thick, suddenly retracted and vanished.

A thunderous roar was heard!

The spherical light screen enveloping the entire mountain peak exploded with a bang, countless silver lights flying like fireflies, filling half the night sky.

From afar, it seemed as if the Milky Way had fallen to the mortal world.

Yet this beautiful scene did not last long. The silver lights, as if summoned, suddenly contracted, rapidly converging toward the snow peak and vanishing into a youth whose body radiated silver light.

This person was none other than Han Li.

Wave after wave of surging silver light rushed in, but Han Li remained in a hand-seal posture, eyes tightly shut, motionless.

After an unknown time, his eyelashes trembled, and his eyes suddenly opened, blue light flickering in his pupils, clear and pure, reflecting thousands of stars.

The next moment, he let out a soft cry, and a mist-like silver light sprayed from his mouth, flickered for a moment, then gradually faded into the air and disappeared.

On his chest and abdomen, seven blue light points shone brightly, gleaming.

The seventh profound aperture had finally condensed!

The silver light lingering around his body also gradually faded, but a translucent film formed on his skin, with faint traces of pale silver light flowing continuously.

"This is the True Extremity Membrane, the symbol of the True Extremity Body! Once the Big Dipper Star Origin Art is perfected, this body is immediately achieved!"

Han Li was overjoyed. He raised his arm and examined the light membrane covering his body, finding that it required no mana to maintain, felt slightly cool to the touch, and gave no foreign sensation, as if it were part of his own body.

With a thought, the light membrane immediately contracted, adhering to his skin. After a flash of starlight, it merged into his body and disappeared.

When he willed it again, the membrane instantly emerged from his body.

After testing several times, Han Li was delighted. While mastering the free retraction of the True Extremity Membrane, he also discovered that his spiritual sense had fully recovered.

Now, in terms of spiritual sense alone, ordinary True Immortals were far inferior to him.

This was undoubtedly excellent news for Han Li, who was about to return to the Immortal Realm.

At this point, the disturbances within a thousand li gradually subsided, and even the erupting volcano gradually calmed.

Only the great fire spreading through the forest would not be extinguished for a while.

Hundreds of li away, the group of scattered cultivators hovering in the air looked up into the distance, somewhat at a loss.

The white-robed youth, his back soaked with sweat, murmured in confusion: "Is this... over?"

"Perhaps..." the gaunt old man said hesitantly, uncertain.

But on the snow peak, Han Li showed no joy; instead, his gaze was calm, his expression somewhat solemn.

Only he knew that the true test had just begun!

Just now, the moment he achieved the True Extremity Body, the repulsive force from the plane had appeared out of nowhere and pressed down on him like a shadow.

Now, he felt the surrounding air flow instantly become sluggish, as if he were trapped in mud, even breathing became difficult.

This repulsive force was not unfamiliar to him; he had briefly felt it during his ascension from the Spirit Realm, but at that time he was busy dealing with the lightning tribulation and hadn't paid much attention.

He took a deep breath, formed hand seals, and began to chant incantations softly.

With a buzzing sound,

dozens of lights lit up simultaneously from the surroundings. Streams of rich spiritual power flowed from the spirit stones atop the stone pillars, following the grooves into the formation.

The runes engraved on the ground and the surrounding stone pillars immediately lit up, quickly forming an exquisite and extremely complex silver light pattern array.

This array was called the "Realm-Space Spirit Pattern Array," a spatial formation he had found in an ancient formation book in the Sutra Library of Jingyuan Temple.

Although it could not achieve the level of shattering the void, it could clear some spatial barriers, which was a great help to him now.

With a loud bang!

Dozens of silver light pillars shot up from the snow peak, piercing straight into the high-altitude dark clouds.

The moment the light pillars entered, the thick dark clouds instantly transformed into a huge spiral, rapidly rotating around the pillars, driving the surrounding wind and snow to churn wildly.

Thick bolts of lightning, like dark blue flood dragons, tumbled and twisted around the light pillars, emitting a series of rumbling, muffled sounds.

The scattered cultivators who had been watching from afar were startled, fearing some new anomaly, and took the initiative to retreat, this time flying a thousand li away before stopping in shock.

At this moment, Han Li, standing in the formation, rose to his feet and waved his wrist. Dozens of black lights flew out from his sleeve—nearly a hundred Star Moon Treasure Mirrors—shooting toward the surrounding light pillars.

To refine these Star Moon Treasure Mirrors with spatial power, he had not only exhausted the Yin Chen Stones stored in the Heavenly Ghost Sect but also used up all the Yin Chen Stones obtained from Tong Ren'e's storage pouch.

These Star Moon Treasure Mirrors, upon entering the light pillars, shot straight up along the light and vanished into the dark clouds.

Han Li manipulated his hand seals and chanted silently for a while. Suddenly, a blue light flashed in his eyes, and he shouted, "Explode!"

"Rumble..."

Dozens of earth-shattering explosions rang out in succession. Countless silver stars burst open at the zenith, forming a silver light curtain that propped up a silver region within the dark cloud vortex.

At this moment, Han Li's body glowed, and he leaped up, charging straight into that region.

Inside the vortex was a chaotic expanse, filled with gray mist. Hundreds of gray-white spatial rifts of varying lengths were scattered around the silver region, appearing extremely unstable.

Han Li's gaze swept over, and he saw that from time to time, thin gray-white light blades would fly out of those rifts.

The surrounding dark clouds, upon contact, were instantly sliced to pieces. Even a nearby bolt of lightning, in the moment it flashed, was cut by a light blade, splitting into two and dissipating.

As the gray light blades continued to flash, the silver region propped up by countless stars was also eroded, shrinking visibly.

Seeing the large area of silver light being swallowed again by the dark clouds, Han Li did not hesitate. He let out a low roar, and golden light burst from his body, his form rapidly expanding into a golden ape dozens of zhang tall.

After taking a deep breath, a blood mark split open between the brows of the ape, and a mass of black gas surged out, revealing a pitch-black eye.

In the depths of the eye's pupil, black light flashed, and a thin black ray shot out.

The black line, upon being emitted, trembled violently and then transformed into a thick black pillar as wide as a bowl, vanishing into the void in a flash.

But the next moment, a rumble came from deep within the dark cloud vortex.

Then, the entire sky suddenly fell silent, as if the whole space had frozen. Even the rotating dark clouds and swirling wind and snow all stopped instantly.

Deep in the vortex, a gray-white light wall, irregular in shape and about ten zhang in size, appeared faintly in the dark clouds.

Blue light flashed in the giant ape's eyes. It raised its arms, and two brilliant silver lights lit up on its mountain-like fists. A pair of ferocious gauntlets covered with white bone spikes suddenly appeared, wrapping around its fists.

With a sky-shaking roar, the giant ape gathered its full mana, and golden light emerged from its body, flowing along its arms into the silver gauntlets.

The gauntlets immediately shone with intense silver light, expanding to twice their size, somewhat incongruously.

At the same time, the seven blue light points on Han Li's chest and abdomen blazed brightly. His muscles bulged further, and his arms thickened by a full circle.

He then threw a punch at the gray-white light wall.

A mass of silver light burst from his fist, rapidly expanding in midair into a house-sized phantom of a silver flood dragon's head, charging straight into the depths of the vortex.

With a thunderous roar!

The entire sky shook violently. From the gray-white light wall deep in the vortex came sounds like a mirror shattering, as cracks like a spiderweb spread across almost the entire wall.

Yet, despite this, the gray-white light wall did not break. Instead, the silver region that had been propped up earlier shattered in the violent tremor.

The previously stilled dark clouds began to churn wildly again, and countless gray-white rifts gradually expanded, converging toward the giant ape.

Seeing this, the giant ape immediately strode through the void, appearing before the gray-white light wall in a few ghostly flashes.

He once again raised his full mana. Light flowed along his arms, golden scales emerged beneath the golden fur, muscles swelled to twice their size, the seven profound apertures on his chest shone brightly, and the Sky-Breaking Gauntlets on his hands blazed with brilliant light.

A gradually solidifying silver dragon head phantom appeared on them, emitting low roars like a flood dragon.

"Break for me!"

The golden ape spoke in human tongue, its voice like thunder, and punched toward the gray-white light wall.

With a loud bang,

the white bone spikes on the silver gauntlet on the giant ape's right hand shattered inch by inch, and the dragon head phantom and the gauntlet exploded simultaneously.

A silver sun suddenly lit up in the depths of the sky, radiating dazzling light that was impossible to look at directly, almost swallowing the entire gray-white light wall.

Then came a crisp sound like porcelain breaking!

The gray-white light wall in front cracked with a sound, breaking open a hole about a zhang high, revealing a gray space behind it.

At the same time, an extremely intense spatial fluctuation, which Han Li had never felt before, came from the opening.

His eyes flickered slightly, and golden light flashed around him as he transformed back into human form. In a flash, he vanished into the opening.

The moment he entered, a dozen spatial rifts and the dark clouds swallowed the gray light wall behind him.

After a few more breaths, the silver-white light pillars on the snow peak faded and gradually dimmed. The vortex formed in the high sky also gradually dissipated, and the spatial rifts mixed within slowly healed.

The wind and snow swept down again. On the peak, aside from the howling wind, everything returned to silence.