Chapter 819: The Thought Blade Shows Its Power

Seeing this, the Crab Immortal said faintly, 'Leave it to me,' and with a stretch of his arms, two ancient war blades wreathed in lightning materialized in his hands.

Then, with a flash of electric light on his body, he vanished in a thunderclap.

The next moment, with a muffled thunderclap, the Crab Immortal flashed into the void before the four-armed giant skeleton.

Two brilliant arcs of lightning lit up beside him, like wings of thunder, as he dove straight toward the headless four-armed giant skeleton.

A series of earth-shattering roars rang out continuously!

Under the siege of the Crab Immortal and the endless stream of Dao soldiers, massive purple-gold thunderballs first coalesced, then burst apart one after another, forming a vast lightning net that enveloped the entire headless four-armed giant skeleton.

Just then, another powerful aura surged from the Infernal Pit below—another enormous white giant skeleton slowly crawled out of the magma, its size even surpassing the previous one.

Knowing that the longer they delayed, the more disadvantageous it would be, Han Li waved his hand, and eighteen Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords shot out, heading straight for one of the bone pyramids.

With a whistling sound, the eighteen swords spun in midair, releasing a storm of sword qi that transformed into thousands of hazy green sword shadows, forming a torrent of sword shadows brimming with sword energy.

Though Han Li controlled the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords with hand seals, his divine sense was fully extended, searching for the true body of Illusion Bone True Man. However, trapped within another's domain, he was inherently suppressed, and even with his powerful divine sense, he could not accurately track its whereabouts.

The torrent of sword shadows surged forward, soon reaching the bone pyramid.

All the snow-white skulls on the bone pyramid had eerie green ghost fires flickering in their eye sockets, which suddenly swelled several times. From their skeletal mouths, streams of green smoke spewed forth, surging toward the torrent of sword shadows.

As the thousands of sword shadows plunged into the smoke, they were immediately entangled by the almost tangible green smoke, and green rust rapidly formed on their surfaces, corroding them at an alarming rate.

In just an instant, nearly a thousand sword shadows were corroded and dissipated.

Sensing the strangeness of the green smoke, Han Li suddenly changed his hand seal and roared, 'Explode!'

A violent crackling of electric light erupted!

A dazzling golden electric light exploded from within the green smoke, sending countless golden electric threads shooting out, tearing the entire green smoke screen apart into shreds.

The green smoke, inherently yin and baleful, had no resistance against the lightning that combined Evil-Repelling Divine Lightning and Bone-Washing Golden Lightning, and was utterly shattered, revealing the bone pyramid behind.

'Kid, you do have some tricks. What a pity...' A voice suddenly sounded very close to Han Li, carrying a hint of approval.

Han Li frowned, seemingly unable to divert his attention, and focused on driving the remaining sword shadows toward the bone pyramid.

But at that moment, the bone pyramid shone brightly, and all the white skulls flew up, scattering in all directions, actively clearing the space ahead.

Han Li's Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords all struck empty air, and by the time he thought to release lightning to chase the skulls on a large scale, it was already too late.

What was more troublesome was that the scattered white skulls circled around from all directions, charging straight at Han Li and Shi Chuankong. Even under the influence of Han Li's domain, their speed remained extremely fast.

Seeing this, Shi Chuankong was about to halt his long-prepared escape technique and use spatial powers to block the skulls, when he heard Han Li's urgent voice transmission:

'The gap has been opened. Don't stop! Leave these things to me!'

Shi Chuankong's heart steadied, and without another word, he continued to activate the secret technique.

Han Li, meanwhile, withdrew his sword seals and silently activated the True Word Wheel Incantation, causing a dazzling golden light to shine behind him.

But then, a sudden change occurred!

Before the True Word Wheel could fully manifest, Han Li's body suddenly stiffened, and the flow of his immortal spiritual power ceased.

His heart tightened, and he found that all his bones seemed to have lost control of his body. His arms lifted upward and spread to the sides, as if nailed to a cross, completely immobile.

Not far from him, Shi Chuankong's secret technique was also forcibly interrupted, blood still trickling from the corner of his mouth, likewise frozen in place.

Only the Crab Immortal and the Thunder Armor Dao soldiers remained unaffected, still able to move freely.

Seeing the change in Han Li's situation, the Crab Immortal gripped the two war blades 'Slash Thunder' and 'Sever Sky' tightly, crossed them before him, and with a flash of lightning on both blades, they clashed and suddenly exploded.

"Boom!" A thunderous explosion rang out.

A violent flash of lightning suddenly burst forth, scattering the thousand-odd white bones around. Two dazzling bolts of lightning intertwined, transforming into a spiral pillar of light that shot straight toward Han Li in the high sky.

But before it had flown a hundred zhang, a figure emerged from the mist above, waving his sleeve. A powerful fluctuation swept across and struck the spiral pillar of light.

Another burst of violent lightning exploded in the dim sky, scattering countless tiny sparks. The Crab Immortal's figure tumbled out from within and fell downward.

As soon as he neared the sea, two enormous headless white bones closed in from left and right, brandishing their bone weapons and engaging him in battle.

The figure above was clad in a dark green Daoist robe, thin and gaunt in appearance—it was none other than Bone-Reflecting True Man.

He glanced at the Crab Immortal below, let out a disdainful snort, and then turned his gaze to Han Li.

Among those on the sea, only Han Li's cultivation, temperament, and mastery of laws earned his respect.

"How does it feel to have your bones restrained? Don't worry too much—I'll soon make you both members of my white bone fortress." Bone-Reflecting True Man sneered from a distance of several dozen zhang.

With that, he waved his hand, and the white bone skulls suspended in the sky immediately shot over one after another, their skeletal mouths wide open, biting at Han Li and his companion.

Wherever the bones passed, blood spurted. The skin on Han Li and Shi Chuankong's bodies split open, flesh turned outward, revealing shocking wounds of mangled flesh and blood that made one's scalp tingle.

The pain of flesh being torn apart inch by inch was vividly displayed on Han Li and Shi Chuankong, yet they could only watch helplessly, unable to struggle or resist.

Shi Chuankong possessed a true demonic body, and Han Li had a mystic immortal physique; both had formidable physical strength. Each time the white bone skulls tore off a piece, they absorbed a strand of powerful flesh-and-blood energy, making the ghostly flames in their eye sockets burn even brighter.

Seeing this, Bone-Reflecting True Man's smile grew more pronounced. Originally intending to kill them with lightning speed, he now wished to slowly torture Han Li and Shi Chuankong to death, maximizing the use of their physical power.

"Ugh..." Shi Chuankong clenched his teeth, but a low growl still escaped from deep in his throat.

If it were mere skin-deep pain, he wouldn't even furrow his brow. But each bite from these white bone skulls sent a wisp of green smoke seeping into his body through the wounds, merging into his bones.

The strong corrosive power of that green smoke was the true cause of the pain that penetrated to his marrow.

On the other side, Han Li was suffering the same agony. The bones deep within his wounds were crystal clear, like jade, still glowing faintly despite the invasion of the green smoke.

This was a physical transformation after he became a Taiyi Jade Immortal, granting him resistance to the green smoke's corrosion several times greater than Shi Chuankong's.

"I almost forgot—you're still a Taiyi Jade Immortal..." Bone-Reflecting True Man sneered.

With that, he hesitated briefly, then his figure flickered and vanished from where he stood.

The next instant, he appeared before Han Li, raising a hand and pointing his fingers straight at Han Li's brow.

Han Li's bones were all restrained, leaving him completely immobile.

But his eyes, fixed on Bone-Reflecting True Man, remained calm, with a cold gleam flickering in his pupils.

Just as Bone-Reflecting True Man's fingers were about to touch his brow, a cold light flashed in Han Li's eyes. The fifth layer of the Spirit Refining Art surged into motion, concentrating nearly all his divine sense power into one point.

"Pfft."

A faint sound seemed to ring out, yet it might have been utterly silent.

A translucent crystal sword, no more than an inch long, shot out from Han Li's brow. Vague runes flickered on its surface, and in an instant, it plunged into Bone-Reflecting True Man's outstretched fingertip.

The moment Bone-Reflecting True Man saw the crystal sword, he sensed something was wrong, but it was too late to withdraw. He could only channel his immortal spiritual power to resist the divine sense sword light.

However, the moment the divine sense sword entered his fingertip, it suddenly appeared within his sea of consciousness.

The external divine sense sword was only an inch long, but once inside Bone-Reflecting True Man's sea of consciousness, it transformed into a colossal blade, slashing down from above.

Strange runes inscribed on the divine sense sword flickered with uncertain light. The blade emanated waves of powerful divine sense fluctuations, turning into mighty gusts of air pressure that bore down from above.

Within Bone-Reflecting True Man's sea of consciousness, winds howled and waves surged. Dark cracks spread everywhere, as if the very space were about to be torn apart by this force.

In his sea of consciousness, a small figure in a Daoist robe, the manifestation of his soul, showed a pained expression and a look of terror. He had never imagined that a mere early-Taiyi Jade Immortal could possess such formidable divine sense abilities, but by now, regret was useless.