A Record of a Mortal s Journey to Immortality

Chapter 1141: Volume 7 Across the Human World Chapter 1137 Qing Yu
 

Han Li hovered in the distance with no immediate intention of returning to his original spot. Instead, after a moment of hesitation, he slowly closed his eyes and released a powerful surge of his psychic power, enshrouding a hundred-mile radius around him.

In the sky, there were no unusual phenomena to be observed. The strangely large bird had indeed disappeared without a trace.

Without any further hesitation, Han Li sent a beam of his psychic power straight down to the seabed, probing the depths below.

After a while, Han Li suddenly opened his eyes, revealing a hint of surprise and doubt on his face.

After pondering for a short moment, he suddenly slapped his storage pouch with one hand. Amid the flickering of silver light, a pale-blue human shadow appeared in front of him—it was the Humanoid Puppet.

“Go,”

Han Li coldly commanded as he flicked his robe sleeves towards the horizon.

The Humanoid Puppet sprang into action, transforming into a large silver rainbow that shot towards the distant ocean surface. With its escape speed so swift, it disappeared several miles away in just a few flashes.

A short while later, the silver rainbow reached the spot where the ghostly mist had previously appeared and, without the slightest hesitation, plummeted downwards. In a flare of light, it vanished below the surface, diving deep into the ocean’s depths.

At this time, Han Li was sitting cross-legged in mid-air, linking his mental faculties with the Humanoid Puppet’s split consciousness. It was as if he was personally operating the puppet as a part of himself.

The sea bottom in this vicinity was much deeper than the average area. The Humanoid Puppet quickly descended four or five thousand fathoms before reaching the seabed.

But the place was empty, showing no signs of any demon beast’s presence. The surroundings were oddly clean; not only was there an absence of corals or seaweed, but at a glance, the seabed was unusually flat without any undulations of the terrain.

After circling the area, the Humanoid Puppet suddenly shot towards a certain direction with the speed of light.

Moments later, it spotted a floating blue light orb drifting ahead within several miles’ distance.

The orb moved up and down as it flew, as if it were full of vitality.

The Humanoid Puppet’s eyes suddenly emitted a burst of purple light, and its speed doubled, reaching the light orb in a few flashes and closing to within ten-odd yards behind it.

Now it was clear that within the light orb was an intermittently dimming and brightening feather, about a zhang in length. It shimmered with a faint spiritual light as if it were a living thing.

The silver light around the Humanoid Puppet flared, and it appeared directly above the feather without a moment’s delay, and it reached down to seize the item.

However, an unexpected event occurred!

The very moment the Humanoid Puppet’s silver-glinting fingertips touched the blue light, the blue feather suddenly burst into intense brightness. It blurred and then seemingly vanished into thin air as if it had entered the void.

The puppet grabbed at nothing but air!

The Humanoid Puppet’s figure stiffened for a moment, as if even it was surprised.

But in the next instance, about thirty-odd yards away, the blue light flashed, and the spiritual object leisurely re-emerged as if it wasn’t the one that had shifted instantaneously just moments before.

This time, the puppet watched the blue feather intently without acting rashly, while the spiritual object once again started to drift further away.

However, the puppet’s observation didn’t last long, and when the orb had drifted over a hundred yards away, it moved again.

Amidst a surge of silver brightness, the puppet became a silvery arc above the feather. This time, instead of using its hand to seize directly, it waved an empty hand downwards.

A silvery radiant hand emerged and reached down to grab.

The same scene played out. With a tremor of blue light, the feather once again disappeared in a flash.

But this time, as it reappeared somewhere nearby, thunderous rumblings sounded above. A golden net of electricity descended from the heavens, swiftly ensnaring the spiritual object within it.

The feather’s spiritual light flickered madly, attempting to shift instantaneously several times, but each time it vanished, it would inevitably crash against the golden net above, and be unceremoniously bounced back by the golden light, effectively restraining its teleporting capabilities.

At that moment, above the golden electric net, a figure appeared out of nowhere—it was none other than Han Li himself, who had also made his way to the ocean’s depths.

Han Li fixed his eyes on the blue feather within the net, uttering a few sounds of surprise and admiration.

This object truly seemed extraordinary!

Not only was it exquisitely green and surrounded by a haze of blue light, but upon closer inspection, its surface patterns were formed by various mysterious and obscure runes, densely packed and intermittently visible.

However, at the tip of the feather was a small charred section, and at the base, several strands of blood stains were emitting faint glints of gold.

Seeing the appearance of the blue feather, Han Li instantly recognized its rarity. With a joyful expression, he slapped his storage pouch and several Daoist paper talismans appeared in his palm.

With a flick of his wrist, a Daoist paper talisman shot towards the net. But in a flash of blue light, the feather seemed to let the talisman pass right through it like a phantom.

Han Li was taken aback, but his surprise quickly turned into delight.

The exceptional spirituality of this object only emphasized its rarity.

Immediately, he formed hand seals and chanted under his breath.

The golden net rapidly shrank under the spell incantation until it was only about three meters in diameter, leaving the green-feathered bird with nowhere to hide.

Then, he opened his mouth and sprayed a mouthful of blood essence onto the Daoist paper talisman in his hand, while continuously casting a series of incantations that all disappeared into the talisman in a flash.

After firing those talismans again, the green-feathered bird, despite struggling violently, had the talismans solidly affixed onto it.

The green light dimmed, and the feathers immediately became drab and unadorned.

Only then did Han Li reassure himself and withdraw the Devilbane Lightning, reaching out with one hand to draw the suspended green-feathered bird into his grasp.

After carefully examining it for a moment, his eyebrows suddenly twitched, and he lightly tapped the bird with a finger.

An incredible scene happened!

Under the flickering weak Spiritual Power, the green-feathered bird rapidly shrank, turning into a size of about one foot in just a short moment.

The talismans stuck on its surface also shrank and changed accordingly, which was quite magical.

Han Li’s expression wavered, and holding the base of the object in his hand, he gently shook it a few times.

Suddenly, the surface of the feathers flashed with intense green light, and a powerful and extraordinary gust of Wind Spirit Power emanated.

This purity of Spirit Power made Han Li unable to hide his joy!

Now was not the time to consider the use of this Spiritual Object. After placing the object into a jade box and into his storage pouch, Han Li had the Humanoid Puppet search around once more,

But this time there was no harvest at all.

However, Han Li was already satisfied. He no longer lingered in this sea area, recalled the Humanoid Puppet, and turned into a streak of light flying away from this place.

On the way to Azure Spirit Island, Han Li began to ponder carefully about the huge green bird and the ghostly mist.

Clearly, the great battle he had witnessed was far beyond the involvement of human world cultivators. That huge green bird must be a formidable demon from the spirit realm or another dimension, while the ghostly mist was actually alive, and it seemed to be even more potent than the huge green bird.

This greatly surprised Han Li at that time!

In the human world, only the legendary demonic creatures are said to possess such inconceivable Divine Skills.

When he was trapped in the Umbra Realm in the past, some had suspected that the ghostly mist and the Umbra Realm were related to the demonic creature Rahu. After all, only such half-spirit half-demon beings possess the heaven-defying technique of easily tearing through space and drifting between realms.

The unbelievably large green bird also seemed to have similar heaven-defying techniques; otherwise, it couldn’t have attacked the ghostly mist with such force, through the Interfacial Power.

With Han Li’s experience and the many ancient texts he had read before, he could more or less guess the truth of the matter.

However, no matter how much he had guessed correctly, beings like Rahu were naturally not something he could influence. It could only be regarded as a peculiar experience.

Two months later, while Han Li was flying over the sea, his expression suddenly shifted, and after a slight change of direction, he shot toward a certain place.

He had only flown a few miles when bursts of explosive sounds came from up ahead.

In the distance, Spiritual Power flickered continuously, with three Sect Masters desperately fending off the pursuit of a high grade demon beast. One of them was in the early Core Formation stage, while the other two were at the Foundation Establishment stage; the demon beast, however, was a grade six demon beast. Even with the trio teaming up, they could only barely protect themselves.

Han Li’s streak of light concealed his presence as he carefully observed the battlefield.

The three Core Formation cultivators consisted of a middle-aged man wearing a conical bamboo hat that obscured most of his face, his skin appearing dark as he commanded a yellowish flying sword with remarkable skill, almost single-handedly withstanding most of the demon beast’s attacks. The other two at the Foundation Establishment stage were an old man with snowy-white hair and a young girl around seventeen or eighteen, each wielding a flying pitchfork and a Reddish Hot Wheel, which also appeared quite powerful.

The demon beast on the opposite side was shrouded in white mist, emitting the whines of a baby, while shooting out clusters of blue lightning from the mist. It was indeed the first high grade demon beast, the “Infant Carp Beast,” that he had encountered in the Scattered Stars Sea.

However, this beast had grown a whole size larger than the one he had seen before, and its four tender white arms wielded four extraordinary artifacts.

A blade, a sword, a drum, and a flag.

Of these four artifacts, the blade, sword, and flag were somewhat rare top-grade magic tools, but that yellowish drum was an authentic ancient treasure, emitting silver ripples that seemed quite powerful in their surges.

The arrival of Han Li had obviously garnered the attention of both parties. Upon seeing Han Li’s human figure, the man with the bamboo hat, unable to think further, immediately shouted joyfully to him:

“I am Chen Jing from Thunder Void Island! If my friend would lend a hand, I shall be sure to repay you generously afterward!” Because he was so pressured by the demon beast, this man didn’t even have time to use his spiritual sense to check Han Li’s cultivation base and mistook Han Li for a passing Core Formation cultivator.

After all, the strength of Han Li’s escaping light did indeed resemble that of an ordinary Core Formation cultivator, without showing any overly dazzling brilliance.

But the Infant Carp Beast, which had already evolved to grade six, had now partially awakened its spiritually wise intellect.

Upon scanning Han Li’s cultivation with its spiritual sense from within the mist, the beast’s baby-like face immediately showed an expression of utter terror. As Han Li smiled slightly and before he could respond to the Sect Masters, the beast let out a strange cry and suddenly unleashed countless lightning spheres from the mist, bombarding the three Sect Masters who were opposing it, while its own body shot out from the mist and plummeted like a falling star towards the sea below.

(Second update!)(To be continued, if you want to know what happens next, please visit www.qidian.com, for more chapters, support the author, support the original reading!)

Source: Webn𝘰vel.com, updated on Novg𝘰.co