Chapter 772: Peril at Every Turn

Chapter 772: Peril at Every Turn

"I suppose this was always unavoidable," Liu Qi murmured to himself as his expression darkened slightly.

At this moment, all of the surrounding white array patterns were glowing radiantly while releasing tremendous power that encompassed the entire hall, attempting to stabilize the violent tremors.

However, whatever was attacking the hall from the outside was doing so with tremendous power, and a series of cracks immediately appeared over its walls.

"There's no time left! Sever the chain!" Liu Qi urged as he made a hand seal, and bright white radiance erupted out of his body as he pointed a finger forward, releasing streaks of white light that vanished into the surrounding array patterns in a flash to stabilize the array.

However, before Han Li and the others even had a chance to steady themselves, an even more fearsome burst of power descended upon the hall.

This time, the hall swayed even more violently than before, and the surrounding white array patterns were trembling incessantly, looking as if they could collapse at any moment.

Liu Qi shuddered as he gave a muffled groan, seemingly having been indirectly affected by the heavy blow.

Immediately thereafter, a third blow arrived, and this time, the restrictions in the hall weren't able to hold themselves together any longer.

The stone gate exploded violently, leaving a huge hole in its wake, following which Yin Chengquan and Feng Qingshui flew into the hall.

Liu Qi gave another muffled groan as his body trembled incessantly, and blood began to trickle down from the corner of his lips, but his expression remained completely unchanged as he observed Yin Chengquan and Feng Qingshui with a cold expression.

"Your Infernal Tribe certainly is harboring many secrets, Regional Monarch Yin. We've just dealt with the Kun Hou outside, yet there's another Dao Ancestor in here! My eyes have truly been opened," Feng Qingshui mused as he observed Liu Qi from afar.

"Cut the chit-chat! Just do what we agreed upon prior to coming here. Otherwise, I'm scrapping our prior agreement!" Yin Chengquan harrumphed coldly.

Feng Qingshui remained completely unbothered by this as a faint smile appeared on his face.

Even though Han Li and the others had been sent flying from the shockwaves of the exploding stone gate, none of them had sustained any substantial injuries, but Han Li's heart immediately sank at the sight of Yin Chengquan and Feng Qingshui, both of whom had comparable auras, thereby indicating that the latter had to be a Dao Ancestor as well.

Fox 3 and Shi Chuankong's expressions also darkened significantly as this reality dawned on them as well.

Meanwhile, Weeping Soul was glowering at Yin Chengquan with a cold expression and her fists tightly clenched.

Yin Chengquan swept his gaze over Han Li and the other, then turned his attention to Liu Qi as he chuckled coldly, "Did you have all of this planned out, Liu Qi? You certainly chose a good time to strike, but there's no way that these ants could possibly sever these Lightning Entrapment Chains. I already told you that you were going to be trapped here for all of eternity!"

He threw a punch as he spoke, and as soon as he did so, Han Li immediately felt the surrounding space swell rapidly like a balloon, expanding the space within the hall by a hundredfold.

In this instant, Yin Chengquan's body became enormous, and he truly resembled an omnipotent deity.

In contrast, Han Li and the others were made to feel like a group of tiny ants that had strayed from the colony, and a sense of powerlessness welled up in their hearts.

At the same time, the ground beside Han Li and the others suddenly exploded, following which a pair of thick fox tails emerged from underground.

One of the tails rose up into the air, and countless white runes emerged over its surface as it struck the oncoming blue palm projection with fearsome power.

A resounding boom rang out as the nearby space shuddered violently, and the blue palm projection was instantly slowed down significantly in its descent.

Meanwhile, the other fox tail wrapped itself around Fox 3 like lightning, following which both tails descended back into the ground.

Han Li's expression darkened significantly upon seeing this.

It was clear that Liu Qi had never truly viewed them as allies, but then again, that wasn't particularly surprising.

Their collaboration had been one that was forged solely on the promise of mutual benefit, and now that Han Li and the others had outlived their usefulness, they were naturally going to be abandoned.

If it weren't for the special set of circumstances that they were in, there was no way that a Dao Ancestor like Liu Qi would've been willing to help them to begin with.

Despite the fact that Fox 3 had been taken right before his eyes, Feng Qingshui's expression remained completely unchanged as he made a hand seal, and the blue palm projection swelled to roughly twice its original size, then split up into two, forming two identical giant palm projections.

One of the palm projections continued to descend toward Han Li's trio, while the other one vanished into the ground in a flash.

Right as the palm projection was no more than a hundred feet away from Han Li's trio, Shi Chuankong's body abruptly shuddered as a ball of radiant silver light flew out of his body without any warning, and the ball of silver light contained none other than the Virata Lute.

The lute was revolving rapidly while releasing countless rays of silver light, and not only was it able to stop the blue palm projection in its tracks, its strings also began to move on their own, releasing a series of silver runes that vanished into the nearby space.

All of a sudden, the space parted to create a spatial passageway that led to an undetermined destination.

A burst of tremendous suction force surged out of the spatial passageway, encompassing Han Li's trio before sucking them.

The pressure on Han Li's trio was instantly lifted, restoring their mobility and immortal spiritual power circulation, and they were naturally ecstatic to sense this.

"Stop them! If you have to kill them, then so be it!" Yin Chengquan yelled in an urgent voice.

An enraged look had also appeared on Feng Qingshui's face, and he immediately made another hand seal, upon which the nearby space trembled violently.

Immediately thereafter, countless rays of blue light surged out of the surrounding space, fusing forth like a celestial waterfall before filling the entire area in the blink of an eye.

The spatial passageway was also inundated by the boundless blue light, while a burst of tremendous force emerged around Han Li's trio, compressing toward them from all directions to stop them in their tracks right at the entrance of the spatial passageway.

Despite the tremendous suction force surging out of the passageway, they remained completely immobilized just a single, tantalizing step away.