Chapter 1002: Crushed with Ease

Chapter 1002: Crushed with Ease

With a sweep of Jin Chuan's sleeve, a torrential downpour suddenly began to cascade down from the heavens, instantly filling the entire area within a radius of ten thousand feet around Han Li.

There was faint azure and purple light shimmering within the otherwise innocuous-looking rain droplets, indicating to Han Li that they were tinged with poison.

With that in mind, he threw a punch upward, and a burst of white starlight erupted out of his fist, forming a starlight barrier that eradicated all of the rain falling from above.

Immediately thereafter, he prepared to spring up into the air, only to discover that his feet had become firmly rooted to the ground.

A puddle of azure water had appeared beneath his feet, and it had wrapped itself tightly around his legs, locking him firmly into place.

The puddle of water was giving off a jade-like gleam, and circles of strange patterns could be seen within it, giving off tremendous water law power fluctuations.

Han Li attempted to lift his own legs, only to discover that they had become incredibly heavy, as if they had become one with the land.

"Save your energy," Jin Chuan sneered with a triumphant expression. "I've connected my Water Binding Technique to the underground water veins in this entire area, so you're currently being bogged down by the weight of countless underwater rivers..."

All of a sudden, Jin Chuan's voice abruptly trailed off as the triumph on his face turned to shock and horror.

As it turned out, all of Han Li's close to a thousand profound acupoints had lit up as he channeled his Heavenly Baleful Purgatory Arts with all his might, allowing him to free himself from Jin Chuan's Water Binding Technique with ease.

Immediately thereafter, he vanished from the spot before abruptly reappearing before Jin Chuan an instant later while throwing an almighty punch.

Despite his astonishment, Jin Chuan reacted very quickly, and a rippling light erupted out of his chest, forming an azure light barrier that rippled like water.

Han Li's fist struck the azure light barrier, and he was instantly struck by the false sensation that his fist had missed its target. The tremendous force behind his punch was completely deflated, and he was unable to make contact with Jin Chuan's chest.

"Hurry, Brother Tao!" Jin Chuan yelled in a frantic manner, and as soon as his voice trailed off, Tao Ji abruptly appeared no more than a thousand feet behind Han Li.

His entire body was shrouded in crimson flames, and he was making a hand seal as he let loose a thunderous roar.

All nine of the flame symbols on his golden flying sword li up, adding two more layers of fire to the previous seven, one black and one white.

Even though it was only two additional layers of flames, their emergence caused the aura of the flying sword to swell by severalfold, making it comparable in power to a fifth-grade immortal treasure.

The flying sword shot forth through the air, reaching Han Li in the blink of an eye, but almost at the exact same moment, Han Li's Mantra Treasured Axis appeared behind him, revolving incessantly as it released rays of golden light in all directions.

As soon as the blazing sword pierced into the rays of golden light, it was slowed down drastically, to the point that it had almost stopped entirely.

The sword was trembling incessantly as the nine-colored flames around it incinerated the surrounding rays of golden light, but it was still only able to continue onward at a snail's pace.

Right at this moment, an arc of silver lightning appeared beside him, following which Han Li's voice rang out.

"Where are you going, Elder Tao? Weren't you going to crush me before making my soul into a sky lantern?"

Tao Ji continued fleeing in a blind panic, but Han Li seemed to be intentionally toying with him, merely keeping up with his speed while refraining from attacking.

"If Tao Yu hadn't tried to kill me in the Immortal Realm, none of this would've happened to you or him. You only have yourself to blame for not raising your son properly."

Tao Ji had already enhanced his own speed to the very limit, but he was still unable to get away.

"You should be thankful that I'm not like you, and I don't have a habit of refining the souls of others into lanterns. Instead, I only refined his soul into a Golden Soul Pill," Han Li continued.

"You bastard!"

Tao Ji was finally unable to stand Han Li's taunting any longer, and he stopped cold in his tracks, following which a fiery spirit domain erupted out of his body, but only encompassed an area with an approximate radius of a thousand feet, within which the air temperature was rapidly rising.

At the same time, a burst of red light emerged from his dantian, and cracks that looked as if they were filled with molten lava appeared over his skin as an incredibly formidable aura erupted out of his body.

An earth-shattering boom rang out as waves of scorching fire law powers swept through the air in all directions, causing the surrounding space to warp and twist with their incredible heat.

Han Li had already retreated far into the distance at this point, but at the same time, he was peering intently into the epicenter of the explosion with his Infernal Devilish Eyes.

After a moment of observation, a cold sneer appeared on his face as he scoffed, "Do you really think that's going to work?"

As soon as his voice trailed off, he immediately flew directly into the explosion, and as he did so, he discovered that the fire law power fluctuations around him were very weak, far weaker than what should've been unleashed from a true self-detonation.

Immediately thereafter, he spotted several hundred fist-sized balls of fire up ahead, but instead of scattering like normal flames, they collectively sped away in a certain direction while converging to fuse together again.

Han Li gave a cold harrumph as he swept a sleeve through the air, letting loose eighteen Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords that released a vast net of golden lightning.

The net of lightning encompassed all of the fist-sized fireballs, causing them to explode into countless tiny specks of fire.

All of the flying swords then flew back to Han Li at his behest, and hanging from one of them was a storage ring.

"If you're going to fake a self-detonation to serve as a decoy for your escape, then at least destroy your storage treasure as well. If you're not willing to even make that sacrifice, how are you going to convince anyone?" Han Li scoffed as he plucked the storage ring from the flying sword.

He then stowed the storage ring away before flying back to the col from before.

A long time after his departure, a speck of light emerged from an ancient tree in the forest down below, then rose up into the air before vanishing into the distance.