Chapter 1083: Reversal

Chapter 1083: Reversal

After taking a moment to compose themselves, Lei Yuce exchanged a glance with Wen Zhong, and the former shook his head ever so slightly.

Wen Zhong gave a slight nod in response, and the two of them remained silent, seemingly content to serve as bystanders.

After some contemplation, Su Anqian also decided to remain an impartial observer, while Fox 3 and Wyrm 3 naturally remained silent as well.

She Chan swept her gaze over everyone one after another before settling her gaze on the Lan siblings.

Lan Yuanzi cupped his fist in an apologetic salute as he said, "Please forgive us, Elder She. Lan Yan and I have already sworn a vow against going after Fellow Daoist Han for as long as we're in the Eon Pagoda. If you need our help in apprehending him, then I'm afraid we'll only be able to lend you our assistance once we've left this place."

"Are you an idiot? What does a trivial vow matter for in the face of the greater good? Have you forgotten our objective for hunting down this man?" She Chan snapped.

Lan Yuanzi's expression changed slightly upon hearing this, but after a brief hesitation, he maintained his cupped fist salute with his head lowered, and Lan Yan also did the same.

"Fine, do as you please then! Once we return to the sect, I'm going to report this matter to our patriarch and have your master provide an explanation for this farce!" She Chan said in a furious voice.

Lan Yan's expression changed drastically upon hearing this, but before she could do anything, Lan Yuanzi tugged on her sleeve as he said through voice transmission, "We can bear the consequences of disobeying orders, but if we go back on a vow, then our master will be extremely disappointed in us."

Lan Yan bowed her head again upon hearing this.

She Chan was feeling very embarrassed by the fact that even the fellow members of her own sect were unwilling to help her, and she threatened in a cold voice, "I hope you two won't come to regret this."

All the while, Jin Liu was looking on with a hint of schadenfreude in his eyes.

He knew that the more enraged She Chan became, the more ruthless she was going to be against Han Li, and that was naturally a very welcome sight for him.

Meanwhile, Han Li remained standing on the spot with a calm and relaxed expression, pondering how he was going to deal with She Chan.

He probably doesn't even realize just how screwed he is! Jin Liu scoffed internally at the sight of Han Li's composed display.

"If you're all going to just stand by and watch, then make sure you stay back and don't do anything out of line!" She Chan warned, then abruptly vanished from the spot without any warning, leaving only a ball of yellow light where she had been standing just a moment ago.

Everyone immediately backed away far into the distance upon seeing this, and in the next instant, a violent sandstorm rose up from behind Han Li before converging toward him from all directions.

Han Li was already prepared for this, and he channeled his Reversal True Axis ability to instantly vanish from the spot, escaping from the sandstorm in the process.

A vast sea of golden lightning erupted out of the flying swords, holding the mountain aloft to arrest its fall, while Han Li channeled his Heavenly Baleful Purgatory Arts, then began plummeting out of the sky in an upside-down orientation with his fist held close to his waist, as if he were preparing to throw an almighty punch.

A massive crater had already opened up on the ground below, and the giant, yellow toad was springing upward with its cavernous mouth wide open to swallow Han Li whole.

Within mere moments, Han Li had already plunged headfirst into the yellow toad's mouth, and the toad instantly closed its mouth to devour him.

However, at the same time, Han Li threw a punch downward with resplendent starlight glowing from his fist.

A vast expanse of blinding, white light erupted within the toad's mouth, which was quickly forced open by a burst of tremendous power that exploded outward from within.

Immediately thereafter, the giant toad's entire body exploded with a resounding boom.

In the wake of the yellow toad's demise, the surrounding spirit domain rapidly shrank down to only around a tenth of its original size, and the light radiating from it also began to gradually dim, as if the spirit domain were about to vanish altogether.

At the same time, the mountain up above disintegrated into yellow sludge that rained down from the heavens like a mudslide.

Han Li had no time to evade the falling sludge, and it cascaded down onto his entire body.

With a flick of his wrist, he withdrew his Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords back up his sleeve, while everyone was looking on with bewildered expressions, clearly incredulous that a Great Encompassment cultivator had been defeated and slain so easily.

Among them, Jin Liu was displaying the strongest reaction, one of both disappointment and indignation.

However, right at this moment, Han Li abruptly stiffened like a clay statue, then plummeted out of the sky in a completely uncontrolled fashion before crashing down onto the ground with a resounding thump.

An alarmed look immediately appeared on Wyrm 3's face as she began rushing to Han Li's aid, only to be stopped in her tracks by Fox 3, who yelled in an urgent voice, "What are you doing? Have you forgotten our mission? We need to remain focused on the big picture!"

Wyrm 3 stopped in her tracks upon hearing this, but her gaze remained fixed on Han Li.

The yellow sludge that had fallen onto him earlier had solidified into a cloak of clay that encased his entire body, and it was as if he had truly been transformed into a clay statue.

Furthermore, this cloak of clay was riddled with strange patterns that were giving off extremely formidable earth law power fluctuations, forming a powerful seal that trapped him inside.

Initially, Han Li was still able to struggle slightly against the cloak of clay, but as the coloration of the clay rapidly darkened, he was quickly rendered completely immobilized.

Only after the layer of clay had completely dried did a palm-sized toad jump out of a nearby swamp before transforming into She Chan's human form, who turned to the clay statue beside her with a derisive sneer in her eyes.