A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Immortal Realm

At the same time, a layer of golden scales appeared over Han Li\'s arms, and he clenched his fists tightly while rushing forward with all his might, stretching the arcs of black baleful lightning around him, but they refused to snap.

Furthermore, they were constantly sending jolts of numbing force into his body, thereby further thwarting his efforts.

Fox 3 hesitated momentarily upon seeing this, then arrived behind Yin Gua in a flash before making a grabbing motion to summon the silver longsword from before.

Bursts of sword qi were surging out of the sword as he pierced it toward Yin Gua\'s chest from behind, but right as the tip of the sword was about to pierce into Yin Gua\'s body, Han Li\'s pupils suddenly contracted slightly as he hurriedly yelled, "Get back!"

Fox 3 immediately shot back in retreat without any hesitation upon hearing this, right as a black bead emerged on Yin Gua\'s glabella before exploding to release a burst of black light that snapped the spiritual sense chains in his mind.

Immediately thereafter, a fearsome aura erupted out of his body, and eight baleful lightning spears that resembled spider legs shot out of his back without any warning.

If Fox 3 hadn\'t retreated in time, he would\'ve been impaled on the spot.

Yin Gua\'s body shuddered slightly, but he didn\'t do anything else. It seemed that his spiritual sense was still a little sluggish and disoriented after being freed from the Spiritual Sense Cage, and those eight baleful lightning spider spears had only been released out of self-preservation instincts.

Right at this moment, a burst of green light flashed from the mouth of Han Li\'s Profound Heavenly Gourd at his behest, immediately following which a vast expanse of silver lightning erupted out from within, forming a silver lightning net that enshrouded his entire body.

He had collected this silver lightning from the silver lightning pond, but the Profound Heavenly Gourd only had a limited tolerance for the lightning in the Baleful Cleansing Pond.

Filling the gourd with silver lightning was already potentially harmful to the gourd\'s spiritual nature, so Han Li didn\'t dare to try and draw any golden lightning into the gourd.

The silver lightning net clashed against the black baleful lightning, and the arcs of black lightning wrapped around his body instantly dissipated to free him.

At this point, retreat was no longer an option, and he sped directly toward Yin Gua as quickly as he could.

Meanwhile, Yin Gua had also returned to his senses, and upon sensing the approaching Han Li, he lashed out with all eight of his spider spears at once, bringing them together to conjure up a ball of black lightning the size of a human head, which hurtled directly toward Han Li.

The ball of black lightning didn\'t appear to be all that fearsome, but there were dozens of miniature lightning dragons circling around within it, waiting to be freed as soon as the ball of lightning was detonated.

A sense of foreboding welled up in Han Li\'s heart in the face of the ball of lightning, but he continued onward without pause, summoning the Heavenly Fox Bloodform Saber before swinging it down upon Yin Gua with both hands.

His immortal spiritual power surged rapidly into the saber, and all of the crimson patterns on its surface instantly lit up, conjuring up a giant saber projection that struck the ball of black lightning.

On the edge of the Baleful Cleansing Pond, Shi Chuankong had already recovered somewhat, and a peculiar look flashed through his eyes as he sat with his legs crossed, absorbing immortal spiritual power from a pair of Immortal Origin Stones.

After emerging from the silver lightning pond, Han Li had clearly become significantly more powerful, and this saber strike was already not inferior to the one that they had collectively unleashed to sever the azure lightning chain.

The saber projection struck the ball of lightning, and a deafening explosion instantly rang out, causing the entire hall to shudder violently.

Even Yin Chengquan and Liu Qi had their attention drawn to the commotion, while Weeping Soul was desperately praying for Han Li\'s welfare.

The miniature lightning dragons were struggling with all their might, but they were firmly suppressed and contained by the Heavenly Fox Bloodform Saber, while only some residual arcs of lightning managed to slip through the cracks to lash out at Han Li.

Han Li\'s hands were trembling incessantly as arcs of baleful lightning ravaged his entire body, sending plumes of smoke rising up into the air, while blood trickled out of his mouth and nostrils.

Even so, he gritted his teeth tightly and persevered with all his might as he forced the saber down bit by bit, slowly overwhelming the eight opposing spider spears.

A sinister look appeared in Yin Gua\'s eyes as he chanted a brief incantation, following which an indistinct insect projection suddenly appeared deep within his eyes.

At the exact same moment, a strange rune suddenly appeared on the body of the dormant slug-like Infernal Soul Bug in Han Li\'s mind, and it began to move again.

A cold sneer appeared on Yin Gua\'s face as he reached out with his only remaining hand, and five streaks of black light shot out of his fingertips, piercing through the black baleful lighting up ahead as it surged toward Han Li.

Han Li\'s brows furrowed tightly as he let loose a loud roar while channeling his Spirit Refinement Technique, and the spiritual sense chains around the Infernal Soul Bug instantly constructed, while several more chains emerged before piercing through its body, pinning it firmly to the spot.

These chains were giving off formidable spiritual sense that was manifested in the form of countless tiny runes, and the Infernal Soul Bug was immobilized once again.

As for the five streaks of black light that were hurtling toward Han Li\'s head, they had been scattered by the tremendous spiritual sense fluctuations erupting out of Han Li\'s mind.

"Impossible!"

Yin Gua was astonished to see this.

He was more aware than anyone of just how formidable Infernal Soul Bugs were, yet Han Li\'s spiritual sense had been enhanced to such an extent through his baptisms in the three lightning ponds that he was now able to dominate the Infernal Soul Bug.

Han Li\'s expression remained unchanged as he injected even more immortal spiritual power into the saber in his hands, and the ball of black lightning was finally sliced into two, while the eight spider spears also caved.

The Heavenly Fox Bloodform Saber plunged straight down, slicing Yin Gua cleanly in half from the top of his head down through his chest and abdomen, but the two halves of his body remained hovering in mid-air as he sneered, "It\'s extremely impressive that a semi-High Zenith cultivator like yourself was able to force me to use my baleful spirit as a substitution to take that lethal blow, but this is as far as you go!"

Immediately thereafter, his body exploded violently, sending a vast expanse of black lightning spreading in all directions.

At the same time, the ball of black lightning also exploded, and the lightning dragon projections within it instantly crashed straight into Han Li\'s chest.

The suit of Xuanwu armor re-emerged over his body, only to instantly shatter upon contact with the lightning dragon projections, and before Han Li even had a chance to cry out, his saber had slipped out of his grasp, while his body was severely ravaged and came drifting down like a raft in a turbulent sea.

A sense of despair welled up in Fox 3\'s heart as he looked on from afar, while Weeping Soul hurriedly attempted to rush over to Han Li\'s side, only to be instantly stopped in her tracks by Yin Chengquan\'s spiritual sense avatar.

In the next instant, the arcs of baleful lightning that had scattered through the air converged to form a spherical black light barrier that encompassed Han Li\'s entire body.

The black light barrier was extremely dense and virtually completely opaque, and incredibly thick arcs of black lightning emerged within it, stretching out Han Li\'s limbs so that he was forced to hover in mid-air in a spreadeagled fashion.

Immediately thereafter, a ball of black baleful lightning appeared in front of him before taking on the form of Yin Gua.

"You\'ve got quite a few true spirit bloodlines in your body, and your physical constitution is also exceptional. Once I refine you with my baleful lightning, that should be enough to replenish the energy I\'ve exerted in this battle, and I may even be able to further consolidate my cultivation base," Yin Gua mused, and he was looking rather pale from overexertion.

His body swelled to over a hundred feet tall as he spoke, and a giant mouth-like opening abruptly split open from his lower abdomen before sucking Han Li into his belly.

"You have to fight back, Master! He\'s using his baleful domain!" Weeping Soul called out frantically, and in her moment of distraction, she was sent flying by a swat from Yin Chengquan before crashing into the wall, where she was embedded into the rock face.

Several seconds later, the spherical black light barrier faded, and Yin Gua emerged from within it.

With Han Li nowhere to be seen, Shi Chuankong heaved an internal sigh as a hint of despair flashed through his eyes.

Meanwhile, Yin Gua made a beckoning motion, and all of the arcs of surrounding baleful lightning converged toward the palm of his hand.