Chapter 2099: Close Shave
All of a sudden, the world"s origin Qi on the entire island began to tremor violently, and countless fist-sized b.a.l.l.s of five-colored light appeared in the air above the pond before surging into the Faux Immortal Puppet"s body in a frenzy.
The dark green spiritual patterns on the surface of the Faux Immortal Puppet"s body immediately began to thicken and writhe violently like countless dark green snakes.
A vicious look appeared in the Faux Immortal Puppet"s eyes, and it suddenly uttered the word "explode"!
In the next instant, an extremely violent aura erupted out of the thick dark green spiritual patterns.
A series of twisted cracks instantly appeared over the Faux Immortal Puppet"s body, from within which scintillating light erupted forth.
A resounding boom rang out, and a five-colored sun appeared in mid-air, instantly inundating the Faux Immortal Puppet.
A hint of fear appeared in the black-robed young man"s eyes for the very first time upon seeing this, and he hurriedly shot back, leaving a trail of afterimages in his wake. The giant devilish toad projection behind him also released the Faux Immortal Puppet and withdrew its golden tongue at an incredible speed.
The tongue then swept violently through the air, creating countless tongue projections that formed a ma.s.sive net to protect the black-robed young man.
The five-colored sun shrank slightly, then expanded before completely exploding.
"It self-detonated!"
"Run!"
The Long Family patriarch and the woman from the Ye Family were scared witless upon seeing this.
With the power that the Faux Immortal Puppet had just displayed, there was no way they would be able to survive its self-detonation from such a close range.
They certainly couldn"t count on the Spirit Monarch soul fragment to hold back during its self-detonation; perhaps it harbored the intention of killing everyone here.
After all, he had just discussed an extremely secretive matter with Sacred Ancestor Yuan Yan in the form of that proposed exchange, so he most likely wouldn"t want anyone who knew of this information to remain alive.
Han Li was also stunned by this drastic turn of events, and he immediately hurled his pair of extreme mountains forward. The two mountains swelled to over 1,000 feet in size each amid a flash of spiritual light, and black light also swelled from his suit of devilish armor as it released countless black runes, which formed a light barrier to s.h.i.+eld him from all sides.
Immediately thereafter, his Provenance Golden Body also appeared behind him, and as soon as it emerged, it thrust its six hands up into the air in unison. Six b.a.l.l.s of golden light shot forth, then converged to form a rapidly rotating golden vortex with a diameter of around 300 feet.
At the same time, a loud buzzing sound rang out from Han Li"s sleeve, and tens of thousands of golden beetles surged forth, rapidly forming a dense beetle s.h.i.+eld ahead of him.
Meanwhile, the Long Family patriarch and the woman from the Ye Family were also unleas.h.i.+ng their final trump cards in a desperate bid to save their own lives.
The Long Family patriarch let loose a loud dragon"s roar and transformed into a five-clawed golden dragon that was over 100 feet in length.
The dragon"s entire body was covered in s.h.i.+mmering golden scales, and it opened its cavernous mouth to expel a golden bead. The bead was only around the size of an egg, and there were cloud-like patterns of light spread all over its surface.
The bead rotated on the spot, following which a giant golden flower emerged from within it.
As for the five-clawed golden dragon itself, all of its scales began to stand up on end, then detached themselves from the dragon"s body and shot forth through the air.
The scales then swelled drastically in size amid a flash of golden light, conjuring up countless palm-sized golden s.h.i.+elds that created a watertight barrier around the dragon.
The golden dragon then let loose a long roar and curled up into a giant golden ball.
Meanwhile, five-colored light surged over the body of the woman from the Ye Family, and she transformed into a five-colored phoenix that was several tens of feet in length.
The phoenix flapped its wings and let loose a long cry, upon which spatial fluctuations suddenly erupted all around it. A series of white spatial rifts appeared in the surrounding area, emitting bursts of powerful suction force.
After transforming into the five-colored phoenix, the woman from the Ye Family was unleas.h.i.+ng her spatial abilities to their maximal extent, instantly creating hundreds of spatial rifts.
At the same time, dazzling spiritual light erupted from the comb on the phoenix"s head, and 13 layers of five-colored light barriers were instantly conjured up around it, expending almost all of the magic power within its body.
At this moment, countless five-colored threads erupted out of the scintillating five-colored sun before hurtling forth in all directions. In the blink of an eye, the green light barrier above the valley was riddled with holes, and the wreckage spread through the entire island.
The power unleashed by the Faux Immortal Puppet"s self-detonation continued to wreak havoc in a persistent manner, striking one with a sense of suffocating despair, as if this ordeal would never end.
After a long while, the five-colored threads in the air finally began to thin out, then gradually faded into nonexistence.
Everything in the valley became visible again, and it was now completely unrecognizable.
A thick layer of soil and stones had gone missing from the ground below, and all of the water in the pond that was filled with extremely pure spiritual Qi had disappeared.
The underside of the pond was revealed to be a vast expanse of flat green stone, upon which was inscribed a ma.s.sive black formation that was s.h.i.+mmering with faint black light.
At this point, the Faux Immortal Puppet had already completely disappeared. In its place was a white pavilion-sized spatial rift that was giving off extremely powerful spatial fluctuations and was gradually sealing.
Several hundred feet away from the spatial rift hovered the black-robed young man, whose face had turned rather pale. The giant sword he was holding was s.h.i.+elding most of his body, while the exposed portion of his body had completely disappeared.
However, no blood was flowing out of the wound, and there were countless crimson threads writhing and intertwining rapidly to heal the wound.
The aura that was being released by Sacred Ancestor Yuan Yan had weakened significantly, and it was quite clear that the Faux Immortal Puppet had directed the majority of the power of its self-detonation toward him. If it weren"t for the fact that he was able to use the Black Devil Dagger as a s.h.i.+eld, there was a very good chance that he would"ve perished from the explosion.
Of course, this was only because his powers were severely restricted here. Otherwise, he definitely wouldn"t have been reduced to such a sorry state.
Sacred Ancestor Yuan Yan was staring intently at the rapidly shrinking spatial rift with a look of thunderous fury etched on his face.
It had been countless years since he had sustained this much damage in a battle, and the most frustrating thing was that the culprit wasn"t even in the Elder Devil Realm, so there was no avenue through which he could vent his fury.
All of a sudden, he swept his giant sword viciously through the air, unleas.h.i.+ng an inky-black sword projection that was over 1,000 feet in length. The sword projection struck the spatial rift amid a resounding boom, completely erasing it from existence.
However, that was clearly not enough to a.s.suage the fury in his heart, and he cast an enraged gaze toward Han Li and the others, upon which he was completely rooted to the spot.
There was currently only a single lonesome figure situated in that direction with his arm raised in front of himself as a s.h.i.+eld.
There were two small mountains hovering on either side of him, but their surfaces were riddled with cracks, and the spiritual light s.h.i.+mmering from them had also dimmed significantly.
As for the insect s.h.i.+eld formed by over 10,000 mature Gold Devouring Beetles, only a small section of it remained, consisting of around 3,000 Gold Devouring Beetles.
The mature Gold Devouring Beetles naturally hadn"t been destroyed, they had merely been knocked flying or stunned unconscious by the fearsome explosion.
As for the Provenance Golden Body, it was nowhere to be seen, most likely having been destroyed during the explosion.
The lone figure was naturally none other than Han Li, and not only had he reverted back to his human form, his suit of black devilish armor was riddled with countless thin cracks.
However, Han Li himself appeared to be completely unscathed.
As for the Long Family patriarch and the woman from the Ye Family, they had already been completely wiped out of existence by the force of the explosion.
The two of them had unleashed extremely powerful trump cards to defend themselves with all their might, but they still hadn"t managed to escape this tragic fate, and that was sufficient testament to just how fearsome that explosion had been.
It was precisely because of this that the black-robed young man was so stunned that Han Li had managed to remain completely unscathed.
He forcibly repressed the fury in his heart and scrutinized Han Li intently, as if he were trying to figure out how Han Li had survived that ordeal.
However, Han Li was paying no heed to the black-robed young man whatsoever, nor was he inspecting his two damaged extreme mountains or what remained of the insect s.h.i.+eld. Instead, he was staring at his own arm with a bewildered look on his face.
All of a sudden, his suit of black devilish armor exploded into a burst of devilish Qi that dissipated into s.p.a.ce amid a dull thump.
He then cast his gaze toward the spots where the Long Family patriarch and the woman from the Ye Family had been not long ago before heaving a long forlorn sigh.