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

Chapter 1063: Second Battle Against Qi Mozi

While Han Li was engaged in seated meditation, Weeping Soul was locked in a fierce battle against Ghost King Wu Chao.

After evading a vast expanse of fearsome claw projections, she opened her mouth to let loose a deafening roar, and at the same time, her body swelled drastically in size, while numerous golden and silver runes appeared over her skin, giving off formidable law power fluctuations.

Simultaneously, a thick pillar of crimson light erupted out of her third demonic eye, hurtling directly toward Ghost King Wu Chao.

A hint of wariness flashed through Ghost King Wu Chao's eyes, and he made a beckoning motion with both hands, upon which the dozens of Ghost King Wu Chaos around him converged toward him before vanishing into his body.

Immediately thereafter, he swept a sleeve through the air to release a vast cloud of black mist, and a white bone claw extended out from within.

A burst of red light appeared over the palm of the bone claw, and it took on the form of a giant ghostly head with fearsome fangs protruding out of its mouth, presenting a harrowing sight to behold.

The ghostly head opened its mouth up wide, and a swirling black vortex appeared within it.

The pillar of crimson light shooting out of Weeping Soul's glabella was devoured by the black vortex, and an impasse ensued.

At the same time, Ghost King Wu Chao made a strange hand seal with his other hand, then pressed his palm down toward the ground below.

A crimson seal flew out of the palm of his hand before vanishing into the ground in a flash ,and immediately thereafter, a pool of blood appeared beneath Weeping Soul before rapidly spreading in all directions.

Weeping Soul immediately attempted to take evasive measures upon seeing this, but a burst of tremendous suction force erupted out of the ground below, locking her firmly into place.

Before she had a chance to do anything else, the blood from the pool below began to climb its way up her legs.

The putrid blood in the pool was bubbling incessantly, as if it had been brought to a boil, and the blood was rapidly rising, almost inundating the entirety of Weeping Soul's lower body in the blink of an eye.

A chorus of ghostly wails rang out within the pool as countless crimson ghostly creatures emerged, resembling people who had been skinned alive, and they also began climbing their way up Weeping Soul's body.

The parts of her body that came into contact with these horrific creatures immediately began to release plumes of black smoke, as if she were being scorched by flames.

Thankfully, Weeping Soul's body was extremely resilient in her Xing Beast form, so she was able to hold her own just fine for now, but she was clearly already on the back foot.

All of a sudden, Han Li's eyes sprang open as he rose up into the air, and thirty-six Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords reappeared around him as he cast his gaze toward Ghost King Wu Chao, but he had only just launched himself in Ghost King Wu Chao's direction when a burst of violent spatial fluctuations erupted beside him.

All of a sudden, it was as if a gash had been torn open in the night, and a figure emerged from within before reaching for Han Li.

The figure had appeared without any warning, and Han Li was caught completely off guard.

His pupils contracted drastically as he channeled his Reversal True Axis ability, vanishing from the spot in a flash.

However, as he reappeared several thousand feet away, he discovered that the hand that was reaching for him was still right beside him.

A burst of radiant golden light appeared over the palm of the hand, and a burst of golden flames surged out from within, forming a hemispherical cage of fire that descended upon Han Li.

"Qi Mozi!" Han Li exclaimed upon catching a clear glimpse of his assailant.

Indeed, it was none other than Qi Mozi.

Han Li could sense that a change was currently taking place in the flow of time around him, and he hurriedly summoned his Mantra Treasured Axis, which began releasing waves of golden ripples at his behest.

The golden ripples clashed against the oncoming golden flames, and a clear divide took shape between them.

The flow of time in the area where the two met had become almost completely stagnant, and the golden ripples were rapidly dissipating, while the golden flames were dissipating at a much slower rate.

Meanwhile, close to half of Weeping Soul's body had already sunken into the pool of blood, but a ring of black light had appeared around her waist, preventing the blood in the pool from rising up any further.

A frantic look appeared in her eyes as she attempted to rush to Han Li's side to aid him against Qi Mozi, but she was unable to free herself from the pool of blood.

"You've made further progress in your cultivation base since we last met! If I don't get rid of you today, you're surely going to develop into a formidable threat in the future," Qi Mozi harrumphed coldly, and all the while, his golden flames continued to force back the golden ripples released by Han Li's Mantra Treasured Axis.

Han Li let loose a loud roar as all of his profound acupoints lit up in unison, and he channeled his Heavenly Baleful Purgatory Arts with all his might as he threw a punch directly forward.

A burst of radiant starlight erupted out of his fist, forming a screen of light that swept toward Qi Mozi, causing the space up ahead to compress upon itself in layers, resulting in the emergence of countless fractured spatial rifts.

The spatial rifts devoured much of Qi Mozi's golden flames, thereby significantly lessening the pressure on the golden ripples, and Han Li immediately pounced on this opportunity, sweeping a sleeve through the air to disperse his thirty-six Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords, all of which abruptly vanished into the surrounding space.

However, mere moments later, all of the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords came flying back from afar with their tips aimed directly at Qi Mozi's back.

However, before they were able to get close to Qi Mozi, a vast expanse of golden flames appeared behind him, and all of the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords instantly fell completely still upon piercing into the golden flames.

Immediately thereafter, Qi Mozi swept a sleeve through the air, and a lit torch appeared before him.

An alarmed look appeared on Han Li's face upon seeing this, and he hurriedly withdrew his Mantra Treasured Axis back into his body.

Immediately thereafter, the torch began to release rings of fiery spiritual light, and everything that was caught within the rings of light instantly fell completely still.

Han Li had immediately released his time spirit domain and channeled his Reversal True Axis ability as soon as he caught sight of the golden torch, but he was still unable to get away from the fiery spiritual light.

As soon as he was encompassed within the spiritual light, his movements instantly slowed down to a crawl. Even though he wasn't rendered completely immobile like last time, he was slowed down so drastically that it hardly made a meaningful difference.

On top of that, he didn't have a lightning array set up like last time, so even if he could temporarily free himself, there would be no way for him to get away.

However, that didn't mean that he was completely powerless, in the next instant, a layer of silver flames appeared over his body like a suit of silver armor, giving off formidable fire law power fluctuations.

As soon as the layer of silver flames appeared, the space around Han Li immediately began to shimmer and warp, and the fiery spiritual light around him also began to ripple slightly in an unsteady fashion.

"Impossible! How could mere fire law powers possibly oppose one of the three paramount laws?" Qi Mozi exclaimed with an incredulous expression.

Despite his astonishment, he was still very quick to react, and he swept a sleeve through the air to release the same black hatchet as last time, which hurtled directly toward Han Li as a streak of black light.

Without the golden ripples released by his Mantra Treasured Axis to protect him, the black hatchet was able to quickly reach him.

The silver flames on Han Li's body were torn apart by the tremendous force behind the hatchet, yet right as it was about to strike him, a layer of golden light formed by golden sand particles surged out of a golden hourglass hovering beside Han Li to oppose the hatchet.

At the same time, a golden vial appeared above him, and a layer of liquid-like golden spiritual light poured out of the mouth of the vial before wrapping itself around the hilt of the hatchet.

Upon striking the golden sand particles, it was as if the hatchet had fallen into a time vortex, and it was constantly sinking, but was unable to break through the sand particles to strike Han Li.

Meanwhile, spots of decay began to appear on the hilt of the hatchet from the effects of the water of time that had poured out of the Clear Time Vial, and even though the decay was only limited to the hatchet's surface, this was still an astonishing sight, given that the hatchet was an immortal treasure of a very high caliber.

A dark look appeared on Qi Mozi's face upon seeing this, and he sprang up into the air before closing in on rapidly on Han Li, seemingly completely unaffected by Han Li's spirit domain.

As he drew closer, the golden torch that was hovering in front of him also inched closer and closer to Han Li, and the fiery spiritual light that it was releasing became more and more potent as a result.

The silver flames on Han Li's body were beginning to waver, clearly struggling to contend against Qi Mozi's Time Severing Flowing Fire.

Right at this moment, Han Li drew upon all of the immortal spiritual power in his body and channeled his Great Five Elemental Illusion Mantra with all his might.

A vast expanse of radiant golden light erupted out of his body as all five of his time-attribute law treasures appeared in unison, with each of them giving off its own unique time law power fluctuations.

However, on this occasion, even though the five time-attribute law treasures were resonating with one another, they didn't fuse as one to form that golden ring.

Hence, the five bursts of time law powers were still in a scattered state, and they were unable to keep Qi Mozi at bay.

However, right at his moment, an astonishing turn of events ensued.