Chapter 701

Compared to when Shi Chuankong collected the treasures, there was no longer a sense of unity between the three Celestial Artifacts that was enveloped by invisible waves. There was only a trace of an extremely weak and peculiar aura between them.

Han Li's eyes narrowed slightly. He reached out with one hand and grabbed the golden compass closest to him.

This time, there was no strange phenomenon. Han Li easily took the treasure of the Truth Sect.

After a flash of golden light, the golden compass disappeared and was kept in the Storage Bracelet by Han Li.

As soon as it disappeared, the stagnant time in the hall flowed again.

The spatial cracks that were expanding slowly before suddenly expanded several times at the same time.

Two soft "pu pu" sounds rang out, and a large amount of blood spurted out from Maple Forest's neck. Immediately, it rained down everywhere. Gui Tian's body also let out a "si si" sound, and a gray smoke gushed out from his body.

The two of them had no time to figure out what was going on. Their figures were swallowed by the expanding spatial cracks.

The rest of the people were shocked. They moved and dodged.

The Hot Flame Immortal avoided the spatial cracks not far away from him. His heart was palpitating when he thought of the short memory. If it wasn't for Han Li's help, he would be in the same situation as the two of them.

Han Li suddenly felt his body relax. When he looked at the Wheel of Truth again, the three Crystalline Time Threads had already been completely incinerated.

His figure flashed and rushed forward again. He raised his hand and grabbed the Mi Luo Sutra Banner.

"Boom!"

But just when his palm was about to touch the Sutra Banner, a violent spatial fluctuation came.

A black crack that was far more terrifying than the previous spatial cracks appeared from behind the Mi Luo Sutra Banner and Luo Zha's Pipa, and directly swallowed half of the hall.

The Mi Luo Sutra Banner and Luo Zha's Pipa also fell into it and fell into the deep darkness.

Han Li gazed at the spatial rift that was enormous to the point it seemed like an abyss, and he sighed in his heart. Even though he was reluctant in his heart, he wasn't willing to risk his life, so he withdrew the Wheel of Truth into his body and madly circulated the energy in his body, intending to flee this place.

However, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Shi Chuankong's body had been enveloped in a suit of strange silver and black armor. The light around his body blurred, and he disappeared on the spot in a flash.

Han Li sensed something and turned his head to look into the abyss crack. He saw a blurry figure suddenly appear beside Luo Zha's pipa. It was Shi Chuankong.

With a wave of his hand, he grabbed the silver pipa, and his figure blurred again.

"Madman …"

Han Li cursed and ignored him. He turned around and was about to fly out of the hall.

In front of him, Hot Flame Immortal, Su Liu, and the others had already fled out of the hall. Only a white skeleton covered in a gray robe moved in the opposite direction, passing by Han Li, and went straight to Shi Chuankong.

The skeleton, who was called "Mr. Bone" by other Rat Immortals, shone with gray light in the bone staff in his hand. It suddenly expanded and turned into a white bone scythe that was dozens of meters long. It drew a huge shadow of the scythe in the void and slashed at Shi Chuankong.

Shi Chuankong had just escaped from the abyss crack. His face was pale, and the silver and black armor on his body seemed to have exhausted its spiritual energy. It was extremely dim. Not to mention resisting this blow, it was impossible for him to dodge it.

There was a touch of determination on his face, and a white sharp bone protruded from his palm. A large amount of red blood suffused with silver light flowed out of it. He wiped it on Luo Zha's pipa, and his fingers slightly buckled, plucking the strings heavily.

"Clang …"

An indescribable sharp sound rang out.

Han Li was just about to jump out of the hall when he suddenly felt as if he was hit by an invisible sound wave. His whole body was pulled by a strange force and stopped on the spot.

Immediately after, he felt an extremely strong spatial fluctuation coming from behind him.

When he turned his head to look, he couldn't see Shi Chuankong and Mister Bone's figures at all. He could only see that the originally chaotic space had become even more fragmented. Numerous enormous vortexes that were either incomparably pitch-black or misty appeared from all over the place, completely tearing the entire hall apart.

Han Li felt very bitter in his heart. He wanted to burn the Time Crystal Thread, but it was already too late. One of the gray vortexes that was hundreds of meters in circumference rapidly expanded, and like a huge mouth that could swallow the sky, it swallowed him.

He only felt as if he had fallen into a rapidly rotating vortex. The world was spinning, and the sky was dark. His whole body seemed to fall apart, and even his consciousness was gradually fading.

After an unknown period of time, Han Li only felt a sharp pain in his head, and only then did he wake up from the dizziness.

He supported his body with his palm, and barely sat up. His hand felt extremely dry, and his hand was covered with fine dust.

Enduring the soreness all over his body, Han Li raised his palm to his eyes to examine it, but found that his vision was blurry, and he couldn't focus on his palm at all.

He shook his head heavily, and secretly operated the Spirit Cultivation Art. After a while, his consciousness gradually became clear.

When his vision returned to normal, he saw that his hand was covered with a layer of gray dust. He rubbed his fingers lightly, and the dust slightly stuck together.

He frowned, and scattered the dust in his palm. He turned his head and glanced around. As far as his eyes could see, the ground was covered with gray dust, and he couldn't see the end of it at a glance.

What is this place?

The scene of him being sucked into the space vortex came to his mind, and Han Li couldn't help but be a little startled.

The sky that was connected to the horizon looked gloomy, and there seemed to be a thick layer of lead-gray clouds above it, pressing the skyline extremely low, giving people the illusion that the distance between the heavens and the earth was no more than a thousand feet.

In the depths of the clouds, one could vaguely see three dim yellow lights hanging high, as if there were three suns.

The extremely low sky and the surrounding gray color, coupled with the indescribable smell in the surrounding air, made him feel very uncomfortable, and his heart gave birth to an exceptionally depressed feeling.

After a moment of meditation, Han Li checked his own condition, and found that there were no injuries, but then his expression suddenly became a little ugly.

He suddenly found that the feeling of being in harmony with the world in his body had disappeared, and his body couldn't absorb the world's Spiritual Qi.

Is the spiritual aperture in my body sealed?

Han Li was shocked, and quickly closed his eyes to carefully explore.

After a while, his eyes slowly opened, and his heart slightly relaxed, but his eyes couldn't help but become dignified. There was nothing wrong with his spiritual aperture, but the problem was his environment at the moment.

In the world around him, there was no world's Spiritual Qi remaining, but instead, there were traces of Evil Qi mixed in the air. When he first woke up, he thought that it was the Evil Qi in his body that caused trouble, but now he understood that it was the world that caused trouble.

Han Li narrowed his eyes, turned his hand, took out a yellow medicinal pill, and slowly stood up after swallowing it.

"No matter what, I have to figure out where this place is first …" He muttered to himself, and his eyes lit up. His Divine Sense suddenly expanded, exploring in all directions.

"Huh …" After a while, he let out a soft cry, and looked in a direction.

Due to the low canopy of the sky, he could only see a gray scene. After thinking for a moment, the light on his body brightened, and he rose from the ground, flying in that direction.

After flying for about a dozen miles, Han Li was suspended in the sky, and a blurred figure appeared at the end of his sight. It seemed to be trapped in a strange gray-brown area.

Chen Xi frowned and flew towards that direction. The closer he got, the clearer the appearance of that figure became. Surprisingly, it was a handsome man in a violet robe with curly hair that was like snow, and it was Shi Chuankong.

At this moment, he seemed to be in a coma. His aura was very weak, and his Divine Sense didn't fluctuate at all. His body was trapped in a swamp with dark brown bubbles.

Han Li glanced around and found that the Evil Qi in this swamp was several times richer than in the air. While it was pulling Shi Chuankong's body into the depths of the swamp, it was also invading his body crazily.

If it weren't for the purple jade spiritual pendant hanging on his waist, protecting its owner with its own spirituality without anyone activating it, his body would have been completely destroyed by the Evil Qi at this moment.

However, the purple jade spiritual pendant was a dead object after all. Without spiritual power, it couldn't be maintained for a long time. At this time, the spiritual light emitted on the surface had become very faint, and it would be exhausted in a few minutes. At that time, it wouldn't be able to protect Shi Chuankong anymore.

Before that, his body would completely sink into the swamp and disappear from this world.

Regarding Shi Chuankong, Han Li didn't have a good impression of him, and he even wanted to deliberately alienate him. On one hand, he didn't want Shi Chuankong to find out his true identity. On the other hand, he felt that Shi Chuankong's identity was a secret, and he couldn't get close to him.

However, if he had any hostility toward Shi Chuankong, there was no way to talk about it.

So after hesitating for a while, Han Li still rolled his sleeves and waved a green light to wrap Shi Chuankong's body, trying to pull him out of the swamp.

However, under this pull, he suddenly felt a strong force pulling Shi Chuankong's body like a tug-of-war, dragging him down into the swamp.

Han Li was shocked, and his eyes flickered with purple light. He hurriedly looked down at Shi Chuankong's body.

Just now when he used his Divine Sense to explore, he only found a weak spiritual fluctuation and a relatively strong Evil Qi here, but he didn't find any demonic beasts hiding again.

Under the gaze of the Magic Eyes of Ninth Serenity, Han Li's eyes suddenly flashed, and his figure swept straight up into the sky like lightning.

As soon as he flew into the sky, the ground below him trembled violently. The grayish-brown swamp fluctuated violently, and huge bubbles kept popping up and rising upward.

Immediately thereafter, the ground beneath Han Li began to split up into close to 100 regions with a radius of over 100 feet. These regions were like black lotus petals, and all of them were stacked on top of one another as they converged toward the center.

If Han Li hadn't noticed the abnormality in advance and escaped, he would have been swallowed by the swamp at this moment.

However, although he avoided it, Shi Chuankong was trapped in it, and he was about to be completely submerged by the swamp.

"What the hell is this …" Han Li cursed, and there was already a sword light in his hand.

With a wave of his arm, a sharp green sword Qi, entwined with strands of golden electric threads, slashed toward the strange swamp below.

"Zi la la …"

After a burst of golden light, there was a "gu gu" sound coming from the dark brown swamp, and then it exploded with a "bang".

Han Li reversed the True Wheel in his body, and his figure flashed continuously, shuttling through the exploded swamp fragments. He came to the side of Shi Chuankong, grabbed his clothes in front of his chest, and retreated.

After flying for more than a hundred feet, Han Li suddenly felt a burning pain on his arm. When he looked over, he found that there were more than a dozen black tentacles that were as thick as a pinky finger on Shi Chuankong's back. Hundreds of hair-like black crystal threads had split off from them, and many of them had already climbed up his arm.

Along with the searing pain, Han Li could also sense a burst of powerful and invasive baleful Qi surging into his body in a frenzy through those tiny wounds.

He frowned, and with a thought, there was a silver light on his shoulder, and a small silver flame flashed out from it. It slid down his arm and landed on those black crystal threads.

As soon as he came into contact with the black crystal thread, he opened his mouth and spat it out. A blazing silver flame lit up in the depths of his throat and surged out. It spread along the crystal thread all the way to the black tentacles on Shi Chuankong's body and burned fiercely.

Accompanied by a somewhat pungent smell, the black tentacles immediately separated from Shi Chuankong's body and fell into the swamp below.

"Burn them all …" Han Li shouted in a low voice.

The small silver flame person immediately leaped into the air and spread its arms in mid-air. It immediately transformed into a huge silver flame bird and swooped down, smashing into the ground with a loud bang.

The silver flame immediately spread and engulfed the area within a radius of a few hundred feet.

Han Li hovered in the air and saw that the ground below was shaking violently. It actually started to collapse bit by bit, and finally formed a huge pit with a radius of a few hundred feet.

The silver flame bird flew back and transformed back into the small silver flame person, landing on Han Li's shoulder. Its small face was slightly wrinkled, and it didn't have the slightest bit of joy from its triumphant return.

"You don't like the environment here?" Han Li turned to look at it and asked tentatively.

The small silver flame person hurriedly nodded.

"I don't like it either. Return to my body first, and let's leave this place," Han Li said with a smile.

The small silver flame person immediately flashed and disappeared on Han Li's shoulder.

Han Li put away his Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword and looked down at Shi Chuankong, who was still in his hand. Only then did he realize that the back of Shi Chuankong's neck had turned black, and it was obvious that he had been invaded by the Evil Qi.

He furrowed his brows. After finding a direction, he flew away and left this place.

Han Li had his Magic Eyes of the Ninth Secret open all the way. He found a safe greyish-white rocky beach and flew down.

After landing, he turned Shi Chuankong's body upside down. After checking, he found that the Evil Qi in Shi Chuankong's body had accumulated quite a lot. In addition, Shi Chuankong seemed to have suffered a lot of injuries in the ruins of the Truth Sect, so he couldn't wake up on his own at this moment.

If this situation was allowed to continue, even if he didn't continue to absorb the Evil Qi, his life might not be in danger. However, it would be difficult to preserve his body, and it would be the end of his cultivation path.

"Forget it … I'll save you until the end. As for whether you can wake up and recover, it will depend on your own luck." Han Li's eyes slightly narrowed as he murmured.

After saying that, he turned his wrist and a longan-sized, ink-like pill appeared in his palm. It exuded a faint spicy smell. It was the "Evil Spirit Pill" that he had refined before.

This pill was not easy to refine, and it had a strong effect on dispelling the Evil Qi. Unfortunately, for Han Li, it was only a temporary solution. It could only be used as a means to control the Evil Qi's backlash. He had consumed a lot of it, and now he only had two left, including this one.

After thinking for a while, Han Li picked up the pill and stuffed it into Shi Chuankong's mouth. He raised his hand and pressed on Shi Chuankong's throat, guiding the pill into his stomach.

"Uh …" Shi Chuankong's eyebrows were twisted into a knot. His face was full of pain, and his throat made a difficult sound.

There was a hissing sound coming from the wound on his back, and wisps of black Evil Qi rose from it.

Han Li looked at the side for a moment, then walked to the side and sat down cross-legged.

He first checked the injury on his arm. After seeing that it was not a serious problem, he turned his hand and took out a Celestial Core Stone, held it in his palm, and absorbed the Celestial Spiritual Power contained in it.

In this area, it was impossible to recover the Celestial Spiritual Power by absorbing the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Power, so he could only replenish it in this way.

…

Time passed by bit by bit, and the sky quickly became dark. The surroundings began to be filled with greyish-white mist, and the Evil Qi contained in it began to become thicker.

Han Li slowly opened his eyes and glanced around. He turned his hand and took out pieces of Array Disc and Array Flag, then set them up in the surroundings.

After embedding the Spirit Stones, a layer of pale golden hemispherical light curtain appeared out of thin air, enveloping both of them.

Han Li glanced at Shi Chuankong and found that he was still in a coma, and there was no sign of him waking up. However, his eyebrows were slightly relaxed, and it seemed that he was not as painful as he was at the beginning.

However, there was still black smoke rising from the wound on his back, and it continued to dissipate into the surroundings.

Han Li withdrew his gaze and looked up into the sky with a feeling in his heart. He saw that the thick dark clouds seemed to be thicker under the curtain of the night, as if the sky was covering the top, and the feeling of oppression was even stronger than during the day.

In the depths of the dark clouds, there was a string of hazy light. It was cold and deep, and there wasn't much light. However, there were actually six full moons.