Han Li took a deep look down the cliff and said, “It’s no matter . Regardless of how powerful that being may be, it should’ve been immensely weakened after being suppressed for so many years . Furthermore, there should’ve been many late-Nascent Soul cultivators to deal with it . ”
Soon after, he beckoned to Gui Ling and the two slowly floated down .
The darkness was unfathomably deep . After floating down for a quarter hour, they still hadn’t reached the bottom .
Han Li felt both sullen and bewildered .
At this depth, his surroundings had already become shadowed and dark, and his vision was limited .
He raised his head and could only faintly see a white dot shining far away .
Under the present restrictions limiting one’s spiritual sense, a common cultivator would only be able to sense movement within a hundred meters .
But Han Li had the Brightsight Spirit Eyes, allowing him to clearly see a kilometer around him .
As they continued to drop, Gui Ling suddenly shouted, “Fellow Daoist Han, below us!”
Stirred by her words, he looked down .
Specks of light glowed not far below them and they could see the faint outline of a huge building .
His expression stirred and he moved to get a closer look when saw something flash from the corner of his eye . A crimson light was silently sweeping towards him from the darkness .
He was suddenly barraged by a bloody scent assailing his nose which filled him with absolute disgust .
‘Master Scatterwind!’ Han Li’s heart trembled .
The crimson light was as fast as lightning, arriving before him in the blink of an eye . If it weren’t for his continued vigilance, he feared that he would’ve been too slow to act .
He quickly raised his hand and summoned a sparkling small silver disk: the Tailstar Essence Shield .
It violently surged in size and a sheen of white light emerged from it to cover Han Li .
Before an eye could even blink, crimson light cascaded around him, leaving him completely surrounded .
Hiss . A three-meter-long saber suddenly emerged from the light and struck the silver barrier .
The saber appeared peculiar as it was as narrow as two fingers and as thin as paper, not to mention the demonic crimson glow on its surface .
The barrier swayed from the strike before shattering into tiny fragments . The saber moved on to directly strike at the Tailstar Essence Shield .
The shield brilliantly flashed and its surface turned sleek as a mirror . Crimson and silver intertwined, finding them at a deadlock for the time being .
Just as the tension in his heart eased, the blood saber suddenly warped and twisted around the shield with an unbelievable flexibility .
Seeing that the saber had snaked around to strike him, he shot backward and flicked his fingers, releasing azure swordstreaks to repel it .
Clangs of metal sounded out as the saber incisively slid through all of them in a single blow and continued towards Han Li without the slightest obstruction .
Han Li’s face paled and he opened his mouth to spit out an object wrapped in azure light .
A crisp clang rang as the crimson saber was blocked by not the object, but the light that surrounded it . It was the Heavenvoid Cauldron .
“Yi!” A surprised yelp came from the distance .
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Han Li summoned his Thunderstorm Wings and blinked over thirty meters away . He then raised his hand and had the Tailstar Essence Shield and the Heavenvoid Cauldron shoot back towards him .
Then, the crimson light surrounding him surged and rushed at him in every direction, filling the air with a disgusting bloody scent .
Han Li coldly snorted and held his hands in an incantation gesture . Thunder sounded out and a barrier of golden lightning emerged from his body, dispersing the crimson that attempted to approach him and held them at bay .
Divine Devilbane Lightning! When the hidden figure saw this, he was surprised and knew that they had encountered a fearsome opponent .
Han Li looked at the figure in the distance and coldly said, “Master Scatterwind? Is that you?”
The person didn’t reply . Instead, the saber let out a hum and absorbed all of the crimson light nearby . Then in a blur, the figure disappeared into the darkness along with the weapon .
“Fellow Daoist, are you alright?”
The ambush had taken place in only a moment, and Gui Ling was caught off guard . She anxiously asked about his well being, fearing that he would rebuke her afterwards .
“Yes . As I expected, it does resemble a Devil Dragon Blade . A common treasure would’ve been split in two by the initial attack, but my shield managed to block it well enough,” Han Li calmly stated . Then with a wave of his arm, the Tailstar Shield returned to his hand .
When he glanced it over, he saw a deep slender cut on the surface . Han Li’s eyes widened in surprise and he frowned .
As he poured great amounts of spiritual power into it, silver light began to wander across its surface and the cut was slowly mended . With a now restored shield, he put it away and absorbed the cauldron back into his body .
“Did Brother Han clearly see the person’s appearance?”
“No, spiritual light masked his body, I wasn’t able to see if he was truly Master Scatterwind . However, his cultivation didn’t seem very high . ” With that said, he turned to look at the silhouette of the large building and narrowed his eyes in contemplation .
Although Gui Ling wished to proceed, she didn’t know what he was thinking and simply remained at his side .
Without raising his head, he indifferently said, “Fellow Daoist Gui, I will treat your hesitation to act as a single mistake and ignore it . I hope you will not have any further thoughts of this in the future . ” Then, he flew down in an azure streak before she could reply .
Gui Ling felt her heart thump, but was relieved after hearing that he didn’t plan on harming her . But for a time, her expression was conflicted . She did have a few erring thoughts a moment ago, and it seemed that the Han Li had sensed this from the portion of her soul possessing her lifesoul tile .
A long while later, Gui Ling let out a wry laugh and helplessly followed suit .
Han Li arrived above a huge square platform and began to calmly examine his surroundings .
Apart from veiled steps heading downward, there was no other course .
“So this is the Devil Suppressing Pagoda,” he muttered .
Gui Ling landed behind him . Having heard his words, she quickly explained, “You may not know this, but the pagoda is structured quite oddly . They constructed it so that its peak is on the lowest floor . The deeper one heads in, the more fearsome the monsters it imprisons .
“So it was like that!” Han Li nodded and looked around him once more . He acted as if nothing from moments ago had happened at all, causing her to hold him in even more fear .
He tossed a moonlight stone into the air and had it float above him . After calling out to Gui Ling, they began the descent into the pagoda .
The first few floors were exceptionally wide and peaceful as there were no ghosts inside . It seemed the cultivators who arrived first had cleanly wiped them out .
However, there were many signs of battle . There was fighting to prevent others from heading further inside .
When he arrived on the third floor, a scorched corpse lay sprawling at the side of a stone pillar . Han Li examined it for a while before concluding that it didn’t belong to someone he could recognize, likely a Ye Clan cultivator .
However, this one had released his Nascent Soul before his body perished, but it was unknown if it managed to successfully escape .
Oddly, there was nothing of note on the fourth floor, but once he entered the fifth, he found two more corpses . One was a shade of dark green, having perished from some kind of fierce poison . As for the other, it belonged to the large man from the band of vagrant cultivators . His head was lobbed to the side and his body was shredded to pieces . His severed head donned a face of disbelief .
Although Han Li felt his heart tremble at the sight of this, he didn’t slow his stride . After turning the corpses to ash, he solemnly entered the sixth floor .
To his unexpected surprise, he found a living person, a palace-robed woman sealed in a huge chunk of ice — Bai Yaoyi .
Her eyes were shut and she had her hands clasped in a gesture around a crystalline flying sword .
If it weren’t for the faint spiritual fluctuations he sensed from her, he would’ve believed her to be dead from her deathly white complexion .
However, he didn’t immediately free her and instead swept his entire spiritual sense past the floor . When he made sure the area was clear, he softly placed his hand against the block of ice .
Then with a crackle, a layer of purple flames ignited from his palm and quickly ate away at the cold Qi .
In the blink of an eye, the huge chunk shrunk and soon, Bai Yaoyi was released .
As the last of the ice evaporated from her body, her eyelashes fluttered before she opened her eyes .
When she saw that Han Li had appeared in front of her, her tense expression instantly relaxed .
“So it was Brother Han! I had begun to worry . ” Bai Yaoyi weakly smiled . It was clear her vitality was greatly weakened .
Han Li frowned and examined the woman’s expression before slowly asking, “If I remember correctly, Fellow Daoist Bai cultivated an ice-attribute technique . Could it be that you sealed yourself in the ice?”
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