Chapter 497: Infiltration
"Your time law powers confirms it... You were the one who killed my disciples, weren't you?" Feng Tiandu asked in a cold voice as he glowered intently at Han Li.
"That's right," Han Li replied in a calm manner.
"Don't think that you have a right to get cocky just because you've developed a half-assed mastery over the laws of time! I'll send you to your grave right here and now!" Feng Tiandu threatened in a dark voice.
"You killed two of his disciples? Well done! I'll have to treat you to a cup of wine for that alone!" Daoist Hu Yan jibed.
"I want an entire flagon," Han Li negotiated with a smile.
"Deal!" Daoist Hu Yan immediately chuckled as he tightened his grip around his longsword.
Right at this moment, Ouyang Kuishan took a glance at the pill cauldron, then exclaimed in an urgent voice, "We have to hurry! Those two pills are about to be fed to that living corpse!"
Daoist Hu Yan was just about to respond when Han Li said, "Focus on breaking the restriction and securing the pills. In the meantime, I'll show Grand Elder Feng here just how cocky I can get with my half-assed mastery over the laws of time!"
As soon as his voice trailed off, he shot out of Daoist Hu Yan's fiery spirit domain, charging toward Feng Tiandu alone.
Yun Ni and Ouyang Kuishan were both quite startled by this, and they turned to Daoist Hu Yan with surprised expressions.
"There's no need to worry about him, let's go secure the pills," Daoist Hu Yan said with a smile.
After that, the three of them really did abandon Han Li to face Feng Tiandu on his own, while they began to devise a plan to break the fiery restriction.
However, what everyone failed to notice wast that one of the cocoons of chains not far away from the palace gates had suddenly toppled over, and the pile of dark red chains had clattered down onto the ground to reveal that the person who was supposed to be trapped inside was nowhere to be seen.
Almost at the exact same moment, a figure silently emerged above the undulating sea of chains to the right of the palace, then rushed toward a corner of the palace, and it was none other than that elderly woman from the Southern Dawn Race.
At this point, her golden cane had already disappeared, and it was replaced in her grasp by a palm-sized yellow badge that had a very irregular shape.
The badge was riddled with layers upon layers of strange runes, which were giving off peculiar law power fluctuations.
There was a layer of dark red light over her body, and she was traveling at an extraordinary speed, leaving a crimson shadow in her wake. Before anyone else had a chance to react, she had already arrived in front of the sea of fire.
Once there, she immediately tossed the yellow badge forward, and it vanished into the sea of fire in the blink of an eye.
As soon as the badge entered the flames, it immediately melted away as if it were made from wax, and a series of runes flew out of it before fusing into the surrounding flames.
On the other side of the palace, a string of loud clangs rang out as a barrage of dark red chains shot through the air like crimson spears, raining down upon Han Li with tremendous force.
Han Li was holding his Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword in one hand, while silver light surged over his body, and he was whizzing through the air in a wraith-like fashion, evading the barrage of dark red chains with ease.
Feng Tiandu was becoming more and more frustrated by the second, and he began charging forward himself while making a string of hand seals, sending countless black chains shooting toward Han Li from all directions out of his black spirit domain.
At the same time, he made a beckoning motion with one hand, and a dark red chain abruptly sprang up from beneath Han Li's feet like a spitting viper, and its sharp tip was giving off a cold flame as it pierced toward his ankle.
Han Li had already anticipated such an attack, and he slashed his longsword downward, releasing a bolt of golden lightning that struck the dark red chain in the blink of an eye.
The bolt of lightning shot through the chain as an electric current, rapidly spreading through all of the chains in a large area to form a sea of golden lightning.
As soon as Feng Tiandu flew into the sea of lightning, he felt as if he had jumped into a pot of scalding oil, and he involuntarily let loose an agonized howl.
Everyone's attention was instantly drawn to him upon hearing this, and even the elderly woman from the Southern Dawn Race had temporarily diverted her gaze away from the sea of fire.
A hint of befuddlement flashed through her eyes as she took a glance at Han Li, following which she returned her gaze to the sea of fire before her.
Right at this moment, the flames that the yellow badge had just melted into suddenly began to contract drastically, forming a series of tiny crimson flames.
The elderly woman's eyes immediately lit up upon seeing this, and she shot through the opening in a flash.
She was immediately followed by the four Vast Flow Palace Golden Immortals, who attempted to pass through the opening after her, but as soon as they got close, the opening was abruptly sealed again, and the flames almost swallowed up the Golden Immortal that was leading the way out of the four.
"What is that badge? It seemed to have contained some type of law powers," Yun Ni mused with a puzzled expression.
"Could it be the laws of fire?" Ouyang Kuishan speculated with furrowed brows.
"No. I don't know what it is, but I can sense that it's not the laws of fire. In any case, let's focus on breaking this restriction," Daoist Hu Yan replied with a shake of his head.
Meanwhile, the elderly woman had only just charged into the sea of fire when she was confronted by a pair of white humanoid figures.
The yellow spirit patterns on their bodies were glowing brightly, and each of them was holding a standard yellow saber as they rushed at her from the left and the right.
Layers of ripples were spreading through the surrounding space, and a burst of extremely heavy law power fluctuations were converging from both directions, as if there were a pair of mountain faces closing in on the elderly woman.
The elderly woman could feel the air constrict around her, and right at this moment, a burst of dark red light shot out of her body, then instantly swelled to form a spirit domain that was over 100 feet in radius, just large enough to encompass the two gray puppets.
Immediately thereafter, a series of thin dark red threads emerged in the space within the spirit domain, and they shot forth toward all of the gray puppets' joints.
The dark red threads were able to pierce through the bodies of the seemingly indestructible puppets with ease, making them appear like a pair of wooden puppets on strings.
However, what was rather strange was that their movements weren't affected at all, and they continued to charge at the elderly woman, compressing the air around her to such an extent that her robes were tightly pressed against her body.
The elderly woman's eyes narrowed slightly, and she crossed her hands over, upon which two of the thin threads that had pierced into the gray puppets abruptly stretched taut, yanking their heads backward.
"There it is," she murmured to herself as she made a rapid string of hand seals, and the pair of gray puppets instantly stiffened as bursts of yellow light lit up on the backs of their necks, flowing incessantly along the pair of dark red threads before dissipating into the air.
As the yellow light faded, so did the yellow spirit patterns on the puppets' bodies, and by the time the yellow light was completely gone, the pressure weighing down upon the elderly woman was also completely lifted.
Without their earth law powers, the two gray puppets could no longer pose any impediment to the elderly woman, and she passed between them in a flash, charging directly at the pill cauldron behind them.
The two golden puppets who were carrying the High Zenith Pills to the living corpse seemed to have sensed her approach, and they both swung around at once before each throwing an almighty punch.
Countless lightning runes surged over their fists, and a golden vortex took shape at the center, releasing a burst of peculiar suction force that acted upon the elderly woman's body.
At the same time, the gray stone statues standing on either side of the palace began to move as yellow light emerged over their bodies, while the giant yellow go board projection was also beginning to take shape.
"What a fool," the elderly Golden Immortal from the Vast Flow Palace scoffed with a cold sneer on his face.
However, as soon as his voice trailed off, he felt a blur flash past his eyes, immediately following which the elderly woman appeared at the foot of the raised platform that held the large golden chair, having passed through between the pair of golden puppets in the blink of an eye.
The golden vortex between them was already nowhere to be seen, and there were only some thin arcs of golden lightning flashing through the air, but they no longer held any degree of significant power.
As for the yellow go board projection, it didn't even have a chance to activate before she was already past it.
Everyone was astonished to see this, and their attention was instantly drawn to the elderly woman.
Meanwhile, Feng Tiandu had already emerged from Han Li's sea of golden lightning, and he seemed to have realized that Han Li was not an opponent to be taken lightly, so he was taking a more patient approach, temporarily engaging in a standoff against Han Li.
Both of them also had their attention drawn to what was happening on the other side of the palace, and to their befuddlement, they noticed that two golden puppets were still each holding a High Zenith Pill.
For some reason, the elderly woman hadn't taken those pills as she was passing by the puppets.
Instead, she strode directly onto the stone platform, then flipped a hand over to produce a black pill that was giving off hints of law power fluctuations.
That's an Origin Void Pill!
Han Li was immediately able to identify the pill as none other than the Origin Void Pill that he had personally refined, and he cast his gaze toward the elderly woman with slightly furrowed brows.
"What are you doing?" Feng Tiandu yelled as his expression changed drastically.
The elderly woman turned around to take a glance at everyone, following which a peculiar smile appeared on her face, and she pinched the living corpse's chin between her fingers, then tilted its head back before feeding it the Origin Void Pill.
The pill slid straight down into the living corpse's stomach, which the elderly woman observed it intently with anticipation in her eyes.
As for everyone else, they were all looking on in befuddlement.
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