Wang Yu
Chapter 1080: A Promise of a Punch
“Brother Han, he only told you not to dodge and to meet the attack head-on, but he didn't say you couldn't use magic treasures or immortal artifacts. I can lend you the Heavenly Fox Blood Transformation Blade temporarily. Using it to take his punch should give you a better chance of winning,” Hu San also transmitted.
“Thank you for your kindness, but Han has his own plans,” Han Li replied with a smile.
Jiao San and Hu San exchanged puzzled glances upon hearing this, but they didn't try to persuade him further.
“If you have any protective robes or the like, it's best to wear as many as you can. As long as you don't dodge, you can make any preparations you want. I won't hold back in this punch,” the young man grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth.
“No need,” Han Li shook his head and said.
Having said that, he looked at Jiao San and the others and transmitted a message, reminding them to move away from him for now.
Upon hearing this, they all retreated more than ten miles away and looked back from a distance.
“What exactly is Brother Han up to? Can he really withstand the full force of that Golden Devouring Immortal?” Hu San wondered.
“This… I'm not sure either. But based on what I know of him, he never fights a battle he's not confident in. Since he has agreed, let's just wait and see,” Jiao San said, shaking his head.
Xiong Shan didn't say anything, but he was the most relaxed of the three. He even faintly felt that this Grand Luo-level Golden Devouring Immortal was likely to be tricked by Han Li.
After seeing them move away, Han Li gently hooked his finger, and a spherical light barrier expanded outward, encompassing an area of over a thousand zhang.
“The Temporal Domain… What? Do you intend to rely on the laws of time to block my attack?” the young man raised an eyebrow and said.
“You may begin,” Han Li replied calmly, without answering.
Having said that, he took a step back, assumed a fighting stance, and simultaneously activated the *Heavenly Fiend Suppressing Prison Skill* and the *Great Five Elements World Illusion Art*, causing the immortal spiritual power within his body to surge like a torrent.
“Interesting…” the young man said with a slight frown, looking intrigued.
As soon as his words fell, golden light burst forth from his body, his robes billowed without wind, and the front of his garment fluttered.
Beneath his feet, circles of golden light continuously expanded and spread, like ripples on a lake, reaching hundreds of miles.
“Rustle, rustle…”
Under the impact of this force, large areas of desert sand jumped and danced, as if cheering for joy.
Jiao San and the others felt this power and their expressions changed. Looking at Han Li from afar, a hint of doubt appeared in their eyes.
Han Li, being closest to the young man, naturally felt the most pressure. However, although he was shaken inside, his face remained calm, and he urged the immortal spiritual power even more urgently.
“Are you ready?” At this moment, the young man raised an eyebrow and asked with a smile.
At the same time, he took a step back, pulling his fist back to his waist, and began to gather power.
Han Li still didn't speak, but his body also shone with golden light.
Behind him, a golden treasure wheel rotated, the runes on its surface shining brightly. After flying out, it merged with the surrounding temporal domain, causing the treasure wheel to spin and rise into the air like a bright moon overhead, releasing soft rays of light that illuminated the surroundings.
Immediately afterward, Illusory Dust Sand spread across the ground, merging with the golden sand on the surface, making it almost impossible to distinguish them. However, the flowing light on it caused the surrounding terrain to change, and a continuous range of mountain peaks rose up.
Then, the Eastern Azure Divine Wood was reborn, transforming into a vast ancient forest, filling the mountains and forests.
The Water of Time seemed to descend from the sky, transforming into a winding river, flowing between the mountains and forests.
A handful of golden torches scattered countless golden sparks, flying backward into the sky like dense stars, scattered across the night sky.
“This is…”
Seeing such strange scenes appear, the young man's expression also changed slightly.
However, he was not Qi Mozi after all, and did not understand the mysteries of the *Great Five Elements World Illusion Art*. He only felt it was novel and had not yet realized that his state was undergoing strange changes.
“Heh heh, what use are these strange, illusory things to me?” Although he felt the flow of time around him becoming increasingly slow, and his own movements becoming increasingly restricted, the young man still shouted.
As he spoke, the golden light outside his body had reached its peak, and the accumulated momentum was complete, causing wind and thunder to erupt all over his body.
At this moment, he stopped his retreating steps and punched forward.
“Rumble…”
A thunderous sound erupted in the void, and a huge golden fist shadow suddenly flew out, seemingly unaffected by the power of the laws of time, overlapping heavily in the void as it shot straight towards Han Li.
However, at the moment the fist shadow flew out, the young man's expression suddenly changed. He found that the power of this punch was far weaker than he had expected.
Immediately afterward, his expression changed again and again, finally realizing what had happened to him.
Han Li, who was facing him from afar, was not relaxed either. The temporal crystal threads he had previously condensed had now consumed most of their power, causing him to feel a pang of pain. He quickly put away the various phenomena of the Five Elements World Illusion.
As the surrounding phenomena diminished, the speed of the incoming fist shadow suddenly increased, reaching Han Li almost instantly.
However, he had been prepared for this. The *Heavenly Fiend Suppressing Prison Skill* he had been running had also been activated to the extreme, and he punched out at the golden fist shadow as well.
This punch didn't mobilize the immortal spiritual power that had been significantly consumed earlier. Instead, it condensed the power of his entire body's Stellar Energy onto the tip of his fist, unleashing it with a single strike!
With a "boom," a blast sounded!
The golden fist shadow almost grazed Han Li's fist as it fell, and his fist, at that moment, blossomed with a snow-bright white light, like a sudden snowstorm or the explosion of the sun.
Golden light and white light intertwined and erupted simultaneously, creating an extremely chaotic vortex that swept in all directions, instantly turning the void within a hundred miles into chaos.
On the ground, hundreds of yellow sand tornadoes, whipped up by chaotic air currents, connected to the sky above and the desert below, like demonic dragons soaring into the air, unleashing terrifying roars.
Han Li was struck directly into the golden sand underground by a huge force, sinking hundreds of zhang, his bones creaking and his muscles aching all over.
His eyes shone brightly. He shook his arms and slammed his palms down heavily, bursting out of the quicksand and crashing through dozens of yellow sand tornadoes before hovering in front of the young man.
After a moment, all the momentum gradually subsided, but the entire desert was still covered in dust, making it difficult to see clearly.
“I have taken your punch. What do you say?” Han Li asked, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
“How is that possible? Your domain just now…” the young man looked at his fist, his expression strange.
“Your cultivation state has only temporarily regressed by several million years. It will gradually recover later,” Han Li said calmly.
Although he spoke lightly, the young man was still shocked to hear it.
Sure enough, after he punched out just now, he realized that the power of the fist shadow was insufficient, and it was not an illusion. At that moment, his cultivation was indeed suppressed and regressed a lot.
“Since you have safely taken my punch, then I will honor what I said. I will no longer prevent you from exploring, and I can even take you to the seventh level. And you must take me out of the tower,” the young man said.
“If you hadn't made that punch earlier and had simply agreed to my proposal, it would have been possible. But now that you've made that punch, some conditions have to change,” Han Li suddenly smiled and said slowly.
“What do you mean? Are you going back on your word?” the young man frowned.
“I'm not going back on my word. The condition that I promised to take you out of the Time Dao Tower remains the same, but I need you to do something for me,” Han Li said.
“What is it?” the young man asked, suppressing his anger with patience.
“Among the people who entered the Time Dao Tower this time, there is a Grand Luo cultivator who is my mortal enemy. I want you to help me deal with him. Of course, this is not necessarily something you have to do. As long as he doesn't take the initiative to come to me, you don't have to do it. After leaving the Time Dao Tower, you will be free, and you don't need to do this anymore,” Han Li said, switching to telepathy as he saw Jiao San and the others approaching.
“Is that all?” the young man said hesitantly.
“That's all,” Han Li nodded and said.
As he spoke, Jiao San and the others had landed. Looking at the scene before them, their expressions were somewhat strange.
When Han Li used the Five Elements World Illusion earlier, they had also sensed the dense power of the laws of time, but they did not know exactly what had happened. However, looking at the current situation, they knew what was going on.
“By the way, there is another thing I can tell you. When I traveled to various Immortal Domains, I saw two Golden Devouring Immortals at the Grand Unity level. I think they should be of the same race as you…”
“Where did you see them?” Han Li was interrupted by the young man before he could finish speaking.
“In the Northern Cold Immortal Domain and the Gold Origin Immortal Domain. One is a half-grown child, and the other is a ruthless woman,” Han Li fabricated casually.
“If you can take me to find them, I can protect you even after leaving the Time Dao Tower. If the person you mentioned comes to me, I can also do my best to help you kill him,” the young man pondered for a moment, a strange look flashing in his eyes, and said through telepathy.
“Then it's a deal,” Han Li smiled.
What he had said earlier was partly true and partly false. He didn't expect the young man to believe everything he said, so he had intentionally or unintentionally stimulated the connection between him and Jin Tong.
After realizing this, the young man would naturally no longer care about the truth or falsehood of Han Li's words.
Their words were unremarkable on the surface, but they both had ulterior motives. Han Li had the idea of bringing him to Jin Tong to devour, and why didn't the young man have the idea of following the clues to find Jin Tong and devour him?
“Now you can tell me, what should I call you?” Han Li smiled.
“Qu Lin,” the young man replied.
“I am Han Li,” Han Li said with a slight fist salute.
“Fellow Daoist Han, since the agreement has been reached, we should not delay. I will take you to the seventh level immediately,” Qu Lin said eagerly.
“No hurry, no hurry. Allow me to adjust my breath for a while,” Han Li waved his hand and said.
Qu Lin's attack earlier was naturally powerful. It was already extremely difficult for Han Li to block it. How could he not have suffered any injuries?
Having said that, he really sat down cross-legged, took out a pill and swallowed it, and then closed his eyes to adjust his breath.