Han Li's eyes narrowed, and after taking a deep breath, he raised his hand and slammed the bottom of the gourd. A rumbling sound echoed within the gourd, and a cyan light swirled around the gourd's mouth, condensing into a vortex of cyan light. A dark green beam shot out from it.

With a loud "boom," the dark green beam, containing a trace of the Law of Destruction, shot out and struck the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover, exploding into a small cloud of dark green mist.

The Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover shook violently, and the runes on its surface shone with a red light, but it remained undamaged.

Worse, the nine red crystal dragons coiling around the top of the fire cover, five of them flashed golden light in their eyes, as if they had all come to life. Their bloody mouths opened wide, and they spewed fiercely at the fire cover below.

"Whoosh!"

Streams of viscous fire, as if containing some kind of oil, immediately flew out of their mouths, directly engulfing the entire space within the fire cover.

As soon as Han Li was touched by the flames, an unprecedentedly intense pain swept through his body, causing him, with his strong physique, to let out a heart-wrenching scream.

Without him summoning it, the Essence Flame Firebird had already flown out on its own, transforming into a layer of silver flame armor, enveloping his entire body, and blocking the thick flames for him.

Even so, waves of indescribable scorching heat continuously assaulted his body, causing Han Li to feel tormented.

While protecting Han Li's body, the Essence Flame Firebird condensed a huge bird's head, its sharp beak continuously spewing silver flames, offsetting the flames that were constantly falling from above.

Silver flames and crimson flames collided with each other, forming a two-colored fire curtain above Han Li's head.

Seeing this, Han Li became even more anxious. In the past, whenever the Essence Flame Firebird encountered fire-attribute attacks, wouldn't it always use its innate divine ability to devour the strange fire?

How many times had it happened that it didn't devour the fire but instead needed to resist it with its own flames?

As his mind raced, he hurriedly contacted the Firebird with his mind and learned that the flame before him was indeed extraordinary. It contained a special fire-attribute Law power, which not only could the Essence Flame Firebird's divine ability not devour, but it would also be suppressed by this fire.

Just as Han Li was anxious, the runes around the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover shone brightly again. The remaining four fire dragons seemed to be provoked by the Essence Flame Firebird. Their figures spiraled down along the light cover, occupying the four directions of east, south, west, and north, and sprayed towards the center of the fire cover.

Rolling crimson flames surged out, turning into a wave of fire that instantly engulfed Han Li's body.

Seeing this, the Essence Flame Firebird let out a sharp cry, its entire body shone with silver light, and the bird's head it had transformed into also melted away, giving up its resistance to the flames above and concentrating all its power on Han Li, protecting him with all its might.

However, the power of the nine dragons combined was far from what the previous four fire dragons could compare to. With the full power of the Essence Flame Firebird, it couldn't resist it.

What worried Han Li even more was that the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover seemed to have the effect of absorbing fire-attribute power. While the Essence Flame Firebird was fighting against the crimson fire, most of its consumed power was actually absorbed by the fire cover.

While the Essence Flame Firebird was stalemated with the nine fire dragons, Han Li naturally wouldn't be idle. The thirty-six Green Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords were all released, constantly chiseling at the fire cover, with lightning flashing and sparks flying.

However, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break through the fire cover.

As time passed, the silver flames on the Essence Flame Firebird were consumed a lot, but the power of the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover became more and more powerful. Han Li, being in it, also felt more and more unbearable, feeling that even his divine soul would be burned and destroyed.

At this moment, the Essence Flame Firebird suddenly opened its mouth and spat out a white fire orb, emitting bursts of fire-attribute Law power, and hung above Han Li's head like a bright lamp, releasing dazzling white light.

With the blessing of the white light, the Essence Flame Firebird's silver flames suddenly surged, and streams of flames soared into the sky, pushing back the crimson flames in the sky.

Han Li saw at a glance that this object was the fire-attribute treasure he had obtained in the Tower of Time. He had originally thought that it had been devoured and absorbed by the Essence Flame Firebird, but he didn't expect it to still be there.

However, before his mind could relax a little, he found that the crimson flames, which had been slightly pushed back, had once again pressed down. The nine red crystal dragons even leaned forward, each surrounding the white fire orb, opening their bloody mouths, with an imposing posture of nine dragons devouring the orb.

This orb had already consumed a lot in the Five Elements Annihilation Array before, and later it had been absorbed by the Essence Flame Firebird for a lot of power. Although it was also a fire-attribute Immortal Artifact, its power was far less than that of the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover at this moment. Being forced by the nine crystal dragons like this, the light on the white fire orb suddenly weakened.

At the same time, the flames in the entire fire cover also seemed to be subjected to a force of pressure, and suddenly shrank, turning into a crimson fire cocoon, completely enveloping Han Li in it.

The temperature inside the fire cocoon had reached an astonishing level. Han Li's skin had already turned red, and at this moment, cracks began to appear on it, looking like a riverbed that had been dry for a long time, as if it was about to collapse.

Seeing this, the Essence Flame Firebird's seven colored flames on its head shone brightly, and the red and orange flames separated out, flying into the white fire orb, and merging with it.

The white fire orb suddenly shone brightly, and also turned into a layer of white fire cocoon, isolating the Nine Dragon Fire.

Han Li took a breather, saw that the Essence Flame Firebird had sacrificed two clusters of Seven Colored Sandfire, and its aura had greatly diminished. He felt very guilty, and his thoughts were in a mess, but he didn't know how to break the current predicament.

At this moment, an angry voice suddenly sounded from his chest:

"Are you stupid? If you can't beat them, why don't you run away? You're wasting such an amazing ability as time-traveling, it's really making me angry..."

"Who's talking?" Han Li was shocked.

The voice sounded near and far, a little hazy, but he vaguely felt familiar.

After a little thought, Han Li's face showed a look of sudden realization, and he hurriedly reached into his robe in front of his chest and took out the Palm Heaven Bottle.

He looked at it, and saw that the small bottle was still as before, and there was nothing unusual about it.

However, at this moment, a flash of dark green light suddenly appeared on the bottle, and two bean-sized black eyeballs appeared, looking at him, revealing a very anthropomorphic expression.

Han Li subconsciously took the small bottle a little further away, but when he saw that the two bean-sized eyeballs were staring at him angrily, he hurriedly held it back in front of him.

"Senior Bottle Spirit, were you the one who was talking just now?" Han Li hurriedly said.

"If it wasn't me, who else could it be? A Grand Luo cultivator plus a mere fourth-grade Immortal Artifact, and you've been forced to this point, it's really embarrassing." The Bottle Spirit's two eyeballs moved, and a hazy voice came out.

"What Senior said just now, that I can escape with time-traveling divine ability, it's not that this junior didn't think of it, but if I escape with my physical body, wouldn't this Palm Heaven Bottle be left here, and fall into the hands of others?" Han Li opened his mouth, but didn't know how to refute, and could only say.

"Which is more important, your life or the Palm Heaven Bottle?" the Bottle Spirit asked.

"Life is certainly important, but the Palm Heaven Bottle has been with me for many years, and it's just as important, and must not be abandoned. Moreover, even if I escape from my physical body for a short time, won't I still have to return here anyway? I can't escape at all," Han Li said immediately without hesitation.

Hearing this, the Bottle Spirit was silent for a moment, and seemed to be quite satisfied with Han Li's words, and said:

"Alright, with these words from you, it's not in vain for me to show up to save you. In the past, when you traveled with your physical body, the Palm Heaven Bottle was in an unowned state, and would stay in place, as the coordinate for your return. But I can make the Palm Heaven Bottle travel with you, but the time experienced during the subsequent travel will be synchronized with the outside world. And without the coordinate, you won't be able to return to the original place after returning."

"It can still be like this? Please cast the spell immediately, Senior," Han Li said happily immediately upon hearing this.

"Don't be in a hurry to be happy, although this method can be used, the price is not small. Just bringing the small bottle into the River of Time will consume thirty Time Law Crystal Silks. Remember... it's consumption, once used, they'll be gone," the Bottle Spirit said.

Time Crystal Silk is extremely difficult to obtain. This time, thirty crystal silks will be consumed at once, and it's not like the Time Dao Mark that can be restored. Anyone who has to make this decision will find it painful and difficult to decide.

But Han Li glanced at the Essence Flame Firebird, which was still struggling to resist the attacks of the nine dragons, and without much hesitation, immediately said:

"Please teach me, Senior."

"There's nothing to teach, you can summon the crystal wall yourself, and leave the rest to me," the Bottle Spirit said.

After Han Li nodded, he immediately pinched his hands, and began to operate the Great Five Elements Illusion World Art.

A flash of golden light appeared around him, and a wave of Time Law power suddenly rippled out. The five Time Law manifestations appeared one after another, hovering around him.

As the Dao Mark light on the surface of these five objects flickered frequently, the Time Crystal Silks wrapped around them were connected end to end, absorbing the Time Law power around them, condensing into a huge golden ring, which was the Ring of Time.

As soon as the Ring of Time appeared, clusters of Time Dao Marks immediately flew out from the Mantra Treasure Wheel and other objects one after another, and landed on the golden ring.

A wave of extremely powerful Time Law fluctuations continuously emanated from it.

Miao Fa Xianzun and Chi Meng, who were engaged in a fierce battle in the high sky, sensed the waves coming from below, immediately realized that something was wrong, and quickly stopped fighting, and flew down towards the ground.

From afar, they saw a cluster of dark green light suddenly light up in the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Cover, like a green sun, blooming a dazzling green light.

Then, the void near the green light began to vibrate violently, rippling with visible strange waves, and a huge vortex of light emerged from it.

After that, a huge crystal wall appeared in the void.

Standing in front of the crystal wall, Han Li retracted the Essence Flame Firebird into his body, endured the attacking crimson flames, and glanced back at Miao Fa Xianzun and the two women who were chasing him, and with a flash of his figure, he directly crashed into the vortex on the crystal wall.

Miao Fa Xianzun and Chi Meng watched as the vortex rolled and directly swallowed Han Li.