Gu Qianxun watched Han Li's approaching figure, her expression shifting between light and darkness, as if contemplating something.

"You can loosen your grip on that thing. There's no need for a mutual destruction, is there?" Han Li glanced at her and said.

Upon hearing this, Gu Qianxun relaxed her body, seeming to regain some strength.

She put a white jade pendant she was holding into her sleeve, leaned back, and sat down limply, pulling her two small legs out of the ground with her hands.

"We've already turned against each other, so why did you save me?" Gu Qianxun took out a beast pill and swallowed it, asking.

"I encountered Madam Six Flowers earlier, and he helped me get rid of the Black Tribulation Insects. This rescue is to repay his kindness," Han Li said slowly, seeing that her injuries were serious but not life-threatening.

"You saw him? How is he?" Gu Qianxun asked anxiously upon hearing this.

"He's fine. He was taken away by E Kui earlier, probably to the place where the Saint's Corpse is located," Han Li said slowly.

Gu Qianxun's expression softened upon hearing this, and she felt a little relieved.

"What exactly are you?" Han Li suddenly asked.

"You should already know, right? That's right, I am indeed a pawn left by the Third Prince in the Scaled Sky Realm. If it weren't for his arrangements to protect me back then, I would have died with my mother at the hands of Du Qingyang. And being able to grow to this day and finally avenge my mother's death is all thanks to him. So this time, he ordered me to eliminate the First Prince and the Thirteenth Prince, and I must obey," Gu Qianxun hesitated slightly before answering.

"I was really blind before, not being able to see it..." Han Li sighed, recalling the various details of his past meetings with the Third Prince, Shi Pokong, and finding it hard to find fault with him.

Gu Qianxun thought Han Li was talking about her, and a bitter smile appeared on her face as she said:

"If I could, I really wouldn't want to be your enemy."

"You can go kill the First Prince, and I can even help if necessary, but if you attack Shi Chuankong again afterward, don't blame me for being merciless and killing you," Han Li frowned and said.

Gu Qianxun's eyes were complicated upon hearing this, and she remained silent for a long time.

"After waiting for so long, Shi Zhanfeng shouldn't be coming back. Take care of yourself," Han Li said, stepping past her, leaping into the high sky, and heading towards the distance.

Gu Qianxun was stunned and speechless, and after a long silence, she slowly stood up.

She walked unsteadily to the side, bent down to pick up her white bone spear, took a deep breath, and chased after the direction Han Li had left in.

Han Li's figure rose and fell between the architectural ruins, moving very quickly.

At this moment, his brow was furrowed, and his thoughts were a little chaotic.

This trip to the Scaled Sky Realm has taken too long. He had originally thought that he could quickly find Zi Ling and return immediately, but he didn't expect to get caught up in the entanglement and fighting between the two cities of Xuan and Wei.

The mutual deception between the two cities was already enough to give him a headache, and now it was clear that both the First Prince Shi Zhanfeng and the Third Prince Shi Pokong were involved, making the situation even more complicated.

Compared to Shi Zhanfeng's personal risk, Han Li was more concerned about Shi Pokong's remote planning. From Gu Qianxun, he could see that Shi Pokong had been operating in the Scaled Sky Realm for quite some time.

And both of them are so interested in this Scaled Sky Realm, which has always been regarded as a barren land. The reason should only be related to the Saint's Corpse in the Great Ruins, right?

Thinking of this, Han Li's heart couldn't help but tighten slightly. Could it be that Shi Chuankong took the initiative to come here with him for this as well?

"Instead of guessing this, it's better to think about what's going on with the Crab Taoist..." Han Li smiled self-deprecatingly.

Since entering the Scaled Sky Realm, he had found that the connection between himself and the Crab Taoist seemed to be getting weaker and weaker. It wasn't that the connection between their souls had been severed, but he felt increasingly unfamiliar with him from the bottom of his heart.

Recalling the contents recorded on the jade slip given to him by the Crab Taoist, Han Li became even more curious about the Crab Taoist's true purpose.

He even felt that the master mentioned by the Crab Taoist might be that Saint's Corpse, or the former owner of this Great Ruins. Otherwise, why would the jade slip be able to record the exact location and method of obtaining the hollow sphere?

And the route he was pursuing all along was also roughly mentioned in that jade slip.

After traveling hundreds of miles again, large areas of collapsed and damaged ruins began to appear along the way. The traces were basically new, and the affected area was extremely wide, seemingly left behind by the previous chase and fight between E Kui and Sha Xin.

Han Li stopped briefly to investigate each time, and then continued to chase.

…

In a blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed.

After continuous pursuit, Han Li finally arrived at a white stone plaza occupying a very large area.

Around the plaza, there were four nine-story pointed towers, standing at the four corners of the plaza.

In the center of the plaza, there stood a magnificent glazed roof hall, the scale of which far exceeded all the palace buildings seen in the Great Ruins before.

Unlike the ruins and ruins seen along the way, this round-topped glazed palace was extremely well preserved. Whether it was the glazed tiles on the roof or the giant pillars around the hall, they were all as bright as new, without any traces of the passage of time.

Han Li looked into the distance and saw that the two huge carved and hollowed palace doors facing him were open. Above the tall lintel, there was a gold-painted horizontal plaque with three ancient seal characters written on it.

"Thousand Machine Hall..." Han Li muttered to himself, suddenly remembering that Shi Zhanfeng seemed to have mentioned this name before.

Thinking of this, he frowned, suppressed the fluctuations in his aura, and quickly arrived near the palace.

When approaching the palace, Han Li noticed that a large number of star runes began to appear on the stone bricks on the ground, spreading out within thousands of feet outside the hall, obviously a very complex rune array.

When he reached the corridor steps under the palace, the rune patterns changed again and integrated into another rune array.

Approaching the palace gate, Han Li found that there were scorched marks everywhere on the open palace door, and the original restrictions had been completely destroyed.

He didn't rush into the hall, but leaned out from the side and looked inside.

He saw that the hall was a mess, with stone shelves and stone tables and chairs falling everywhere. Some had completely shattered into powder, obviously having just gone through a fierce fight.

Han Li held his breath and listened quietly for a moment, finding the hall silent, seemingly without any sound.

He then flashed and entered the hall.

The hall was empty, with no sign of E Kui or the others, nor of Sha Xin and the others. There were only fragments of tables and chairs all over the ground, and bone armor puppets with tall figures.

Han Li frowned slightly and carefully investigated the hall.

After a while of investigation, he found that these bone armor puppets seemed to be of the same origin as those seen in other ruins in the Great Ruins, and were not the puppets controlled by Puppet City. They should be the puppets that originally guarded the hall.

At this moment, he suddenly glimpsed a black stone chair that didn't look conspicuous still standing intact next to a pile of collapsed and shattered tables and chairs at the back of the hall.

He walked forward, circled the stone chair, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Han Li grabbed the back of the black stone chair with both hands, and suddenly exerted force to twist it to one side.

A "chi chi" friction sound rang out, and a dark passage was revealed next to the stone chair, extending towards the ground.

Han Li hesitated slightly, but still jumped into the hole and walked down along a stone staircase inside.

After traveling hundreds of feet in the dark, a door opening appeared at the end of the stone staircase, from which came the sound of wind and indistinct voices.

Han Li first slowed down his pace, trying to reduce the noise he made. When he approached the door, he activated the Ascension Art, and his figure suddenly flashed, entering the door.

As soon as he entered the door, Han Li relaxed slightly. No one was ambushing in the cave.

He hid behind a boulder half a person's height and carefully looked ahead.

He saw that in front of the boulder was a huge blood lake with an area of ​​thousands of feet, filled with bright red blood, rippling slightly like lake water.

A layer of **** glow covered the lake, flickering in a hazy **** mist.

Han Li wandered on the lake for a long time, and suddenly his eyes flashed, seeing a crystal coffin floating in the middle of the lake.

The crystal coffin was wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, with a volume of more than ten feet in size. It was transparent throughout, without any flaws, and engraved with a very complex rune pattern.

After careful inspection, Han Li found that although the rune was complex, its core was a pentagram, but it also embedded at least five other rune arrays, which were interlocked with each other and very delicate.

In that crystal coffin, Han Li saw a corpse ten feet tall, whose bones were as crystal clear as jade.

Just looking at the appearance of the corpse, it could be clearly seen that it had sharp bones on its head, protruding fangs in its mouth, and there seemed to be layers of scale-like patterns covering its bones. It was a demon corpse.

At this moment, Han Li's heart suddenly moved. In between the faintness, his soul appeared some slight fluctuations, and he seemed to feel the Crab Taoist's aura, but he couldn't accurately find the Crab Taoist's location.

After a little thought, he immediately closed his eyes and began to carefully sense with his divine sense.

As a result, after only a few breaths, Han Li reopened his eyes, but a look of surprise and uncertainty appeared on his face.

He was surprised to find that the soul connection between the Crab Taoist and himself seemed to be gradually getting weaker and weaker.

"You traitorous scum, are you really going to continue to be obsessed?" At this moment, an angry shout suddenly came from the opposite bank of the blood lake.

Han Li restrained his mind and hurriedly stared over there, but saw that the people from Puppet City were confronting E Kui under the leadership of Sha Xin.

Madam Six Flowers was standing behind E Kui, while Shi Chuankong was paralyzed at his feet, not knowing whether he was still in a coma, or was restricted by E Kui with some kind of restriction?