Chapter 174: The Mastermind?

At this moment, Han Li's entire body was charred black like charcoal, without a trace of vitality, and he couldn't muster even a bit of magic power.

He wanted to control his body, but found that he couldn't even move a finger, and could only allow his body to drift towards that dark crack.

"This is just an illusion, it's not real, it's definitely not real..."

Han Li constantly told himself in his heart, stirring up a storm in his sea of consciousness, trying to wake up.

But just then, in front of the crack in the high altitude, the void suddenly fluctuated, rippling with visible ripples. Immediately afterwards, three faint black phantoms passed through it and swam towards him.

Their speed seemed slow but was actually fast, closing the distance at an incredible rate.

Although his body could not move, his eyes could see clearly. The bodies of these three phantoms were all ethereal, as illusory as spiritual bodies. Only their heads looked substantial, and their faces were exactly the same as his own.

"This is... a heart demon? No, this is an extraterrestrial demon..." Han Li's heart tightened instantly.

However, in the next moment, a phantom of a demon had already appeared inches in front of him and slammed into him without saying a word.

With a "bang" sound.

The scarlet cracks around Han Li's body shone brightly, and his entire body shattered along the cracks. He was like an old porcelain that had been smashed on the ground, breaking into countless pieces.

In shock, Han Li discovered that although his body had shattered, his soul had overflowed, turning into a blue hazy phantom.

However, it was equally unable to move even a bit!

When the three demon phantoms around him saw this scene, they immediately swam over from all directions like sharks that had been hungry for days seeing fish, opening their mouths and biting at his phantom.

Only a soft "poof" sound was heard.

A large piece of the blue light on Han Li's body was immediately torn off and swallowed into their bellies.

An indescribable feeling of pain came over him. He asked himself that he had never been negligent in tempering his body, and his tolerance for pain was far beyond that of ordinary people, but at this time he couldn't help but feel a tingling in his scalp.

The pain was not like gnawing bones and peeling skin, but it was even worse. He couldn't feel where the pain originated, but he could clearly see that his soul was being torn apart little by little, and his consciousness was gradually weakening.

He could see that the three phantoms were constantly devouring his blue light body. With each bite they swallowed, their illusory bodies would become more solid, and the greedy smiles on their faces would become even stronger.

This... is it still an illusion?

Han Li was completely unable to resist at this time, and a trace of doubt could not help but arise in his heart.

Could it be that I really didn't succeed in transcending the tribulation? That the previous Spirit World, Liu Le'er, Blackwind Sea, Gan Jiuzhen... were all just a void dream under the influence of extraterrestrial demons?

I consider myself to have great supernatural powers and am known as the number one Mahayana in the Spirit World. It seems that I still failed to resist these extraterrestrial demons...

All is gone...

Han Li's consciousness became more and more blurred, and the blue light around his body became thinner and thinner, almost becoming transparent and disappearing.

"Fellow Daoist Han, do not indulge in illusions. My extraterrestrial demons are not like this..."

Suddenly, a somewhat cold voice suddenly sounded in the surrounding void, like a basin of cold water suddenly poured on Han Li.

His blurred vision became clear again. A cold roar suddenly sounded in his consciousness, and a sharp鳴sound immediately rang in his ears, as if several sharp cones were being drilled hard into his brain, and a splitting pain in his soul arose spontaneously.

At the same time, the demon phantoms that were biting his body let out shrill screams and retreated rapidly, disappearing into the void.

Han Li's eyes suddenly brightened, and he woke up.

At this moment, he was still standing in place, holding the array plate in his hands, maintaining the posture of pressing his finger down.

Directly in front of him, Fang Pan in black clothes was frozen in place, maintaining the posture of rushing forward. The tip of the long knife in his hand was pointing directly at Han Li's eyebrow, separated by only a foot.

The tall stone pillars around them were resplendent with flowing light, constantly flashing captivating light, but they could no longer have any impact on Han Li.

"Fellow Daoist Demonlight, thank you..." Han Li was still frightened and communicated with his mind.

"This illusion array is really powerful. If my extraterrestrial demon clan was not good at this, and your divine sense power was not comparable to ordinary True Immortal Realm cultivators, feeding back to my seriously injured body, the consequences would have been unimaginable..." Demonlight also sighed and replied.

Han Li pondered for a moment, and without saying much, he raised his hand and pressed on the array plate again, and chanting sounds also rang out in his mouth.

As the array's colorful light shone, Han Li suddenly realized that the light and shadows around him had changed, and his figure had appeared in a dimly lit hall.

In his sight, Fang Pan was kneeling on both knees, his face full of fear, constantly kowtowing and begging for mercy in front of him, constantly calling out "Master, spare me, Master, spare me...", seemingly completely unaware of his existence.

Han Li took a few steps forward and saw that in the blurry light and shadow in front of Fang Pan, there was a middle-aged man with chains wrapped around his body like a zombie, sitting on a dark chair in a grand manner.

"Bold evil disciple, using the Isolating Yuan Chain recklessly, do you know your crime?" the zombie man was scolding in a deep voice.

Fang Pan kneeling on the ground trembled all over, as if struck by lightning, and quickly replied:

"Reporting to Master, it was indeed unavoidable for this disciple to use this treasure, only because the person this disciple was dealing with was too powerful. In the past, the three of us went together, and one of us was lost, and the two of us were severely injured. In the end, if this disciple had not used the chain, we would not have been able to kill that person."

Han Li's heart moved slightly when he heard this.

After taking a deep breath, he slowly walked up to the zombie man, turned around and sat down on the dark chair. His figure gradually overlapped with it, and finally completely merged into it.

"Oh, who exactly is that person, and why did you have to fight him to the death?" He pondered for a moment, and then asked in the manner of the zombie man.

"This person is named Han Li, and he is an immortal ascended from the lower realm. This person has a special crystal grain containing the power of the Time Law. The three of us pursued him for this thing," Fang Pan quickly explained.

Han Li sighed in his heart when he heard this, so it was for this thing.

"Oh? There is such a rare thing. Have you found out where he got it from?" Han Li continued to ask.

"This... Although we fought him to the death back then, we were unable to truly capture him, so we were unable to use the soul-searching technique on him, so this disciple does not know," Fang Pan replied.

"You really don't know?" The zombie man transformed by Han Li raised his eyebrows and asked in a cold voice.

"This disciple really doesn't know, and I would never dare to deceive Master. Because this matter was not handled properly, this disciple and another person were both punished," Fang Pan replied tremblingly.

Han Li was slightly surprised when he heard this. After pondering for a moment, he asked:

"Who punished you? Could it be that the three of you were also ordered by someone to do this?"

"This... Reporting to Master, this adult's identity is too high and his background is too deep to be ordinary. This disciple really dares not speak rashly, and I hope Master will forgive me..."

Before Fang Pan could finish speaking, he was struck a heavy blow in the chest, and his entire body rolled and flew out, slamming into a stone pillar in the hall with a "bang".

The zombie man waved his snow-white sleeve, and a cyan-black chain immediately shot towards Fang Pan like a spirit snake.

With a soft "poof" sound.

A bloody light burst out in the hall, and the cyan-black chain actually penetrated Fang Pan's chest like a spear.

Fang Pan's face was extremely pale. He knelt on one knee, propped himself up, and vomited a mouthful of scarlet blood.

"Master, spare me..." he begged, but still did not dare to reveal the person's name.

"You still dare to deceive this seat at this point. It seems that you will not shed tears until you see the coffin. This seat will clear the door today and destroy you, you evil disciple," the zombie man's face turned cold, and the sound of "clang" rang out in the entire hall at the same time.

The cyan-black chains all over the ground floated up and hovered in mid-air.

Fang Pan felt a majestic pressure like a mountain rolling in from all directions, giving him a feeling of suffocation close to facing death.

"Master, spare me... This disciple will tell, this disciple will tell..." he shouted loudly.

Seeing this, Han Li waved his hand, and all the chains in the hall fell down safely again, and everything returned to calm.

The zombie man he transformed into looked at Fang Pan with a silent gaze, waiting for him to continue.

"The one who drove the three of us back then was..." Just as he was about to report the person's name, his cheeks suddenly twisted, and he howled with his hands holding his head.

A strange divine sense aura that clearly did not belong to Fang Pan spread out from his head, actually impacting the surrounding illusion and causing it to ripple. It looked like it was about to dissipate.

Han Li secretly thought something was wrong, and his figure suddenly rushed forward, directly breaking out of the illusion.

Although Fang Pan in front of him was still maintaining his original posture, the eyeballs under his eyelids were spinning rapidly, and he looked like he was about to wake up.

Han Li decisively took a step forward, grabbed his jaw and pried open his mouth, took out a black orb the size of a longan, and threw it in.

Then, his figure turned, and he rushed into the sky without looking back.

At this time, Fang Pan, who had been trapped in the illusion for a long time, finally woke up, but it was too late.

As soon as his eyes opened, a cyan-purple lightning burst out from between his lips and teeth.

A huge sound that shook the heavens and the earth suddenly came!

A huge black sun then lit up, and the heavens and the earth began to vibrate violently, and it took a long time to calm down.

Han Li stood suspended in the sky ten thousand feet high, looking at the collapsing mountains and rising dust below, his expression somewhat uncertain.

After some twists and turns, although he finally killed Fang Pan, his mood was not relaxed.

He never expected that after Fang Pan and the other three, there seemed to be someone of high status who instructed them.

And that person actually left a mark on Fang Pan's soul. It was this mark that almost helped him wake up from the illusion array just now. He didn't know if that person would already know that something had happened to Fang Pan because of this. In the future, he would have to be more cautious and careful.

When the aftershocks below gradually subsided, Han Li moved and flew down.

At this moment, the magic circle on the mountain had been completely destroyed, Fang Pan's body had been shattered, and even the slightest trace of his soul could no longer be sensed.

After Han Li retrieved Fang Pan's storage bracelet from the ruins, he found the black long knife under a boulder, put them all away, and with a flash of his body, he turned into a long rainbow and swept away, disappearing into the sky.