"Now you want to leave? Do you take me for a clay figure?" Lin Jiu was consumed by rage and wouldn't let it go, shouting loudly.

As soon as he spoke, he conjured a golden immortal talisman between his hands and flicked it in the air.

"Chi la!"

The immortal talisman instantly ignited with a golden flame, transforming into a light that enveloped Lin Jiu completely.

His figure blurred and vanished from the spot in an instant.

Han Li scanned with his divine sense and discovered that the distance of his instant teleportation reached thousands of miles, managing to block the red-clothed woman.

He glanced at the direction where the gaunt old man had fled, a hint of amusement flashing in his eyes.

The next moment, he summoned the Heavy Water True Wheel back into his body. "Zi zi" sounds echoed around him as wisps of silver lightning emerged.

Immediately after, bolts of lightning as thick as bowls shot out wildly, instantly forming a lightning array ten feet in radius, engulfing his figure, and disappearing in a flash.

Tens of thousands of miles away, above the deep sea area of the Thunderstorm Sea, the gaunt old man was enveloped in a hazy light, flying while muttering:

"Unlucky, so unlucky! How could I run into these two tough nuts? If I don't leave now, I'm afraid I'll lose my life! Who said lust is a knife over the head? Greed is clearly a knife too..."

Just then, the old man suddenly frowned, stopping abruptly before retreating thousands of feet.

He saw a series of loud rumbles in the high sky ahead. Dense arcs of lightning emerged from the void, forming a circular array several feet in diameter.

With a crack of thunder, countless lightning arcs flashed violently, and the light converged to reveal a figure, none other than Han Li.

"Fellow cultivator, I have decided to leave this place and no longer interfere. Since we are both allies of the Faceless Alliance, can you be lenient and let me leave safely?" the old man said, adopting a very humble posture.

"We have no prior grudges, so naturally, we don't want to fight to the death. However, you almost killed my companion just now. We can't just let this pass with your casual words. Shouldn't you leave something behind?" Han Li said with a smile, not in a hurry to attack.

"Then, what do you think I should do?" the gaunt old man asked, raising an eyebrow.

"If my senses are correct, you should have a 30,000-year-old Tuling Flower on you, right?" Han Li asked with a smile.

When he first encountered the three, he sensed the aura of this item on the old man with his powerful divine sense. He had already decided to get it, as the Tuling Flower stamen was on the list of Dao Pill recipes.

Upon hearing this, the gaunt old man's expression changed, becoming somewhat gloomy.

He did indeed have a Tuling Flower, a living one. Since he couldn't put it in his storage bracelet, and he was summoned to this mission shortly after obtaining it, he temporarily stored it in a special jade box in his chest.

He had already added several layers of seals to the jade box, which should have prevented anyone from sensing it. How did this person know? Could his divine sense be stronger than that of a Golden Immortal?

The old man felt a jolt of fear at this thought, but then dismissed it as impossible.

During the earlier battle, the aura he revealed was at most around the mid-stage True Immortal Realm. It was impossible for him to have such powerful divine sense. He likely had a special treasure that could sense spiritual herbs.

With this thought, the old man scanned his surroundings with his divine sense again, confirming that no one else was nearby. His aura surged instantly, and he sneered, saying, "Want the Tuling Flower? Your appetite is too big, fellow cultivator. Do you really think I'm a pushover to be manipulated at will?"

Han Li sneered inwardly. Among the three of them, the one with the highest cultivation was not the burly man, nor the plump woman with secret techniques, but rather this deeply hidden and cunning gaunt old man.

His survival之道, evident in his decision to lower his posture and avoid a fight when he first saw Han Li, showed that he didn't care about face, only about profit.

If the opponent was truly willing to give up the Tuling Flower, Han Li naturally wouldn't want to cause unnecessary bloodshed. But since they couldn't reach an agreement, he immediately made a decision.

With no one else present and his strength overwhelming, it wasn't his style to leave empty-handed.

After a flash in his eyes, Han Li formed hand seals. Dark light erupted behind him, and the Heavy Water True Wheel reappeared, spinning rapidly.

With a sudden wave of his hands, the Heavy Water True Wheel glowed with dark light, soaring from behind and smashing towards the old man with a whistling sound.

The Dao patterns on the surface of the True Wheel lit up one by one. Wherever it passed, visible black ripples appeared in the void, almost shattering half the sky.

Upon seeing this, the gaunt old man spread his hands, and a tri-colored ring floated in the air. It flickered in the mid-air, turning into a hazy ring shadow, and wrapped around the Heavy Water True Wheel.

However, the weight of the Heavy Water True Wheel was far beyond the old man's imagination. The immense impact force it carried was irresistible. With a surge of black light, it shattered the tri-colored ring shadow layer by layer, smashing onto the ring's main body with a "clang".

An immense force struck, and the tri-colored ring shattered instantly!

The gaunt old man was struck by the backlash, his body jolted, and a flush appeared on his face. He grabbed in the void, and an apricot-yellow flag, more than two zhang long, appeared in his hand.

The flag depicted a vast desert with three round suns suspended above, emitting waves of intense heat.

The old man took a step forward, gripped the flagpole tightly, and waved it violently, sending the entire flag flying.

"Hua la la"

The flag unfurled, and a yellow cloud of sand rolled out from it, engulfing Han Li in a sky-covering onslaught. Soon, it enveloped an area of nearly ten thousand zhang.

Han Li narrowed his eyes, blue light flashing within, but he still couldn't see clearly. He felt as if he had been swallowed by a sandstorm, blurring his vision and affecting his divine sense, making him unable to even detect the old man's location.

"Hehe, taste my Three Suns Locked Realm!" Just then, the old man's voice suddenly echoed behind him.

As soon as Han Li turned around, he saw three dazzling white orbs approaching rapidly, forming a triangular formation around him. They released an intensely hot wave, constantly assaulting him.

He frowned and lifted his foot to step forward, but suddenly felt his body tighten, unable to move at all.

Looking down, he saw that his lower legs had been silently covered with a layer of white crystals, freezing him in place like ice.

Then, white crystals began to appear on his shoulders, chest, arms, and other areas, spreading rapidly.

Upon closer inspection, he discovered that these were tiny grains of crystal sand, which had been transformed into translucent crystals by the burning of the three round suns. They quickly spread to his neck, completely imprisoning his body.

Although Han Li was surprised, he remained calm. Cyan light flowed around him as he prepared to break free of the crystals. But suddenly, his eyes flickered as he saw the gaunt old man's figure flashing from the side, holding a ghostly green dagger and stabbing towards his brow.

He snorted coldly, and golden light suddenly shone in his eyes. A powerful divine sense was released, instantly enveloping the surrounding hundred miles.

The gaunt old man had already rushed in front of him, but he saw a circle of extremely small runes suddenly appearing in Han Li's pupils. He immediately felt a sense of foreboding and subconsciously slowed down for a moment.

"Heaven and Earth Cleansing!" A loud voice, like the ringing of bells and chimes, echoed from Han Li's mouth.

The surrounding world seemed to have been given an imperial decree by an immortal. The yellow sand receded, the storms subsided, and even the dark clouds that had been suspended in the high sky disappeared. The entire sky completely returned to calm.

"How could this be..."

The gaunt old man's eyes widened, and he cried out in shock, his entire body retreating rapidly, distancing himself from Han Li.

"Heavenly Fire, Descend!" Han Li spoke another incantation.

A white streak of light slashed from the high sky and landed on him, turning into a silver flame that enveloped his entire body.

"This is impossible... Speaking Law, even Golden Immortals can't do it. Who... Who exactly are you? The flower, you can have it." The gaunt old man's shock had turned into fear. As he retreated rapidly, he cried out anxiously.

"Isn't it a little late to say that now? Lightning Strike!" Han Li sneered and shouted again.

The next instant, the sky above churned with wind and clouds. A vortex of dark clouds appeared out of nowhere, flashing with lightning and emitting rumbles.

"Ka cha"

With a crack of thunder, a blue lightning bolt as thick as a water tank pierced through the sky and struck down towards the gaunt old man.

The old man was greatly alarmed and hurriedly dodged, flashing to the side.

However, he had barely evaded when lightning continued to crack in the high sky. Thick lightning pillars rained down, engulfing all his room to move.

The gaunt old man was overwhelmed with shock and had completely lost the will to fight. He stuck close to the lightning bolts, constantly dodging and avoiding them in the high sky. He had already produced a golden talisman between his fingers, planning to use a secret talisman to escape.

But at that moment, Han Li's figure blurred and disappeared from the spot.

The next instant, he appeared behind the old man out of thin air. Golden scales flickered on his arm as he plunged a hand blade through the old man's heart.

As the golden light in Han Li's eyes gradually faded and his divine sense retracted, the blue lightning that filled the surrounding world dissipated, revealing the original scene of yellow sand.

"It was an illusion..." The gaunt old man smiled bitterly, the light in his eyes gradually dimming.

But then, golden light suddenly leaked out from between his brows, and a powerful wave was transmitted from within.

The old man was ruthless. Knowing he couldn't escape, he was about to detonate his nascent soul.

A cold light flashed in Han Li's eyes. Silver light surged on the arm that had pierced into the old man's body, accompanied by a crackling sound.

A silver lightning bolt shot straight up, directly shattering the gaunt old man's nascent soul into pieces. The old man's body finally collapsed completely, falling down without any further movement.