Wang Yu
Chapter 496: Dispute
"Don't rush to deal with him, help me snatch a Taiyi Pill back first," Han Li urged.
Now that Feng Tiandu was holding everyone else back, it was the perfect time to seize the Taiyi Pill, and he certainly didn't want to miss it.
The golden beetle swayed its head back and forth, looked at Feng Tiandu, then at the pill furnace, appearing hesitant. Then, she spoke again, "Alright, I've been craving that jade furnace for ages. I might as well eat it first..."
These words caused a stir throughout the hall.
Thinking of how she devoured Xiao Jinhan's magical treasures and Nascent Soul before, everyone was shocked. If she were to eat the pill furnace now, all the remaining pills inside would be ruined.
"Gold-Eating Immortal, absolutely… absolutely not..." Luo Qinghai shouted loudly.
As he spoke, the blue waves surging around him suddenly flared up, looking like they would burst open the chains binding him.
Seeing this, Feng Tiandu focused his mind and cast a spell to tighten the chains again, firmly controlling him. After all, among the people in the golden hall, Luo Qinghai was the one he was most wary of.
Both had high cultivation levels, and the power of the laws they wielded was equally astonishing. Although they were within Han Li's Time Domain and their speed was affected, they fared much better than the others.
"There are still pills inside the furnace that haven't been completed, you absolutely can't eat it now..." Hearing Jin Tong's words, Han Li also felt a headache and quickly tried to dissuade her.
"This isn't allowed, that isn't allowed, so annoying..."
Jin Tong grumbled with puffed cheeks, not knowing if she had listened to Han Li or not. With a flap of her wings, she charged straight into the sea of fire restriction.
Seeing this, Qi Tianxiao sneered. After taking a pill, he quietly shifted his position, fixing his gaze on Jin Tong, but did not immediately chase after her.
He calculated in his mind that with the Gold-Eating Immortal's childish nature, she wouldn't know the true power of the sea of fire restriction. If she forced her way in, she would definitely be severely burned. When that happened, he would take action to control her, slowly tame her in the future, and she would become his own.
But what he didn't expect was that Han Li would also follow closely behind, flashing to Jin Tong's side.
He formed an extremely strange hand seal with both hands, and a silver flame rose from his palms, suddenly probing into the sea of fire.
The moment Han Li's hands touched the edge of the sea of fire, his expression changed drastically, and his brows furrowed tightly, looking very pained.
The heat of this flame was far beyond his expectations.
He separated his hands to the left and right, and the silver flame in his palms was like a circle of fire-resistant barriers, propping open the surrounding sea of fire, revealing a circular cavity that was slowly expanding.
As a result, his Time Domain was clearly affected, becoming thinner. Everyone felt a slight relief.
"Go in quickly, I can't hold on much longer..." Han Li's hands had become completely red, and the sleeves of his clothes had been burned to ashes. He gritted his teeth and persisted.
Seeing this, Jin Tong immediately flapped her wings and was about to fly into the cavity.
At this moment, a thick gray mist suddenly surged from the side, blocking Jin Tong's path and condensing into the form of Qi Tianxiao.
"Get out of the way!" Jin Tong roared in anger.
Qi Tianxiao's expression remained unchanged. He shook his sleeves, and rolling gray mist surged out, instantly transforming into seven or eight gray pythons, wrapping around Jin Tong.
Jin Tong's ferocity erupted, and she opened her mouth to tear at the gray pythons coming towards her.
Han Li was struggling to hold on, his hands almost becoming transparent, unable to support it anymore. The Time Domain he released was also thinning.
"You few, don't worry about me for now, quickly go and seize the Taiyi Pill." Seeing this, Luo Qinghai hurriedly stopped the four Golden Immortals of Cangliu Palace.
The four of them paused, each using their own power of laws to resist the oppression of Han Li's thinning Time Domain, and rushed towards the pill furnace.
Luo Qinghai glanced over there and asked Nan Kemeng through voice transmission, "How is it? Have you found a way to break the restriction?"
"I've spotted a few flaws, but I don't have a good way to break it yet." Nan Kemeng shook her head and replied through voice transmission.
"It doesn't matter, just tell those four about the flaws and let them try them one by one," Luo Qinghai replied.
"Palace Master Luo, it seems your disciple is not simple. No wonder you wanted to bring her with you." Feng Tiandu noticed the exchange between the two, and roughly guessed some clues, unable to help but click his tongue.
After speaking, he formed a hand seal, and a dark chain shot out from within his robe, instantly piercing Nan Kemeng's abdomen and entering her dantian.
Her Nascent Soul was immediately sealed by the Law-Isolating Chain, and the light in her eyes dimmed instantly.
"Meng'er..." Luo Qinghai's expression changed, and he shouted loudly.
At the same time, the blue light on his body became brighter and brighter, as if endless blue waves were constantly surging, impacting the Law-Isolating Chains binding him.
Feng Tiandu's expression remained unchanged, and he injected more immortal spiritual power into the chain, suppressing Luo Qinghai.
In fact, he was extremely frustrated at this moment.
He had calculated everything, but he never expected the restriction around the pill furnace to be so powerful. The two Golden Immortals of his sect had directly fallen here without any resistance, greatly reducing their strength. Instead, it allowed the equally treacherous Cangliu Palace to gain the upper hand.
Adding Han Li, this troublesome fellow, causing unexpected complications, he was likely to end up with nothing.
Before he could stabilize Luo Qinghai, a loud bang came from the chains binding Hu Yan Dao Ren.
A bizarre lotus branch flying sword was inserted horizontally into the chain, only a foot away from Hu Yan Dao Ren's abdomen. The pink flower shadows on it suddenly bloomed, like buds closing, and then exploded with a bang.
The black chain that had penetrated Hu Yan Dao Ren's abdomen snapped apart.
At the same time, Yun Ni's figure fell from mid-air, a trace of blood overflowing from the corner of her mouth, and she staggered backward.
At this moment, a black figure flashed past and put an arm around her shoulder, supporting her.
"Nonsense, what are you doing!" Hu Yan Dao Ren, transformed into a black-bearded man, shouted sharply, but his eyes were full of affection.
"It's okay, it's good that you're alright," Yun Ni said softly, steadying herself and wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth.
Hu Yan Dao Ren frowned slightly, wanting to say something, but was stopped by her gentle shake of her head.
Not far from them, Ouyang Kuishan, whose body was covered in black patterns, uncontrollably rushed towards the sea of fire restriction, his eyes always looking towards Hu Yan Dao Ren, his gaze filled with envy, regret, and complexity.
Hu Yan Dao Ren and Yun Ni exchanged a glance, then, holding hands, they flashed to Ouyang Kuishan's side.
Yun Ni flicked her wrist, and a red silk flew out, wrapping around Ouyang Kuishan's waist, pulling him back tightly.
Hu Yan Dao Ren also grabbed a flying sword surrounded by scarlet flames with his hand in the void and slashed down at the dark chain that had penetrated Ouyang Kuishan's dantian.
A sharp sound rang out!
A thin red line appeared on the black chain, breaking apart from the middle.
"Thank you."
The black patterns on Ouyang Kuishan's body gradually faded, and his aura returned to normal. He nodded to the two of them.
Seeing this, Feng Tiandu's expression became even more ferocious, and he raised his dry, ghostly hand to beckon back.
The two sections of Law-Isolating Chains that had been severed from Han Li and the Gold-Eating Insect immediately flew back and landed in his hands.
"Finally back, now it's complete..." Feng Tiandu stroked the two chains lightly and said slowly.
After speaking, he gently raised his hand, and the two chains immediately rose up like spiritual snakes, wriggling and crawling under his robe, and like the other chains, slowly extended and hung down to the ground.
"Jie jie jie..."
Feng Tiandu glanced at the chains below him, slowly raised his head, and a series of hoarse laughter came from his throat.
He stretched out his hands in front of him, and scarlet blood condensed between his fingers, slowly dripping down, sprinkling on the black chains below him.
A blood-red light spread across, and the sound of "clang clang" echoed continuously in the hall. Dense, dark red chains, like ten thousand swimming snakes, covered the entire ground and surged towards everyone's feet.
Luo Qinghai and the others, who had not yet escaped from their predicament, were instantly wrapped up like zongzi, piled up into chain towers that were seven feet high.
Seeing this, Hu Yan Dao Ren reversed his long sword, pointing the tip downwards, and slammed it into the floor.
A scarlet light curtain instantly expanded from under the tip of his sword, wrapping around rolling waves of heat, pushing back the encroaching chains by three points.
The four Golden Immortals of Cangliu Palace each held a jade token, from which dazzling blue light bloomed, forming a square crystal house around them, also blocking the invasion of the chains.
"What should we do?" The elderly Golden Immortal of Cangliu Palace glanced at Luo Qinghai and hesitated.
"Since the Palace Master told us to seize the pills first, we must obey," the fair-faced scholar said silently for a moment.
The four of them slightly changed their expressions and began to discuss how to break the sea of fire restriction and seize the Taiyi Pill.
On the other side, Jin Tong, disliking being constrained by the fighting with Qi Tianxiao in the hall, directly fought her way out of the hall.
Seeing that the dense chains had reached his feet, Han Li had no choice but to sigh, relax his hands, and slowly withdraw them.
As his hands were withdrawn, the gap opened in the sea of fire also slowly contracted.
His figure flashed, and he also came to Yun Ni and the others, already holding two Immortal Essence Stones in his hands, quickly absorbing the immortal spiritual power within them, and the Time Domain he had released was also withdrawn.
Just now, while using the Time Domain, he had simultaneously activated three Azure Bamboo Bee Cloud Swords and released the Spirit-Devouring True Fire to prop open the sea of fire restriction. The immortal spiritual power in his body was naturally greatly depleted.
"The Gold-Eating Immortal is gone. Now, it's time for us to settle the score." Feng Tiandu's eyes burned with anger as he looked at Han Li and said slowly.
As soon as the words fell, his figure, like a lone boat, was half-submerged under the sea of chains, moving freely towards Han Li and the others.