A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Immortal Realm
Chapter 783: Experience

In the face of Tong Yu's formidable attack, Han Li didn't retaliate with his sword or his fists. Instead, he merely tossed the green gourd forward, and a green vortex emerged from the mouth of the gourd, then released a beam of dark green light that struck the wall of devilish qi.

The destructive law powers within the beam of green light were released, and the wall of devilish qi was instantly destroyed.

At the same time, Han Li channeled his Reversal True Axis ability, allowing him to reach Tong Yu in the blink of an eye before swinging his Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Sword down upon Tong Yu's head.

Tong Yu was very startled by this turn of events, and his body immediately began to disintegrate into devilish qi again.

Unbeknownst to him, this was exactly what Han Li had been aiming for.

Han Li thrust a palm into the underside of the Profound Heavenly Gourd, and a green vortex instantly re-emerged from its mouth, releasing a burst of tremendous suction force.

Plumes of devilish qi were instantly drawn into the gourd, and by the time Tong Yu realized that he had fallen for a trap, it was already too late.

In the blink of an eye, he was sucked into the space within the gourd, and the dozens of Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords inside immediately swarmed the cloud of devilish qi, forcing it into the gourd's second internal space.

Immediately thereafter, a blood-curdling howl rang out from within the gourd.

Han Li raised the gourd, then tipped it upside-down before gently shaking it, and a pile of mangled remains fell out of the green vortex onto the ground.

Even though Tong Yu possessed a High Zenith Stage nascent soul, there was nowhere for it to escape in the Profound Heavenly Gourd, and it was destroyed by the destructive law powers inside. At this point, all that remained of Tong Yu was a golden storage ring, which was still hovering in the first space within the gourd.

All of this had taken place in the blink of an eye, and in response to Tong Yu's sudden demise, Yin Yu was much more surprised than angry.

All of a sudden, he forced his longsword with tremendous power, and the spatial barrier conjured up by the Virata Lute was instantly destroyed by the mountain of sword qi.

Shi Chuankong felt a burst of fearsome power descend upon him, and he plummeted out of the sky before crashing into a mountain down below.

A resounding boom rang out as a large section of the mountain was shattered, causing a massive avalanche.

Shi Chuankong flew out of the dust and debris, stroking a white mark that had been sliced into the Virata Lute with a pained expression, yet before he had a chance to do anything else, he was caught by a giant white serpentine tail.

In the wake of Tong Yu's demise, Yin Yu displayed no intention to avenge him, choosing to prioritize Shi Chuankong's capture instead.

However, as soon as he turned to depart, he immediately felt the entire world slow down around him, and he looked around to discover that he had been caught within Han Li's time spirit domain.

"Isn't it a little rude of you to be leaving without a word like this?" Han Li asked in an indifferent voice as he appeared in Yin Yu's path, and the Essence Fire Raven was hovering behind him.

"Tong Yu should've never been defeated by you. You only won because he underestimated you," Yin Yu said in an expressionless manner.

"You're right, but aren't you making the same mistake?" Han Li chuckled.

Yin Yu's expression changed slightly upon seeing this, and right at this moment, a series of pillars of golden and silver light rose up from the mountains down below, then converged high up in the sky to form an enormous array.

Immediately thereafter, Yin Yu was struck by a sense of drowsiness, and the flow of air in the space ahead of him slowed down even further. At the same time, he felt as if he had been caught within countless shackles, making him feel extremely heavy and sluggish.

His tail reflexively loosened slightly in response to these alarming changes, and Shi Chuankong was able to struggle free from his bindings.

"Are you alright?" Han Li asked as he approached Shi Chuankong while holding a glowing jade pendant.

Shi Chuankong was also holding a glowing jade pendant, and he threw up a mouthful of blood, then hurriedly replied, "I'm fine. Let's put an end to this as soon as possible while he's still trapped in the array."

Han Li wasted no time upon hearing this, bringing his palms together with the jade pendant in between them before injecting his time law powers into it. Shi Chuankong also did the same, except he was injecting spatial law powers into his pendant.

Under their combined efforts, the surrounding array began to glow brighter and brighter, and the time and spatial law power fluctuations emanating from it also became more and more formidable.

Yin Yu could feel the flow of time around him slowing down further and further, while the tremendous compression force acting upon him became more and more unbearable. However, his sluggish spiritual sense made it impossible for him to react, reducing him to a helpless sitting duck.

A string of dull thumps rang out as the space around him began to collapse, and the space within the array was caving in toward the center, further exacerbating his woes.

It was only going to take a few more minutes for the space within the array to completely collapse, at which point Yin Yu's body and nascent soul would be crushed. Furthermore, thanks to the time-slowing effect of Han Li's time law powers, this was going to be an extremely long and drawn-out process, subjecting Yin Yu to a slow and torturous death.

However, such a powerful array couldn't be unleashed without a price. Han Li and Shi Chuankong had each summoned a treasure that contained their respective law powers, and both of those treasures were going to be destroyed in this process.

On top of that, the more formidable the target trapped within the array was, the longer the array would take to operate, thereby expending more of Han Li and Shi Chuankong's law powers.

This was why they hadn't unleashed the array from the very beginning, instead choosing only to activate it after one of the two assailants had been slain. Only then could they ensure that they would have sufficient law powers to support the array until the target was eradicated.

At the moment, Han Li was still looking fairly comfortable, but Shi Chuankong was already sweating profusely.

He had exerted himself quite severely in his earlier battle against Yin Yu, thereby expending far more spatial law powers than anticipated, and he was struggling to keep up.

Inside the array, the space continued to compress, and at this point, Yin Yu's tail had already been flattened, while some of his ribs had also been snapped and caved in.

At this rate, it wouldn't be long before all of his bones were snapped, and at that point, he would be truly powerless to resist.

However, right at his moment, Shi Chuankong's spatial law power reserves were completely exhausted, and the silver light emanating from the jade pendant in his hand instantly faded.

The entire array also ceased operating, and at the exact same moment, the two treasures acting as the cores of the array on the two mountains below exploded.

The entire array began to fall apart, and an alarmed look appeared on Han Li's face as he immediately stowed his jade pendant away without any hesitation before sweeping a sleeve through the air, sending eighteen Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords hurtling directly toward Yin Yu.

However, Yin Yu had already been freed from the array at this point, and a giant waterfall of sword qi cascaded down from the heavens at his behest, scattering all of the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords before also razing a tall mountain down below to the ground.

By the time Han Li summoned his flying sword back to his side, the waterfall of sword qi had already faded, while Yin Yu was nowhere to be seen.

Han Li summoned his Essence Fire Raven back to his side, then turned to Shi Chuankong to discover that the front of his robe was drenched in blood, while his aura was very unstable, clearly indicating that he had suffered very severe injuries.

With a sweep of his sleeve, he released a burst of azure light to support Shi Chuankong, who was looking rather unsteady on his feet, and a wry smile appeared on Shi Chuankong's face as he said, "It's going to take some time before I recover from these injuries. What a pity that we let one get away..."

"We're already very fortunate to have survived this ordeal at all," Han Li said.

"You are truly a man of many talents, Brother Li. If we had followed my plan and focused solely on fleeing, perhaps we wouldn't have been caught so early, but at the very most, we would've still been intercepted after just a few more days, and we would've been in a far less advantageous situation," Shi Chuankong said.

"I've been hunted many times in the past, and with experience comes insight. Sometimes, it's better to set up a surprise ambush rather than fleeing with no concrete plan. Time is of the essence, so let's get out of here. Next time, it'll most likely be the Golden Rhinoceros King coming after us in person," Han Li said.

Shi Chuankong nodded in response, while Han Li summoned his green jade flying carriage, and both of them flew onboard.

All of a sudden, a thought occurred to Han Li, and he swept a sleeve through the air to release a few puppets, then adhered several talismans onto each of them.

"Brother Shi, pick a few of these puppets and leave your aura on them," Han Li instructed.

Shi Chuankong immediately realized what Han Li was doing, and he chuckled, "It seems like experience really does pay off in situations like these. Having said that, I don't think this is going to be a very effective ruse."

"Like you said, it's just a ruse. If it works, then that's great, but if not, it's not like we lose anything," Han Li replied with a smile.

With that, the two of them left their auras on the puppets, following which the puppets darted away in different directions at their behest.

After that, the green jade flyng carriage flew away into the distance as a streak of green light.