A Record of a Mortal s Journey to Immortality

Chapter 1140: Volume 7 Across the Human World Chapter 1136 Huge Green Bird
 

Han Li heard the beast’s roar and, startled, his eyes shot open, his face showing a hint of surprise.

Given the strength of his divine sense now, even without actively releasing it, he could control everything within several hundred meters as easily as breathing. Moreover, when he arrived on this island before, he had deliberately scanned the seascape within a hundred miles, and he had not detected any demon beasts in the vicinity.

Now that an unexpected situation had arisen, Han Li would naturally not ignore it and immediately released his spiritual sense wildly to probe the depths below the isle.

The roar was indeed coming from below!

In just a brief moment, Han Li’s expression changed, and he suddenly turned into a strong azure streak, shooting up high into the sky. In the blink of an eye, he reached hundreds of meters high before circling to a stop, his face solemn as he looked down.

Almost simultaneously, a stench-filled sea breeze rose violently, and the nearby sea surface formed countless whirlpools of varying sizes. Row after row of waves, more than ten meters high, raced to rise and then collided with each other, creating thunderous booms and scattering water into the lower skies.

For a moment, the entire region seemed to be collapsing, striking fear into anyone’s heart.

Han Li swept his gaze around, only to be shocked to find that within a hundred miles, the sea surface was in the same condition, undergoing fierce gales and waves.

Just now, as his spiritual sense probed the seabed, it had been sucked in by something after passing a thousand meters into the deep sea.

Although he reacted swiftly and retracted it hastily, a wisp of his spiritual sense was still forcibly absorbed, causing him a slight loss.

It was then that he hurriedly flew into the sky, taking the anomaly that had appeared on the seabed very seriously.

Could there be a powerful demon beast below? But even if a grade ten demon beast appeared, it seemed unlikely to create such a fearsome commotion. Or perhaps it was the rumored demon beast of the Divinity Transformation Stage, but it didn’t seem quite right either.

If his memory served correctly, once a demon beast transcended the grade ten realm, it would also be constrained by the thinness of Qi in the human world. How would it dare to stir up such wind and waves recklessly? That would be tantamount to self-harming its base essence!

Han Li began to mutter to himself with some doubt.

They say that once demon beasts surpass grade ten, they can be classified using the same realm divisions as human cultivators. Of course, they could also be distinguished using levels eleven and twelve and so forth. It’s just that human cultivators generally don’t use such terminology.

After all, once a demon beast surpasses grade ten, it becomes a top-tier existence in the human world, and how could human cultivators dare to regard such a terrifying being as a common demon?

However, the commotion below was a bit too great! Even Han Li, a late stage cultivator who had experienced countless major events, started to feel uneasy.

Yet, the thing beneath the sea surface simply refused to emerge, only causing the storm and waves to grow bigger and bigger, even starting to whip up astonishing waves over a hundred meters tall.

With a shift in expression, Han Li finally made a decision. Regardless of what was causing the disturbance below, it would be wiser not to take the risk and to leave quickly.

Having made up his mind, he turned around, ready to transform into a streak of light and fly away from above the islet.

But at this moment, a piercing screech reached his ears, shrill beyond measure.

Taken off guard, Han Li only felt a buzzing in his head, his world spinning around as he plummeted directly down from the sky.

The protective azure barrier failed to block the screech in the slightest.

However, after falling merely ten meters or so, Han Li’s body rumbled, and a purple flame suddenly burst out several feet high, while golden arcs frenetically zipped through the flames, thoroughly shielding him within.

Only then did the dizziness in Han Li’s brain vanish in an instant, and his figure stabilized to stop the fall, once again floating in the air.

But his complexion was, of course, extremely unsightly, and he looked up into the skies, the screech clearly coming from above.

The originally murky sky had become obscured by a vast expanse of dark shadows at some point. At first glance, the shadows seemed boundless but oddly murky, giving the impression of flowers in a mirror or the moon reflected in water, creating an eerily strange sensation!

The screech came precisely from deep within the shadows!

Han Li stared at the cloud and mist that had appeared overhead, his face darkening.

Even with such vigilance, he had failed to notice the anomaly in the sky, which was bizarre in itself.

Without time to think further, he also cautiously swept his spiritual sense into the sky, and before it even touched the shadow, it was repelled by a rebounding force, utterly unable to penetrate it.

This made his heart chill even further.

Taking a deep breath of cold air, Han Li’s figure flickered, and he abruptly turned into a dazzling azure streak, shooting toward the distant horizon.

While he did not know what was happening here, it was obviously better to beat a hasty retreat.

With his current divine skills, a full-strength escape meant that in just a few flashes, the azure streak reached more than ten miles away.

At this moment, the screeching in the sky abruptly stopped, followed by a violent distortion of space above the islet Han Li had just fled from.

“Hisses,” amidst a patch of shadow, a swath of blinding white light flashed and a glaringly bright tear in space appeared out of nowhere.

Then, a massive object slowly emerged from the white light, pressing down towards the sea below.

Far away, Han Li had just turned his head back in time to witness this scene. He was initially startled, but upon closer inspection, his face dramatically changed.

The nameless massive object was clearly the claw of some kind of demonic bird. Not only was its entire body azure, but the part that was revealed was already hundreds of meters large, as if a giant mountain was emerging from the void.

However, the claw’s movement emerging from the white light appeared extremely strained, and its motion was incredibly slow.

Even so, before the claw was fully extended, the tremendous spiritual power from above caused the waves below to surge even more violently—with hurricanes rising from the sea’s surface, and colossal waves hundreds of feet tall were everywhere to be seen.

In the shadow above, there hid an unimaginably large demonic bird, seemingly attempting to cross through the layers of space to launch a direct attack.

Moreover, judging by the size of this claw, the demonic bird was at least thousands of feet in length. Such gigantic creatures seemed to only exist in legends from the savage ancient times.

In the current human world, there definitely weren’t such terrifying demon beasts!

After swallowing hard, Han Li no longer hesitated. His Thunderstorm Wings unfurled behind him, accompanied by the rumblings of thunder, and he transformed into a silver arc that vanished from his original spot.

After more than ten successive flashes, Han Li finally caught a glimpse of a hazy grey at the periphery of the overshadowing darkness and felt slightly relieved in his heart.

But before he could look back, the beast roar from the sea’s depths suddenly intensified, seemingly filled with fury.

A sense of heaviness sank in Han Li’s heart, and he turned his head to look.

Amidst rumbling roars, the small island he had previously been on sank rapidly into the sea floor, and at the same time, a massive vortex with a diameter of more than ten miles emerged on the surface of the sea.

Subsequently, pitch-black mist popped out from the center of the vortex.

Initially, there were only a few strands of this mist, but it quickly thickened and expanded wildly, within moments becoming enormous, filling the entire vortex.

Within the dark and gloomy mist, not only were the sounds of ghostly wails and wolf howls heard, but also strange black lightning constantly flitting and bouncing around inside the mist.

What’s more ominous was that the nearby fish and shrimp, as if drawn to something, all flew into the mist like moths to the flame, and in the blink of an eye were completely devoured.

“Ghostly Mist!”

As soon as Han Li recognized the pitch-black mist within the vortex, he exclaimed in shock.

The strange object emerging from the seabed was the Ghostly Mist that had once devoured him, and even as a late Nascent Soul cultivator, Han Li still felt a chill in his heart.

The sensation of completely losing his mana back in the Umbra Realm was still a vivid memory!

Fortunately, this time’s Ghostly Mist was different from the last; the dark mist only churn around violently within the vortex, without showing any tendency to spread further, which gave Han Li, who was contemplating a hasty retreat, some temporary relief.

With his current Divine Skills, even if the Ghostly Mist started to spread again, being so far apart, it definitely couldn’t catch up to him.

Now Han Li looked silently at that gigantic vortex, and without a doubt, the colossal beast roars were emanating from within the Ghostly Mist.

Han Li couldn’t help but wear a face full of shock and doubt!

At that moment, the Azure Giant Claw emerged completely from the white light, and just as Han Li had expected, it truly belonged to a bird-like demon beast. The claw flickered with azure streaks, and the size seemed to have increased even more, by more than double the original estimate.

This made Han Li’s heart beat even more wildly with fear.

Suddenly, the high-pitched screech that had ceased started again from within the shadow. Then the Azure Giant Claw trembled, and five thick light beams shot down from the claw tips, shining an unusual emerald green, like five Sky-supporting Giant Pillars plunging into the Ghostly Mist below. The claw then gave a shake, and the emerald green light beams stirred wildly within the mist, as if trying to overturn seas and rivers.

The beast roar from within the vortex paused, then became even more furious.

The mist rolled and condensed, surprisingly morphing into an enormous dark mouth full of sharp teeth, filling the entire vortex.

The five emerald green light beams appeared to be swallowed by this enormous maw.

Han Li watched, utterly astonished.

Just then, the black maw snapped shut, eerily biting the five light beams in half, before suddenly opening wide again.

A thunderous roar burst forth from the maw, and a jet-black lightning bolt shot out. After a series of crackling thunderclaps, it shattered the five light beams in a single strike.

Afterward, the thick lightning transformed into a hundred-foot-long Azure Flood Dragon and with a ‘Puchi’ sound, vanished without a trace.

But in the next moment, the Azure Flood Dragon reappeared below the shadow, plunging headfirst into the void.

Accompanied by earth-shattering thunder, a pale rift was forcibly torn open by the dragon, followed by an instant dive into it.

Within the rift, black electrical arcs madly flashed, and the rumblings of thunder intensified suddenly, then a mournful cry echoed out, a large Azure Feather dropped from within the white light, and the Azure Giant Claw that initially stretched from another tear in space also abruptly withdrew.

Amidst the audible cries, both spatial rifts self-sealed within the white light. The black shadow that had covered the entire sky suddenly vanished without a trace.

The hazy grey sky reappeared.

Almost simultaneously, the gigantic vortex below began to whirl madly, compressing the black mist together and drawing it into the deep sea with an immense suction force. At the same time, the vortex rapidly shrank and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Soon, the sea was calm and tranquil, and though the small island where Han Li originally stood was completely gone, it was as if the astonishing battle that had just occurred was nothing more than an incredibly vivid illusion!

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