A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Immortal Realm-Chapter 1278: Suspicious Retreat

"I should be the one to ask you that! Don't think that I can't tell that you're cultivators of the True Immortal Realm just because you've cleansed your yang energy using Three Lifetimes Water! Go back to where you came from, you're not welcome in the underworld!" the black-robed man replied in a cold voice.

"So this is the underworld," Han Li mused, pretending that this was news to him. "The two of us only came to this place by chance. Could it be that you're an underworld envoy that's been stationed here?"

"Looks like you insist on overstaying your welcome. In that case, you can both die here! Get into formation!" the black-robed man ordered as he pulled his spear off his back before pointing it forward.

As soon as his voice trailed off, the ghostly army behind him instantly arranged themselves into a pair of triangular formations. The auras of the ghostly beings within the formations were instantly connected together, and it was as if they had become a single unit.

The two triangular formations then transformed into a pair of enormous arrow projections that hurtled directly toward Han Li and Weeping Soul at an astonishing speed, reaching them in the blink of an eye while releasing tremendous wind pressure and ghostly qi fluctuations.

Weeping Soul was caught off guard and sent flying back by the fierce wind, while Han Li was able to remain completely unmoved.

His aura began to swell rapidly, and a golden lightning sword appeared in his grasp before releasing several hundred streaks of golden sword qi, forming a swirling pillar of golden light around him to keep the pair of giant arrow projections at bay.

A resounding boom rang out as the two ghostly formations were stopped cold in their tracks before being repelled back, but they managed to hold themselves intact.

As for Han Li, he was knocked back a couple of steps by the force of the impact before managing to steady himself.

Right at this moment, a black spear projection appeared behind him without any warning, piering toward his heart from behind like a spitting viper.

Another golden lightning sword instantly appeared behind Han Li, as if it had been waiting there all along, parrying the oncoming spear projections with another loud boom.

Two halos of unmatched power, one black and one golden, appeared in the underground space before erupting violently, and the black spear projection was sent flying back, while the black-robed man was revealed with a stunned look on his face.

Han Li was also sent flying once again, but as he flew through the air, he swept a sleeve through the air to release a streak of golden light, which transformed into Jin Tong.

"Jin Tong, go and deal with those two formations with Weeping Soul!" Han Li instructed, then pounced at the black-robed man.

The two golden lightning swords also hurtled directly toward the black-robed man, reaching him in the blink of an eye before swelling to over a hundred times their original size and crossing over one another like a pair of huge scissors.

In response, the black-robed man thrust his black spear forward like lightning, jamming it right into the point where the two golden swords intersected with unerring accuracy.

A loud clang rang out as the pair of golden swords were stopped cold in their tracks, allowing the black-robed man the time to spring back in retreat.

Han Li immediately made a hand seal upon seeing this, and two thick bolts of golden lightning erupted out of the pair of giant swords. Due to the close proximity, the black-robed man was unable to react in time, and the bolts of lightning struck him before exploding into a ball of blinding golden light that encompassed the entire surrounding area within a radius of several dozen kilometers.

All of the yin wind and glacial qi in this space were completely eradicated, and all that remained were crackling and flashing arcs of golden lightning.

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However, right at this moment, a ball of black light appeared out of thin air, and it quickly devoured all of the surrounding arcs of golden lightning.

The black-robed man then reappeared, and he was completely unscathed. There was a burst of black light flashing in his right sleeve, giving off a burst of devouring force, and that was precisely the source of the ball of black light.

In the blink of an eye, all of the golden lightning had been sucked up his sleeve.

Han Li's brows furrowed slightly upon seeing this.

Not only did Cardinal Heavenly Lightning possess extremely fearsome destructive power, its innate attributes also gave it a natural advantage over all types of ghostly power, yet the black-robed man had just easily collected it like a confiscated toy.

Despite this rather disheartening turn of events, Han Li continued to persevere, and several hundred golden sword projections erupted out the pair of golden swords at his behest before converging toward the black-robed man, who raised his spear and conjured up countless black spear projections in retaliation.

A string of metallic clangs rang out in rapid succession, while Weeping Soul and Jin Tong were also engaged in fierce battles against the two ghostly formations.

Jin Tong had taken on her Gold Devouring Immortal form, but she wasn't taking much initiative, doing the bare minimum to keep the formation occupied, rather than adopting a more aggressive approach.

Meanwhile, Weeping Soul was flying back and forth through the other formation, and she was looking very excited as she made a grabbing motion with one hand.

The sky abruptly darkened as a giant, black claw the size of a small mountain appeared. It was none other than the Infernal Ghost Claw, and it came grabbing down upon the ghostly formation at her behest.

A burst of tremendous power came crashing down, instantly freezing the entire space within a radius of several dozen kilometers to immobilize the opposing ghostly formation.

However, in the next instant, a burst of black light erupted out of the formation to tear the surrounding, restrictive forces apart, and a High Zenith Stage ghostly being in the formation issued a loud command, then waved a large, black flag that they were holding through the air, releasing streaks of black light that infused themselves into the black light around the formation.

The triangular formation instantly elongated to form a devilish, black dragon to oppose the descending black claw and keep it at bay.

Weeping Soul wasn't fazed at all by this. In fact, a faint smile had appeared on her face, and she opened her mouth to release a streak of black light, which raced toward the tail end of the black dragon at an astonishing speed.

As a result of the formation's elongation, the layer of protective black light around it had thinned out significantly, and the streak of black light was able to quickly tear through it before sweeping up several of the ghostly beings inside the formation.

The High Zenith Stage ghostly being let loose a furious roar while urgently sweeping their black flag through the air upon seeing this, and the devilish dragon formation instantly circled around to send bursts of translucent light that resembled streaks of sword qi hurtling toward the black light.

However, by then, the ghostly entities that had been swept up by the streak of black light had already been pulled out of the formation before being promptly devoured by Weeping Soul, and a blissful look appeared on her face, while the black light emanating from her body became ever so slightly denser.

The black-robed man's expression changed slightly upon seeing this, and Han Li immediately took advantage of his moment of distraction to fly directly toward him through the oncoming storm of spear projections.

At the same time, he made a rapid string of hand seals to summon his Mantra Treasured Axis, which released countless waves of golden ripples that swept toward the black-robed man.

However, the black-robed man had been able to instantly react as soon as Han Li had sprung into action, and he was backtracking through the air far faster than Han Li.

As a result, a rapidly widening gap appeared between them, so the golden ripples released by the Mantra Treasured Axis were unable to reach him.

In the blink of an eye, the black-robed man fled into the black abyss while letting loose a long shriek, and the two armies of ghostly beings that were locked in battle against Jin Tong and Weeping Soul immediately began to retreat as well.

"Master, help me capture some of them!" Weeping Soul yelled in an urgent manner as she hurriedly set off in hot pursuit.

Right as the two ghostly formations were flying past Han Li, he made a hand seal to expand the golden ripples released by his Mantra Treasured Axis, encompassing close to a hundred ghostly beings within them.

Now that his Mantra Treasured Axis had fused with the Heavenly Wheel Sundial and taken on a substantial form, it had become far more powerful than before, and all of the ghostly beings caught within its golden ripples were instantly completely immobilized.

The other ghostly creatures made no effort to free their trapped comrades, and they raced back to the black-robed man's side in the blink of an eye.

The man took a long glance at Han Li and Weeping Soul, then vanished into the abyss, followed closely by the pair of ghostly formations.

Jin Tong flew over to Han Li's side, then reverted back to her human form and asked, "What happened? Why did they suddenly retreat?"

"I don't know," Han Li replied with slightly furrowed brows.

During his brief clash against the black-robed man, he had discovered that the latter was definitely no less powerful than him, so if he were the guardian of this place, then he definitely shouldn't have retreated so quickly.

Could it be that there were some other factors at play?

"Master, you can withdraw your axis now," Weeping Soul urged while salivating profusely.

Han Li withdrew his Mantra Treasured Axis with an amused smile, and the ghostly beings trapped within instantly fled in all directions in a blind panic, only to be immobilized once again as a black spirit domain fell upon them.

The spirit domain rapidly shrank down at Weeping Soul's behest, and all of the ghostly entities inside shrank down along with it before being devoured by the spirit domain.

In the end, the black spirit domain transformed into a fist-sized ball of black light before flying into her mouth.

The black light emanating from his body instantly began to flash erratically, and it remained this way for quite some time before finally settling down again, at which point, Weeping Soul's aura was much closer to the pinnacle of the early-Great Encompassment Stage than before.

"I don't know why that man suddenly decided to retreat, but I suppose this is a good thing. Let's go down and see exactly what is in this abyss," Han Li said as he flew down into the abyss, followed closely by Weeping Soul and Jin Tong.

As soon as the three of them entered the abyss, they immediately felt as if they had entered an enormous waterfall, and they were enveloped by a burst of power that sent them plunging down into the darkness.

The downward force was so vast that even with their Great Encompassment Stage powers, they were completely unable to resist, and they were sent plummeting downward in an uncontrolled fashion.