A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 117

Chapter 116 Killing the Enemy: A Small Gain or a Small Loss?

“Boom boom boom…”

Inside the great formation, the roar was deafening.

Outside the formation, the weather was fine and sunny.

The situation inside and outside the formation was completely different.

Of course, besides the activity inside the formation, there was also activity outside.

For example, within the past half hour, cultivators’ escape lights had arrived at this nameless island one after another.

There weren’t many, only about a dozen people.

They were all cultivators who had been cultivating in seclusion on hundreds or thousands of islands within a thousand miles of the surrounding sea.

The highest cultivation level was a pair of mid-Foundation Establishment cultivators.

This pair looked like twin brothers, their clothing and other aspects very similar.

“Fellow Daoist, is there a master who has formed their Core Formation here?”

The older of the two brothers pointed to the location of the great formation and asked.

Han Li, who was being questioned, was currently focused on controlling hundreds of puppets in conjunction with his Fiend Core clone to mercilessly attack the scarred-faced giant inside the great formation; he had no spare mind to talk to others.

Therefore, he merely glanced back indifferently, then calmly advised,

“This is not a safe place; you should all leave quickly.”

He was initially very polite to complete strangers.

However,

the two Foundation Establishment stage brothers refused to leave with the group of Qi Refining cultivators. Instead, they smiled and tried to approach Han Li. They were almost within

a hundred feet.

“Are you two sure you don’t want to leave?”

Han Li asked calmly.

“Why don’t you leave, fellow Daoists?”

The two brothers snorted, expressing their displeasure.

They weren’t fools.

Someone must have formed their Core here before.

If the person who formed their Core was a member of a cultivation family or a powerful force, they would never have chosen such a remote place lacking spiritual veins. Since they chose this place, it meant the person attempting Core Formation was merely a rogue cultivator.

Now, the Core Formation phenomenon had disappeared, meaning the person either succeeded in forming their Core, failed, suffered severe damage, or even perished.

However, if that person successfully formed their Core, this formation wouldn’t appear.

A newly promoted Core Formation expert wouldn’t allow a Foundation Establishment cultivator to disturb their meditation by stimulating the formation from outside.

In other words, most people attempting Core Formation fail.

The best outcome of failing at Core Formation is severe damage to one’s vital energy and mental exhaustion.

They coveted the substantial wealth of a failed Core Formation cultivator.

“Fellow Daoist, why don’t the three of us visit the senior in this cave together…”

the younger brother tempted.

Han Li’s face immediately turned cold:

“Shut up!”

Because the Reversed Five Elements Formation was a small-scale forbidden formation, it had the function of isolating internal and external fluctuations. As long as the person controlling the formation wanted, the internal movements could be largely undetectable to outsiders.

Otherwise, how could these two Foundation Establishment cultivators dare to linger here?

Let alone plot against the creator of this cave.

It was simply going against the natural order.

In any other place, Foundation Establishment cultivators would avoid Core Formation cultivators. These two, mistakenly believing the Demon Core clone had failed to condense its core, actually came to pick up his leftovers?

They’re courting death.

Inside the Reversed Five Elements Formation, the Demon Core clone entangled the scarred-faced man, while the remaining half of the puppets continued to provide fire support. Taking advantage of this opportunity, dozens of level 2 beast puppets, a dozen level 3 giant wolf puppets, and two level 4 giant tiger puppets withdrew from the formation.

Seeing dozens of puppets suddenly rushing out of the formation, the two brothers were startled.

Then, seeing that these puppets were completely controlled by Han Li, they were terrified.

How could they not know how incredibly foolish their brother had been?

“Fellow Daoist, you misunderstand…”

But what responded to the two was an overwhelming barrage of firepower.

Hundreds of compressed spiritual energy bullets and blazing beams of light.

Especially the blazing beams of light, over ten feet thick, unleashed by the two giant tiger puppets after they replaced their mid-grade spirit stones. Such beams could even threaten a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, let alone when two giant tiger puppets went berserk simultaneously.

“Run!”

The two brothers summoned their respective defensive magical artifacts and fled in opposite directions, one to the south and the other to the north.

Unfortunately, no escape technique could match the speed of the blazing light pillars,

let alone the suppression of the surrounding firepower.

“Hmph, come and go as you please?”

Han Li sneered, narrowing his eyes.

“No…”

The two, their escape space compressed by various beams of spiritual energy and light projectiles, were engulfed by the giant tiger puppet’s blazing light pillars in the next instant. Before they could even scream or beg for mercy, they were burned to a crisp and fell onto the beach a mile away.   This

scene caused the cultivators still gathering there to stop their escape and turn away in fear.   They were here to seek opportunities, not to be treated like lambs to the slaughter.   After resolving the minor troubles outside, Han Li focused even more intently on dealing with the Pang family’s Core Formation cultivator within the formation.   A lineup capable of even attempting to kill a level six demonic beast shouldn’t be unable to handle a mere early Core Formation cultivator.   ”Fellow Daoist Li, it’s a misunderstanding, let’s talk this out…”

The scarred-faced man begged for mercy while simultaneously pleading for help from his family.

However, all his distress signals were blocked by the Reversed Five Elements Formation. Even if the signals had been successfully sent, he couldn’t count on his family’s assistance. Their ancestral lands were tens of thousands of miles away; even if the message reached them, even if they immediately dispatched reinforcements, it would still take a considerable amount of time.

During that time, he could die several times over.

“Fellow Daoist Li, it’s truly a misunderstanding…!”

However, Han Li remained completely unmoved.

His offensive showed no sign of slowing down.

The five giant tiger puppets and fifty giant wolf puppets—the giant tiger puppets’ blazing beams consumed a mid-grade spirit stone every two shots, their power unimaginable. The giant wolf puppets’ attack beams also consumed a mid-grade spirit stone every ten shots, their power equally formidable.

Dozens of Foundation Establishment stage puppets were veritable energy guzzlers.

The combined attack struck the small magical shield and protective magic barrier conjured by the scarred man, causing the shield to teeter on the brink of collapse and the magic barrier to tremble violently.

Moreover, the puppet’s offensive wasn’t the main force; the true main force consisted of the Demon Core clone, the Green Radiance Sword, and the Water-Fire Gourd.

“Whoosh whoosh whoosh…”

The Green Radiance Sword sliced through the air with its light.

Each strike could destroy a rare, even a near-perfect, top-tier magical artifact.

“Roar roar…”

The Water-Fire Gourd extended two killing dragons, one blue and one red.

The twenty-to-thirty-foot-long blue dragon was a dragon of corrosive Kui Water; flesh that touched it would be poisoned and severely corroded into a pool of black water.

The twenty-to-thirty-foot-long crimson dragon was an even higher-temperature crimson flame dragon, capable of extinguishing even spiritual flames and earth’s core fire, a flame on par with the Dan Fire. Flesh that touched it would instantly turn to ashes.

Furthermore, lightning occasionally spewed from the gourd’s mouth.

Those were some controllable explosives left inside by Lei Wanhe years ago.

There were twelve in total.

Each one’s dazzling explosion and ultimate sublimation were comparable to the deafening roar of a heavenly thunderbolt.

“How could this be?”

“How could a newly promoted Core Formation cultivator possess a finished magic weapon? And one that has been nurtured by a Core Formation cultivator for at least a hundred years…”

Something

‘s not right. It’s abnormal.

It’s illogical.

It’s simply too unreal.

“Damn it, bastard, if you have the guts, release the formation, let’s have a fair fight…”

Before dying, Scarface was furious.

If it weren’t for this obstructive formation restricting his many methods, if his attacks could penetrate the seven layers of colorful barriers of the formation and land on that newly promoted Core Formation cultivator, on the hundreds of puppets. If that were the case, he believed he could defeat them one by one, turn the danger into safety, and ultimately achieve victory.

Unfortunately.

There are no “ifs” or “what ifs.”

After struggling for another quarter of an hour, his magical energy and true essence were finally exhausted under the intense firepower.

“It’s over…!”

When the scarred man was beheaded by the Green Radiance Sword, he self-destructed his golden core, destroying his storage bag and his natal magic weapon.

Only the small magic shield that hadn’t been detonated in time remained.   Han Li didn’t care

about this .   He didn’t care about the paltry sums from a mere early-stage Core Formation cultivator.   If the other party hadn’t been greedy and provoked him first, he wouldn’t have bothered with such a nobody.   Moreover, when the other party self-destructed, he was even glad that he hadn’t been overly smug and went forward to humiliate him, but instead had acted swiftly and decisively. Otherwise, he would definitely have been affected by the self-destruction.   ”Let’s go.”   He deactivated the Inverted Five Elements Formation, picked up the small magic shield whose spiritual light had dimmed, and then casually cleaned up the battlefield and wiped away the traces.   After that…   Han Li nimbly slipped into the underwater tunnel he had dug years ago, moving a hundred miles away from the small island.   Then, in the blink of an eye, he submerged and disappeared.   This place was no place to linger.   In the end, he had essentially exchanged two or three hundred mid-grade spirit stones, a skull-shaped talisman, and two mid-grade talismans for a magic shield worth over ten thousand spirit stones.   Could that be considered a small profit?   No.   In the Chaotic Star Sea, two or three hundred mid-grade spirit stones, equivalent to thirty thousand spirit stones, had purchasing power comparable to fifteen or sixteen thousand spirit stones in the Southern Lands.   In other words, he actually lost a little.   ”A second-hand magic javelin and a second-hand magic shield, individually, a small loss; together, a small profit.”   …   Half a month later.   Xiaohuan Island in the Kuixing Island sea area.   There were two islands here, one high and one low.   Han Li used an earth-遁符 (earth-遁符 is a type of talisman) to infiltrate the belly of the larger, higher peak, where he carved out a cave dwelling. Inside the cave, he specially built several insect-breeding rooms and a small herb garden.   After placing the various spirit insects collected by the Core Formation stage of the Spirit Control Sect into the insect chamber, the Demon Core clone piloted the Flowing Cloud Boat directly towards the Star Palace Heavenly Star City.   (End of this chapter)