A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 189

Chapter 185 Preparation, Transformation, Perilous Land Also a Blessed Land

“Let’s go, follow me to the Lava Road.”

Han Li led the way.

Yan Li and Yuan Yao followed closely behind.

Man Hu Zi and Qing Yi went to the Xuanjing Road.

As soon as they entered the cave entrance that had split open in the mountain wall, gusts of hot wind blew in their faces along the passage, making the three of them feel as if they had stepped into a furnace.

On the stone walls along the way, there were clear warnings: “No flying” and “Proceed on foot.”

There was also a warning: “You must cross the Ten Thousand Mile Canyon and reach the destination within five days. “

There were also some other precautions.

“You guys divide these little things up first, and carry them with you when you enter the Lava Road.”

Before reaching the teleportation light screen, Han Li took out ten pairs of beads that could generate a defensive light screen from his storage bag.

“Husband, what are these?”

“These are Purple Light Sensing Beads, a kind of high-grade magic weapon.”

“High-grade magic weapon?”

Just a mere high-grade magic weapon, why give it to them?

The two women looked at each other, somewhat puzzled.

“Don’t underestimate these little things.”

Han Li smiled.

He then explained its uses:

“Purple Light Sensing Beads usually exist in pairs. Either one can generate a defensive light barrier, making it a high-grade defensive magic weapon. With the double light barrier, it’s comparable to a top-grade defensive magic weapon. But the real function of this little thing is that the two beads in a pair can sense each other’s location. This sensing is effective within a hundred miles.”

Purple Light Sensing Beads were originally commonly used defensive magic weapons by cultivators of the Joyful Union Sect, and also excellent auxiliary magic weapons for Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Joyful Union Sect to sense their partners.

Although it’s only a high-grade magic weapon, its effectiveness is truly remarkable.

Holding one allows one to sense the other a hundred miles away.

Back when he schemed against Tian Buque, the second young master of the Joyful Union Sect, he received one as a gift from Old Monster Qiong, and also obtained the other pair from Tian Buque. These two are quite special, even specially crafted by high-level cultivators of the Joyful Union Sect, belonging to the finest among Purple Light Sensing Beads, capable of sensing up to a thousand miles away.

Afterwards,

he seized more than ten pairs on the Golden Drum Plain battlefield.

And today, he finally put them to use.

“It can actually sense a hundred miles?”

Yuan Yao was greatly surprised.

This was even more useful than the divine sense of a Core Formation cultivator.

“Husband, you gave us five each. Do you want us to leave one at an important intersection after entering the Lava Road, as a landmark? So that you can find me and Junior Sister Yuan Yao?”

Yan Li asked, looking up.

“Yes, it is indeed to be prepared.”

Han Li nodded.

His idea was indeed as Yan Li had guessed.

But it wasn’t entirely:

“If this trip to the Lava Road goes smoothly, and if those two old ghosts from the Star Palace don’t cause trouble, with your current preparations, you can easily pass through. But I’m worried that those two from the Star Palace might be restless and secretly create the Black Desert…”

He then simply revealed the information about the Iron Fire Ants.

“If you two pass through without incident within five days, you won’t need these Purple Light Sensing Beads. But if you encounter the Black Desert and the Iron Fire Ant swarm, it’s best to reunite with me before proceeding together.” “

At that time, simply place one Purple Light Sensing Bead every few dozen miles around the Black Desert’s perimeter, forming a large net. When I pass by, I’ll be able to sense it. If I sense any one of them, I can follow the clues to find you.”

Han Li explained.

The Iron Fire Ants in the Black Desert are quite troublesome.

“Unless I don’t encounter you within three days, it’s best not to trespass. Wait for me first.”

The Lava Road and the Mystic Crystal Road are only a few thousand miles apart.

If one could fly, a Nascent Soul cultivator could cross them in a quarter of an hour or two. A Core Formation cultivator wouldn’t take too long either.

However,

the Ice and Fire Road is protected by powerful ancient restrictions.

Anyone attempting to fly will be killed by these restrictions in mid-air.

Even Nascent Soul cultivators are not immune.

There are bloody lessons and records of this.

After the two women put away the Purple Light Sensing Beads, Han Li opened his spirit beast pouch and released four thousand golden Gold-Devouring Insects, comparable to level four demonic beasts.

Then, he used two thousand Gold-Devouring Insects to condense a set of armor for the two women.

“How do you feel?”

“The temperature around us is much lower, not as hot as before,”

Yuan Yao said in surprise.

“My spirit insects are impervious to water and fire, and the scorching heat of the Ice and Fire Path can’t harm them. Wearing the armor formed from spirit insects, while not being impervious to water and fire, can greatly reduce the scorching heat of the Ice and Fire Path. In addition, it has a good protective effect.”

As Han Li spoke, he controlled another two thousand Gold-Devouring Insects to form two “Gold-Devouring Spirit Swords.”

He then used his own mana and true essence to condense two sword sheaths.

“Carry these two Gold-Devouring Spirit Swords on your back. If you encounter a crisis that you can’t handle with your own abilities, draw your swords. Everything moving within a thirty-mile radius will be indiscriminately attacked by the Gold-Devouring Insects.”

The real dangers of the Xuanjing Path and the Lava Road, besides the extreme heat and cold, lie in the various innate demonic spirits with ice and fire attributes that gather within the canyons.

Those creatures are often comparable to high-level individuals.

If cultivators have to expend a large amount of mana to fight against the surrounding intense heat or extreme cold while also dealing with those demonic spirits, that’s the most fatal situation.

Cultivators are constrained in this environment at every turn.

Demonic spirits

, on the other hand, thrive in it. This imbalance means even a minor expert in the late-stage Core Formation realm could be caught off guard and perish.

Han Li naturally needs to be extra careful.

Then, he took out two jade tablets:

“These two jade tablets bear my magical power and divine imprint. Each of you should hold one. Not only will they prevent you from being accidentally injured by the Gold-Eating Insect swarm, but they can also obey your simple commands in battle.”

Finally, after thinking for a moment, he added:

“Avoid using the Gold-Eating Insects if you don’t have to.”

He felt a pang of regret at losing even one.

The entire Tuwu tribe had only raised a dozen or twenty of them.

Although he had over 60,000 of them, he still treasured them dearly. He

rarely used them in battle,

hoping that these little guys would grow into mature forms and then devour each other, striving to make the final insect king even stronger than the one in the original trajectory.

“Thank you, husband.”

The two women smiled in unison ,

warming Han Li’s heart.

“Yuan Yao, how is the Ice-Fire Wolf getting along with you?”

“It’s very obedient and reliable.”

“That’s good.”

On the way back, after much deliberation, Han Li still gave the Ice-Fire Wolf to Yuan Yao as a precaution.

A level seven Ice-Fire Wolf, one ice and one fire, is a very special situation.

As long as the Ice-Fire Wolf moves with its ice body, and Yuan Yao stays close by, plus the fire-repelling treasures prepared beforehand, Yuan Yao should be unafraid of the high temperatures of the Ice-Fire Path for at least three to five days.

“Let’s go.”

After marking the two women with his divine sense, Han Li led the way through the light barrier.

The two women followed closely behind him.

The next moment, the three were teleported by the great teleportation power carried by the light screen to their designated locations within the Ice and Fire Path.

This teleportation was exactly the same as the teleportation in the first level of the Mist Ghost Zone.

Han Li felt a momentary dizziness, and when he reappeared, he was in a place filled with strange, fiery red trees.

Upon entering, an even more intense heat assaulted him, but it was immediately and easily blocked by a layer of blue light on his body.

The surrounding fiery forest was even more eerie, with sparks constantly dripping from the branches, hissing as they landed on the blue light screen around him.

Feeling the rate at which his mana was being depleted, Han Li didn’t take it seriously.

This place was dangerous for Core Formation cultivators, and even late-stage Core Formation cultivators would have to leave as soon as possible. But for Nascent Soul cultivators, it was ultimately not quite right.

“Not bad for refining materials.”

Although he couldn’t name these strange trees, they could grow for thousands, tens of thousands of years in such a harsh environment, so they were definitely not ordinary.

“Even if they can’t be used to refine magic weapons, they’re enough to refine some top-tier fire-attribute magic artifacts.”

So…

Hundreds of wind blades centered on him formed a tornado that swept across the area.

The once densely packed fiery red forest was instantly reduced to a barren wasteland.

All the severed tree trunks and branches were absorbed by his magic and stored in a storage bag at his waist.

He couldn’t afford to miss it while passing by.

That was it.

He spread his divine sense outwards.

He immediately felt immense resistance.

“Even divine sense is restricted here? And the restriction is even stronger than deep within the ghostly mist.”

Han Li frowned.

If, in the ghostly mist area, his divine sense could vaguely perceive activity within an eighty-mile radius,

in the lava road, it was only fifty miles.

The range where he could clearly perceive targets had also shrunk to only a dozen miles.

He took out the purple light sensing bead, but there was no reaction.

It was outside his range.

He then closed his eyes and sensed the marks left on the two women:

“Huh, there’s one in this direction!”

It was Yuan Yao’s.

After preparing so much, finally one of them worked.

He quickly approached the divine sense mark on Yuan Yao.

Along the way, Han Li left afterimages.

Although he couldn’t fly, he was wearing Thunder Whale Leather Thunder Boots.

These boots were specially engraved with a large number of runes that increased the wearer’s speed.

Although not a magic weapon, it was comparable to a flying magic weapon.

“Sizzle…”

Each step he took sparked and flashed with lightning as he struck the ground.

From a distance, it didn’t look like a person running, but rather a bolt of lightning streaking across the earth.

“Whoosh…”

The wind whistled past his ears.

The high temperature seemed to have subsided considerably.

If it were an ordinary Core Formation stage cultivator, without the aid of powerful divine sense, they would likely be too fast to react in time and crash into obstacles along the way, making it impossible to exceed one mile per second like him.

He was different.

He possessed the reaction speed of a Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

Moreover, his divine sense far surpassed that of an ordinary Nascent Soul stage cultivator.

Although he was still greatly restricted here, significantly diminished by the terrifying ancient restrictions of the Lava Road,

the restrictions only suppressed his divine sense, not his five senses or other spiritual perceptions, and wouldn’t slow down his reactions.

Besides, his divine sense could ultimately extend for tens of miles.

As long as the speed of the Thunder Boots couldn’t match the speed of his outward-extending divine sense, he would never crash into anything along the way.

Unless, of course, he did it intentionally.

And so,

when they passed a bubbling lava lake…

A fire-type demon spirit was dozing idly on the shore.

But the next instant,

its head flew high into the air.

Its entire body was packed away in a storage bag.

Nothing was left behind.

Han Li never liked to miss anything. Ahead, a

fiery red patch of grass blocked his path.

A whirlwind swept past, and the grass blades all went into his storage bag.

Strange vegetation blocking the way?

Powerful demon spirits obstructing the way?

To him, these were not troubles at all, but rather a roadside buffet.

In short: the more the merrier.

“Zzzzt…”

A flash of lightning, twenty or thirty feet away.

Another flash, and another few dozen feet away.

Although a speed of over a hundred feet per second was not a tenth or a twelfth of flying speed, it was enough for traveling.

Thus,

in just about a quarter of an hour, Han Li traversed hundreds of miles and arrived beside Yuan Yao, who was being besieged by six fire-type demon spirits.

At this moment, Yuan Yao was fighting two against six, and was not at a disadvantage at all.

Upon arriving at the destination, Han Li wasn’t in a hurry to act.

“A little training is good.”

As for Yan Li, whose cultivation was even lower? He wasn’t too worried.

It’s no exaggeration to say that Yan Li at this moment was no weaker than the original body in the original trajectory, and even two or three times stronger.

She had obtained the Azure Nether Needle Talisman Treasure in advance. She

had obtained the Royal Scale Armor in advance.

In addition, she had thousands of Gold-Eating Insects comparable to level 4 demon beasts, as well as a large number of Azure Fire Thunders.

Azure Fire Thunders can be regarded as a super-enhanced version of Heavenly Thunder Seeds. The power of each one is enough to rival the Yuan Yang Fire of a Nascent Soul cultivator. A sudden explosion would kill even a mid-to-late stage Core Formation expert caught off guard. They

were obtained from the young master of the Azure Yang Sect.

And he gave Yan Li more than twenty of them.

On Yuan Yao’s side, one was that her own foundation was solid enough, and she was able to act with ease. The other was that the Ice-Fire Wolf was assisting her from the side, relieving most of the pressure. The six fire-type demon spirits comparable to the Core Formation stage were quickly killed.

Two tried to escape.

Two enormous magical hands, each tens of feet long, appeared, and one was immediately grabbed.

“Husband?!”

“Hmm, not bad.”

He suddenly felt he had been worrying too much about the two women.

Sometimes, he needed to let them out to train.

Like this time, it was quite good.

A sword servant should act like a sword servant.

She can’t just be a “scabbard” to help him “nurture the sword.”

“Get on.”

He embraced the beauty and they mounted the Icefire Wolf.

Their four hooves moved with incredible speed.

…

On Yanli’s side.

Initially, she was surrounded by a patch of fiery red wild grass.

To find her way, she gritted her teeth and stepped on the red grass, intending to leave the thicket.

But this attempt startled her.

The first step made no sound, but the second step produced a cacophony of metallic clanging.

Looking down, she immediately discovered something. The fiery red grass had transformed into countless sharp swords, slashing at the soles of her feet and below her thighs, covered by the Gold-Eating Insect armor.

Every brief contact with a blade of wild grass felt like a slash from a scorching sword against her Gold-Eating Insect Armor.

Had the armor not been indestructible and impervious to water and fire, she, who was usually careless about such details, would surely have suffered.

“Hiss, what’s with these weeds?”

She tentatively took another step forward, trying to touch the blades of grass that were half her height or even two or three people tall. Sparks and fire erupted around her.

Her eyelids twitched violently.

If she plunged headlong into the grass without any protection, it would be like sending herself into a highly efficient meat grinder.

It was then that she finally understood the terrifying nature of the Lava Road. She

also understood just how much Han Li loved her.

“Husband…”

“I won’t let you down.”

The girl gritted her teeth, her eyes exceptionally firm.

Her previous vulnerability vanished, replaced by a stubbornness, a resilient strength and independence.

There will be a short chapter tonight.

I feel like my chapters are getting shorter and shorter.

(End of Chapter)