After destroying all the flying swords with a single strike, the Golden Horn youth showed no intention of stopping. Once the small white bell rang out two more times, white, misty waves surged forth once again.
At the same time, the Dharma Idol behind the youth also sent two treasures flying from its hands—three-colored firelight and rolling clouds of flame soaring skyward.
As for the youth's true body, a vicious look flashed across his face as he opened his mouth and spat out a thick plume of black qi that coiled and spiraled around him.
The wailing of ghosts and the howling of wolves erupted from the black qi, within which countless emerald-green threads flickered in and out of visibility, emanating a pungent, putrid stench.
This time, the Golden Horn youth had unleashed several divine abilities simultaneously, clearly intent on killing Han Li in a single exchange.
Seeing this, Han Li's heart clenched.
He wasn't particularly worried about the other attacks, but the spatial ability unleashed by that snow-white small bell filled him with profound wariness.
However, since his Magical Power had yet to recover, he similarly had no wish for a prolonged battle. Steeling himself, he immediately sent a thought surging through his mind.
The Golden Body standing to his side suddenly blazed with purple-gold light, and waves of sacred Buddhist chants rang out.
Within the golden spiritual light, faint purple runes drifted about ceaselessly.
One of its arms blurred as it reached out into the void, and a golden broken blade materialized in its grasp.
The fragmentary blade let out a clear, resonant hum!
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth within a radius of several li went wild with a thunderous boom, as though answering some ancient summons. It transformed into countless motes of five-colored radiance that materialized into existence, forming a curtain of five-colored light that blanketed more than half the sky.
This spectacular phenomenon was only possible because they were within the Glacial Realm, where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth could produce such a breathtaking spectacle.
The astonishing spiritual energy contained within the light curtain made the youth's expression shift involuntarily.
But before he could react, the Golden Body's spiritual light surged ceaselessly as golden, misty radiance poured along its arm and into the golden blade with abandon.
The Golden Body, originally a full twenty feet tall, mysteriously shrank by a full tier in the span of a few flickers.
The incomplete blade, its golden light flashing wildly, blurred and suddenly manifested a complete blade form.
The wrist holding the blade gave a slight shake, and the clear hum from the golden blade fell silent. But the five-colored light curtain in the sky spun rapidly and surged downward, plunging into the golden blade one and all.
In just a few breaths, the golden blade devoured the entire curtain of light as if it were a bottomless pit.
The blade, originally only about a foot in length, instantly expanded to nearly ten feet. Several runes on its surface flared brightly, and it slashed silently toward the youth.
A beam of golden light shot from the blade. At first only a few feet long, after a single flash it transformed into an endless torrent of golden radiance that charged toward the youth with terrifying momentum.
The moment the youth saw the imposing momentum of the golden flood, his heart lurched with shock. But at this point, there was no possibility of making peace with Han Li.
He let out a sharp, piercing howl while pointing a single finger solemnly toward Han Li.
Immediately, the white waves, fire clouds, three-colored radiance, and black qi all surged forward to meet the golden torrent head-on.
The fire clouds, black qi, and three-colored radiance collided with the golden torrent and erupted with tremendous booms, but they flickered and scattered into oblivion—utterly incapable of putting up any resistance.
It was the white waves that plunged into the golden light, producing strange, explosive bursts of sound. The two powers interweaved in flashes of light, deadlocked for the moment.
"A True Heaven Sacred Treasure!"
The youth, who had harbored strong suspicions, felt his heart sink the moment he saw this.
He had actually mistaken the True Heaven broken blade for an existence on par with the small bell.
Then again, such a thought wasn't entirely off the mark.
Split into several fragments, the True Heaven broken blade was indeed quite similar to a True Heaven Sacred Treasure in terms of raw power.
Neither could fully unleash the power of a True Heaven Treasure, and could only replicate a portion of a complete True Heaven Treasure's abilities.
At this moment, the youth flicked his wrist and tossed the snow-white small bell into midair. He curled his finger and flicked it slowly toward the bell.
Clang! Clang! — Clear, resonant notes rang out one after another.
His finger faintly glowed with a bloody light, and with each flick, his face drained noticeably of color.
After seven or eight strikes, not a trace of blood remained in his face.
Clearly, the tolling of that small bell consumed far more vital essence than anyone could imagine. Even with his peak Body Integration cultivation, the few flicks he had performed were already enough to show dire signs of strain.
However, the effect produced by so many chimes ringing out from the small bell was naturally terrifying.
The instant Han Li heard the first chime, his ears buzzed violently, his surroundings blurred, and he felt the irresistible pull of some law of reality attempting to drag him directly into the void.
He was startled, but immediately circulated his incantation. The black demonic armor on his body erupted with layer upon layer of black runes.
The runes spun rapidly, then burst apart one after another.
A hurricane of black mist materialized in an instant, conjuring an invisible, tremendous force that shielded him completely.
Though the law's power was bizarre in the extreme, it could only twist and deform the hurricane before being neutralized by the invisible force, utterly unable to reach Han Li at its center.