A blinding flash erupted before his eyes as a streak of azure light pierced through the void. The radiance contracted, and Han Li's figure emerged. He turned his head to glance back.
Behind him, a colossal tower thousands of zhang tall stood perfectly still, motionless as a mountain.
The massive hole through which he had exited sat at the tower's midpoint, shrinking rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, the void on that side had fully restored itself.
It seemed this treasure had not truly sustained much damage.
Han Li's expression shifted, but after drawing a deep breath, his gaze involuntarily swept across his surroundings.
His face was soon filled with utter astonishment.
In the surrounding void, the deafening roar of battle still shook the heavens. The armies of the human and demon races were still fighting desperately before the massive walls of Yitian City.
High above in the sky, a sky-supporting giant beast with a ram's head and a bear's body had joined forces with Green Dragon Shangren, locked in a fierce and inseparable battle against a black-armored giant and a strange demon army shrouded in hazy blood light.
As for Green Dragon Shangren, he had already reverted to his human form. His face was deathly pale, and under the relentless onslaught of those strange demon soldiers, he could barely protect himself.
The demons' methods of attack were extremely simple. Apart from spitting beams of blood-red light from their mouths, they merely swung the weapons in their hands with all their might, releasing streak after streak of blood-colored radiance.
Yet Green Dragon Shangren and that sky-supporting beast seemed surprisingly wary of both types of attack, not daring to let a single blow land on their bodies. They each relied on either their protective spiritual light or directly activated treasures to shield themselves completely.
Moreover, these strange demons appeared to possess immortal bodies. No matter how the beast's bizarre winds tore them apart, or how its massive palms smashed them to a pulp, a mere flash of blood light restored them to their original state, and they immediately launched even fiercer attacks.
The black-armored giant kept his distance, hiding far behind the demon army. Whenever the beast was about to break through the encirclement, he would unleash a full-powered strike with his supernatural arts, forcibly driving it back to its original position.
Of course, this demon would occasionally land a vicious blow on Green Dragon Shangren as well, leaving him flustered and scrambling for a good while.
Despite that ram-headed beast's terrifying magical power and its ability to command bizarre winds that even late Body Integration stage cultivators greatly feared, it still found itself helpless under the entanglement of the black-armored giant and those demons, unable for the moment to break through their encirclement.
However, with the beast's heaven-defying powers, it seemed equally impossible for the black-armored giant and those demons to truly defeat or injure it.
A strange stalemate had taken shape between both sides.
The situation at another battlefield, however, was vastly different.
Lin Luan and Fairy Yinguang had somehow converged together, and their situation was dire.
One of the women released ten-thousand-zhang silver radiance while the other's body blazed with three-colored flames. The two techniques merged seamlessly together, instantly more than doubling their combined might.
But their enemies — the white-robed youth Hai and a petite woman — had also joined forces. Behind the petite woman, an illusory projection of a massive emerald toad materialized. Every time it opened its mouth, it spat out clusters of emerald-colored radiance.
No one knew what mysterious power this radiance contained, but whenever the silver light or the flames made contact with it, the two would flash once and annihilate each other.
If not for the fact that the toad projection had to pause after each blast, the defense the two women relied on would have long been shattered completely.
But what truly made the two women lament in their hearts was the white-robed youth's attacks.
Apart from adding over a dozen more crystalline flying knives, this demon had not employed any other techniques. Yet these seemingly simple attacks contained a bizarre cold power far surpassing what he had used before. Every time a flying knife struck down, Fairy Yinguang and her companion were forced to expend tremendous amounts of magical power to neutralize it, silently cursing their luck.
As a result, under these circumstances, the two women's magical power was being consumed at a speed far beyond what anyone could imagine. If not for the extremely rare spirit medicines they each carried for restoring magical power, their alliance would have long been broken, and they would have perished in defeat.
Yet even so, as their spirit medicines were consumed in large quantities, their situation only grew more dire by the moment!
Outside their defensive perimeter, layers of white, hazy cold energy had begun to form, enveloping several mu of surrounding void within its embrace.
Han Li's mouth twitched involuntarily, and his heart filled with great surprise!
Judging from the situation before him, although this was not the exact moment he had been sucked into the tower, not much time could have passed outside either.
Yet he had clearly spent nearly half a day inside the tower.
Could it be that the tower could actually manipulate the flow of time, making the passage of time inside different from the outside world?
If that were the case, then the origin of this tower-shaped treasure was deeply suspect.
After all, apart from some legendary Profound Heaven Treasures, he had never heard of any treasure that could manipulate and alter time.