The moment Han Li heard those words, his expression changed drastically. But before he could hesitate or take any action, the mist before his eyes suddenly scattered, revealing a world of flickering azure light — a vast expanse of lightning filling the void for tens of thousands of acres.
Countless azure lightning arcs and clusters of azure lightning spheres blanketed every corner of the empty space, dense as a swarm of locusts. A portion of them were already thundering with deafening booms as they hammered furiously toward a ball of yellow radiance at the center.
Within that glow lurked a black demonic beast dozens of zhang long, breathing out clouds of dark mist.
The creature bore strange horns atop its head, its form bearing an uncanny resemblance to a crocodile. Its body was clad in layers of pitch-black scales, and the black mist it spat forth coalesced into over a dozen enormous tentacles that lashed wildly against the yellow barrier, striking at the azure lightning outside.
Quite a few bolts of lightning, once struck by those black tentacles, sizzled and dissolved into wisps of azure smoke.
Behind the black demonic beast sat a woman in white, cross-legged upon a pink lotus. One hand formed a incantation seal while the other held aloft a short, earth-yellow mace. Her beautiful eyes were shut tight, and her body was as motionless as a carved statue.
Sheets of yellow radiance continuously streamed from the short mace in her hand, drifting outward thread by thread and weaving into the surrounding barrier — the unmistakable picture of someone channeling her own Magical Power to withstand the assault of the lightning from every direction.
But there was simply far too much azure lightning!
At virtually every instant, thousands upon thousands of bolts struck the barrier simultaneously.
Even though the yellow halo of light seemed unbreakable and could suppress the power of lightning, under such a frenzied assault, it dimmed and flickered unstably, giving the faint impression it could no longer hold on.
Once Han Li got a clear look at the white-clothed woman's face, his pupils contracted slightly. But his gaze immediately swept elsewhere, and he instantly spotted two more figures.
One was a woman in blue robes, the other a slender, graceful young woman. They stood respectively at the edges on either side of this world of lightning.
One stood atop a massive blue turtle, with six green banners, each about a foot long, hovering before her. The other stood upon a giant golden wheel, holding a silver demon statue in one hand.
The one speaking was precisely that graceful young woman standing on the golden wheel.
Upon seeing these two, Han Li's eyes flashed, and his expression couldn't help but darken.
Although he didn't know the origin of the blue-robed woman, the graceful young woman was identical in appearance to the Six Extremes Avatar Purple Spirit had later sent her trusted aide to deliver a jade slip about.
Although her cultivation was only at the late Spirit Severing stage, he naturally wouldn't dare treat this woman as an ordinary late-stage Demon Lord.
As for the blue-robed woman, just from the fact his divine sense had swept past without being able to perceive her specific cultivation base, he knew she was actually a Demon Race Holy Ancestor, and moreover, here in her true body.
This being the case, even with Xie Dao Ren's assistance, facing these two would absolutely bring no small amount of trouble.
However, the sudden arrival of Han Li and his companions had clearly taken both women by surprise.
The young woman's gaze swept over Han Li, her brow furrowing slightly, and she said coolly to the blue-robed woman: "Sister Lan, what is the meaning of this? Didn't you guarantee that within the Six Extinction Azure Thunder Formation, we wouldn't be disturbed by anyone? How did these people end up here? Why didn't your clones appear to intercept them?"
"Such a grand formation — did you think it would be easy to set up? My clones had to coordinate with the rest of my subordinates just to barely manage its activation. And while the restriction attacks at other parts of this formation aren't as formidable as here, they're still not something ordinary beings can easily pass through. I'd very much like to know how they managed to force their way to this place." The blue-robed woman snorted, answering in an irritable tone.
"That said, it's only because the Six Extinction Azure Thunder Formation was incomplete to begin with. Otherwise, how could these people have broken in without either of us noticing? Now, I'm afraid things are about to get complicated." The young woman's gaze swept across Han Li and Xie Dao Ren, and after seeming to perceive something, she let out a sigh.
The blue-robed woman and the young woman were none other than the Blue Waterfall Holy Ancestor and one of Liu Ji's clones, who had previously plotted to join forces.
After mustering a great number of subordinates, the two had finally tracked down their quarry's whereabouts. Then, spending several days to set up the Six Extinction Azure Thunder Formation — a grand, superlative formation — at this location, and leveraging their knowledge of the target along with a chain of interlocking stratagems, they had finally forced Bao and Hei E, who had been hiding nearby while tending to their injuries, out into the open and lured them into the formation.
The Six Extinction Azure Thunder Formation was certainly formidable in its own right, but its other marvel lay in the fact that before activation, the formation's fluctuations were virtually undetectable. Even a powerful cultivator like Bao, if caught off guard, could be trapped within without ever realizing it.
This was precisely the fundamental reason the two had chosen this ancient, extraordinary formation despite knowing it was incomplete.
What followed was simply a matter of course.
Under these circumstances, with his vital essence severely damaged and no longer able to activate the Profound Heaven Tree for protection, Bao had indeed managed to locate the formation's core. However, while being jointly restrained by Ancestor Lan Pu and his Six Extremities Avatar, even after employing several supreme treasures from his possession, he could only barely manage to hold his ground.