Without a moment's hesitation, Han Li let out a cold snort. The vast divine sense he had released suddenly condensed and withdrew back into his body.
The hoarse-voiced woman and the strange man, seeing this opportunity, naturally refused to let it slip. They immediately drove their own divine sense forward, pursuing aggressively.
In the blink of an eye, three powerful streams of divine sense appeared in the sky above Han Li's position. The other three, somewhat weaker streams also raced to catch up, but they were clearly a step behind.
Seeing this, Han Li narrowed his eyes and let out a bone-chilling cold snort!
Though the snort was not loud, a violent ripple immediately tore through the high sky. The divine sense of the hoarse-voiced woman and the strange man was caught in its wake, involuntarily freezing for an instant and separating from their clash with Han Li's divine sense.
At that moment, a fierce look flashed across Han Li's face. He formed a hand seal with one hand, and rather than seizing the chance to withdraw his divine sense back into his body, he had it spin around instead. In an instant, it materialized into a crystalline blade over ten zhang long, which flashed down and slashed into the man's divine sense.
A piercing scream erupted from within the stone city.
Caught off guard, the strange man's originally whole stream of divine sense was forcibly cleaved in two by the crystalline blade, and roughly a tenth of it simply vanished into the void.
Han Li's decisive strike in crystallizing his divine sense had dealt a serious blow to the strange man.
Only then did the hoarse-voiced woman snap back to her senses. With a sharp cry, she rapidly condensed her own divine sense, also crystallizing it into a massive hand that hammered savagely toward the giant blade.
But her attack came too late.
The giant blade flashed once, then dissipated into countless points of crystalline light at its position and vanished.
At the same time, the vast power of divine sense flowed back into Han Li's body like a tide.
With a thunderous boom!
Blue and white lightning crackled into existence behind Han Li, coalescing into a pair of crystalline wings wreathed in arcs of electricity.
"Let's go!"
Han Li barked in a low voice, formed a hand seal with one hand, and the wings behind him abruptly beat once.
His entire body transformed into a streak of blue-white light that shot forward at tremendous speed. In a single flash, he was over a thousand zhang away, and with another blur, he appeared at the horizon before vanishing without a trace.
An infuriated snort rang out from within the stone city. The colossal spider phantom flickered into view once more, and a tall, beautiful woman in green robes stood firmly upon it, gazing with an unsettled expression toward the distant place where Han Li had disappeared. She showed no intention of giving chase immediately.
A surge of spatial fluctuation nearby, and a sinister-faced old man in black robes appeared beside the woman. His face was slightly pale, and he too glared viciously toward the distance.
"Fairy Luo, should we pursue him? If we delay any further, I'm afraid he'll truly escape," the old man said, somewhat unwillingly.
"For now, let it be. The strength of this person's divine sense far exceeds what we imagined. I suspect his other abilities are no less formidable. Without knowing his origins, it would be unwise to act rashly — we must guard against the possibility that he has companions lying in ambush." The green-robed woman's expression shifted for a moment before she shook her head and spoke.
"What Fairy Luo says does make sense. But hasn't this remnant realm been sealed for a long time? Where did this person come from? Could it be that, like this old man, he stumbled into this world through a spatial rift?" The black-robed old man pondered for a moment, his fierce expression softening slightly as he spoke.
"That is hard to say. Although this realm has been sealed, there are still several ways to enter. It's just that each method either requires extraordinary luck or demands an enormous price. Otherwise, how could our Shura clan have enjoyed such peace all these years?" The green-robed woman said slowly.
"So you're saying this person could have stumbled in here by accident, or he may have deliberately entered this Small Shura Realm. The former is one thing, but if it's the latter, that could be quite troublesome." The black-robed old man's expression grew heavier upon hearing this.
"Which one it is — we can discuss it in detail later and determine that then," the green-robed woman said darkly.
"Very well. Let's go ask that girl Bizi first and find out when exactly he left his divine sense imprint on her. That will help us make a better judgment." The black-robed old man nodded in agreement.
With that, the colossal spider phantom dispersed, and both figures vanished into the void in a flash.
A short while later, inside a vast hall at the center of the stone city, the green-robed woman and the black-robed old man took their seats as host and guest respectively.
In the area below, closer to the front, three middle-aged men and women stood ramrod straight.
Two men and one woman — the aura they faintly radiated did not seem to fall short of that of ordinary Mahayana-stage cultivators.