A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Immortal Realm - Chapter 580: From Crisis to Fortune

Chapter 580: From Crisis to Fortune

Han Li gritted his teeth in agony before abruptly letting loose a thunderous roar, and a shimmering golden nascent soul suddenly emerged from the top of his head.

The nascent soul had a grim look on its face, and it rubbed its hands together, following which a burst of golden light flashed through its eyes before it vanished into Han Li’s body again.

In the next instant, Han Li felt a cool and refreshing sensation spreading through his spiritual sense, slightly counteracting the scorching pain that was ravaging his soul.

However, the heat radiating from the green flames was only becoming more and more intense, and it was impossible to alleviate, even as Han Li channeled his Spirit Refinement Technique with all his might.

At this point, Han Li had already conjured up his True Extreme Film to help him withstand the tremendous compressive force that was acting upon him from all directions, but he was still trembling uncontrollably, while cracks and pops were ringing out incessantly from within his body, as if all of his bone were about to be shattered.

Time passed by in an agonizingly slow fashion.

All of a sudden, Han Li shuddered as a twisted look appeared on his face.

The heat in his spiritual sense had risen to a terrifying degree, and he felt as if his entire soul were slowly shrinking amid the unbearable heat.

His consciousness slowly began to blur, as if it were slowly leaving his body, but right at this moment, what appeared to be the sound of something shattering rang out deep within his soul.

A speck of translucent light then abruptly emerged somewhere in his spiritual sense, and it began to release a burst of suction force.

The scorching heat that permeated throughout his spiritual sense seemed to have suddenly found an outlet, and it surged toward the speck of translucent light in a frenzy to form a scorching vortex.

In the span of just a few seconds, all of the scorching heat in Han Li’s mind had faded, and the twisted look on his face also disappeared.

Immediately thereafter, a resounding boom rang out from within his soul, and it was rapidly being enhanced and elevated to a whole new level.

Only after around 15 minutes had passed did these changes gradually subside, and everything returned to normal.

Han Li slowly opened his eyes, and he was ecstatic to discover that not only had his consciousness returned to normal, his spiritual sense had become two to three times more powerful than before.

It was as if there were countless glittering and translucent streams flowing through his mind, giving off tremendous spiritual sense fluctuations.

Never had he anticipated that he would achieve full mastery of the fourth level of the Spirit Refinement Technique while on the brink of disaster.

Perhaps the reason why he hadn’t been able to reach this step up to this point was because his spiritual sense was too powerful, so he had never been in a situation where his soul had been on the verge of collapse.

In his desperation to attain more power in order to stand a chance against the Gold Devouring Immortal, he had ventured deep into this mysterious ravine, and in an enormous stroke of luck, it had allowed him to achieve full mastery of the fourth level of the Spirit Refinement Technique.

Han Li swept his gaze over his surroundings, following which his glabella began to glow brightly, and bursts of radiant translucent light shot out from within like sharp swords in all directions.

All of a sudden, bursts of blinding translucent light erupted out of the giant green rat’s body, following which it exploded violently into streams of green light that flew away in all directions.

Before long, Han Li was revealed, having already reverted back to his human form.

Piercing translucent light was radiating from his body, illuminating the surrounding crimson space.

All of a sudden, he made a hand seal, and the translucent light converged to form an enormous sword that was able to instantly slice the crimson space apart.

Han Li’s vision blurred momentarily, and in the next instant, he found himself back in the dark ravine.

He gently exhaled as he inspected his surroundings momentarily, then descended onto a nearby protruding cliff before sitting down with his legs crossed.

With his current drastically enhanced spiritual sense, the surrounding yin wind and baleful qi were no longer able to affect him.

He closed his eyes to carefully experience the enormous spiritual sense in his mind, and he was ecstatic with what he saw.

Moments later, his eyes abruptly sprang open, and a burst of translucent light flashed over his glabella, following which a radiant translucent sword projection shot forth, vanishing into the black mist in a flash before racing up the ravine.

High up in the sky above the ravine, a True Immortal Stage azure eagle was flying past when the translucent sword projection suddenly pierced straight into its head, and it was only able to muster up a cry of shock and agony before the light in its eyes completely faded.

At the same time, its aura also vanished, and its lifeless body tumbled down into the forest that was actually the body of the tree demon.

The vines and branches in the forest immediately awakened, and they converged to ensnare the body of the azure eagle in a cocoon, following which a string of grotesque crunching sounds rang out.

Inside the ravine, a hint of elation flashed through Han Li’s eyes.

With his significantly enhanced spiritual sense, his Sword Observation Art had become several times more powerful, making it an even more effective weapon against the Gold Devouring Immortal.

After that, he tested out a few more spiritual attacks, all of which had also become immensely more powerful.

Following his experimentation, he closed his eyes once again, and moments later, several translucent chains shot out of his glabella, then quickly intertwined with one another to form a rectangular cage.

The chains were riddled with barely distinguishable black runes that were giving off a faint black glow, which intertwined with the translucent light emanating from the chains, presenting a rather peculiar sight to behold.

Han Li cast his gaze toward the cage of chains, which was hovering in mid-air, then pointed a finger in its direction, and the cage instantly split back up into several translucent chains before vanishing into thin air.

Deep within the forest outside the ravine was a huge tree that stood at several thousand feet tall. The tree had an extremely dense canopy, and the trunk was as green as jade, as were all of its branches and leaves. Furthermore, there was an enormous face on the trunk of the tree.

At this moment, the eyes of the face were tightly shut, and a snoring sound was coming out of its half-agape mouth, indicating that it seemed to be sleeping.

Right at this moment, several translucent chains emerged beside the tree amid a burst of spatial fluctuations, then vanished into the tree in a flash.

The giant face on the tree instantly opened its eyes as it let loose a roar of alarm and fury, and its thick branches began to flail around violently like arms.

At the same time, an immense High Zenith Stage aura erupted out of its body, and bursts of green light shot out of the tree’s trunk in a frenzy before landing in the nearby valley.

Everything that came into contact with this green light was instantly destroyed, and the earth in a radius of several hundred kilometers rumbled and quaked violently, sending huge clouds of dust rising up into the air.

However, in the next instant, the flailing branches of the giant tree suddenly stopped moving, and the expression on its face also abruptly stiffened, but the radiant green light glowing from the tree and its immense aura still remained.

Deep within the giant tree was a green space that was filled with dense green mist, and hovering at the center of the mist was a green soul in the form of a humanoid tree.

However, at this moment, the soul was trapped in a cage formed by translucent chains, and the cage was giving off a layer of translucent light that isolated the green soul from the sea of mist outside.

The green soul was struggling frantically within the cage, taking on all types of different forms to try and break free, but no matter what it tried, its efforts proved to be completely futile.

After briefly trapping the soul for some time, the cage suddenly split back up into several translucent chains that vanished into thin air.

The tree demon was instantly able to move again, and a confused look appeared in its eyes as it scoured its surroundings in a perplexed fashion.

……

Deep within the ravine.

The translucent chains appeared beside Han Li in a flash, then immediately vanished into his body.

His complexion was rather pale, but there was a hint of elation on his face.

That cage just now was a secret technique called the Spiritual Sense Cage, which could only be unleashed after mastering the fourth level of the Spirit Refinement Technique. It was capable of trapping enemy souls to temporarily sever the connection between their body and their soul.

While it was true that the tree demon had been caught completely off guard, the fact that this secret technique was able to temporarily seal away the soul of a High Zenith Stage being was still a testament to its immense power.

After taking a brief moment to catch his breath, Han Li’s complexion gradually began to recover, and a contemplative look appeared in his eyes.

The secret technique was very powerful, but it was also extremely taxing on his spiritual sense. Even though he had only unleashed it for a very short time, only 30% of his spiritual sense remained, and it was going to take at least a month for him to recover.

However, this was still very much a worthy trade.

After sitting in silence for a moment, Han Li summoned a black jade slip before injecting his spiritual sense into it.

This jade slip contained the fifth level of the Spirit Refinement Technique.

The Spirit Refinement Technique was far more powerful than Han Li had anticipated. Originally, he had been planning to take advantage of the vast abundance of baleful qi here to open up more immortal acupoints, but it seemed like cultivating the Spirit Refinement Technique was actually the better option.

After reading through the entire fifth level of the Spirit Refinement Technique, Han Li’s brows furrowed slightly with concern.

The contents of the fifth level were far deeper and more difficult to grasp than the fourth level. Having said that, Han Li had seen countless profound cultivation arts in the past, and no matter how difficult the fifth level was to grasp, it had to be a continuation of the fourth level, so it shouldn’t be a problem for him to interpret it as long as he was willing to spend the time.

With that in mind, he injected his spiritual sense into the jade slip once again.