Chapter 1256: Foiled Escape

It's just as I thought, these golden feelers can only devour energy, but are unable to effectively ward off physical attacks!

Those blades of air were essentially gusts of wind that he had conjured up with the tremendous strength of his fingers, and they contain no immortal spiritual power at all, making them the perfect counter to the golden feelers.

The other three Reincarnation Palace cultivators were quite surprised to see this, but Wyrm 3 then quickly turned her attention back to the task at hand as she swept a sleeve through the air to release a purple bead.

The purple bead swelled rapidly to the size of a millstone before striking the wall, where it then exploded into a body of viscous, purple liquid that clung to the wall and spread over an area that was around ten feet in size.

Wyrm 3 wore a focused expression as she cast a string of incantation seals into the purple liquid, and it immediately began to writhe like a living creature while giving off rays of purple light.

The golden light on the wall instantly vanished into the purple liquid, and it was clear that the latter also had the ability to devour spiritual power.

The purple liquid rapidly expanded as it devoured the spiritual power on the wall, but an exposed section of wall appeared at its center.

The exposed section of wall was completely devoid of spiritual power, having been stained a light purple color, and several cracks had also appeared on its surface.

"That's the Myriad Poison Dao Ancestor's Origin Devouring Poison Bead!" Daoist Master Chun Jun exclaimed upon seeing this.

"Did you think we'd venture so deep into the Nine Origins Temple without making any preparations?" Lu Chuanfeng chuckled.

Yang Junzi and Daoist Master Lei Jun exchanged a grim look with one another, then immediately launched themselves at Wyrm 3 and the others.

"Get back here!" Lu Chuanfeng roared as a layer of bright, blue light appeared over his body, and he swept both sleeves through the air in unison to release two thick bursts of blue light.

A loud crack rang out as a massive, thick wall of blue ice appeared out of thin air, splitting the entire palace into two sections.

The Reincarnation Palace cultivators were on one side of the wall, while Daoist Master Chun Jun's trio and Chi Meng and Huo Yuan were on the other.

Lu Chuanfeng's complexion had turned deathly pale, indicating that conjuring up this wall of ice had been very taxing on him.

Yang Junzi was unable to arrest his own momentum, and he crashed heavily into the wall of blue ice with a resounding thump.

The wall didn't even shudder in the slightest, and it appeared to have been extremely sturdy.

Daoist Master Chun Jun and Daoist Master Lei Jun hurriedly manipulated the golden light in the palace to envelop the wall of ice and devour the spiritual power within, but this was clearly no ordinary wall of ice, and the golden light was only able to make very slow progress.

With the Nine Origins Temple cultivators trapped on the other side of the wall, Shi Kongmo and Lu Chuanfeng flew over to join Wyrm 3 and the others.

At this moment, Wyrm 3 was controlling the purple liquid while simultaneously sweeping a sleeve through the air, and a golden nail appeared before her.

The nail swelled rapidly to around ten feet in length and around the same thickness as a millstone at her behest, then shot forth as a golden shadow to strike the section of exposed wall at the center of the mass of purple liquid.

The nail was only able to pierce about half a foot into the wall before drawing to a halt.

This palace had also been constructed from Heavenend Gold Rock, and it was connected to the entire Nine Origins Palace. The purple liquid was only able to devour the spiritual power on the surface of the wall, but wasn't able to infiltrate any deeper than that.

Right at this moment, Wu Yang appeared behind the golden nail in a flash, then threw a bunch into its flat end with an almighty roar, while Lu Chuanfeng was keeping the surrounding golden feelers at bay.

A resounding thump rang out, and the nail was able to pierce about another half a foot into the wall, but it still wasn't able to punch through the wall.

"Impossible!" Wu Yang exclaimed as his eyes widened with incredulity.

"Get out of the way!"

Right at this moment, a burst of tremendous force swept through the air to send Wu Yang flying, following which Han Li appeared behind the golden nail.

All of his close to one thousand eight hundred profound acupoints lit up, and a burst of unfathomable power erupted out of his body, sending ferocious gusts of wind sweeping through the air in all directions.

A flash of realization appeared in the eyes of Chi Meng and Huo Yuan upon seeing this.

"Chang Qi was Han Li in disguise all along!" Chi Meng exclaimed, and Daoist Master Chun Jun immediately turned his attention to Han Li upon hearing this.

Han Li paid no heed to them as he let loose a low roar, and all of the starpower in his body was instantly condensed into his right arm as he threw an almighty punch into the flat end of the golden nail.

A deafening boom rang out as the nail punched through the wall in one fell swoop, following which Han Li unleashed another devastating punch, this one sending the golden nail flying altogether, leaving a huge hole in the wall.

However, Han Li was also knocked back by the force of the impact, only managing to steady himself after stumbling back close to twenty steps in a row.

......

Meanwhile, inside a room deep in the Nine Origins Palace.

It was a rather small room with very simple furnishings consisting only of some bamboo chairs and stools, and it appeared to have been a bedroom.

All of a sudden, a gray-robed elderly man appeared in the room.

It was a thin and short elderly man who wasn't dressed in Nine Origins Temple attire. Instead, he was wearing a coarse, linen robe, and his back was slightly hunched over, giving him the appearance of an unremarkable, old janitor.

The only thing worthy of note about him were his eyes, which were as sharp and bright as those of a hawk.

"I didn't think they would be able to breach the walls of the Bright Wheel Palace," he murmured to himself with a surprised expression.

"It's going to be nighttime soon, so it's about time this farce was put to an end," he continued as he took a glance up at the sky, then abruptly vanished from the spot.

......

Inside the palace.

"Let's go!" Wyrm 3 yelled as she immediately flew out through the hole in the wall, not even stopping to collect the purple liquid on the wall.

Wu Yang, Lu Chuanfeng, and Shi Kongmo immediately followed along close behind.

Rushuang was situated a bit further away from them, and she was just about to follow after them as well when around a dozen translucent spiritual sense chains suddenly appeared beside her before wrapping themselves around her body.

Those spiritual sense chains had come out of none other than Han Li's glabella.

"What the hell are you doing?" Rushuang roared in a furious manner, and Wyrm 3 and the others also hurriedly stopped in their tracks with alarmed expressions.

However, at this point, they had already flown too far away for them to be able to rescue Ru Shuang.

"I'm sorry, Wan'er, I don't know what happened to make you forget me, but I can't allow you to leave with those people!" Han Li said in an apologetic manner, then released several more spiritual sense chains, which vanished into Rushuang's consciousness in a flash, forming a spiritual sense cage around her soul.

Her struggles immediately ceased as a dazed look appeared in her eyes.

Han Li immediately raised a hand upon seeing this, intending to put her in his Flower Branch domain, but right at this moment, a burst of incredibly bright translucent light erupted out of her body before sweeping through the air in all directions.

The spiritual sense chains around her were instantly snapped upon contact with this burst of translucent light, and the spiritual sense cage within her mind was also broken.

Before Han Li had a chance to do anything, the waves of translucent light swept over him with tremendous force, sending him flying back through the air as blood came gushing out his mouth.

As soon as Rushuang was freed from her physical and spiritual restraints, the translucent light that had erupted out of her body instantly faded away.

"Are you alright, Rushuang?"

Wyrm 3 and Wu Yang flew back to her side and both of them were unable to contain their surprise, clearly indicating that they were also very much taken aback by what had just happened.

"I'm fine," Rushuang replied with a shake of her head.

"Alright, in that case, we have to get out of here!" Wu Yang urged as he flew away with Rushuang in tow, while Wyrm 3 took a hesitant glance back at Han Li.

However, with the golden feelers closing in yet again, she knew that there was no time to waste and promptly departed.

Daoist Master Chun Jun and the others were desperate to stop them, but powerless to do so from the other side of the wall of blue ice.

"You think you can get away that easily?"

Right at this moment, an elderly voice rang out, and it wasn't particularly loud, but it was filled with unmatched authority.

Immediately thereafter, a burst of golden light appeared in the palace without any warning, then instantly filled the entire palace, enveloping everyone within it.

Everyone was instantly rooted to the spot like flies in a piece of amber, and Han Li was no exception.

Even though he had just been sent flying, he hadn't sustained any major injuries, and at this moment, he was frantically channeling his time law powers and physical strength to resist against his restraints with all his might, but the golden light seemed to have been imbued with unfathomable power, rendering his struggles completely futile.

Wyrm 3 and the others had also been immobilized where they stood, and even Shi Kongmo was displaying a grim expression for the very first time.