Chapter 1371: Mounting Pressure

"Let me introduce you to my laws of vicissitudes, Han Li! The last time I fought a battle of life and death was several million years ago, and during that time, my fortunes have transitioned from priority to decay, but on this day, your Twin Births Tree has helped me return to prosperity. You were fated to die by my hands!" Zhu Yan yelled in a gleeful manner.

She swept a hand through the air as she spoke, and her long, black hair instantly swelled to form an all-encompassing wave of black vines that inundated her entire body.

All of the space within a radius of close to a hundred thousand kilometers was quickly taken over by the black wave, and in response, Han Li summoned all seventy-two of his Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords back to his side, upon which they formed a giant, circular sword array around him.

Immediately thereafter, they began to circle around rapidly in the air while releasing long tendrils of lightning and streaks of peerlessly sharp sword qi to eradicate the oncoming wave of black hair.

As opposed to lending Zhu Yan her assistance, Zi Shan picked up Dong Lihu's pulverized body and sent him out of the array.

Han Li flew directly toward Zhu Yan in an unstoppable fashion, completely untouchable within his sword array.

However, after flying for several thousand kilometers, he suddenly noticed that all of the hair that had been severed behind him was hovering in mid-air to surround him from all directions.

All of a sudden, the scattered lengths of hair suddenly fused back together on their own to form a massive, black vortex.

The sword array around him was instantly vanquished, and all of the flying swords were caught within clumps of black hair, unable to escape.

Countless strands of hair had wound themselves around Han Li's waist and limbs, and more hair was converging toward him from all directions, crushing him from all sides.

At the same time, bursts of indescribable law power fluctuations were constantly surging into his body through the masses of moving hair, making him feel as if there were waves constantly brushing against his body.

It wasn't an uncomfortable sensation, but he could sense that with each passing wave, something in his body was gradually seeping away.

He looked down at his own arm to discover that his skin had become withered and wrinkled, as if he were being reduced to an old man.

It's not an illusion! How could this be?

Han Li was also capable of drastically accelerating the flow of time to significantly age someone in an instant, but how was Zhu Yan capable of doing this?

On top of that, he was only one step away from becoming a Dao Ancestor, making him as close to a true immortal as conceivably possible, so how had he aged so much in the short span of fewer than twenty seconds?

After a brief moment of contemplation, Han Li quickly composed himself and channeled his own immortal spiritual power, and the withered skin on his skin instantly returned to normal amid a flash of azure light.

However, mere moments later, the skin there quickly turned aged and withered once again, only recovering with another injection of immortal spiritual power.

With that, a tug of war ensued between Zhu Yan's law powers and his immortal spiritual power, and his skin was constantly going through the repetitive cycle of rejuvenation and decay.

Furthermore, he could sense that as the cycle continued to repeat itself, Zhu Yan's law powers were gradually infiltrating into his bones through his skin. If things were to continue like this, then even his Great Encompassment Stage body would eventually be broken down.

Despite this, he remained calm and collected as he sneered, "Let me show you what true acceleration of the flow of time looks like!"

His spirit domain rapidly shrank as he spoke until it was only encompassing the surrounding area within a radius of several thousand kilometers, and his five time law treasures also returned to the spirit domain before manifesting the Five Elemental Illusory World.

Inside the Five Elemental Illusory World, the flow of time was accelerated by a thousandfold. As a result, the rate at which Zhu Yan was expending her law powers had increased by a thousandfold, while the cycle of rejuvenation and decay that Han Li was experiencing was also sped up by the same degree.

However, Han Li had already devised a countermeasure to this, and he channeled his Heavenly Baleful Purgatory Arts, upon which all of his profound acupoints lit up, while his True Extreme Film surfaced over his body.

As a result, the effects that Zhu Yan's vicissitudes law powers had on him were significantly diminished.

He took advantage of this opportunity to cast his gaze in Jin Tong's direction to discover that most of the space around her had already collapsed and was in a very unstable state.

This was naturally quite an encouraging sight, and he turned his gaze back to Zhu Yan to discover that she was looking far less triumphant than before.

After around fifteen minutes, Han Li was still trapped within the vortex of hair, but the hair around him had noticeably receded significantly, and there were many sections that had turned a lifeless shade of gray.

A faint smile appeared on Han Li's face upon seeing this.

The rate at which Zhu Yan was being assimilated by the Heavenly Dao far exceeded the rate at which her law powers were infiltrating his body, so it was only a matter of time before she would be forced to give up.

At the moment, Zhu Yan was understandably feeling very frustrated. She had thought that she would be able to break down Han Li's body with her law powers, but her plans had been completely thwarted.

As Han Li accelerated the flow of time further and further, the majority of her hair had turned white, and she didn't dare to hesitate any longer as her hair released Han Li at her behest before retreating like a receding tide.

However, Han Li wasn't about to let her off the hook, and he grabbed onto her hair with a cold sneer, following which a burst of silver flames erupted out of the palm of his hand, instantly incinerating tens of thousands of kilometers of hair as it spread rapidly toward Zhu Yan.

However, right at this moment, Zi Shan suddenly descended upon Zhu Yan's hair before releasing a burst of purple flames out of her hand, which instantly overwhelmed the silver flames before sweeping toward Han Li.

After forcing back Han Li, Zi Shan turned to Zhu Yan and said in an urgent manner, "I'll hold him off while you go and stop the Gold Devouring Immortal! It'll be too late otherwise!"

"It's already too late!" Han Li chuckled as he made a hand seal, and the seventy-two sword spirit children instantly flew toward Jin Tong in unison.

"Stop them!" Zi Shan yelled, and Zhu Yan's hair immediately set off in pursuit of the Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords.

Han Li swept a sleeve to the heavens upon seeing this, and all of the stars in the sky formed by his Time Severing Torch came crashing down like a meteor shower while releasing waves of immense time law powers.

Zi Shan and Zhu Yan were both inundated by the waves of time law powers, and the flow of time around them instantly ceased, as if they had fallen into a stagnant river of time.

Immediately thereafter, a true river of time descended upon them like a jade belt, then enveloped them to fortify the surrounding time restrictions.

The full moon in the sky also descended from the heavens to hover above the two of them at Han Li's behest, and this time, he learned not to use the mountain range and the Eastern Vicissitudes Divine Tree forest growing upon it.

Han Li had only just trapped the two Dao Ancestors when a resounding boom rang out in the distance.

He hurriedly tuned to discover that his Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords were flying back to him in their sword spirit children form, having just sliced an enormous gash into the space where Jin Tong was situated.

An opening had finally been torn into the Ubiquitous Myriad Immortal Array.

An elated look appeared on Han Li's face as he withdrew his Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords, but all of a sudden, he suddenly detected an immense aura behind him, one that was rapidly elevating.

He turned around to find that a burst of radiant, purple light had appeared amid his time law treasure manifestations, and it was quickly becoming brighter and brighter.

Han Li's brows furrowed slightly upon seeing this, and he hurriedly withdrew his time law treasures for fear that they would be damaged, following which he immediately began flying toward Jin Tong.

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In the sky above the Jade Pond Paradise, Gu Huojin was surrounded by the Reincarnation Palace Master, the Devilish Monarch, Li Yuanjiu, and Chi Rong.

"Gu Huojin, I've been waiting for this moment for countless years!" the Reincarnation Palace Master declared as a hint of fierce killing intent flashed through his eyes.

Even with four top-tier Dao Ancestors around him, Gu Huojin remained completely unflustered as he asked, "Do you think you've won?"

"What could you possibly do to turn the tables? I've already sealed all of the Heavenly Court teleportation arrays littered throughout the Middle Earth Immortal Region, so if you're waiting for reinforcements, then I suggest you perish the thought," the Devilish Monarch sneered.