A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Immortal Realm

Chapter 1146: Vial Spirit to the Rescue

Han Li took a deep breath, then slammed a hand into the underside of the gourd, and a burst of rumbling instantly rang out from within. A vortex of azure light emerged from the mouth of the gourd, and a thread of dark green light shot out from within.

A resounding boom rang out as a beam of light that was imbued with the laws of destruction struck the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Dome before exploding into a small, green cloud.

The dome shuddered violently, but it remained completely unscathed, and to make matters even worse, the five out of the nine dragons above the dome suddenly seemed to have sprung to life, opening their cavernous mouths to blast forth torrents of scorching flames toward the dome beneath them.

The entire space within the dome was instantly inundated by five bursts of viscous flames, and as soon as the flames came into contact with Han Li's body, he was struck by an unprecedented sense of agony that caused a heart-wrenching howl to escape from his lips.

The Essence Fire Raven instantly flew out of his body of its own accord, forming a fiery, silver outer garment around him to keep the viscous flames at bay.

Even so, waves of indescribable heat continued to infiltrate his body, inflicting upon him intense agony.

While protecting Han Li, the Essence Fire Raven opened its beak to release a torrent of silver flames that resisted the flames that continued to surge down from above, and the clashing silver and crimson flames formed a two-colored fiery barrier above Han Li's head.

Han Li's heart sank even further upon seeing this. In the past, whenever the Essence Fire Raven had encountered fire-attribute attacks, it had always chosen to devour them.

However, on this occasion, it was doing the exact opposite, and Han Li hurriedly asked it why this was the case through their spiritual connection.

In response, the Essence Fire Raven informed him that these flames were imbued wit ha special type of fire law powers, thereby making it impossible to devour. On top of that, it was also very clear that the Essence Fire Raven was being dominated by these crimson flames.

To compound Han Li's woes even further, the remaining four fiery dragons seemed to have also been enraged by the Essence Fire Raven's resistance, and they began blasting flames down into the dome as well.

The nine bursts of crimson flames formed an inescapable barrage that inundated Han Li from all directions, and the Essence Fire Raven was forced to give up its resistance as it focused solely on protecting Han Li.

However, the collective power of all nine dragons was far more formidable than just the five from before, and even the Essence Fire Raven was struggling to withstand the assault.

What was even more concerning was that the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Dome seemed to also possess the ability to absorb all fire-attribute power, so a great deal of the Essence Fire Raven's power was being sucked into the dome.

Of course, Han Li wasn't just going to accept his fate, and he was attacking the dome with all his might with his thirty-six Azure Bamboo Cloudswarm Swords, but the dome simply refused to budge.

As time passed, the Essence Fire Raven's silver flames had been whittled down significantly, but the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Dome was only growing more and more powerful, and the fiery assault was quickly becoming too much for Han Li to bear.

Right at this moment, the Essence Fire Raven suddenly opened its mouth to release a white bead, and it hovered above Han Li like a lamp while giving off rays of dazzling, white light.

Enhanced by these rays of white light, the silver flames around the Essence Fire Raven's body instantly reared up to force back the oncoming crimson flames.

Han Li was immediately able to identify the white bead as the fire-attribute immortal treasure that he ahd obtained from the Eon Pagoda. He had thought that it had already been refined and absorbed by the Essence Fire Raven, but that was clearly not the case.

However, the resistance didn't last long before the white bead was also forced downward by the crimson flames, and the nine fiery dragons had even personally made their way into the dome to surround the white bead in a menacing fashion.

Much of the bead's power had already been exhausted by the Five-Elemental Great Annihilation Array, and after having so much of its remaining power absorbed by the Essence Fire Raven, it was nowhere near powerful enough to contend with the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Dome.

At the same time, all of the crimson flames within the entire domain abruptly converged around Han Li to form a fiery, crimson cocoon, as if it had been compressed by some type of powerful force.

The temperature inside the fiery cocoon reached an extremely inhospitable level, and Han Li's skin began to crack open like a dry lakebed.

The Essence Fire Raven immediately sprang into action upon seeing this, and the rainbow flames on its head brightened significantly, following which two of them, namely the crimson and orange flames, rose up from its head before fusing into the white bead above.

A white cocoon of flames took shape around the bead to keep the crimson flames at bay, finally allowing Han Li some breathing room.

The Essence Fire Raven had sacrificed two of its Rainbow Fire Pill Sand flames to save him, and a hint of guilt welled up in his heart upon seeing this, but he still didn't know how to get himself out of this predicament.

Right at this moment, a furious voice suddenly rang out in front of his chest.

"Are you an idiot? If you can't beat them, then just run! I can't believe you're stuck here when you're capable of transmigration at will!"

"Who's there?" Han Li asked in an alarmed manner.

The voice was rather indistinct, and it was unclear where it had come from, but it had struck Han Li as rather familiar.

All of a sudden, a look of realization appeared on his face, and he hurriedly reached down the front of his own robe to fish out the Heaven Controlling Vial.

The vial appeared no different from normal, but right at this moment, a pair of beady, pea-sized, black eyes suddenly appeared on its surface, and they were looking up at Han Li with a very humanized look of anger.

"Were you the one who spoke just now, Senior Vial Spirit?" Han Li hurriedly asked. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"Who else could it have been but me? I can't believe you've been backed into a corner by a Great Encompassment cultivator and a mere fourth tier immortal treasure! You're an utter disgrace!" the vial spirit reprimanded.

"I did consider making an escape using transmigration, but if I flee from here, won't the Heaven Controlling Vial be left behind and fall into the hands of others?" Han Li asked.

"Is the Heaven Controlling Vial more important than your life?" the vial spirit asked.

"My life is important, but the Heaven Controlling Vial has been with me ever since the beginning of my cultivation journey, so it's just as important to me. Besides, even if I can temporarily get away, I'll eventually have to return here anyway, so it makes no difference," Han Li replied.

The vial spirit seemed to be quite pleased with this answer, and it said, "It looks like I made the right decision to come and save you. During your past transmigrations, the Heaven Controlling Vial is left without an owner, so it remains where you were, serving as a space-time anchor for your return. However, I can make it so that the Heaven Controlling Vial transmigrates with you, and with no anchor left behind, you won't return to this place."

"That's fantastic!" Han Li said as an ecstatic look appeared on his face.

"Don't celebrate too soon now! I can do this for you, but it'll cost you. Taking the vial into the river of time will cost you thirty time law threads, and that's permanent, as in they'll be gone and unrecoverable," the vial spirit said.

Time law threads were very difficult to come by, so sacrificing thirty of them at once was certainly a painful decision to make, but given the dire situation that Han Li was in, he really had no choice in the matter.

"Please tell me what I need to do, Senior," he implored.

"Just conjure up the wall of light and leave the rest to me," the vial spirit replied.

Han Li nodded in response, then began channeling his Great Five Elemental Illusion Mantra, and his five time-attribute law treasures appeared around him amid a burst of time law power fluctuations.

The time law threads around the five treasures then intertwined with one another to form the ring of time, and all of the Time Dao Runes on the five law treasures flew out before landing upon the golden ring, producing incredibly formidable bursts of time law power fluctuations.

Upon detecting these time law power fluctuations, Immortal Lord Miao Fa and Chi Meng instantly realized that something was wrong, and they hurriedly called a temporary truce before descending back down to the ground.

At this moment, there was a ball of dark green light within the Nine Dragon Divine Fire Dome that was glowing as radiantly as the sun, and the space around the ball of light was rippling incessantly.

Immediately thereafter, a huge wall of translucent light appeared, and Han Li was standing before it.

He withdrew the Essence Fire Raven into his body while gritting his teeth against the oncoming crimson flames, then took a glance back at Immortal Lord Miao Fa and Chi Meng before flying straight into the wall of translucent light.

The two women could only look on as Han Li vanished into the wall of light without a trace.