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

Chapter 1144: Only Chance

Han Li paid no heed to Immortal Lord Miao Fa as he continued to examine the six mirrors while channeling his cultivation arts to ward off the glacial qi in the surrounding area.

All of a sudden, a thought occurred to him, and he raised a hand to summon the Essence Fire Raven.

He then cast his gaze toward the surrounding mirrors to discover that sure enough, they only contained reflections of him, but not of the Essence Fire Raven.

Looks like these mirrors that are formed by ice law powers are unable to manifest fire-attribute entities! Han Li thought to himself as he raised a finger and pointed it at one of the mirrors.

The Essence Fire Raven transformed into a layer of flame that wrapped itself around his arm before shooting out of his fingertip, burrowing deep into the mirror like a fiery drill.

The mirror of ice immediately began to melt, and its surface began to ripple like that of a disturbed lake.

"That Essence Fire Raven is very impressive, but it won't be enough to free you!" Immortal Lord Miao Fa harrumphed coldly as she prepared to descend upon Han Li from above, but right at this moment, the surrounding space abruptly shuddered as a slightly warm breeze blew over from the southeast.

Immortal Lord Miao Fa immediately stopped what she was doing as she cast her gaze into the distant sky, where a fiery red figure was approaching from the southeast atop a fiery cloud.

All of the clouds in her wake had taken on a bright red hue, as if they had been set alight, and the entire freezing air temperatures were beginning to rapidly rise again.

A hint of clear resentment and disdain surfaced in Immortal Lord Miao Fa's eyes at the sight of the approaching figure, which drew to a halt around ten thousand feet away.

"Ah, I wasn't expecting to run into you here, Immortal Lord Miao Fa! I'm pursuing a wanted fugitive on the Immortal Slaying List. Would you happen to have seen him?" Chi Meng asked as she feigned a surprised expression.

"There's only a wanted fugitive of our Nine Origins Temple here, and he's already been detained. If you're searching for a wanted fugitive of the Heavenly Court, then I suggest you go elsewhere," Immortal Lord Miao Fa replied in a cold manner.

"Well, it just so happens to be the case that the two fugitives are one and the same. Now that you've captured him, you can hand him over to me, and I'll inform the Heavenly Court of your contribution to request a reward for your Nine Origins Temple," Chi Meng said with a wide smile.

"I am the one who captured him, so it's only right that I take him back to our Nine Origins Temple for interrogation, and I'll hand him over to you once we've completed our interrogation," Immortal Lord Miao Fa countered in an unyielding manner.

"You're saying you've captured him? Are you sure about that?" Chi Meng asked with a sly grin.

Immortal Lord Miao Fa's brows furrowed slightly upon hearing this, and she noticed that a colony of red fire ants had suddenly burrowed their way out of the ground behind the wall of ice, and they were crawling over the six silver mirrors around Han Li.

The ants left behind trails of scorching heat in their wake that burned deep troughs into the mirrors of ice, and thus, a clash between fire and ice ensued. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

The flames on the bodies of the fire ants were rapidly whittled away, and it was often the case that they would only be able to crawl for about an inch before their flames were snuffed out and they were frozen solid.

However, there were simply too many of them for the mirrors of ice to contend with, and collectively, they formed a formidable force to be reckoned with.

Trapped within the encirclement of mirrors, Han Li was unable to see what was happening outside, and he was still attempting to drill through one of the mirrors using the power of the Essence Fire Raven.

Right as his extremities were beginning to grow numb from the infiltration of glacial qi into his body, a dull thud finally rang out as the fiery, silver drill extending out of his fingertip pierced its way fully through the mirror of ice.

Han Li hurriedly threw a punch at the mirror with all his might, and a loud crack rang out as all six mirrors shattered in unison, freeing him from the encirclement.

Immediately thereafter, he was greeted by the sight of countless fiery ants converging toward him from all directions, and he had no idea what was happening, but he certainly wasn't going to linger here as he sprang up into the air to flee.

It was only then that he spotted Immortal Lord Miao Fa swooping down at him from above out of his peripheral vision, and he hurriedly channeled his Reversal True Axis ability to evade her.

Meanwhile, Chi Meng was also flying along in hot pursuit behind Immortal Lord Miao Fa, and there was a wide smile on her face as she called out, "Seeing as you weren't able to capture him, I suppose we'll just have to see which one of us manages to get him!"

As soon as her voice trailed off, tongues of golden flames erupted out of the fiery cloud beneath her, instantly accelerating her drastically through the air so that she was able to overtake Immortal Lord Miao Fa and race along directly beside Han Li.

Somehow, there were suddenly two mid-Great Encompassment cultivators pursuing him at once, and he couldn't help but lament his own ill fortune.

Right at this moment, Chi Meng reached out to make a grabbing motion toward Han Li, and a long, fiery dragon flew out of the palm of her hand before pouncing at him with its cavernous mouth wide open.

As the fiery dragon closed in on Han Li, bursts of scorching heat surged out of its body, causing the surrounding space to shimmer and warp.

Han Li was struck by a sense of asphyxiation, and he felt as if a burst of invisible, obstructive force had suddenly appeared up ahead, forcing him to slow down involuntarily.

Right as he was about to be inundated by the flames surging out of the fiery dragon's mouth, a burst of silver flames rose up from his shoulder before flowing over his entire arm.

Immediately thereafter, Han Li swept a sleeve through the air, and a huge, fire raven head erupted out of his arm before biting down onto the fiery dragon's head.

The fiery dragon was instantly decapitated, and its headless body recoiled, while its disembodied head began to struggle violently while clasped between the Essence Fire Raven's beak, sending countless bursts of flames spraying in all directions.

Han Li felt as if his entire arm had been set alight, and it was incredibly painful, but he could only grit his teeth and persevere.

Chi Meng's eyes instantly lit up with elation as she exclaimed, "That's an Essence Fire Raven that's devoured Rainbow Fire Pill Sand! I knew I made the right decision to come here!"

She immediately darted closer to Han Li as she spoke, and Han Li instantly felt as if his entire body had been plunged into a giant pot of bubbling oil, while his blood also began to churn violently through his veins as if it had been set alight.

His skin turned bright red, while his eyes turned completely bloodshot, and all of his sudden, his previously stagnant immortal spiritual power began circulating so quickly that he was barely able to contain it.

"A young man like you should be reckless and hot-blooded. Come, let me warm you up even more!" Chi Meng said with a wide smile as she made a hand seal, and Han Li instantly felt the surrounding air temperature rise by tenfold.

At the same time, a ball of radiant, white light emerged from under him, and it contained a projection of a Three-Legged Golden Crow with its wings spread wide and scorching flames surging out of its body.

Embroiled within the flames, Han Li was like a pill in a cauldron, unable to struggle free no matter how vigorously he struggled.

Thankfully, the Essence Fire Raven had formed a fiery, silver outer garment around his entire body. Otherwise, he would've already been close to ashes at this point.

Even so, he was still in a state of excruciating pain from the unbearable heat.

Right at this moment, a clear cry suddenly rang out, and a giant ice phoenix appeared out of thin air before flying toward him, sweeping up gusts of glacial wind as it flapped its wings to propel itself through the air.

The ball of fiery, white light beneath Han Li immediately lashed out in retaliation, releasing a fiery tornado to clash against the ice phoenix.

All of a sudden, a vast cloud of vapor appeared throughout the entire area in a radius of thousands of kilometers, severely impacting visibility while also drastically dropping the nearby air temperature.

"It looks like your Nine Origins Temple insists on opposing our Heavenly Court, Immortal Lord Miao Fa," Chi Meng remarked in a cold voice.

"I had already captured him, yet you broke the rules, so don't blame me for retaliating," Immortal Lord Miao Fa replied in an expressionless manner.

"Fine. In that case, how about we have a battle right here, and the winner gets to take him, while the loser goes back empty-handed. What do you say?" Chi Meng proposed with a smile.

"I was about to propose the exact same thing," Immortal Lord Miao Fa replied.

As the two of them were conversing with each other, the unrest in Han Li's body began to settle down, and much of the scorching heat in the air had abated thanks to the ice phoenix's timely arrival.

Despite this, Han Li didn't dare to relax even for a single instant, and he knew that this was going to be his only chance to escape.