Rumble!
The void in front of him cracked open, and countless crystal lights surged out, condensing into a crystal wall, on which countless scenes flashed rapidly.
With a "chi la" sound, the crystal wall suddenly shone brightly, and a huge whirlpool appeared, rotating ceaselessly, emitting a huge suction force that enveloped Han Li's body.
Han Li's expression was normal, and he did not dodge anything, allowing the suction force to pull his body up.
But at this moment, the golden ball of light in his Dantian suddenly flickered and extinguished, and the celestial spiritual force in his body suddenly stagnated.
The suction force from the whirlpool was also greatly reduced, and Han Li's body, which had already been pulled into the air, stopped there, and then fell back to the ground with a "plop".
But his mind was in pain, and his soul was sucked into the whirlpool without any resistance. His vision turned black, and he lost consciousness.
When Han Li regained consciousness, he was already next to the river in the wilderness.
There were still countless droplet-like light balls floating in the river, rumbling forward, looking no different from before.
Han Li was now in his soul form, floating next to the river.
"I'm here again, I wonder what this place is?" Han Li looked around and muttered to himself.
He did not approach the river and enter one of the light balls, but followed the river upstream, wanting to find out what this place was.
At this moment, he was in his soul form, like a cloud floating in the air, moving with the wind, and his speed was not very fast.
The scenery of the desert was the same, no matter where he went, it felt the same. There was no alternation of day and night here, and the passage of time was also very vague.
Han Li walked forward, and according to his mental calculations, he had walked for about seven or eight days, but there was no change in the river next to him.
He gradually became impatient, and continued to walk forward for two days, but there was still no change in the river next to him.
"Forget it, I don't know how far this place is, or maybe there is some kind of illusion restriction here. If I continue to walk, it will be a waste of time." Han Li stopped, thought for a moment, and looked towards the river, and was about to go over.
At this moment, a yellow light flashed above his head, and a yellow cloud several feet in size appeared. Two bean-sized black eyes were staring at Han Li.
"You're the Bottle Spirit!" Han Li was shocked when he saw Huang Yun. He immediately recognized Huang Yun's true form.
Huang Yunzhong's black eyes blinked twice, as if he was observing him.
"May I know why you have appeared at this time?" Han Li frowned and asked again.
As soon as his voice faded, the yellow cloud suddenly lit up, and a yellow crystal light shot out from it, quickly submerging into his Divine Soul.
Han Li's Divine Soul had no time to dodge, and the yellow crystal light had already entered his body. It turned into a warm stream of air and integrated into his Divine Soul.
Just as he was about to question him, the yellow cloud above his head flashed and disappeared again.
Han Li was stunned for a moment, and then he carefully probed the situation in his soul, but he could not find anything strange, nor did he feel uncomfortable.
After a brief silence, he set this matter aside and made his way over to the river, where he looked at the countless balls of light traversing through the river.
After traversing through time on so many occasions, he had a rough idea of the origins of these balls of light in the river.
Each of these balls of light represented a point in time in the past, and entering a ball of light would allow one to return to that point in time.
Han Li wore a pensive expression and his eyes flickered incessantly.
He had never heard of a time traversing ability like the Sky Bottle, and if he could master it, the benefits would be immeasurable.
Not taking into account anything else, just this ability alone would make it a lot easier for him to investigate the past.
However, there were simply too many balls of light in the river, and there didn't seem to be any pattern to them, so he could only rely on his luck to traverse through them.
Han Li heaved a faint sigh, thinking that it would be great if he could control the time he traversed through. At this moment, he really wanted to see if Daoist Xie was telling the truth.
After fusing with the Holy Skeleton, Daoist Xie had reached the Dao Ancestor stage, but there had been some estrangement between the two of them, and they were no longer as close as they had been in the past.
What Daoist Xie had just said was completely logical and without any flaws.
However, Han Li couldn't help but feel that there was more to it than met the eye.
Right at this moment, a change suddenly took place.
The balls of light in the river suddenly began to ripple violently, as if they had suddenly set off massive waves.
Immediately thereafter, sharp whistling sounds rang out!
A dozen or so balls of light of different sizes flew out from all over the river, all of which stopped near Han Li.
Han Li carefully inspected these balls of light with a hint of surprise on his face.
Just like before, all types of scenes appeared on the balls of light, but the scenes on this occasion were all the same; all of them were lavish palaces.
"These palaces look a little familiar," Han Li murmured to himself, upon which he immediately came to a realization.
The palaces on the balls of light were none other than the buildings near the Thousand Weapons Palace, and from the scenes on the balls of light, it appeared that a fierce battle was taking place all over those palaces.
Han Li was very surprised to see this, and after a moment of contemplation, his gaze fell upon the largest ball of light, upon which he took a couple of steps closer.
A burst of enormous suction force suddenly erupted from the ball of light, and Han Li's consciousness was sucked into it.
His vision darkened, and he lost consciousness once again.
…
After an unknown period of time, Han Li slowly regained consciousness, and he discovered that he was currently possessing the body of a dark-armored Young man, who was lying within a half-collapsed palace. There was a large hole in his lower abdomen where his dantian was located, and blood was gushing out of it.
There was a semi-transparent golden wheel of light hovering above his head, upon which over a thousand time patterns were flashing.
A series of loud booms erupted from nearby, and it was clear that an intense battle was taking place.
Han Li's heart stirred, and he didn't immediately control the golden-robed man to stand up. Instead, he communicated with the remaining memories of the golden-robed man with his divine sense.
A massive wave of memories immediately surged into Han Li's mind, and he hurriedly digested them before taking in all of them.
This golden-robed man's name was Wu Xuan, and he was a prisoner who had been imprisoned in the Kulin Spatial Realm. He was later taken in by Shi Kong, who was also known as Daoist Xie, and because he was quite powerful, he became Daoist Xie's personal guard.
Over a hundred years ago, Daoist Xie had gone into seclusion in an attempt to slay the last of his corpses in order to take that crucial final step, and the entire Kulin Spatial Realm was under martial law.
Who would have thought that a large number of enemies would suddenly invade the Thousand Weapons Palace where Daoist Xie was cultivating in seclusion?
Han Li's eyes lit up upon seeing Wu Xuan's memories.
He had thought of investigating the drastic changes that had occurred to Daoist Xie when he was beside the river, and now that he was here, could it be that he could already control the time nodes?
The more Han Li thought about it, the more he felt that this was no coincidence. He didn't know why, but he did indeed have the ability to control the time nodes.
Perhaps it was due to the Bottle Spirit, or perhaps it was due to some other reason.
But no matter what, this was the best thing that could happen to him.
Han Li quickly stood up and walked over to the entrance of the collapsed hall to look outside.
From time to time, one could see puppets fighting each other in the sky. There were also some people with the ability to fly fighting each other, causing the sky to shake.
One side was clad in black armor like Wu Xuan, while the other side was clad in purplish-black armor.
Han Li was no stranger to the purplish-black armor; it was the guard armor of the Night Sun Dynasty.
These people from the Night Sun Dynasty were abnormally tall, and their skin was greenish-black in color with dragon-shaped patterns on it. Their fangs were bared, and they looked like ferocious demons.
There weren't many of them, but they were extremely powerful, and they were as fast as lightning.
The Kulin Spatial Realm had the advantage in numbers, but they were at a disadvantage.
"Those are the Roaring Dragon Guards. It seems that it was Shi Kongyu who attacked back then," Han Li thought.
He had heard Shi Chuankong talk about the various secret armies of the Night Sun Dynasty when he was chatting with him, and they had talked about the Roaring Dragon Guards many times. This was an army made up of pure body cultivators, and they were under the direct command of the Demon Lord.
Now it seemed that the Roaring Dragon Guards were indeed extraordinary. Each of them was no weaker than an expert who had opened 150 Xuan Apertures.
Han Li looked at the battle outside, then looked into the distance.
From there, he could vaguely see four nine-story towers in the distance, standing at the four corners of a white jade square.
In the center of the square stood a majestic glazed palace. It was the Thousand Weapons Palace.
The closer he got to it, the more intense the battle became.
Han Li pondered for a moment, then pulled up his armor to cover the wound on his abdomen. He activated the Thousand Apertures Silence Technique and flew toward the Thousand Weapons Palace.
He used the nearby palaces to conceal himself and quickly approached the Thousand Weapons Palace.
At first, he didn't get noticed because of the Thousand Apertures Silence Technique, but the closer he got to the Thousand Weapons Palace, the more intense the battle became, and the more people there were. He was finally discovered.
A Roaring Dragon Guard holding a saber pounced at him like lightning, the sound of bones and muscles exploding. The purple-black saber in his hand turned into a dragon-shaped saber light, slashing at Han Li's head.
Wu Xuan had only opened over 100 Xuan Apertures, and his strength was about the same as the Roaring Dragon Guard. But now that Han Li was using this body, his vision, knowledge, and judgment were naturally very different.
His body swayed left and right, turning into nine shadows, and instantly dodged the saber slash.
The nine shadows then condensed into one behind the Roaring Dragon Guard, and Wu Xuan's body appeared, continuing to fly forward.
The Roaring Dragon Guard was about to give chase, but he was stopped by the other Jilin Hollow Realm people, so he had to give up the chase.
Seeing that he had been exposed, Han Li simply let go and weaved left and right in the fierce battle, trying his best to squeeze every bit of strength out of this body. He displayed his movement technique to the extreme, never stopping to fight with others, and quickly approached the Thousand Weapons Palace.
The battle here was even more intense, and the two sides were fighting at the entrance of the palace.
"That's …" Han Li hid behind a nearby ruined wall and looked toward the entrance of the palace.
The leader of the Jilin Hollow Realm side was Sha Xin. She controlled five puppets and was fighting with a man in green armor.
That man was none other than Eke.
His entire body's Xuan Apertures flickered with light, about 600 to 700 of them, and he held the Brutal Dragon Sword in his hand.
Their appearances didn't seem to have changed much, but their temperaments were sharper, and they weren't as smooth as before.
"Eke, you actually colluded with Stone Void Fish to murder Master. You deserve a thousand deaths!" Sha Xin shouted angrily.
"A wise man submits to circumstances. Stone Void Jie will definitely die today.
Sha Xin, on account of our friendship, I advise you to submit to the Sage Emperor. With your strength, the Sage Emperor will definitely put you in an important position, "Eke said with a smile.
"Wishful thinking!" Sha Xin snorted coldly, controlling the five puppets to launch an overwhelming attack.