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

Chapter 1082: Wanted Fugitive

Wen Zhong was the first one to rush into the crater, and Jin Liu hurriedly followed suit.

Jin Liu gently forcefully Lei Yuce away from Su Anqian, while Wen Zhong hurriedly caught the former to support him.

"Are you alright?" Jin Liu asked as he placed his hands onto Su Anqian's shoulders.

Su Anqian shrugged off his hands, then turned to look at Lei Yuce, who had just been fed a pill by Wen Zhong, but was still clearly in terrible condition.

Upon sensing Su Anqian's gaze, he turned to look back at her before putting up a strong front by flashing her a feeble smile.

Su Anqian averted her gaze upon seeing this, but internally, she was rather moved by Lei Yuce's selfless gesture. She knew that if it wasn't to protect her, he definitely wouldn't have sustained such severe injuries.

Meanwhile, Lei Yuce got up into a seated position with Wen Zhong's help, then closed his eyes and began to meditate.

As soon as he began channeling his cultivation arts, the residual golden light and purple lightning in his wounds were instantly forced out, and it was such a painful process that his face immediately became twisted with agony, but he remained silent the entire time.

A sympathetic look appeared in Su Anqian's eyes upon seeing this, and she strode over to Lei Yuce's side, then flipped a hand over to produce a small, blue vial, which she offered to him as she said, "These are some Prime Water Pills from our Heavenly Water Sect. They won't have much of an effect on your injuries, but they're quite potent for replenishing energy, so they should be quite helpful for your recovery."

"Thank you, Celestial Maiden Su," Lei Yuce said as he accepted the vial with an ecstatic expression, then tipped out a pill from inside and swallowed it before continuing to meditate.

A hint of displeasure flashed through Jin Liu's eyes upon seeing this, and he asked, "What do we do now?"

Wen Zhong gave a cold harrumph and offered no response, clearly very unhappy with Jin Liu for abandoning the array.

Lan Yan also turned to him with a disdainful expression, but before she had a chance to say anything, she was stopped by Lan Yuanzi.

In the wake of their battle against Han Li, Lan Yuanzi had become very averse to confrontation, and he shook his head to dissuade Lan Yan from speaking out against Jin Liu.

Lan Yan's brows furrowed slightly upon hearing this, but she held her tongue in the end.

Right at this moment, all of them suddenly looked up into the sky to discover Han Li's group flying toward them from afar.

Han Li's brows furrowed slightly at the sight of the severely ravaged ground below, and upon their landing, Lei Yuce also opened his eyes to see what was happening.

"Didn't you go another way? Why have you also come here?" Jin Liu asked with slightly furrowed brows.

"Is this Eon Pagoda your private property, Fellow Daoist Jin? Do we have to secure your permission before we come here?" Fox 3 countered as he raised an eyebrow, and Jin Liu had no response to this.

"Who's this, Fellow Daoist Shi?" Lei Yuce asked with his gaze on Qu Lin.

"This is Fellow Daoist Qu Lin. He's been held captive on the sixth level of this Eon Pagoda for many years, and we've arrived at an agreement, one in which he'll be helping us make our way to the seventh level," Han Li replied.

Lei Yuce was silent for a moment, then cautioned through voice transmission, "Fellow Daoist Shi, please remember that all of the beings trapped in this pagoda were once extremely renowned fugitives of the Heavenly Court, so making agreements with them could easily backfire if you're not careful."

Han Li was rather perplexed about why Lei Yuce was offering him these words of caution, but he offered no further explanation as he replied through voice transmission, "Thank you for looking out for me, Fellow Daoist Lei."

Right at this moment, Wyrm 3 suddenly remarked, "This is a Nine Dragon Deity Locking Array!"

"Indeed it is, Fellow Daoist. Are you able to bypass it?" Lei Yuce asked with a hopeful expression.

"The Dragon Scale Chains have been tampered with, so it's going to be a bit difficult," Wyrm 3 mused.

"Indeed. It would've taken me at least two days to unravel the array, so I attempted to break through it by force, only to suffer backlash from the array and sustain some rather severe injuries," Lei Yuce sighed with a forlorn shake of his head.

Han Li also turned his attention to the array, and after some observation, he was able to determine that it would only require less than a day for him to break it.

However, before he had a chance to say anything, Qu Lin had already strode over to thearray before casually pressing a hand over the runes on the stone archway.

"What are you doing? Stop!" Lei Yuce hurriedly yelled, but given his current condition, he was powerless to intervene.

"Be quiet! I'm breaking the array, can't you see?" Qu Lin snapped as he continued what he was doing.

"The array has already been tampered with, so it must be treated with caution! If you try to address it haphazardly, you're only going to further compound our woes!" Lei Yuce said in an enraged manner, and Wen Zhong was preparing to intervene by force, while Jin Liu was observing from the side, ready to take Su Anqian and escape at the first sign of backlash from the array.

Right at this moment, Qu Lin pressed down onto one of the runes on the stone archway, and the dark red light barrier at its center instantly brightened significantly, while the nine Dragon Scale Chains slid away.

All of a sudden, the Nine Dragon Deity Locking Array was unraveled, just like that, much to everyone's astonishment.

"You were the one who tampered with this Nine Dragon Deity Locking Array in the first place, right?" Han Li asked through voice transmission.

"That's right. At the time, I thought that I would perhaps be able to find a way to leave this place if I could go to the seventh level. However, after reaching the seventh level, I was almost beaten to death by the old madman imprisoned up there. I only just barely managed to escape by the skin of my teeth, and after getting back, I reset the array before altering it for further fortification," Qu Lin revealed.

"How did you manage to return from the seventh level?" Han Li asked.

"Thankfully, I had the foresight to open up the Chaotic Origin Nine Palace Array on the other side after reaching the seventh level, so I had an escape route that I could take," Qu Lin explained.

Han Li nodded in response, then turned to everyone else as he said, "Now that the restriction's broken, let's not waste any more time."

Lei Yuce had some questions that he wanted to ask Han Li, but it was clear that the latter wasn't in the mood to do any explaining, so he didn't raise any questions.

However, no one was keen on stepping through the spatial door right away, and it seemed that everyone was quite apprehensive about what could be on the other side.

"If none of you are willing to go in, then I'll be going on ahead," Qu Lin sneered, then passed through the dark red light barrier and vanished out of sight.

Han Li conjured up a layer of protective spiritual light around himself, then also began to make his way toward the light barrier, but as soon as he took a step forward, a yellow vortex suddenly appeared beneath his feet, releasing tremendous suction force.

The vortex had appeared so abruptly that Han Li was caught completely off guard, and in the blink of an eye, close to the entirety of his lower body had sunken into it.

Despite the abrupt nature of this turn of events, Han Li was able to react very quickly, channeling his Heavenly Baleful Purgatory Arts right away, and two dull thumps rang out beneath his feet as he launched himself up into the air.

However, as soon as he flew out of the vortex, a burst of sludge also erupted out from within, then wrapped itself around his ankle before tugging him back down toward the vortex below.

In the instant that his ankle was caught within the burst of sludge, Han Li immediately felt his entire foot go numb, and he looked down to discover that both his foot and his boot had turned a gray, petrified state.

He immediately swept his other foot toward the burst of sludge, and countless arcs of golden lightning erupted out of the tip of foot to sever the sludge like a golden blade.

Immediately thereafter, he flew back over a thousand feet before landing on the edge of the giant, charred crater, where he cast a wary gaze toward the yellow vortex.

After all of the sludge had fallen back into the vortex, a yellow figure slowly emerged from within, and it was a hideous woman dressed in a large, yellow robe.

"Elder She Chan! What are you doing here?" Lan Yuanzi exclaimed.

"What am I doing here? To clean up your mess, of course! Even after all this time, you two still haven't managed to capture him!" She Chan snapped with a displeased expression.

Lan Yuanzi's brows furrowed slightly as he opened his mouth to explain himself, but didn't seem to know what to say.

Judging from everyone's reactions upon hearing mention of the name "She Chan", it was clear that they were well aware of who she was.

Han Li's gaze remained fixed on She Chan as he tried to move his petrified left foot, upon which he discovered that he had already regained feeling in it, but the blood flow to the foot still seemed to be slightly inhibited.

"Everyone, listen up! The man standing before you right now is Han Li, a member of the Reincarnation Palace and a wanted fugitive that the Heavenly Court has been hunting for many years! He is responsible for a long laundry list of crimes across various immortal regions, including the death of Golden Origin Immortal Palace Master Dongfang Bai!

“If you're willing to help me capture him, then you'll be putting both yourselves and your sects in the good graces of the Heavenly Court. What do you all say?" She Chan asked as she swept her gaze over everyone present.

Lei Yuce and the others were all completely rooted to the spot, clearly flabbergasted by this abrupt bombshell.