The Long Journey to Immortality

Looking at Han Lu, whose appearance was very different from that of more than twenty years ago, Xuanfeng Daoist muttered to himself, "She looks very different from what Zhuxuan Jushi described."

"Not only has its size increased significantly, but the color of its feathers has also changed."

"Perhaps it's a change brought about by advancing to the Golden Core Realm and improving cultivation?"

"Or did this True Phoenix Fairy return to the Wilderness several years ago and cultivate some profound skills?"

Xuanfeng Daoist was filled with trepidation upon his rebirth.

It's perfectly normal for a Golden Core cultivator to feel uncertain when faced with something unknown and powerful.

However, the two magical treasures beside him more or less gave Xuanfeng Daoist the confidence to fight back.

Without hesitation, he made a hand seal, activated the golden spirit sword, and launched the first wave of attack against Han Lu.

Xuanfeng Daoist's spirit sword was forged using infant fire and silver molten sand. It is one of the top spirit swords of the spirit weapon level, a magical treasure that takes an unconventional approach and focuses on sharpness.

Xuanfeng Daoist once tried to make the spirit sword fall with its blade pointing downwards without applying any external force.

With its sharpness alone, this spirit sword can easily break through rock and soil and penetrate hundreds of meters underground.

Later, at the underwater mining technology exchange meeting, Xuan Yang Valley presented a plan to use the sharpness of this spirit sword to assist in mining spirit stones.

Based on these two points alone, one can see the power of Xuanfeng Daoist's second-grade spiritual sword.

No wonder he relied on this spirit sword to lead the charge.

Xuanfeng Daoist, whose swordsmanship was not particularly skillful, simply urged and controlled the spirit sword, trying to use the sharp blade to verify whether Han Lu's transformed spirit was made of steel and iron.

Even from hundreds of meters away, Han Lu could feel the sharp aura emanating from the spirit sword.

Although after merging with Li Feng's bloodline, Han Lu's body and bones, whether in human form or true spirit form, are much stronger than before, and she can even perform the trick of "breaking magic weapons with her chest" with her flesh and blood body.

But faced with a spirit sword radiating such power, she dared not be negligent in the slightest.

Han Lu has her own techniques and methods for dealing with this kind of magic weapon that is particularly powerful in a certain aspect.

With a flap of its wings, it stirred up a strong wind that seemed capable of tearing a person apart, interfering with the spirit sword's flight.

The wind carries some illusions, which can effectively interfere with the operation of magical artifacts.

This move worked; the strong wind slowed the speed of the spirit sword's flight considerably, and the golden light on its surface dimmed slightly due to the strong wind.

Immediately afterwards, Han Lu used the Ice Phoenix Divine Power again, trying to temporarily imprison the spirit sword with thick, extremely cold frost, suppressing its sharpness under the ice and snow.

Faced with the ice and snow aroused by true spiritual power, Xuanfeng Daoist's spiritual sword had no good solution.

Although his spirit sword was sharp enough to break through the layers of ice and snow barriers in front of him, it could not stop the ice and snow from piling up on the surface of the spirit sword, freezing it quickly and enveloping it firmly.

In less than three breaths, Han Lu imprisoned Xuanfeng Daoist's spirit sword in three meters of thick ice.

Seeing this, Daoist Xuanfeng remained calm.

He had encountered similar situations before and knew very well how to counter Han Lu's method of imprisoning people with ice.

He manipulated the spirit sword to slash downwards.

Its sharp blade begins to cut through the ice from the inside out, attempting to break free from the ice's confinement in this unusual way.

However, the ice that Han Lu created using the Ice Phoenix Divine Power was much more solid than the ice created by ordinary spells.

In the time it takes to breathe, the free-falling spirit sword has only cut through a small section of ice, about the size of a thumb.

To escape, it will take at least another hundred breaths.

Seeing this, Han Lu also showed sufficient respect for Xuanfeng Daoist's magic weapon.

Using her innate supernatural powers, she imprisoned a spirit sword, no thicker than her forearm, within a block of ice five meters long, wide, and high, layer upon layer.

Even if Han Lu leaves the spirit sword alone for the rest of the time, and Xuan Feng Dao Ren does his best, it will probably take a full quarter of an hour before the spirit sword has any chance of escaping.

Seeing this, Xuanfeng Daoist immediately abandoned the idea of ​​saving the spirit sword, temporarily discarding the spirit sword he had always relied on, and focused his attention on the bronze wine cup beside him.

Chapter 760 Battle of Two Beasts

Xuanfeng Daoist picked up the wine cup with one hand and slowly swirled it. Immediately afterward, a clear liquid that looked like fine wine appeared out of thin air in the cup.

These liquids are the magic weapon used to defeat enemies.

Xuanfeng Daoist suddenly poured the wine in the cup out, then used his magic to spew out flames from his mouth to burn the wine into mist.

Finally, he slapped forward, controlling the now indistinct mist of alcohol to rush towards Han Lu's face.

This tactic might be effective against other cultivators, but in this battle, it has absolutely no effect on Han Lu.

Han Lu looked at the misty air, which wasn't flying very fast and seemed to have some strange effects, and wondered with some doubt, "Could this Xuanfeng Daoist be so stubborn?"

She had no intention of risking her life; instead, she pushed her speed to the limit, flying in a zigzag pattern to avoid the mist that covered about fifty square meters of sky, and then lunged straight at Xuanfeng Daoist.

This situation was beyond Xuanfeng Daoist's expectations, and only then did he realize what was happening.

This time, the battle took place in the vast sky above the source water, providing ample space for maneuver.

This time, he was competing against Han Lu, who possessed the bloodline of a true spirit. Han Lu's speed after transforming into a true spirit was far faster than the supernatural powers of some ordinary magic treasures.

These two situations, which are inconsistent with his usual practice of sparring with friends and cultivating magical treasures and supernatural powers alone, have resulted in his magical treasures being activated but failing to reach him, while Han Lu's transformed phoenix spirit has already approached him with the force of thunder.

He quickly abandoned controlling the magical artifacts around him. Xuanfeng Daoist, who was proficient in various arts and also had some knowledge of external martial arts, hurriedly made hand seals and used his secret technique.

A white jade porcelain bottle flew out of the storage bag, and three drops of blood fell into his slightly open mouth.

The next moment, when Han Lu rushed forward and tried to deliver a "True Phoenix Heart-Piercing" attack to Xuan Feng Dao Ren, Xuan Feng Dao Ren, just like Han Lu had transformed into a phoenix form before, also shed his human form and received the attack in another form.

A humanoid ape, about four and a half meters tall and covered in long hair, took the place where Xuanfeng Daoist had just been. Its rough, hairy hand blocked Han Lu's claw attack.

A monster resembling an ape with some human features floated in the air, wrestling with Han Lu, who had transformed into a four-winged phoenix.

A pair of blood-red eyes met a phoenix eye. While grappling with physical strength, both were also putting pressure on each other with their gazes.

It turns out that the three drops of essence blood that Xuanfeng Daoist ingested were the essence blood of a ferocious demon beast. He used a secret technique to activate the power in the essence blood and temporarily transformed himself into the form of that kind of demon beast in order to enhance his external martial arts skills and use his physical strength to resist the close-range attack of the phoenix.

Apes and humans share similar bloodlines, and indeed many secret techniques and arts at the Golden Core stage utilize the essence and blood of apes at the Transformation stage to activate cultivators, allowing them to change their form and enhance their physical strength in a short period of time.

It has low difficulty in cultivation and significantly improves a cultivator's external skills.

Daoist Xuanfeng had clearly cultivated a similar method and used it at this moment.

Xuanfeng Daoist had never used this move in public before, so his use of it this time was completely unexpected by Han Lu.

However, the nature of magical duels is ever-changing, and Han Lu never thought she could predict everything.

Facing neither magical weapons nor spells, Han Lu flapped her wings, trying to pierce her opponent's palms with her sharp phoenix claws, while also using other means to try to deliver a fatal blow to Xuan Feng Daoist, who had transformed into a hairy ape, in what was almost close combat.

With a single breath, a crimson flame shot towards the ape-man's face.

This flame is no ordinary flame; it is the True Flame of the Fiery Phoenix.

Although it was close-quarters combat, Han Lu was not afraid of the Fire Phoenix Divine Power she was using, which is why she made a decisive move at this moment, using one of her most powerful techniques with a 100% hit rate.

The Phoenix Flame, fueled by spiritual energy, easily ignited the hairy ape-man's head.

However, the story did not unfold as smoothly as Han Lu had imagined.

The crimson Phoenix Flame did not spread from top to bottom across the demonic ape that Xuanfeng Daoist had transformed into; instead, it simply burned away the hair on the long-haired ape-man's head before extinguishing.

Clearly, the long hair covering the ape-man's body had the effect of hindering Han Lu's supernatural powers, and her unexpected attack while wrestling did not achieve the results she had imagined.

If one trick doesn't work, try another.

In the wilderness, Han Lu would occasionally use various parts of the Phoenix's true form to perform external attacks under her father's guidance.

The experience and combat awareness gained from this training came in handy at this time.

The feathers on Han Lu's body shot outwards like bullets, and these sharp feathers pierced the hairy ape-man's body like swords.

At this face-to-face distance, Xuanfeng Daoist had nowhere to dodge and could only let Han Lu use this phoenix technique that no one else knew.

With a cry of pain, Xuanfeng Daoist felt the pain, and the strength in his hand weakened considerably.

Seizing the opportunity, Han Lu suddenly flapped her wings, completely disrupting the previous stalemate.

In terms of sheer strength, Xuanfeng Daoist's long-haired ape-man was slightly superior to Han Lu's four-winged true phoenix. However, in terms of agility, speed, and proficiency in controlling these true spirit and demon beast forms, Xuanfeng Daoist was far inferior to Han Lu.

There was no other way; the secret technique that Daoist Xuanfeng used required blood essence as a material to activate. He didn't have a large amount of blood essence to practice transforming into this form for daily combat training.

In Xuanfeng Daoist's eyes, it was almost as if in the blink of an eye, Han Lu's phoenix claws had been used on his chest a full seven times.

But when he realized what was happening and tried to capture the phoenix in retaliation, the phoenix was already a step ahead of him, flying more than fifty meters away without any intention of fighting.

The ensuing battle between the two beasts became a contest between agility and strength.

The phoenix, possessing the ability to fly at high speed, waged guerrilla warfare, sometimes using its body and sometimes using its innate supernatural powers to attack the long-haired ape-man transformed by Xuanfeng Daoist from various angles.

In less than twenty breaths, Han Lu launched nearly ten surprise attacks, giving the long-haired ape-man no chance to catch his breath.

However, due to "physical and mental incoordination" and its inherent clumsiness, the long-haired ape-man's movements were always a beat slower.

Even if he occasionally managed to land a long-arm punch that happened to hit the target, it wouldn't cause Han Lu any real harm.

After a while, the long-haired ape-man who was originally covered in white fur turned red, while the phoenix that Han Lu transformed into had no visible damage from the battle, except for a slight injury to its wings.

His strength couldn't find a solid target, and he couldn't use the many magical treasures in Duobao Daoren's storage bag.

Xuanfeng Daoist was very frustrated.

Realizing that transforming into a hairy ape-man would not increase his combat power, Xuanfeng Daoist made a decisive move. He first threw a series of wild punches at the air to force Han Lu back, then quickly dispelled the secret technique and reappeared in front of everyone in a battered human form.

Chapter 761 The Shadow Appears

“Fellow Daoist Xuanfeng,” Han Lu, who had transformed into a phoenix, suddenly spoke in human language and teased, “You have the power of a long-haired ape-man but have nowhere to use it. That must be a bitter experience for you.”

Despite being injured, and having his sore spot brought up by Han Lu, Daoist Xuanfeng didn't mind taking advantage of this brief moment of rest to recover and chat with Han Lu a bit more.

He put a pill into his mouth.

As soon as the pill entered his stomach, Daoist Xuanfeng's originally pale complexion improved considerably.

He said, "Fairy Zhenfeng, the beast I transformed into is not some hairy ape."

Xuanfeng Daoist found Han Lu's haphazardly chosen name unpalatable.

"This is a kind of monster from the Ice Island in the North Sea of ​​the Northern Dynasties, called the Snow-Treading White Ape."

"My secret technique is a transformation technique activated by the essence blood of the Snow-Treading White Ape, who is at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage."