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

Chapter 979: Daoist Xie's Former Owner

A grim look appeared on Han Li's face upon seeing this.

Could it be that Shi Zhanfeng wasn't actually dead? Could it be that he had been biding his time all along, waiting for an opportunity to seize the heart again?

With that in mind, an urgent look appeared on his face as he sped up even further, reaching Shi Zhanfeng's body in the blink of an eye before reaching out for his head with the intention of shattering it.

However, right at this moment, a burst of radiant crimson light erupted out of Shi Zhanfeng's body alongside a burst of tremendous force that sent Han Li and Shi Zhanfeng flying back through the air.

Han Li descended onto the ground over a hundred feet away with a wary look on his face.

However, contrary to his expectations, Shi Zhanfeng wasn't resurrected by the heart. Instead, his body began to rapidly shrivel up, and it was reduced to a dried up husk in the blink of an eye.

After that, the heart slowly flew out of Shi Zhanfeng's body, hovering around a foot above it while giving off radiant crimson light.

Han Li's eyes immediately lit up as he pounced at the heart once again, followed closely by Shi Chuankong, while Xiao Zi remained completely motionless.

"What are you doing, Xiao Zi?" Sha Xin yelled in a furious voice from afar.

Xiao Zi shuddered as she snapped back to her senses, and she was just about to control her two puppets to go after the heart when a pained look suddenly appeared in her eyes, and she threw her hands over her own head as she fell to the ground.

Han Li was able to secure the heart ahead of Shi Chuankong, following which he rushed over to Xiao Zi's side.

An agitated look appeared on Sha Xin's face as she hurriedly made a hand seal, and golden runes emerged from her fingertips.

A burst of golden light flashed over Xiao Zi's glabella, and an emotionless look returned to her face as she grabbed onto the golden spear beside her, then swept it through the air to send a wave of spear projections hurtling toward Han Li.

At the same time, the two giant humanoid puppets also came rushing at him.

Han Li's brows furrowed slightly upon seeing this, and right as he was about to retaliate, Daoist Xie's voice suddenly rang out in his mind, "That's enough! You two are on the same side, so you shouldn't be fighting among yourselves."

Han Li immediately drifted away to evade the wave of oncoming spear projections while also distancing himself from the two puppets, and the pair of puppets also stopped in their tracks.

Han Li turned his gaze to Xiao Zi and Sha Xin as he mulled over what Daoist Xie had just said.

Xiao Zi's expression remained cold and aloof, while Sha Xin was looking back at Han Li with a surprised look on her face.

After drifting back several hundred feet, Han Li said through voice transmission, "You've finally shown yourself, Brother Xie. Where are you right now?"

"I am inside the holy remains. Just now, my heart absorbed some very formidable bloodline power, and that's how I've been able to temporarily awaken, but I don't have much time, so listen carefully to what I have to say," Daoist Xie replied in an urgent manner.

Han Li had many questions that he wanted to ask, but he refrained from raising any of them.

"I can tell you now that my former owner is actually none other than myself. I was once the owner of the Scalptia Spatial Domain, but I fell prey to a plot hatched against me, and I sustained extremely severe injuries that left me on the brink of death. Hence, I had no choice but to refine this immortal puppet and seal part of my memories inside it.

“After that, some things happened, and this puppet descended into a lower realm, and that was where I first met you. It's all thanks to you that this puppet of mine was able to reach this place, and now, there is hope for me to resurrect myself.

“What you need to do now is fuse that puppet heart with my bonded core and my remains, and I'll be able to create a new physical body for myself using the tremendous bloodline power accumulated in this place over the course of countless years. During this process, I am not to be interrupted by anyone, so please protect me as I..."

Daoist Xie's voice became more and more faint as he spoke, and in the end, it trailed off into silence.

Han Li took a moment to process what he had just heard, following which began flying toward the holy remains at the center of the lake.

Shi Chuankong was looking at the heart in Han Li's hands, and he opened his mouth to say something, but could only muster up a forlorn sigh in the end.

Meanwhile, E Kuai had already noticed the bout of eye contact that had just taken place between Han Li and Sha Xin, and he hurriedly yelled in an urgent voice, "Stop him, Fellow Daoist Liu Hua!"

However, Mistress Liu Hua mere took an indifferent glance at E Kuai and didn't do anything.

E Kuai was furious to see this, and rays of crimson light began to emanate from his body, while his aura swelled drastically, indicating that he had just unleashed some type of secret technique.

Right as he was about to lash out with his giant sword, the two golden puppets under Xiao Zi's control suddenly pounced at him from behind while swinging their huge swords through the air.

E Kuai's brows furrowed slightly as he darted away to the side while swinging his sword at the pair of oncoming puppets.

The two puppets reacted very quickly, continuing to swing their swords at E Kuai while raising their shields to protect themselves.

Two resounding cracks rang out as their swords were instantly shattered by E Kuai's sword, following which the sword sliced deep into their bodies, but it wasn't able to slice all the way through.

Even though the two puppets had been severely damaged, they were still able to move, and they discarded their swords and shields in unison before grabbing onto E Kuai's sword with all their might, following which dazzling golden light began to radiate from their bodies.

An alarmed look appeared on E Kuai's face, and he hurriedly released the hilt of his sword before flying back in retreat.

Immediately thereafter, two earth-shattering explosions rang out as a pair of golden suns emerged, surrounded by countless spatial rifts.

The entire underground space trembled violently as countless loose rocks came tumbling down from above, plunging into the lake of blood to send huge waves sweeping over its surface.

At this point, E Kuai was already thousands of feet away from the epicenter of the explosion, and he was staring at the holy remains at the center of the lake with a look of fury and frustration on his face.

Right at this moment, the four symbol puppets converged to surround him, and Xiao Zi was seated atop the Xuanwu turtle puppet.

"Karma spares no one, E Kuai. For all of the crimes that you've committed, you're now all alone, and this is the day that you die," Sha Xin declared in a cold voice before raising a hand, upon which the four symbol puppets sprang into action in unison, sending all types of attacks raining down upon E Kuai.

Meanwhile, Han Li strode over to the holy remains, then carefully set the heart down into the skeleton's chest cavity.

The heart immediately began to glow with crimson light, as did the holy remains, and it was as if they were resonating with each other.

Han Li then pulled out that golden bead with a hesitant look on his face.

The heart naturally belonged in the body's chest cavity, but Daoist Xie hadn't specified where this bead was supposed to go. Was he supposed to put it in the body's dantian or its head?

Right at this moment, Mistress Liu Hua's voice rang out in his mind.

"I'm assuming that's the bonded core of the holy remains. If that's the case, then it should be fused as one with the heart."

Han Li took a glance at Mistress Liu Hua, and after a brief hesitation, he placed the bead onto the heart.

The bead immediately began to glow brightly before fusing with the heart in a flash, and the heart was instantly enveloped by dazzling golden light.

Within the span of just a few seconds, it had turned a bright golden color, and it had also swelled to several dozen times its original size so that it was proportionate to the massive body it was in.

The golden heart began beating far more vigorously than before, and a massive pillar of golden light erupted directly upward from the body.

The pillar of light was giving off tremendous aura fluctuations that caused the nearby space to tremble violently, and Han Li was forced back several steps by this enormous aura before steadying himself with a stunned look in his eyes.

The entire lake of blood began churning violently as it converged toward the body before flowing into the golden heart, and bursts of crimson light instantly erupted out of the heart before spreading to all parts of the body.

Countless bits of flesh began to appear over the surface of the remains before rapidly intertwining with each other, and the process was only being further sped along as more and more blood converged from the surrounding lake.

At this point, much of the ceiling of the underground cave had already collapsed from the battle taking place between E Kuai and the Puppet City cultivators, revealing the night sky above.

Right at this moment, a thunderous roar tore through the night.

"Li Feiyu, I'm going to kill you!"

In the next instant, the entire lake of blood shuddered violently, and Han Li turned to discover E Kuai glowering at him with a look of murderous rage in his eyes.

In contrast, Sha Xin's eyes were bright with elation as she yelled, "Keep him contained at all costs! Don't allow him to interfere with Master's resurrection!"

Kun Yu and Xiao Zi gave a collective affirmative response, then began making a string of hand seals while changing an urgent incantation.

Among the four symbol puppets, the dragon puppet was prowling in the east while opening its mouth to release a blazing hot and highly corrosive breath.

The tiger puppet was situated in the west, and its mouth was wide open, releasing gusts of fierce wind that were as sharp as blades.

The Xuanwu turtle puppet was standing in the north, and a burst of azure light was surging out of its mouth, exerting mountainous pressure upon everything encompassed within it.

The Vermilion Bird puppet was hovering in the south with crimson flames flowing all over its entire body, and a jet of scorching fire was blasting out of its beak.

With Kun Yu and Xiao Zi's assistance, the four symbol puppets had become far more formidable than before, and E Kuai found himself trapped in the encirclement formed by the four puppets, unable to break free.