I Can Accumulate Proficiency, Starting from Alchemy

Chapter 946: Chapter 397: Returning to the Immortal Mansion, The Change of the Altar_2

And Han Yi, his gaze fixed on the fragment of the Heavenly Demon Halberd in his hand, bellowed deeply:

“Kill!”

In an instant, three forces surged within his body, pouring into the fragment of the Heavenly Demon Halberd, which seemed like an abyss with no end.

When this surge halted, Han Yi did not feel anything different about the fragment of the Heavenly Demon Halberd in his hand, unlike the first time he had used the Green Reed Sword to execute the Sword Control Skill.

The first time he executed the Sword Control Skill, the Green Reed Sword had transformed into a beam of light, its form indistinct.

But now, on his second attempt at the Sword Control Skill, the item he offered up was not the Green Reed Sword, but a fragment of a more exceptional material, the Tao Artifact known as the Heavenly Demon Halberd, and this time, the fragment of the Heavenly Demon Halberd still retained its physical form, not turning into light.

The arrow was on the string and had to be released.

Han Yi’s eyes were clouded with murderous intent as he swung the fragment of the Heavenly Demon Halberd in his hand, rapidly depleting the power of his Divine Soul with this strike. The blow seemed slow, but that was only because the might contained within the fragment of the Heavenly Demon Halberd in his hand was too terrifying.

In the normal flow of time, the cultivators beside him, especially Du Juan who had dashed next to him, felt it most acutely. In her eyes, it seemed as if an ancient beast had awakened within Han Yi, his power reaching an extreme level of terror, even surpassing that of a Half-Immortal, but in an instant, seventy percent of that power had vanished, followed by the irregular silvery-white Spirit Treasure fragments in his hand disappearing as well.

Time seemed to slow by a hundred thousand times, and as the cultivators sensed Han Yi’s spirit energy spike and then faint, the Half-Immortal Sword Tool swooping toward them was already split in two. Due to its immense speed, the two halves continued to sweep past the cultivators on either side.

Hundreds of meters behind the split Sword Tool, the Sword Cultivator Half-Immortal had a look of intense murderous intent in his eyes, but a red line had appeared on his neck, his Internal Cave World completely destroyed by a power exceeding that of a Half-Immortal.

Time returned to normal.

Immediately afterward, a thunderous roar erupted.

It was Zhu Sui finally activating the Soul-breaking Sky Shuttle, unleashing the full might of this Half-Immortal Item against the void on his left, blasting a gap in the peak Fifth-stage Formation.

At the edge of the gap, spirit energy flickered uncertainly before dissipating.

The Array was broken.

But at this moment, he was not looking at the effect of his strike, because in front of him, the Sword Tool, now split in two, had streaked past the cultivators and pierced through the Array behind them, heading for the Void.

In front of them, the Half-Immortal Sword Cultivator still stood in the Void, his eyes filled with a clear killing intent, but the energy around him was rapidly declining.

This Half-Immortal was already dead, Zhu Sui thought.

Then.

He suddenly looked to the right, where the Half-Immortal on the right side, after blocking an attack from an elderly cultivator’s golden Spirit Pillar, had a look of terror on his face and turned to flee. Not even bothering to collect the Array he had laid out, he had already escaped into the Void, disappearing in a few flashes.

In that instant.

Apart from the residual shockwaves of spirit energy explosions, the cultivators in the Void suddenly fell silent, all turning to look at Han Yi.

At this moment, Han Yi had only thirty percent of his Mana left, and though he still had thirty percent of his Divine Force in his Divine Aperture, it was far from his peak. His face showed relief. If the third Half-Immortal had not turned to flee out of fear but had been more resolute in his killing intent, the others, the Spirit Transformation cultivators, would have had to fight with all their might.

Although he could no longer unleash a Sword Skill of Immortal Skill caliber, he would have fought as best he could, but if it proved impossible, with the Array dissipated, he could simply dive into the Void and escaping shouldn’t be a problem. As for the survival of the other cultivators, it was up to their own abilities.

However.

The other cultivators were lucky, for the third Half-Immortal had fled out of fear of the terrifying power Han Yi exhibited in that instant.

On reflection.

From the moment the Fifth-stage Formation closed to their skirmish and finally to the breaking of the Array and the escape of the Half-Immortal, it all happened in just over the span of a single breath—a very brief period of time. Yet, the peril of this battle was harrowing. Except for Han Yi, the Spirit Transformation cultivators’ emotions had risen and fallen like a roller coaster, oscillating between hope and despair at least three times in a harrowing ordeal.

“That sword strike earlier, I could only unleash once. If that Half-Immortal noticed the anomaly and returned, things would have been quite dire.”

“We can’t stay here long, let’s move quickly.”

Seeing that all the cultivators were looking at him, Han Yi spoke up swiftly, and everyone immediately snapped to action. Zhu Sui quickly retracted the Soul-breaking Sky Shuttle that had been shot miles away, while Han Yi, flickering, first collected the fragment of the Heavenly Demon Halberd, then the demon corpse of the Wolf Demon he had slain, the Qiankun Ring of the Sword Cultivator Half-Immortal, the split Half-Immortal Sword Tool, and the Fifth-stage Array Eye behind the Half-Immortal—all of it as spoils of battle, which he rightfully took.

Then, along with Zhu Sui and the others, they made their way back along the path through the Void they had come, their speed extremely fast this time. As for Du Juan, she was taken into Zhu Sui’s Internal Cave World.

In less than the time it takes an incense stick to burn, they had returned to the edge of the Ancient Abyss. Climbing up the edge and reaching the ground above, they flew out a distance, released the Spirit Boat, and set off toward Sin Trace Immortal City.

Afterward, the group didn’t let down their guard. It wasn’t until they reached Sin Trace Immortal City, took the city-to-city transmission array, and returned to Town Demon Immortal City, that they finally let out a sigh of relief.

Before the cultivators departed, they came up to Han Yi one by one to express their thanks. However, this time their tones were different from before, even Zhu Sui’s; there was a slight increase in reverence.