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Chapter 1573 - Chapter 1573 Chapter 673 Rotten Plank First Strike at the Tao

Chapter 1573: Chapter 673: Rotten Plank, First Strike at the Tao of Deception Chapter 1573: Chapter 673: Rotten Plank, First Strike at the Tao of Deception Han Yi held the Tao Si Divine Axe and surged forward.

This time, he made considerable noise and deliberately released his aura, aiming to lure the surrounding Tricksters.

Having stepped into Chaos, his mentality was different from before; he no longer proceeded with extreme caution but strode forward confidently.

All this stemmed from his strength.

Had it been before the second expedition to the Wisdom Realm, he wouldn’t have been so bold, opting instead for cautious advancement. However, during that expedition, within the Wisdom Realm, he had obtained nearly 300,000 Life Seeds from both the Great Dark Sky and Sinful Heavens.

The Origin Crystal he had initially obtained from one of the Ancient Nine Realms, the Netherworld, provided about 70,000 Life Seeds.

In other words, the trip to the Wisdom Realm had earned him the equivalent of about four and a half Origin Crystals.

Adding on the over 90,000 Life Seeds that he hadn’t yet used, extracted from the Ancestral God Star, and the more than 60,000 kept in reserve on his panel, Han Yi had absorbed a total of nearly 330,000 Life Seeds, roughly equivalent to five Origin Crystals.

The investment of five Origin Crystals had elevated him to the pinnacle of Immortal Venerate on the Immortal Path and from the Creation Realm to the Infinite Realm in his cultivation of the Chaos Divine Race. Additionally, due to the need to conceal his tracks at the time, he enhanced the Wanxing Daotai to the ninth rank and subsequently upgraded the Wan Ming Tome to the peak of the Nether General*Daluo chapter.

It was only then that he had achieved such profound cultivation.

Moreover,

calculating that breaking through to the Infinite Realm required 160,000 Life Seeds, Han Yi estimated that advancing to the Tao Realm would likely require fewer, though not by much. With the remaining over 60,000 Life Seeds he currently had, if he acquired two more Origin Crystals to reach 200,000, he was confident he could directly break through to the first step of the Tao Realm amidst Chaos.

And this was the primary reason he had ventured here upon the invitation of Houtu Taoist Ancestor.

The presence of Origin Crystals implicated whether he could quickly step into the Tao Realm. If they were here, he was determined to obtain them, confident that once he stepped into the Tao Realm, with a dual-system strategy, he could battle against the second step of the Tao Realm.

Han Yi’s speed wasn’t fast. He had only reached mid-way, still 30 million miles away from the Illusory Cave Heaven, when suddenly two auras appeared.

One aura was outside the Cave Heaven, while the other unexpectedly came from within it.

Just as the aura from within the Cave Heaven reached him, an exhilarating light red text abruptly popped up on Han Yi’s panel.

“Life Seeds detected, cannot absorb!”

This message flashed by and did not reappear, indicating that the panel had sensed it only for an instant.

Ahead, a strange figure emerged from the Cave Heaven, its aura flickered momentarily, and a familiar yet elusive scent sparkled briefly.

This scent, though different from the Nether Attribute Origin Crystal he encountered in the Netherworld, was extraordinarily potent; even a slight sensing caused a transformation in the Tao Principle within his Daluo Realm.

It was indeed an Origin Crystal.

Han Yi confirmed internally.

Both the panel and the fleeting sensation confirmed that Houtu Taoist Ancestor’s words were no falsehood; there should be Origin Crystals within the Cave Heaven, though he did not know how many.

The Trickster who had initially been outside the Cave Heaven, along with the one who had just emerged from it, now attacked Han Yi from two directions.

Moreover,

this time, unlike before, they did not retreat easily upon realizing the situation was dire; instead, they attacked with either a sure kill or an expulsion in mind, since the Origin Crystals within the Cave Heaven were equally paramount to them.

The Trickster on the left took out a wooden fish, but this time, he did not simply strike it. Instead, he thrust his arm into his stomach and pulled out a grey stone.

As soon as this stone appeared, the surrounding Chaos darkened by two degrees, appearing even darker.

The Trickster pressed the grey stone against the wooden fish. Strangely, the stone spread like a liquid, directly melting into the wooden fish and deepening its grey color.

Then, the Trickster slammed his hands down on the wooden fish with a great force, as if trying to shatter it.

The area around the wooden fish suddenly shook, and the surrounding Chaos Primordial Qi was whipped up like surging waves.

Even the Trickster who had struck with his hands subconsciously retreated two steps.

Clearly,

this move was not simple for him, and it counted as a powerful technique he kept in reserve.

The invisible waves traversed vast distances, enveloped Han Yi, and materialized into various illusions. Some even directly entered Han Yi’s head, wreaking havoc in his Daluo Realm and stirring giant waves in his Sea of Consciousness.

The external illusions included his relatives from his previous life, and people he had known in the Yu Heng World at the Xuandan Sect, both the living and the dead, and those he had met in the Daluo Immortal Realm at the Age Candle Immortal Court, his close friends and Taoist companions.

Han Yi knew these were all illusions, but they felt incredibly real to his senses.