A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Immortal Realm-Chapter 1352: Detachment

Han Li's brows furrowed slightly at his current predicament, but he immediately closed his eyes to calm himself.

Moments later, his eyes sprang open again as he murmured to himself, "One's body is nothing more than a bunch of individual parts assembled by the threads of fate. It bears no true significance or cause for attachment."

The surrounding scene cumbled once again, returning him to the black space, but before he had a chance to rest, a new illusion appeared.

The illusions came one after another, with every single one presenting a stern trial.

Thanks to his immense willpower and the insights that he had recently gleaned, he was able to sever one attachment after another, and even though his mental fortitude was being bolstered with each trial that he overcame, he had also become exhausted to the extreme, to the point that his vision was beginning to blur around the edges.

After vanquishing one more illusion, Han Li found himself back in the black space, and at this point, he was so exhausted that he was on the verge of falling unconscious.

Right at this moment, the self corpse soul's voice suddenly rang out.

"There are countless attachments that one develops over the course of a lifetime. Your attachments arise from your heart, so as long as your heart is not at peace, there will be no end to the attachments that you must sever. In your current state, there's no way you can overcome this hurdle."

Han Li swayed unsteadily upon hearing this, and a dazed look appeared in his eyes.

"Just give up. Why continue to toil and suffer? Sometimes, giving up is the wise choice. Daoist Hu Yan gave up his path of cultivation to live in seclusion, and he's now able to enjoy life to the fullest, so why don't you do the same?"

The self corpse soul's voice had become very gentle and alluring, and Han Li's eyes began to gradually drift out of focus. His consciousness slowly began to fade away, and he was on the verge of falling into a deep sleep.

Right at this moment, it was as if a bolt of lightning had flashed through his mind, and his exhaustion was suppressed by what little remained of his willpower.

"You certainly chose the right time to make a move, striking when I'm at my most exhausted and vulnerable. If my mental fortitude had been even slightly lacking, then I would've fallen at the final hurdle!" Han Li harrumphed coldly as he swept a sleeve through the air, and the self corpse soul's voice abruptly trailed off, while the surrounding black space collapsed violently.

All of a sudden, Han Li found himself back in the Flower Branch domain.

"Finally..." he sighed in a relieved manner.

Right at this moment, a burst of vast yet gentle power surged into his soul, wiping away all of his exhaustion.

His body and soul were basked in a sense of blissful comfort, as if he were being rewarded for reaching the final destination of his cultivation journey.

It was a truly indescribable sense of achievement and joy, and as more and more power continued to surge into his body, it seemed as if there would be no end to the degree with which his own powers were going to be elevated.

His body became as light as a feather, and he drifted up into the heavens, quickly reaching extremely lofty heights.

In this instant, it was as if the entire True Immortal Realm were beneath his feet, as were the Devil Realm, the Gray Realm, and the underworld.

He felt as if he had transcended everything to become an omnipotent being, and as he continued to ascend, it was as if he were about to rise up into another world.

All of a sudden, a sense of danger tore through this blissful sensation, and Han Li hurriedly suppressed this feeling of ascension, upon which he reappeared in the Flower Branch domain.

This time, it was the true Flower Branch domain.

So the final test concerns one's attachment to power! That was a really close call. It makes sense that this is the final test, considering power is the lifelong pursuit of all cultivators, and one could easily lose their way in this final test.

Having overcome the final hurdle, Han Li's mental state had been perfected, and with a sweep of his sleeve, an orb of azure light flew out of his body before vanishing into the nearby Earthly Deity Avatar.

The space above the Flower Branch domain instantly turned golden in color as the gates of the Heavenly Dao appeared once more.

Boundless golden light surged out of the gate, imbued with the secrets of the laws of time, and all of it was injected into his body.

The world's origin qi within a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometers was stirred up into a frenzy before converging in all directions to be injected into Han Li's body along with the golden light flowing out of the heavenly gates.

The final, one thousand eight hundredth immortal acupoint on his body instantly lit up, and blinding, golden light began radiating from his entire body, forming an incredibly bright golden halo.

Bursts of tremendous aura fluctuations surged out of the golden light, and they were only becoming more and more formidable.

These aura fluctuations were also accompanied by immense waves of spiritual sense fluctuations that erupted in all directions.

With this latest breakthrough, he had finally reached full mastery of the seventh level of the Spirit Refinement Technique as well.

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Elsewhere in the Flower Branch domain, Jin Tong abruptly snapped out of her cultivation before vanishing from the spot.

In the next instant, he appeared in the deepest part of the domain with Nangong Wan in tow, right as a pillar of white light erupted out of Han Li's bamboo pavilion.

Bursts of tremendous spiritual sense fluctuations surged out of the pillar of light, and in response, Jin Tong's glabella lit up with golden radiance as she conjured up a translucent, golden light barrier that encompassed both of them.

The light barrier rippled unsteadily in the face of the immense spiritual sense fluctuations surging through the air, and an ecstatic look appeared on Nangong Wan's face as she asked, "Has he managed to make a breakthrough?"

"He has. It looks like not only has he made a breakthrough in his cultivation base, his Spirit Refinement Technique has also been perfected," Jin Tong replied in a stunned manner as she did everything in her power to fortify the golden light barrier.

Outside the Flower Branch domain, a vast expanse of radiant, golden light had appeared in the sky, and a pillar of even brighter white light erupted out of it into the heavens.

Inside the Reincarnation Palace branch in the underworld, a pillar of white light suddenly appeared in front of the Six Paths Reincarnation Plate without any warning before injecting itself into the plate.

The Six Paths Reincarnation Plate immediately began trembling violently as bursts of light containing countless images surged out of it before vanishing into the pillar of white light.

Gan Jiuzhen appeared before the Six Paths Reincarnation Plate with an alarmed look on her face, and not long after her arrival, the pillar of white light faded away, and it was as if nothing had happened.

According to Father, a similar phenomenon took place back when he perfected the Spirit Refinement Technique. Who is it this time? Could it be Han Li?

With that in mind, Gan Jiuzhen immediately departed with an excited gleam in her eyes, planning to report this matter to the Reincarnation Palace Master.

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Inside the Flower Branch domain, maintaining the golden light barrier had become quite a strenuous task for Jin Tong.

Her soul was relatively weak to begin with, and the spiritual sense fluctuations surging out of the bamboo pavilion were only becoming more and more powerful.

Right at this moment, the pillar of white light in the distance suddenly flashed a few times before fading away, much to Jin Tong's relief.

Even though the pillar of white light had disappeared, the golden heavenly gate in the sky still remained, and golden light continued to surge out of it without pause.

An astonished look flashed through Jin Tong's eyes as she sensed the tremendous law powers of the Heavenly Dao within the golden light.

She had also been granted the power of the Heavenly Dao back when her Dao Ancestor status was restored, but nowhere near as much as what Han Li was receiving now.

Only after a long while did the golden light above the Flower Branch domain fade away, while Han Li slowly opened his eyes to reveal a pair of completely emotionless pupils that looked as if they were manifestations of the Heavenly Dao.

An unrivaled aura erupted out of his body, instantly reducing everything in the immediate vicinity to nothingness.

An alarmed look appeared on the Earthly Deity Avatar's avatar's face as it hurriedly conjured up a spherical golden light barrier around itself, only to have close to half of the light barrier instantly destroyed by the almighty aura surging out of Han Li's body.

The entire bamboo pavilion was erased from existence in an instant, but his tremendous aura continued to proliferate outward in all directions, destroying everything in its path.

Cracks began to appear over the entire Flower Branch domain, and it was quickly brought to the verge of collapse.

"Fellow Daoist Han!" Jin Tong exclaimed in an alarmed manner while injecting her power into the Flower Branch domain to stabilize it.

Han Li shuddered as a hint of lucidity appeared in his eyes, and he immediately suppressed his own aura.

Jin Tong heaved a long sigh of relief upon seeing this, while the golden light barrier around the Earthly Deity Avatar faded away.

"I didn't think you would be able to sever all of your attachments so quickly. You have bested me," the Earthly Deity Avatar sighed.

"Just as you said, attachments arise from the heart, so there will be no end to them if one's heart is not at peace. I am not me, so those attachments are not my own. If my attachments do not exist, then I am naturally able to see all things for what they really are," Han Li said in a calm manner.

In contrast with his kind corpse soul and wicked corpse soul, even though he had managed to sever his self corpse soul, he was still unable to see through it.

"What do you plan to do with me?" the Earthly Deity Avatar asked.

"You pose more of a threat to me than my kind corpse soul and my wicked corpse soul, so I'm afraid I cannot allow you to remain by my side," Han Li replied.

"My paltry powers hardly pose any threat to you in your current state," the Earthly Deity Avatar said with a wry smile.

Han Li paid no heed to its self-deprecation as he swept a sleeve through the air, and the Heaven Controlling Vial appeared in his grasp.

A burst of dark green light then shot out of the vial at his behest, and the space up ahead was instantly parted to form a translucent wall.

Han Li cast an incantation seal into the translucent wall, and a vortex that led to an unknown destination appeared over its surface.

"You plan to cast me into an alternate space and time? That suits me just fine," the Earthly Deity Avatar said.

Han Li swept a sleeve through the air, releasing a burst of golden light that enveloped the Earthly Deity Avatar before carrying it toward the vortex, and the Earthly Deity Avatar posed no resistance as it allowed itself to be cast into the vortex.

With another sweep of his sleeve, the translucent wall vanished, while the Heaven Controlling Vial fell back into his grasp.

Nangong Wan and Jin Tong flew over to him, and he smiled as he said, "Sorry to have made you worry."

"It's fine, I'm just glad everything went smoothly for you," Nangong Wan replied with a shake of her head.

"What do we do from here, Fellow Daoist Han?" Jin Tong asked.

Han Li offered no response as he cast his gaze up toward the heavens.