Han Li opened his eyes, then withdrew his spiritual sense from the storage treasure.

The Soulbirth Flower he had prepared had already reached 100,000 years of age, so the final soul manifestation process was completed in no more than 15 minutes. Furthermore, the outcome was close to perfect, and he was able to control the Earthly Deity Avatar as he pleased.

The reason why he had waited for over two hours was both to fool his opponents, as well as to lure them into expending more of their trump cards. Furthermore, he had expended a great deal of energy refining this Earthly Deity Avatar, and this gave him some time to recover.

Thankfully, he hadn't decided to reveal himself early. Otherwise, that bolt of Astral Yin Blood Lightning would've been nasty to run into.

Now that he had successfully attained an Earthly Deity Avatar, he had more important things to do, and those four Ancestral Gods were nothing more than small fry, so it didn't matter that he had allowed them to escape.

With that in mind, Han Li stowed away the array tools on the ground with a wave of his hand, then emerged from the sea before flying toward Dark Veil Island.

One morning, several days later.

Basked in the light of the rising sun, it was as if Dark Veil Island had been...