"My eyes have truly been opened today! If we were outside the array, I would be able to crush you with a single finger, yet here you are, displaying more insolence than you would ever dare to if we were elsewhere! Let me see what you have up your sleeve to back up that big mouth of yours!" E Kuai sneered.

Immediately thereafter, he made another hand seal before tapping his own glabella several more times in succession, and several more identical runes appeared on his forehead, following which the bloodline power that was seeping out of his body began to return again.

Han Li paid no heed to E Kuai as he began making a string of hand seals of his own, and a burst of white light rose up from his crimson cocoon. Several cracks then appeared over the cocoon's surface, and it bloomed into a nine-tiered crimson lotus flower.

Han Li sat down with his legs crossed, and the crimson lotus flower beneath him began to radiate dazzling crimson...