Chapter 550: Dragon |
Li Huowang faced the trapped Xu Nian. He took to the air with his six tentacles and legs.
He raised the bronze coin sword up high and roared, “Die!”
The next moment, the sharp tip of the sword pierced through the left eye socket on the human skin, and it easily emerged from the back of Xu Nian's head.
Li Huowang didn’t forget the taboo mentioned by Zhuge Yuan. He pushed hard with both hands on the sword hilt and sent himself flying away before landing gracefully on the ground.
However, Xu Nian remained standing, even though the bronze coin sword was sticking out of her head.
Li Huowang's expression became extremely ugly at the sight.
Li Huowang found that his left foot had been pierced by a red spike at some point, and it had become old.
Clearly, Xu Nian was far more intelligent than he initially thought. She even knew how to exchange injuries for injuries, as well as set up traps to prevent him from using the spine sword to escape.
What is this thing made of? A sword specifically made to combat evil has been inserted into its head, but it doesn’t react at all!
Xu Nian, pierced by the sword, stood still in place and did not charge at him. Instead, her face covered by the human skin looked to the left.
Her huge beast body lowered slightly as a low beastly growl came from under the human skin.
Thump, thump, thump!
All of a sudden, the familiar heavy and chaotic footsteps echoed once again, but they had gotten even closer. The noises sounded so close that they sounded ear-piercing to Li Huowang.
He tilted his head slightly. In the chaotic darkness, he saw a hill-sized object moving towards him along with the footsteps.
It had gotten very close now. With his excellent eyesight, Li Huowang managed to see the appearance of that thing clearly in the dark.
Lanterns, dragon flags, round jade, rings, bells. There were various old and dusty decorations densely covering this towering wooden building before him.
There were four pillars painted with red clouds and dragons, wrapped around with black and blue satin ribbons. Curtains made up of black clouds and dragon feathers hung between the pillars, which held the entire wooden structure together tightly.
The heavy and chaotic footsteps came from beneath this wooden structure, with various tattered eunuch figures that resembled skeletons. Their heads were tightly wrapped in white cloth strips, and they pulled forward on the ropes just like mules.
Although everything on this wooden building was very dilapidated, filthy, and even decayed, Li Huowang still saw at a glance that this thing was the imperial chariot of the emperor of Great Qi!
He never thought that the noise he had just heard was actually the little zombie emperor of Great Qi!
Li Huowang sensed a strong gaze from the wooden building that was deadlocked on him.
He glanced at Xu Nian in the distance, then at the emperor’s chariot, which approached him with an overwhelming presence, and he cursed inwardly. This damned place! I’ve never had any luck here!
There was no need for words. Li Huowang opened his mouth wide and spat out Li Sui. Then, he slashed the spine sword at her to send her back to the Great Liang. Immediately afterward, he raised the flint and swiped it at his own skin.
Boom!
Li Huowang burst into flames. He became a blazing torch that illuminated everything around him.
Li Huowang glanced at Xu Nian through the dancing flames before rushing toward the huge imperial chariot.
Compared to the mysterious and unpredictable Xu Nian, the emperor seemed to be easier to deal with; he looked more flammable, too.
Li Huowang heard other noises aside from footsteps as he got closer to the chariot.
“Long live my emperor... Thanks to the Lord’s kindness... Blessings to the emperor...” These words were repeatedly uttered mechanically by the wooden-like eunuchs while pulling the chariot along with them.
The next moment, as Li Huowang raised his right hand, the eunuchs instantly caught fire and became living torches.
Li Huowang’s feet were injured, so he couldn't move that quickly. However, he had many tricks up his sleeves.
Boom!
Peng Longteng smashed down heavily beside Li Huowang. The giant palm grabbed the ablaze Li Huowang and threw him towards the highest point of the imperial chariot.
As Li Huowang crashed into it, the cloud-patterned curtains caught fire and burned to ashes. Li Huowang saw the little emperor of Great Qi amidst the flames.
He was a child that was only six or seven years old. He was wearing a large dragon robe and sat on the even larger dragon throne, looking extremely out of place.
Even more mismatched was his appearance. He had heard that the little emperor of Great Qi was already dead and was a zombie. But he only saw a chubby child with innocent-looking eyes.
In the next moment, this unusually normal child began to rise while the dragon robe under him rose higher and higher.
When the dragon robe was fully lifted, the Dragon Vein stacked underneath was finally revealed.
Who would have thought that this little emperor of Great Qi was not alone and that he had already connected to the Dragon Vein while he was still alive?
A fierce wind roared as the entire Dragon Vein coiled in the air. At the top, the little emperor opened his chubby hands and clapped while he giggled with joy.
A powerful aura pressed down, which even suppressed the flames on Li Huowang’s body from surging upward.
Swoosh! Li Huowang gripped the spine sword and slashed forcefully toward the sky. The crack flew over but had no effect on that thing at all!
Since acquiring the spine sword, it was the first time that he saw this gap that cut through two timelines had no damage at all.
The body of the Dragon Vein suddenly shook. An afterimage flew across and struck Li Huowang heavily.
He spat out blood as he was knocked out of the flaming imperial chariot. The flames on his body extinguished instantly while everything around him blurred. Shangguan Yuting or Zhuge Yuan all became intermittently bright and dark.
As he was about to fall to the ground from a great height, he suddenly closed his eyes and felt himself plunge into icy cold lake water.
He struggled to swim to the surface, then opened his eyes again. He found that half of his body was buried in the soil.
“Brother Zhuge, are you all right?” Li Huowang asked anxiously as he climbed out of the soil.
Zhuge Yuan said something with urgency, but Li Huowang couldn’t hear a thing.
He saw Zhuge Yuan pointing towards the imperial chariot, and he turned his head to see the Great Qi Dragon Vein. It was like a real dragon that charged down towards him with immense pressure.
An angry roar caused the Dragon Vein to stop abruptly in mid-air as it started to coil and intertwine its head and tail together.
Li Huowang turned towards the source of the sound. He saw that it actually came from Xu Nian. Her hair bristled with anger at the appearance of the Dragon Vein.
Li Huowang looked down at his injured leg. Give it a try! I’ll take advantage of their conflict and return to Great Liang first!
He immediately took action, and he raised the spine sword to slash out a crack and dashed forward.
The next moment, the Dragon Vein swept down and instantly shattered the crack into fragments.
It seemed that the Dragon Vein was strongly repulsed by the appearance of these rifts in the two timelines. It ignored Xu Nian’s provocation and headed straight for Li Huowang.
The overlapping Dragon Vein moved extremely quickly and with great force, crushing half of Li Huowang’s left shoulder in one fell swoop.
Li Huowang stabbed the Dragon Vein from behind with his purple-tasseled sword, but this injury was not much different than a mosquito bite.
This was the first time Li Huowang had faced such a powerful enemy, and he felt like even going all out was going to be useless against such a powerful foe.
