Chapter 241
Chapter 241
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 241
>Chapter Title: Lion Dance Palace
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When they heard Li Huowang say this, everyone started moving. They gripped various weapons and rushed swiftly toward the light spot above, following Li Huowang.
At this moment, Li Huowang was watching all directions with his eyes and listening in all directions with his ears. While staying vigilant against the hidden Han Fu, he pushed toward the exit as fast as possible.
As Han Fu suddenly vanished into the darkness, everything around them instantly became extremely dangerous in the eyes of Li Huowang and the others.
Since that two-headed Daoist had recognized his identity as a heart elemental, he certainly wouldn’t let it go easily!
Companions who had seemed utterly reliable just moments ago turned into extremely thorny enemies in an instant. When it came to dealing with their own kind, humans were always far more adept than the malevolent beings!
“This damn place doesn’t have any great benefactors at all! They’re all twisted lunatics! No better than beasts!”
Gradually, the distant light grew closer. It scattered the darkness behind them, dispelling the shadow that clung like a plague. Everyone suddenly felt a tremendous sense of relief.
Everyone cast aside their heavy moods and rushed toward the dazzling light with excitement.
But gradually, everyone’s pace slowed from a run to a jog, then to a walk, until finally, all their steps came to a complete halt.
Each one of them stared in horror and despair at the “sunlight” that was growing ever clearer before them.
That light wasn’t pure; it was mixed with countless impurities. Mingled with the light were densely packed human hands and feet.
A jade plaque hung above that cluster of “sunlight,” with three bold characters written squarely on it: Lion Dance Palace!
That wasn’t sunlight at an exit at all! That was the lion dancers’ stronghold: Lion Dance Palace!
Those lights had formed because a horde of the previous lion dancers had gathered together, their inner glows reflecting off each other!
The so-called exit that Han Fu had mentioned was a complete lie! That two-headed Daoist had never had good intentions from the start!
“Huff huff huff~” Hearing the commotion, one grotesque giant face after another turned upright to block the light source. Those enormous dead faces lined up side by side. In the end, before Li Huowang, they piled up into an utterly terrifying wall of faces.
Giant faces the size of round tables stared at Li Huowang with lantern-sized eyes. The almost tangible pressure left everyone gasping for breath.
This was no longer just one or two. There were at least dozens, maybe hundreds of lion dancers inside!
Li Huowang had killed two before, so he knew full well the power they represented.
“Run!!” The instant Li Huowang shouted, almost everyone turned and fled into the endless darkness.
Glancing at the lion dancers crawling over from the ceiling walls and the ground in overwhelming numbers, Li Huowang knew blind flight wouldn’t work. Someone had to hold the rear!
With that thought, Li Huowang stopped dead in his tracks. Once the others had put some distance between them, he raised his sword with one hand and slashed it toward his own body.
But the next moment, a figure burst from the shadows, interrupting Li Huowang’s action.
He held aloft a single-handed copper coin sword topped with three yellow talismans, thrusting straight toward Li Huowang’s waist.
“Clang!” The yellow talismans scattered. The two swords clashed, sparking flecks of fire. That figure was none other than Han Fu!
The moment they clashed, the opponent showed no desire to linger in combat. Han Fu’s large and small faces both twisted into sly grins. His feet in black cloth shoes stamped the ground, and he instantly shrank back into the darkness.
Before Li Huowang could figure out what the guy was up to, alarm bells rang in his mind. He dove forward swiftly, dodging a white tassel flying from the lion dancers’ direction.
So that Han Fu bastard had never intended to tangle with Li Huowang at all. He just wanted to keep harassing him, letting the lion dancers deal with Li Huowang instead.
His goal had been achieved. Those lion dancers were already very close to Li Huowang. One massive round face after another lifted, revealing blood-filled maws lined with six rows of teeth, crashing down toward him.
Li Huowang’s left foot hadn’t fully healed yet. In terms of speed, he couldn’t possibly match these things that were neither man nor monster.
Glancing back at the darkness behind him and seeing that the others had vanished, a trace of resolve flashed in Li Huowang’s eyes. He pulled a fire striker from his bosom and pressed it to his skin.
In this moment of utmost peril, a familiar drumbeat suddenly rang out. A red figure landed on all fours beside him. The beast head formed by the red veil gaped wide and bit Li Huowang’s neck, then bolted toward the darkness behind.
Bai Lingmiao, on all fours, moved with extraordinary agility. Carrying Li Huowang in her mouth didn’t slow her retreat in the slightest.
With her help, Li Huowang quickly pulled away from the lion dancers pursuing them.
The lion dancers’ white tassels flew over to block them, but Li Huowang resolved them one by one with teeth plucked from his own mouth. The cost was that half his teeth were now gone.
Just as he escaped one danger, a new one appeared. From the ground where Li Huowang was being dragged backward, a copper coin sword topped with talismans burst through the soil, stabbing diagonally toward his back.
Just as it was about to pierce Li Huowang, he—who had shown no reaction before—suddenly flipped his hand over. Gripping the sword hilt with both hands, he thrust his longsword straight into the ground.
The unique sensation transmitted through the hilt told Li Huowang he’d struck Han Fu. The killing intent in his eyes intensified. “Trying to sneak attack me again? Think you can pull the same trick twice??”
He thrust down hard again, then yanked it out fiercely. Crimson blood was drawn out along with the dirt-covered longsword. A grunt of pain came from underground.
But from within that bloody wound, the blood-smeared copper coin sword, carrying a few talismans, thrust out once more.
Li Huowang raised his sword to parry the sneak attack, but unexpectedly, Han Fu’s extremely peculiar incantation echoed from the soil. “Om Sha Da Sa Li Guang Zun She!”
As soon as the words fell, the red-cord-bound copper coin sword instantly unraveled, scattering into individual coins. They easily evaded Li Huowang’s longsword, mingled with the talismans, and reformed.
The razor-edged coins, topped with yellow talismans, stabbed rigidly into Li Huowang’s waist. With constant pressure, those talismans were forcibly embedded into his body.
The excruciating pain made Li Huowang roar in fury. He no longer tried to block but raised his longsword and stabbed madly at the ground, as if ready to trade life for life.
As they retreated at high speed, their blood intertwined.
Soon, Han Fu underground couldn’t hold out any longer and swiftly retracted his sword into the earth.
Having finally repelled Han Fu at last, Bai Lingmiao continued dragging Li Huowang as they flipped, leaped, and madly dashed through various caves and caverns. She couldn’t stop now—the lion dancers behind them were still in hot pursuit.
Compared to the sneak-attacking Han Fu, these things were clearly far more deadly!
(End of chapter)