Chapter 519
Chapter 519
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 519
>Chapter Title: Kill
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The old eunuch standing at the door of the meditation room heard what the palace maid said and finally nodded slightly.
“Alright then, you all wait here. This one needs to report to the Empress Dowager first.” He cracked open the door to the meditation room and slipped inside.
After a while, he emerged from the room, bringing two handsome monks dressed neatly. “Mm, carry them in. The Empress Dowager is waiting.”
“Dad, what are they doing?”
Li Sui’s question left Li Huowang speechless. Under the gaze of such a massive Bodhisattva statue overhead, they could still brazenly do something like this. Did they have no fear in their hearts at all?
In the end, Li Huowang didn’t explain anything to Li Sui. He slowly groped his way forward.
When he crept along the beam into the room, Li Huowang saw a scene of debauchery even more depraved than anything he’d witnessed at Zhengde Temple. His eye twitched uncontrollably.
He’d actually thought just moments ago that she felt shame for plotting against her own son. How could a woman this debauched have any shame left in her?
After scanning the room, Li Huowang kicked off the wall with both feet and leaped toward the massive bed.
To prevent the Empress Dowager from escaping amid the pile of bodies, Li Huowang in midair unhesitatingly gouged out his left eye and crushed it in his hand.
A bizarre light instantly enveloped everything on the bed, freezing everyone’s movements. In the next instant, Li Huowang raised his spinebone sword high and slashed viciously downward.
Just as the rift in Great Qi’s history was about to tear the Great Liang Empress Dowager in two, the entire bed suddenly slid a full zhang to the left, narrowly dodging Li Huowang’s strike.
The opportunity was fleeting, but Li Huowang wasn’t about to let it slip. His mouth opened, and his molars tumbled out toward the Empress Dowager.
As a shadowy figure darted out to block the Empress Dowager, swinging a white water sleeve to deflect the molars, Li Huowang’s severed hand shot forward at blinding speed, piercing her abdomen and stabbing into the Empress Dowager’s chest.
Watching the Empress Dowager’s eyes dim as blood trickled from her mouth, Li Huowang charged straight for the door without hesitation.
“We’re leaving! Let’s go kill the Eldest Princess!”
Li Sui’s tentacles emerged from Li Huowang’s severed arm stump, stretching far to retrieve his flying severed hand and reattach it. Fine tentacles rapidly stitched the edges of the stump together.
“Dad, your hand.”
By the time Li Huowang rushed back to the Eldest Princess’s door, he found only the others holding the rear. In the distant jade pavilion, guards and eunuchs clustered around the Eldest Princess as she fled outward.
This was something Li Huowang hadn’t anticipated. They had no intention of fighting; the moment they spotted the assassin, they withdrew.
“Get out of my way!”
Li Huowang swung his spinebone sword fiercely at the crowd ahead, while behind him, Li Sui mimicked the motion with her copper coin sword.
To protect the Eldest Princess, the eunuch guards charged at Li Huowang with reckless abandon, but they couldn’t hold him back even for a moment.
As the blood-mad Li Huowang drew ever closer to the Eldest Princess, a crisp tinkling rang out: “Ding~ ding ding~.” A petite Hu dancer wearing a translucent, hazy veil approached him with enchanting dance steps.
With her dance, crisp, mesmerizing notes poured from the bells on her wrists and ankles. Golden threads sprouted from her hair, and as her body, now covered in them, swayed to the music, the threads danced along.
Li Huowang’s expression blurred for a moment. When he looked at the Hu dancer again, an inexplicable surge of desire welled up inside him—all his feelings for Bai Lingmiao and Yang Na transferred to her in that instant.
The Hu dancer sidled up to Li Huowang, pressing her seductive form against him as she danced. The golden threads on her body swayed with her movements, piercing into him.
Though his body was riddled with holes, Li Huowang felt no pain—only a strange pleasure, as if those threads were the tender hands of Bai Lingmiao and Yang Na caressing him all over.
The Hu dancer suddenly lifted her veil and leaned in to kiss Li Huowang. Each twist and flick drew him deeper into the trance, oblivious to the pill at the root of her tongue.
But in the next moment, barbed tentacles erupted from Li Huowang’s mouth, latching onto her face and ripping it clean off.
As the Hu dancer screamed, clutching her face, the tentacles dragged the skin back down Li Huowang’s throat. Snapping back to his senses, he drew his dagger and slashed deep into his own thigh.
The searing pain instantly sharpened his mind. He cleaved the Hu dancer in half and charged after the fleeing Eldest Princess without pause.
“What kind of tricks are these?! I’ve never seen anything like it before!”
Li Huowang steeled himself, not daring to slacken for a second.
The Eldest Princess clearly had no shortage of experts around her. If not for Li Sui’s help just now, she might really have gotten away!
Seeing two more eunuchs blocking his path, each carrying a blood dropper, Li Huowang had no intention of wasting more time on these rearguards.
“Li Sui! Ribs!”
At Li Huowang’s barked command, Li Sui inside him decisively snapped off his two lowest ribs with tentacles and pushed them out through his navel.
The ribs stabbed viciously into his own abdomen in an X, sending the blood-dropper eunuchs crashing to the ground with agonized screams.
Four black tentacles burst from Li Huowang’s body and sprang off the ground. He vaulted onto the rooftop, racing across the tiles after the Eldest Princess.
Batch after batch fell behind, pinned by agony, as Li Huowang closed in on the stunning Eldest Princess.
When he got close enough, Li Huowang yanked the dulled ribs from his body once more.
“Not painful enough! Li Sui! Skin!!”
The tentacles writhing outside Li Huowang’s body instantly plastered themselves to his skin, suckers and barbs hooking into the edges of his scars.
As Li Huowang jammed the ribs back into himself, Li Sui ripped open every scar on his body like scales lifting in reverse.
“Aaagh!!”
The near-fainting agony drove Li Huowang into a frenzy, but the price paid off—the Eldest Princess and her entourage all collapsed to the ground, writhing and screaming just like him, utterly deprived of any power to resist.
Yet as Li Huowang released his grip on the ribs and staggered forward with his spinebone sword, a figure in a black veil stepped into his path.
Seeing the layers of scars on the back of his hand and the blood slowly seeping from under his large robe, Li Huowang’s heart sank.
“To endure pain like that and still stand—this guy must be from the Sitting Still Sect!”