Chapter 520
Chapter 520
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 520
>Chapter Title: Eldest Princess
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“Clang clang!” Li Huowang swung the spine sword in his hand, knocking away three nails shooting toward his face.
If it had only been a guess before, this time it was enough to confirm his suspicions—the person before him was from the Ao Jing Sect!
“Aren’t you all detached from the mortal dust, single-mindedly seeking the ultimate pain? Why get involved in this kind of troublesome affair?”
Hearing Li Huowang’s question, the man let out a low chuckle. He dropped to his knees, clutching a cross-shaped Ao God clay idol tightly against his chest.
“Senior Brother, why ask me this question? Why not ask yourself? And why are you wading into this muddy water? Since ancient times, favors are easy to owe but hard to repay.”
“Boom~!” A wave of heat made Li Huowang’s cloak billow backward slightly. The reflection of a blazing fire person appeared in Li Huowang’s eyes.
His expression was starting to look grim. This guy wasn’t just from the Ao Jing Sect—he might very well be an Ao Jing Sect expert!
No matter their severe side effects, their formidable strength ranked among the top sects.
“Get out of my way!” Li Huowang swung hard, sending a rift of Great Qi history rapidly toward the flames ahead.
As if knowing better than to touch it, the man was propelled upward by the roaring flames. His cheeks puffed out before he exhaled, spewing blazing fire from his mouth straight at Li Huowang.
By the time Li Huowang sliced through the surging flames with Great Qi history, he finally got a clear look at the man’s appearance within the blaze.
It was hard for Li Huowang to say whether the charred thing in the flames even counted as human. At least in his memory, normal people didn’t have two heads.
And this wasn’t a Luoism nascent infant. Even scorched black, those two heads in the flames twisted like winter melons that had been stomped on.
Not only two heads, but four arms and three legs too—like two people forcibly sewn together.
“I can’t get tangled up with this guy! Even if I kill him, if the Eldest Princess gets away unscathed, this trip will have been for nothing!” Li Huowang whipped his head around toward the Eldest Princess, who was fleeing on the back of an eunuch in the distance.
Various thoughts flashed through his mind. When he saw the surrounding temples all bursting into flames, an idea hit him.
His body twisted as he charged straight into the burning temple on the left. The Ao Jing cultist wreathed in fire followed relentlessly.
“Amid the black mist, auspicious vapors hang in the air. Gangbo Banie Shi! Guda Lu Yinghua! Mitian Tiancheng!”
His entire body ablaze, he gripped the charred dark-red Ao clay sculpture and jammed it forcefully into his own navel.
The next moment, molten gold from the massive golden Buddha statue beside them came alive. It surged down alongside the roaring flames, blocking Li Huowang’s path.
Everything in the temple burst into flames—even the air seemed to turn red. Li Huowang’s cloak ignited instantly.
Just as he tried to control the burning molten gold to gild the guy before him, something unexpected happened.
There was no one under that bamboo hat. Instead, there stood a skinned dog covered in writhing black tentacles!
“Hm?! Bad!!” Zuyi instantly realized he’d fallen for a ploy to lure the tiger away from the mountain. He pounced toward the temple entrance, dragging all the surrounding flames with him.
As Zuyi departed, he took every flame with him, leaving Li Sui standing alone in the charred temple belching black smoke.
“This isn’t like what Dad said at all?”
Li Sui fished a palm-sized human skin from his belly, glanced at it, then stuffed it back in. He dropped to all fours like a hunting hound and dashed outside.
At that moment, the invisible Li Huowang was perched on a roof beam, already very close to the Eldest Princess on the eunuch’s back.
“Faster! Faster still!” Li Huowang gritted his teeth, his eyes brimming with ever-deepening killing intent.
Just as he felt heat building at his back, Li Huowang drew his sword with one hand and swung hard at the Eldest Princess, now within arm’s reach.
Li Huowang watched as the Eldest Princess drew ever closer to the rift representing Great Qi. But her slender body suddenly twisted upright in a motion beyond human limits. Her feet lightly pressed on the eunuch’s shoulders, using the rebound to slip out of Li Huowang’s attack range.
Shallow-to-deep silk ribbons drifted out from the Eldest Princess’s sleeves, swaying in the wind through the air.
In that instant, from Li Huowang’s angle, the exquisitely beautiful Eldest Princess in midair looked like a fairy descended to earth.
Li Huowang didn’t know what sect or style this move came from, but he could tell this was probably her trump card.
Her earlier unarmed helplessness had been completely feigned. She clearly had the ability to fight back against the assassination!
“Boom~!” The flames at his back roasted Li Huowang’s blood crusts until they crackled. He twisted slightly to the side as the scorching tongues of fire licked at his cheeks.
The Eldest Princess and Zuyi now stood to Li Huowang’s left and right respectively. From the surrounding temples, guards began closing in three or two at a time. The hunter had become the hunted.
“Who sent you?”
Standing atop a pavilion, the Eldest Princess haughtily tilted up her chin. The translucent ribbons fanning out around her twisted faintly like snake tongues.
Li Huowang said nothing. He was preparing to fight with his life on the line. None of those vying for Great Liang’s throne were pushovers. He’d mentally prepared for something like this beforehand.
“Though you killed my imperial mother, this palace won’t hold it against you. As long as you serve me from now on, whatever others can give you, this palace will give you even more.”
The Eldest Princess’s voice was ethereal yet devoid of warmth, grating on Li Huowang’s nerves.
“No need. This one may lack many things, but he has one thing in abundance: unwavering loyalty! No matter what you offer, I won’t betray my lord!”
With those words, to everyone’s surprise, Li Huowang charged straight toward the east—where there were the fewest people.
“Zuyi, don’t scatter his three souls and seven poises. This palace wants to ask just who’s behind this.”
“Yes, as you command.” Enveloped in roaring flames, Zuyi pursued hot on Li Huowang’s heels.
Just as Li Huowang reached under an eave, a black shadow burst out from it and pounced right onto him.
“Dad, I didn’t get to use that skin.” Li Sui’s tentacles of various sizes wormed out from Li Huowang’s body in a twisted mess.
“Even better that you didn’t!! Now I can use it myself!”
As murderous guards wielding all sorts of weapons rushed in from all directions, Li Huowang seized the mangled flesh of his chest and roared. With a mighty tear to left and right, his five viscera and six bowels were laid bare to the air.
(End of chapter)