Chapter 529
Chapter 529
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 529
>Chapter Title: Sever
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Chapter 529: Sever
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> Looking at everything below, Li Huowang on the rafters silently reached out and plucked off the two eyeballs wrapped by Li Sui's tentacles.
“This Benevolent King really knows how to play.”
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> At that moment, the Benevolent King's face, deficient in yang energy, had been painted with the makeup of a young scholar role. He was engaged in an intense duet with that flower dan.
Except right now, they were lying in bed, moving and singing at the same time.
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> Listening to their melodious filthy lyrics, Li Huowang's right hand clenched so tightly from the exertion that it turned pale.
If he could find Li Sui's ears, he would have plucked those off too.
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> Li Huowang stayed on high alert at all times, ready at any moment to strike when the opponent was most off guard.
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> “Aiyo~~ Yi~~~ As I see my heart and liver~~~~ My dear flesh ai~~~”
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> In the instant that singing crescendoed higher and higher, murder flashed in Li Huowang's eyes. His feet pushed off explosively as he drew his sword and charged downward.
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> The Spine Bone Sword in his hand trailed an afterimage as he slashed fiercely at the Benevolent King on the bed.
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> The rift representing Great Qi sliced down. With a piercing rip, an extremely fine transparent mosquito net woven from metal wires suddenly materialized, blocking between Li Huowang and the Benevolent King.
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> This was clearly the Benevolent King's backup against assassins.
Yet no matter what it could do, it was utterly futile before that rift, severed effortlessly.
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> The flower dan lying in bed spotted the anomaly overhead even faster than the crawling Benevolent King. Her painted face drained of color in sheer terror.
“En~~ Gong~~!”
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> Singing out that tragic aria, the flower dan shoved with both hands, pushing the Benevolent King off the bed.
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> But Li Huowang had accounted for that too. He deliberately elongated the rift.
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> Without a sound, both the flower dan and the Benevolent King tumbling off the bed were instantly bisected. Blood gradually covered the surrounding floor.
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> “Is that it? Wasn’t that too easy?” Just as Li Huowang thought he’d finished it, a palm-sized yellow leather puppet burrowed out from the Benevolent King’s hair.
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> It didn’t even wait to grow larger. Swaying its flimsy body, it rushed toward the outside.
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> “This Benevolent King had something like this on him!!” Li Huowang gritted his teeth, sheathed his sword, and gave chase.
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> But just as Li Huowang’s weapon was about to cleave the fleeing Benevolent King, a horde of shadow puppets from a leather shadow play drilled out from under the bed. They grabbed Li Huowang’s shadow with their many hands and feet, immobilizing him momentarily.
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> Li Sui’s tentacles whipped out rapidly, extinguishing the candles on both sides. The shadow puppets vanished, and Li Huowang regained his freedom.
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> But in that brief moment, the palm-sized Benevolent King had returned to normal size. Though right now, his body was still just a thin sheet.
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> Amid the frantic clanging of gongs, white smoke rapidly spread in from the wooden windows all around, concealing the Benevolent King’s thin form.
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> “Die for me!!” Li Huowang swung the Spine Bone Sword hard at where the Benevolent King had vanished. The flying rift tore through the white smoke.
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> But to Li Huowang’s disappointment, there was no Benevolent King in the parted smoke. Instead, a freak appeared, hugging a massive golden ingot, wearing a white-faced black-mustached mask.
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> The large copper coin official hat atop his head swayed back and forth. His legs, seemingly jointless, rocked and swayed to the rhythm of the gongs as he hopped toward Li Huowang.
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> Seeing the two copper coins in the eyeholes of that mask, how could Li Huowang not recognize who this was?
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> “Jumping Wealth God, huh?”
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> Gritting his teeth, Li Huowang gripped the Spine Bone Sword tight and charged straight at the masked Wealth God without dodging.
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> Since the sneak attack had failed, he could only clash head-on now. He had to finish off the Benevolent King before reinforcements from the Benevolent King Manor arrived.
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> As the two drew closer, Li Sui struck first. A tentacle as thick as a bowl mouth burst from Li Huowang’s left neck, coiled around the copper coin sword on his back, and whipped toward the Wealth God.
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> “Brother Li, quickly put that sword away! That sword is covered in copper coins!”
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> Zhuge Yuan’s warning had barely begun when “whoosh-crash,” the copper coins on the red threads rapidly elongated, lashing out like a whip toward the foe.
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> The instant the copper coins collided with that massive golden ingot, every coin on the copper coin sword trembled and slipped from Li Sui’s control in a flash.
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> As if drawn by a powerful magnet, the scattered coins all stuck to the golden ingot.
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> Then, as the Wealth God hoisted the ingot high, those coins reformed into a sword and flew back at Li Huowang.
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> The copper coin sword Li Huowang had used for so long was seized by the enemy in this instant.
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> “Shing!” Li Huowang instantly swung the Spine Bone Sword, slashing fiercely once more to send the copper coin sword into Great Qi.
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> The next moment, alarms blared in Li Huowang’s mind. He instinctively whipped around, raising the Spine Bone Sword overhead to block.
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> “Bang!” The floorboards under Li Huowang’s feet exploded, sending dust flying high.
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> Li Sui’s eight tentacles stabbed into the ground as well, barely resisting this immense pressure.
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> A massive silver mace formed from all sizes of silver fragments pressed down on the Spine Bone Sword like a mountain.
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> “Li Sui! Take the sword!”
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> The instant the black tentacle wrapped the Spine Bone Sword hilt, Li Huowang—who had freed his hands—drew the Purple Tassel Sword and chopped off his own left hand.
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> The severed arm instantly turned into a claw, lunging at the enemy before him.
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> Seizing the opening, Li Huowang reclaimed the Spine Bone Sword and put distance between them.
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> Now safe, Li Huowang eyed his ambusher. This one wore an identical mask to the previous jumping Wealth God, but his attire was entirely different.
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> This eight-chi-tall burly man rode a low-roaring money leopard, clad in copper coin heavy armor, wielding a fragmented silver heavy mace, with four yellow banners marked “Wealth” stuck in his back.
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> “Martial Wealth God? Civil Wealth God?” Li Huowang’s gaze swept over the two foes amid the white smoke.
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> As he spoke, the civil and martial Wealth Gods circled left and right around Li Huowang. The shrill frantic gong beats continued in his ears.
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> “This won’t do. Even if I can deal with these two, the Benevolent King will have long escaped!”
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> Ideas flashed into and out of Li Huowang’s frantic mind.
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> When he spotted several more black silhouettes in the white smoke, Li Huowang gripped the Spine Bone Sword hilt tight and swung hard before him.
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> This rift was huge—big enough for a person to crawl through.
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> “Li Sui! Charge in!”
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> Li Huowang swiftly switched bodies, arriving at the rift’s edge. Great Qi’s rift was right there; he could even see what lay inside.
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> This was the method Li Huowang had suddenly thought of—using Great Qi as a springboard to shake off these Great Liang pursuers.
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> When Li Sui slapped two talismans onto Li Huowang’s legs, he pushed with all his might, inching closer to the rift. But it still wasn’t enough!
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> (End of chapter)