Chapter 551
Chapter 551
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 551
>Chapter Title: Dragon
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Facing the temporarily trapped Xunian, Li Huowang gripped his copper coin sword and leaped high into the air, using the force from his six tentacles and two legs pushing off the ground.
“Die for me!”
The next moment, the sharp sword tip plunged straight into the hollow of the left eye socket on the human skin, emerging steadily from the back of the skull.
Li Huowang didn’t forget the taboo Zhuge Yuan had just mentioned. He pushed hard on the sword hilt with both hands, using the momentum to flip back and land steadily.
But when he saw Xunian, with a sword impaled in its head, standing there unmoving, Li Huowang’s face turned exceptionally grim.
Li Huowang realized his left foot had been pierced by a red spike at some point, shriveling up and aging dramatically.
This Xunian’s intelligence was far higher than he’d imagined. It had even traded wounds for wounds, setting a trap to prevent him from using the spine bone sword to escape.
“What the hell is this thing made of? A copper coin sword designed to destroy evil is stuck in its head, and it doesn’t react at all!”
Li Huowang decisively stripped off his red Daoist robe and tossed it to the ground, pulling out his flint from his embrace.
The sword-pierced Xunian stood in place, not charging at Li Huowang. Instead, it twisted the face covered by human skin toward the left.
Its massive beast body leaned down slightly, issuing a beastly, intimidating growl from beneath the skin.
The next moment, heavy, chaotic footsteps rang out again—“bang bang bang bang”—even closer this time, so close that they grated on Li Huowang’s ears.
He tilted his head slightly. In the chaotic darkness, he saw something the size of a small mountain approaching him with the footsteps.
It was very close now. As it took one more step, Li Huowang’s sharp eyesight made out its full form in the darkness.
Lanterns, dragon banners, round jade discs, roaming rings, bells—various outdated, dust-covered decorations densely adorned the towering wooden structure before him.
Painted with red cloud dragons, entangled in dark satin ribbons on four pillars, black cloud dragon feather-patterned canopy curtains enclosed the entire wooden tower tightly.
Those heavy, disorderly footsteps came from beneath the wood: eunuchs in tattered clothes, skeletal in form, their heads wrapped tightly in white cloth strips, pulling ropes like mules.
Though everything on this wooden tower had become far more dilapidated, filthy, and decayed, Li Huowang recognized it at a glance—this was the Great Qi Emperor’s imperial chariot!
He never imagined the noise he’d just heard was from Great Qi’s zombie child emperor!
Intense gazes shot from the wooden tower, locking onto Li Huowang. He knew instantly he’d been targeted.
Glancing at the distant Xunian, then at the oppressive imperial chariot closing in, Li Huowang cursed inwardly. “This damned place! I’ve never once had any luck here!”
In this situation, words were unnecessary. Li Huowang opened his mouth wide and spat out Li Sui, slashing at her with the spine bone sword to send her back to Daliang. Without hesitation, he raised the flint and slashed hard across his own skin.
“Boom!” Li Huowang burst into flames, becoming a blazing torch that instantly lit up everything around him.
Through the flickering flames, Li Huowang glanced at Xunian and charged toward the massive imperial chariot, flames trailing behind him.
Compared to the enigmatic Xunian, this Qi Emperor seemed easier to deal with—and looked more flammable.
As the distance closed, Li Huowang heard other sounds.
“Long live my emperor... Thanks be to His Majesty’s gracious glory, auspicious fortune to the emperor.” The emaciated eunuchs chanted numbly and repetitively as they pulled.
The next moment, as Li Huowang raised his right hand, the eunuchs were instantly engulfed in flames, turning into moving torches.
Li Huowang’s foot was injured, slowing his movement, but he had other ways.
“Boom!” Peng Longteng slammed down heavily beside Li Huowang. Her massive hand seized the burning Li Huowang and hurled him toward the top of the imperial chariot.
As Li Huowang crashed into it, the cloud-patterned canopy curtains ignited and burned away, revealing in the flames the child emperor of Great Qi.
A six- or seven-year-old boy in an oversized dragon robe sat on an even larger dragon throne, a jarringly incongruous sight.
Even more incongruous was his appearance. Li Huowang had heard that Great Qi’s child emperor had long been dead, a zombie. Yet he saw only a plump, innocent-eyed normal child.
The next moment, this utterly normal child began to rise, the dragon robe beneath him stretching higher and higher.
Once the dragon robe fully rose, it finally revealed the pile of dragon vein stacked below.
Who could have guessed? Great Qi’s child emperor wasn’t a single person. Even in life, he had already been fused with the dragon vein!
A gale howled as the entire dragon vein coiled in the air, the child emperor at its peak clapping his chubby hands and giggling delightedly.
A powerful aura pressed down, suppressing even the flames on Li Huowang from rising.
“Swish~!” Li Huowang gripped the spine bone sword and slashed hard at the sky. The rift flew toward it but had no effect whatsoever!
For the first time since obtaining the spine bone sword, Li Huowang saw something completely unscathed by its cut through the dual-history rift.
The dragon vein shuddered violently, and a afterimage whipped over, smashing heavily into Li Huowang.
As he vomited blood and flew out of the burning imperial chariot, the flames on his body extinguished instantly. The illusions around him—whether Shangguan Yuting or Zhuge Yuan and the others—flickered dimly.
As Li Huowang plummeted from the great height toward the ground, he squeezed his eyes shut, suddenly feeling himself plunge into icy lake water.
Struggling to the surface, he opened his eyes again to find half his body buried in the soil.
“Brother Zhuge! Are you all right?!” Li Huowang clawed his way out of the dirt while anxiously calling out to Zhuge Yuan in his mind.
Zhuge Yuan opened his mouth and said something urgently, but Li Huowang couldn’t hear it at all.
When he saw Zhuge Yuan pointing toward the imperial chariot, Li Huowang whipped his head around and saw the Great Qi dragon vein diving toward him like a true dragon, radiating immense pressure.
“Roar~!” An angry bellow halted the dragon vein mid-air, causing it to coil head-to-tail in suspension.
Li Huowang turned toward the sound and saw it came from Xunian. Her fur stood fully on end, furious at the dragon vein’s appearance.
Seeing this, Li Huowang glanced at his pierced leg. “Let’s try it! See if we can slip back to Daliang while they fight!”
Li Huowang acted immediately, slashing a rift with the spine bone sword and charging into it.
But the next moment, the dragon vein swept down forcefully, shattering the rift to fragments.
The dragon vein clearly despised these dual-history rifts, abandoning the provoking Xunian to pounce straight at Li Huowang.
The stacked dragon vein moved with terrifying speed and power. A single swift swing caved in half of Li Huowang’s left shoulder.
Li Huowang’s purple-tasseled sword stabbed into the dragon vein’s rear, but the wound was no more than a tickle to it.
This was the strongest foe Li Huowang had ever faced—none of his arsenal had any effect.
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