Chapter 637
Chapter 637
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 637
>Chapter Title: Dharma Cult
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>“Rip!”
The man in front of Li Huowang was instantly sliced in two by the razor-sharp Purple Tassel Sword that cut through iron like mud.
However, before Li Huowang could catch his breath even slightly, the endless stream of Dharma Cult villagers from the village entrance charged toward him without a shred of fear.
They had clearly been ordinary flesh-and-blood villagers just moments ago, yet now they had all transformed into fearless monsters.
The big-bearded man from the Supervising Heaven Division nearby swung his crescent shovel wildly, roaring furiously as he cut through the crowd.
As Li Sui controlled the copper coin sword to once again flip open the skull of a Dharma Cult follower, Li Huowang’s gaze shifted to the distance.
Li Huowang had dealt with the Dharma Cult before. He knew that grinding down these cannon fodder wouldn’t work. Unless he took out the leader, these people wouldn’t stop even if they all died. There had to be a leader among them!
His six tentacles slammed into the ground, propelling Li Huowang high into the air. The entire village came into view beneath him. The double pupils in his single eye split apart, one sliding left and the other right, rapidly scanning the surroundings for something.
After a few consecutive leaps, his separated double pupils slammed back together. On the mountain behind the village, a faintly visible “witch” character appeared in his field of vision.
“No wonder I couldn’t find them! These guys weren’t hiding in the village at all!”
Peng Longteng’s towering figure appeared instantly beside Li Huowang. He grabbed Li Huowang with both hands and hurled him forcefully toward that spot.
Li Huowang’s torture kit at his waist whipped and clattered in the wind as his body shot forward like a stone, hurtling toward the ever-growing character “witch.”
Just as Li Huowang was about to arrive, a flash of cold light pierced through the “witch” character. It streaked toward him at extreme speed, trailing afterimages, and stabbed straight into his body.
By the time Li Huowang landed, that cold light had already passed clean through, leaving a wrist-thick bloody hole in his abdomen.
“Sui Sui! You okay?”
Li Huowang stayed vigilant around him while anxiously asking Li Sui inside his body.
“Dad, I’m fine. I dodged it just now.”
Standing midway up the mountain, Li Huowang frowned tightly as he scanned the surrounding bushes and woods. Aside from that initial sneak attack, the enemy hadn’t made another move. This was completely beyond his expectations.
It seemed these Dharma Cult followers weren’t blindly reckless. Seeing he was tough to handle, they had actually hidden themselves.
“You think hiding means I can’t find you?”
Li Huowang immediately had Li Sui extract a section of bone for him. Then he pulled out a piece of turmeric paper and began divining with practiced skill.
After carefully examining the cracks on the bone, Li Huowang started searching around.
Time ticked by with nothing to show for it. Just as Li Huowang thought this divination had failed, he stopped beside a rock wall.
Li Huowang closely inspected the patterns of the vines on the rock wall, gripped the hilt of his Purple Tassel Sword, and slashed down hard.
The Purple Tassel Sword that cut iron like mud instantly split the rock wall, revealing a pitch-black cave before Li Huowang.
“Inside the mountain? These guys were hiding in the mountain, and it’s connected to stone. Could it be a trick of the Great Qi Dharma Cult?”
But before Li Huowang could widen the cave mouth, a flying locust stone shot out from within, smashing straight toward his forehead.
Li Sui’s tentacles steadily caught the flying locust stone. By then, Li Huowang was already charging into the cave mouth, sword raised and body leaning forward.
In the darkness, all sorts of hidden weapons flew toward Li Huowang nonstop. “Thud!” Peng Longteng’s body crashed heavily in front of Li Huowang, advancing like a massive shield.
Using Peng Longteng’s cover, Li Huowang followed the tunnel straight ahead until he hit the end. It was too dark here; he couldn’t tell where anything was. Li Huowang only sensed shadowy figures moving in the blackness.
“Kill!!”
Li Huowang roared furiously and charged fearlessly into the darkness, slaughtering the Dharma Cult followers within like a force of nature, splattering their blood everywhere.
The Li Huowang of now was no longer the Li Huowang of before. Facing these Dharma Cult sorcerers, he rampaged through them like Zhao Yun, charging in and out seven times over.
Killing intent filled the double pupils of his single eye. These Dharma Cult members had to be dealt with, or they’d spread like a plague.
Just as Li Huowang brutally twisted off a dwarf’s head with his bare hands, the surroundings suddenly lit up. His single eye narrowed, seeing only a blinding white expanse.
As Li Huowang rubbed his eyes to reopen them, a massive force struck from the left, sending him flying.
He smashed into the wall and crashed to the ground. Li Huowang opened his mouth wide and spat out some slender tentacles mixed with organ fragments.
He shoved the tentacles back into his mouth and swallowed them. Kneeling on one knee, Li Huowang stood and looked toward whatever had attacked him.
“That’s... Xunian?”
Li Huowang stared in shock at the enormous four-legged beast monster before him.
This was the Xunian he had fought alongside against the dragon vein in Great Qi. Some of the scars on its body were still there.
The only difference was that it had no head. The woman’s head was gone, leaving only the beast body.
A woman with a “witch” mark on her face rode on Xunian’s back like a horse, staring fixedly at Li Huowang as if waiting for something. She didn’t press the attack.
“Dad, your hair is turning white.”
Li Sui’s sudden reminder made Li Huowang look at the back of his hand, where wrinkles were rapidly piling up.
“Not good! I got touched by Xunian’s sneak attack just now!”
Li Huowang immediately pulled out his gourd and poured yangshou pills into his mouth.
After swallowing dozens, as he watched the wrinkles on his hand rapidly fade, he finally breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Good thing he was a heart elemental with no limit on yangshou pills. Otherwise, that sneak attack would’ve killed him.
However, looking at Xunian not far away, Li Huowang knew this wouldn’t go smoothly.
He had fought Xunian once before. Even though it had been Zhuge Yuan’s trap back then, he couldn’t deny the creature’s mysterious ability to steal age.
Li Huowang hadn’t expected Zhuge Yuan’s old friend to have been captured and controlled by the Dharma Cult.
On high alert, Li Huowang quickly scanned the surroundings. This seemed to be a karst cave inside the mountain, with stalactites like jagged teeth overhead. The uneven ground sloped to the left.
What puzzled Li Huowang was that he had clearly killed many in the darkness earlier, yet aside from the blade marks on the ground, there was no blood anywhere now.
But soon, Li Huowang spotted those figures in the distant darkness—those things hiding in the shadows.
The distant darkness was strangely impenetrable, no matter how good Li Huowang’s eyesight was; he couldn’t see what was inside.
The next moment, the cave that had just lit up began plunging back into darkness inch by inch. Xunian advanced alongside those things in the dark, closing in on Li Huowang.
The previously empty cave suddenly seemed filled with people, launching sneak attacks at Li Huowang from every angle.