Chapter 695
Chapter 695
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 695
>Chapter Title: Scholar
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Chapter 695: Scholar
All color, all hue—Li Huowang had lost every bit of color on his body.
He looked down at his now black-and-white self and drew a dagger across his palm. The blood that flowed out wasn’t bright red, but pitch black.
It was obvious this wasn’t some mere illusion. This was some bizarre divine ability from a certain sect.
“Jade Clarity Seizes the Plain, Great Brahma Splits the Spirit, Primal Gang Evolves, Star Pearl Stabilizes the Realm, Long Yang Dissolves Yin, Central Origin Hides the Shadow!”
As a aged voice rang out beside Li Huowang’s ear, the blackness on his body gradually receded. His entire form turned into a strange shade of white.
And as the colors faded, the contours of his features began to waver unsteadily.
Li Huowang whipped his head toward the voice and spotted an old scholar wearing a scholar’s turban, clad in a purple robe embroidered with green patterns, his black beard flowing.
One hand hovered over the sword at his waist, one held a feather fan, and the third gripped a brush, swiftly painting on a scroll suspended in midair toward Li Huowang.
Li Huowang didn’t know whose scholar this three-handed figure was or which sect he belonged to, but the black cloth on his shoulder proved whose side he was on. There was no need for further words.
Naturally, there were guards by the dragon vein. It would’ve been abnormal if there weren’t.
“Swish!” Li Huowang raised his spine sword and flung it hard toward them. A rift shot over at extreme speed.
“Clang~!” A massive guandao adorned with black tassels slammed down heavily, shattering the rift spewing its strange liquid.
It was an eight-chi-tall general, standing imposingly before the scholar. He joined his middle and index fingers and pointed fiercely at Li Huowang.
“Bah!! You vile thief, how dare you bare your shameless face! Who told you, crow, to covet the phoenix nest? Who told you to hound us step by step with endless schemes?!”
Li Huowang had thought this was a soldier-dissolved immortal, but as the general moved, he realized it wasn’t. His side was as thin as paper, like someone who’d stepped out of a painting, and the colors on him were only black and white.
Staring at the scholar’s brush, Li Huowang seemed to understand where this general had come from.
“Sink!” Li Huowang roared. The ground beneath the scholar and general melted instantly, dragging them down like quicksand.
Facing Li Huowang’s assault, the three-handed old scholar remained utterly calm. He raised his feather fan and fanned hard toward Li Huowang.
A breeze blew over, and the burly general’s feet left the ground as he was sent flying like a kite straight toward Li Huowang.
When the general drifted right in front of Li Huowang, he unfurled in midair like a massive New Year painting, raising his guandao to smash down on Li Huowang’s head.
“Fire!!” With a click, as Li Jiancheng’s fingers slid across the flint wheel of the plastic lighter, an orange-bottomed, blue-topped flame burst forth, reflecting in Li Huowang’s pupils.
“Boom!” The entire general erupted in flames, the paper figure turning into a blazing man in midair.
In the next instant, Li Huowang burst through the general’s quartered body. The flames’ red gave his body new color, and he hurtled toward the old scholar like a fireball.
Seeing this, the old scholar knew he’d run into someone truly troublesome. He immediately unleashed his ultimate move, raising his brush to paint rapidly on his feather fan.
“Supreme Beyond Supreme, Heaven Within Heaven! Xuanyuan’s Primordial Qi, Chaos Comes First! Enlightened Three Scenes, Birth of Myriad Heavens, Great Roster Jade Clarity, Void and Natural!”
As his brush strokes flew across the fan, the fire on Li Huowang’s body rapidly lost its color, turning into some kind of gradient gray.
But soon even that gray was erased, leaving no color at all. He was about to lose every last bit of color on him, to be utterly wiped away.
Though he didn’t know whose Sitian ability this guy was borrowing, Li Huowang clearly understood that if he was completely erased, he’d vanish for good!
As his body was on the verge of turning transparent, he gritted his teeth and chanted madly in his mind. “I have color! My body has color! My hair is black! My blood is red!”
Li Huowang’s body began recovering rapidly, only to fade again under the opponent’s movements.
As the deadlock held, Li Sui’s voice echoed in Li Huowang’s mind. “Dad has color! Dad’s body has color! Dad’s hair is black! Dad’s blood is red!”
What Li Huowang never expected was that his body actually started recovering slowly. Li Sui was actually helping him in this situation.
This was the first time Li Huowang had encountered something like this—no, the second time. Back then, Danyangzi had been inside him, borrowing the power of his heart essence.
In this moment, he couldn’t worry about anything else. Deal with the enemy first.
His ultimate trump card hadn’t even come into play, and the old scholar knew he was done for.
Just as he raised his spine sword amid the old scholar’s despairing gaze, Xuan Pin appeared out of nowhere beside the old scholar. With a flick of her wide sleeve, she sucked his head straight into her pouch.
Seeing the old scholar’s body go limp and collapse to the ground, Li Huowang felt like he’d punched cotton—utterly unsatisfying.
“You handle the dragon vein. Leave the rest to us,” Xuan Pin said to Li Huowang.
“What the hell were you doing earlier?! I almost had him, and now you pop out?” Li Huowang snapped irritably, flashing back to that time in the game when a classmate stole his kill.
“Don’t think I wasn’t working. The fact that you got to leisurely one-on-one with this Bright Wheel Hall scholar means we’ve blocked the other troubles for you.”
Glancing at the chaos around them, Li Huowang had no time to argue. He turned straight toward the distant mud pit.
With the old scholar’s death, the colors near the mud pit gradually returned to normal. No time to dawdle—Li Huowang drew his copper coin sword and flung it hard at the stone pillar nailing down the dragon vein.
The copper coin sword stretched rapidly, wrapping around the pillar like a long whip.
“Up!” With Li Huowang’s roar, the massive stone pillar binding the dragon vein was yanked out by force.
Accompanied by a dragon’s roar, the dragon vein—mostly buried in silt—struggled even more fiercely.
Li Huowang saw hope for saving the dragon vein and immediately yanked out the other pillars.
As one after another came free, soon the first dragon vein rose from the mud pit.
Seeing the panicked look in the fat emperor at the dragon vein’s tip, Li Huowang paused slightly. So Fa Cult hadn’t controlled the dragon vein like the dice had back then. Couldn’t they?
The dragon vein was free, and Fa Cult hadn’t found a way to control it yet. This was the best news lately.
And it was exactly what Li Huowang preferred—no need to fight the dragon vein himself.
He was just about to say something to the fat emperor when he saw the man, face full of terror, dragging the long dragon vein beneath him and flying straight into the sky.