Chapter 761
Chapter 761
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 761
>Chapter Title: Matuo
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Zhuge Yuan’s successful cultivation gave Li Huowang a spark of inspiration. Since it had worked for Zhuge Yuan, maybe it could work for others too.
In his experiences, there weren’t many beings whose strength was weaker than Zhuge Yuan’s but not by too much.
He didn’t know if it would work, but in this situation, he had to treat a dead horse as if it were alive.
Even delaying things for a while would be good. There would surely be reinforcements coming later.
Li Huowang took a deep breath, trembling as he closed his eyes, trying hard to recall, to recall the moment when Danyangzi had once taken over his body.
That was a memory he had always wanted to bury in the past, but at this moment, Li Huowang dug that sensation back up.
As Li Huowang’s head shook with overlapping afterimages, his charred skin began to regrow. However, it didn’t grow back into his original flesh; instead, it sprouted a layer of wrinkled skin.
In the next instant, feathers coated in pitch pierced through the skin and drilled out, while Li Huowang’s head instantly split into three completely different heads—old, middle-aged, and young—belonging to Danyangzi. A white immortal floss rapidly spread from left to right.
The three nested mouths opened wide at the same time.
“Hahaha! This Daoist Lord hasn’t died! This Daoist Lord’s lifespan matches the heavens! What did I say? There’s never been any Li Huowang! Li Huowang is merely one of this Daoist Lord’s three corpses!!”
Amid the shout, Danyangzi’s body with its organs spilling out quickly floated up, ignoring everything around him as he headed straight toward that heaven beyond heaven.
However, the moment Danyangzi appeared, he immediately drew the thing’s attention. The aura of a half-immortal was far too distinctive.
It charged toward Danyangzi with the soldiers on its body, and with a whistling sound, that invisible giant maw smashed viciously toward him.
“What kind of damned thing are you! How dare you disturb this Daoist Lord’s ascension!!” Danyangzi reached into his own eviscerated guts and yanked out a blood-and-flesh copper coin sword covered in eyeballs.
Danyangzi thrust the sword up in front of him to block. He couldn’t withstand the mountain-like weight and was still sent flying, but he wasn’t injured.
Halting his body midair, Danyangzi bit off the tips of three fingers on his right hand and swiftly drew a talisman on the sword with the hand dripping black blood.
“Supreme Star Platform, respond without pause. Drive out evil, bind the spirits, calm the mind and spirit. Three souls forever, seven po never lost. Hasten with utmost speed as per the command!!”
As the talisman took form, the eyeballs on the blood-and-flesh copper coin sword all burst open, swirling around the blade to form a cloud of blood mist. Danyangzi dragged the long sword behind him as he pounced toward the thing.
His momentum was undiminished, but he still couldn’t match it. No matter what techniques or divine abilities Danyangzi unleashed, they had no effect when they struck the opponent.
Danyangzi used every trick he had, but he wasn’t a match for this thing. As an invisible tail whipped fiercely onto Danyangzi’s body, his malformed form shattered instantly, and the weakened Li Huowang tumbled powerlessly from Danyangzi’s abdomen.
“As expected... still no good?” With a thud, Li Huowang crashed into the bodies littering the battlefield, reduced to a faint breath.
The thing seemed intent on finishing Li Huowang off to eliminate future threats. However, at that moment, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers all closed their eyes and assumed the horse stance, raising three long incense sticks high in their hands.
The soldiers’ odd behavior made the thing abandon Li Huowang and turn toward them.
Just as Matuo prepared to charge at the soldiers, they all opened their eyes at once and slammed the three long incense sticks upside down into the ground with brutal force.
“The soldier is a tool! The realm of life and death, the path of survival and destruction! The commander and generals above! The commander and generals in the heart! The commander and generals below! Annihilate gods! Annihilate immortals! Annihilate Buddhas! Annihilate Daos!”
A soaring murderous aura instantly surged into every soldier’s body. Murderous intent blazed in their eyes, their veins bulged across their bodies, and blood streamed from all seven orifices.
The two sides collided heavily, locked in an inseparable struggle.
“Roar~~” An intense quaking tremor rang out. This time, that sensation spread once more, making Li Huowang feel it viscerally—the endless bestiality filling the sky, along with ambition that seemed forever unquenchable.
No matter what this thing was, it seemed to control these two heavenly principles.
Ambition? Li Huowang shuddered as realization dawned. He staggered to his feet and looked again at the thing clashing with the soldiers once more. The soldiers were clearly affected by this aura, showing signs of waning stamina.
As Li Huowang slowly stepped closer, the sensation grew even stronger. He had felt this before on someone very familiar, very warm.
Ambition could be rephrased another way: greed!
“Answer me! Answer me! You’re the one in charge of the Heavenly Dao of Greed now?!”
Li Huowang roared furiously at it.
But the existence paid Li Huowang no mind, still entangled with the soldiers.
It didn’t answer, but Li Huowang already had his answer in his heart. In the past, greed had been paired with rot, but clearly, things had changed. Now greed was with bestiality. One of the Sisi’s heavenly principles had been stolen.
And recently, the only disaster related to rot was the extermination of An Ci Nunnery.
“So... you killed Abbess Jingxin? So... you killed them all!!?”
Li Huowang’s eyes burned red as he glared fixedly at the distant, invisible thing. The rage in his heart blazed hotter and hotter, nearly consuming him entirely.
Li Huowang slowly drew the spinebone sword and thrust it back into the ground. Amid his roar of fury, the spinebone began slowly growing white, skeletal ribs.
Li Huowang’s head started swelling continuously, veins covering his entire scalp.
But just as Zhuge Yuan’s body had reformed halfway, Li Huowang collapsed in agony, blood streaming from all seven orifices.
Though cultivation was possible, attempting it twice in succession on the heart knot above the three corrupted forms was far too much strain for Li Huowang.
As Zhuge Yuan’s body began reverting to the spinebone sword, Li Sui quickly burrowed into Li Huowang’s body. “Dad! I’ll help you! I’ll help you! Zhuge Yuan exists!”
With their minds linked, Li Sui’s flesh, nourished for years by heart elements, finally came into play. Zhuge Yuan’s body rapidly took shape.
Yet even with Li Sui’s help, Zhuge Yuan’s body was still just a tiny bit short.
“A little more... a little more!!” Li Huowang writhed in agony on the ground, his expression twisted. “Form for me!”
With a bang, Li Huowang’s entire head exploded, leaving only a lone neck standing there.
But at the same time, Zhuge Yuan finally coalesced into physical form once more.
Zhuge Yuan glanced complicatedly at the thing entangled with the soldiers in the distance, his expression extremely grim as he muttered to himself, “The sacrifice has already been terminated. Why does Matuo still have an incarnation here!?”