Mutated Tao

Chapter 995: Battle

“thunder?” li huowang felt his scalp go numb and quickly dodged left.

suddenly, the entire black, iridescent sky split open. a flash of platinum emerged from the darkness, carrying a nearly tangible gaze.

he felt an odd, almost inexplicable sensation emanating from the platinum gaze. it transcended his ordinary senses.

it was just a ray of light, but it tainted his eyes and turned them black and iridescent. as his eyes transformed, the black, iridescent liquid started to seep out from his eye socket.

that attack had visibly hurt his eyeball. realizing something was wrong, li huowang snarled and clawed at his eye, attempting to dig it out.

“li huowang, stop! you can’t gouge it out—this is your last eye! if you do, you’ll be completely blind!” yi donglai shouted, grabbing his arm at the last moment.

“scram! don’t try to stop me! if i don’t do this, it will affect me!” li huowang shouted, throwing yi donglai away.

just as he raised his hand to tear at his eye again, a sudden gaze from afar appeared. li huowang felt his body opening up like a flower blossoming. the pain overwhelmed him, halting both his movements and the black liquid’s flow.

li huowang’s senses melded together. he recognized the presence approaching: ba-hui, the siming who governed the heavenly dao of pain. and ba-hui wasn’t alone—he felt the others reaching around him.

“you’re all here! attack now!”

li huowang raised his arm and pointed at the dark cloud to his left.

the simings, which had fused together, floated like a large mountain towards the black sky.

the black sky began to bubble like hot metal plunged into oil.

an explosion sent a powerful heatwave blasting out from the impact. this intense heatwave burned off a layer of li huowang’s skin.

gazing up at the cracked sky, li huowang caught sight of the darkness that lay beyond. without a moment’s hesitation, he joined the other simings and followed them toward the crack.

he reached out his left arm and grabbed something.

li huowang caught it and fashioned it into a massive axe. it was too heavy to wield, but he had a plan. he extended his left arm to grab something, phasing past the liang kingdom, qing qiu, and the ground. finally, he grasped the lion dance palace hidden far below.

“it’s time for you to help me!”

the white tassels complied, entering his body. his organs began to grow outward while new organs sprouted in every direction.

li huowang’s body swelled beyond recognition. it became impossible to distinguish the front, side, back, up, and bottom of his body. he became one with the lion dance palace.

through his bulging large body, he let out an incoherent roar as he grabbed the large ax and tried to cut down the tree.

with an incoherent roar, li huowang lifted the colossal axe and struck the tree. the impact sent tremors across the battlefield, leaving a deep gash in the trunk. he swung again and again, each strike more furious than the last.

finally, he cut down the tree. however, it quickly fell and reconnected the part he had chopped off. the wound healed swiftly, and the tree was whole once more.

li huowang chopped the tree repeatedly, but it would fall down and heal each time. he couldn’t do anything to it.

then, the world seemed to ignite. a titanic head, vast enough to eclipse both sky and earth, roared and lunged at the tree. gao zhijian had summoned jiang xiangshou.

li huowang pounced toward jiang xiangshou and grabbed it. the white tassels behind his body worked hard to fuse them together.

the dragon qi within him fused with jiang xiangshou’s murderous aura. li huowang channeled their combined power into the axe. together, they charged at the tree with a deafening roar.

in the pouring rain, yi donglai stood frozen in stunned silence, watching li huowang’s distorted form. his crimson body was twisted, his mouth was crooked, and his veins were bulging. he repeatedly swung at the empty space around him with his bloodied blade.

the sight was both eerie and bizarre. li huowang appeared to be performing the strange dance of the nuo opera in the rain.

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