Chapter 242: Li Huowang

Chapter 242 Li Huowang

A spray of blood plasma coated Li Huowang's body and face; resembling a creature of blood, Li Huowang stared blankly at the tattered corpse before him.

This Taoist who attempted murder for plunder, this Luo Sect remnant who sought to ambush him, Han Fu, was dispatched just like that.

For a moment, Li Huowang found it hard to believe; compared to enemies he had faced before, this person was undoubtedly insignificant, like a game, leading him to even suspect whether this was the opponent's false body?

Li Huowang lifted his foot and kicked Han Fu's bloody, mangled head once, repeating with an expression of disgust: "Not even knowing your own strength, you want to learn from others how to commit robbery?"

He suddenly realized that in this world, not only did powerful individuals covet the Heart Essence, but some without self-awareness coveted it too, even lacking the ability to match it.

At this moment, having climbed to the exit, Gouwa looked down at Li Huowang below, cupping his hands like a horn, shouting down: "Senior Brother Li, are you really alright!"

Seeing Li Huowang slowly raise his blood-caked head to look at him, shivering all over, he involuntarily swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty. "Do... do we... go down?"

"I'm fine! Coming up now!" Under the moonlight, Li Huowang spoke, grabbed the swaying chain with both hands, and prepared to climb.

Soon he stopped again, squatting down to search Han Fu's entire body, finally finding some yellow talismans stacked together.

"What use is this? I haven't learned talismans either."

Li Huowang dug around again, retrieving more than ten small balls wrapped in talismans.

"Hmm?" Li Huowang gently unwrapped one, and a familiar object appeared before him. "Is this a Yang Shou Pill?!"

Li Huowang had seen this thing before, naturally understanding its value.

Seeing the Yang Shou ball about to disperse and vanish, Li Huowang hurriedly stuffed it into his mouth; he immediately felt his body grow light.

Quickly digging a few times, he retrieved nineteen Yang Shou Pills; Li Huowang's heart rejoiced instantly, quickly stuffing these spoils into his chest, continuing to search once more, finding the rest were useless items like cinnabar for drawing talismans.

Finally, he simply stuck that copper coin sword onto his back, and Li Huowang finally decided to leave.

Missing a few fingers plus blood all over his hands, gripping the chain made it slippery, climbing up was very inconvenient, Li Huowang climbed very slowly.

His mind was still recalling Han Fu who had just died.

"Originally I planned to learn more about this world from his mouth, but now the person is dead, so there is nothing to discuss."

"Senior Brother Li! Climb fast! Climb faster!!"

Li Huowang tilted his head back and saw those faces full of tension and worry.

"Hmm?"

Li Huowang instantly lowered his head, looking downward; Han Fu, almost split in half by his sword, actually stood up!

A miserable little girl's voice emanated from his corpse, "You killed him! How do you expect me to live!! Waa waa waa~!!"

That sound was extremely sharp, piercing Li Huowang's ears painfully, and the echo traveled extremely far.

"Actually not dead yet!" Li Huowang raised his sword again against his remaining left hand and chopped down; the last finger was also severed.

That finger fell off swollen, sharp bone spurs pierced through skin and flesh, drilling down spirally, directly nailing Han Fu's corpse firmly to the ground.

Not caring whether Han Fu was dead or alive, Li Huowang continued to climb upward with difficulty.

But at this time, suddenly the entire cave entrance began to tremble. The bottom of the cave entrance that should have been pitch black was illuminated by white bright light.

Li Huowang looked down and saw a white surging giant snake, larger than the entire cave entrance! This was attracted by Han Fu's voice just now!

On that snake's body were not pieces of white snake scales, but condensed from strips of white tassels from the lion dance earlier!

Seeing all this, Li Huowang suddenly understood; the previous lion dance, regardless of that dead face, or the messy blood and flesh inside, those were all fake! All puppets! The white tassels on their bodies were their true forms!

When Li Huowang saw that giant snake, that giant snake formed by white tassels also saw him; the entire giant snake instantly dispersed, like surging seawater, rising up from below at an extremely fast speed.

"Senior Brother Li!!" At this moment, everyone who had escaped danger started moving instantly, pulling that chain with all their might upwards.

Li Huowang was climbing, and above they were pulling. Just matching the speed of those white tassels floating up.

Ten zhang! Five zhang! Three zhang!!

Just as Li Huowang was about to climb out of the cave entrance. Those white tassels instantly condensed into a hand, fiercely grabbing upwards, directly holding Li Huowang tightly.

Amidst everyone's desperate shouts, Li Huowang on the chain was dragged down again like this.

Everyone who had just held the chain tightly let go weakly; clatter, the chain slid rapidly from their hands, falling back into that cave entrance.

Bai Lingmiao collapsed on the ground in a trance, two rows of clear tears slowly sliding from the corners of her eyes.

For a moment, everyone stood frozen in place at a loss. Li Huowang was gone, what should they do?

Suddenly Bai Lingmiao moved; she suddenly got up, took Er Shen's hand beside her, and rushed towards the cave entrance together.

Just when Gouwa's hands had just grabbed Bai Lingmiao's calves, Gao Zhijian, tall and burly on the side, rushed up and hugged the two tightly.

Chun Xiaoman with red eyes came to the struggling Bai Lingmiao's front, slapping her across the face. "Can you wake up a bit, are you crazy?"

This sentence seemed to drain Bai Lingmiao's spirit, collapsing there like a puppet.

When the oppressive atmosphere covered everyone's hearts, a light rustling sound caught Gouwa's attention.

"Wait! Look! The chain is moving, Senior Brother Li isn't dead!! Hahaha!! I knew it! Senior Brother Li knows so many spells, how could he die!"

His words attracted everyone else's attention; they subconsciously looked towards the chain, that chain was indeed shaking slightly.

Gouwa was just preparing to pull, but was stepped on by Chun Xiaoman. "Be careful! Maybe it's not Senior Brother Li!"

"Quick... pull me..." When Li Huowang's voice came from below. Everyone went mad, grabbing the cold chain with both hands, constantly pulling upwards.

Finally under everyone's concerted effort, a trembling hand stretched out from the cave entrance, heavily slapping onto the emerald green grass outside.

That was a deformed hand, fingers turned outward, skin adhered. Compared to a human hand, it looked more like a claw pieced together from flesh and blood.

Still hanging on this claw were some swaying white tassels, completely adhered to it.

As this deformed hand used that nail-less hand to grip the grass tightly, exerting force tremulously, slowly dragging the body behind out.

Li Huowang's figure appeared again in the reflection of everyone's shocked and terrified pupils.

That was Li Huowang, no mistake, if this could truly still be called Li Huowang.

(End of Chapter)