Chapter 356: Great God and Second God (Extra chapter, thanks to the alliance leader 'Zhu Liuli' for the tip!)

Chapter 356: The Great God and the Second God (Bonus Chapter, Thanks to Alliance Leader Zhu Liuli for the reward!)

"Put it on—it's no better being bare," Hong Da handed his own stinking beggar robe to the naked Li Huowang.

Li Huowang thanked him and draped the robe, heavy with rusted knives, over his body.

Just as he reached out to put it on, Li Huowang saw his own arm, torn and bloody.

The skin there seemed to have something carved into it, yet it was burned so thoroughly that it had fused together.

"What’s this? What happened?" Li Huowang frowned, slowly lowering his hand, and draped Hong Da’s robe over himself.

No longer naked, Li Huowang turned to follow Ji Xiang’s footsteps when he took just two steps before stopping abruptly. “No! Something’s wrong!”

Li Huowang quickly rolled up his sleeve, revealing the fused wound, then pulled out a dagger and slashed across his own skin.

He tore at the flesh with force, and with a sound like leather tearing, the raw meat and tendons beneath were exposed.

The carving was deep, clear upon the flesh.

After seeing what was written, Li Huowang turned sharply toward Ji Xiang and shouted, "It’s Xin Zhuo!"

Ji Xiang’s expression brightened instantly. “Ah! Now I remember! We came here to help catch Xin Zhuo!”

But in the next moment, all three faces changed, and the atmosphere grew heavy.

“Xin Zhuo has already emerged! They’re hiding our memories of him!”

Li Huowang drew his Purple Ear Sword, eyes alert, scanning everything around him.

“Maybe more than that. Perhaps Xin Zhuo has already hidden some of us—just that we don’t remember. Don’t look into his eyes.”

“Tap, tap, tap,” Ji Xiang kept clicking his abacus beads, as if calculating something.

When the clicking stopped, five beads were moved upward, three of them.

“Three people. Xin Zhuo has hidden three people.” Ji Xiang’s words made Li Huowang and Hong Da’s hair stand on end—they had lost three companions without knowing it.

Li Huowang’s right hand danced through the air, carving the words Ji Xiang had spoken onto his own arm, so that Xin Zhuo could not hide them anymore.

“Let me try to force it out. You guard!” Ji Xiang slammed his abacus on the ground and began tapping again.

Hong Da walked forward solemnly, pulling out a handful of rusted blades. He arranged them in a lotus formation around Ji Xiang, blade edges inward.

Meanwhile, Li Huowang could do nothing but stay vigilant.

Time passed slowly. As Ji Xiang clicked his abacus again, numbers lost meaning once more. But this time, it wasn’t nearly as effective.

Even though Ji Xiang was drenched in sweat, Xin Zhuo remained nowhere to be seen.

Li Huowang glared at the surroundings, when suddenly he noticed new words had appeared on his arm—his own handwriting. Yet the memory of writing them had been buried by Xin Zhuo, and he didn’t even recall when he’d done it.

“Ji Xiang’s method worked, but weakly! We must listen carefully with our ears! Hurry! Xin Zhuo hasn’t only taken Tuoba Danqing and Liu Zongyuan—he’s also taken Miao Miao!”

“Those two gods never left! She secretly brought Miao Miao to help us! We must save them! We absolutely cannot let them suffer the same fate as Xin Zhuo’s family!”

Li Huowang trembled, goosebumps covering his entire body.

Without hesitation, he pulled out the cotton from his ears and used his extremely sharp hearing to observe everything around him.

At first, the deafening noise nearly knocked him unconscious. Each click of the abacus sounded like thunder in his ears.

“Dad, you’re so noisy!”

“Bear it—it’ll be over soon! We must save your mother!” Li Huowang gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and focused all his strength to distinguish sounds.

It was loud at first, but gradually, other sounds began to emerge.

“Uncle… mad…”

“No, not that!” With his teeth clenched, Li Huowang pressed both hands against his head tightly.

Finally, some sounds became clear—a sudden footstep, then gone again.

“Over… this way!!” Li Huowang suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze sharp, and slashed straight behind a tree.

A tree, wide enough for a man, was cleaved in two by one strike. A disheveled man stepped out.

With dull eyes, he glanced at Li Huowang, and the Purple Ear Sword in Li Huowang’s hand vanished instantly.

“So it’s happening again!” Li Huowang plunged both hands into his abdomen and snapped two ribs again.

With a gurgle, Xin Zhuo doubled over in pain, screaming.

Li Huowang endured the agony and roared forward at Xin Zhuo.

The male Xin Zhuo glared fiercely at him, but he never expected his power to fail.

By the time he came to his senses, Li Huowang was only a zhang away. Li Sui’s tentacles whipped out, ready to blind him.

Yet the male Xin Zhuo showed no panic. He raised his left hand suddenly, and a figure materialized out of thin air—Tuoba Danqing, who had disappeared earlier.

Not finished yet. Liu Zongyuan was thrown out next.

When the third person was flung out, Li Huowang’s tense heart finally relaxed—it was Miao Miao.

Ignoring the male Xin Zhuo, Li Huowang instinctively opened his arms to catch her.

But when he caught her, their eyes met, and neither spoke. Yet their gazes held volumes.

As Li Huowang gently placed the girl down, she began to fade again—once more hidden by Xin Zhuo.

“Xin Zhuo!!!” Li Huowang roared, veins bulging on his forehead, charging toward him.

Just as he was about to reach, another figure crashed into him—this time, it was the Second God.

These hidden things were tossed back and forth like stones by the male Xin Zhuo.

Various people disappeared and reappeared in turn.

In terms of using their abilities, the male Xin Zhuo clearly surpassed the female in skill.

Li Huowang knew he couldn’t keep going like this. If they continued, Ji Xiang would collapse.

If Ji Xiang collapsed, finding Xin Zhuo again would be harder than climbing to heaven.

He had to find a way to counter him.

Seeing the two women thrown toward him again, Li Huowang quickly winked at them. Bai Ling Miao nodded slightly.

Soon, Bai Ling Miao and the Second God faded once more. When they reappeared, wrapped in various items, Li Huowang grabbed the rib protruding from his chest and twisted violently.

Xin Zhuo screamed in pain, bending over.

At that moment, the Second God flipped midair and stamped her embroidered shoe hard on Bai Ling Miao’s foot.

Bai Ling Miao used the momentum to dash toward the male Xin Zhuo.

In that instant, Bai Ling Miao reached out for a nearby sword.

“Don’t grab it!” Li Huowang shouted loudly—it was his missing Purple Ear Sword!

She knew, but in such a situation, she had no choice.

As Xin Zhuo painfully lifted his head, the Purple Ear Sword pierced straight into his forehead.

In the instant of Xin Zhuo’s death, everything went silent.

Li Huowang’s eyes bulged wide, staring fixedly at Bai Ling Miao’s hand holding the sword.

"Hehe."

Bai Lingmiao suddenly burst into laughter. Her body curved slightly forward, and she joined the two gods in their mirth, her laughter quickly swelling in volume.

"Hahahahahaha!!!"

Thank you, Alliance Leader, for the 100,000 Qidian coins as a reward!! Thank you all. Wishing everyone a happy 520!

(Chapter ends)

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