Chapter 799: Dragon King Temple

Chapter 799 The Dragon King Temple

The icy seawater flooded Li Huowang's entire body. As he descended bit by bit, he began to feel the pressure, as if two stone walls were pressing tightly against him from front and back.

These problems that would have mattered in the past were no longer problems now that death had vanished.

Because he was far from the surface, his surroundings gradually grew dim, visibility becoming lower and lower, making the area fraught with hidden dangers.

In the murky seawater, Li Huowang stared at the darkness below him, as if it had no end.

Suddenly he stopped, looked up at the blurry surface of the sea, then glanced around at the darkness.

Li Huowang reached into his bosom, pulled out three fluorescent stones, and hurled them forcefully into the darkness before him.

The sickly green fluorescence instantly pushed back the darkness, revealing beneath it a dense, overlapping mass of tattooed Dan fishermen, as well as water monkeys with bulging, crazed eyes.

Clearly, one group was human, the other evil spirits, yet in this place, the difference between them was no longer so great.

"Kill!" Li Huowang charged into the crowd of Dan fishermen, his tentacles wrapped around a torture instrument. As he twisted his body with force, the sharp edges of the various instruments quickly severed their bodies.

Meanwhile, the Orthodox Ritual Sect and the Lion Dance Palace were also wreaking havoc on all sides. Let alone the Orthodox Ritual Sect, as for the Lion Dance Palace, the more Dan fishermen they devoured, the more a bloated, twisted mass of flesh gradually took shape in the water.

Because death had disappeared, they could not die, but for the same reason, their enemies could not die either. Dragging things out like this would bring no benefit.

Li Huowang was not here to kill Dan fishermen. When he saw the fluorescent stones he had just thrown slowly sinking, illuminating a rift on the seabed, he quickly twisted all his tentacles and chased after them.

"No mistake! The Dragon King Temple is inside there! Hurry up and follow! Before the Dharma Sect sends reinforcements!"

Soon the battle converged toward the seabed rift, and under Li Huowang's lead, everyone pursued the three slowly falling fluorescent stones.

This was a sneak attack, and Li Huowang's side had the first move.

The fluorescent stones were not very bright, but in the pitch-black seabed, they were like three small green suns, illuminating everything within this abyssal rift.

Li Huowang spotted fish bones and human bones embedded in the uneven rocks on the left.

At first, Li Huowang thought this was where the Dan fishermen and water monkeys were buried, but as he descended further, he soon noticed something was wrong.

These bones were not embedded randomly; they were arranged in a pattern. They were using bones to create an image on the wall. "Is that a person?"

The dense bones on the rock wall beneath the abyss depicted a human figure. The figure seemed as enormous as a mountain, and the light from the fluorescent stones could not illuminate its entirety.

Only by piecing together fragments from memory above and below could he form a blurry human silhouette in his mind.

"Whoosh—" Suddenly, alarm bells rang in Li Huowang's mind. He thrust his tentacles with force, moving his body swiftly, barely dodging a sweeping black shadow.

"Hair?" Before Li Huowang could see what it was, that thing, which looked larger than a building, plunged into the darkness.

As he drew closer, the resistance grew stronger. The water was not only filled with Dan fishermen and water monkeys; it seemed that more than just the Dan people were coming to worship at the Dragon King Temple.

"Dad! Look! There's a temple in the belly of that bone figure on the wall!"

"A temple in its belly? I'm looking for the Dragon King Temple, not the Five Viscera Temple."

Hearing Li Sui's words, Li Huowang quickly looked down and saw a pitch-black, eerie temple embedded in the rock wall, located precisely at the position of the liver in that huge bone figure's image.

When he saw the words on the rusty plaque, Li Huowang's pupils suddenly contracted. This was the place he was looking for!

Just then, with a "crack," the three fluorescent stones finally shattered under the immense water pressure, and everything around was plunged into darkness again.

The moment the light went out, the current began to surge, and various blurry, dark creatures were swimming up rapidly from deeper within the rift. In the pitch black, the only thing Li Huowang could see were rows of scales.

Though he still did not know what the other side was up to, Li Huowang knew they would not let him approach the Dragon King Temple easily.

Li Huowang turned his head and shouted into the darkest, most blood-soaked part of the water. "Time to work! Is this all the Orthodox Ritual Sect can do?"

Not long after Li Huowang finished speaking, he heard the uniform sound of wooden livers in the water. The surrounding seawater grew increasingly turbid as thrashing worms churned it up.

When dozens of Orthodox Ritual believers simultaneously moistened the five elements, dense worms burrowed into the dark flesh, sharing all the pain. All manner of ghostly, beastly, heart-wrenching cries spread outward in every direction.

Accompanied by the writhing worms and white tassels in the water, Li Huowang finally arrived before the pitch-black Dragon King Temple.

He took out three more fluorescent stones from his bosom and threw them toward the temple. Inside the empty temple, headless corpses hung upside down in the water, neatly filling the entire Dragon King Temple.

"I don't care what this is! This is your job! Hold them off! I'm going for the offerings! Make it quick!" Dense worms, wrapped in white tassels, surged swiftly into the Dragon King Temple.

With their accompaniment, Li Huowang's body quickly shifted out of alignment, twisting his tentacles as he rushed inside.

A headless corpse turned its joints, pouncing at him like a starfish, but the next moment it was wrapped in a hand formed of worms and dragged away.

As various obstacles were cleared, Li Huowang finally spotted the enormous offering table and the two dragon veins coiled on a white jade plate!

At the very top of the dragon veins, the Emperor of Rest and the Emperor of Raksha State had their joints pierced by coral, kowtowing to something on the wall.

Threads of gold were being stripped from the dragon veins like gold leaf. Li Huowang followed the direction in which they drifted, finally fixing his gaze on the wall.

Li Huowang was absolutely certain that this so-called Four Seas Dragon King was not a dragon. Though it looked like it was becoming a dragon, from the mural on the wall, it appeared more like a rotten mass of tentacles stuck all over with dragon scales and claws.

"What in the world is this thing!" Time was pressing. Li Huowang swam over quickly, grabbed the two dragon veins, tied them into a dead knot, then dragged them toward the temple exit.

But the moment the two dragon veins left the offering table, the entire Dragon King Temple trembled violently, and a terrifying aura spread out.

Li Huowang, highly alert, turned swiftly to look at the strange thing in front of the offering table.

Yet that thing did not move. It was other things that moved.