Chapter 251: Damn It, Huo Qubing Isn’t Dead
One Bean Starfire burrowed into the bracer with the momentum of a shooting star, and after burrowing in, it immediately became silent, so much so that even Yun Ce could not sense its existence.
Shehuo was already scared like this, so Yun Ce naturally wouldn’t hold out stubbornly. Ignoring the exposure of his figure, he jumped onto a rooftop, then swiftly leaped again from the roof. Just as he was about to jump onto the City Lord’s Mansion wall, a massive palm composed of fierce flames struck down at him viciously.
Sensing the terrifying pressure carried by this palm, Yun Ce cried out in despair and transformed his left arm into a Dragon Claw. In this unavoidable situation, he straightened his left arm and struck upward at the descending palm.
The Dragon Claw pierced through the palm but failed to pierce it completely. Yun Ce, like a mosquito biting onto someone’s palm, was smacked down from midair and crashed heavily onto the ground.
Just as his body hit the ground, Yun Ce still tried to struggle, barely moving his body to a nearby patch of softer land, and moreover, there was a massive stone sculpture on the land.
He didn’t know if the laws of physics could affect this massive hand composed purely of energy, but anyway, this was the only thing Yun Ce could do at the moment.
“Boom”
The ground trembled violently. The side hall affected by the massive palm collapsed with a roar, and the beams and pillars instantly turned to flying ash.
The stone sculpture Yun Ce relied on also turned to powder under the strike of the giant palm. With no other options, Yun Ce used all his internal breath to protect his vital organs, pointed his Dragon Arm downward, and stood upside down. He no longer hoped to return intact today.
“Don’t go out, take me away.”
1 Yun Ce hurriedly instructed Doggy, and then that massive palm struck his feet. The force landed on his feet, and Yun Ce felt like he no longer had feet. The force conducted to his legs, and Yun Ce felt like he had already lost his legs. Next came his buttocks, waist, chest and abdomen…
1 …Everyone likes using a hammer to smash a nail, watching the nail penetrate the wooden board, penetrate the iron sheet, penetrate everything a nail can penetrate under their own force, until the nail is completely driven in. This way, they can gain sufficient sense of satisfaction.
1 So, has anyone ever considered the nail’s feelings?
1 Most likely, no one has thought about it.
1 Yun Ce could empathize with the nail. Today, he was a humanoid nail, being ruthlessly smashed palm by palm by a massive flame-composed hand until the entire humanoid nail was smashed out of sight.
1 After smashing Yun Ce out of sight, the flame palm suddenly retracted into the Dragon God Hall and merged with the Taizhou Shehuo. The Taizhou Shehuo, which had just smashed Yun Ce this nail, seemed extremely satisfied. After returning to the fire pit, it leisurely continued wandering in the fire pit. The Taoist Priests who were originally very angry were no longer angry, gathering around the fire pit to sit properly and continue chanting scriptures, as if comforting the injured Shehuo.
1 The twelve warriors who had been guarding the Dragon God Hall not long ago were now surrounding a palm-shaped deep pit. This pit, over a zhang deep, was still smoking, and there was nothing at the bottom of the pit.
1 The warriors felt this outcome was very normal. Anything beaten by Shehuo and burned to flying ash was no problem.
1 They did not continue dwelling on this deep pit, returning to the Dragon God Hall and sitting back down on the cushions in the courtyard. As the now gentle snow from the sky fell a bit more, they would turn into snow sculptures again.
1 A silvery metal tentacle carefully lifted a piece of very solid soil crust that had been smashed. The tentacle cautiously extended slowly, looking around. Soon, seven more identical tentacles emerged from underground. The eight tentacles worked together to drag a humanoid object out from underground. The tentacles wrapped around this humanoid object, as if the humanoid object had grown eight legs.
2 One tentacle probed out first, wrapping around a flower tree that had not been affected. With the help of the other seven legs, it left the deep pit. Before a large group of people arrived, it climbed up the city wall step by step, then flipped over the wall.
2 Doggy pondered slightly under the city wall, then quickly moved its legs and feet vigorously toward the guesthouse.
2 If it weren’t for the faint fluctuation in Yun Ce’s brain and his heart occasionally beating once, Doggy would absolutely be unwilling to use so many resources to save him.
2 The internal breath Yun Ce had stored over the past half year, as well as the Peng Zeng Brand Rapid Growth Liquid Zhang Min obtained from Panxing Tower—it would never use them on a dead person no matter what, because doing so was not logical.
2 Yun Ce’s body was completely intact only in his left arm. Fortunately, with the left arm clearing the way ahead, this nail of his was able to breakthrough three layers of stone foundation and luckily survive.
2 To make Yun Ce wake up faster, Doggy even released its suppression on the Dragon Arm, allowing the Dragon’s power to join in treating this tattered body.
2 As a result, the Dragon Arm showed no reaction at all. The Dragon Arm that previously needed Doggy’s surveillance and suppression now had no interest in possessing Yun Ce’s body. No matter how Doggy urged it, it just wandered on Yun Ce’s left arm. Not only that, it even occasionally stole some of the internal breath Doggy infused into Yun Ce’s body.
2 The injuries were really too severe…
2 Doggy held the Shehuo out from the Dragon Pearl, wanting to place it on Yun Ce’s chest. But as soon as the Shehuo came out, it whooshed back into the Dragon Pearl.
2 Watching the seven tentacles busy nonstop repairing this body, Doggy felt for the first time that its own strength was really too limited.
3 “What is yours will be yours; you can’t rob it.”
3 Liu Changsheng’s voice rang deep in Yun Ce’s mind.
3 “Only I can’t rob it; others can, right?”
3 “What they rob is just the world’s surface phenomena; what you want to rob is the world’s origin.”
3 “Shehuo is this world’s origin?”
3 “Not just Shehuo, but also the Dragon, and some things whose origins even I don’t know. The last person who wanted to touch the world’s origin was Huo Qubing.
3 Even with his strength, he failed. Do you think you can surpass him?”
3 “Huo Qubing? Failed? He failed?”
3 “Yeah, otherwise he wouldn’t have been sent into King Huo’s Tomb, with the Dragon-Breaking Stone dropped, never to emerge for eternity.”
3 “Huh? Huo Qubing didn’t die?”
4 “Heh, if he died, how could Yu Heng get pregnant?”
4 “He personally mounted Yu Heng?”
4 “Hehehe, to make a woman pregnant, it doesn’t necessarily require personally mounting her…”
4 Although Liu Changsheng didn’t explain it clearly, Yun Ce immediately thought of a famous case on Earth.
4 A female convicted prisoner laden with sins, about to be executed, was pregnant. According to the ancestral land’s laws, pregnant convicted prisoners were not subject to the death penalty; she could live.
4 After comparing genes of all guards who had contact with the female prisoner, it was found unrelated to them. This child was actually from the female convicted prisoner’s boyfriend outside the prison.
4 The government officials questioned the boyfriend.
4 The boyfriend replied: Love runs deep!
4 Humans are not plants that can use wind and such media to spread seeds, nor hermaphroditic plants that can self-pollinate, nor earthworms that can self-reproduce.
4 Love running deep cannot cause pregnancy, no matter how moving their emotions are. Finally, after meticulous investigation, it was discovered that a guard had been bribed and provided certain medical means.
5 Thinking that the imprisoned Huo Qubing actually tried to escape using this method, Yun Ce wanted to laugh very much. But as soon as he started laughing, he felt like he had been thrown into the massive grindstone at Yun Clan Villa, being finely crushed and rubbed between the two grinding stones.
5 Only then did he recall the scene not long ago when he was palm-struck into the ground one by one by a massive flame palm.
5 At this moment, his body was extremely sensitive, not only feeling pain but also sensing a disgusting tongue licking his hand.
5 Pain, Yun Ce could still endure, but he really couldn’t stand being treated so obscenely. So, he barely opened his eyes.
5 Fortunately, the one licking the back of his hand was the Red Date Horse; this was acceptable, not disgusting.
5 “Doggy, are you there?”
5 “Here. From now on, call me Poor Ghost Doggy; I have nothing left now.”
5 “Mm, no problem. Anyway, it was all robbed; we’ll rob more later.”
5 “You’re not going to say something like, what couldn’t smash you will only make you stronger, right?”
5 “You can say that.”
6 “Let me tell you, your current body is just a rag doll, barely sewn together by me with needle and thread. If someone kicks you a few times, I won’t be able to sew you back together again.”
6 “The one who attacked was Yongzhou Shehuo. They ganged up to bully us. If Liu Changsheng hadn’t acted, we would even have been jointly erased by four hundred ninety-nine Shehuos.”
6 “Why? You stole Shehuo from Chuyun Prefecture, but the other Shehuos weren’t this angry.”
6 “Before, it was just stealing; we could just enshrine it elsewhere. This time is different; we want to devour other Shehuos, which has provoked public anger.”
6 “No wonder Shehuo is scared into hiding in the Dragon Pearl, refusing to come out, even unwilling to act to save you.”
6 “What would it do coming out? Coming out would attract a group of Shehuos to gang up on us, bringing greater disaster.”
6 “Mm, you’re quite open-minded. But I’ve calculated: two days ago, you just killed the eldest son of the Taizhou City City Lord. He’s endured you for two days to investigate your identity. He probably already knows you’re the Heir of the King of Changsha by now. At the latest tomorrow, he’ll definitely come looking for trouble.”
6 “No problem, I’m waiting for him. Then I can see just how capable the Heir of the King of Changsha really is.”
6 “Perhaps the title of Heir of the King of Changsha can spare you death, but not humiliation.”
6 “That depends on whether this undying old Liu Changsheng truly sees me as his heir.”
7 Now that Yun Ce had come back to life, the Dragon Arm once again took interest in his body. Yun Ce could feel a thin fire snake wandering through his blood vessels. Wherever the fire snake went, the pain there would dissipate by more than half, and even produce a faint burning sensation, making the blood in his vessels surge.
7 Doggy prepared to act to stop it but was refused by Yun Ce, because he saw One Bean Starfire burning on his right fingertip, flickering on and off, looking extremely sinister.
7 And more.
