Chapter 18: Lightning And Dragon Transformation
The “alive” metal snake became soft, coiling and swimming on the jade bracelet emitting blood light.
Three pairs of blood jade snake eyes flickered, then lit up.
“Hua!”
A six or seven meters long, bowl mouth thick three-headed snake blood soul flew out from inside the metal snake, with broad double wings, pouncing straight toward Li Weiyi who was rushing this way.
Too massive!
Vitality piercing the nose, with hidden wind force, extremely intimidating.
But very faint, like mist.
Obviously Director Yang did not know the true activation method of the three-headed snake bracelet, only fumbling and accidentally discovering that using blood sacrifice could release a wisp of weak snake soul from it.
For mortals, being able to control a wisp of snake soul was already quite remarkable.
“How is there such a strange thing?”
This blood soul was simply a ghostly thing, massive and ferocious. Li Weiyi did not dare touch it and immediately dodged and fled.
Fortunately, his reaction ability and movement technique were extraordinary, fast enough. After evading the three-headed snake blood soul’s attack, he yanked out the Yellow Dragon Sword inserted in that old man’s heart.
In his mind flashed the scene of “Yellow Dragon Sword severing White Bone Demon’s long hair, making it instantly turn to mist.”
This sword was absolutely a divine weapon that countered demons and strangeness.
Li Weiyi mobilized the scalding hot qi flow from the sole of his right foot, surging it into the Yellow Dragon Sword.
On the sword edge appeared a layer of faint yellow glow.
While fleeing rapidly, it was as if he had eyes in the back of his head; he instantly stopped, abruptly turned around. The long sword in his hand swept from bottom to top, dragging a crescent moon-like arc sword mark, precisely striking the three-headed snake blood soul pursuing from behind and diving down.
The judgment was precise to the extreme, as if the blood soul actively crashed into his sword edge.
The leftmost head of the three-headed snake blood soul, at the spot struck by the Yellow Dragon Sword, began to burn.
In an instant.
The already faint head could not maintain its form, turning into wisps of mist.
Succeeding with one strike, Li Weiyi had no more of that dread of the unknown in his heart; his eyes burned with battle intent, striding forward, instead pursuing and slashing at the three-headed snake blood soul.
For a moment, the ground was filled with flying sand and stones.
It had double wings but could not fly high.
That scene was simply like a mortal pursuing and killing a demon.
Countless people present were shocked by this sight.
A member of the 705 laboratory wanted to pick up the shotgun again, but was pressed to the ground together with several scientific expedition team members untied by Gao Huan. That quite good-looking female graduate student picked up the shotgun as if it were hot coal, hurriedly ran to the ship’s rail, and threw it into the sea.
By the time Gao Huan saw and roared to stop her, it was already too late.
That was a gun, the last one on the ship with bullets.
That female student was scared by Gao Huan’s roar, hugging herself and trembling as she squatted on the ground by the ship’s rail.
No matter what, all scientific expedition team members had sharp eyes and knew very well who to believe. When Xie Tianshu, Chen Hong, Kong Fan and others were committing violence, why hadn’t they seen people from the 705 laboratory come out to stop them?
To sustain the three-headed snake blood soul, Director Yang’s blood flowed out massively, his body continued to shrivel, gradually weakening until he knelt prostrate on the ground.
But it was useless; the three-headed snake blood soul was no match for Li Weiyi at all.
Soon it was severed into several segments and scattered like smoke.
While Li Weiyi was fighting the three-headed snake blood soul, the middle-aged woman from the 705 laboratory calmly took off her coat, revealing the scripture belt tied around her body.
The belt was bright yellow, two inches wide, with densely packed scriptures on it.
The 705 laboratory had observed the bronze ship for many years and arrived first at the positions of those White Bones humans after it crashed onto the ship. So, several immortal objects had been taken by them.
The middle-aged woman took out a small bottle of Golden Crow Blood and poured it onto the scripture belt.
The “blood sacrifice” method of the scripture belt was different from the three-headed snake bracelet; blood of dead objects would do.
“Hua—”
The Golden Crow Blood soaked in, and parts of the scriptures on the belt immediately emitted blood light; her whole body seemed enveloped in a faint blood light mist cluster.
The scientific expedition team members rushing up to restrain her were about to pounce when their vision blurred, and she appeared several steps away.
Clearly just an ordinary person, under the enhancement of the scripture belt, her movement technique speed became extremely demonic.
Li Weiyi had not yet slain the three-headed snake blood soul when the middle-aged woman had already closed in.
By the time the three-headed snake blood soul was severed into several segments and dispersed, the middle-aged woman had already taken out a fist-sized black iron seal and slammed it onto the ground just six or seven steps from Li Weiyi.
“Boom!”
A thunderous sound rang out.
From the bottom of the black iron seal flew a bright and winding stream of electric light, shooting straight toward Li Weiyi.
The black iron seal and scripture belt were both obtained from that White Bones human whose bones were nearly jadeified, of extremely high quality. Even without knowing the specialized activation method, they could still erupt with considerable power.
Li Weiyi had sharp perception; not having time to turn around, he immediately rolled to the side, narrowly evading the electric light.
A patch on the left shoulder of his clothes was charred black, the fabric carbonized, skin burning with pain.
Just a little more and it would have hit his neck or head.
Although the black iron seal had extraordinary power, it needed a heavy strike to release lightning. Moreover, because the middle-aged woman did not know the true control method, while releasing the electric light, fine currents also surged toward her palm, making her arm numb with pain, hard to launch a second attack quickly.
Fortunately protected by the blood light from the scripture belt, or her arm would not get off with just numbness.
After dodging the lightning, Li Weiyi leaped like a flying ape, immediately closing in on the middle-aged woman.
“Shua!”
Her movement speed was like illusion technique, evading Li Weiyi’s first sword, only severing a wisp of hair.
One must know, Li Weiyi had practiced martial arts since childhood, so under the enhancement of the scalding hot qi flow, his movement techniques and moves became supernatural, with the demeanor of a martial way master. But she had merely activated the scripture belt to turn decay into miracle, too inconceivable.
The two mutually wary, sometimes she fled, sometimes Li Weiyi retreated.
On the other side, Gao Huan and others were busy untying the scientific expedition team members’ bindings; no one noticed that Xie Tianshu, who had been severed arm and fallen in a pool of blood, was undergoing earth-shaking changes on his body.
The dragon pattern ring on his thumb, after absorbing the blood flowing from the severed arm, had its dragon pattern turn blood red, flickering faint blood light.
His heart resonated with the frequency of the dragon pattern’s flicker, blood flow speed slowing more and more.
The wound at the severed arm stopped bleeding.
Fine and icy cold scales grew on his skin. His forehead swelled unevenly, forming irregular coral-like patterns.
…
Li Weiyi quickly discovered that the middle-aged woman could not keep using that black iron seal.
Just four times, and her entire hand had turned black, trembling nonstop.
The blood light from the scripture belt was also rapidly fading.
“You don’t know how to use these immortal objects at all; each use damages the body more deeply.” Li Weiyi saw that one more use and her entire arm would be ruined.
No need to fight her head-on; once the scripture belt’s blood light dispersed, she would naturally no longer be a threat.
“Ao!”
A high-pitched cry, like wolf, tiger, and dragon, resounded through the bronze ship.
Li Weiyi, the middle-aged woman, and numerous scientific expedition team members were all shocked, looking toward Xie Tianshu who had already climbed up from the ground.
One by one, their eyeballs seemed about to drop to the ground.
In the faint nether mist, Xie Tianshu was still one-armed, but his body had swelled to two meters seven or eight tall, his clothes almost entirely burst apart.
His skin turned into fingernail-sized black scales.
His remaining left hand became a sharp and massive claw.
His feet also mutated, soles twice as wide.
The dragon pattern ring on the claw shone even brighter. A blood dragon woven from dragon patterns swam on the ring like a living thing.
Some scientific expedition team members screamed, some legs went soft, some fled.
They had already been scared badly by Xie Tianshu before; now this Xie Tianshu, no need to think, was definitely even more terrifying.
“He… did he steal and drink flood dragon blood?”
“Scales, claw, head… it really might be so; his body is clearly mutating toward black flood dragon.”
“How dare he?”
…
“Li Weiyi, this severed arm of mine is thanks to you; the black flood dragon corpse blood and dragon pattern ring can’t make it regrow.”
The flood dragon-like mutated Xie Tianshu stepped heavily, charging toward Li Weiyi at increasingly faster speeds, his cup-sized eyes full of rage.
In the blink of an eye he arrived, swinging his claw at Li Weiyi’s head, stirring strong wind force.
Li Weiyi retreated a step; the sharp claw grazed past the tip of his nose.
In the recent days, he had experienced too many inexplicable strange things; even with Xie Tianshu nearly demonized now, Li Weiyi could still view it calmly.
After evading this claw, he stepped forward, slashing his sword at Xie Tianshu’s chest.
“Ding! Ding! Ding…”
The sword edge clashed with the black scales on his chest, sparking countless sparks, leaving only a shallow mark.
Xie Tianshu quickly retreated, discovering he was unhurt, laughed heartily: “I have flood dragon scales protecting my body; what can you do to me? Rest assured, I won’t let you die too easily.”
Li Weiyi looked at the Yellow Dragon Sword in his hand.
“Without urging it with that scalding hot qi flow in the body, the Yellow Dragon Sword is indeed just a bit sharper than ordinary swords, unable to make things collapse on touch.”
Not far away, the middle-aged woman from the 705 laboratory took out another bottle of Golden Crow Blood, preparing to pour it onto the scripture belt.
Catching this from the corner of his eye, Li Weiyi stepped a zhang per stride, rushing over rapidly.
“Want to escape?”
Xie Tianshu chased with big strides.
His footsteps heavy, the ground trembling slightly.
“Pu!”
Li Weiyi slashed off the middle-aged woman’s head with one sword, without the slightest hesitation, then seized the black iron seal from her hand. He turned, knelt on one knee, looked up at the pursuing Xie Tianshu, and slammed the seal heavily onto the ground.
“Honglong!”
Accompanied by a thunderous sound.
A bright stream of electric light shot from the bottom of the seal, striking Xie Tianshu.
Xie Tianshu flew backwards, his body even blacker…
Somewhat charred, smoke rising all over his body.
Li Weiyi did not have it easy either, backlash from the lightning in the seal making his entire arm numb and painful, losing at least half sensation.
“This seal absolutely isn’t used like this. She was messing around blindly!”
