Free Web NovelChapter 2578: Chapter 126: All Beings Afflicted
Cloud-stepping Beast!
Lingxiao Pavilion’s guardian Holy Beast!
Can she really escape?
Luo Huanhuan pondered for a moment, then fiercely bit down, clenching the icy dagger between her teeth.
With fists clenched, blood flames ignited all over her body!
Advance instead of retreat!
Let’s see how strong this path of killing for enlightenment can truly be; today, she will challenge her own limits!
But just in the next instant, the blood wave across the city began to sink!
No, what was sinking was not just the blood wave?
Pavilions, towers, spaces, Yuan Force.
The entire city was collapsing!
Luo Huanhuan felt herself irretrievably falling, uncontrollably sinking!
The blood flames on her body extinguished.
The Path Origin within her stalled.
The bloody murderous aura disintegrated.
This body feels like it’s in an abyss, this heart feels like it’s in an abyss!
Before the entire world dimmed, she saw a figure stepping through the air, no trace of smoke and fire, already occupying all Heavenly Light.
He was a radiant young man in white, gracefully stepping into the ethereal realm, seemingly akin to an Exiled Immortal!
And he held the hand of a little girl sculpted in pink jade. Around the girl’s calves, a silly gray dog was bouncing back and forth.
Damn it... Luo MiaoMiao’s last thought. Is this family conveniently out for a picnic? The whole family, young and old, plus the dog, all came out...
The final thought fell silent.
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Who is Li Daorong?
A former hall leader of Youxia Island’s Angry Whale Gang, now its deputy leader.
This man has a glorious combat record, having previously directly confronted Jiang Wang of Qi Country, holding his ground! Also loudly rebuking Jiang Wang!
Of course, those rumors haven’t earned him much prestige.
In the eyes of those truly influential, the more these words spread, the more ridiculous Li Daorong appears.
Little fish and shrimp claiming daily to have repelled whale sharks — any knowledgeable sailor would find it laughable.
Until recently...
Li Daorong poisoned the Sect Master of Xuanzong, True Man of Xuanzong, and Xuanzong’s Grand Protector Shang Ji’an, slaughtering Xuanzong’s upper echelons, making a name across the islands!
Angry Whale Gang and Xuanzong are both members of the Seize Sea Alliance, each having their factions behind them. Such brutal slaughter was originally not permitted.
But somehow, Li Daorong managed to maneuver various sides, converging from top to bottom, ultimately framing this matter as internal competition between Angry Whale Gang and Xuanzong.
Angry Whale Gang, in a snake-eats-elephant move, annexed Xuanzong in one fell swoop.
With the Near Sea Archipelago witnessing the rise of a new generation of power, Angry Whale Gang swelled overnight to several times its size...
JueMing Island, however, urgently convened an internal Seize Sea Alliance meeting at this time! And at the internal meeting, declared that Li Daorong was indeed the false identity of a Heretical Sect Leader, his true body being the notorious Unborn Sect Founder Zhang Linchuan, now wanted by multiple countries.
JueMing Island, representing Qi Country, asserted a strong stance, leading to the matter’s decision through Seize Sea Alliance resolution, thus resolving to summon and imprison him for public trial.
And Li Daorong, having operated covertly for a long time, sensed the danger before the resolution went through, leaving his affairs behind and quickly retreating into hiding.
Meanwhile, the Island Master of Eternal Winter Island, Zhongxuan Minghe, spearheaded the pursuit of Li Daorong personally at this time.
Seize Sea Alliance isn’t united, and Qi Country in the Near Sea Archipelago never had unquestioned command.
Li Daorong displayed what could be considered an artful level of evasion, playing hide-and-seek with Qi’s people overseas. Repeatedly surrounded, repeatedly escaping. He managed to maneuver through the skies and seas with just External Building Environment cultivation.
Until... Diao Hai Building joined this pursuit.
...
"Kill her, and you can leave." A person with intertwined black and white hair, expressionless, looked at Li Daorong, his voice flat, but without room for refusal.
And behind this person stood a woman of graceful appearance, not at all imposing, like a delicate little white flower.
Between the secondary bodies there is no connection, unless the main body descends actively, there can be no link. Therefore, Li Daorong didn’t know about the other identities’ encounters, remaining lonely in his flight across the Near Sea Archipelago.
He could hardly understand how he encountered Gu Huaixin!
Why would the Fourth Elder of Diao Hai Building be troubling such a minor figure as himself, an External Building Environment practitioner?
Li Daorong had well-considered the life-or-death tribulations of this identity. Apart from the difficulty of swallowing Xuanzong with External Building Environment cultivation, the tangled alliances among factions were tests he set for himself.
The people of Qi unreasonably dragged him out, leaving him speechless.
Zhongxuan Minghe’s personally orchestrated pursuit, he accepted in silence.
Seeing it as another variance in the life-or-death tribulation, starting from the conflict between Diao Hai Building and JueMing Island, moving between the factions of Near Sea Archipelago through seeds of intrigue planted overseas within this period.
Thus cleverly earning vitality.
But just as he thought he’d passed the life-or-death tribulation, True Man Gu Huaixin appeared before him, his raised hand instantly locking him down!
No matter how calculated or cunning he was, Li Daorong couldn’t escape Gu Huaixin’s grasp given his cultivation.
This tribulation concludes in death, with no means to survive!
Yet as he braced for death, Gu Huaixin offered him a chance, proposing such a peculiar rule.
"Kill her?" Li Daorong glanced again at the woman behind Gu Huaixin.
Having developed in the Near Sea Archipelago for so long, he certainly knew Gu Huaixin’s direct disciple Zhu Bijing.
But he truly couldn’t believe that Zhu Bijing, also possessing External Building Environment cultivation, could fight him.
Even though he accumulated many hidden injuries during the escape, his understanding of life-and-death combat was incomparable to that of a disciple from a famous sect with a True Man escort upon outings!
