Mutated Tao

Li Huowang sensed that the tremor and the terrifying aura were becoming stronger. The currents began to swirl chaotically. He understood what was happening and shouted at everyone, “Get out! The temple is sinking!”

The Dragon King Temple had fallen off from the wall and was sinking deeper.

They were already quite deep in the crevice. Li Huowang had no idea where he would reach if he sank even deeper.

The terrifying aura also came from the bottom of the crevice!

Sensing that the temple was sinking, the Ao Jing Sect and the Lion Dance Palace tried to swim out of the temple under Li Huowang’s lead.

But the headless corpses, boat people, and water monkeys were all surging into the temple to block them from escaping. Both sides clashed intensely as they fought in the temple.

Bam! The black tiles of the temple roof blasted apart as Li Huowang’s body, now stuck together with the Lion Dance Palace, blasted upwards from the temple as they escaped through the hole in the roof.

He didn’t dare to stop as he continued to swim upwards. Halfway through, he looked back down and saw the horrifying aura coming from the darkness below. The darkness was impenetrable, even with the presence of light. Hot currents blasted upwards in a rhythmic pattern, almost as if the darkness itself was breathing.

The Dragon King Temple sank into the darkness and disappeared forever.

Li Huowang sighed in relief when he saw the darkness did not chase after him. He was glad that he managed to make it out alive at the last moment, or he would’ve been trapped in the stomach of that evil entity.

He then looked upwards. Their fight had altered almost everything in the ocean surrounding them.

He barely saw any empty patches of water on top of him as innumerable evil entities surrounded them from above like a blanket.

Li Huowang looked down at the two Dragon Veins covered in maggots before charging upwards at the evil entities. He wanted to break through the blanket of flesh!

Even though he didn’t know what they were or where they came from, he had to admit they were terrifying. But even then, they were no match for Li Huowang. He was no longer the naive and weak Daoist who had just exited the Zephyr Temple.

Several rifts shot forward and cut up the flesh of every entity in the path. The strange fluid leaking out from the rift mutated everything it touched.

The amalgamation of flesh, white tassels, and maggots was even more terrifying. It was like a shark that consumed everything it touched. To it, flesh was nothing more than wet paper.

They charged upwards and reached the depth where the Dragon King Temple had previously been.

Li Huowang thought they were almost at the surface when the evil entities in front of him suddenly parted ways. They revealed the murky surface before a large shadow covered it. Something massive, one larger than a mountain, was sinking towards them.

“Be careful! Something as big as a mountain is coming!” Li Huowang warned his comrades and readied himself for combat.

But as it got closer, Li Huowang realized that he had been mistaken. “This isn’t something as big as a mountain, it’s an actual fucking mountain! Dodge!”

But it was too late. There were no more paths to evade the mountain. It was a crevice, and there was nowhere to hide. At the last moment, Li Huowang swam towards the mountain and extended his arms towards it. “Stand behind me!”

When his hands touched the mountain, the rock turned soft and became white tofu.

Li Huowang destroyed the tofu easily before revealing the next layer of rocks. He continued to use his cultivation to turn them into tofu as he tunneled through the mountain.

With Li Huowang carving up a tunnel in the mountain by turning the place he touched into tofu, the Lion Dance Palace and the Ao Jing Sect members were unharmed.

Li Huowang dug through the entire mountain and successfully survived being crushed by the mountain.

Li Huowang heard a massive crashing noise coming from down below in the crevice and thought that the mountain had most likely fallen into the darkness down there. He wasn’t sure what the darkness was, but he was certain the mountain would hit it.

However, his happiness was short-lived as a terrifying chill came from below.

Suddenly, with a warm current surging from below, a large mass of dragon scales covering a lump of rotting flesh surged towards Li Huowang.

Li Huowang fought back and sent several rifts towards it.

The lump crashed into the rift and broke it apart like glass. The rift, which had been incomparably sharp, was destroyed just like that.

Li Huowang shifted his body and barely avoided it. He steadied himself and saw what it was.

He had seen it before. It was the mural in the Dragon King Temple just now, Ao Mojie.

“It’s … It’s actually below us? There’s a Siming below us?” Li Huowang saw the lump of dragon-scale flesh swimming towards him again.

Sensing that Li Huowang was being attacked, the maggots and white tassels swiftly attacked Ao Mojie, but none of them worked. Both the maggots and white tassels stopped moving the moment they touched Ao Mojie’s body.

Li Huowang realized what was happening when he saw the scene. “Be careful! It absorbed the Dragon Qi, and normal techniques are useless!”

Li Huowang had once seen the Dragon Vein destroying the rifts coming from the spine sword and understood that the thing in front of him was going to be hard to fight.

Ao Mojie immediately charged towards him again. Li Huowang barely dodged it with his tentacles.

Just as the two zipped past each other, Li Huowang extended his arms and grabbed one of the dragon scales.

He ripped it off the lump of flesh, but a strange triangular head grew from behind the dragon scale and bit Li Huowang’s hands with its two singular fangs.

Li Huowang grabbed the head and crushed it with his fingers.

He took a deep breath and stared at the lump of flesh. Both the Ao Jing Sect and the Lion Dance Palace are worthless here now.

He threw the Dragon Veins towards the back. “Take them and run! I will stop it!”