Chapter 1653 – Willow Tree
”What a good tactic.” The robed Huo Zaiwei spoke in a deep voice, “It seems that this marquis still underestimated you ……”
”Gather your hands and surrender, this marquis can keep you alive.” The armor-clad Huo Zaiwei waved his lance, and the flames burning in Chang’an City were transformed into fire dragons that surged in front of him, coalescing at the tip of the lance to create a blazing fireball with a radius of tens of meters.
The robe-clad Huo Zaixiao did not reply as he slammed his foot on the ground, the thick city wall collapsing with a loud bang, countless stones hovering on his side like a hanging boulder array.
”A fake is a fake, no matter what means are used, they cannot replace this marquis.” The robed Huo Zaiwei gripped the lance in his hand tightly, his blood-stained clothing choices automatically moving without wind!
Song-!
The stone blocks on the side of Huo Zaiwei’s body suddenly burst into pieces, a loud and clear sparrow song whistling swept in front of him, he frowned and quickly dodged to the back, the sharp blade of the sword brushed past the tip of his nose, chopping the earth out of a smooth crack.
Gong Yang Wan, who had the face of a ferocious muscular man, holding a long sword that he had picked up from somewhere, coldly looked at the robe-clad Huo Zaodong, the air around the sword body trembled rapidly, as if another attack was brewing.
”It’s all come to this point, still saying others are fakes …… you guys, really hopeless.” Gongyang Wan held her sword in one hand, her other willow branch arm coiled around her body like a long snake, and a bizarre eyeball stared deathly at the robe clad Huo Zaiwei.
”Gongyang Wan …… that eye of yours, where did it come from?” Seeing the image of Gongyang Wan, the robe-clothed Huo Zaiwei’s brows furrowed.
”What do you care?”
Gongyang Wan’s figure shifted, instantly rushing out dozens of meters, the longsword in her hand triggered a sparrow’s chirp, once again chopping at the robe-clothed Huo Zaodong!
The robe-clothed Huo Zaiwei’s palm lifted, and Gongyang Wan instantly stalled on the ground, a heart-breaking pain emanating from her mind, as if her entire being was about to split in half!
”Damn! Why are you also able to control the [Heart Return Compulsion]?!” The longsword in Gong Yang Wan’s hand fell to the ground with a clang, and she hissed in pain as she held her head with one hand.
But the next moment, the pain in her head suddenly disappeared.
Only to see the armored Huo Zaiwei similarly raise his hand and speak with a grave face, “Be careful, he and I both have the power of the [Dominant Emperor], and both are able to catalyze the [Returning Heart Compulsion]……. You’d better step back, this marquis can deal with him.”
Gongyang Wan’s face changed one after another, and with little hesitation, she quickly retreated backwards.
She was originally captured by Huo Zaodi, if she didn’t tolerate the people of Chang’an suffering, plus she was restrained by the [Return Heart Compulsion], how would she have stepped in to help Huo Zaodi? Now that both the real and fake Huo Daizi can use the [Return Heart Compulsion] to put her to death, why would she bother to take this risk.
Boom–!
A violent roar came out from the phantom colored smoke, and the two Huo Zaoyi and Gong Yang Wan turned their heads to look at the same time, only to see that the phantom colored smoke, which was constantly approaching, suddenly tumbled violently ……
Three minutes ago.
The two streams of light rushed into the smoke, and the brilliant and disorienting light slowly flowed in the place where they entered, giving people a sense of vertigo.
”After entering here, the concepts of direction and distance are blurred.” Lin Qiye’s gaze swept across the surroundings, looking at the endless phantom colored light, and remembering the scene he was in here not too long ago.
He didn’t feel it at the time, but now that he thought about it carefully, he realized that there were a lot of strange places in this smoke, when he was first enveloped by the smoke, the range was roughly a mountain stream, and with his speed, he should have been able to touch the boundary very quickly, but no matter which direction he went in, the smoke around him was like it was endless.
And after he ran into Wuquan, it was clear that the rope was only more than two hundred meters, but it seemed to be several kilometers long in the smoke …… Good thing that his own fake took the initiative to come out of the smoke, through the rope in Wuquan s hand, so that both of them also took advantage of the situation to escape out of the smoke, or else trying to come out was estimated to take quite a lot of effort.
”Then how should we find the body of this mass of smoke?” Wu Quan asked suspiciously.
Lin Qiye stopped and pondered seriously, his eyes glanced at the messy stones on the ground as if he thought of something and his eyes lit up slightly.
”Wu Quan, your [Dominating Emperor], how far can it extend?”
”Right now, it’s about four kilometers.”
Lin Qiye nodded slightly as he raised his paws and stomped hard towards the earth beneath his feet, the terrifying force instantly shattered the earth within a four kilometer radius, densely packed debris splattered in all directions, and a deep hemispherical pit appeared underneath the two.
”Use your [Dominant Emperor] to manipulate these rubbles, make them stick to the ground and move with us, remember, they must stick to the ground.”
”Why?” Wu Quan asked in disbelief while doing as Lin Qiye said and dominating all the rubble to the maximum extent, like a giant circle around their feet.
”In this smoke, both human perception and the distance of objects will be affected …… but the forbidden ruins won’t.” Lin Qiye slowly spoke, “Your [Dominating Emperor] can only extend a maximum of four kilometers, no matter how powerful this smoke is, it’s impossible to enlarge or shrink your limit, so this four kilometer range of your ability is our best ruler.”
Wu Quan came to a realization, “I see …… Then our next step is to use these four kilometers as a standard to measure the smoke and find out what it is?”
”That’s right.” Lin Qiye nodded as he reached out a hand and grabbed Wu Quan’s wrist, making sure he was always in his line of sight, “Next, you follow me, and if a stone within your ability range touches something else, immediately alert me.”
”Uh-huh.”
Lin Qiye brought Wuquan with him and started walking through this smoke.
According to Lin Qiye’s visual estimation of the smoke’s coverage when he was outside, it occupied at most a dozen square kilometers, and at their speed, they would be able to complete a full exploration of the smoke within a minute.
Flowing colors kept passing by from before the eyes of the two of them, as if they were walking between a colorful cloud, and after an unknown amount of time, Wu Quan suddenly stopped in his tracks.
”Found it!” He pointed in a direction and said.
Lin Qiye’s eyes narrowed as he led Wu Quan to that direction immediately, and as they approached, they only saw a giant shadow hundreds of meters tall slowly outline itself amidst the dazzling phantom colored smoke!
From the looks of it, it looked like a huge willow tree, the thick trunk stood on the ground like a mountain, countless wriggling black branches looked like human hair, slightly flickering in the wind, where the roots were supposed to be, densely packed human legs supported the entire trunk like a bizarre centipede, which was moving a little bit in a certain direction.
Lin Qiye’s duo stood at the foot of this gigantic willow tree, only a little higher than the roots made up of human legs, and they had to raise their heads in order to see the full picture of this willow tree hazy in smoke.
”What …… is this thing?” Looking at such a strangely massive willow tree, Wu Quan only felt his scalp go numb.
As for Lin Qiye, it wasn’t the first time he had seen a grammatical creature, so he wasn’t too surprised about it, and his gaze narrowed slightly, only to see that on top of the trunk of this willow tree, a piece of weird pus rumbled up, and from the looks of it, it actually looked like a humanoid.