Mutated Tao

The cold seawater surrounded Li Huowang as he slowly descended. The pressure of the water slowly increased and pressed on him. It felt as if two walls were slowly crushing his body from both the front and the back.

However, this was not an issue for him since Death had disappeared.

He slowly sank as the surface grew further away from him. The waters around him turned darker as he descended. His visibility decreased, making it harder for him to detect any danger.

In the dark ocean, Li Huowang slowly sank into the depths as the darkness seemed to stretch on endlessly before him.

He suddenly stopped and stared at the murky depths around him.

He fished out three pieces of glowing rocks from the inside of his clothes before throwing them towards the front.

The green light dispelled the darkness, revealing a dense group of boat people with fish-scale tattoos and water monkeys.

One was human, and the other was an evil entity, yet there wasn't much difference between the two groups this deep underwater.

“Kill them!” Li Huowang charged into the group of boat people as each of Li Sui’s tentacles held onto a torture tool. The sharp blades of the torture tools sliced up the boat people easily.

The Ao Jing Sect and the Lion Dance Palace did the same. The Lion Dance Palace swallowed a lot of the boat people before leaving behind a massive writhing pile of twisted flesh.

As Death had vanished, neither they nor their enemies could die, so it was pointless to prolong their fight.

Li Huowang was not here to kill them. He observed the glowing rocks descending, revealing a large crevice at the bottom. Li Huowang ushered Li Sui’s tentacles to work hard to swim after the rocks.

“This is the Dragon King Temple! Follow me quickly before the Dharma Sect comes!”

Soon the battlefield shifted towards the crevice. Under Li Huowang’s guidance, everyone swam towards the three sinking glowing rocks. Li Huowang had taken the initiative for the assault this time.

The glowing rocks weren’t bright, but in the dark ocean they were like three miniature green suns that lit up the crevice.

Li Huowang saw several human and fish skeletons littered on the uneven rocks.

Li Huowang thought this was where the boat people and the water monkeys buried their dead, but as he swam downwards, he realized he was wrong.

The skeletons weren’t scattered randomly but arranged in a specific pattern. Someone had deliberately placed them to form a mural on the walls. “Is that a human?”

The bones were arranged in the shape of a massive human taller than a mountain. The light coming from the glowing rocks wasn't enough to illuminate it.

Li Huowang could only rely on his memories and piece together the sections he had seen with the light coming from the glowing rocks to form a vague image of the man.

Whoosh~ Li Huowang suddenly sensed danger and quickly shifted sideways. He barely avoided a dark shadow zipping past him.

Hair?

Li Huowang couldn’t make out what it was. He only saw something as large as a house disappearing in the darkness.

As he approached, the resistance he encountered started becoming fiercer. Something other than the boat people and the water monkeys was underwater. There appeared to be even more entities worshiping the Dragon King in the Dragon King Temple.

“Father, look! There’s a temple in the stomach of the bone-man on the wall!”

“A temple in that thing’s stomach? I’m looking for the Dragon King Temple, not an organ temple.”

Li Huowang looked down when he heard Li Sui’s warning. He saw an eerie temple lodged into the wall of the crevice, and its location was exactly at where the liver of the man made from bones on the wall would be.

He read the words on the rusted signage and realized it was exactly what he had been looking for.

Just then, the intense water pressure crushed the three glowing rocks and plunged everything into darkness again.

The moment the light disappeared, numerous shadowy objects swam up from the crevice, and as they did, the surrounding currents grew fiercer. In the darkness, all Li Huowang could see were shimmering scales.

Li Huowang didn’t know what those things were, but he knew they would try to stop him from approaching the Dragon King Temple.

Li Huowang turned towards the direction in which the stench of blood was the heaviest before shouting, “Hey, do your job! Is this the limit of what the Ao Jing Sect can do?”

Right then, he heard the Ao Jing Sect all shout at the same time. “Wooden Liver!”

Many of them used the Five Elements Intercalation simultaneously as a dense mat of maggots burrowed into the flesh of the shadowy figures. The maggots made the surrounding waters murkier.

They shared the pain as howls from men and beasts alike resounded in the dark water.

Under the protection of the white tassel and maggots, Li Huowang approached the Dragon King Temple, which was shrouded in darkness.

Li Huowang fished out three more glowing rocks and threw them towards the Dragon King Temple. A horrific scene unfolded in front of his eyes as he saw numerous headless corpses floating upside down in the Dragon King Temple. They were neatly arranged in the water.

“I don’t care what those are—it's your job to buy time for me! I will go take the offerings and finish this early!” Li Huowang shouted. Dense layers of maggots and white tassels surged into the Dragon King Temple.

Under their protection, Li Huowang projected his image and swam into the temple with the tentacles.

One of the headless corpses splayed open its limbs and flew towards him like a starfish, but a palm formed from maggots intercepted the corpse and dragged it away.

As the obstacles were cleared away, Li Huowang soon found a massive table filled with offerings. On one of the white jade plates were two entire Dragon Veins! The heads of the Dragon Veins, the Emperor of the An Xi Kingdom and the Emperor of the Luo Sha Kingdom, had been pierced by corals and forced to kneel towards something on the wall.

Faint golden lights were peeling off from the Dragon Veins like golden foil as they drifted towards the wall. Li Huowang followed the path of the light and stared at the wall.

He was certain that the Dragon King was not a dragon even though it looked like it. The thing on the wall looked more like a ball of whiskers covered in dragon scales and dragon claws.

“What is that bizarre thing?” Li Huowang was running out of time. He quickly swam over and grabbed the two Dragon Veins before tying them together and dragging them out of the Dragon King Temple.

But when the two Dragon Veins left the table, the entire Dragon King Temple started shaking vigorously, accompanied by the spread of a horrifying aura.

Li Huowang turned around and stared warily at the mural on the wall.

But the mural did not move. It was something else that moved.

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