Chapter 998: War

"Thunder?" The moment Li Huowang heard the sound, his scalp tingled. He darted to the left with lightning speed.

The next instant, the entire dim, multi-colored black sky violently expanded outwards. Within the blackness, a square, mottled, dull platinum shape appeared, and a gaze, almost tangible, instantly shot towards Li Huowang.

The sensation was incredibly bizarre. Amidst the celestial curtain, Li Huowang saw a color, beyond his comprehension, seeping from the platinum.

And merely the peripheral glimpse of that gaze uncontrollably forced his eyes to be stained with this color.

As Li Huowang's two eyeballs began to transform into that color, the multi-colored blackness immediately started to overflow from his eye sockets.

His eyeballs were clearly under attack. Feeling the abnormality in his eyes, Li Huowang's expression turned grim. He clawed at his eyes with one hand.

Just as he was about to gouge out his eyeballs, Yi Donglai's hand firmly stopped him. "Li! You can't do that! This is your last eye! If you take this out, you'll be completely blind!"

"Get lost! If you're not helping, don't get in the way! If I don't take it out now, it will affect me!" Li Huowang violently shook him off and raised his hand to gouge out his eye again.

In this critical moment, an incredibly peculiar gaze came from a great distance. Li Huowang's flesh tore open like a blooming lotus.

The pain made Li Huowang stop. He could feel that as both his eyeballs painfully split open, the overflowing black liquid was forced to cease.

When he felt his remaining four senses begin to merge into a single perception, Li Huowang understood who had arrived. It was Bahui, the Painful Divinity. And it wasn't just her; there were other very distinct sensations around him.

"You're finally here! Hurry and act!" In the pouring rain, Li Huowang roared at the dark clouds in the left sky.

Then, under Li Huowang's perception, the entangled Divinities in the distance, like a floating mountain, violently crashed into the blackness.

With a sizzling sound like red-hot iron plunging into hot oil, the blackness began to boil.

Immediately after, an explosion ripped through the black sky, unleashing a wave of heat. When this heat wave hit Li Huowang, its force was so immense that it peeled off a layer of his skin.

Gazing at the black sky that had completely exploded above him, and the infinitely deep black hole within it, Li Huowang didn't hesitate. He shifted his feet and rushed towards it, following the other Divinities.

They were all fighting the Divinities of Blessed Heaven, and he couldn't be left behind.

Just as Li Huowang was about to enter the black hole, a massive, twisted tree, hanging upside down and resembling a decaying rainbow, suddenly emerged from it.

Its sharp, barbed crown plunged directly into Li Huowang's chest, carrying him straight downwards as it continued to grow.

The twisted giant tree continued to grow at an incredible pace, simultaneously impaling Li Huowang further downwards.

Impaled, Li Huowang struggled desperately, yet his body seemed to be rooted to the giant tree, unable to move even an inch.

At that moment, Li Huowang suddenly felt a glow behind him. He twisted his head to look down, and a piece of white jade, suspended in mid-air, appeared before him—the Gate of Yak.

In that instant, the giant tree, like a massive claw, pierced through the Gate of Yak and plunged into the clouds below.

The giant tree grew with astonishing speed, and within moments, it had extended far beyond the Gate of Yak. However, Li Huowang's integrated perception heard the sound of jade pendants shattering from above.

Especially when Li Huowang saw pieces of jade, large and small, falling with him, his heart sank. It was broken. The Gate of Yak, which connected the White Jade Capital to the mortal realm, had shattered just like that!

With a resounding crash, the giant tree that had emerged from the Gate of Yak slammed into the ground, raising clouds of dust.

This was not the end, but merely the beginning. The massive tree, thick at the top and narrow at the bottom, began to spread its twisted branches outwards, as if intending to cover the entire world.

As the giant tree continued to grow, it eventually formed a colossal pillar, connecting heaven and earth, resembling both a mushroom and a giant umbrella.

With a roar, the base of the colossal pillar violently exploded, and Li Huowang, engulfed in flames and draped in a red Daoist robe, emerged from within.

Hovering in mid-air with an enraged expression, he looked at the culprit responsible for destroying the Gate of Yak.

The Gate of Yak was gone. Li Huowang could clearly feel that the influence of the Heavenly Dao was spiraling out of control. Disasters were already sweeping through the mortal realm, but at this moment, the Heavenly Dao's effects were so numerous that even he couldn't distinguish how many types of calamities there were!

"It's because of you! All because of you!" Li Huowang's expression grew increasingly furious. At that moment, a long jade fragment, the size of a small island, hurtled towards his head.

The instant the giant jade fragment struck, Li Huowang suddenly stretched his arm upwards. His five flaming fingers seized a corner of the long jade and, with a powerful swing, instantly transformed the island-sized fragment of the Gate of Yak into a sixty-zhang-long colossal axe.

Li Huowang couldn't wield this jade axe with ease, but it didn't matter; he had a solution. He extended his left hand, grasping at thin air to his left.

His left hand passed through Daliang, through Qingqiu, and finally through the ground, gripping the deeply buried Lion Dance Palace. "It's time for you to act! Help me!"

With Li Huowang's roar, the white tassels of the Lion Dance Palace instantly surged over his entire body. His ravaged organs immediately twisted, and monstrous growths began to continuously swell.

As Li Huowang's entire body became grotesquely distorted, losing all sense of front, back, left, or right, his form completely merged with the Lion Dance Palace.

As a swollen and twisted mass of flesh, Li Huowang let out an indistinct sound from his mouth. With one hand, he gripped the colossal axe and violently swung it at the sprawling giant pillar before him.

The heavens and earth trembled as a massive gash appeared on the sky-reaching giant tree. Then, with another forceful swing from Li Huowang, the colossal pillar was directly severed.

However, before Li Huowang could feel any joy, the colossal pillar abruptly dropped a segment, and the upper part plunged down, taking the place of the section Li Huowang had just cut.

The swollen, deformed Li Huowang continued to chop, but no matter how many times he struck, the colossal pillar would simply drop another segment, seemingly unaffected.

At that moment, as the surroundings suddenly grew scorching hot, a chaotic head, reaching from heaven to earth and roaring incessantly, surged towards him. Gao Zhijian had summoned the General Prime Minister's Head!

The bloated Li Huowang lunged at the awe-inspiring General Prime Minister's Head. As the two overlapped, the white tassels behind Li Huowang trembled, and they began to merge.

The dragon aura and malevolent energy on Li Huowang's body merged. Enveloped in malevolent energy, he gripped the colossal axe in his hand. As the chaotic giant head fused with Li Huowang, he roared with sky-piercing killing intent and lunged at the colossal pillar.

In the pouring rain, Yi Donglai stood dumbfounded, watching Li Huowang. His entire body was crimson, veins bulging, his form twisted, his mouth agape. He wielded a blood-stained military knife, wildly slashing and maneuvering through the downpour.

The scene was both absurd and bizarre, as if Li Huowang was performing some incredibly strange Nuo dance in the heavy rain.