Chapter 1398
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Chapter 1398 Battle with the Black Crocodile
The black alligator hadn’t expected that someone would be waiting for it ahead.
It gritted its teeth, its form reappearing from the shadow on the ground like a black lightning bolt, crashing toward the ice wall. With its divine beast-level physique, a mere ice wall hardly counted as an obstacle.
But the moment its form appeared, a ferocious laugh rapidly approached from the flank!
“Hehehehehe…”
Cao Yuan, wrapped in an aura of killing intent, dragging his straight blade rolling with black flames, suddenly slashed toward the black alligator’s body!
The blade’s killing aura struck the hard shell of the black alligator, producing a metallic clang, but the alligator’s shell was incredibly tough. Even though the berserk Cao Yuan had used his full strength, the blade could barely cut in, leaving only a shallow wound.
For the black alligator, this cut was merely a scratch… but the berserk Cao Yuan’s scratching speed was extremely fast.
Amidst his grim laughter, black blade shadows created countless afterimages in the air, frantically hacking at the black alligator’s shell. Dense, shallow marks intertwined together, gradually becoming stained with blood.
The black alligator howled in pain. Its emerald eye flashed with anger as one of its tail tentacles instantly wrapped around Cao Yuan’s wrist that held the blade. With strength that could shake mountains, it lifted the berserk Cao Yuan and repeatedly slammed him against the ice surface beside it, making the ground rumble loudly.
After slamming him more than a dozen times until the ice surface completely shattered, the black alligator’s tentacle flung Cao Yuan like a javelin, smashing him against a distant mountainside!
The black alligator’s form moved so fast through the shattered ice that it left afterimages, like a mountain-sized supersonic tank. Its massive, terrifying jaws easily smashed through the ice wall and suddenly opened wide, instantly biting off half of An Qingyu’s body who was guarding behind the wall!
Blood splattered everywhere. An Qingyu frowned, quickly moving his remaining half away to prevent damage to the black coffin behind him.
A tiger paw extended from the bloody stump of his severed leg, stepping on the ground to support his incomplete form. The flesh at the wound site rapidly squirmed, as if new body parts were about to grow.
“Qingyu, are you alright?”
Lin Qiye, arriving from behind, landed beside him and asked with furrowed brows.
“I’m fine, just a minor injury,” An Qingyu shook his head. “When we heard your shout, we came immediately. Seems we were just in time.”
Lin Qiye nodded, “We’ll talk later.”
A wisp of cloud rose beneath his feet, carrying his body as he quickly moved toward the black alligator’s position.
In front of the black alligator now, a massive black and white Taiji Bagua diagram hung vertically in midair. Bai Li Pangpang stood solemnly before the rotating Taiji diagram, his hands forming a series of mystical gestures.
“Earth Binding!”
The ground beneath the black alligator seemed to come alive, with black ropes shooting out to bind its form in place.
The black alligator growled, its enormous body gradually exerting force. Dense cracks spread across the ground, and the black ropes began to tremble, seemingly about to give way.
At the same time, the berserk Cao Yuan with his killing-intent blade and Lin Qiye wielding the Kusanagi sword attacked like lightning from the left and right!
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Several miles away from the battlefield.
Wang Qing sat on a huge rock, gazing at the distant battlefield, sighing with a somewhat helpless expression:
“What a pity, I won’t get to hear little Qiye’s secretive singing tonight. Though it sounds terrible, seeing him earnestly trying to practice singing is really adorable…”
Beside her, Tang Yusheng’s mouth twitched slightly:
“You really have a twisted sense of humor.”
“Can’t help it. Being on this island for too long makes one go crazy from boredom.”
“…”
“By the way, little Tang, do we really not need to help them?” Wang Qing turned to ask.
“No need,” Tang Yusheng calmly replied. “With their strength, they have a good chance of defeating one Mogara when working together.
The enemy only sent three Mogaras to the island, probably to probe the situation and confirm who exactly is guarding the national fortune… The fewer of us who reveal ourselves now, the more likely they are to lower their guard.
The south and west sides are guarded by Senior Nie and Uncle Li. There won’t be any problems. We just need to stay hidden.”
“Daring to set their sights on the national fortune of Great Xia, they’re truly seeking death,” Wang Qing sneered. “Though I wonder when these Mogaras infiltrated Great Xia…”
“None of that matters now,” Tang Yusheng turned slightly to look at the dark horizon, and said calmly:
“The fish… has taken the bait.”
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Hundreds of miles away.
On the dark sea surface, Yue Huai’s eyes emitted a faint green light as he frowned.
“Besides Li Qiangqiang, there’s also Nie Jinshan?” he muttered to himself.
“They’re both still alive? Impossible… I saw Nie Jinshan’s corpse with my own eyes. He’s definitely dead.”
“Those aren’t humans,” a voice emerged from the massive shadow beneath the sea surface. “They didn’t reveal any flaws before because they didn’t take action. Now if you look carefully at how they fight, they’re not using spiritual power like you humans, but a kind of fortune power… They’re no longer human, but likely some kind of wandering souls sustained by national fortune.”
Hearing this, Yue Huai thoughtfully said:
“The Dragon Eye of Great Xia’s national fortune, the resurrected Commander of the Night Watchers, mysterious guardians… Could it be that those stationed here are the souls of past Night Watchers commanders?”
He narrowed his eyes at the distant island, murmuring: “The first Commander Nie Jinshan, the second Commander Li Qiangqiang… If that’s true, then the third Commander Tang Yusheng and the fourth Commander Wang Qing are likely on this island as well.
As for Ye Fan… he sacrificed his soul to save Zhou Ping, so he shouldn’t be here.
Four human pinnacles…”
Yue Huai’s eyes flickered with light, as if he had figured out the situation on the island, and his lips curled into a slight smile.
“Using the souls of past Night Watchers commanders to guard the national fortune, what a grand gesture… But the combat power of four human pinnacles is still within our expected range.”
“Have you figured out the situation on the island?” the dark shadow beneath the sea surface asked in a deep voice. “When do we strike?”
“This probe has likely put them all on alert. Delaying further won’t benefit us,” Yue Huai pondered for a moment, his aged eyes narrowing into a dangerous arc.
“While Li Qiangqiang and Nie Jinshan are being held up, let’s launch the full attack now.”
“Good.”
Upon hearing Yue Huai’s answer, the giant shadow’s form visibly took on an excited tone. The calm sea instantly began to boil and churn violently!
Black alligators emerged from the sea surface one after another. No longer concealing their forms, they burst forth at full speed like black lightning toward the distant island. A rough glance revealed nearly twenty of them!
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