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Chapter 642 - Chapter 642 Chapter 28 3 Evils 7 Furies

Chapter 642: Chapter 28: 3 Evils, 7 Furies Chapter 642: Chapter 28: 3 Evils, 7 Furies The sharp canine teeth cleanly and efficiently pierced through the spear’s ridge. The Tiangou Fiend had actually targeted Li Yan’s lower leg; had it bitten down, it would have torn a large chunk of flesh from his body!

Li Yan swung the Tiger Head Great Spear and smashed it forcefully onto the cement, but even before it hit the ground, the Tiangou Fiend, which had clung onto the spearhead, was already flung away, landing lightly on the handle and staring at Li Yan while emitting a fierce growl from its throat.

“Something’s not right,”

Cha Xiaodao suddenly spoke up, “I didn’t see this dog last time.”

The Skeleton General, entangled with the Tiangou Fiend for a moment, had the black hole on its skull slowly healing. Clearly, the Seven Sword-Spear Techniques did not deliver a fatal blow to it.

Li Yan wasn’t surprised either. The Seven Sword-Spear Techniques drew from the Qilian Swordsmanship’s methods of killing and had immense power. However, the techniques required the target to fit to a certain extent the concept of “human” for them to wield infinite lethal power. Against the irregularities within a Feng Shui formation, they might not be able to deliver a decisive blow.

Roar!

The Skeleton General, drawing out a half-broken black military saber, swept it across. Li Yan parried with the Tiger Head Great Spear, his vision darkening momentarily before a huge force of impact swept over him. The terrifyingly large blade, carrying Li Yan, passed through a red and white double-decker bus on the asphalt road, a broadcast tower covered in giant movie posters, and finally crashed against a pair of red lion statues in front of a bank, creating a web of cracks on the iron figures.

The Skeleton General’s rows of teeth continuously chattered, producing a crisp clicking sound.

It lifted its saber and hacked away at Li Yan in a frenzy, causing the asphalt road to collapse and dust to fly up ten-odd meters high. Li Yan, beneath the saber, was like a stubborn bronze pea, seemingly unimpressive but indestructible.

As the Skeleton General swung its saber fiercely one after another, two soft sesame balls, appearing from nowhere, expanded in the wind and packed its hollow eye sockets full. The formerly imposing and terrifying Skeleton General instantly became comical, and the saber it raised hung suspended mid-air.

Culinary Skill: Sesame Ball

A small black mushroom cloud burst inside the skull of the Skeleton General, its half face directly obliterated by the fire’s impact, the two sesame balls also shot out with a bang, along with a sky full of bone fragments.

After enduring several slashes, Li Yan found an opening, and with a leap, he brought the Tiger Head Great Spear, wrapped in Tentacle-Shaped Disaster Water, into a whirl of countless afterimages mid-air. “Swallow Through the Curtain” thrust out the explosive corrosive power of the Disaster Water with each strike. Under their combined assault, the helmet of the Skeleton General was torn in half, and the greater part of its skull shattered, a pitiful sight to behold.

Li Yan in mid-air didn’t even have time to catch his breath when the monstrous saber in the Skeleton General’s hand suddenly plummeted down, narrowly missing his head by a hair’s breadth.

It still wasn’t enough.

Li Yan’s brows furrowed deeply,

As soon as the bone fragments hit the ground, they vanished without a trace. The helmet and face of the Skeleton General rapidly healed.

The surrounding environment, whether it was the severed double-decker bus, the broadcast tower, or the iron lions, also restored itself at a rapid pace, without a crack remaining.

Numerous black armored ghosts gathered more and more around Li Cha.

On the contrary, the big black hole left by the Seven Sword-Spear Techniques on the skull of the Skeleton General had only half restored, becoming the only achievement of Li Cha since the battle began.

Above them, on the rooftop restaurant, Yang Zheng watched everything with tightly furrowed brows, regretting in secret that he had given the members of the Fortune Operators’ meeting a chance to breathe. Now, the power of “General Removing Armor” had evidently escalated a level, and even if he himself took action, it felt a bit like a mouse trying to bite a turtle–no place to start.

Cha Xiaodao flew out from the flames and landed beside Li Yan, speeding up her speech, “Do you have any other methods left?”

Li Yan didn’t speak. He put away the Tiger Head Great Spear, and suddenly a black vortex coiled up in his hand, but before it could spread, a solid-looking golden yellow shimmered around him like a short-circuiting light bulb, flickering non-stop, seemingly about to extinguish at any moment.

“The Thousand Prosperous Clouds of the Divine Court conflict with the eternal blessings, preventing you from activating Thousand Prosperous Clouds and the Water Lord Palace while enjoying the enhancement of the eternal blessings.”

The trouble didn’t stop there. The consecutive tactics of Li Yan and Cha Xiaodao seemed to have completely enraged the Skeleton General. Initially, only its skull and right hand were exposed above the ground, but at that moment, without caring that the Taotie fire was still sizzling in its skull, the Skeleton General pushed up with one hand, angrily breaking free from the earth. Its grand yet decaying Mountain Patterned Armor stretched like a curtain reaching for the sky, and from the old armor, chunks of vermilion lacquer peeled off and fell, each piece the size of a heavy truck, a fearsome sight.

Li Yan made a snap decision, “Retreat first, then think of a long-term plan.”

“Aren’t your fishes able to eat anything? Release them to see if they can take care of it?”

Cha Xiaodao was somewhat anxious.

Li Yan shook his head, “Without access to the Water Lord Palace, and the rain vortex of the Thousand Prosperous Clouds not being activated, the R’lyeh Water Tigers cannot survive in the air. Moreover…”

He pointed upwards and responded to Cha Xiaodao with irritation, “Such a huge lump, how many eons would it take to eat it?”

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Yang Zheng, Li Yan, Cha Xiaodao, and Mo sat around white plastic stools under a food stall, with scattered dishes such as stir-fried beef ho fun and spicy stir-fried conch on the table.

“It’s my fault. I’ll think of some other ways. Thanks for your hard work, all three of you.”

Yang Zheng raised his beer.

Mo touched his neck, not daring to speak.

“How about we come up with another method? If we can’t resolve the geomantic formation, we can deal with the person who set it up.”

Cha Xiaodao obviously couldn’t let it go.

Yang Zheng shook his head, “I chose the wrong strategy to break the formation.”

Li Yan gave him a glance, “What do you mean?”

“I researched detailed information about this fruit before at the Mother Crown of the Thunder Pool. Despite the presence of life patterns, geomancy, and even some fierce spirits and resentful entities, the grand trend is still one of technological advancement and economic prosperity. The exchange between Feng Shui Masters is also about adjusting orientations, objects, natural climate, and changes in one’s own vital energy. Things like General Removing Armor, and All Things Return to Spring might make ordinary people feel uncomfortable at most, but Feng Shui Masters wouldn’t truly confront a skeleton as big as a building head-on; for them, to confront geomantic anomalies directly in the Yang World is pure fantasy.”

“Are you saying that hiring a Feng Shui Master to clear the site would solve everything?”

Yang Zheng nodded, “But in all of Hong Kong, even all of Asia, it might be impossible to find a solution to break the General Removing Armor. Moreover, at the beginning, I boasted that I would not move earth or see bloodshed, making it even more difficult. If I hadn’t said so, Chen Lang wouldn’t have agreed so readily, and now we’ve ended up like this.”

The group muttered among themselves when a hoarse voice chimed in, “This General Removing Armor now embodies the Three Fiends and Seven Furies, becoming a geomantic dilemma of the ages: Overlord Removing Armor. Even if Lai Buyi were to be reborn, he would struggle to cope. It’s not that Lai the Immortal lacks skill, but rather ‘the unbeatable game,’ where the gateway to life is not in the Yang World, is naturally impregnable.”