Chapter 867: Attacking the Heart

Even in battle, the Naluotian avatar's mind was very clear: merging with True Person Sanshui was just an expedient measure. If it wanted to escape alive, or even truly seize the Great Great Great Fanghu, it had to rely on a suitable skin to exert its true divine power!

But this was inside the Great Great Great Fanghu, the enemy's territory, so the battle had to be quick. Every second dragged on was unfavorable to it. The three giant pythons failed to crush the General Red battle armor, but they held He Lingchuan firmly in place, unable to move an inch.

The Xiliu black snake opened its mouth to bite, and He Lingchuan felt bone-chilling coldness spreading from the depths of his divine soul. Facing its fangs, he always felt he was defenseless.

Not to mention the Naluotian avatar was also attacking. His hands were bound and he still had to fight one against four, his pressure greatly increased.

The beast head decoration squatting on the shoulder armor of the battle armor flashed red and suddenly jumped up. One of them, shaped like a golden toad, actually jumped directly into the Xiliu black snake's big mouth.

With a "gulp," it went down the throat, and the big snake itself was stunned.

However, countless red threads immediately floated out of its semi-transparent body, as if it had hatched parasites. At this time, the black snake seemed to have been thrown into a boiling oil pot, in so much pain that its belly turned white; how could it still have time to pounce on He Lingchuan's divine soul? In less than two or three breaths, the black snake turned into a red snake, even its eyeballs were blood red.

The other squatting shoulder beast rushed toward the Naluotian avatar, its body growing in the wind, with bulging eyes, big mouth, wind-catching ears, a lion's body, and a long tail, and even wings on its back. He Lingchuan immediately recognized that this was the monster on the top of the Punishment Dragon Pillar. He didn't know the specific breed, but it looked like both a Qiongqi and a Zhaofeng beast. It shook and grew to two zhang long, its bloody mouth opening to a strange angle, facing the Naluotian avatar, as if it could swallow him and his sword together.

The Naluotian avatar, under the control of True Person Sanshui, stayed in mid-air, actually able to exert force to bounce back, the sword tip resisting the monster's lower jaw and exerting force, instead pushing itself five zhang away.

He Lingchuan had also seen Aunt Zhu use this kind of mid-air suspension and movement technique. It seemed that for immortals, this was a general move.

At the same time, it threw the precious sword in its hand, turning it into a stream of light, still pointing directly at He Lingchuan's back neck.

It happened in a flash. The red snake suddenly sprang up to block He Lingchuan, and this sword stabbed into its body.

This sword had the ability to slaughter gods, and the resentful souls in the Xiliu big snake were slaughtered, which belonged to the great water rushing into the Dragon King Temple. Thus, the giant python broke into two pieces from the stabbed part, the back half disappeared, but the front half turned around and still rushed to find True Person Sanshui's trouble.

With the Xiliu snake's restraint gone, He Lingchuan turned his wrist and sliced off the head of the crimson gold water python.

Water is formless, but the Floating Life blade specifically treated them, causing the crimson gold python's head to not grow back for a long time.

The last blue python twisted the General Red's head and face again, but He Lingchuan raised the mirror shield and smashed it on its head, shouting: "Collect!"

The blue python was actually collected into it.

The mirror screamed: "Ah ah ah, don't mess around!"

The inside also formed a small world of its own, but it had only been repaired for half a year, and it didn't want the blue python to come in and stir up trouble again.

But no matter what, the threat of the three pythons entangled on He Lingchuan was completely lifted.

With the help of the battle armor, he was also unhurried, using one move to eliminate another, kicking all the trouble back to True Person Sanshui.

This was actually a contest between the power of nature and the power of man.

If it were in the outside world, perhaps the former would have the upper hand, but this was inside the Great Great Great Fanghu, the Panlong Secret Realm! Except for the initial ambush, it was hard for the Naluotian avatar to take any advantage.

But while fighting, it still had to lobby He Lingchuan:

"You are still too young, you don't know what a heavy burden the Great Great Great Fanghu is. True Person Sanshui personally refined it, but he also wished he could destroy it. Such a divine object that even gods and immortals fear is absolutely not something you can control!"

He Lingchuan laughed: "And you can?"

The Naluotian avatar didn't get angry with him, only asking: "You just can't command the Great Great Great Fanghu, right?"

He Lingchuan returned it with a fake smile: "But there are still people who can utilize it, such as Zhong Shengguang, such as—"

"Lady Mitian? Heh, look at what happened to them? What happened to the Yuan Nation?" He Lingchuan was related to the Great Great Great Fanghu, so it wasn't strange that he knew about the past of Panlong. The Naluotian avatar said, "Not to mention further back, there has never been a good end. This is also the power of fate."

He Lingchuan sneered: "Their fate is tragic, their ending is heroic, is it because of the Great Great Great Fanghu itself? Isn't it because you gods slaughtered everyone, destroying countries and cities at every turn? Isn't it because you gods absorb the flesh and blood of the people to nourish yourselves, and still shamelessly call it 'Heavenly Grace'?"

The Naluotian avatar paused before saying: "You trust the Great Great Great Fanghu so much, then, do you know exactly what it wants you to do?"

"Do you know exactly what it wants to do to you?"

He Lingchuan didn't speak, knowing the Naluotian avatar was avoiding the important and dwelling on the trivial. But both sides were in a fierce battle, and he was too lazy to think of words to refute it.

He didn't know, and no one knew, because the Great Great Great Fanghu almost never communicated with people.

"Then how can you be sure that you won't follow in the footsteps of your predecessors?" The Naluotian avatar seized the opportunity to persuade, "You know nothing about the power of the Great Great Great Fanghu. I'll say it again, such a divine object is absolutely not something you can control."

"If you can't control a divine object, you will be burdened by it. King Yuan is like this, Zhong Shengguang is like this, and you will be no exception."

"Besides, how much do you know about Lady Mitian? It lends you power and helps you fight me, is it purely out of good intentions? Naive!" The Naluotian avatar said quickly, "Lady Mitian failed long ago! But its hatred and madness will still lead you to destruction!"

He Lingchuan followed the snake and asked: "Why does Lady Mitian want to do this?"

He didn't mention specific questions, nor did he point to anything specific, only asking "this." As for which "this" it was, the Naluotian avatar had to consider it itself.

It really answered: "Lady Mitian and Lingxu have a sea of hatred. Everything it does is not only revenge but also to make the other side submit. Whether it's inciting Panlong City or inciting you, it's all for its own selfish interests. You are just innocent victims."

He Lingchuan asked it: "What about you? Do you also have a grudge against the Lingxu gods? Isn't it also for your own selfish interests?"

The Naluotian avatar laughed in anger.

It was chatting while fighting with He Lingchuan, not out of good intentions to answer questions, but to "sow discord."

It had already seen that He Lingchuan could perform well when wearing the battle armor because he and the battle armor were highly compatible and connected in heart and mind.

This was the opponent's home field, and the opponent had the battle armor to assist. It looked like they had the upper hand, but in fact, Naluotian's divine seal mark still existed and hadn't been erased. This showed that He Lingchuan wasn't as powerful as he appeared!

The Lady Mitian main body he feared most was late to appear.

Based on its understanding of Lady Mitian, it usually wouldn't appear after the dust had settled. So, was it unwilling to appear, or unable to? After merging with True Person Sanshui, it knew that this Panlong Secret Realm was also a place with rules.

Well, so the Lady Mitian main body had no chance to appear at all, and could only lend power to the youth in front of him? Thinking of this, the Naluotian avatar felt settled in its heart. This skin wasn't even twenty years old, just at the age of being impulsive and restless. As long as it could persuade He Lingchuan to have a trace of suspicion and doubt about Lady Mitian in his heart, He Lingchuan and Lady Mitian's battle armor wouldn't be able to be connected in heart and mind, and wouldn't be able to use the vast divine power so smoothly.

No matter how powerful Lady Mitian's battle armor was, it had to be worn by someone to exert its power.

But it didn't expect that it had spent so much lip service, and the other side remained unmoved.

This kid's will was either as firm as a rock, or he had been completely bewitched by Lady Mitian, commonly known as being obsessed and not realizing it, and couldn't be persuaded at all.

Among the devout believers of the Heavenly Gods, there were indeed such people.

But it didn't know that the one who lent the battle armor to He Lingchuan wasn't Lady Mitian, but the General Red.

The one He Lingchuan trusted was only the General Red, not Lady Mitian.

The Naluotian avatar had dug the wrong corner, so no matter how hard it tried, it couldn't dig it down.

During the conversation, the two continued to fight.

The opponent was an ancient immortal + Heavenly God avatar, the first time He Lingchuan challenged such a high-level enemy. He didn't lack battlefield experience, but he lacked the tempering of this kind of high-end game.

Not to mention anything else, True Person Sanshui's combat methods were beyond ordinary understanding. He had a "Cutting Technique," where the Xiliu sword would tear two openings in the air with a swipe, one beside him, and one at any position within three zhang.

True Person Sanshui would drill into the torn space opening, and the next instant, he might appear behind He Lingchuan, stabbing his long sword straight into his back!

In the post-immortal era when divine abilities were declining, only the Small Mountain-Moving Technique had this effect, but it couldn't be opened and closed at will, and the cost was not small.

Fortunately, that strange-looking squatting shoulder beast followed him and turned offense into defense, not leaving his side, helping him resolve crises several times.

After the initial chaos, He Lingchuan soon fought more and more smoothly. He hadn't been able to master the further use of the battle armor, but for such pure power, using it wasn't much different from battlefield fighting, except that the speed of action was shockingly fast. If True Person Sanshui didn't have the Cutting Technique to assist, dealing with him would be strenuous.

Moreover, the destructive power caused by both sides was a bit... astonishing. This piece of ground was pitted, as if it had been densely bombed.

True Person Sanshui even used the Cutting Technique flexibly to the extreme. Once, the squatting shoulder beast followed him and pounced through the space crack. True Person Sanshui wiped the crack directly, and as a result, the invulnerable squatting shoulder beast had half its hind leg and half its tail cut off by the closing space.

This was the original meaning of "Cutting," not just a teleportation channel. Fortunately, He Lingchuan himself had never dared to chase through the crack, otherwise, the one being sliced might have been him.

Facing this kind of rule power, how much could the General Red battle armor protect him?

The squatting shoulder beast had no sense of pain and turned back to bite True Person Sanshui, but its three-legged pounce wasn't agile enough, and it was stabbed in the eyes by his two swords, finally turning into a wisp of red light, returning to the General Red battle armor's shoulder to squat again.

He Lingchuan grabbed his long bow, taking the opportunity to aim at True Person Sanshui.

Two arrows were fired at the same time, but there was only one "whoosh" sound.

He retreated into the space crack, and the arrows followed; he turned a corner, and the arrowheads followed.

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He retreated into the spatial rift, and the arrows followed closely behind; he turned a corner, and the arrowheads turned as well.

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