NOVEL NEXT Chapter 40: Escaped.
Chapter 40: Escaped.
Levi stays still, seeing the large net falling at him. ‘No wonder Gao Ming had not come; it looks like they are going to kill me today.’
"Gao Tao I am disappointed if this is all you have to kill me." Levi creates several blue magic circles and launches multiple water bullets at the net.
Without resistance, the nets have been shredded by the water bullets. After that, Levi's body turns around and moves deeper into the lake.
Attack, don’t let the evil dragon escape!"
"Waaaahhh."
The martial artists come out of hiding, swarm the lakeshore, and at the same time throw the bamboo rafts into the lake.
"Chase!" They begin rowing the rafts using a long bamboo pole.
The archers launch their arrows to kill the dragon, but the arrows bounce after hitting the hard scales and shells.
When the martial artists thought that they would manage to catch up. Levi turns around and attacks the nearer martial artist.
"Quick jump into the water!"
However, it was too late the dragon consumed half of the martial artist's upper body. Blood splattered in the water, turning it red. He then smashed the bamboo raft, causing it to capsize.
"Don’t be afraid to attack!"
The martial artists attempt to get closer to the evil dragon to attack it. Levi, on the other hand, is constantly moving and never stays in one place while attacking.
Gao Tao watches everything with a calm face. He already knows it will not be easy to kill Levi.
"Master, the weapon has arrived!" The servant runs toward Gao Tao.
Behind the servant, a group of people is pushing a large crossbow with four wheels. Gao Tao had to bribe the general to buy the ballista. Since a normal arrow can’t harm the dragon, how about the large arrow?
The Thousand Sword Fiend couple beside Gao Tao just observes the fight. While studying the evil dragon's power and abilities.
"Husband, what do you think?"
"The dragon is strong, however, with our combined strength, we can kill it."
"What are we waiting for?"
"Be patient, it’s not yet our time to make a move."
In the lake, Levi kills and consumes any humans that are near him, and thanks to that, his evolution point is steadily increasing.
"It’s still not enough." The martial artists are too weak.
"Dieeee!" Several martial artists manage to get near the Evil dragon, leap from their bamboo rafts, and swing their swords and blades to cut the dragon. But there is not even a scratch on his scales. After growing into an adolescent dragon turtle, his body had become stronger.
The martial artists that attacked him fell into the water. Levi opens his mouth and eats them.
"We can’t win!"
"Run!"
While Levi is distracted and the martial artist tries trying to flee to the lakeshore. Something fast flew through the air.
Levi turned his head, his eyes dilated, and tried to dodge. However, the large arrow grazes the dragon's neck and manages to damage his hard scales. If he is a little bit late to evade, his neck is already being pierced by the large arrow.
"RAWR!" Levi is furious and, at the same time, becomes cautious. To think that Gao Tao manages to get his hand on the ballista ‘He must have paid a lot to get it."
When he is thinking of killing Gao Tao. A middle-aged man and woman jump into the water. The weird thing is that they don’t sink into the lake but instead leap on the water's surface or a broken bamboo raft to move forward and glide through the air.
Seeing it reminds Levi of the light movement technique, or Qinggong, in the Wuxia movie that he watched. Several magical circles appear beside him, launching a slew of water bullets. Because of the dragon turtle's large mana storage capacity and affinity with the water element. Levi can cast the water spell as many times as he wants before running out of mana.
Qiao Shun and Meng Mei, without any fear, took out their swords. "Thousand slashes!"
The onlooker can only see the blurry sword movement cutting down the incoming water bullets that are coming at them. In the past, Qiao Shun and Meng Mei cut down a rain of arrows to survive an ambush.
Levi notices their sword is infused with Qi. ‘I can kill one of them, but fighting both at the same time is hard.’ While Levi is contemplating, another large arrow is coming toward him again. This time, he submerges his entire body underwater to evade the attack.
‘I want to know about those two people's light movement technique and skill, but it’s not like they will answer my question and the large arrow is dangerous.’ After some thought, Levi decided to wait under the lake and find an opportunity to ambush one of them.
"Husband, what to do now?" Meng Mei asked after seeing that the evil dragon wouldn’t come out of the water.
"Let’s use the sword formation."
"But, we will deplete most of our qi."
"Don’t worry; at that time the evil dragon will be dead."
"Okay."
Everyone, move out of the lake if you don’t want to die!" Shouted Qiao Shun.
After saying that both of them land on the rafts that are still not destroyed by the evil dragon, Qiao Shun at the north and Meng Mei at the south position at the same time, the qi in the air became denser.
The remaining martial artists hurriedly swim or row their raft to the lakeshore.
"To think I can see the thousand-rainbow sword formation again in my lifetime." A middle-aged martial artist spoke while reminiscing. At that time, he was just a low-ranking martial artist who joined the martial arts alliance to fight the demon cult. He saw two people standing on the mountain of corpses.
"What is it?"
"It's better if you watch, because of this sword formation, they become known as the Thousand Sword Fiend Couple."
Qiao Shun and Meng Mei raise their swords to the sky, and numerous blue, glowing sword silhouettes appear in the air.
When Qiao Shun and Meng Mei's faces are pale, it seems like using the thousand rain sword formation takes a toll on their bodies. More people may be required to use the sword formation, or they may not have enough Qi. Either way, they can’t use the thousand-rainbow sword formation more than once.
Levi senses the qi energy gathering above the water. looks up and wonders what is going on. At the same time, he can sense danger. ‘No, I need to escape.’
"Thousand rain sword formation drops!"
Numerous blue, glowing sword silhouettes fall from the sky and enters the lake. Everything in their path was cut down by the sword Qi. The water began to stir, causing the lake's surface to break up into large waves, and after a while, the water calmed down and turned red, this time from the evil dragon's blood rather than human blood.
"Everyone get ready to attack!" Qiao Shun, with an exhausted face, shouted.
The martial artists boarded the raft again to enter the lake. However, it's strange because the evil dragon doesn’t go to the surface.
"Kill any turtle that you see; the evil dragon can transform into a turtle!" Qiao Shun reminded the other.
"Yes, I almost forgot." Said one of the martial artists.
"Search at the lakeshore."
"I killed a turtle!"
"It's just a normal turtle, keeps searching!"
Not far from the lake, Gao Tao observes everything with excitement. He already sees his future as marrying Wu Yi.
However, even after a long time, he doesn’t see the evil dragon carcass. Gao Tao is getting anxious and orders his man to help with the search.
In the end, Gao Tao and others spent the whole day there, without finding out if the evil dragon was alive or dead.
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The next day, news about Gao Tao hiring a martial artist to hunt the dragon spread. However, there is a mixed reaction from the people. Some people are happy, but others say that the dragon is a symbol of prosperity and auspiciousness for Nanchang City. Harming or killing it will cause them to receive bad luck.
While the outside is talking about the dragon. In the Wu family household, someone is mad.
"How dare Gao Tao harm senior!" Wu Yi shouted. "No, I will kill him." She takes her sword and prepares to see Gao Tao. Wu Yi is now considered a second-class martial artist and can even defeat Yu Su, her protector.
"Young miss, please be patient. Senior Levi might still be alive; it's better if we find him first."
"You are right." After calming down, Wu Yi takes a deep breath. "Let’s hope Senior is alive."
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While the outside world is in commotion. Levi, in turtle form, is hiding inside a secret, small chamber that he used to rest and sleep in. On the ground, there is a hole full of water that is connected to the lake.
Levi is too confident and looks down on the people of this world. As a result, he is suffering serious injuries, and his body is getting weaker.
‘I am getting tired; does that mean I am going to die here?’ Levi thought. However, he already lives so many lives that it's fine if he rests now. ‘Too bad I haven’t found a way to preserve my soul from getting destroyed before I die.’
Levi gradually closes his eyes.
Suddenly, he hears a familiar monotone voice.
[Emergency your life is in danger. Do you want to use the evolution point to hibernate and heal?]
Levi's mind had already become blurry, and with the last of his strength, he spoke. "Yes." After saying that, he goes to sleep.
[Begin hibernation and the healing process.]
Levi's body stopped bleeding and slowly started to heal.