LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 173: Nightmare?
Killing someone completely irrelevant?
For the Great Yan Emperor, it was no big deal.
However, having people from the Angry Heaven Palace leak information to him was the key!
With this in mind, the Great Yan Emperor asked again, “Is someone coming to take his place?”
The Hidden Dragon Guard nodded. “Yes, they’re waiting outside the hall. Should we meet now, Your Majesty?”
The Great Yan Emperor nodded and headed to the main hall.
After a busy day, the tired Great Yan Emperor returned to his closed-door retreat.
He locked the door tightly. Just to be sure, he put up two more protective seals, even incorporating soundproofing measures. And it seemed like they were rather high-level.
Once done, he finally felt at ease and sat back on his jade mat, ready to meditate.
But just as he was about to get started, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his head.
Then, darkness took over.
At this time, Liu Shunyi was putting away his brick and invisibility cloak. He quickly turned to Zhao Gou and said, “Let’s not get distracted this time—last night nearly didn’t end well!”
Zhao Gou nodded. “Don’t worry. I just wasn’t skilled enough yesterday. Controlling him to avoid fainting while keeping him active—it’s tricky.”
“But you can trust me today; I’m fully familiar with the technique now!”
Liu Shunyi nodded, and they quickly bound the Great Yan Emperor.
Liu Shunyi then took out a dagger. “Leng Shuang, are you ready?”
At this, Leng Shuang quickly pulled out a small porcelain vial that was emitting green smoke.
“Is this reliable? He remembers everything since this morning, but thankfully he thinks it was just a dream.”
Leng Shuang was quite confident this time. “Don’t worry! This will erase his memory completely, and he’ll even have a really good dream!”
Liu Shunyi nodded. “Great! Let’s get started!”
He looked at the Great Yan Emperor. “Huh? Wait, why hasn’t he transformed?”
Zhao Gou was also baffled. “It shouldn’t be happening like this! I already recreated his marrow and dragon tendons yesterday!”
Sighing, Liu Shunyi said, “Well, no choice now but to welcome him back!”
With that, Liu Shunyi stripped the Great Yan Emperor of his clothes and plunged the dagger into his back.
Then, electricity surged in.
“Roar~”
In an instant, four dragons burst forth from the Emperor’s back.
Liu Shunyi’s eyes brightened. “Saving Lives!”
Zhao Gou’s body instantly radiated a green glow.
“Thud, thud, thud…”
“Roar…”
The four black dragons screeched in agony as Liu Shunyi drained their blood—marrow, tendons, and hides, nothing was spared.
The Great Yan Emperor woke up in pain, staring at the scene before him.
“This isn’t a dream, you guys…”
“Ah…”
He tried to struggle, but the ropes binding him were unimaginably tight.
Attempting to use his Heavenly Power, he found it backfiring.
Instead of smashing those three annoying fiends, it slammed down on him instead.
Great, I controlled my own Heavenly Power?!
A look of sheer terror overtook the Great Yan Emperor. “You… ah…”
His body convulsed. His dragon tendons were once again yanked, along with his marrow.
The torment was unbearable.
“Saving Lives, he’s about to faint!” Liu Shunyi observed the Emperor’s expression.
Zhao Gou quickly raised his hand.
The Great Yan Emperor regained awareness once more.
“You, you two beasts, devils—when I wake again, I will… ah!”
He jolted, eyes glistening white.
“Saving Lives, hurry up and save him!”
Liu Shunyi urged.
Zhao Gou exerted force again.
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Half an hour later.
Liu Shunyi and Zhao Gou hurried to tidy up the mess they’d made, finally making the Great Yan Emperor swallow the soup prepared by Leng Shuang. They then placed him back on the jade mat.
“Alright, let’s hide. We’re not quite done yet!”
Zhao Gou trembled slightly. “About that, are we being too cruel?”
After all, Zhao Gou was a healer. What were they doing now?
Skins stripped, tendons pulled, blood drained—was that something humans could do?
Liu Shunyi rolled his eyes. “This guy is a hundred-lifetime cursed dragon. The lives he’s taken and the women he trampled could pile up into several mountains. You think we’re being cruel?”
“Think about how the Third Prince’s mother died. This scumbag tossed her in the hall for a bunch of fiends to trample to death.”
And then, he even skinned the Third Prince’s mother, pasting her face on someone else so they could continue to die!
“Because the Third Prince’s mother was pretty!”
Zhao Gou’s face turned pale. “Wait a sec!”
With that, Zhao Gou produced a gem and fused it into the Great Yan Emperor’s back.
“What are you doing?” Liu Shunyi asked, intrigued.
Zhao Gou grinned. “That’s a top-tier healing treasure. With that pearl, the Great Yan Emperor will likely cultivate even better dragon skin, tendons, and marrow!”
Liu Shunyi nodded approvingly. “Nice! Besides, I’m doing all this for you. I can break through Shapes casually, but you with that little body in the Spiritual Essence Pool, even a bit might explode you!”
Zhao Gou let out a laugh but was still curious. “So what’s the plan if we get enough stuff? How do we deal with the Great Yan Emperor?”
Liu Shunyi seemed lost in thought. “Killing him is too wasteful; he’s a cursed dragon, full of treasures.”
“But if we don’t kill him, once he’s out, he’ll be ten bosses all by himself.”
“Let’s break through first and talk later!”
“But for now, we don’t have enough materials. This guy might have to suffer a few more days.”
With that, Liu Shunyi, Zhao Gou, and Leng Shuang hid in a corner of the Great Yan Emperor’s closed retreat under the invisibility cloaks provided by Heavenly Way.
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The next morning.
The Great Yan Emperor woke up from a nightmare again.
“Please, don’t come any closer…”
He stared, terrified, at his surroundings.
Then he checked his body.
“Huh? Is it still a nightmare?”
Panting, the Great Yan Emperor hastily grabbed his clothes and rushed out of the closed retreat, glancing fearfully at the door as he left.
Liu Shunyi and Zhao Gou exchanged glances at Leng Shuang, who was scratching her head.
“This can’t be right. The soup I made should erase his memories—it can even wipe out memories from specific time periods! It’s foolproof!”
Liu Shunyi fell into contemplation.
Suddenly, a thought struck him. “What about those four dragons at his back? They might have some consciousness!”
Leng Shuang’s eyes widened in realization. “Oh right!”
The three fell silent.
As the night wore on, they waited.
But the Great Yan Emperor never showed.
“Old Lin, what’s the Great Yan Emperor up to?”
By deep into the night, they still hadn’t seen him.
Liu Shunyi had to contact Lin Wudao.
Lin Wudao responded with an oddly enigmatic tone. “He’s seeking a Taoist for a ritual!”