**Chapter 502: Hunting Taotie, Shelling the Underworld King**
Wang Xiaoya and Zhao Li dared not move, fearing those guys would turn back. It wasn't until a while later that the two emerged from beneath the Feather Robe.
"This is bad, Zhao Li, that direction is where we're staying, Dong Qing is still there!" Wang Xiaoya exclaimed, looking at the direction the explosion came from. She then put on the Feather Robe and was about to fly off to rescue him! Zhao Li grabbed her arm: "Don't rush, it's not just Dong Qing there, the Underworld King is also there. If even the Underworld King can't stop them, we'll be useless if we go, at most we'll just add a dish for them. The most important thing now is to quickly contact K'un-Lun and tell the Queen Mother of the West about what's happening here! Let that old lady quickly send reinforcements!"
Wang Xiaoya looked at the constantly exploding area, stomped her foot fiercely, her face full of worry. However, she knew Zhao Li was right; even rushing over now would be futile.
"But now we're all trapped in this barrier, do you have any method to contact the outside world?" Wang Xiaoya looked at Zhao Li!
"What method could I have? I can only try them one by one!" Zhao Li shrugged helplessly, then pulled out his beloved iPhone (Underworld version) from his pocket, held it high, and searched everywhere for a signal.
"Can you do it?"
"Don't talk, don't affect me finding a signal!"
Just as Wang Xiaoya and Zhao Li were discussing countermeasures, a voice slowly sounded from behind them.
"I've been listening for a long time, so those guys were looking for you two!"
Zhao Li and Wang Xiaoya were so startled they nearly jumped up. Zhao Li immediately drew his gun and quickly turned around, aiming behind him.
"Hi! Who do we have here, if it isn't Fifth Young Master Taotie!" Zhao Li turned back and realized it was an "old acquaintance" with bulging eyes and buck teeth, a rather unique appearance!
Fifth Young Master Taotie smiled and greeted Wang Xiaoya: "Oh, haven't seen you for a while, I didn't expect Fifth Young Master Taotie to have misjudged you. I originally thought you were a mortal, but I didn't expect you, little girl, to be a Heavenly Maiden from K'un-Lun!"
Wang Xiaoya shivered all over under Fifth Young Master Taotie's gaze. That smiling gaze was full of malice, like a starving old Taotie seeing a table full of Manchu-Han Imperial Feast laid out before him, the eyes of a hungry ghost wanting to satisfy his appetite.
"Slurp! Heavenly Maiden, after so many years, I've never had a chance to taste a Heavenly Maiden! Little girl, how about we make a deal? How about you let me eat one of your arms? Just one, just one!"
Fifth Young Master Taotie looked at Wang Xiaoya, his eyes blood-red, drooling so much that saliva almost flowed down the corners of his mouth.
Zhao Li stepped forward to block Wang Xiaoya, aiming his Soul Annihilation Gun at Fifth Young Master Taotie: "Fifth Young Master Taotie! Don't go too far! The Underworld King is nearby!"
"The Underworld King? Didn't you just say the Underworld King was heavily injured? I heard it clearly. Those people went to trouble the Underworld King, she doesn't have time to bother with you!"
"Zhao Li! Do you think this broken thing of yours can hurt me!" Fifth Young Master Taotie's eyes swept over the Soul Annihilation Gun in Zhao Li's hand with disdain: "What are you? Know your place and scram. A useless Soul Ferryman without a soul, I spit on you!"
Zhao Li was cursed fiercely by Fifth Young Master Taotie but wasn't angry at all. He even had a cheeky smile on his face. He shook the gun in his hand:
"Fifth Young Master Taotie, I admit, my Soul Annihilation Gun can't hurt you. Who are you? The Dragon King's fifth son, the famous Fifth Young Master Taotie!"
"If you know that, why aren't you scrambling!" Fifth Young Master Taotie didn't even look Zhao Li in the eye. His eyes never left Wang Xiaoya. He rubbed his hands, his buck-toothed mouth splitting all the way to his ears! That terrifying and disgusting appearance made Wang Xiaoya want to grab a chisel in one hand and a hammer in the other, wishing she could strike him dead with a lightning technique. But she knew that with her current strength, she had no method against this notorious ferocious beast! "Taotie! In the entire Mortal Realm, no, in the entire Three Realms, there's probably only one of you left, right? According to those people, this is a rare species, worth a fortune! Xiaoya, make a sound for Fifth Young Master Taotie to hear, and by the way, notify those people that there's a big catch here!"
Zhao Li swung his Soul Annihilation Gun and said cheekily to Wang Xiaoya.
"Alright!" Wang Xiaoya agreed, holding a chisel in one hand and a hammer in the other, pretending to smash down on the pitch black night sky.
At this moment, Fifth Young Master Taotie's expression on his face was constantly changing: conflicted, greedy, fearful. But seeing Wang Xiaoya really about to smash down with a hammer, he waved his hands repeatedly:
"Wait! Today's matters end here. The road is wide open, let's each go our own way. Let's not interfere with each other!"
Fifth Young Master Taotie turned and left, but before leaving, he glared fiercely at Zhao Li: "Zhao Li! I'll remember you!"
Zhao Li's response was to give him a fierce middle finger! "Thanks for your concern! I'll definitely eat and drink well from now on!"
After Fifth Young Master Taotie left Wang Xiaoya and Zhao Li, he originally wanted to bypass the explosion area, but after hesitating for a moment in the air, he turned and quietly chased after the dozens of bloodlight streaks that had left.
The news of Chi You's soul and the Underworld King being heavily injured, mentioned by Zhao Li, made this gluttonous old Taotie drool. He was a top Diner who had once eaten himself until only his head remained.
He had long wanted to taste Chi You's soul. Unfortunately, last time he had even put the mortal named Xia Dongqing on the menu but was bluffed by that kid Zhao Li, missing out on a delicious meal! And the Underworld King, that was an existence of the same rank as his father, the Dragon King. If the Underworld King was truly beaten to death by a mob, he might even get an arm or leg to taste.
"Slurp! Slurp!"
Thinking of this, Taotie's mouth watered uncontrollably. His saliva landed on a werewolf who was leaping across a rooftop. The werewolf looked up suspiciously at the sky.
Taotie quickly concealed his form. Even if he couldn't eat the Underworld King, these bats, orcs, and such looked very chewy!
Fifth Young Master Taotie, who had been active since ancient times during periods of war, preying on two-legged sheep, disappeared into the air. He watched the black figures below leaping from rooftop to rooftop towards the explosion direction. The strong, powerful muscle on the orcs made Taotie, who had long disliked the poor quality of two-legged sheep meat and switched to eating their souls, drool.
As the Dragon King's fifth son, Taotie had mingled in the Mortal Realm for thousands of years, devouring countless living beings, yet remained undefeated. Besides his father being the Dragon King, his formidable strength was also not to be underestimated.
He followed the Vampire Clan members in invisibility until he reached the explosion area, and not a single person discovered him.
The center of the explosion was a Villa Area. Against the backdrop of the pitch black sky curtain, this Villa Area now had a sense of bleak sorrow.
The howling cold wind carried pitch black snowflakes and hail, smashing down chaotically. Around the villas, large areas of green grassland, forests, and a dozen small ponds were covered in thick ice layers, reflecting a dead white radiance, like the faces of spirits of the dead in the dark night, chilling to the heart.
It was important to note that it was currently the peak of summer. Under the contamination of a death aura, the grassland withered, and the shriveled tree branches trembled in the cold wind.
Within the Villa Area shrouded in black mist, ghost shadows were everywhere, truly a scene of a hundred ghosts walking at night, a human realm hell. With the Underworld King's strength, the dissipation of her strength was enough to create a ghost realm in the Mortal Realm.
However, judging by the leakage of power, this Underworld King was so heavily injured that she could no longer control the overflow of her strength. It was unknown whether this injury was a relapse of an old injury caused by Boss Tang or a new injury sustained from receiving that nuclear bomb.
On the other side, on the battle vehicle pulled by two golden horned deer, beside the goddess drawing her bow, golden divine radiance rippled. The originally pitch black and cold night was purified by the holiness aura emanating from her.
Taotie stopped two kilometers away from the Villa Area. It wasn't that he didn't want to get closer, but dozens of high-level Vampire Clan members had also stopped at high altitude ahead, merging into the queue of hundreds of Vampire Clan members.
Near the hundreds of floating Vampire Clan members, black robed mages gathered in groups of three to five, watching the Villa Area from afar and discussing something.
Taotie's complexion was strange as he watched the area around the villas from a distance. His sensitive five senses and sixth sense could clearly hear and see many things.
The sound of wings flapping in the night wind constantly came, from all directions, a continuous stream of Vampire Clan members with blood-colored bat wings on their backs flew in from all sides, joining the other Vampire Clan members.
As for the black robed shamans, Taotie could even see the terrifying gray-white ghost fire flickering in their eye sockets beneath their cloaks! Hundreds of years ago, Taotie had also traveled in the West and dealt with these guys called necromancers. Hmm, the skeleton frames they summoned didn't even have a bit of meat, truly not tasty!
Large armored vehicles, trucks, transport vehicles, and cars arrived on the ground one after another. Some Big men with huge builds, whose muscles seemed to be bursting through their clothes, were busy unloading things from the vehicles.
Orcs, these Big men who were busy unloading, installing, and modifying something, were all orcs.
With their powerful physical body strength, doing this heavy work was incredibly suitable.
Curiosity kills the cat. Taotie looked at the wooden crates being unloaded by the orcs and was very curious about what they were carrying. He cautiously and carefully moved closer.
A Werewolf Man pried open a wooden crate, checked the equipment inside, and roared loudly: "Enchanted Metal Storm, twelve units, equipped with three hundred thousand rune bullets, configured with the strongest electronic weapon system! Weapons are in place!"
"Three hundred thousand bullets, with the rate of fire of the Metal Storm, these bullets are only enough for one or two minutes of firing!!" A Vampire Clan member in a tuxedo walked closer, looked at the several Metal Storm units, and said sarcastically.
The Werewolf Man was stunned for a moment, then looked at the Vampire Clan member and grinned strangely: "Hahaha, you think three hundred thousand bullets are too few, stinky bat? Do you know what kind of bullets these are? These pure silver core bullets each have a demon-subduing talisman carved on the warhead, and each one was empowered with holy water before leaving the factory! Frankly speaking, one bullet is enough to kill an earl like you!"
"Too few? The price of each bullet is ten times the weight of gold!"
The Vampire Clan member was dumbfounded. Just as he was about to retort to the werewolf! The werewolf cursed him: "Shut up, if you don't understand, scram, don't get in the way here!"
A faint green light appeared in the Werewolf Man's eyes, and he smiled maliciously: "I don't care which clan you belong to, believe me, kid, if you delay important matters, we'll meet again soon. But next time we meet, I should be seeing you in the Myriad Souls Banner of the Heavenly Soldier Valley—"
Hearing the Werewolf Man's words, the provoking Vampire Clan earl swallowed his saliva, looked at his companions next to him, took two steps back, and disappeared into the darkness. A group of Orc Big men worked in an orderly but extremely fast manner, setting up heavy weapons and various artillery positions—
After they unloaded all the firearms from the vehicles, the trucks that transported the firearms, their robot bodies transformed with a咔咔 sound, stood up, and turned into Decepticons seven or eight meters tall.
Dozens of Decepticons' chests flashed with the unique blue light of the Arc Reactor, their backs carried thick chainsaw swords, and in their hands they held energy focusing guns with muzzles as thick as an adult's waist, looking full of deterrence.
"Eh?"
A gale swept past. A tall Predator with a Predator Mask on his face suddenly stopped alertly and looked up at the sky.
Several other Predators nearby also stopped simultaneously. The identification system of the Predator Mask activated, and they all looked at the sky.
"What's wrong with them?" A bear-person carrying a quad rocket launcher passed by these Predators and asked his companion suspiciously.
His companion, who had a huge brown bear head, shook his head: "I don't know, they seem to have discovered something?"
Saying this, the bear-person extended a claw, grabbed a handful of wind, and brought it to his nose to sniff: "Sniff, sniff, there's a smell of grilled cumin in this wind, doesn't smell like humanity, the taste is very fresh, it's nearby!"
Saying this, the bear-person extended his furry bear paw and pointed in a direction. His companion next to him, who had a black bear head and looked simple, believed him implicitly. He raised his quad rocket launcher and directly pulled the trigger in the direction he pointed.
Taotie's invisibility spell was a true inheritance from the Dragon Palace, undeniably profound. He never expected to be exposed by his taste.
Under normal circumstances, a normal dog's sense of smell is about 100 times better than humanity's, a hunting dog's is about 300 times, and a bear's sense of smell is about 7 times better than a hunting dog's, meaning a bear's sense of smell is about 2100 times better than a person's! As dark creatures, the bear-person clan's sense of smell is multiplied several times on top of this—
"Boom!" "Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Four Suns exploded. Taotie, caught off guard, was directly blasted covered in dirt and ash, revealing his true body.
Seeing the orcs surrounding him and the numerous Vampire Clan members approaching from above in the sky, the Dark Shamans not far away also raised their white bone staffs in unison! "If I said this was all a misunderstanding! Would you believe me?" Taotie narrowed his eyes and showed a fawning smile on his face.
The response he received was dense artillery fire—
The first to fire were the shoulder cannons of several Predators, dense red dots covered Taotie's entire body, along with a dozen rockets and dozens of high-energy laser cannons—
"Boom! Boom boom boom boom..." Amidst the dense explosion sounds, smoke and dust rose. In the smoke, a roar like a dragon and a tiger sounded: "Roar! You mortals, who do you think you've provoked?"
From the smoke and dust, a monster with a tiger head and lamb body walked out. Its entire body was pitch black with tiger stripes, looking very mighty. The tiger head, however, had a human face, and this human face was largely occupied by a huge mouth. Inside the huge mouth, sharp tiger teeth were half a foot long, and its face was ferocious, truly bizarre.
As soon as Taotie, who had revealed his true body, finished his roar, hundreds of thick black lightning bolts, as thick as water buckets, suddenly fell from the sky with deafening sounds. The lightning technique jointly cast by dozens of high-level Dark Shamans, perhaps due to the dark energy within their bodies, even the heavenly thunder summoned by their Five Thunder Technique was black.
Although the color was not as pure as orthodox heavenly thunder, the force of this lightning technique was not weakened in the slightest. On the contrary, most of these Dark Shamans were over a hundred years old, and some were even old relics who had survived from the Middle Ages.
Although their strength might not compare to cultivators who practiced orthodox cultivation from the start, the heavenly thunder summoned by their immense dark energy was full of force.
Accompanied by a wailing sound like a dragon and a tiger, Taotie's body was instantly entangled by dazzling black electric current.
Amidst the loud 'crackling' sounds, Taotie's tough skin was scorched and heated by the strong electric current. The crisp sound of meat sizzling in a pan and the smell of burnt flesh also drifted over.
The heavenly thunder summoned by the Dark Shamans' joint Five Thunder Charm had not yet finished, when a dozen high-level orcs, so strong their extremely muscular arms looked like horses could run on them, raised hook spears similar to fishing gear and aimed them at Taotie.
Clatter—
The sharp hook spears, made of Adamantium, were engraved with numerous runes such as sharpness and armor-piercing on their surface. After these orcs pulled the trigger, these sharp hook spears wrapped around and pierced into Taotie's skin, entangling his four limbs.
Seeing that they had hit the target, these orcs grinned ferociously and pressed the button on the side of the hook spears. Inside the hook spears, an ultra-high voltage transformer powered by a small Arc Reactor quickly generated a powerful electric current strong enough to fuse steel.
Electric arcs flickered in the dark night, emitting faint blue light, spreading along the ropes, also made of Adamantium, to Taotie's body. Taotie twitched uncontrollably under the cover of the electric light, as if having an epileptic seizure!
However, Fifth Young Master Taotie was also a ruthless character. Enduring the severe pain of being electrocuted all over his body, he tore off the hook locks on his body. With a Tiger Mouth Opens Wide, he pounced towards the orcs holding the hook spears.
Taotie's body had just leaped up, and the next second, seven or eight Decepticons simultaneously pounced from all directions. Some Decepticons hugged his front limbs, some hugged his hind legs, and two Decepticons directly sat on Fifth Young Master Taotie's back, adopting a posture like Wu Song fighting a tiger. Their heavy hammers, as large as water vats, smashed down on his head one after another.
"Clang clang clang clang clang—" Punch after punch of steel heavy hammers smashed down, directly making Fifth Young Master Taotie's head dizzy. Even nosebleeds seeped from his nose and mouth!
What made Taotie most uncomfortable was that one of the Decepticons straddling his back was frantically smashing his waist. It was unknown what this Decepticon had downloaded online before transforming.
Its arm transformed into the shape of an electric drill, frantically drilling into the kidney area of Taotie's waist!
The severe pain in his waist somewhat sobered Taotie, who had been stunned by the blows. Slightly regaining consciousness in the severe pain, Fifth Young Master Taotie, sensing the unfavorable situation, used a technique. His body flickered, and he transformed into a stream of water vapor, shooting straight up to the horizon—
As soon as the water vapor that Taotie transformed into rushed up to the sky, a blood-colored net descended from the sky. This net was clearly also a magic tool. Covered by the blood net, which flickered with red light, Taotie felt as if he almost revealed his true body again. He gritted his teeth, bit off his tongue, and spat out a mouthful of tongue-tip blood.
The water vapor he transformed into turned into a blood mist, and the speed of escape flight suddenly increased several times! It must be said that whether it is humanity or other species, they can indeed burst out with great potential between life and death. Fighting desperately, dozens of Dark Shamans, plus hundreds of high-level Vampire Clan members, were unable to stop the escaping Taotie.
He endured the bombardment of several plasma cannons and managed to escape.
Of course, this also had a lot to do with the Dark Council putting most of their manpower and energy on the Villa side, otherwise, the formation set up by just three thousand angels could have trapped him here until death.
In another direction of the Villa, Selene sat inside a luxurious RV, stroking the black cat in her arms, occasionally looking through the car window at the Villa Area shrouded in black mist.
The tiger roar and explosion sounds from afar came intermittently—
Catwoman chewed on the delicious veal steak in her mouth and looked at Selene, saying indistinctly, "Something seems to have happened outside, aren't you going to take a look?"
Selene stroked the cat and said leisurely, "Just a small matter, they can handle it! Enjoy the show!"
As soon as Selene finished speaking, the 'Metal Storm', with a rate of fire of ten thousand rounds per minute, roared.
A dozen Metal Storms roared, sweeping towards the Villa Area.
Each bullet warhead, engraved with runes and bathed in holy water, was equivalent to a single-use low-level talisman. In the Jambudvīpa World, any cultivator at the Qi Refining stage could draw one.
But to produce three hundred thousand talismans in one minute, this kind of feat would shock even high-level cultivators at the Nascent Divinity stage!
After the tongue of fire from the Metal Storms entered the Villa Area, the vicious ghosts and yin souls wandering in this ghost realm were completely devastated!
Countless ghost bodies were blasted apart in mid-air. The dense black mist sizzled when touched by the holy water on the demon-subduing bullets. Those bullets exploded with white light like light bulbs in the black mist.
At the same time, the surrounding orcs also picked up rocket launchers, and the surrounding artillery positions also launched an attack towards the Villa Area.
In the sky, hundreds of Juling Shen Type Armors, with their gun ports facing downwards, fired energy beams at a rate of fire of hundreds per minute towards the area below!
A rain of bullets, streams of light, and explosion airwaves instantly swept across the entire ghost realm—
The Hunting Goddess, who was almost accidentally injured by a round of artillery fire, frowned and glanced at the surrounding orcs. Her gaze finally landed on the RV. Through the car glass, she met the gaze of Selene sitting inside the car window.
Facing Selene's gaze, Artemis instantly recalled the scene of the other party seeing her naked. She awkwardly turned her head away and drove her deer vehicle away into the distance!
(end of chapter)