“Haha! My people must be here for me! You all are dead now!”
Makoto Miki laughed maniacally as he was dragged out of the cell by two prison wardens.
“You’re all finished, Huaxia pigs! Hahaha!” Makoto Miki looked more crazed than ever.
Then, he noticed Tang Hao, who was standing not far away.
He was immediately dumbstruck. His face contorted horribly as though he had seen something horrific.
“Demon! You demon… Why is he here? Quick, lock me up again! I don’t want to leave! Please, I beg you, lock me back inside!”
Makoto Miki fell on his knees and resisted. He was crying and screaming.
“F*ck me! What did you do to him, Lil Bro Tang? He’s like a different person!” Taoist Master Qian Ji was shocked.
“Nothing, I only killed some people,” Tang Hao said impassively, “No, they are not people. They’re animals!”
Then, he slowly walked over to the crying man.
“You. Stand up. I’ll count to three. I’ll kill you if you don’t!” Tang Hao towered over him with his hands behind him. His tone of voice was chilling.
Chapter 355 - Looks Delicious
Makoto Miki started trembling violently.
“Don’t… Don’t kill me!” He said as he slowly got onto his feet. His eyes that were looking at Tang Hao were brimming with unspeakable fear.
“Your people are indeed here. Don’t hope that they can successfully bail you out though!” Tang Hao said coldly.
Makoto Miki was shocked, but he suddenly looked ecstatic. “They’re really here? Haha! You’re finished! Even you too, you’re dead!”
“Is that so?” Tang Hao smirked.
“Yes, I know that you’re powerful, but the people who are coming this time must be even more powerful than you. The Miki family has many grandmasters on retainer. All of them have supernatural abilities.
“The Grandmaster Oda that ran away last time is nothing but useless trash. There are so many other grandmasters more powerful than him.
“There is only one fate for you if you meet them, you Huaxia pig, and that is death!”
Makoto Miki seemed to have lost his mind. He laughed maniacally while his eyes brimmed with resentment.
Tang Hao narrowed his eyes. He said nothing and slapped Makoto Miki’s face.
“Let them come to me, I’ll kill them no matter who they are. If I can’t beat them, don’t worry, I’ll make sure that you’re dead first,” Tang Hao said coldly.
Then, he slapped him again, knocking him out.
“Bring him away!”
He turned around and walked with Taoist Master Qian Ji back to the entrance.
It was about eight o’clock at night by then.
Makoto Miki was bundled into the car. Tang Hao, along with the fifteen other Taoist masters, rode separately in four cars. They departed from the prison toward the hilly area nearby.
Fights between cultivators were usually destructive. They had to shift the battle to an uninhabited area so that innocent people were not harmed.
Tang Hao was not worried that the Dongying people knew their whereabouts. They must already be keeping a close eye on any movement in or out of the prison.
Furthermore, he and the Taoist master did not attempt to hide their tracks.
In the dark night, the four cars drove slowly on a mountainous road.
Traffic was very light on the road. They only saw another car every three or four minutes.
Nothing happened in the next twenty minutes. Tang Hao was getting impatient. “These Dongying people are quite cautious!”
“They must be scouting to see if we have any backup lying in ambush. These Dongying bastards are cunning.”
Tang Hao nodded but did not say anything else.
The cars continued driving along the road. A little more than ten minutes later, they noticed bright lights in their rear-view mirrors. Then, they heard loud engine noises.
A convoy of cars was quickly catching up to them.
Soon, they also saw car lights in front of them. About three or four cars were speeding toward them in the incoming direction.
“They’re here!” Tang Hao sat up in alert.
He immediately braked his car. The three cars behind him stopped at about the same time.
The Taoist masters in those cars prepared their sacks for battle.
Soon, cars surrounded them from both sides. People came out of those cars. Every one of them was wielding a machine gun.
Tang Hao pressed his lips together when he saw that.
“F*ck! Where did these bastards get so much firepower?” The Taoist masters cursed.
“Listen carefully, you Huaxia people! You are surrounded! Hand the person over if you want to live!” A Dongying person yelled with a megaphone.
“I’ll f*ck all your mothers, you Dongying bastards!” Taoist Master Qian Ji yelled as he stuck a middle finger out of the car window.
Bang!
A bullet flew from amid the Dongying crowd toward Taoist Master Qian Ji’s finger.
Taoist Master Qian Ji quickly pulled his hand back.
However, when the bullet came near the car, a light shield appeared instantly.
Taoist Master Qian Ji was suddenly reminded that he was not sitting in a normal car. Tang Hao’s car must be equipped with many jade talismans.
“Wahaha! Shoot me again if you dare!” Taoist Master Qian Ji shouted gleefully. He stuck his entire head out of the car window.
Tatatat!
However, the light shield blocked all the bullets.
The Dongying people were shocked and started talking among each other.
Very soon, a command came from one of the cars in the back. “Open fire! Keep on shooting!”
Without hesitation, the Dongying people started firing. Bullets rained on those four cars like raindrops.
The light shield trembled and slowly faded away as it absorbed the impact of the bullets. Eventually, the most outer layer shattered, and the bullets struck the next layer.
Before departing, Tang Hao had equipped the cars with many defensive jade talismans. That was how the cars were able to withstand the bullets.
“Dammit, these bastards are too brazen. We have to show them who’s boss,” Taoist Master Qian Ji rolled down the window and brought out a bazooka.
The Dongying people were shocked when they saw that.
They were only normal people and would not be able to withstand an explosion.
“Sayonara!” Taoist Master Qian Ji grinned. A grenade flew out with a whoosh and exploded some distance away.
The explosion sent many people flying.
“Right, and all of you too!” Taoist Master Qian Ji loaded another grenade inside. He stuck his body out at the other side of the car and fired.
The ground trembled as the grenade exploded. People screamed in agony.
The Dongying people in the cars at the back were furious when they saw that.
“Baka!” A man in his thirties sitting in the side passenger seat cursed when he saw that. “These Huaxia scoundrels are underhanded!”
They knew that the group of Huaxia people deliberately lured them there. However, they thought that the group of people were cultivators and not soldiers.
That was why they did not expect the cultivators to have such weapons in their cars.
“Don’t be angry, Young Master Toru. Let me handle this bunch of imbeciles! They’re only several Taoist masters. Easy!” A thin man sitting in the back seat said eerily.
“They even brought a kid along with them? What a joke. Aren’t there any capable people in Huaxia? They only send old people and children.”
The tall and thin man had a long face like a horse. His eyes were narrowed into slits. He looked at the scene in front of him with condescension.
“It’s all up to you now, Grandmaster Yamamoto!”
Toru Miki turned around and bowed deeply at him.
The tall and thin man nodded. “Don’t worry. I�
��ll be back soon!” He said coldly.
Grandmaster Yamamoto got out of the car. His slitted eyes were narrowed like a poisonous viper’s. “All you elderly Taoist masters can prepare to die!”
The Taoist masters got out of the cars, looked at him, and started cursing and shouting.
Grandmaster Yamamoto chuckled disdainfully. “You think too highly of yourselves!”
As he spoke, he lifted his right hand to rub the magatama that he wore on his chest. (TN: A magatama is a comma-shaped piece of ornament found in ancient Japan.)
A blinding light exploded from the magatama.
The fabric of reality seemed to ripple. Then, the loud cry of a serpent was heard. A large serpent head appeared from thin air. It had horns on its scaly head.
Its size and aura were even more intimidating than the five-hundred-year-old serpent monster they encountered in Eight-Gate Village.
“F*ck! What a big serpent!” The Taoist masters were shocked.
“Haha! Are you afraid now? This is the serpent god worshiped by our clan. Prepare to be torched into dust by serpent fire!” Grandmaster Yamamoto laughed brazenly.
However, the Taoist masters ignored him. They continued staring at the serpent god.
Their eyes grew wider and wider. Some of them even started drooling.
“Gulp!” Taoist Master Qian Ji swallowed a mouthful of saliva. “Looks delicious!”
Chapter 356 - Otherworldly Beauty
‘What? Looks delicious?’
Grandmaster Yamamoto was stunned. He could not comprehend what he heard.
‘Are these Taoist masters all idiots?
‘Shouldn’t they be more afraid when they see a giant serpent manifest from thin air? They should at least respect it, right? Why are their eyes sparkling and their mouths drooling?
‘Don’t tell me… They want to eat the serpent god?’
Grandmaster Yamamoto was shocked when he arrived at that thought.
‘Just what in the… these people are crazy!’ Grandmaster Yamamoto gritted his teeth. His face was contorted with anger. He had seen his fair share of crazy people in his life before, but not that crazy.
Meanwhile, the Taoist masters tried hard not to drool when they examined closely the giant serpent that had appeared from the ripples.
“This serpent god must be at least seven or eight hundred years old. It’s definitely many times more delicious than the serpent monster!”
“I can imagine how tender its flesh is!”
They drooled even harder as they talked among themselves.
Tang Hao also got out of the car. His eyes sparkled when he noticed Grandmaster Yamamoto’s magatama.
‘That must be a very powerful Artifact.’
Grandmaster Yamamoto was livid when he saw the kid staring at his chest. ‘Who does this kid think he is to covet my stuff?’
“Prepare to die!”
Grandmaster Yamamoto roared. His eyes flashed, and the giant serpent stood up in attention, opened its mouth, and spewed a black mist.
To other people, the giant serpent would have been unimaginably horrific, but to the Taoist masters, the serpent was a giant feast.
The higher the cultivation base of animal monsters, the more delicious and nutritious it would be.
“Let’s go! We’ll slaughter that monster and skin it. Then we’ll roast half of it and steam the other half. It’ll be a grand feast for our brothers back in Mao Mountain!” Taoist Master Qian Ji shouted as he waved his arms. He was very excited.
The other Taoist masters were also shouting excitedly. They took out yellow paper and jade talismans from their sacks.
Grandmaster Yamamoto was almost losing his mind!
“Go and swallow them all! Swallow all the Huaxia pigs!” Grandmaster Yamamoto roared.
The giant snake hissed. It coiled up and sprang forward, spewing black mist from its mouth.
The battle began instantly.
The Taoist masters roared like savages as they threw their yellow paper and jade talismans.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The lightning and firelight illuminated half the night sky.
The giant serpent hissed in pain and thrashed violently. The Taoist masters dove to safety.
At the same time, amid the chaos, many figures stealthily slid out from the Dongying cars at the back. They blended into the night like shadows.
When they appeared again, they were behind each of the Taoist masters. They silently slashed their blades at the Taoist masters’ necks.
Grandmaster Yamamoto grinned when he saw that.
As far as he knew, Huaxia cultivators were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered once in close range.
However, in the next second, his expression stiffened. When the blades swung down, he did not see the splash of blood as expected, but instead he heard a loud clang.
Each of the Taoist masters was protected by a light shield.
Grandmaster Yamamoto’s eyes glazed over in shock.
The Taoist masters turned around and threw their jade talismans at the ninja cultivators, which sent them flying.
“I’ll kill you all, you Dongying bastards!”
The Taoist masters swore and cursed as they threw the paper and jade talismans as though they were free.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Clouds of blood mist exploded from the ninja cultivators as they flew backward. When they landed on the ground once more, they had no more signs of life.
A ninja cultivator appeared behind Tang Hao. With his right hand, he delivered a blade swipe toward Tang Hao’s neck.
Before the blade could land on its target, Tang Hao chuckled, then retaliated with a swing of his dagger.
The dragon tooth dagger was incredibly sharp. It penetrated the ninja cultivator’s skull without making a sound.
The ninja cultivator stiffened and wailed. His eyes lost all traces of life as his soul left his body.
Splurt!
When Tang hao pulled the dagger out of the dead ninja cultivator’s head, blood and brain matter spurted out from the hole.
In an instant, the ninja cultivators were all dead. Grandmaster Yamamoto and the other Dongying people in the cars were stunned.
When they came to their senses, they were furious.
“Kusoyarou!” Toru Miki’s face was contorted from anger.
He had thought that they were fighting against a bunch of old people and a child. He did not expect that they all had incredible abilities and were packed to the gills with weapons.
In one of the cars at the back, a figure was silently sitting there.
The figure was enveloped in darkness. Only a pair of charming eyes could be seen.
The eyes were narrow and slit. There seemed to be an otherworldly seductive charm to them.
The figure was a girl. Her delicate body was covered in a pure white kimono.
Even though one could not see her face and body, one could easily tell that those eyes belonged to someone beautiful.
Her face remained impassive as she saw the ninja cultivators die horrific deaths outside the car.
Her Izumo Shrine had nothing to do with those ninja cultivators. She was only there to hold the line.
She looked around the battlefield and her gaze eventually fell on the boy.
She tilted her head and continued observing the boy with great interest. Her cherry lips suddenly smiled. “This kid… is interesting!” She mumbled to herself.
She narrowed her eyes, making her look like a fox.
The battle was still raging outside. After dispatching the ninja cultivators, the Taoist masters shifted their focus toward the giant serpent. The serpent could not withstand the barrage of explosions.
Soon, the serpent fell on the ground. Blood was flowing freely from various wounds on its body.
The Taoist masters cheered happily.
“Let’s skin the animal and let out the blood!” The Taoist masters rushed forward to claim the corpse of the giant serpent. They rolled up thei
r sleeves and started skinning the snake. Their practiced movements showed that it was not the first time they had done that.
They chattered among themselves as they went to work.
“How nice of those Dongying bastards to send us such a delicacy from afar!”
Grandmaster Yamamoto stood there, clutching his chest with one of his hands. His face was twitching as it changed colors several times.
His eyes were opened as wide as cowbells.
Finally, he wavered and spat out a mouthful of blood.
“You… You people are crazy!”
That was the serpent god that his clan had worshiped for centuries! Now, it was slaughtered and was about to be roasted and steamed for dinner.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He felt as though knives were slicing his heart.
“Don’t worry, my brother. I’ll share some with you later!” Taoist Master Qian Ji dealt the final stroke.
Pfft!
Grandmaster Yamamoto spat out another mouthful of blood. His eyes glazed over and collapsed on the ground, unconscious.
Chapter 357 - A Formidable Opponent
“Hey, why did that guy pass out? He’s too weak!” Taoist Master Qian Ji grumbled.
At the moment, his sleeves were rolled up as he deftly skinned the giant snake with a small knife. He had shorn the scales, removed the skin, and was currently filleting the snake. His movements were as slick as a butcher.
The Dongying people were all dumbfounded when they saw that, no matter the surviving gunners, or Toru Miki and the other people sitting in the cars.
Their eyes and mouths opened wide as though they had seen a ghost.
‘What’s… What’s going on?
‘Why is this bunch of Huaxia people processing the meat of the serpent god in front of us?’
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