106: Chapter 106 A Fight for Life!

The path-clearing god, Fang Xiang, was just as much of a madman, his level of insanity on par with the previously encountered Heavenly Sovereign Jiehuo, Liu Huan.

Liu Huan treated life and death as child's play, even actively embracing death, while this path-clearing god was a thoroughly violent brute.

Watching this scene, Gu Xiao felt cold sweat streaming down his back.

Why were all these gods of the Ancient Heavenly Court like this?

Fang Xiang turned around, clutching the dragon lord blade, its blood-red eyes scanning the surroundings with indifference.

Its gaze lingered on the mountain of bones for a moment before passing over it, landing on the blood-soaked White Flood Dragon in mid-air.

"Having fought with this lord for so long without a clear victor, you, this White Flood Dragon, are quite capable."

"However..."

"This lord detests flood dragons, so you must still die. How about it? Are you joyful for the death that is about to come?"

Li Xiuyuan did not answer.

He had already released the wrist of the desiccated corpse. Deprived of the dragon lord blade, the corpse fell like a withered log from mid-air, crashing into the pile of bones and sending up a cloud of grayish bone dust.

Golden vertical pupils locked gazes with Fang Xiang's blood-red eyes across the distance, electric arcs leaping silently beneath the scales.

His injuries were not light. The blood qi released by the dragon lord blade had burrowed into the gaps between his scales; although the wounds were not deep, their sheer number had already dyed his silver-white belly red with blood.

Even though Qing'er was secretly helping Li Xiuyuan heal, the effect was minimal.

"Why don't you speak?"

Fang Xiang tilted its head. The three-foot-tall idol hovered in mid-air, looking down at Li Xiuyuan from above, its blood-red eyes filled with mockery.

Li Xiuyuan finally spoke, looking at Fang Xiang with a gaze full of disdain: "I have no need to answer such a boring question."

Fang Xiang froze for a moment, then let out a sharp, frenzied laugh that could not be distinguished as male or female. It echoed through the vast Ancient Grotto-Heaven, shaking the bone fragments on the mountain so they fell with a rustling sound.

"Boring? Hahahaha hahahaha!"

Fang Xiang laughed until it was out of breath. The three-foot-tall idol trembled in the air, even going so far as to clutch its own stomach in an exaggerated manner.

Li Xiuyuan could not understand why the other party had suddenly started laughing. The thoughts inside the minds of these maddened gods were completely impossible to fathom.

Heavenly Sovereign Jiehuo, Liu Huan, was like this, and this path-clearing god, Fang Xiang, before him was the same.

Fang Xiang's laughter became increasingly exaggerated. The idol's body swayed back and forth in mid-air, the dragon lord blade trembling in its hand along with the laughter. The sound was sharp and grating, like someone scraping nails against glass repeatedly. On the ground, Gu Xiao could not help but cover his ears.

"Boring... Hahaha hahaha! Boring!"

It suddenly stopped laughing, its blood-red eyes staring at Li Xiuyuan, its pupils surging with an indescribable emotion that was both irritation and excitement.

"In that case, then I shall kill you!"

After saying this, Fang Xiang brandished the blood-red dragon lord blade and hacked toward Li Xiuyuan.

The three-foot-tall idol, dragging a dragon lord blade disproportionate to its size, moved with eerie speed, like a black lightning bolt tearing through the red mist.

Before the blade arrived, the thick blood qi pressed forward first. The Blood Wind (fishy/bloody wind) rushed toward his face, tearing a gap in the Mirage Qi surrounding Li Xiuyuan.

Li Xiuyuan flicked his dragon tail, his silver-white body sliding along the edge of the bone mountain.

The dragon lord blade grazed his scales and struck the bone mountain. A large section of skeletons was sent flying by the blade's energy, raising a dense cloud of grayish bone dust.

"You dodge quite fast!"

Fang Xiang's voice came from within the bone dust, carrying that highly uncomfortable mockery. It rushed out of the bone dust and unleashed another horizontal slash, the blade edge carving out a blood-colored arc, aiming straight for Li Xiuyuan's belly.

Li Xiuyuan could not take this blow head-on. Electric arcs exploded beneath his scales, pushing his speed to the limit. His silver-white body traced a steep arc in the air, flipping over Fang Xiang's head.

The force of the blade caused a sharp pain in his belly wounds, and several droplets of blood spilled from the air.

Fang Xiang missed its strike, but it was neither hurried nor angry; instead, it laughed even more joyfully.

"Your speed is getting slower and slower. I wonder how much longer you can hold on?!"

"Do not disappoint this lord! This lord feels incomparably joyful right now!"

The three-foot-tall idol stopped abruptly in the air, its blood-red eyes locked onto Li Xiuyuan's trajectory, and then it gave chase.

The two pursued each other above the bone mountain, their speed so fast that only two afterimages remained.

Li Xiuyuan's injuries were severe. Every violent movement caused his abdominal wounds to seep more blood. His speed was gradually slowing down, while Fang Xiang's speed remained undiminished.

On the ground, Gu Xiao was also sweating for Li Xiuyuan. Li Xiuyuan's injuries could not be dragged out any longer, otherwise, he would certainly be defeated in the end.

"The hardness of that Dragon Lord idol should not be comparable to a god's corpse. The reason Li Xiuyuan is being suppressed right now is entirely because old wounds haven't healed and new ones have been added."

"I must destroy that idol."

Gu Xiao stood in place, calculating rapidly in his heart. He could not stand here and just watch anymore; he had to do something!

Gu Xiao took a deep breath and began to transmit his voice to Li Xiuyuan in secret.

"Li Xiuyuan, fly toward me in a moment. I will jump onto you, and then you use the lightning as cover. I will look for an opportunity to gather all my strength and give it a punch."

Li Xiuyuan, who was still dodging Fang Xiang's attacks in the sky, said: "Your strength is insufficient; you will die."

"If I just stand here and watch, you will die first! Besides, you aren't really going to rely on my strength to shatter its idol, are you? I am still the bait."

In the voice transmission, Gu Xiao's tone was already very anxious.

Li Xiuyuan, high above, dodged another aerial slash from Fang Xiang and remained silent for a moment: "Fine."

"This is a battle where we are betting both our lives. Do not miss."

Gu Xiao thought to himself.

He took a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket, his fingers trembling slightly as he put one in his mouth and lit it with a windproof lighter.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Here I come."

The silver-White Flood Dragon wandering the horizon suddenly changed direction and dived toward the ground!

Its body stretched straight, like an arrow released from a bowstring, fast enough to tear through the air.

At the moment it was about to crash into the ground, it pulled its body up sharply, flying close to the ground and bringing up a gale that swept the bone fragments on the ground into the sky.

Gu Xiao threw the cigarette butt down fiercely, exerted force with his feet, and rushed toward that silver-white line.

The nuo mask covered his face, his brown pupils shrinking to the size of needle points, and the half-demon blood within him boiled to the limit.

Every step he took cracked the ground, bone fragments splattering everywhere. His speed became faster and faster. Just as Li Xiuyuan streaked over his head, Gu Xiao leaped up.

The wind whistled in his ears. His fingers hooked into the gaps between the scales, and his whole body was carried into the air.

The dragon's back was slippery and covered in blood. Gu Xiao barely stabilized his body and half-knelt on Li Xiuyuan's back.

"I'm up!"

Li Xiuyuan remained silent. Electric arcs exploded on his body, and blue-white lightning spread along the dragon's body, wrapping Gu Xiao in it as well. All the hair on Gu Xiao's body stood on end, tiny electric sparks jumping on the surface of his skin, and his clothes flapped violently in the wind.

The electric arcs became denser, the lightning brighter. The entire flood dragon transformed into a silver-white arrow, tearing through the red mist and stabbing straight at Fang Xiang!

"Well done!"

Fang Xiang laughed loudly, the dragon lord blade sweeping out.

The blood-colored blade light and the silver-white lightning collided violently in mid-air.