The Knocked-Off Bamboo Hat

The Knocked-Off Bamboo Hat

"What a formidable Dou Wang—"

After Wu Ya shot back a distance, he lowered his head and glanced at the wound on his body, unable to stop himself from letting out a cold snort.

"Brother Wu Ya, there's something strange about this woman. Make a move, quickly!"

Xie Shan looked at the sword mark on Wu Ya's body, and his heart could not help but jump. If he had been struck by that woman without any guard up, his end probably would not have been much better than Wu Ya's current state.

The moment his words fell, Xie Shan immediately launched his offensive.

"Blood Sea!"

The surrounding poisonous swamp began to churn, as though even the power of heaven and earth had been stirred by Xie Shan. The originally deathly still poisonous swamp started to boil, then turned into blood-colored, towering waves that thundered toward the Glass Light Barrier before them.

Yao Wan blocked the incoming blood waves, but the light barrier before her also trembled as it flickered between bright and dim, seeming somewhat unable to bear the strain.

But Yao Wan could not worry about that much anymore. She only hurriedly turned her head back and said, "Xiao Yan, are you all right?"

"Don't worry about me, Wan Guniang, you..."

Xiao Yan's gaze was complicated. Seeing Wan Guniang struggling alone to hold them off, he, in the end, could not help her at all and even became a burden to her...

"Don't worry too much. They are two peak Dou Emperors, after all, not blind... this can't be helped."

Yao Lao noticed the Netherworld Poison Flame quietly burning in Yao Wan's hand.

The Gleaming Body was no longer on Yao Wan's body, so naturally there was no way for it to continue protecting her from being corroded by the poisonous flame.

Although the purple poisonous flame had already been suppressed by Yao Wan with all her strength, the flame burning in the dark still slowly burned away half of Yao Wan's sleeve, revealing half a fair wrist.

Thread after thread of deadly poison, so troublesome that even a Dou Emperor would find the slightest touch of it extremely difficult to deal with, was invading her major and minor Meridians along her palm.

Beneath that Ice Muscle Jade Bone, which already showed little color of blood, the Meridians corroded by the deadly poison were an eye-piercing black.

"This girl..."

Yao Lao sighed and shook his head, yet he had no solution. A Heavenly Flame was already one of the most violent things in the world. For an ordinary person, even the slightest touch was a matter of life and death. For Yao Wan to rely on herself and suppress it to this extent was already extremely difficult.

"Teacher, Wan Guniang, she..."

"You can't help her."

Yao Lao shook his head.

"Then what about you, Teacher? I'll lend my body to Teacher..."

Xiao Yan naturally was unwilling to just watch her like this while being completely helpless. In his panic, he naturally wanted to seize every chance he could.

"You are only a Dou Zhe. The upper limit of the power you can endure from me is truly too small. At most, it would only reach the Dou Wang level. This level of strength simply cannot influence the battle."

Yao Lao shook his head and sighed. Now, whether they lived or died all depended on this girl.

Yet Yao Wan was alone and hard-pressed, while Xie Shan and Wu Ya outside the gleaming body grew even more vigorous.

"Heavenly Centipede Fang!"

Seeing that even the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate's famous ultimate technique could not immediately break through the protection of this Five Star Dou Wang, Wu Ya naturally would not stand on ceremony either.

Then dark clouds drooped down in midair, as though a pair of deep-purple sharp cones had extended from within the dark clouds. They stirred the wind and clouds, raised the poisonous swamp, and struck from top to bottom at the Gleaming Body behind Yao Wan that supported the Glass Light Barrier.

As an old peak Dou Emperor, Wu Ya had been immersed in this path for a long time. With his vicious eyes, he could naturally tell that the light barrier was nothing more than a trick to mislead the eye. The reason this Five Star Dou Wang could block the joint siege of two peak Dou Emperors like this lay entirely in the gleaming dharma image behind her.

"Brother Xie Shan, her vital point is the dharma image behind her. She definitely only knows the surface of this Dou Technique. It is nothing to fear."

"Haha, good!"

Hearing this, Xie Shan was naturally overjoyed, and he immediately began attacking.

"Tail Needle!"

A huge scorpion figure appeared behind Xie Shan. Its scorpion tail flicked, and the poisonous needle behind it that glowed green shot over like an arrow, stabbing toward the gleaming dharma image behind the light barrier.

"Crack!"

In the end, the gap that the Netherworld Poison Flame had corroded out like boiling a frog in warm water finally became the ant hole that burst the dike. After bitterly holding on for a dozen breaths at the end, the Gleaming Body behind Yao Wan flickered between bright and dim, and the light barrier covering their heads shattered with it.

"You can break my gleaming body? You do have some ability."

She withdrew the dharma image behind her, then grabbed Xiao Yan's hand. Nine soul swords circled around her body, blocking the renewed attacks launched by the two peak Dou Emperors.

You Li had been watching coldly from the side all along. After all, with two peak Dou Emperor experts assisting him, there was no need for him to personally make a move. But now, seeing that this incomparably troublesome Five Star Dou Wang looked very much like she intended to run, You Li naturally could no longer sit still.

He knew that if he launched a sneak attack at that Dou Wang, it might also be intercepted by her sword formation. In that case, it would be better to settle for the next best thing and strive to kill the Dou Zhe boy beside her. Since he could not kill her with one strike, he might as well first cut off one of her fingers.

A trace of cold, sinister thought rose in his eyes, and You Li slowly raised his hand.

That Dou Wang's Soul Power was far stronger than his. If he wanted to succeed, he had to strike while she was unprepared and kill with one blow.

"Nether Poison Evil, go!"

You Li murmured. After that, a dark-green light appeared in his hand. Soundless and traceless, it merged into the roiling Poisonous Barrier over the poisonous swamp.

For Yao Wan, using the soul sword formation to kill two peak Dou Emperors was not impossible. After all, this was Soul Manifestation Sword, not a Dou Technique restricted by her own realm.

Even so, she still sensed that insidious malice coming from afar.

That was...

Xiao Yan's breathing hitched. For a moment, he only felt cold all over, as though he had already been targeted by some especially sinister and vicious existence.

"Teacher..."

"Brat, danger!"

Yao Lao's explosive shout rang beside Xiao Yan's ear, and a barrier formed from the Bone Spirit Cold Flame lit up, blocking that sinister poisonous light.

Fortunately, Yao Lao barely managed to stop it, and the barrier also dissipated afterward.

As Xiao Yan let out a breath of relief, he could not help but say, "Wan Guniang, let's retreat. We can't keep fighting here."

Yao Wan instinctively turned her head back, only to see another trace of ghostly green light shine behind Xiao Yan.

"Xiao Yan!"

She could only call out hastily.

And Xie Shan and Wu Ya on the other two sides naturally would not let go of this once-in-a-thousand-years opening. The Dou Qi in their entire bodies surged out like mountains roaring and seas howling. The two peak Dou Emperor experts made a move with all their strength, no longer holding anything back.

"Corpse Mountain Suppressing Blood River!"

The poisonous swamp turned crimson and crushed toward Yao Wan and Xiao Yan.

"Heavenly Poison Eternal Decay!"

In midair, above the dome of the sky, a huge dark-green giant hand slapped down toward them, who at this moment were as tiny as dust.

Three attacks came at once. Xiao Yan felt that this time, he probably really was going to meet his end here together with Wan Guniang.

"...Heh."

A soft snort seemed to ring beside his ear like an illusion, and all three attacks turned into nothingness the instant before they struck them.

In Xiao Yan's eyes, the bamboo hat that had never left her body spun in the howling wind, then swiftly fell into the poisonous swamp, where it could no longer be seen.

His eyes widened slightly.

"That was Wan Guniang's...?"