Tian Wu

When he sensed the intense fury radiating from the black shadows in the water, Li Huowang only laughed louder, without the slightest fear.

"You won't live long enough to laugh again!" The rotten umbrella embedded in Li Huowang's abdomen twisted sharply, snapping off his tentacles.

Then, with a press of the umbrella handle from Rusheng, the rotten umbrella flew open. Its ribs and canopy tore Li Huowang's body apart, scattering him into pieces. Scarlet blood mingled with the muddy yellow-brown river water, carrying his chunks of flesh downstream.

Yet as Li Huowang looked at Rusheng holding the open rotten umbrella before him, the smile on his shattered face only grew wider.

Suddenly, black writhing tentacles burrowed out from every piece of flesh. They swiftly knotted themselves together and tugged hard, stitching Li Huowang's scattered body back into one.

"Did I say there definitely wasn't an ambush just because I said I was deceiving you? Couldn't you have gone and checked for yourselves?"

As soon as Li Huowang finished speaking, the surging river rapidly receded and dried up at astonishing speed. The breach in the riverbank had been plugged.

With both feet planted upon the muddy riverbed and free from the river's control, Li Huowang looked at the enemies before him—and the allies encircling them from beyond.

Zhengde Temple, Zhongyin Temple, the Luo Sect, the Mo Family, the Ao Jing Sect, the School of Soldiers—along with several sects Li Huowang had never seen before—all had sent people here, completely surrounding the Dharma Sect's experts.

This was an ambush laid for those who had ambushed Li Huowang—a slaughtering encirclement. The desperate situation Li Huowang had faced moments ago had instantly reversed.

Li Huowang examined his enemies again. The river water had been too murky before, and he had only seen several dark