Chapter 270: Chapter 241: Killing Li Shang, the Fengdu Deceitful King’s Wrath

’Why? Why?’

Li Shang clenched his fists. He took a deep breath, his face dark and incredibly grim. ’I’ve clearly recovered my full strength and reached my peak. I’ve been through life and death and even reversed it. So why can’t I break through the limits of the Reincarnation Law? Why can’t I master the Reincarnation Law?’

He couldn’t accept it.

Li Shang was utterly unreconciled to this failure.

After all, if Li Shang had been able to break through the limits of the Reincarnation Law and truly master it, he would have been able to speak with the Fengdu Deceitful King as an equal.

But it was a pity.

Li Shang couldn’t do it.

In truth, from the very beginning, when Li Shang sought help from the Fengdu Deceitful King and they struck a deal, his plan had been to use the King’s power to recover his own strength, break through to the next Realm, and master the Reincarnation Law.

Then, Li Shang would have been able to step into the Fourth Realm.

Unfortunately, while Li Shang had his plans laid out perfectly, he never knew that the Fengdu Deceitful King was an expert of the Fourth Realm, one who knew far more about reaching it than Li Shang ever did.

For Li Shang, who had cultivated the Demon Path and comprehended the many wonders of the Reincarnation Law Pattern Technique, rashly switching to the Deceitful Path had already damaged his foundation.

Therefore, for Li Shang, the Deceitful Path was poison.

From then on, by cultivating the Deceit King Scripture, he would never be able to break through for the rest of his life.

He would forever be under the control of the Fengdu Deceitful King.

「Just a few years ago.」

An arrow from Xu Qing had severely wounded Li Shang, completely severing his marriage alliance with the Marquis’s daughter. That single arrow had cut off Li Shang’s destiny.

Originally, if Xu Qing hadn’t fired that arrow, Li Shang would have married the Marquis’s daughter and become the Marquis’s son-in-law. He would have had a chance to make a comeback, a possibility of rising once more.

But now, his destiny had been shattered by Xu Qing’s arrow.

He had no more chances.

And today was the day he would die.

SWOOSH!!!

From high in the sky, Xu Qing’s Level 30 Cursed Arrow descended like a messenger from Yama himself, demanding his life. It shot through the Fengdu Deceitful King’s layers of defenses, heading straight for Li Shang.

’It’s this arrow again...’

Li Shang’s pupils constricted.

"Don’t even think about it!"

At the moment of crisis, Li Shang reacted instantly. After all, he had suffered from it once before and certainly wasn’t going to let it happen again. He unleashed his full power in an instant.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!

In a flash, the Six Paths of Reincarnation appeared.

The Power of Law was fully released.

At the same time, with a single thought from Li Shang, the power of a Mysterious Law also surged forth. The two types of Law power combined, causing the phantoms of the Six Paths of Reincarnation to undergo a bizarre transformation.

CRACK!

However, Xu Qing’s Cursed Arrow was already Level 30, the Dragonbone Bow he used was also Level 30, and Xu Qing’s own strength had reached the Third Realm.

Furthermore, his seven items were all Level 30, containing the Twelve-layered Power of Law.

At this moment, all of it was unleashed, erupting with an unparalleled Mighty Power that crushed all of Li Shang’s Six Paths of Reincarnation with overwhelming force.

CRACK! CRACK!

BANG!

"No!!!"

A look of despair crossed Li Shang’s face as he let out a final, mournful cry. The Level 30 Cursed Arrow tore through his Six Paths of Reincarnation and his Mysterious Law.

Moreover, the might of the Divine Techniques Li Shang unleashed was equally unable to stop it.

Finally, Li Shang took out a Law Artifact, a wheel-shaped disc, and fused it into his Six Paths of Reincarnation, amplifying their power. But it, too, could not change the outcome.

SPURT!

Blood splattered.

After piercing through Li Shang’s layers of defenses and shattering his every measure, Xu Qing’s Level 30 Cursed Arrow pierced through Li Shang’s heart.

HUM!

In an instant, the terrifying Power of Annihilation spread throughout Li Shang’s body, completely extinguishing his life force. The Law surrounding his body slowly began to dissipate.

"Insolence."

BOOM!

At this moment, the Fengdu Deceitful King was alerted. Li Shang was an expert who had reached the Peak of the Law Realm, yet he had just been shot and killed within the Fengdu Deceitful King’s own Mysterious City.

Naturally, the Fengdu Deceitful King was furious.

"Refine!"

But his first move was something else.

From within the dark Void, the Fengdu Deceitful King extended massive, pitch-black tentacles. These tentacles covered Li Shang’s corpse.

HUM! HUM! HUM!

Then, a terrifying Power of Laws spread out, and it began to refine the Law of the Six Paths of Reincarnation from Li Shang’s corpse, bit by bit.

In this way, an illusory Six Paths of Reincarnation began to form.

This illusory Six Paths of Reincarnation was extremely transparent, almost invisible, but it truly contained the secrets of the Reincarnation Law. This was Li Shang’s Origin.

"Fuse."

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!!!

The Fengdu Deceitful King drove this illusory Six Paths of Reincarnation into his Fengdu Mysterious City. The city began to tremble and roar as it seemed to grow more complete.

It was as if, in the deepest, most suppressed part of the Fengdu Mysterious City, an unseeable scene was unfolding. The Fengdu Deceitful King was scheming to establish a "Little Underworld" here.

Clearly, the Fengdu Deceitful King dreamed of using this to become the "Lord of the Underworld."

’What a useless piece of trash,’ the Fengdu Deceitful King snorted coldly. ’After cultivating for so long, all he could produce was such a faint, illusory projection of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and he still got himself killed.’

The Reincarnation Law Pattern Technique.

This Magic Gate had actually originated from the Fengdu Deceitful King himself. Since he couldn’t cultivate the Reincarnation Law Pattern Technique, he had spread it to others.

Afterward, the experts who mastered this technique became nourishment for the Fengdu Deceitful King. In the end, there was only one outcome for them: to be refined by the King into an illusory Six Paths of Reincarnation and thrown into his Fengdu Mysterious City, adding another brick and tile to its construction.

Li Shang was not the first.

And he certainly wouldn’t be the last.

"And you."

The Fengdu Deceitful King looked out, and a pitch-black tentacle pierced through the Void, locking onto Xu Qing’s Level 30 Cursed Arrow at incredible speed.

"I’d like to see just who is so bold as to dare kill one of my subordinates in my own Fengdu Mysterious City!" the Fengdu Deceitful King shouted.

SWOOSH!

Xu Qing’s Level 30 Cursed Arrow accelerated. It possessed a Spirituality of its own and knew it couldn’t be caught by the Fengdu Deceitful King, so it naturally sped up.

However, a terrifying Law descended, forming an imprisoning Domain. The Level 30 Cursed Arrow could not pierce through the confining Domain created by the Fengdu Deceitful King.

SWOOSH!!!

So, the Level 30 Cursed Arrow turned back and detonated all of its power. Although it no longer had Xu Qing’s support or the might of the various Level 30 items, the Level 30 Cursed Arrow itself contained an extremely terrifying power.

In that instant, the Level 30 Cursed Arrow detonated its full might, becoming a one-time-use item. It erupted into a terrifying beam of light that blasted through the imprisoning Domain.

SPURT!

Blood splattered.

At the same time, this final shot from the Level 30 Cursed Arrow pierced through the Fengdu Deceitful King’s tentacles, one after another, and bored into the deepest part of the Mysterious City.

"AHHH!!!"

A pained scream rang out.

The Fengdu Deceitful King’s main body had been struck by the arrow. The power of the curse erupted within him, but it was quickly suppressed by his own Law.

HUM!

After unleashing its ultimate burst of power, the Level 30 Cursed Arrow slowly turned to ash and dissipated.

"DAMN IT!!!"

The Fengdu Deceitful King’s roar of fury echoed throughout the entire Fengdu Mysterious City.

At the same time, every being within the Fengdu Mysterious City was thrown into a panic, clearly not understanding why the supreme Lord Deceitful King was so enraged.

Most importantly, Xu Qing was wearing the Level 30 Thousand-Faced Mask. The Fengdu Deceitful King wanted revenge and tried to use a Divine Technique of Cause and Effect to trace the arrow back to its source, hoping to find the owner of the Level 30 Cursed Arrow.

Unfortunately, the Level 30 Thousand-Faced Mask blocked the tracing of the Cause and Effect Divine Technique. This meant the Fengdu Deceitful King could not find out who owned the Level 30 Cursed Arrow.

He wanted revenge but couldn’t even find his target.

This was what infuriated him the most.