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Chapter 169, Section 168: [Crimson Sky]

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The balustrade-like skeleton spread and grew, with scarlet flesh filling the gaps between the bones, and the fleshy gate behind him slowly closed.

Chen Sheng stepped forward and looked with great interest at the Crimson Dragon Girl who was bound by tentacles.

The most striking feature of the girl was her waist-length hair, which resembled flames. Set within the flames was a pretty little face with a touch of baby fat, and two dimples at the corners of her mouth. Her smile was both cute and slightly roguish.

A pair of small dragon horns, somewhat resembling goat horns, grew on his forehead, spiraling backward several times, with sharp, cold light gleaming at their tips.

Her clothes appeared to have been torn to shreds by the tentacles, and through the numerous tentacles, one could vaguely see some fair skin and smooth curves.

As for the two delicate white feet dangling off the ground at the bottom, they were so excited that their toes curled up involuntarily, creating adorable creases on the soles of their feet.

Chen Sheng looked at the excited girl and said in a deep voice.

How do you know I'm not a member of the imperial court?

The girl grinned, full of confidence.

"You smell of Xiang Yu's sweat. Let me guess, did she encounter a strong man like you and get rescued on her escape route?"
Then, to save her best friend who had entrusted her life to him, she used her beauty to seduce you, begging you to save her?

"..."

Chen Sheng had thought that he would have to use some persuasion to gain the trust of Xiang Yu's friend, but he did not expect the process to be so easy.

He hesitated for a moment, but ultimately didn't say that her sisterly relationship with Xiang Yu was a bit superficial. After Xiang Yu misunderstood her as the Dragon King's juvenile, he had considered giving up the plan to rescue her, but instead asked her a question.

"Can you be so certain based on just a smell?"

"Intuition, I've had an amazing intuition since I was a child, and it always helps me make the right choices."

The girl smiled brightly, her words brimming with self-satisfaction.

"If you have such abilities, how come you were captured and brought here by the magistrate of Yangcheng County?"

"This... wasn't it all to save that little slut Xiang Yu? If I hadn't held off the pursuers, would she have been able to escape?"

Chen Sheng's question made the girl blush, but she quickly changed the subject.

"Xiang Yu's lover, stop talking nonsense and get me out of here first, then we can chat."

Chen Sheng shook his head.

"First of all, I am not Xiang Yu's lover."

And don't worry, Xiang Yu promised me a reward for saving you.

"I need to get my payment first before I can rescue you."

As he spoke, he walked up to the girl who was hanging and found that her delicate feet were level with his head.

Amidst the girl's screams, he used his fingertip to cut the pad of her big toe, then opened his mouth to catch a drop of hot blood, savoring it with a look of ecstasy, allowing the pure-blooded red dragon to be rapidly absorbed by her cells in his mouth.
Relying on the talent of [Hybrid Body], the genetic information of the other party's cells is stripped away, quickly copied, and then fused into the depths of every cell of one's own.

During this process, Chen Sheng was able to clearly feel that with the integration of the new bloodline, his original seven divine bodies received a slight enhancement.

Although its intensity is negligible, it truly exists.

This is one of the abilities of the "Ten Thousand Dragons Scripture": the body and spirit can generate a blessing effect on each other, and the more body and spirit one has, the stronger the blessing.

Even at the current stage, several divine bodies can only increase the power of supernatural abilities by a little, but after collecting a complete set of 365 divine bodies, the expected enhancement effect can reach more than twice as much.

Compared to cultivators of the same level, the "Ten Thousand Dragons Scripture" possesses more supernatural abilities and is even more powerful, making it ridiculously strong.

Feeling the genetic information begin to replicate methodically without any problems, Chen Sheng licked his lips, took a step back, and looked at the girl shouting in front of him.

"Ah, it itches so much, it itches so much! Have you had enough? Stop now."

"Stop pretending. I didn't lick you, so how could I be itchy?"

By the way, I still don't know your name.

Inside the prison, the girl's eyes were brimming with tears, and her words were choked with sobs.

"My name is Liu Bang, and I'm not as casual as Xiang Yu..."

After spending only a short time together, Chen Sheng clearly sensed that Liu Bang was far more intelligent and cunning than Xiang Yu.

This young girl is adept at using her beauty and age to gain his sympathy and pity.

Chen Sheng ignored her pitiful appearance, simply reaching out to touch the tentacles in front of him, and speaking to himself.

"These tentacles are connected to the alarm in the Yangcheng County Magistrate's room. If they are destroyed, they will alert him."

"We need to act quickly. After severing the tentacles, we need to tear through the fleshy floorboards between the floors and escape from the top floor."

Seeing that his tears had no effect, Liu Bang immediately stopped crying and continued speaking cautiously.

"Hero, after you save me, can you help me get my sword back from the magistrate?"

Chen Sheng was using his [Mysterious Mind Eye] to observe the structure of the tentacles when he heard this, and shook his head.

"It's just a sword; if it's lost, it's lost. We must not cause any further trouble."

"But……"

Red Dragon Girl rubbed her toes against Chen Sheng's hand and said aggrievedly.

"But my sword is a secret treasure of Jambudvipa. It would be such a waste to throw it away."

Upon hearing the words "Yanfu Secret Treasure," Chen Sheng paused, thinking to himself how wealthy these rebels were.

It's one thing that Xiang Yu had the Suihou Pearl, but Liu Bang also had a sword, which, judging from its design, was most likely an offensive Yama Fu treasure.

It seems that the First Emperor's construction of a large alchemical furnace within the Great Fruit was not favored by Heaven; it was a strong support for rebels.

Chen Sheng wanted both the beads and the sword.

Do not misunderstand.

He wasn't after the dragon girls' possessions; rather, he felt that being reborn into this world meant he had a duty to save it.

However, Chen Sheng thought about how he had obtained the Sea-Stabilizing Needle, an offensive Yama-Fu treasure, in the Divine Court World, and how it could beat the East Sea Dragon King, who was of the same level, to a pulp. He felt that trying to seize the sword might be a bit dangerous.

A thought flashed through his mind, and he asked the question.

"Is the mark you left in the treasure still there?"

"It's still there, it's still there."

Upon hearing that there was hope of getting his things back, Liu Bang immediately nodded like a chicken pecking at rice and said...

"I can sense that the magistrate of Yangcheng County has only had the Crimson Sky Sword for a short time, and the mark within the Crimson Sky Sword has not been completely erased yet."

Upon receiving this news, Chen Sheng immediately became indignant.

"The magistrate of Yangcheng County actually stole your sword, a mere young girl. It's utterly despicable."

Punishing the wicked and eliminating evil is our inescapable duty. Don't worry, I'll go and get your sword back in a bit.

Silently adjusting his action plan, Chen Sheng continued to look at the tentacles in front of him.

According to [Mysterious Mind's Eye], the tentacles that were entangled with Liu Bang had a very special nature, and were clearly highly resistant to various supernatural powers.

The structure is also very complex, with a total of sixteen layers, growing together in an alternating manner with the first layer being extremely hard, the second extremely tough, and the third extremely hard. Bound by these fleshy tentacles of such size, even a second-tier cultivator like Liu Bang would find it difficult to escape, and even Chen Sheng would have to put in considerable effort to destroy them.

However, there is nothing in this world that cannot be destroyed.

Chen Sheng pondered for a while, then exhaled towards the middle of the tentacles, freezing them into solid blocks of ice. After a moment, he used lava rays to cut them apart.

Due to thermal expansion and contraction, the tentacles at the frozen point shattered into fragments like fragile ice.

Liu Bang, who was hanging in mid-air, also fell down and landed in Chen Sheng's arms.

The remaining broken tentacles and tattered clothes fell to the ground and were swallowed and absorbed by the fleshy ground beneath his feet.

The handsome Liu Bang held Chen Sheng tightly, looking at him expectantly.

When shall we go and get the sword?

hum!
The moment the tentacle severed, a small section of the cell wall suddenly writhed and transformed into a giant dragon eye, which turned and glared at the two people inside.

Meanwhile, in a room on the fifth floor of the county town, the man who was refining a long sword with the blood of several women also opened his eyes.

"Who is attempting a prison break?"

A thunderous roar echoed throughout the county town, and at every intersection of the building, flesh-and-blood doors crawled down, blocking the flow of people.

As the tentacles shattered, the county magistrate was alerted.

At the same time, the cells on the fourth floor began to secrete large amounts of a strong acid, which was sprayed down on Chen Sheng and Liu Bang.

The surrounding flesh and blood seemed to transform into the intestines of a monster, writhing wildly and squeezing towards the center, as if trying to crush them into a pulp.

Chen Sheng took a deep breath and exhaled icy breath in all directions, freezing all the strong acid into ice blocks.

The flesh and blood that were squeezed in from all sides were frozen solid into various shapes.

Then, Chen Sheng extended his index finger and drew a circle on the ground with the lava rays. The five-foot-thick flesh-and-blood floorboards on the ground were directly cut off and fell into the next level.

"Don't worry, I'll take you there now."

Chen Sheng patted Liu Bang's smooth back, then embraced her and jumped into the next level.

As soon as I got my footing, I found myself in a spacious hall, and a strange-looking figure pushed open a door on one of the hall's perimeters and walked in.

The upper body of this person is that of an ordinary middle-aged man with a very human-like appearance, but he has more than twenty tentacles of varying thickness growing from his waist. The thick ones are used to support his walking, while the thin ones hold huge jet guns.

This anthropomorphic monster is the magistrate of Yangcheng County. As a mass-produced weapon developed by the Qin Dynasty, he also has the words "[Bing 1459]" tattooed on his shoulder.

Chen Sheng did not see a sword on the magistrate, so he chimed in.

"Hey, I heard you took my friend's sword?"

"Roar! After breaking into the county town from prison, you don't run away, but dare to come here to demand your spoils. You're extremely arrogant."

The magistrate's dragon eyes were fixed on Chen Sheng's figure. He raised more than a dozen tentacles, controlled more than a dozen jet guns, and pulled the triggers at the same time.

A dozen or so dark, giant guns formed a wall of guns, and the crimson jets shooting from their muzzles radiated dazzling light.

Even the aftershocks from the jet burned charred holes in the walls, the floor, and the ceiling.

Faced with the dense barrage of projectiles, Chen Sheng used Liu Bang as a shield, hiding his body behind her and carrying her forward with one hand.

Sizzle——

High-temperature jets, capable of easily killing third-level cultivators, landed directly on Liu Bang's delicate, fair skin, and after creating ripples, disappeared into thin air.

The moment Chen Sheng merged with Liu Bang's blood, she knew that as a pure-blooded red dragon, her body could withstand damage from extremely high temperatures.

This isn't even a supernatural power, but rather an ability that the Crimson Dragon's flesh and blood naturally possesses.

"Ah, it's so hot, so hot, no, I'm going to be burned to death."

As Chen Sheng advanced rapidly, Liu Bang's fair back, where it came into contact with the jet of jets, began to turn bright red, and his entire body radiated astonishing heat.

Even with her extraordinary bloodline, she is still only a second-tier cultivator. Her heat resistance has its limits, and once it exceeds a certain threshold, she will suffer severe damage.

"Those who achieve great things throughout history have all been able to endure what ordinary people cannot. If you want your sword back, then be patient."

Despite the immense impact of the jet, Chen Sheng continued forward for a distance.

Once the distance between him and the magistrate was within the range of the [Golden Spirit Lord]'s influence, the steel barrels of the projectile guns in the magistrate's hands immediately twisted and deformed, growing dense iron spikes that pierced his tentacles.

Pfft!

Blood splattered everywhere, and the gunfire ceased instantly.

Chen Sheng abandoned Liu Bang, who was covered in blood, and charged at the magistrate like a tiger descending a mountain. His simple move, Black Tiger Digs Out the Heart, was transformed into an exquisite killing move by the sublimation of the body and skills of the Martial Saint.

He pushed aside the injured tentacles that the magistrate was hastily guarding in front of him, pierced through his chest with its thick muscles and hard bones, and pulled out a bright red, beating heart.

"Heh...how come..."

Chen Shengchao exhaled a breath from the hole in the magistrate's chest. The icy breath chilled his entire internal organs, freezing them into a lump of ice.

He swallowed the rest of his words.

The exchange between the two was extremely dangerous, with life and death decided in an instant.

If I'm a fraction slower, I'll die; if I'm a fraction faster, you'll die. It's a contest of courage, wisdom, and strength that prevails when paths cross.

After killing the enemy, Chen Sheng looked at Liu Bang, whose body was radiating high temperatures and looked as if he had been played with and broken, and calmed his violently beating heart.

"Let's go, let's go find your sword now."

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Sheng's expression changed, and he turned to look behind him.

From the doorway where the magistrate had just appeared, another Yin spirit wielding a crimson-gold longsword rushed out.

The appearance of the Yin spirit was clearly that of the deceased county magistrate, while the three halos behind his head represented his cultivation level of the Fire Tribulation Realm.

"Does this world also have a tradition of sexual inheritance?"

When Chen Sheng saw the sword in the magistrate's hand, he was startled and immediately leaped towards Liu Bang.

"This battle is not over yet."

The magistrate, wielding the Crimson Cloud Sword, slashed at Chen Sheng with his sword.

With just a simple sword strike, the flickering, unstable sword light left a long trail across the hall.

Wherever it passed, the sword light, dozens of feet long, tore through the thick layers of flesh and blood, the hard steel on the outside, and the heavy earth and stone on the outside of the county town as easily as cutting tofu.

At the moment when the enemy's power was about to strike, Chen Sheng quickly lifted Liu Bang up in front of him.

All that could be heard was the girl's furious roar, her eyes wide with rage.

"No, I'll die!"

Her ability to withstand high temperatures and flames does not mean she is immune to the sharpness of Chixiao's sword.

"Relax, concentrate all your will, and communicate with the mark within the sword!"

(End of this chapter)