Chapter 125: Forbidden

The wind bullets roared like tigers in a forest. Still ten meters away, the wind blades they carried, like a frost storm, collided violently with the black dragon scales, producing metallic clangs.

“Scram!”

Li Yi gave a loud shout. His dragon scales shuddered all over his body as he transformed into the Siren Splits the Tide. His skin and scales trembled, and the shaking force shattered the wind blades.

“An innate spell? This is at least ten times stronger than the ‘Giant Wind-Claw’ from the Thousand-Spell Tome!”

Before he could think further, a tremendous force erupted behind him!

Hum!

The vast wind bullet did not explode. Instead, it spiraled like a giant drill, aiming straight for his back.

The swirling wind element, with its sharp and immense power, tore through the paper draft of the “Snake-Hair Hunter Type II”, shattered the scales on his back, and drove straight into his spine!

“Hah!”

A shiver ran through his whole body. Gritting his teeth, Li Yi shouted fiercely. His muscles rippled, and his dragon scales buzzed. Within his bones and flesh, a tidal wave-like tremor burst forth in an instant!

His entire body seemed to transform into an overloaded steam engine!

In his blood vessels, it felt as if not blood, but surging ocean currents were flowing!

He had trained long and hard in the Siren Splits the Tide technique. Finally, under external pressure, he broke through the barrier, leaping from the “Tide Sound Realm” to the “Tidal Wave Realm”!

“Better timely than early!” Li Yi was overjoyed.

Wave after wave of tidal force turned the intense tremors within his bones and flesh into an invisible defense, blocking the surging wind element. His body, like a sail, used the push to shoot forward like an arrow from a bow, faster than thunder!

“The mountains may not move, but the water does. One day, pfft…”

Li Yi raised his middle finger backward, intending to deliver a taunt. But with just a slight distraction, the wind element ran wild again, and a mouthful of blood sprayed out.

He dared not pretend any longer. Taking a deep breath, wind and thunder rolled under his feet as he dashed away at full speed!

Using the wind bullet’s “smooth sailing” push, Li Yi put some distance between himself and the beast horde chasing behind, which couldn’t catch up.

“I know you’re enthusiastic, but there’s no need to see me off for eighteen miles…”

Cracking a joke, Li Yi adjusted his breathing and heartbeat. The surging vitality within his body began to mend his wounds.

“Can’t stop. In one breath, escape this Soul-Return Marsh!”

His pace gradually steadied. Li Yi ran swiftly, ignoring the emerging Undead Creatures and focusing solely on fleeing.

Behind him, things gradually calmed down.

Just as he relaxed his guard, a tremendous roar erupted, soaring to the sky!

The earth shook and rumbled as if a herd of Mammoths were dancing madly in the marsh!

“What’s going on?”

Li Yi looked back, his eyes widening almost to the point of splitting.

Four lesser beast lords, their presence like towering mountain peaks, strode forth with world-shaking steps.

What they chased was not Li Yi, but a bright red figure.

It was Tao Hua!

Not far away, that swamp demon-wolf was stomped by a Blackwater Scorpion-Lion, turning into a pile of mush.

“What has this woman done that’s so heinous? Or… is it ‘that thing’ again?” Li Yi wondered, secretly complaining. “And also, why are you following me, woman?”

“Li Yi, catch this! Don’t mind me, you go first!”

Still at a distance, Tao Hua fiercely threw a spherical object flying toward Li Yi.

Catching it on reflex, Li Yi didn’t have time to look before four cold gazes focused on him.

“I’ve been tricked!” Li Yi realized instantly, cursing inwardly.

With a gloomy, sharp roar, the Death Knight clenched its hand, and a deathly purple spear condensed into existence.

This spear was formed from death and gloom energy, profound and eerie. Its shaft floated with countless wailing faces, utterly sinister.

“Wailing Ghost Spear!”

His pupils contracted. Li Yi’s voice became distorted with hoarseness.

He recognized this spell.

The Wailing Ghost Spear was a type of necromancy, typically requiring a Death Lord to cast.

Screech!

The spear tore through the void like a ghost. In an instant, it traversed a hundred meters, its shrill wails unceasing!

“Water!”

Uttering the word “Water” shortly, Li Yi’s fingers danced, executing the Magic Gesture meticulously. Flowing water appeared around him.

Three Water Elementals stood firm, and a ripple shield formed instantly, blocking in front of him.

The Wailing Ghost Spear was primarily a soul attack. Li Yi’s proud physical defense was useless against it.

Poof! Poof! Poof!

The spear streaked like purple lightning. Three clear sounds rang out in succession. Water splashed, and the three Water Elementals vanished into mist.

“Dammit!”

Li Yi swore angrily. His feet stepped in patterns of Sancai and four directions as his figure flickered ghost-like, trying to dodge.

But the Wailing Ghost Spear, with its screams and wails, clung to him like a shadow, relentless in pursuit.

“Be destroyed—now!”

Seeing the spear tip drawing closer, Li Yi felt frantic. His fingers flicked continuously, and his mental energy surged wildly.

Amidst successive Snaps, the phantom of the Kui Bull appeared and vanished, while Black Dragons tumbled and danced like dragons and snakes rising from the earth, all smashing against the spear’s shaft.

“Electric Storm Sphere!”

Another shout. A lightning sphere exploded, transforming into wildly dancing thunder serpents. Electric sparks surged, also striking the spear shaft.

The continuous barrage only caused the wailing faces to dim slightly.

“Bad!”

Li Yi’s body stiffened a little. The spear tip reached his brow. The Wailing Ghost Spear erupted at the center of his forehead!

Boom!

The spear’s tip met no obstruction. It pierced into his soul, reaching directly into his Sea of Consciousness!

“It’s over.”

Li Yi’s heart turned ice-cold.

He knew what this meant—soul shattered, consciousness destroyed.

Hum!

After a moment, a bell-like resonance echoed ceaselessly within his soul.

The Wailing Ghost Spear shattered!

“Huh? This is…”

Li Yi’s eyes moved. That giant spear was lodged squarely on the cocoon formed by the Heavenly Prophecy Ring.

How powerful was Heaven’s Condemnation Equipment? Naturally, it wasn’t something a mere Wailing Ghost Spear could break.

“I got my life back…”

He felt some relief, along with a terrible pain that spread across his forehead.

Although that strike just now didn’t kill him, it severely damaged Li Yi’s Soul Origin.

“Whoever wants this thing can have it!”

Li Yi cursed angrily, raised his hand, tossed the sphere high into the air, and without looking back, ran away at full speed.

The four lesser beast lords chased one another, rushing toward them at great speed.

The Death Knight galloped on his steed, grabbed it first, examined it briefly, then flew into a rage and charged toward Tao Hua.

“That woman is a total fox! She used me as bait?”

Li Yi inwardly cursed. Just as he had expected, the thing Tao Huathrew him was a fake!

“Run that way—there’s backup!” a young woman’s voice suddenly sounded.

“Can I trust your words?” Li Yi’s face darkened as he growled, “Just now, I almost died!”

“But you didn’t die, did you?” Seizing that split second, Tao Hualet out a breath and smiled sweetly. “Besides, even if you don’t believe me, do you have any other choice?”

Li Yi turned his head. The four beasts were gradually forming an encirclement, blocking all other directions.

He felt so frustrated he nearly spat blood, but he could only dash forward.

In his line of sight appeared a set of majestic, mountain‑like heavy armor, while Zhangsun Shenji sat calmly not far away.

“These people…” Li Yi’s spirits lifted.

Twelve knights, with dragon‑spears and great helms, both rider and horse fully armored—and in rare heavy plate!

On the surface of their armor, emerald‑gold Runes were densely arrayed; the edges of the plates bore three layers of dark‑gold restraints. Thorny vine‑like Magic Arcs wove in and out between the seams. The whole suit seemed alive, exhaling and inhaling a golden mist like constant breath, with an aura that cast shade.

“They really are backup?” His gaze fell on the golden rose pattern on the shoulder of the armor, and Li Yi looked astonished. “It’s actually—the Forbidden Garrison Cavalry!”

The Forbidden Garrison Cavalry was one of the Empire’s eight elite forces, a top‑tier combat unit.

The reason Li Yi recognized them was because they had another identity—the Armed Corps!

Every member of the Forbidden Garrison Cavalry was an Armed Knight, equipped with a set of Dao Transformation Armament.

The Armed Equipment they wore was called “Light’s Severance.”

Li Yi had never seen it personally, but he had heard of it.

“What are you waiting for? Night‑Severing Long Wall, rise!”

Tao Hua’s order came with no courtesy at all.

“Charge!”

At their commander’s shout, the twelve knights surged forth like a single tide, horses like dragons, men like tigers, their hooves thundering.

Their momentum steadily built.

All twelve knights moved in perfect sync, their mounts, their steps, even the rhythm of their heartbeats identical, as if they were mirror images of one person.

Hum!

Light shimmered. Wavy, emerald‑gold beams that resembled Soul Chains floated up and down, linking the twelve knights into a single line.

Li Yi and Tao Hualowered their heads and slipped past the Forbidden Garrison Cavalry.

“Night‑Severing Long Wall!”

The commander roared. Golden radiance burst forth, transforming into a golden wall that spanned heaven and earth, flickering with an unfathomably profound Rune!

Boom!

Countless spells crashed into the wall without leaving the slightest damage.

The Death Knight charged his steed into it; the skeletal warhorse gave a mournful cry, its skull shattered!

The curtain of light seemed to cut off a whole section of space!

“We’re safe!” Tao Hualet out a sigh of relief, then turned behind the light curtain and taunted, “Come on, hit me!”