Chapter 1023
The Yellow Turban Warriors Reappear
Hearing Imhotep's words, Li Xiao was stunned: "Uh, wait, a priestly tattoo?"
"Aren't you inscribing some kind of speed-up magic?"
Imhotep looked at him strangely: "Of course not."
"Moreover, my profession is that of a high priest, and my main job is to perform sacrifices."
Upon hearing this, Li Xiao was dumbfounded.
Fortunately, Jonathan wasn't there at the time, otherwise he could have drowned Imhotep in his spittle.
As their attention shifted, they noticed that as Jonathan disappeared into the distance, the four Yellow Turban Warriors a hundred meters away visibly paused for a moment.
Otherwise, since they don't have facial features, they might be staring wide-eyed right now.
Because such an option doesn't seem to exist in their settings.
"Oh!"
Compared to the following four.
The first slap finally landed.
After a loud bang, Li Xiao moved again and was already in front of him.
To prevent the five Yellow Turban warriors from having any other tricks up their sleeves, Li Xiao chose to take direct action.
He grabbed the Dragon Abyss Sword that was flying backwards in mid-air, turned around, and leaped into the air to slash directly at his opponent.
But after hearing only a crisp clang, Li Xiao's arm holding the sword went numb.
He was sent flying backwards.
Although Li Xiao has only unlocked the first stage of the gene lock, his physical strength is already terrifying enough.
But at this moment, they are completely at a disadvantage.
As he was sent flying backward, Li Xiao quickly scanned the Yellow Turban Warrior in front of him.
"His strength has increased by about 35% compared to last time. As expected, with all five Yellow Turban Warriors appearing, his strength has once again seen a leap forward..."
"According to Jonathan, this is just a cultivation tool... It's really a good thing."
"If Chu Xuan can obtain it, then what's next..."
Li Xiao didn't continue speaking because the projection on his wrist had already appeared.
"Moss helped me connect everyone!"
With that, Li Xiao flipped over and charged forward again.
The other four Yellow Turban warriors paused for a second after seeing someone attack their comrade, and then they all sprang into action.
Seeing this, Li Xiao spoke into the communicator:
"Pay attention, the Yellow Turban Warriors have appeared, and those Buddha statue parts should already possess special abilities."
"I will try my best to delay the time it takes to kill them."
After saying that, Li Xiao sheathed the Dragon Abyss Sword and slashed horizontally with one hand.
A golden light flashed, and a golden palm squeezed the air, rapidly swirling and condensing before striking forward.
The Yellow Turban Warrior, who had been displaying great power just a moment ago, was knocked away with a single palm strike.
It also crashed into the people rushing up from behind.
At this moment, Li Xiao said to the other side:
“Imhotep, go after Jonathan and protect him. I can handle things here on my own.”
Imhotep, who hadn't made a move yet, nodded and then transformed into a whirlwind to give chase.
However, as soon as he took off, he saw a terrifying burst of flames erupting and rising below.
But before the flames could spread outwards, two vacuum-shaped handprints appeared from both sides, and with a soft snap, the flames were violently extinguished.
Upon witnessing this scene, Imhotep seemed to recall some memories, his lips twitching slightly before he flew towards the direction where Jonathan had disappeared.
Li Xiao raised an eyebrow as he looked at the figure that resembled a giant of fire.
(Did their speed and strength not only increase, but their individual attributes and abilities also evolve?)
He focused his mind on circulating his true energy throughout his body, and golden light began to radiate.
On the other side, the Yellow Turban Warriors also changed their forms.
One burrowed into the ground.
A body surrounded by flowing water.
Seeing these various designs, Li Xiao murmured:
"Should all five of them die, or is it enough to keep just one alive?"
After saying that, Li Xiao did not attack. Instead, he was hit by a golden longsword formed from energy and used the force to rise into the air.
And that's how it stopped.
Now that everyone else is gone, all he needs to do is ensure that these few don't die.
Li Xiao also wanted to know what they would do if he stopped attacking.
Soon, five enormous monsters began to wreak havoc.
Large swathes of buildings began to collapse.
This commotion has drawn more and more people to this place.
Watching a spectacle is a human instinct.
In fact, Li Xiao had a bad feeling as more and more people gathered.
Then the next moment.
One of the Yellow Turban warriors suddenly inhaled sharply in the direction where the crowd was most concentrated.
The crowd began to fall in droves, like straws breaking the skin.
When countless illusory figures appeared.
The first thing that came to Li Xiao's mind was Xiao Honglu's Emperor Banner.
In an instant.
As the two energies within the body clashed, the golden light on the body surface instantly shone brightly.
With a muffled thud, Li Xiao's figure vanished instantly.
They reappeared in front of the Yellow Turban Warrior with his mouth wide open.
The force field of the storage ring in his hand was instantly activated, and then he threw a punch.
A series of clicking sounds rang out.
The giant, fiery Yellow Turban Warrior was shattered by Li Xiao's punch.
The souls, which had been unable to control their own bodies, immediately regained their freedom and fell back into their own bodies.
Once the souls returned to their places and opened their eyes, they had no interest in watching the spectacle and turned to run away without saying a word.
The crowd that witnessed the entire scene erupted in cheers.
Li Xiao, who had already made his move, did not linger.
Either keep them all, or keep one.
Now that one has been killed, the others are no longer important.
With a sudden thought, the explosion state was not canceled.
The figure charged towards the nearest strongman.
He lifted his foot, missed a step, and twisted his waist.
Two crescent-shaped slashes shot out with a powerful cutting sound as they sliced through the air.
The two Yellow Turban warriors, one on the left and one on the right, only felt a blur before their eyes and had no time to react at all.
Two bangs.
Two more Yellow Turban warriors collapsed and disappeared.
The remaining two are one in front of the other.
Seemingly having learned their lesson, one rushed towards the fleeing crowd, while the other took to the air and chased after Jonathan.
Li Xiao pondered for a moment, then a golden spear appeared in his hand. He stretched out his body and shot it towards the Yellow Turban Warrior on the ground.
The earth-elemental warrior had grown two legs, and each step he took created a ripple in the ground.
The already crowded people collapsed in an instant.
In just two or three steps, just as the earthen giant opened its massive mouth amidst the throng of people...
A flash of golden light.
The person exploded and then vanished.
In the half-meter-deep pit in the ground, there was only a golden spear stuck at an angle.
Before the survivors could even see what the spear looked like, a person had already appeared beside them.
He put the spear into his storage ring.
Li Xiao paused for a moment, then jumped onto his flying sword and soared into the sky.
From the moment Li Xiao entered the explosion until this moment.
The whole thing took no more than five seconds.
Their strength is terrifying.
"immortal!!"
"Truly divine!"
"May the immortals protect us." The commotion among the crowd on the ground did not last long.
Because a group of armed guards had already lined up and arrived.
A few seconds later, Li Xiao, who was flying at full speed on his sword, saw the last Yellow Turban Warrior.
Of the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth), only the metal element in front of him remains.
Li Xiao glanced at Jonathan's location through Moss and then refrained from making another move, instead simply following from a distance.
As for the frequently beeping communicator, I didn't even look at it; it was obvious without even thinking about it.
During this period, Chen Zilong and his group probably all gained something.
After all, it's usually hard to tell when a stone statue blends into a human body, but once it has special abilities, how can it resist?
But Li Xiao miscalculated one thing.
That means it's not just the Yellow Turban Warriors who get stronger with each resurrection.
Similarly, there are the fragments of Buddha statues that were briefly restored each time.
However, some members of the Zhongzhou team are naturally capable of dealing with the modern firearms and ordinary people of this era.
However, for those who have become part of the Buddha statue, it's a different story as non-combatants.
They even ended up being the ones who got beaten up and driven away.
And the person targeted by such favorable circumstances was none other than the archaeologist in the team, Saito Hajime.
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Near Kashgar, Xinjiang.
At the foot of Mount Namsunbawa.
After a loud metallic clang.
A purple-gold round bowl was blasted into the snow-capped mountain glacier by a figure standing in mid-air.
The lingering force of the tremor cracked a large expanse of snow into countless pieces.
As the snowflakes disperse.
Saito, holding the purple-gold bowl, looked completely bewildered.
who am I?
where am I?
What's going on here?
Has Death set its sights on me again?
Saito, who had climbed out, was stunned for a while before recovering from his temporary amnesia.
Since his resurrection, Saito Hajime hadn't been this disheveled in a long time.
And things started very simply.
One second he was an ordinary person, and the next he suddenly unleashed unimaginable power and ability.
Before he could react, he knocked the slug off his shoulder.
Whether by coincidence or not, the second blow was not aimed at him, but at the God Watch on his right wrist.
However, Saito Hajime was a veteran after all, and with that half-second of time from the slug, he quickly took a half-step back.
It activated the jade pendant.
Moreover, if it weren't for the Purple Gold Bowl in his hands, even if he were in the form of the Immovable King with the protective jade pendant, he wouldn't have been able to withstand that attack.
Coming to his senses, the person looked at the figure standing in mid-air with a complex expression and chanted a Buddhist prayer.
"Amitabha."
At first, the electromagnetic bomb could blow off half of his body, but the same attack just now only destroyed his two hands.
Saito is not stupid.
As time goes by, the person who has become one with the Buddha statue is growing stronger at a speed he is unaware of.
Saito Hajime swallowed again as he watched Li Xiao not reply.
He knew that Li Xiao was probably currently entangled with the Yellow Turban Warriors, stalling for time.
But the question is, can we stop this entanglement?
If the other side continues to get stronger, I'm afraid I'll be doomed.
But at that moment, Li Xiao didn't react, but Chu Xuan's voice rang out.
“Saito Hajime, Slug has already told me what happened. You’re currently heading south towards the border, where someone will be there to meet you.”
Upon hearing this, Saito glanced in the direction he was looking, then turned and ran without stopping.
He took a step, covering four or five meters, and then jumped up, stepping on a protruding rock.
The Green Goblin skateboard reappeared, carrying Saito away in an instant.
The figure high in the sky remained motionless, its eyes vacant and lifeless, completely lacking the liveliness a human should possess.
Seeing Saito run away, this person bent down and chased after him without hesitation.
Chu Xuan's voice continued to ring out in the AI.
"Based on the information from Chen Zilong and Cheng Xiao, this person should have fused with the body of a Buddha statue."
"I suspect that the more important and numerous the integrated parts are, the greater the power they possess."
"The Buddha head that Li Xiao faced yesterday was also killed instantly after entering destruction mode, and even then, the explosives were still detonated."
Saito Hajime, riding the Green Goblin skateboard, could feel the glaciers and snow-capped mountains rushing past below without even turning his head.
The thing behind us was flying faster and faster.
It was clear to the naked eye that the opponent's acceleration had exceeded that of the Green Goblin skateboard that was exploding at full power beneath his feet.
When the two sides were about 100 meters apart.
Saito could no longer restrain himself and directly initiated the gene lock.
At the same time, his figure shortened.
Two straight beams of light grazed Saito Hajime's scalp as they shot past him.
Saito, who had turned upside down, looked behind him and immediately cursed under his breath.
Those eyes, as bright as light bulbs, almost blinded his dog.
If he hadn't known he was still in the world of the mummy, Saito Kazuma would have thought the DC Superman wearing his underwear on the outside was chasing him.
These laser eyes really caught him completely off guard.
And he wondered if it was just his imagination, but why did that thing behind him look so much like Moss?
Of course, Moss is the beam of light between the eyebrows, while this one is the eyes.
Just as Saito was lost in thought, a second beam of light shot towards him.
Saito raised the purple-gold bowl in his hand.
After another muffled thud.
Using this momentum, Saito accelerated again, widening the distance between the two.
However, at the same time, the powerful force transmitted through the purple-gold bowl still caused Saito to suffer internal injuries.
"What a monster!"
"In just a few minutes, his power has increased so much."
As he spoke, Saito pulled out a gold needle and inserted it into an acupoint on his chest.
As energy flowed through the golden needles, the internal injuries healed rapidly.
The next moment, sensing something, Saito suddenly looked up. Before he could see the enemy clearly, a pair of dazzling rays of light suddenly descended.
It turned out that the person chasing him had somehow managed to get right above him in an instant.
With a blank look in his eyes, Saito quickly adjusted his posture in mid-air and placed one hand together on the purple-gold bowl.
Saito spat out a mouthful the instant the beam of light descended.
“叭 (bēi)”
A solemn Zen-like sound emanated from Saito's mouth.
Between words, lotus petals appear and disappear.
Saito actually uttered a corresponding character.
The character “叭” rotates and grows larger and larger.
Finally, it crashed head-on into the beam of light.
The two attacks canceled each other out.
Saito suddenly noticed something and stopped his skateboarding, speaking to the nearby figure again.
“Om (ōng)”
This sound was even louder than before, and specks of bronze light emanated from Saito's watch.
The characters formed from the Buddha's light actually pinned the figure in place.
It was at this moment that Saito Hajime finally realized he hadn't misread anything.
The moment he opened his mouth, the "person" chasing him stopped all movement.
It's like a robot suddenly crashing.
It was at this moment that Saito Hajime thought of something.
Buddha statues, no matter what, are definitely related to Buddhism.
Thinking of this, Saito Hajime advanced instead of retreating.
This time, however, instead of using the six-syllable mantra, they began to loudly recite a Buddhist heart sutra. (End of Chapter)