Chapter 344: Doctor VS Nightmare
Let’s just say Li Tianan took a wrong turn somewhere. If he had focused on the curse instead of his physical form, he might have posed a real threat to Bai Yu. But alas, he was too busy flexing his muscles, and that was an easy fix!
But we can’t really blame Li Tianan. After all, he’s still a living, breathing human. As long as you’re breathing, you’ll never be a perfect match for the powers of an Evil God.
With his remaining hand, he conjured a wooden sword and began hacking away while retreating like a clumsy ninja. A wooden arm took the place of his severed limb, though it lacked the grace of a real arm—think of a stick figure trying to dance!
One of his swings missed and hit the ground with a resounding boom, cracking the earth open like a piñata at a kid’s birthday party. Just before Bai Yu’s blade came crashing down, he stomped the ground, shattered his wooden sword into splinters, and sent a storm of wooden spikes flying toward Bai Yu.
He moved fast, conjuring another sword in his hand and turning his left arm into a makeshift shield. If he couldn’t do much with it, at least it could serve as a dinner plate—er, I mean, a shield.
“Hiss!” A raspy screech echoed as a surge of curse energy followed Bai Yu’s lead. With a flick of her wrist, she sliced through the oncoming wooden spikes like they were nothing more than soft butter. As a translucent wave of curse energy came her way, she raised her hand, and a dragon head made of bl**d Threads and Tentacles gobbled it up, gaping its mouth wide and charging straight at Li Tianan.
In a moment of sheer audacity, Li Tianan leapt into the air. As he descended, he kicked off Bai Yu’s flinging dragon head, using it to launch himself into action. The massive wooden sword came crashing down toward Bai Yu from the sky.
That sword was over twenty meters long—definitely not for slicing up a salad, but rather to flatten Bai Yu like a pancake!
Before the sword even landed, the rushing curse energy descended like an angry wind, making Bai Yu’s long black leather coat flap dramatically.
Today, Bai Yu intentionally skipped wearing a dress, opting instead for a leather outfit made of bl**d Threads to ward off the Nightmare’s annoying hypnotic powers—those things are sneaky, creeping up on you when you least expect it. If she got dragged into a dream, she’d be toast!
Not that she had any worries; the Gatekeepers surrounding her, on the other hand, were having a rough day.
They’d just managed to crawl out from under the curses of Fan Yin and A She when Li Tianan’s woodsy attack came crashing down. Before they could even blink, their bodies turned to wood, and they crumbled like overcooked noodles.
From the spectators’ point of view, Li Tianan’s attack was nothing short of a visual spectacle—especially since, right after he swung, the ground went from people to splintered wood in a flash.
Bai Yu bent her legs and launched herself into the sky like a rocket, confronting that giant wooden sword head-on.
Under the shadow of that colossal blade, she looked like a tiny bug.
Crack!
In an instant, a sharp sound broke through the air, and the wooden sword was severed cleanly in two, yet Bai Yu’s momentum carried her upward.
She kicked Li Tianan right in the chin, sending him spiraling backward.
With a twist of her wrist, Bai Yu spun her blade and gripped the hilt, performing a theatrical hanging upside-down pose before slashing upward as Li Tianan flew through the air.
One fluid motion later, Li Tianan was cut in half vertically.
This caused a massive disruption of the Evil God’s power within him, temporarily saving his life. You could see the black mist swirling around the cut as it attempted to merge his two halves back together.
Though it looked like Li Tianan was fine, he’d significantly reduced his remaining time on this planet. With the Nightmare not directly attacking him, he initially thought he had two days to live—now he might not even last through the night!
As Li Tianan’s consciousness started to awaken, Bai Yu appeared right in front of him again.
Thud!
With a double kick, his arms were shredded by her sharp blade. Despair washed over him as he realized that the unstoppable blade had pierced his heart, sliced his throat, and exited through his eye socket!
Every cut was deadly, but with the Evil God’s power backing him up, he was still conscious.
Now, THAT was the cruelest part.
He had to watch helplessly as his life force dwindled before his eyes, feeling as though his last hope was slipping away.
Li Tianan did have a flicker of fight left in him. If he really wanted to, he could channel his energy to heal himself, maybe even go toe-to-toe with Bai Yu once more.
At least he wouldn’t d*e in a silly way—he could at least cause her some damage, right?
But right now, that thought was far from his mind.
No amount of struggling was going to change anything.
He started to believe Bai Yu’s words. Maybe he really had been fooled!
“Bai Yu, I’m sorry for all the trouble I’ve caused you. My entire life has been a colossal failure. I thought maybe, at the last minute, I could make some sort of amends. I knew you were telling the truth; I just couldn’t bring myself to believe it.”
“Just end it, will you? I’ll give you all my Evil God powers.”
“Since I helped Zhao Mingyue for so long, do me a solid and take my daughter back. My wife can take care of her.”
Right before d*ath’s door, instead of solving the problem with his daughter, he was asking a stranger for help. Li Tianan felt like he’d lived like a dog over these years, getting played like a fiddle while thinking he was the smartest one around.
As his injuries rapidly healed, his strength grew.
Just as he made a move to exit the area, he suddenly froze.
Li Tianan wanted to leave and send Bai Yu some strength after she accepted his situation. His main worry was that his demise would turn his three Evil Gods into the core of the Nightmare.
“Where do you think you’re going, Mr. Li? It’s not a good habit to run away in the middle of a fight. What would your daughter think if she knew?”
A cool, young voice floated up behind him. Bai Yu snapped her fingers, and all the remaining Gatekeepers in this domain collapsed, retreating into the land of dreams as their life forces sparkled away.
Even Li Tianan widened his eyes, stunned, before succumbing to the ground himself.
Bai Yu’s focus had never really been on Li Tianan; it was on the Nightmare looming nearby.
“Well, well, well, look who it is! The Doctor.”
The Nightmare lingered twenty meters away, getting too close would be a dangerous move.
“Just as I suspected, you definitely came tonight.”
“I imagine the Dragon Lady filled you in on everything, so I’ll skip the small talk.”
“There can only be one survivor in this world.”
“I think we’ll make that decision tonight.”
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