Chapter 198 - Displaying A Man’s Gallantry (2/2)
The Red Toad King was right about that.
It was an amphibian, and that was no exception even if it evolved into a Feral King…
No!
Feral Kings could fly, and now could reside in the skies, on land and beneath the water. If the Red Toad King headed towards the sea, nothing could be done against it.
And now, it was swimming towards the lake, laughing out loud, “Moreover, why would this king spit out what I devoured by my skill? It may merely be rank-nine and doesn’t have much flesh, it’s enough for a scrumptious meal for this king. Indeed, it should have been digested in this instant… What… Argh!”
Suddenly, the Red Toad King which swam to the center of the lake suddenly shivered and shrieked in agony.
***
Inside the Red Toad King’s belly.
His Dark Golden Combat Suit equipped and added with a green layer of Cloudscraper Vine armor, Jiang He’s face was a somber greenness.
How…
Embarrassing!
He was actually eaten by a toad?
Most importantly…
“I’m just afraid Chen Jingzhou and the others were looking from the distance. I, Jiang He, may have a legendary life, but it’s all gone now to one mishap…”
Six silhouettes of suns appeared around Jiang He then. As his abundant True Qi shielded his body, it kept the Red Toad King’s rapid-digestive gastric acid from reaching his body.
The goo that could instantly melt the True Qi of any martial artist’s protective True Qi could not affect Jiang He at all.
“That goo is so disgusting!”
“Although it’s fine for me to get hit with my current physique, and the Red Toad King would never digest me even if I sleep in its belly… would I be able to face the others if I’m all goo later?”
Jiang He was about to restore himself.
That ‘restoration’ was not to save his own hide—from where he stood, he would not face any danger against the Red Toad King that spat venom. The reason he was eaten was merely because that bastard was ruthless enough to spit its tongue at a moment’s notice… and Jiang He wasn’t prepared yet.
To put it in another perspective, the Red Toad King’s devouring of Jiang He was not much different from suicide.
If he did not eat Jiang He, he only had a small chance of killing the Feral… the condition being having to use his soul weapon, the Scarlet Flame Sword.
It being Jiang He’s trump card, Jiang He did not really want to use it now, since there were people watching him fight out in the distance.
But now that the Red Toad King had eaten him…
There’s nothing stopping him.
After all, innards were extremely fragile, and Jiang He was confident in killing the Red Toad King even without using the Scarlet Flame Sword.
Firstly, Jiang He took out two handfuls of Strengthened Pea Bombs…
Whoosh.
And threw them all out.
At almost the same instant that Jiang He threw the bomb, he had already dropped down, clutching his head.
Boooom!
Up to eighty Strengthened Pea Bombs hence blew up inside the Red Toad King’s belly.
The Strengthened Pea Bomb was not powerful in the first place, and it would hardly damage a rank-eight martial artist’s protective True Qi.
Even so, the inside of the Red Toad King’s belly was an enclosed space.
Moreover, Jiang He had thrown a lot of pea bombs…
Hence, the violent explosion that could not be vented anywhere else in that single instant began to shatter and bleed the various organs of the Red Toad King…
And yet, even before it bled, the organs were burnt and cauterized by the scorching, violent flames generated by the explosion.
Jiang He could even smell a sweet aroma of meat…
“What the hell…”
Having clutched his head and dropped to the ground, Jiang He felt the force of the explosion and exclaimed in shock, “So, this is how powerful eighty Strengthened Pea Bombs could be when detonated in an enclosed space…”
***
Beneath Lake Kanas, the Red Toad King’s belly abruptly bloated because of the violent explosion, its red body turning to an even brighter crimson—just like a red-hot furnace.
Shrieking in agony, it kept breathing massive pillar of flames from its mouth each time it did, venting the fires within its belly.
It was crashing around under the lake, splashing waves that slapped on the cliffs of the lakes on both ends of the eggs and blowing it up.
Nearby, Three Blades Lin was astonished.
What happened to that Red Toad King?
What was that thunderous rumbling in its belly?
And why the hell was it breathing flames?
Was the Red Toad King not adept at water skills?
Boom….
Suddenly, there was a second ‘thundering’ in the Red Toad King’s belly… even the Red Toad King’s hisses had become powerless, just as its vigor began to decline.
And when the sound of explosions faded, there was a slicing sound as a thunder slash cut apart the Red Toad King’s belly from the inside out.
Shunk!
The second thunder slash burst out, slicing open the Red Toad King’s back.
After throwing a second round of pea bombs and slashing out twice, Jiang He put away his Cloudscraper Vine armor. Then, leaping into the air, he sliced a gaping gash over the Red Toad King’s back. With his Dark Golden Combat Suit equipped, he was bathed in blood from head to toe, just as the silhouette of six suns rose to the air, shinning in faint golden radiance with faint starlight in its fold, even as a dragon’s roar and an elephant’s trumpeting echoed around him!
His ‘special effects’ going on full drive, he descended like a god upon the mortal realm before his feet rested atop the head of the dying Red Toad King, letting out a long roaring before he yelled, “Monster, how dare you attempt to eat me! Did you really think that I couldn’t kill you?”
Hmm…
This feels very awesome.
Hence, Jiang He managed to ‘restore’ his personal image on his own.
After making short work of the Red Toad King to demonstrate his gallantry as a man, surely he could negate the infamy of being eaten by the Red Toad King, could he not?