Chapter 112: Combined Spell and a New Demonic Art
“We meet again, Anaconda Demon!”
Dong Li gnashed his teeth, speaking each word through his jaw.
Mo Lin, wounded, propped himself up from the ground and said indifferently:
“Yo, Chairman Dong, long time no see.”
Dong Li had none of Mo Lin’s leisure:
“First you stole my Demonic Core, and now you’ve barged into my Yongzhou Chamber of Commerce. What are you trying to do?”
Mo Lin cast a glance at the resource warehouse it had just crawled out from, saying nothing.
Following Mo Lin’s gaze, Dong Li instantly felt even more furious.
He struck a palm toward Mo Lin:
“How did you sneak into our warehouse? Where’s Chu Huai? Where’s Lin Rui? What have you done to them?”
Though Mo Lin had been wounded by the Soaring-Hong Crossbow, when facing only Dong Li’s interception, it was still at ease:
“Ah, you mean those two guarding the warehouse? I ate them.”
Mo Lin’s calm words made Dong Li’s attack grow two degrees faster:
“Impossible! You’re lying! Chu Huai and Lin Rui are both lower-grade Earth Rank. How could you have killed them before the alarm was raised?”
“Money passes through Nine Abysses, shards shatter mountains and rivers!”
Mo Lin easily shattered Dong Li’s attack:
“The fact is, even now, they still haven’t appeared, have they?”
Mo Lin stabbed Dong Li with his words but did not entangle with him further.
Ning Zhuo had said before that aside from Dong Li and the warehouse guards, the Yongzhou Chamber of Commerce had three mid-grade Earth Rank cultivators in its headquarters. Once those three intercepted, escape would not be easy.
Mo Lin swept Dong Li back with a single lash of its tail. Without the Prince of Jiyang at his side, Dong Li was now only a rank higher than before, making this second clash feel far easier for Mo Lin.
Once again it spread its wings and took to the air, though this time it did not fly as high as before, instead hugging close to the Chamber’s buildings as it flew.
The Soaring-Hong Crossbow was indeed threatening, but with so many facilities within the Chamber, if it were to fire low, regardless of whether Mo Lin was harmed, the Chamber itself would suffer tremendous losses.
Although this height was still within the range of Earth Rank experts’ strikes, compared to the threat of the Soaring-Hong Crossbow, Mo Lin would rather exchange a few blows with Earth Rank cultivators.
Just as Mo Lin repelled Dong Li and prepared to withdraw, three figures surged toward it in a triangular formation.
They’re here!
Without need for words, Mo Lin knew these were the three mid-grade Earth Rank experts of the Chamber.
“Vice Chairman Wei, Wang Feng, Xu Feng—strike quickly, help me take this beast down!”
Dong Li chased Mo Lin while shouting toward the three.
Seeing this, Mo Lin dared not delay, accelerating toward the outside of the Chamber, in a flash breaking free of its range.
Though the pursuers trailed close, once it entered the Ning River, the sea was wide open for a snake to swim, the heavens vast for a snake to fly.
Dong Li and his men knew this well. If Mo Lin entered the Ning River, the Yongzhou Chamber of Commerce’s face would truly be lost. They hurriedly pulled out pills and swallowed them, their pursuit speed instantly increasing.
Within the Chamber, the Profound Light Cannons still fired endlessly at a distance, trying to hinder Mo Lin’s speed.
With the cannons’ interference and Dong Li’s group sustaining themselves on pills, the distance between Mo Lin and its pursuers narrowed. By Mo Lin’s estimate, it might well be caught before it could enter the Ning River!
With its wings flapping, the Ning River was already within reach—but Dong Li and the others had caught up beneath it, forming a perfect enclosing formation that faintly surrounded Mo Lin.
What are they planning?
A premonition of danger stirred in Mo Lin’s heart. Then it saw Dong Li—the lowest ranked among them—form seals with his hands:
“Three of you, Dragon-Binding Net!!”
Vice Chairman, Wang Feng, and Xu Feng likewise made sealing gestures. The next moment, a great net brimming with magical power appeared in the air between the four.
Once the Dragon-Binding Net took form, it surged upward with astonishing speed, instantly wrapping the flying Mo Lin in its mesh.
Within the Dragon-Binding Net, Mo Lin darted left and right, yet found no way to break free.
Seeing Mo Lin trapped in the net, the Ning River within reach yet unattainable, Dong Li’s gloomy mood finally lightened:
“Heh, Anaconda Demon, you have nowhere left to flee, do you?”
“The Dragon-Binding Net is the Combined Spell secret art of my Yongzhou Chamber of Commerce. So long as four people cast it at once, no matter where you strike it, you are simultaneously fighting against all four of our powers.”
“With the combined force of the four of us, unless a Heaven Rank expert an entire major realm higher, breaking free is absolutely impossible.”
“You dared to storm into our Chamber, kill two of our key guards, and steal vital resources. If we don’t capture you and make an example, how can the Yongzhou Chamber of Commerce continue doing business in the Great Qian Dynasty?”
During the pursuit, Dong Li had already learned through the Parent-Child Jade the extent of Mo Lin’s destruction inside.
Even from a quick count, it was confirmed that Chu Huai and Lin Rui—two Earth Rank experts—were dead, and the resources of the “Yisi” storeroom had vanished.
On top of that, there was the Sea Dragon Louse Demonic Core stolen before it even entered storage, along with the resource losses from the Profound Light Cannons and Soaring-Hong Crossbows fired to intercept—
Mo Lin had already inflicted losses equal to at least a year’s profits of the Chamber!
Even with the Chamber’s immense wealth, when Dong Li heard the report, his vision darkened.
That was an entire year of pure profit!
If not for this disaster, he could have reinvested it into reconstruction, or funded the Red Turban Army—handled properly, he might have doubled its true value.
In other words, this battle with Mo Lin had directly bled the Chamber of two years of profits!
Glaring at Mo Lin caught within the Dragon-Binding Net, Dong Li ground his teeth:
“Anaconda Demon, I, Dong Li, will kill you without fail!”
The four sealed their incantations again, and the vast Combined Dragon-Binding Net that spanned a mile began to contract.
Mo Lin watched as the net steadily shrank around it, yet did not panic.
From its tests just now, the Dragon-Binding Net only restrained its demonic body—it did not block the circulation of its Demonic Power.
In other words, its Demonic Power could still influence the outside world.
Dong Li had said earlier: the Dragon-Binding Net was equal to the four acting as one. No matter how it attacked the net, it was equivalent to exhausting the combined power of all four.
How could its lone Demonic Power outlast the total strength of four cultivators?
Especially when they were constantly taking pills to keep their power brimming.
But Mo Lin was not without recourse.
A person’s greatest strength was often also their greatest weakness.
The same was true of spells.
Though the Dragon-Binding Net carried the combined power of four, conversely, if even one failed to sustain it, the technique would collapse on its own.
Ning Zhuo had never told Mo Lin the precise counter, but had mentioned the existence of the Dragon-Binding Net.
If Mo Lin had no means to counterbalance it, how would it have dared to wreak havoc on the Yongzhou Chamber?
Dong Li and the rest thought that since it had not yet entered the Ning River, it was helpless.
But they did not know—so long as it was beside the Ning River, Mo Lin already stood unshakable.
Because after swallowing the Sea Dragon Louse’s Demonic Core, Mo Lin had long since mastered the demonic art of the Sea Dragon Louse—“Water Control Technique”!!
The next moment, countless torrents of river water, each a hundred meters thick, surged skyward from the Ning River, transforming into mighty water dragons that lunged straight at Dong Li and the others!!!