Chapter 695: Snow Bird Harbor Battle – Hou Lang Appears

“This time, things have really gotten out of hand!” When the city palace exploded, even Tan Mo was dumbfounded for a good while.

“What’s going on with [Emancipator]?! He was convinced he had immense control over Snow Bird Harbor…”

“Is that it?”

Tan Mo was excessively greedy, but not foolish. On the contrary, he had outstanding investigatory abilities, or else not long after coming to Snow Bird Harbor, he wouldn’t have so quickly snooped out Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s shenanigans and forced the latter to submit.

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord saw through this plot, and so did he.

The dragonman youngster’s first time was still too rough. If Cang Xu were here, it would be completely different.

Tan Mo’s reaction was different from Snow Bird Harbor City Lord.

After breaking out of the siege he had time and space to revert to his original navy identity, but he didn’t rush out to battle.

“Let me stall for a bit.”

Tan Mo even poured himself a cup of red wine and slowly savored it.

Snow Bird Harbor had suffered heavy damage, with the magician tower and city palace being bombed in succession.

The situation was extremely critical.

“But this isn’t my city, right? I only came to make money!” Tan Mo cried in his thoughts. He drank his wine while he wiped the bloodstains off his face.

“This is not my responsibility, it is not my city, it is not my affair.”

“When I was attacked by pirates on the sea, I fell unconscious due to injuries, therefore, I had no choice but to come to Snow Bird Harbor to recuperate.”

“I have nothing to do with any of this, I am a victim, my injuries are very heavy, I have been secretly recovering. When the pirates attacked, I was in a deep sleep and didn’t know what was happening.”

“But the pirates were too noisy, and I was awoken by my subordinates’ reports.”

“Despite my heavy injuries, I am part of the navy, and I cannot turn a blind eye to the atrocities and sins before my eyes.”

“Therefore, I risked my life and dragged out my wounded body. Yes, this is important! In future reports this must be emphasized. I went to battle in the later stages of it.”

“My injuries were too heavy, and I hadn’t recovered well enough yet. Therefore, don’t blame my “halfhearted effort”, I had a terrible loss and cutting my losses at the right time is the right way of things.”

“Oh, I made the mistake of accidentally saying the truth.”

“In short, I will still go into battle.”

“Due to my injuries, I am barely able to fight.”

“What style is this? This is the noble style of the Sheng Ming Empire; I cannot bear to see sin run amuck and need to carry out naval justice. This is the Tan Tu Clan’s family customs, and I am one with the empire’s honor!”

“Alright, this is the report that will be sent, it’ll be enough to get at least an oral commendation?”

“As for the naval losses, am I able to cover it up?”

His avaricious personality let Tan Mo decide to stop his losses at the right time!

Therefore, when he regained his true identity and went into the battle, this is what he did:

Tan Mo went on stage with excessive grandeur and shouted to Snow Bird Harbor City Lord, “City Lord, I have come to help you!”

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord coughed out, “You finally came!”

The city lord had complex feelings.

Despite Tan Mo forcing his submission, despite sinking into this plight because of Tan Mo, and despite him just beating Tan Mo up earlier (truth be told, he found it invigorating), right now, Snow Bird Harbor City Lord still looked forward to Tan Mo fighting.

Ding.

A moment later, Tan Mo was swept and tossed away into the distance by Cong Mang’s rod.

Tan Mo struggled to get up, he was kneeling, and his face was deathly white, but his expression was still firm, and his battle intent clearly remained.

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord: ?!

He realized things were anything but reassuring.

Tan Mo charged again and was once more flung away.

Tan Mo rose and fell time and again, fighting despite continual setbacks.

Tan Mo’s yells began to grow hoarse as he was soaked in blood, yet Tan Mo still fought on bravely.

His contribution to the battlefield was horrendous, and his most prominent thing was his “performance”.

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord completely understood what Tan Mo’s plan was.

The help he originally placed his hope in actually turned up like this!!

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord for a moment, simply wanted to spit blood. He bellowed in his transmission to Tan Mo, “What are you doing? What are you thinking?!!”

Tan Mo faintly responded on the sly, “City Lord, don’t be so hasty.”

“Don’t forget, when I requested to enter the harbor, my application clearly stated: I was seriously wounded in a naval battle and will be recovering in the harbor.”

“I…I…you…” Snow Bird Harbor City Lord was furious, and he wanted to curse, but due to his anger, he was stammering.

Tan Mo was not worried about what Snow Bird Harbor City Lord thought of him.

The two of them had signed a contract, and he had information against Snow Bird Harbor City Lord, he could certainly destroy him!

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord inhaled constantly, shouting from the bottom of his heart. “I need to calm down! Keep calm!”

He knew he couldn’t beat Cong Mang.

This pirate leader was impressively strong and was well known on the seas for charging in first, he was not weak.

Adding on that hidden third party, Snow Bird Harbor City Lord found that his best way forward was to win over Tan Mo’s true cooperation.

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord could only deal with Cong Mang while transmitting to Tan Mo.

Tan Mo sent a warning, “Be careful!”

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord saw a shadow flashing before him.

A moment later, Cong Mang’s long rod fell from the sky and smashed into his head.

The battle qi protecting Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s body loudly crumbled apart.

He howled in pain and was smacked through the air like a ball.

After falling to the ground, he wanted to stand up, only to meet Cong Mang’s next attack, forcing him to roll across the ground in sorry manner.

Tan Mo shouted and stepped forth to lend a hand.

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord seized the opportunity to stand back up.

His head was broken.

Blood leaked from the top of his head, dripping past his forehead.

His eyes went dark for a spell.

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord promptly took out a potion and drank it.

Tan Mo at that moment transmitted, “[Emancipator]! During battle, don’t be distracted. Fight well, this is your city, and this battle is depending on you.”

Pop.

Snow Bird Harbor City Lord couldn’t stand it anymore, and he angrily coughed out blood, including the medicine he just consumed.

“Ahh!” Snow Bird Harbor City Lord furiously shouted, his hair disheveled and body covered in injuries.

He was extremely angry and irate.

Not bothering to drink the rest of the medicine, he threw himself at Cong Mang.

In this bout, his style suddenly changed to one similar to Cong Mang, he no longer dodged and weaved and was now fighting to the death with all his strength.

Seeing this crucial point, Tan Mo withdrew.

The two feverishly and wildly risked it all, each standing their ground and rarely evading as they attacked each other with all their strength.

“Amazing, truly amazing.” Tan Mo couldn’t help but draw a cold breath at this.

The incomparably fierce contest violently grinded at the two’s battle qi, magic, and divine power.

Pow.

With a sound, both the long rod and the short rod could no longer bear their burdens, and after countless intense collisions, they crumbled apart.

The head of Cong Mang’s rod broke, while Snow Bird Harbor City Lord tossed away his useless short rod, continuing to fight with the remaining one.

“Strong enough, this is strong enough, hahaha.” Cong Mang grew increasingly intoxicated as he progressively displayed the bearing of a battle maniac.

“Die, go and die!” Snow Bird Harbor City Lord constantly harped on, his dreadful gaze was full of animosity, like he wanted to eat him.

But the two’s combat strength began to rapidly wane.

They were tired.

Stamina, battle intent, and transcendent energy had been depleted too severely and fell to rock bottom.

Seeing this, Tan Mo’s eyes shined, and he began to get restless.

“The crucial moment is almost here.” The dragonman youngster mumbled to himself.

Standing next to him, Hun Tong suddenly quivered, thinking, “Long Fu finally wants to tidy up the battlefield. But there was still one big worry, the saint level Tan Mo’s Treasure Chest was hiding. Up until now, they haven’t appeared, I wonder if they are still alive?”

Dao Hen and Hun Tong had been on the Treasure Chest for a long time and were quite familiar with the happenings on the ship.

But later on, Hun Tong and Dao Hen were deployed to the capital, and they weren’t able to keep investigating the Treasure Chest.

The dragonman youngster shook his head, extended his fingers, and clenched them, feeling his power.

In Hun Tong’s field of view, the dragonman youngster’s body suddenly lit up.

The luminosity was immense, and the sting of it forced him to narrow his eyes.

When the radiance dissipated, Long Fu’s form changed dramatically.

His towering body only became 1.6 meters, and he looked heavy and obese.

Layers of red dragon scales had changed into dark blue fish scales. The fish scales had a natural black ripple to them, forming the look of waves.

The once taut muscle lines became soft, and one could see increased fat superseding muscle.

The mighty dragon head turned into a fish head, the eyes became gigantic and split on both sides of the skull, and the pupils were as pure black as the abyss.

Hun Tong’s heart shook in the wake of that, and he unavoidably thought, “Could this be Long Fu’s true identity?!”

In a split second, he thought of Dao Hen, the Blue Green Coral Fishman Clan, and of the many other indicators and clues.

The fishman youngster took a light breath, lowered his webbed fishman palms, and began to cast.

Spell – Bear’s Strength. Substantial Strength Enhancement.

Spell – Cat’s Agility. Substantial Dexterity Enhancement.

Spell – Leopard’s Speed. Substantial Movement Enhancement.

…

Divine spell – Strengthen Body. Comprehensive medium ranged constitution increase, including strength, endurance, recovery power, physical power, and other attributes.

Divine spell – Halo of Intellect. Increases intelligence and insight, making casters smarter and resourceful.

Divine spell – Lifeform Blessing. Substantially increases self-healing.

…

Ten divine and magic spells in a row enhancing the fishman youngster caused his personal transcendent aura to rise little by little.

Hun Tong was dumbfounded by everything he saw with his eyes!

Shock was across his entire face.

“How can he be enhanced by so many magic and divine spells?”

Enhancement divine and magic spells were doubtlessly good things, but a transcendent couldn’t enhance themselves infinitely.

It was like stacking iron sheets on top of a brick. The more iron sheets were added, the heavier the burden on the brick. There would come a day when the iron sheets would crush the brick.

No matter what kind of enhancement was used, it would temporarily boost a transcendent with external power.

A transcendent naturally needed to bear the burden of it.

Overburdening oneself would endanger a transcendent’s life.