Reborn As A Ghost: Time To Build My Undead Army!-Chapter 1756: The Heavenly Demon King Son’s Wrath

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Wu Lieng had trained relentlessly all this time and ascended to a much higher realm.

Yet something essential still eluded him, something he could not awaken. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

He was simply too peaceful an old man.

And yet, now...

He could feel it.

Wrath.

His father’s strongest emotion, the very force he had wielded to defy the heavens.

"{Heavenly Demonic Dragon Arts}: {World-Bending Claw}!!!"

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

Before the old man everyone had always dismissed and looked down upon,

dozens of Vampires—nearly at the Initial Stage of Immortality—were torn apart.

To shreds.

They exploded, engulfed in dark red and black flames.

Reduced to ashes.

As if he knew they would regenerate otherwise.

"...?!"

Archduchess Veloria, who had remained so composed before, suddenly spat out the wine she was sipping. Her eyes fixed on Wu Lieng as he fought with ferocious intensity.

She recognized his movements, his technique...

He had honed this power and transformed it.

He had infused it with his own style.

Modified it.

Making his father’s Martial Arts even deadlier against Vampires.

Their blood transformed into Heavenly Demon Ki, flowing toward Wu Lieng, reinforcing his body and healing his exhaustion.

"W-What...?! What is this...?"

Despite her immense strength, she stared at her own hands.

She could not comprehend how or why.

But her hands trembled.

Cold sweat beaded on her skin.

She was gripped by an emotion she had only ever felt before the almighty Crimson Emperor—not even toward her Family Head, her beloved father who had never threatened her.

FEAR!

"Why am I feeling fear toward this decrepit old man?!" she thought, gasping in disbelief.

"Mommy, why! Why did you do that to Kim Huan! He was like my big brother...! Whyyyy!" her daughter sobbed beside her.

"Tch, silence!" the Archduchess roared, slapping the girl’s face in fury. "Don’t you dare speak another word while your mother is busy, you stupid, useless thing!"

"Ahh!" The girl tumbled to the rooftop, curling up and crying on the floor.

Wu Lieng caught sight of how the woman treated her own daughter. His eyes blazed brighter red with surging anger.

"You treat your daughter worse than garbage, you wicked woman! You forced her, didn’t you?! You forced little Mu Ningxue to betray us!" Wu Lieng roared, soon swarmed by hundreds of Blood Beasts until his figure vanished from sight.

"Silence!" the Archduchess snapped. "I’ve heard enough from you! Stand down! Tear his limbs apart, destroy his eyes and ears! Leave him a vegetable!"

"No...! Grandpa Wu Lieng!" Mu Ningxue cried as she watched him disappear amid the monstrous Blood Beasts, grotesque giants resembling mutated bats.

"Hahaha! You still remember him?" the vampire laughed, glancing at her daughter. "Well, don’t worry, my dear. Once you taste his blood, you’ll soon accept how valuable he is as an endless blood-producing bank!"

"Grandpa, I’m sorry... it’s all my fault..." Mu Ningxue wept on the rooftop.

"No... it’s not your fault, Mu Ningxue."

"ROOOAAARR!"

A mighty dragon’s roar thundered across the skies as Wu Lieng’s muscular arm emerged, blasting away hundreds of Blood Beasts.

Draconic flames enveloped their bodies. Each beast burned to death, its lifeforce synthesized into greater power for him.

The dragon surged forth, coiling protectively around his body.

His Dream Spirit—the former Heavenly Demon Shadow—had evolved.

Wu Lieng no longer wished to linger in his father’s shadow. He sought to forge his own path and soar through the skies like a true dragon.

Thus, his Dream Spirit fused with his Martial Spirit, birthing this formidable entity.

"A Dragon Spirit?!" the Archduchess gasped, her eyes widening in twisted disbelief. "Wait... this power... I don’t recognize it! What... What sort of treasure is this?!"

"Treasure?! This is the embodiment of my own Dream!" Wu Lieng roared, leaping onto the dragon and charging straight toward her.

"Hmph! You truly believe you can fight me?! I’ll blow off your arms and legs just like I did to your pathetic disciple!" the woman screamed, still seated upon her throne atop the floating building. "Learn your place, scum!"

SPLAT!

"Nngh?!"

Wu Lieng gritted his teeth as his left arm exploded into fragments.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

Then his right arm, followed by both legs!

"Gaaaahhh!"

The old man screamed in utter agony, vomiting blood as he plummeted to the rooftop, painting it red.

"Grandpa!!!"

Mu Ningxue shrieked, desperate to reach him, only for her mother to slap her again and bind her neck with Blood Soul Chains.

"Where do you think you’re going?! As long as you’re under my spell, you’re mine, girl," she hissed. "You came from my body, so you belong to me! Now behave!" She struck her daughter’s face repeatedly, drawing cries and screams of pain.

Wu Lieng witnessed the brutality. His eyes spun with rage, tears of blood streaming down.

"Enough... ENOUGH!!!"

His Aura erupted, wrapping around him and solidifying.

Suddenly, draconic arms and legs manifested, forged from Ethereal Ki.

"I won’t tolerate any more injustices! I will not allow you to hurt my dear disciple, you monster! You’re the only demon here!"

"What?!"

Wu Lieng leaped toward her as three Vampire Dukes rushed to intercept him.

"Don’t let him near her eminence!"

"You dare defy her will?!"

"Perhaps you need a lesson!"

The three powerful Vampire Dukes unleashed dozens of Blood Stars, bombarding him with relentless explosions.

Wu Lieng shielded himself with his arms, enduring the onslaught.

"Damn it! I can’t break through! If only... If only I had Kim Hua’s shield with me!"

"Ahhh, Kim Hua! You were like a son to me! Why...! Why do I keep letting everyone I love die before my eyes?!"

"When... just when will this end?! When will this madness stop?!"

As Wu Lieng drowned in self-blame...

FLUOSH!

A faint, ghostly presence materialized behind him.

"You’re not alone, Master."

"Kim...?! Kim Hua?!"

A spectral figure formed from dream essence appeared—Kim Hua’s soul. Having ascended to a new Realm, it possessed unique properties.

Through his cultivation of Maria’s Martial Arts, he had forced himself into the form of a Dream Ghost.

And now, he stood right behind Wu Lieng.

"If my shield is what you need, then I will become your shield once more!"

FLAAASH!

His soul fused with his nine Dream Soul Spheres and Nightmare Soul Heart, transforming into a massive black, red, and gold shield that split into nine segments.

"Y-You’re...!"

"Don’t waste time asking why. We must go! I don’t know how long I can hold this, but you must be the one to slay her, Master!"

"Kim Hua...! Thank you, truly...! I don’t deserve a disciple like you!"

Wu Lieng wept but pressed forward.

The heavens trembled.

"HAAAAH!"

Charging alongside his disciple, he began tearing through enemies, hurling them aside one by one.

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