Chapter 677: The Little Heavenly Lord's Great Adventure
The Reconnaissance-Type Little Heavenly Lord—deploy!
Li Daoxuan was ready to make a dramatic leap, jumping down from the city wall.
Standing at the edge of the wall and looking down, holy cow, the two-meter-high city wall, in the eyes of the Reconnaissance-Type Heavenly Lord, appeared like a massive skyscraper, dozens of meters tall.
It was simply too high.
Li Daoxuan was even a little afraid to jump.
Just one glance down gave him vertigo.
Never mind, don't be afraid. He couldn't die from the fall anyway. He decided to just close his eyes and leap.
"Heave-ho!"
With a slight cry, the Reconnaissance-Type Little Heavenly Lord bounded downwards.
"Thump!"
Li Daoxuan hit the ground hard.
Fortunately, he had intentionally not activated the detailed sensory feedback of his "Co-sensing" ability, so he felt no pain.
He brushed off his backside and stood up, giving the stunned Chen Yuanbo on the city wall an "okay" gesture, signaling he was fine. Then he strode towards the distant forest where the Eight Great Kings' army was hiding.
The Little Heavenly Lord was truly tiny; even slightly tall blades of grass towered over him. As he walked forward, he pushed aside the wild grass with his hands.
Ahead lay a majestic and imposing patch of ferns, growing like a dense forest of towering giant trees, their branches and leaves so thick they blocked Li Daoxuan's path.
Li Daoxuan tried to squeeze between two of the ferns, but when he attempted to snap a stalk with his hands, he surprisingly couldn't break it.
This was quite awkward. His strength had diminished along with his body's size.
Then he'd just ram through!
Although he was only palm-sized, his body's weight was considerable due to his reinforced steel and iron frame. He took a few steps back, then lunged forward with a powerful crash. Thump! The fern snapped and fell.
Li Daoxuan stood on the fern's "corpse," proudly flashing a V-sign. "Oh yeah! That'll teach you to defy this Heavenly Lord! Snapped, haven't you?"
"Speaking of which, what am I so happy about, just for defeating a fern?"
Onward he went...
A distance of several hundred meters, for a human, would only take a few minutes to walk. But for a palm-sized figure, it was truly not close.
Li Daoxuan walked and walked, and the sky grew darker and darker. Soon, it was so dark he couldn't see his hand in front of his face.
But this was also good; it saved him from being discovered by the bandits.
He continuously "blazed a trail" through the tall grass, pushing forward. As he walked, suddenly, with a "whoosh" from beside him, a behemoth leaped out, staring at him with a pair of red eyes.
A mouse!
And a scrawny, emaciated mouse at that.
It seemed very interested in the Little Heavenly Lord, looking as if it wanted to devour him.
Li Daoxuan felt a wave of intense pressure.
The mouse's gaze was brimming with murderous intent.
Don't panic!
Li Daoxuan reached for his forearm and pried open a section. A patch of silicone skin peeled back, and from within, a small blade sprang out. It was about the length of a typical fruit knife blade.
This was an auxiliary function of the Reconnaissance-Type Heavenly Lord, specifically designed for the Heavenly Lord who loved snacks. For those times when he wanted a piece of fruit but couldn't find a fruit knife, he'd use the Reconnaissance-Type Heavenly Lord to peel it.
The Little Heavenly Lord adopted the opening stance of the "Fruit Peeling Blade Technique" towards the mouse, and declared with a serious expression: "Don't come any closer! I am a master of the Fruit Peeling Blade Technique; no fruit in this world is my match. I advise you to think twice."
The mouse went berserk: "Squeak, squeak, squeak!"
The Little Heavenly Lord: "Come on, then! Come on!"
The mouse lunged forward fiercely.
The Little Heavenly Lord: "Fruit Blade Technique Secret Move: Apple Halver!"
The mouse bit directly onto the Little Heavenly Lord's head.
The Little Heavenly Lord let out a pathetic cry: "Aargh!"
With a "crunch," the mouse's teeth almost shattered. Unsure what infernal thing it had bitten, it was utterly terrified and fled in a disheveled panic.
Only then did the Little Heavenly Lord wipe the saliva from his head and scoff. "A mere mouse demon. As expected, no match for this Lord."
He could finally continue his journey...
He had barely taken two steps when his foot missed, and with a splash, he tumbled into an irrigation ditch beside a farm field. He finally managed to brush off his backside, climb out, and stand firm. His eyes darted around.
Around him, over a dozen pairs of red eyes were staring.
The Little Heavenly Lord: "Don't you dare come any closer! Aaaaah!"
"Secret Move: Apple Halver!"
"Finishing Blow: Pear Peeler Blade!"
"Secret Sword: Orange Eight-Section Slice!"
Several minutes later, the Little Heavenly Lord emerged from the ditch, looking utterly disheveled.
A considerable amount of his silicone outer layer had been gnawed off by the horde of mice, exposing the metal skeleton in many places on his body. Only the silicone on his head remained intact, meticulously protected by him. After all, his face was crucial. If his face couldn't convey that he was a Heavenly Lord statue, he wouldn't be able to "Co-sense."
Thus, a man must always protect his face!
The tiny Heavenly Lord, after enduring countless trials and tribulations, finally reached the edge of the forest.
Here, finally, no more mice came out to cause trouble.
Because there were too many people here.
In the forest, some lay, some reclined, some stood, some sat—a large army lay concealed.
The men of the Eight Great Kings had indeed not left.
He was certainly unwilling to be routed time and again by a few hundred arquebusiers.
Li Daoxuan slowly crawled from the grass into the center of the bandit army. There he saw the Eight Great Kings, his face a mass of grim flesh, surrounded by several trusted lieutenants, discussing battle tactics.
"It's completely dark now," the Eight Great Kings said. "But now isn't the best time to attack. When it first gets dark, their spirits will still be high, and their defenses will surely be tight. We'll deliberately wait until after midnight to assault the city."
The lieutenants chorused, "As you command."
The Eight Great Kings continued, "On the way to raid the city, we must be absolutely silent. No one is to make a single sound. As long as we get close enough, the arquebusiers' range will be completely useless. Once we're in close quarters, who do we have to fear?"
"Boss," one lieutenant said, "you know what kind of riff-raff we have under us. It's too hard to keep their mouths shut. Someone always whispers during the march."
The Eight Great Kings declared, "Have all the soldiers hold a few copper coins in their mouths. If anyone drops a coin from their mouth, I'll have them court-martialed."
The lieutenants exclaimed, "Boss is truly brilliant!"
The Eight Great Kings said smugly, "I learned this from 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms.' I told you all to read more books. There's so much wisdom in them. But you fools only know how to be ignorant and incompetent."
At this point, he let out a chuckle. "Oh, right, attacking from the north side of the city wall won't work either. They'll definitely be heavily guarding the north. We'll circle around to the east and launch a night raid; it'll be easier to succeed."
The lieutenants exclaimed, "Boss is truly Zhuge Liang reborn! Oh, no, even Zhuge Liang can't compare to Boss!"
The Eight Great Kings laughed proudly, "Hahaha, of course! Zhuge Liang only knew how to use schemes, not how to chop people down. This King, I can both scheme and fight. I am proficient in both civil and military arts. Zhuge Liang is at most half the man I am, hahahaha."
The Little Heavenly Lord spread his hands. *What a fool! He's truly a fool who gets conceited at the slightest praise, completely oblivious to his own capabilities.*
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