Li Huowang trembled at Li Sui's words. He lifted his head again, looking at the figure of Li Sui before him.
After a moment, his trembling hand reached out, finding Shangguan Yuting's head amidst the tower of heads.
Li Sui had inhabited many different bodies, but this was the one Li Huowang was most familiar with.
He opened his arms and held Shangguan Yuting's head, trembling as he looked at her delicate face, recalling all the moments they had shared when Li Sui was by his side.
As the face in his memories overlapped with the head before him, Li Huowang's breath turned a little erratic. He gently hugged his daughter. "Don't talk nonsense. You're my daughter.
"I know you've changed a lot, but you're still Li Sui. You might be a little different now, but that's called growing up. Look at me—I'm not the same Li Huowang I used to be either. People change."
As Li Huowang finished speaking, all the heads before him began to speak in unison. Their voices overlapped, creating an eerie, resonating echo.
"Li Huowang, stop lying to yourself.
"Li Sui once tried not to possess others. She wanted to remain as Li Sui until you came back.
"But it's been 160 years. She knew nothing. All she had was the possessive instinct of a Black Taisui."
Li Huowang's breathing quickened, his voice rising in desperation. "No, my daughter isn't dead! Your name is Xuan Pin, and my name is Xuan Yang! You wear a red Daoist robe, and I wear a red Daoist robe too! You are my daughter!"
Slowly, the heads of Xuan Pin shook in unison. "Li Huowang, I'm not Li Sui anymore. I didn't tell you until now because I was afraid you wouldn't be able to handle it.
"160 years is a long time. Li Sui wanted to live long enough to see you again. But to do that, she had to possess others, using their abilities and memories to survive.
"And when she possessed others, they also possessed her. This was the path she chose.
"She remembered that her father was still up in the heavens, needing Dragon Qi to survive. She had to stay alive until that moment, no matter the cost."
Black tentacles drilled into Li Huowang's ears, and images flooded his mind.
It was Li Sui, her back hunched, still bearing Shangguan Yuting's face. Candlelight flickered, casting shadows over the weary and numb side of her face.
"Please, I beg you," Li Sui said, clad in a red Daoist robe. She kneeled on a cushion and bowed deeply to two white-bearded old men.
The old men were strange, with deformed limbs and blind eyes. One of them was even on a basket, carried by a fool with a deformed head.
"Are you sure you want this? Our seas of consciousness are vast. If we merge with you, you may cease to exist, becoming nothing more than our vessel."
Li Sui's numb expression flickered slightly. She tore off her robe and revealed her hunched back, covered with a mass of human heads.
"I'm not myself anymore. I don't even know if I'm still Li Sui."
It had been a long time since she had fallen from the sky, and a lot had occurred during that time.
Tears fell from her face. She didn't want this. She had truly hoped to wait 160 years and return to her father's embrace, but it hadn't turned out that way.
"My lord, I'm willing to be your vessel as long as you promise me one thing. When my father ascends to the heavens, you must bring enough Dragon Qi to save him."
As her memories blurred, the past became harder to recall.
Li Huowang's situation was her only lingering concern. She feared that if she continued to possess others, she would forget this as well, leaving no one to help her father.
She had to prepare for that possibility, ensuring that she wouldn't forget her mission.
Li Sui thought of many solutions and eventually found one from the Chiefs. It was a win-win.
"Don't worry, it is our duty as Chiefs. We won't stand by idly."
"Also, Zuoqiu Yong will no longer be a problem once we possess you. If she dares to come to the Great Liang, we'll ensure she never returns."
Li Sui gradually disintegrated, her form breaking apart as countless tentacles enveloped the two Chiefs before her.
"Please, when you see my father, tell him I miss him dearly. I miss him so much... but I can't quite remember what he looks like..."
When the Black Taisui's possession was complete, the red robe was donned, and Li Sui was gone. Now, Xuan Pin stood before Li Huowang.
Li Huowang took a half-step back as the tentacles withdrew from his ears. An overwhelming sense of unfamiliarity washed over him when he looked at the figure before him.
He may have tried to deceive himself before, but the truth was undeniable now. Li Huowang could no longer look away from the reality before him.
The tentacles withdrew from Li Huowang, leaving him standing alone, lost and empty inside.
He wanted to cry, to release all the bitterness within him, but no tears came out. The overwhelming emotion built in his chest, suffocating him.
After a few moments, Li Huowang's eyes turned bloodshot. With a trembling voice, he shouted, "Then why couldn't you just keep pretending? Why?! Why does this always happen to me?!"
Xuan Pin remained calm despite his agitation. "You saw my true form, so it was about time to tell you.
"Besides, I'm not from the Sitting Oblivion Dao. My acting isn't that good. You should have noticed the difference between me and the Li Sui you knew."
"Li Huowang, there are some things that you can't avoid forever. Li Sui is dead.
"Now, there's only Xuan Pin, the Chief of the Great Liang."
Veins bulged on Li Huowang's forehead as he stared at Li Sui. "No... no! You are Li Sui! You must be Li Sui!"
Li Sui's appearance began to change. The multitude of heads gradually faded away, leaving only the heads of Shangguan Yuting and Bun.
However, with a wave of her tentacles, Xuan Pin quickly reverted to her true form.
"Li Huowang, it's useless. I'm a Strayed One too. Your cultivation doesn't work on me."
The broad red Daoist robe drifted slowly over Xuan Pin, enveloping her.
"I once possessed two Chiefs. To be precise, they willingly allowed me to possess them. They wanted to merge with my power, and they succeeded.
"The will of those two Chiefs was incredibly strong, overpowering all other influences, including Li Sui. Now, they are who I was, not Li Sui."
The cold, indifferent Xuan Pin Li Huowang had first encountered stood before him once more. Li Huowang clutched his chest and cried out in anguish.
His daughter was dead. Li Sui was gone.
"Father, can I eat this?
"Father, I'll help you!
"Father, I'm so scared. Can I stay inside you forever?"
Chapter 951 - Siming of Flesh
After explaining everything to Li Huowang, Xuan Pin felt a wave of relief wash over him. He had been preparing for this moment for a very long time.
Turning around, he saw that the White Lotus Sect members had surrounded them, forming a barrier to prevent anyone from overhearing their conversation.
Bai Lingmiao had given these instructions, but she herself wasn't too far away. She had clearly heard their conversation. She was sobbing, but at least she knew everything now. Xuan Pin wouldn't need to repeat himself.
"That's all. Now, let's talk about how to assign the Dragon Veins." 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
Once their private matters had been sorted out, Xuan Pin started to talk business.
"The Dharma Sect destroyed a lot of Dragon Veins, so the Liang Kingdom must take some to replenish them. Still, we will naturally consider the other places in need of them. The Liang Kingdom will only take two since Shai Zi already claimed one. Now, the Qi Kingdom and the Tianchen Kingdom can take the remaining twelve.
"We can split them evenly and keep six Dragon Veins for each timeline. Although having only six daily divisions is very little, it's alright. At most, they will have to live their days a little faster.
"Fu Shengtian is closely watching us, so getting more people on our side is critical now."
Xuan Pin's words fell on deaf ears. Li Huowang was still lost in despair over losing his daughter. He didn't hear what Xuan Pin had told him at all.
Li Huowang clutched his chest, overwhelmed with intense pain. Xuan Pin quickly reached behind him to take the spine sword. He didn't want to waste any time.
However, Li Huowang tightly held onto the sword. He looked at Xuan Pin with reddened eyes. "No! There's still a chance. Li Sui isn't dead yet! She just became a part of you! She's still inside your body!"
Li Huowang repeatedly said that Li Sui was still alive, trying to convince himself.
"Since possessing other people is what made her become what you are today, all I need to do is find a way to make her regurgitate the people she possessed over the years! That way, she can revive!
"I know I can do it! I am Ji Zai, the Siming in control of the Heavenly Dao of Bewilderment!"
Xuan Pin sighed. "Li Huowang, stop lying to yourself. Li Sui would remain dead, and you would even harm me. How can you find the first drop of water in a water-filled basin?"
Despite cutting Li Huowang's palm, Xuan Pin unhesitatingly took the sword from his grip. Xuan Pin swung it, revealing the rift that connected the Liang Kingdom with the Qi Kingdom.
However, a strange pulsation came from the other side of the rift.
"Wait—something's wrong!"
Xuan Pin pulled Li Huowang into the rift and arrived at the Qi Kingdom.
Xuan Pin realized that the Heavenly Daos within the Qi Kingdom were completely irregular.
The Qi Kingdom, which was supposed to be stuck in eternal daylight, was currently enveloped in a lush forest. Even the You Capital, which the Mo family had restored, was covered by it.
"Li Huowang, you need to get a hold of yourself. This is not the time to think about familial matters. Something is very wrong."
Li Huowang took a deep breath and calmed himself down.
"Zuoqiu Yong is dead, and he was the Siming that controlled the Heavenly Dao of Growth. It's only natural that there's a Natural Disaster right now."
He didn't want to give up so easily. He had to rescue Li Sui once more, no matter what. The problem was that he didn't have a plan at the moment.
"No... This is not a Natural Disaster..." Xuan Pin muttered, leading Li Huowang to inspect their surroundings.
At a clearing, they encountered a monstrous sight—a colossal flesh Buddha towering as high as the Righteous Monastery and sitting just outside of it.
Li Huowang suppressed his emotions when he saw the massive flesh Buddha. It's not over yet!
The hair of the flesh Buddha was made up of multiple monks. Chan Du was embedded at its forehead, like a jewel.
The monks who formed the Buddha changed in unison. As they did, a blood-red light ring shimmered behind the Buddha's head.
There was a rift just in front of the flesh Buddha. Various beings poured out from the rift, spreading outwards.
Li Huowang noticed that the thing coming out from the rift resembled a massive centipede wriggling in the air.
Li Huowang could sense that the sudden appearance of a forest was a result of the Heavenly Dao of Growth emanated by the rift.
As the chanting continued, the verses of the chant became actual flesh. The fleshy words wrapped around the rift like a chain in an attempt to seal it shut.
The Righteous Monastery was trying to seal the rift shut, but the being behind it clearly didn't want them to do so.
Suddenly, a single large eye appeared behind the rift and glared at Li Huowang.
Its appearance affected the entire Qi Kingdom. Everything, both living and dead, started to grow uncontrollably.
The fleshy mantra burst open, and the rift expanded. It quickly grew, tearing the world in half as it did.
A massive foot the size of a mountain stepped out from the rift. A few more seconds passed before another foot passed through.
Finally, the entire giant figure stepped into the Qi Kingdom. It was none other than Zuoqiu Yong! Li Huowang thought they had killed her just now!
Li Huowang now understood the Siming of Growth's true nature. He also understood why Zuoqiu Yonghad quickly retreated when Li Huowang deceived them with a made-up Natural Disaster.
The Zuoqiu Yong he fought against was just a small fraction of his true body! His true body had always been lying in the Tianchen Kingdom!
He was able to control the Heavenly Dao of Growth because he could grow his body to that size.
Zuoqiu Yong stood still, and the entire Qi Kingdom began gravitating towards her. It was as if he was pulling everything towards him.
"Li Huowang!" Zuoqiu Yong shouted, causing strong wind to blow everywhere. "I shall show you the difference in our strength today. I will show you the consequences of opposing me!"
Zuoqiu Yong lowered his head, parting the clouds as he looked down.
Pain erupted from Li Huowang's feet, and suddenly, he felt the intense pain of being torn apart. Bloodied bamboo shoots burst from his throat and ripped through his flesh. The growth pushed him upwards, impaling and pushing him high into the air.
The bamboo kept on growing, tearing apart his flesh.
Chapter 952 - Siming
The bamboo shoots had impaled Li Huowang, leaving him completely motionless. He could feel them continuously growing within his body.
Suddenly, Bai Lingmiao appeared beside him. The Second Deity cut the bamboo poles in half with her black fingernails.
Xuan Pin also intervened, quickly waving his tentacles. He drew a single red line across the middle of Li Huowang's face.
He used four of his arms and pulled Li Huowang apart, splitting him in two without waiting for him to say anything.
Xuan Pin quickly removed the bamboo shoots that were still growing inside Li Huowang. Once he did, he glued him back as if nothing had happened.
With just a single swing of his arm, the blood-red line that bisected Li Huowang was utterly gone.
Xuan Pin pulled Li Huowang away from the front lines to create as much distance as possible from Zuoqiu Yong, minimizing the influence of the Heavenly Dao of Growth.
Everything happened within a few breaths. In that brief span of time, Li Huowang freed himself from the bamboo shoots and recovered from his wounds.
Even though he was safe for now, Li Huowang was far from happy as he looked at the mountain-sized Zuoqiu Yong.
Their enemy was too strong this time. He felt pressured, finding it hard to breathe. He knew his chances of winning were slim.
Despite that, he refused to give up. Zuoqiu Yong wanted to kill Bai Lingmiao, and Li Sui was already gone. Now, Bai Lingmiao was all he had.
After quickly looking at the Siming of Growth in front of him, Li Huowang realized that he had to rely on the strength of the other Simings to win this.
"Xuan Pin! Xuan Pin! Tell me, is Suisui really dead?"
"Yes. How many times must I tell you that your daughter is dead?"
This time, Li Huowang chose to accept those words wholeheartedly. He tore open his body again and spread coarse salt into his body cavity as he raised both hands upwards to summon Ba-Hui.
When he accepted that Li Sui would never return, his facial features merged as he shouted in despair. He felt as if one million burning needles had pierced his heart.
He pushed both hands into his mouth and tore off his tongue with his bare hands, spraying blood everywhere.
He then slammed his tongue onto the glowing Profound Records.
The moment Li Huowang's tongue touched the Profound Records, it came alive.
"A tongue to turn the wheel of reincarnation! An eyelash for the boundless universe! Words cannot describe the intricacies of the realm! The sinister Heavens reveal what was hidden! My Master, the highest authority! Who dares disturb it?!"
When the chant was completed, Li Huowang's five senses superimposed on each other. The pain from his physical flesh and mental anguish turned into something else.
Li Huowang exuded an overwhelming air of despair, one that did not stem from the mortal realms.
Everything around Li Huowang creaked and bent as something spread out with him as the center. It was pain, extremely intense pain.
The Cang-Qiong Ascension allowed Li Huowang to temporarily wield the Heavenly Dao of Pain. The plants growing on Li Huowang's body howled in pain and tried to distance themselves from him.
Any immobile living beings caught by the Cang-Qiong Ascension tried to kill themselves due to the overwhelming pain. Death seemed a better option than enduring their torment.
He looked at Zuoqiu Yong in the distance and raised his head in pain, meeting the gaze that was staring back at him from the heavens.
"Ba-Hui, come down... Come down and help! I was the one who saved Baiyu Capital last time! All of you owe me!"
Just as Li Huowang spoke, the gaze disappeared. Ba-Hui had only temporarily given him the Heavenly Dao of Pain. It did not want to help.
"Shit!"
Li Huowang did not want to give up. He felt the massive amount of False Qi in his body and tried to use it to summon Doulao.
To defeat Zuoqiu Yong, he had to call down a Siming no matter what.
Zuoqiu Yong moved before Li Huowang could finish his chant. As he did, many mini Zuoqiu Yongs sprouted from his body and burrowed into the ground.
The more Zuoqiu Yong's clones burrowed into the ground, the more control he held over the world. He was gradually turning the ground itself into his flesh.
The mountain-like foot stepped down. Li Huowang's chanting voice and an entire mountain range disappeared.
Zuoqiu Yong thought he had won. However, he suddenly felt an intense pain coming from the base of his legs.
It was as if he had stepped on a needle rather than a person. The pain began to creep upward, affecting his calves.
Despite the bone-breaking pain, Zuoqiu Yong remained relaxed. "Hahaha, Li Huowang~ Are you that weak? You're done now."
Numerous bone spikes grew on Zuoqiu Yong, traveling downwards before stabbing Li Huowang, who was currently embedded inside his flesh.
However, Li Huowang was still performing the Cang-Qiong Ascension. He could not die. He did his best to push his physical pain into Zuoqiu Yong.
The Cang-Qiong Ascension, which had been extremely strong in the past, had become useless. Zuoqiu Yong's body was too large, and Li Huowang had too little pain.
Li Huowang used his cultivation to turn everything within several Li into seawater.
Li Huowang quickly grew scales and fins to swim away from Zuoqiu Yong.
Li Huowang escaped and stood atop a mountain, but Zuoqiu Yong did not chase after him. Instead, he looked at him like a cat toying with a mouse.
"Little brat. You are slippery and hard to catch. Don't worry, I will deal with you later. Just wait.
"I know you don't fear death, and you will never yield even if I kill you. Unfortunately, I know what you care about the most. I shall show you the consequences of your transgressions!"
Zuoqiu Yong's massive left palm slammed down and caught Bai Lingmiao. Bone spikes grew inside his fleshy arm, impaling Bai Lingmiao.
Bai Lingmiao and the Second Deity were impaled, their limbs, heads, and organs all pierced through.
Chapter 953 - Truth
"Miaomiao..."
Li Huowang felt at a loss for words when he saw Bai Lingmiao in Zuoqiu Yong's hands.
Zuoqiu Yong didn't stop there. Fleshy tumors grew in Bai Lingmiao's body.
The ball of flesh exploded. Bai Lingmiao exploded along with the bone spikes.
Whether it was intentional or not, a single bone spike impaling Bai Lingmiao's head fell in front of Li Huowang.
"Miaomiao!" Li Huowang shouted in despair.
Zuoqiu Yong laughed. "Hahaha! Savor this well, for this is just the start. You have a lot of people you care about in the Liang Kingdom, don't you? All of them shall die."
Zuoqiu Yong turned around and grabbed the fox-faced Twisted One in his palm.
As the Twisted One danced, a rift connecting the Qi Kingdom to the Liang Kingdom appeared before Zuoqiu Yong.
Zuoqiu Yong was too big for the rift, but it wasn't an issue. He only needed a path into the Liang Kingdom. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
He stuck two fingers into the rift and pulled it apart. The rift slowly widened like the rift that Chan Du had desperately tried to seal shut just now.
However, Li Huowang remained standing in place, his gaze fixed upon Bai Lingmiao's head.
Xuan Pin stood beside him but did not stop Zuoqiu Yong. He knew that he could not stop a Siming's rampage.
He was still thinking about what to do when he heard Li Huowang's voice. "Xuan Pin! Xuan Pin!"
He looked down and noticed that Li Huowang was abnormally calm.
Li Huowang said, "Miaomiao isn't here with us. The one in front of us is fake."
The moment he uttered those words, Bai Lingmiao's head disappeared, as if it had never been there.
"I used the Sitting Oblivion Dao's methods to buy us some time," Li Huowang explained, staring intensely at Zuoqiu Yong's back.
"You've only bought a little time. Is that enough? Can we defeat the Siming with this much time?"
Li Huowang didn't respond to Xuan Pin, as he didn't know either. He'd tried every trick in the book, including the Cang-Qiong Ascension, but nothing worked. He still couldn't defeat Zuoqiu Yong.
Xuan Pin sighed. "I never thought Zuoqiu Yong would be able to take over the Tianchen Kingdom and even control a Heavenly Dao with just his physical body."
"You are the Chief of the Surveillance Bureau! If Zuoqiu Yong reaches the Liang Kingdom, everything will be over. Use everything at the disposal of the Surveillance Bureau!"
Xuan Pin shook his head. "The Surveillance Bureau's method is to use the Dragon Veins to set up a barrier and prevent the Simings from entering our plane in the first place. However, Zuoqiu Yong is already a Siming in our world. The Surveillance Bureau cannot do anything to him."
Li Huowang felt helpless. He didn't want to sit and do nothing. They hadn't lost yet, and they still had a chance.
"Ji Zai! Ji Zai!"
Li Huowang shouted into his shadow to find a solution, but there was no response from his future self. Perhaps he no longer had a future.
Neither Doulao nor Ba-Hui wanted to help, and even Ji Zai proved to be useless.
"No... I haven't lost! I haven't lost!" Li Huowang said, glaring at Zuoqiu Yong.
His head started to grow uncontrollably. This was the first time he had used so much strength after reaching the sixth stage of his cultivation.
Li Huowang clenched his teeth and forcefully stomped on the ground. He tore a large hole in Zuoqiu Yong's chest.
What would typically be a mortal wound was nothing more than a scratch to Zuoqiu Yong, who laughed it off.
"Disappear!" Li Huowang howled.
Zuoqiu Yong's head exploded, and his fleshy form also disappeared completely.
However, Zuoqiu Yong regenerated slowly, and his blood, flesh, and bones grew layer by layer.
While Li Huowang could make Zuoqiu Yong's physical body disappear, he could not do anything to his Heavenly Dao. He was the Siming that controlled the Heavenly Dao of Growth and would continue to regenerate as long as he held onto it.
Li Huowang fell to the ground and saw that half of Zuoqiu Yong's body had already regenerated. He felt helpless, unable to do anything substantial despite using everything he had.
Li Huowang angrily shouted, "Maybe if I was at the seventh stage, I could defeat her! As long as I can reach the seventh stage!"
He abruptly glanced up at Xuan Pin. "Wait, aren't you a Strayed One too? The Black Taisui assimilates its victims. After eating so much of my flesh, you must be a Strayed One too, right?"
Li Huowang's plan completely took Xuan Pin by surprise. He had never imagined Li Huowang would think of something like that.
Xuan Pin nodded thoughtfully. "Take it back then. I suppose it's a form of repaying her parents."
One of the heads of an Unspeakable popped out from the tower of heads. Xuan Pin reached into his own body and extracted his own primordial breath and inner sight. His tentacles were already trembling from the ordeal.
Looking at Zuoqiu Yong, who was trying to enter the Liang Kingdom, Li Huowang embraced his last hope and absorbed the primordial breath.
He started cultivating immediately.
This was his final chance. If he didn't take it, Bai Lingmiao would truly die. It would no longer be an illusion.
He didn't know how long it took, but when he stood up, he realized he hadn't reached the seventh stage.
Zuoqiu Yong was gone, and Li Huowang found himself back in the Liang Kingdom. Li Huowang dared not think about what was happening because one stray thought could wipe out the Liang Kingdom.
"Why? What's going on? Why isn't it working? I'm already so strong, but I still can't protect my family!" Li Huowang shouted, his mental state crumbling.
Everything around him swiftly changed.
The people and scenery changed randomly.
Zhuge Yuan suddenly appeared in one of the scenes and stopped him. "Junior Li, remember that you are not cultivating the seventh stage. You are cultivating the 'Truth'!"
The words of Zhuge Yuan hammered into Li Huowang's mind, revealing the reason behind his inability to reach the final stage. He had always believed he was stuck in the sixth stage, which had prevented him from ever progressing to the seventh stage.
"I'm not cultivating the sixth stage. I am already at the seventh stage," Li Huowang declared firmly in his heart.
As he spoke, several familiar scenes flashed before his eyes.
Chapter 954 - Superimposed
"Li Huowang, what are you doing?"
"Stop! She's your family!"
"I knew that he was unreliable. Why must we still rescue him from the prison?"
Li Huowang shook his head at the annoying voices, but the voices persisted.
Although Xuan Pin appeared to be saying something, Li Huowang could not hear him. The voices were too loud.
It wasn't just the voices. The world started to unravel as strange sights flashed by, as if two worlds were getting superimposed onto each other. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
The strange changes gradually overlapped, eventually merging into a world that was both strange and bizarre.
The elephant became whole as the world transformed into a higher dimension—a projection of both worlds.
However, Li Huowang had something more important to do. He didn't have time to deal with them.
"I've... succeeded in my cultivation! I must go and rescue the Liang Kingdom... I must... I must stop Zuoqiu Yong and kill her!"
Li Huowang shook his head, and everything around him stabilized. With a single stomp from his right leg, he returned back to the Liang Kingdom.
The world turned dark, and Li Huowang looked up. Zuoqiu Yong's massive frame was blocking out the sun.
Zuoqiu Yong laughed maniacally as he crushed the hall of the White Lotus Sect. The snapping of bones filled the air as the people inside were crushed to death.
The other places were also in bad condition. Zuoqiu Yong's Heavenly Dao had started to influence the Liang Kingdom.
Leaves sprouted from rafters, and buds popped out from chairs. Everything in the Liang Kingdom was slowly turning into a forest.
It only took minutes for a seed to bud, grow, bloom, bear fruit, and wilt.
The disaster also affected the people of Shangjing, and strange sights filled the city. Shangjing had become a living hell.
Zuoqiu Yong had only just appeared, but the effects were already significant. Everyone aged twenty years, and corpses grew new life.
Li Huowang knew he had to stop Zuoqiu Yong quickly. If he let this continue, everyone would die.
"What do you intend to do?" Xuan Pin asked, uncertain of what to do. He could only place his trust in Li Huowang. "The Surveillance Bureau will cooperate with you."
Li Huowang remained silent, his attention fixed on Zuoqiu Yong, who was trying to catch Bai Lingmiao. There was a single thing in his mind—to kill Zuoqiu Yong.
Li Huowang shouted, grabbing his weapons and stabbing them into Zuoqiu Yong.
The woman hit Li Huowang with her yellow umbrella, but Li Huowang did not stop at all.
Li Huowang even increased his strength to drive his weapon deep into her. However, several arms pulled him back.
"Let me go! She's the spy! She's one of Fu Shengtian's Simings! You don't know anything. We killed them last time. That's why they are attacking us now!"
Zuoqiu Yong took a few steps back, her expression a mix of shock and wariness as she gazed at Li Huowang. His power had grown too rapidly.
Feeling the arms grabbing onto him, Li Huowang struggled and shouted, "Trust me! I'm telling the truth! Trust me! This woman never appeared in the past at all! She was never our ally! She's Fu Shengtian's Siming, secretly sent to sow discord!"
Some of the arms let him go. Two pairs of the arms had tattoos, while another pair were pale with long and slender fingers.
With six of the arms letting go of him, Li Huowang seized the opportunity to shake off the remaining ones. He grabbed onto his knife and ran after the wounded woman in the yellow skirt.
Li Huowang relentlessly chased the panicked woman. He kicked the door open with his right leg, and a large field of white brain matter appeared in front of him.
He knew that it was just a tiny trick placed by his opponent. The woman was inside, and he had to find her.
Li Huowang dove into Zuoqiu Yong's brain and grew fins. He swam inside to find the spy.
At first, he searched blindly, but a bright light soon started shining from behind. He squinted and turned around, only to see the woman attempting to crash into him with her car. She had driven there to begin with.
Still, Li Huowang wasn't afraid of the speeding car. He jumped and crashed squarely into the car's windscreen.
Li Huowang's knife scraped loudly across the window, leaving a deep scratch.
Bam!
Li Huowang's head hit the windscreen and cracked it open. Even then, he was still glaring at the woman without looking away.
"You madman! You crazy bastard!" the woman screamed.
Crying in fear, the woman frantically swerved her car, attempting to shake him off.
As they were locked in their struggle, a sudden honking sound pierced the air from the left.
Glancing to the left, they saw Qing Wanglai trying to crash into them with his own car!
Bam!
A loud explosion filled the air as Qing Wanglai's car collided with the woman's car. The force of the impact sent Li Huowang flying.
Li Huowang sustained injuries, but so did the woman. The force of the impact caused her car's engine hood to open, with smoke billowing out from the engine.
Ignoring his wounds, Li Huowang grabbed his knife and stood up. He approached the car and grabbed the woman's neck before pulling her out of the wreck.
He stopped just as he was about to kill her and shouted towards the mansion, "Miaomiao, come out! We need you to place Death into her before I can kill her!"
The Simings of Fu Shengtian didn't have Death. Only by injecting part of the Heavenly Dao of Death into them could he kill them for good.
"Wait... Wait!" The woman clutched onto Li Huowang's wrist and attempted to negotiate. "Li Huowang, you can't win! We have something you want. Work with us!"
Chapter 955 - Spy
Li Huowang did not hesitate against the women's offer. He had never once wavered in his decisions because he already knew that she was the spy.
"The only thing I want from you is your death!"
Li Huowang stabbed his knife into the woman's mouth and twisted it around until he cut off her tongue.
Yang Na was stumbling over at this point. She held Li Huowang's hands and was shocked by the bloody scene in front of her, "Li Huowang, what are you doing?"
"Trust me! She's a spy! She's Fu Shengtian's spy! Nana, trust me!"
Li Huowang was howling at them at this point.
Yang Na was stunned by his outburst. She looked at the pitiful woman in a yellow skirt, and then at Li Huowang before she understood something.
"Li Huowang, I trust you, no matter what."
Yang Na took out another knife and then slowly stabbed it into the woman's chest.
Yang Na only let her hands go when the woman was completely dead. She looked at her trembling bloody hands before smiling radiantly.
Yang then turned around and smiled at Li Huowang like a beautiful flower, "Huowang, we won! We killed another Siming that's threatening us. Aren't we amazing!"
Staring at Yang Na's clear eyes, Li Huowang was first taken aback before nodding, "Yes, you are right. You are amazing and we have won!"
"Yay!" Yang Na hugged Li Huowang and jumped happily, "I managed to help you! I'm the Heavenly Mater herself!"
Li Huowang let go of the corpse and patted Yang Na's head to calm her down, "Let's go. We've stopped Fu Shengtian's attack. We can head back and talk in peace now."
They then walked towards the estate.
He opened the door by twisting the door handle.
"Alright, the spy is dead, we can talk properly now."
Li Huowang was still covered in blood and brain matter.
Zuoqiu Yong, who has been sitting on the stone stool, was thinking about something with her pink handkerchief on her mouth.
She had been fighting to the death just moments ago, but now it was as if she had completely changed. They were still in Shangjing, but everything has been reversed. There was no chaos anywhere, and the people of Shangjing were continuing on with their lives like a regular day.
There was no massive Siming in the city, and no one was affected by the Heavenly Dao of Growth. Everything about the information leaked by Fu Shengtian to Zuoqiu Yong had completely disappeared.
Zuoqiu Yong nodded after some time, "Alright, then let's talk. I will first agree to your proposed truce. Before the trouble with Fu Shengitan isn't over, I will not come and trouble the Heavenly Mater."
Li Huowang wasn't surprised by her proposal. Now that the spy was dead, every event that had occurred thanks to the spy has been reverted, including the decision of Zuoqiu Yong.
Li Huowang spoke slowly, "I wanted to say that I have never met that woman even in the past few times I've reverted. She was also the one who had been monitoring me ages ago when they were trying to kidnap me. She's a Siming from another elephant.
"I already expected that they would act after we've killed some of their Simings last time, but I never thought they would send someone to stir discord amongst us.
"Thankfully I was fast enough to stop them before any major mistakes occurred. If we had fought against each other, we would've fallen for the spy's trap. A fight between Simings is not something simple."
Zuoqiu Yong understood what was happening after Li Huowang explained to her.
"I see. If there's nothing else I will go back first. I will contact the other Simings and see what I can do. But I need to make it clear first. I cannot go to Baiyu Capital. I can't help at all if they are fighting up there."
"I understand. Qing Wanglai was indeed right, but I never thought that you siblings would actually trust me words."
Li Huowang stood up to send Zuoqiu Yong away, but Shai Zi appeared from far away. He was slowly approaching them.
"That is..."
"He's an ally, and also has a lot of information. Let's see what he has to say."
Li Huowang's words made Zuoqiu Yong stop.
Shai Zi bowed to Li Huowang before he approached Zuoqiu Yong to whisper something.
But Shai Zi hadn't even said anything yet when the strange iridescent black liquid burst out from Shai Zi's head and splashed onto Zuoqiu Yong's chest.
No one had anticipated Shai Zi's betrayal. Both Zuoqiu Yong and Li Huowang didn't react in time.
But it was too late. The tar-like substance grew rapidly on Zuoqiu Yong's body. Even if she shaved off the affected part, it would still regrow on her body.
"Shai Zi, what are you doing?!" Li Huowang immediately chopped Zuoqiu Yong's head off.
But it was still too late. Zuoqiu Yong's regenerated body still had the strange tar.
"What am I doing? Hehehe~ Didn't I tell you that I will help the winner."
Shai Zi quickly retreated as he said, "I was telling the truth, but I do think that Fu Shengtian will be the winner, hahaha!
"Hong Zhong, don't tell me you believed me? Don't tell me you actually believed that I were helping you?"
Shai Zi held onto his stomach and laughed, "Hahaha! You've actually believed it! Hahaha!"
Shai Zi raised his head and looked at the skies as he laughed.
"Ji Zai, do you really think I would care about that little offer? Too bad the other party's offer is much better."
Li Huowang was trembling from anger. He leaped up and grabbed the dice on the table.
He glared at the dice in his hands, "Shai Zi, I think you are mistaking something. I wasn't trying to turn you into my ally but I'm instead threatening you! If you don't do as I say I will kill you!"
Li Huowang then threw the dice into his mouth and bit down forcefully.
Li Huowang left his teeth marks onto the dice. He bit down even harder and the dice cracked open, revealing a silver liquid flowing out from its interior.
Chapter 956 - Changes
"Hey! What are you doing? Are you crazy? Why are you biting the dice? That's a dice used for cheating! There might be mercury in it!"
Chen Hongyu sprinted over and shoved her mouth into Li Huowang's mouth to take out the dice.
"Quick! Spit it out and rinse your mouth! Liquid mercury is deadly! Are you trying to kill yourself?" Wu Qi said, quickly grabbing a carton of milk from the fridge and giving it to Li Huowang.
Although everyone tried to stop Li Huowang, he refused to stop. He bit so hard that even his gums were bleeding. He had to kill Shai Zi today at all costs.
"Huh. There's something interesting happening again," Ba Nanxu said, looking at the others frantically trying to save Li Huowang while her brother scrolled on his phone.
While everyone was panicking, Qing Wanglai walked over and gently held Li Huowang's shoulder before punching his stomach hard.
Bam! The strong impact sent Li Huowang flying. Even the cracked dice flew out from his mouth.
Qing Wanglai hastily picked up the cracked dice, holding it in his palm. "Li Huowang, don't be irrational. You still have us no matter what you are encountering."
He took the milk from Wu Qi and gave it to Li Huowang. "Here, drink the milk. The protein in the milk will absorb the liquid mercury. This isn't a joke—you could die from this."
Li Huowang smacked the milk away, glaring at the dice in Qing Wanglai's hands.
Li Huowang tried to grab the dice, but Qing Wanglai didn't let him, fearing that Li Huowang might put it in his mouth again.
"Shai Zi, do you think you can do anything just because you have a new backer? A Siming will always be a Siming. You will only become their pawn!"
Shai Zi was still smiling despite his grievous injuries. "That's rich coming from you. Everyone needs to have a dream, right? Rather than being a dice thrown by others, I want to become the one throwing the dice. To live without dreams is to be as good as dead.
"Also, I would rather collaborate with someone other than you. Don't forget how untrustworthy and crazy you are. Even Zhuge Yuan did not trust you."
"Die!" Li Huowang roared, tearing Shai Zi apart.
However, Shai Zi's head rolled on the ground with no hint of fear. "Hehehe~ Li Huowang, I'm afraid you're out of time. Look, Zuoqiu Yong is dying."
Li Huowang turned around. An iridescent tar-like substance had replaced Zuoqiu Yong's body.
Li Huowang recalled the source of the liquid—Fu Shengtian. In the past, it had enveloped the Qi Kingdom, causing everything to die there.
"Oh no! It's not trying to kill just Zuoqiu Yong's clone. It's trying to kill the massive original body of Zuoqiu Yong too!"
Now that the spy had been dealt with, Zuoqiu Yong was his ally. If anything happened to him, his fighting forces would be reduced significantly.
Li Huowang quickly made a portal connecting to the Tianchen Kingdom.
Before he left, he looked at Shai Zi's head hesitantly. The situation was dire, and Shai Zi could not be left alive. Li Huowang made a quick decision and threw his spine sword onto the ground.
Without waiting for it to touch the ground, Li Huowang used his cultivation and turned the spine sword into another Li Huowang.
"Kill Shai Zi for me!" Li Huowang briefly instructed his clone before running into the Tianchen Kingdom.
Once there, Li Huowang knew something was wrong. There was a massive hole in the sky, and something had clearly fallen there.
"Dammit!" Li Huowang made haste and shortened the distance between him and the ground beneath the hole. Soon, he saw the dark skies and felt the ground shake.
Li Huowang steadied himself and witnessed the immense body of Zuoqiu Yong tumbling down with a resounding crash.
There were millions of holes in Zuoqiu Yong's body. His face was almost completely gone, covered by dense black holes like a seedless lotus pod.
The sight was astonishing. Despite his massive size, Zuoqiu Yong trembled uncontrollably as if a plague had hit him.
Time and again, Zuoqiu Yong tried to get up, but to no avail.
Zuoqiu Yong had held onto the Heavenly Dao of Growth, so minor wounds shouldn't have harmed him, but the holes didn't heal and were instead spreading.
Zuoqiu Yong's body was not the only thing riddled with them. The surrounding leaves, trees, stones, and soil were gradually being covered by the holes, as if they were contagious.
It wasn't just simple holes. Something was hiding within them.
Fu Shengtian had clearly come prepared, and this was their backup plan. After their spy had been dealt with, they immediately sprung into action.
Li Huowang didn't bother with the overall situation. He dove into Zuoqiu Yong's left ear.
He was relieved to find that there weren't any spies on his brain.
Thankfully, that Siming is really dead. At least Zuoqiu Yong won't help them.
Li Huowang burrowed out from his head and stood on Zuoqiu Yong's face to examine the holes in it. If he was right, the holes fell from the skies.
As it turned out, there were indeed beings residing in those holes. They resembled ovoid organisms, and their bodies were fleshy and repulsive, with numerous folds of meat.
Long hairs were growing from between the folds of flesh. On closer inspection, Li Huowang realized that they weren't hairs. They were dark antennas or maybe even young hair.
The strange iridescent tar-like liquid seeped out as it contracted and expanded, gradually covering Zuoqiu Yong's massive frame.
Chapter 957 - Attack
Zuoqiu Yong's massive body lay beneath the sky of the Tianchen Kingdom.
Li Huowang saw her struggling to get up with her mountain-like body. As the holes in her body squirmed, she lost control and crashed onto the ground again.
Are they Shai Zi's backers? Are the weird things another Siming? What kind of Heavenly Dao is it controlling? How is it that strong?
Li Huowang's shock deepened as he witnessed Zuoqiu Yong's intense struggle. Though he didn't fully grasp what was happening, one thing was clear: the incredibly tough Siming who governed the Heavenly Dao of Growth—Zuoqiu Yong—was being thoroughly suppressed by the enemy!
The beings that fell from the hole in the sky were incomparably stronger than Zuoqiu Yong.
"Qing Wanglai! This isn't a coincidence!" Li Huowang shouted urgently. "Fu Shengtian's Simings already had a backup plan!
"They immediately sprung their backup plan the moment their spy died! Don't think that you are smarter than them! Since we can enter their elephant, they can enter ours too! Prepare yourselves for their counterattack!"
Li Huowang prepared to fight back. He didn't know what those things were, but since he had completed his cultivation of the "Truth," they should be powerless in front of him as long as they had a physical body.
Closing his eyes, he raised his arms to seal the gaping hole in the sky. But before he could act, a raspy, ancient voice interrupted him.
"Who goes there!"
Li Huowang turned to his left and saw an old beggar. The beggar was holding a broken wooden bowl and standing with a cane.
The beggar, with a broken left leg, hobbled toward Li Huowang. His clothes, seemingly never changed before, were so small that they barely covered his body and appeared to be made from various rags.
The beggar's dirty face was covered in wrinkles. He looked just like the beggars in Shangjing, but Li Huowang knew that the man was no regular beggar.
Zuoqiu Yong was the Siming who controlled the Heavenly Dao of Growth. How could a regular beggar be unaffected by the abnormal growths despite standing on the Siming itself?
The beggar's eyes suddenly bulged, revealing several iridescent flesh worms inside. Li Huowang was more than sure that the beggar was another Siming from Fu Shengtian's side.
Aside from the weird things in the holes, the beggar was the second Siming.
Li Huowang looked at the holes in Zuoqiu Yong's body and then at the beggar. "Did Fu Shengtian only send the two of you?"
Li Huowang remained cautious, unsure of the techniques or Heavenly Dao possessed by the old beggar.
To be able to defeat Zuoqiu Yong was no simple feat. Li Huowang knew that the Heavenly Daos from Fu Shengtian's world were unique, so he really didn't know what kind of Heavenly Dao the beggar had.
Even after mastering his cultivation, Li Huowang couldn't help but believe that he wasn't entirely safe.
"Don't worry. We're here."
Li Huowang relaxed a bit after hearing the words of Zhao Shuangdian and the others.
The old beggar took a deep breath. Li Huowang could hear the gurgling of heavy phlegm coming from the beggar. "Two is enough."
The beggar reached into his clothes, indicating that he would attack.
Li Huowang could not let him move, so he immediately tried to turn the old beggar's body into mush. The old beggar's body quickly dissolved into mush and died.
However, that did not stop the old beggar. Despite his head being reduced to mush, his body continued moving, flinging the object hidden in his clothing toward Li Howang.
Li Huowang shielded his face with his right palm and took several steps back.
But there was nothing—no overflowing Heavenly Dao, and no destruction of heaven or earth. The enemy's attack had been much lighter than he had thought. 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
The old beggar's rotten arm finally fell off. The item inside his palm rolled towards Li Huowang.
"This is..."
"Don't look!" an unknown voice said. However, it was too late. Li Huowang had seen it.
The attack wasn't deadly, and there was no danger. The item was a simple red button regularly seen on female coats.
"A... button?" Li Huowang murmured, looking at it in disbelief. Something about it tugged at him. It was as if the button had a deadly, mesmerizing effect.
"What's wrong? Are you alright?"
Xuan Pin arrived, gripping the spine sword, with the others close behind. They all paused at the strange sight before them.
Li Huowang couldn't hear their voices. His attention remained fixed on the button. The superimposed images around him started to waver.
He bent down and picked up the button. "Wait, I recognize this. This is the button on my mother's blouse. She liked the blouse a lot."
His pupils constricted. Slowly, he raised his head to look at the hole in the sky.
It all came flooding back.
When he was at the Benevolent Nunnery, he had deliberately hidden the button to distinguish the real world from the false one. But when he returned, the button was gone, convincing him the other world was an illusion.
"Wait... If I actually brought this button over, does that mean the other world is real too? Wait, which world? Which world am I talking about?"
Various thoughts exploded in his mind as the stream of information surged into his brain.
He remembered everything. Yi Donglai had hypnotized him to forget everything in the past, but he finally remembered everything!
"I'm not someone from here! I transmigrated from the other world!"
A sharp, unbearable pain erupted in his skull as something snapped. He collapsed to the ground, clutching his head.
When he opened his eyes again, he realized that his cultivation had fallen from the seventh stage to the sixth stage. The changes around him had disappeared.
"No! I cannot regress now! Fu Shengtian's Simings are just beside me! I can't win against them if I'm not at the seventh stage!"
Chapter 958 - Escape
The enemy's attack was too weird. Li Huowang had never thought a single button could regress his cultivation from the seventh stage to the sixth stage.
The enemy was right beside him, and his cultivation had plummeted. If things stayed this way, he could die.
Fighting them at his current stage was impossible, especially since there were two of them.
Li Huowang tried to convince himself that he was at the seventh stage. As long as he believed it, he would naturally be in the seventh stage.
He kept murmuring to himself, and his surroundings gradually changed to their superimposed state.
However, the Simings from Fu Shengtian were not going to let him succeed so easily, especially after going to great lengths to drag him down a stage.
While Li Huowang was trying to bring his cultivation back to the seventh stage again, a finger-sized black hole appeared on Li Huowang's head. Soon, the black hole spread like a plague.
In mere moments, tiny black holes covered his entire head. Each time he tried to think, his thoughts liquefied, dripping out of the holes and pooling at his feet.
No matter how hard he tried to focus, his thoughts leaked out, and his cultivation slipped back to the sixth stage.
Li Huowang tried to dig out the things inside the hole, but it was futile. They were spreading faster than he could dig them out.
In the end, worms suddenly emerged from the holes in his head. Li Huowang's head inflated and looked terrifying.
Boom! A massive, house-sized flesh worm erupted from Zuoqiu Yong's face, sending viscous slime crashing onto Li Huowang.
Li Huowang's bones snapped. Even the white worms on his face were crushed and squeezed out.
The nightmare continued. As worms filled his body, black humanoid figures began to emerge from the holes in his flesh.
The small humanoids stumbled around. Every time their feet touched the ground, a small black hole would form, and more worms would come out.
Sensing that they were about to attack him, Li Huowang tried to use his cultivation to fight back, but he simply could not focus. Whenever he did, his thoughts would leak out from his head and drip to the ground.
Li Huowang grunted in pain as he reached down to the puddle of his thoughts and tried scooping them back into his head.
The Simings didn't let him. The black humanoids reached out and touched Li Huowang's arms. As they did, they scooped out his flesh using the holes in their hands.
They shaved Li Huowang's body away little by little until Li Huowang lost his chance to fight back.
If Li Huowang's body completely disappeared, he would be dead for real this time.
"Zhao Shuangdian! Qing Wanglai! Wu Qi! Chen Hongyu! Where are you? Help me!"
Li Huowang shouted into the sky for help.
But the people who swore to help him didn't reply.
Li Huowang was really about to die when an angry voice came from afar. "Scram!"
A strong wind blew, causing the black humanoids to distort and fuse into a single amalgamated being.
Using this chance, Xuan Pin appeared and quickly brought Li Huowang to safety.
The flesh worms crawling on Zuoqiu Yong's body launched into the air and rained down to stop Xuan Pin.
The strange wind blew them away, their bodies twisting into different shapes.
After Xuan Pin brought him to safety, Li Huowang finally saw who had helped him. It was his clone, holding onto his spine sword.
Another Li Huowang had saved him, the same one he had asked to kill Shai Zi.
"Why are you here? Is Shai Zi dead?"
Li Huowang pressed onto his head, filled with painful holes.
"Ignore him for now. The situation here is more dire. Xuan Pin saw that you were in trouble, so he brought me here to help you."
Li Huowang's clone looked at Zuoqiu Yong's massive body and saw how she had changed entirely.
The small holes had completely covered his body, and strange worms crawled out from them as they secreted slime.
Zuoqiu Yong had been transformed into a fleshy hive for the worms.
While the two of them were speaking, Zuoqiu Yong's massive mountain-like body collapsed, and uncountable worms fell off it and charged toward them.
Anything the worms touched was dyed with the strange iridescent liquid. They weren't just attacking Li Huowang—they were trying to devour the Tianchen Kingdom too.
"Help me remove the worms in my head! I can't reach the seventh stage with them on my body!"
The clone glared at the worms, but no matter how hard he tried, the worms continued to pour out incessantly. His cultivation was useless here.
"Allow me."
Xuan Pin waved his right arm and cut off Li Huowang's head, which was riddled with holes.
Then, he kicked the head away without waiting for it to touch the ground.
"How about now?"
After the worms were gone, Li Huowang could finally focus. The headless Li Huowang sighed deeply. "Much better."
He then clenched his fist and muttered in his heart. The seventh stage faintly reappeared in his mind, and the strange superimposed state appeared once more.
He turned and scolded both Zhao Shuangdian and Qing Wanglai, saying, "Are you guys just waiting and watching a show? Is this how you help? Are the words of a Siming that fickle?"
Li Huowang's outrage left them completely clueless.
"What do you want us to help with? You seemed to lose it just now, and we have no idea what you are talking about."Chapter 959 - Enemy's Counterattack
Li Huowang deflated. He didn't know what to say.
"Let's put that aside. I don't have time to explain—they're already here! Prepare yourself!"
The moment he finished speaking, a faint clicking sound came from outside the door.
"Shh! It's dangerous outside! That's the sound of someone loading their magazines!"
Qing Wanglai quickly took out his gun and opened up the safe.
"Why did none of us notice that before? How come everything he says ends up happening? What a jinx."
Ba Nanxu stood up, chewing something with visible annoyance.
Zhao Shuangdian said nothing. She looked at Li Huowang with interest.
"Li Huowang, your condition is still unstable. Stay here and don't move. I will bring the others up front," Qing Wanglai said, picking up his weapon and exiting the mansion with the others.
"Now that's more like it," Li Huowang said, chuckling before bringing his clone towards the mountain of worms.
With their help, Li Huowang could fight against the two Simings on his own without worrying about getting intercepted by the other Simings from Fu Shengtian's side.
Fu Shengtian's Siming were gravely mistaken if they thought they could enter this world as they pleased.
After fighting for a while, Li Huowang and his clone realized that the two Simings weren't pushovers. No matter how hard they tried to use their cultivation, the holes continued to spread, and the fleshy worms continued to devour the Tianchen Kingdom.
"Shit!" Li Huowang stopped and called Qing Wanglai using his phone.
"Hey! It's me. Where's your insect repellent? Don't question me about it. Just tell me if you have it or not!"
After getting the answer, Li Huowang threw the phone aside before reaching for the shoe cabinet.
He opened it and saw the yellow insect repellent. Li Huowang shook it vigorously before spraying it.
"Nana! Come and give it Death! We will kill Fu Shengtian's Simings here right now!"
With a hiss, the massive worm mountain slowly disintegrated, revealing Zuoqiu Yong's massive body covered in holes.
Li Huowang looked at the holes and didn't know what to do.
The other Simings had suppressed Zuoqiu Yong. Dealing with the worms was easy, but not with the holes. The worms would persistently grow out if he didn't remove the holes.
Li Huowang looked at the disgusting holes in Zuoqiu Yong's body before figuring something out. He quickly grabbed his phone again and called Qing Wanglai, "Ask Chen Hongyu to come here! I need her special abilities!"
Soon, the fleshy worms hidden inside the holes were expelled from Zuoqiu Yong's body, like pimples were popped. They were washed out by the pus, just like the ones on Chen Hongyu's face.
Now that the worms were gone, Zuoqiu Yong's body started to rot. Her melting flesh fused together, and her body soon became a rotting mountain.
The rotting flesh was gone soon after, and Zuoqiu Yong regenerated herself. As long as the holes were gone, an injury on this level wouldn't be able to harm her.
Li Huowang sighed in relief. Then, he heard the window shattering, and a black object rolled before him.
Li Huowang hissed in surprise. "Grenade! Run!"
Li Huowang grabbed Yang Na and ran into the washroom.
They couldn't get very far before it exploded. The explosion blasted Li Huowang off his feet.
The hall was now filled with dust. Yang Na winced in pain, holding her bleeding head. Her eyes widened when she saw Li Huowang lying in front of her, his back a bloody mess.
He had used his own body to shield her.
Tears welled in her eyes. She couldn't bear to see him like this. She frantically tried to pull him up, but she didn't know what to do.
Yang Na kept patting his face, attempting to wake him up.
Li Huowang was still unconscious, and Yang Na was afraid. She was terrified that he was dead this time.
"Li Huowang, you can't die! You don't have permission to die!"
"Cough cough!" Li Huowang coughed and reached for his waist to pull out a shard of glass embedded into his body.
Li Huowang weakly fell into her embrace. "It's ok... It's ok... I can't die for now."
"Why did you shield me? I control the Heavenly Dao of Death. I can't die." 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
Yang Na was very worried and felt guilty because of it.
Li Huowang smiled bitterly and tried to steady his breath. "Go find the first aid kit in Wu Qi's room."
Since the enemies decided to attack them face-on, the battle would surely take a long time. Li Huowang dared not rest even though he was hurt.
"Alright, sit here and don't move!" Yang Na said before quickly running into Wu Qi's room.
"Damn, there's so many people outside, and yet they threw the grenade into the house. They are trying to kill me!"
Li Huowang continued to pull off the glass shards embedded in his body.
Qing Wanglai's home was pretty, but the glass shards were deadly.
"Thankfully, the wounds are not fatal."
Li Huowang forced himself to reach the wine cabinet and took a bottle of strong alcohol. He drank a large gulp for himself before pouring the rest onto his back.
The intense pain made his body shiver. Li Huowang almost broke his teeth by biting too hard, but it worked. His head was no longer buzzing, and he felt much better.
Li Huowang called Qing Wanglai again, but no one picked up this time.
He tried calling the others, but none of them picked up either.
"They must be in the middle of a fight. Just... why aren't there any gunshots outside?"
Li Huowang dragged himself towards the door. However, before he even got close, another black object rolled towards his feet.
His mind went blank. It was too late to run, so Li Huowang instinctively picked it up before throwing it out of the window.