Chapter 169
Chapter 169
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 169
>Chapter Title: Cooperation
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Chapter 169: Cooperation
Accompanied by a whistling sound, the copper coin sword formed from flesh and blood swung toward him. Li Huowang retreated in perfect sync with Yiwan beside him.
Seeing this, the other three mahjong members quickly stepped forward to block Danyangzi.
Taking advantage of this rare moment to catch their breath, Yiwan turned to Li Huowang at his side.
“How about it? As long as you help us deal with Danyangzi, we can all part on good terms.”
However, Li Huowang treated his words as mere wind past his ears. His feet slammed into the ground as he prepared to go relieve the distant three Sit-Forget Daoists.
Seeing this, Yiwan spoke again. This time, what came from his mouth successfully halted Li Huowang’s steps.
“Still not enough? Then I’ll add one final stake!”
“Li Huowang, aren’t you a stray soul? That constant bewilderment must feel awful, right? As long as you help us this time, we can tell you how a stray soul escapes bewilderment! Let you become a normal person!”
Seeing the shock on Li Huowang’s face, Yiwan explained further.
“That’s right, stray souls can indeed escape bewilderment. It’s just that the method is extremely difficult! Ordinary people couldn’t find it at all!”
“Stop lying. Even Abbess Jingxin couldn’t find it. You think you can?”
Li Huowang’s tone was extremely firm, but he didn’t leave.
Watching his distant companions struggling to hold on, Yiwan’s speech quickened.
“That old nun Chen Hongxiu knows nothing! I’ll tell you the truth! North Wind, one of Sit-Forget Dao’s Four Joys, is a stray soul! He’s lived for one hundred ninety years, and he’s still doing just fine! No bewilderment clings to him anymore!”
As Li Huowang pondered this, the other three Sit-Forget Dao members in the distance could no longer hold out.
The flesh-and-blood copper coin sword pierced a mahjong member’s chest. His chest began to swell.
The next moment, his body exploded entirely, turning into a mass of mutilated, deformed flesh and blood that splattered everywhere.
“See that? Three dead already! If you don’t fully suppress Danyangzi, we’ll both end up dead, and he’ll come out on top. Is that what you want?”
“Straight talk! Even if I admit I’m scheming against you, so what? Who do you hate more, him or us? We’ve already lost three, but your master Danyangzi hasn’t lost a single hair! Think it over carefully!”
These words seemed to convince Li Huowang. If he had to choose a winner between Danyangzi and Sit-Forget Dao, it was a simple choice.
Li Huowang looked at Danyangzi, who was chasing the remaining two Sit-Forget Daoists in the distance. He nodded.
“You hurry up! I’ll hold him off first!”
Just as Danyangzi opened his gaping maw, nearly biting off a Sit-Forget Daoist’s square head entirely, in this critical moment, Li Huowang finally arrived in time.
At this point, he didn’t bother dodging. His feet stomped as he dove straight into Danyangzi’s gaping mouth.
The worm formed from the *Great Thousand Record* writhed eagerly like a bloodthirsty leech, burrowing out from Li Huowang’s chest toward Danyangzi, baring its circular sharp teeth.
With a “clang,” Danyangzi’s mouth snapped shut before Li Huowang even reached it.
Li Huowang, covered in wriggling worms, smashed heavily onto Danyangzi’s terrifying face.
All the worms opened their mouths, ready to burrow into Danyangzi’s flesh.
But unexpectedly, with a swift finger sign pinched from writhing tentacles, the flesh on Danyangzi’s body twisted in reverse and pounced onto Li Huowang, attempting to devour him completely.
Blood, skin, bones, organs, worms—all crammed into an extremely confined space, tearing and devouring each other.
Seeing Li Huowang proving difficult, Danyangzi wanted to deal with Sit-Forget Dao first, but Li Huowang wouldn’t allow it.
The two gradually became intertwined, one within the other.
Though it appeared Danyangzi was stronger than Li Huowang, devouring him completely wasn’t that easy.
The things Li Huowang had sacrificed his five elements and five viscera to Ba Hui for were not so easily resolved.
Those worms were unaffected by the anomalies on Danyangzi’s body. They firmly gripped the flesh on Li Huowang, preventing it from being swallowed.
To Yiwan and the others, the distant Danyangzi and Li Huowang looked like a single writhing ball of meat.
“Master, long time no see!”
Though smiling, Li Huowang inwardly wished he could eat his flesh and drink his blood!
Facing Li Huowang, Danyangzi wore a mocking smile from start to finish.
“Wretched disciple, you really think you can fight me? I’m a half-immortal. What are you, a mere mortal?”
“Then why’s this half-immortal of yours tangled up with a mere mortal like me? Master, your half-immortal skills aren’t up to snuff!”
As they entangled, the remaining three Sit-Forget Daoists began their move. They quickly surrounded the master-disciple pair, sitting cross-legged and chanting with eyes closed.
“Cultivation has its path! Habit forms nature! Reject hearing, ruin the body! Suddenly sit and forget! Unmoved in silence! Subtle illumination enters! Those who tread strange paths! Realize the ultimate without cease! Followers of this dao! Can behold the marvelous! Effort little, achievement great! Essential! Marvelous! Hahaha!!”
With the chanting, patterns of pai gow, mahjong, and leaf cards flowed out from under their clothes like water, rapidly spreading across the ground.
These pattern lines swiftly pieced together into bizarre talismans. The strokes trembled between each other, emitting laughter high and low.
The laughter grew louder, infecting the surrounding spectating Ao Jing followers, and also reaching distant Danyangzi and Li Huowang.
Everyone’s voices echoed within the cavern, growing ever louder. Li Huowang’s ears began to pick up something hidden amid the laughter.
Some dark, obscure thing that ordinary senses couldn’t comprehend. Though incomprehensible, Li Huowang sensed something familiar within it.
“This is the Joy God! I remember now, it’s the Joy God from the Hu family ancestral hall! Sit-Forget Dao is summoning the Joy God!!”
However, Danyangzi beside him sensed even more.
“No! Child, you’ve got it wrong. They’re not summoning! They’re deceiving!”
“They not only deceive Ba Hui, they even deceive their own Joy God! None of their abilities are their own—all stolen from elsewhere!”
Li Huowang felt something drawn by the laughter, staring fixedly at him from within the surrounding walls. That was the Joy God—three lines of sight.
The laughter in his ears grew louder. Li Huowang knew that whatever they were doing had reached the critical moment.
Just as the laughter neared its peak, Li Huowang glanced at the three seated Sit-Forget Daoists. The corner of his mouth curved slightly upward as his body suddenly shrank.
All the worms entangled with Danyangzi’s deformed flesh inside withdrew with Li Huowang.
(End of chapter)