Chapter 200
Chapter 200
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 200
>Chapter Title: Changes
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> Chapter 200: Changes
> His own body moved. This sentence was easy to understand, but when it appeared on Li Huowang, it became extraordinarily baffling.
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> Li Huowang straightened his back, looking at the red silhouette in front of him that had done the same.
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> Then he raised his right hand over his head, and saw the red silhouette in front of him make the identical motion.
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> This was his body—no mistaking it.
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> Li Huowang looked down at his own body again. It was empty there, nothing at all, yet he could still touch himself.
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> He touched his arm and the copper coin mask on his face with his hand, and the illusory Li Huowang in front did exactly the same.
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> Right now, Li Huowang felt like a shadow puppeteer, with that thing in the distance being the shadow in his hands.
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> Compared to what this thing was, Li Huowang wanted to figure out more how it had come about and how to fix it.
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> “Right, I remember now. Just before, when my hand was nailed to the ground and that woman swung her long halberd at me, my body shifted out of place!”
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> Li Huowang recalled that earlier, when facing his attacks, the woman had always struck at different spots, which was why she’d exposed such obvious flaws.
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> He hadn’t had time to think much about it then, but now it seemed she had been attacking his phantom.
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> “What the hell is going on? How do I have this kind of ability? It’s like there’s a glitch in this world. Could this world be fake??”
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> At this thought, a trace of terror appeared on Li Huowang’s face, and that terror deepened more and more.
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> Looking at his own body beside him, the more he looked, the faker it seemed.
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> His breathing quickened as he swiftly clutched his head, talking to himself nonstop to impose psychological suggestion and steady his once again wavering mind.
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> “No, this world is absolutely real—it can’t be a hallucination in my head!! This must be a special ability awakened from becoming a heart elemental!”
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> “Yeah, that’s right! It has to be! I’ve been so unlucky for so long; it’s about time I had some good fortune! This is normal, Li Huowang! Don’t be paranoid! That other world is the fake one—this world is real!!”
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> Seeing Li Huowang in such agony, Bai Lingmiao walked over and reached out to embrace him.
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> But her hand passed right through the phantom.
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> “I’m fine, I’m fine.” Li Huowang, steadying his breathing, took a step back.
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> Lv Zhuangyuan said timidly, “And you call this fine? You can’t even touch your own body—that’s a ghost! Little Daoist, when did you forget that you’re dead?”
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> In this situation, no one else could help Li Huowang; he had to digest it on his own.
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> After two incense sticks’ time, Li Huowang gradually regained his calm.
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> “I’m not dead. My body just gained some new abilities, that’s all.”
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> While everyone was resting, Li Huowang briefly explained what had happened.
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> “Oh~ I see, so this is the little Daoist’s divine ability.” Lv Zhuangyuan nodded in understanding.
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> Bai Lingmiao groped around and touched Li Huowang’s invisible body. A trace of worry appeared on her face.
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> “Senior Brother Li, are you going to be like this forever?”
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> “Wait. Let me try.” Li Huowang tried hard to recall that sensation from before, took a deep breath, and closed his eyes.
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> “Come back, get back here now! Overlap again!”
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> After racking his brains for a good while, Li Huowang suddenly opened his eyes. To his astonishment, his body was back!
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> But before he could be happy for long, Li Huowang noticed another problem.
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> His sensations and body had indeed overlapped this time, but the position was off—his lower body was stuck in the dirt.
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> Though his body was stuck in the dirt, Li Huowang felt like he was standing on the ground.
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> His body had become misaligned with this space-time too.
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> “I know what this is! I know this divine ability, Senior Brother Li—it’s the Earth Escape Technique!” Gouwa said delightedly, as if he’d made a grand discovery.
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> Li Huowang ignored him and closed his eyes to try again.
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> When he opened his eyes once more, his body was indeed out of the dirt, but his viewpoint was now in the air, suddenly switching from first-person to third-person perspective.
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> Watching the red Daoist below move and look up under his control, Li Huowang felt like he was playing a game.
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> “No, again! I refuse to believe I can’t get back!”
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> Li Huowang began a new round of attempts to control his body’s position.
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> Moving it wasn’t as simple as just thinking about it; it required a strong sense of motion. That sensation was like trying to see flowers in the fog—extremely hard to grasp.
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> After messing around in place for an hour, Li Huowang finally managed to realign himself, more or less.
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> The reason it was “more or less” was that his visual perception was now slightly higher, positioned upright on his forehead.
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> Close enough was close enough. Li Huowang didn’t want to try anymore—they were still fleeing, after all.
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> “Rest’s over. Let’s go—get out of Hou Shu as fast as we can. The longer we stay, the more dangerous it gets.”
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> At these words, everyone nodded and picked up their scant remaining luggage.
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> “Boss, I can’t run—I’m still pregnant.” Luo Jinhua’s whisper was heard clearly by Li Huowang.
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> Li Huowang looked up to see Lv Juren silently bend down and scoop up his wife.
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> The town that had been filled with smoke and gunfire before was now utterly destroyed. Broken walls and ruins were everywhere, and some houses were on fire with no one to tend them.
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> Naked corpses stripped like white pigs were casually piled into small mountains.
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> In the midst of this, the bandit soldiers sat in groups of three or five around bonfires made from burning beams, drinking and eating meat.
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> A plump, powdered man in a hat, covering his nose with a handkerchief, shrank as he dodged through these horrors.
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> Suddenly, his foot slipped. Looking down, he realized it was a length of intestine! “Aiya! Oh my mother!”
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> Seeing this man’s overreaction, the bandit soldiers around him burst into laughter.
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> “Supervisor Cao, come have a taste? Freshly roasted.” A charred yellow leg with streaks of blood appeared abruptly before Supervisor Cao.
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> “Urp~” Cao Hai couldn’t hold back anymore and vomited against a nearby ruined wall.
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> “Look at you, so spineless. Relax, it’s pork, not rice meat—see the hoof?”
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> Hearing this, Cao Hai felt a bit better and cautiously pushed the pork leg away with two fingers.
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> “I need to discuss something urgent with General Peng. Do you know where she is? I checked the main camp earlier, and she wasn’t there.”
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> “If even you, the supervisor, don’t know, how should I? I was busy snatching money and women from those beasts just now.”
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> As Cao Hai stood there looking troubled, a hairy hand suddenly reached from the side toward his crotch.
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> Panicked, Cao Hai jumped back several steps, only to see that the hand belonged to a sword-browed youth pretending to look surprised at his own hand.
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> “Aiya~ Earlier, I think I felt something. Lord Cao, didn’t cut it all off, eh~? Saving some for the Cao family line?”
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> Seeing this man, Cao Hai ignored the teasing and asked urgently: “Hou Wen, you’re General Peng’s close aide. You must know where she is now, right?”
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> “Heh heh heh~ Want to know?”
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> Hou Wen leaned in with a wicked grin and lightly patted his butt. As the other covered behind, he quickly slapped the front.
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> “Aiya, stop teasing! I really need to see General Peng! This concerns the general’s future!!”
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> “The general’s injured, recuperating over there. Careful—she’s in a foul mood right now.”
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> Ignoring everything else, Cao Hai headed toward the direction Hou Wen pointed—the few intact houses remaining.
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