Chapter 356
Chapter 356
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 356
>Chapter Title: Hidden
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Hearing the voice, Li Huowang turned his head to look. He saw some characters faintly visible in the gaps of the wall covered in brambles and ivy.
The copper coin sword, transformed into a long whip, swiftly danced a few times, instantly clearing the front wall.
“What am I, in the end? How strange.”
“I don’t want to kill it! I just want to observe it!”
“Turn sideways and you can’t see me, but I want to do everything!”
“Looks like it was written by a heart turbidity, but this handwriting doesn’t seem like it was written by one person.” Tuoba Danqing pondered carefully.
“Hey, Danqing, stop looking. Give me some of your gu bugs. I need to take them with the Lifespan Pill.”
The registrar spoke as he pulled out a Lifespan Pill from his bosom and shoved it into his mouth. The white flesh on his head visibly diminished.
“Lord Registrar, you’re almost at your limit. Taking more Lifespan Pills will be trouble.”
“Sigh~ Does our house not know that? Let’s get this done first, or else I won’t live long enough to turn into a human fiend.”
Li Huowang ignored the registrar’s nagging and stayed vigilant of everything around him despite the pain.
The situation was under control for now. He hoped it would end quickly this time without any more surprises.
“Heh heh.” Hearing the voice, Li Huowang looked up slightly and came face-to-face with a filthy-faced woman.
The woman had very long hair and a rather delicate complexion. She hung upside down in front of Li Huowang, her expression abnormally excited as she stared at him.
In that brief instant, a subconscious thought flashed through Li Huowang’s mind: “She’s a heart turbidity!!”
Without hesitation, Li Huowang swung his sword down, stabbing straight into her abdomen.
The heart turbidity coughed up blood and fell to the ground, staring at Li Huowang in extreme shock. She kept repeating.
“You’re fine? You’re actually fine?”
Li Huowang, his emotions running high, paid no mind to anything else. He raised the iron spoon in his hand, straddled her, and prepared to gouge out those eyes that could make people vanish.
“Er Jiu! Leave her eyeballs intact! Don’t gouge them out no matter what! You can kill her, but don’t touch the eyes!”
Hearing this, Li Huowang swiftly dislocated all her joints. Now, she couldn’t move anything except her eyeballs.
Though he didn’t understand what was going on, a heart turbidity had delivered itself to his door—there was no reason to let it go.
He tore a red strip from his red Daoist robe and was about to wrap up the heart turbidity’s eyes.
But at this moment, she showed no sign of struggling. Instead, she stared in horror at the words of various sizes on the wall.
“No! I didn’t kill them! I don’t know! But I didn’t kill them!”
After wrapping her eyes layer upon layer, Li Huowang finally let out a breath and collapsed to the ground, panting heavily.
After catching his breath, Li Huowang exchanged glances with the registrar and the others. Everyone’s expressions were exceedingly strange—this was nothing like what they had expected.
“Brother Er, how did you manage to not get hidden by the heart turbidity? And how did you make it jump right in front of you for you to catch?”
Hearing Tuoba Danqing’s question, Li Huowang thought for a moment before looking up to answer: “Maybe I just got lucky.”
He suspected it might be related to his identity as a heart element, but he absolutely couldn’t tell them that.
At these words, Tuoba Danqing frowned and didn’t press further, inwardly grumbling: “What do you mean ‘got lucky’?”
But at that moment, the heart turbidity shouted again: “No! I didn’t kill them! I don’t know! But I didn’t kill them!”
As Li Huowang whipped his head around, his pupils shrank to pinpoints.
The cloth covering the heart turbidity’s eyes had vanished at some point, and she was staring at the words on the wall again.
“No good, dead objects can’t cover a heart turbidity’s eyes. It has to be something alive. Li Sui, come out and help!”
As two wriggling tentacles emerged from the wound in Li Huowang’s abdomen and wrapped around the heart turbidity’s eyes, she finally quieted down.
Seeing that the heart turbidity was truly captured, the registrar excitedly walked over, grabbed Li Huowang’s hands, and shook them vigorously in gratitude: “Er Jiu! You’ve done us a huge favor this time! Whatever you need in the future, just come to our house!”
“Lord Registrar, you’re too kind.” Li Huowang could hear the meaning in his words—the man owed him a favor now.
Though the process had been unexpected, since the goal was achieved, all was well.
“Let’s go, everyone. They’re waiting urgently in the capital.” The registrar seemed more eager than anyone.
Li Huowang nodded, hoisted the heart turbidity onto his back, and headed outside. Before leaving, he glanced at the wall.
“If my wife dies, the husband discards her by the wall. Why does the wall corner have so many deaths?”
Seeing this, Li Huowang’s expression turned astonished. He walked to the corner, pulled away the straw with his hand, and terrifying, hideous mummies appeared before him.
“So many dead people? And all women.” Even the ever-composed Shentu Gang showed a hint of surprise on his face at this sight.
This unexpected discovery made the others stop as well.
“It says it right on the wall.” Tuoba looked at the words on the wall and spoke slowly: “These are the heart turbidity’s wives. And this is still the fewer ones—the rest were made to vanish by it.”
“It’s truly bizarre. This heart turbidity is clearly female, so how could she have wives?”
“Let’s go quickly. Who cares if she does or not.”
The registrar was growing visibly impatient. As long as he could bring the heart turbidity back safely, he didn’t care if it was male or female.
But these words immediately put Li Huowang on high alert. His heart skipped a beat as he looked at the others and said: “Could there be another heart turbidity?”
His words made the atmosphere in the room turn oppressive.
“Fuck it, what’s there to fear! Am I scared of this bullshit heart turbidity? If it weren’t so hard to find, hiding like a rat, I could take on three at once!” Shentu Gang’s words quickly warmed everyone’s faces.
“Well said. If worst comes to worst, we still have Brother Er. Heart turbidities don’t work on him.” Tuoba Danqing chuckled and patted Li Huowang’s shoulder familiarly.
The group continued toward the village outskirts. They reached the village entrance without incident, giving Li Huowang time to check on the usually quiet Hong Da.
“What’s wrong, Brother Hong? We escaped with our lives, yet there’s not a hint of a smile on your face?”
Hong Da had been thrown out as a shield earlier, or else he might not have made it back.
Hong Da’s pale lips tried to crack into a smile, but he just couldn’t manage it.
“So many people. So many people inside there.” His voice hoarse, he finally spoke.
“What do you mean so many people?”
Hong Da stared fixedly at the heart turbidity on Li Huowang’s back. “The karma in a heart turbidity’s heart affects it the most—not others, but itself.”
“There are many people inside. They’re the heart turbidity’s enemies, but there are also quite a few who are its family and friends. They told me that when they encountered danger before, the heart turbidity hid them away, hid them in its own karma.”
“It planned to let them out once it was safe, but the heart turbidity forgot. Forgot completely.”
“At first, the heart turbidity could still control it, but later on, it would uncontrollably hide its own memories, hide its own age, hide its own gender.”
“You could even say that one hour, this heart turbidity is one person, and the next hour, it’s completely someone else!”