Chapter 359
Chapter 359
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 359
>Chapter Title: Great God and Two Gods
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“Put it on. Being naked looks ugly too.” Hong Da handed his stinky beggar’s robe to the stark naked Li Huowang.
Li Huowang thanked him and draped the robe covered in rusty cleavers over himself.
Just as he reached out to put on the robe, Li Huowang noticed his own mangled forearm.
The skin there seemed to have something carved into it, but it had been burned and fused completely together.
“Weird, what’s going on here?” Li Huowang puzzledly lowered his hand slowly and draped Hong Da’s robe over himself.
No longer naked, Li Huowang was just about to turn and catch up with Jixiang and the others when after two steps, he suddenly stopped. “No! Something’s wrong!!”
Li Huowang quickly rolled up his sleeve, exposing the fused wound, pulled out a dagger, and sliced into the skin beside it.
He grabbed the skin and yanked hard. Accompanied by the sound of tearing flesh, the underlying meat and tendons were revealed.
The characters carved there had been cut deep, clearly imprinted on the flesh.
After Li Huowang shockingly read the words, he whipped his head around and shouted loudly toward Jixiang: “It’s Heart Turbidity!”
The moment he heard this, Jixiang’s expression lit up. “Oh! Our house remembers now! Our house was looking for you to help catch the Heart Turbidity!”
But the next moment, all three of their expressions changed, and the atmosphere grew exceptionally grave.
“This Heart Turbidity has come out! They’re hiding our memories about him!”
Li Huowang drew the Purple Tassel Sword and eyed everything around them with extreme vigilance.
“It might be more than that. Maybe this Heart Turbidity has already hidden some of our people, we just don’t remember. Don’t look into his eyes, no matter what.”
“Clack clack clack.” Jixiang kept flicking his abacus beads, as if calculating something.
When the sound of the abacus stopped, out of a row of five beads, three had been pushed up.
“Three people. The Heart Turbidity hid three people.” Jixiang’s words made Li Huowang and Hong Da’s scalps crawl. Unbeknownst to them, three companions had vanished.
Li Huowang’s right hand danced up and down, carving what Jixiang had just said onto his own arm. That way, the Heart Turbidity couldn’t hide it.
“Our house will try to force it out. You two stand guard!” Jixiang slammed his abacus onto the ground and began clacking away at it.
Hong Da walked over with a grim expression, pulled out cleavers one by one, and swiftly arranged them around Jixiang in a lotus formation, blades facing inward.
Meanwhile, Li Huowang, unable to do anything else, stayed on high alert.
Time ticked by. As Jixiang fiddled again, the numbers lost meaning once more, but this time it wasn’t as effective as before.
Even as Jixiang worked up a full sweat, the Heart Turbidity still didn’t appear.
Li Huowang stared grimly at their surroundings. Just then, he noticed that at some point, more lines of text had appeared on his arm.
They were his own handwriting, but the memory of writing them seemed to have been hidden by the Heart Turbidity—he had no idea when he’d done it.
“Jixiang’s method is working, but it’s weak! Use our ears to listen carefully! Hurry! The ones hidden by Heart Turbidity aren’t just Tuoba Danqing and Liu Zongyuan—Bai Lingmiao’s there too!”
“The Two Gods never left at all! She secretly brought Bai Lingmiao to help us! Hurry and save them! We absolutely can’t let them end up like Heart Turbidity’s family!”
Li Huowang shuddered, goosebumps erupting all over his body.
Without hesitation, Li Huowang yanked out the cotton from his ears, using his extremely sensitive hearing to scan everything around them.
At first, Li Huowang nearly passed out from the roaring din. Each clash of the abacus beads boomed like thunder in his ears.
“Daddy, so noisy, so noisy!”
“Endure it, it’ll be over soon! We’re saving your mom!” Li Huowang clenched his teeth, shut his eyes, and focused all his energy on distinguishing the sounds.
It was terribly loud at first, but as Li Huowang gradually calmed his mind, he picked up other noises.
“Uncle… crazy…”
“No, not that one!” Li Huowang gritted his teeth, clutching his head with both hands and squeezing hard.
Finally, some sounds grew clear—a set of footsteps that appeared suddenly and vanished just as quickly.
“Over… here!!” Li Huowang’s eyes snapped open, his gaze turning razor-sharp as he slashed straight at the back of a tree.
The man-wide tree was cleaved in two with one sword stroke, revealing a raggedly dressed man.
He glanced woodenly at Li Huowang. Instantly, the Purple Tassel Sword vanished from Li Huowang’s hand.
“It’s that again, huh!” Li Huowang jammed both hands into his abdomen and snapped two more ribs.
With a squelch, the Heart Turbidity doubled over alongside Li Huowang, howling in agony.
Enduring the excruciating pain, Li Huowang roared and charged at the Heart Turbidity.
The male Heart Turbidity glared hard at Li Huowang, but to his shock, his usual ability failed him this time.
By the time he snapped out of it, Li Huowang was only ten feet away, and Li Sui’s tentacles were already whipping about, ready to blind him.
In this dire situation, the male Heart Turbidity showed no panic. He abruptly raised his left hand, and a figure materialized out of thin air, hurtling toward Li Huowang—Tuoba Danqing, who had vanished earlier.
That wasn’t all; Liu Zongyuan was flung out next.
When the third person was tossed out, Li Huowang’s taut nerves inexplicably relaxed a fraction. It was Bai Lingmiao.
Ignoring the male Heart Turbidity, Li Huowang instinctively spread his arms to catch her.
As Li Huowang securely caught her, their eyes met. No words were spoken, but their gazes held volumes.
Just as Li Huowang set the girl in his arms down, Bai Lingmiao gradually faded away again, hidden once more.
“Heart Turbidity!!” Veins bulging on his forehead, Li Huowang bellowed and rushed at him.
But just as he closed in, another figure hurtled toward him—this time, the Two Gods.
And so, these hidden things were tossed about like stones by the male Heart Turbidity.
All sorts of vanished items were flung out only to disappear again in rotation.
In wielding his ability, this male Heart Turbidity was clearly far more adept than the female one.
Li Huowang knew this wouldn’t do. If they kept this up, Jixiang wouldn’t hold out much longer.
If Jixiang collapsed, finding the Heart Turbidity again would be next to impossible.
He had to find a way to counter him.
As the two women were flung at him again, Li Huowang quickly blinked at them. Bai Lingmiao gave a slight nod.
Soon, Bai Lingmiao and the Two Gods faded away once more. The instant they reappeared amid a swirl of debris, Li Huowang seized the ribs piercing his chest and twisted hard.
The Heart Turbidity instantly buckled in pain. At that moment, the Two Gods flipped in midair and stomped the sole of Bai Lingmiao’s foot with her embroidered shoe.
Using the rebound, Bai Lingmiao shot toward the male Heart Turbidity.
In that instant, Bai Lingmiao reached for a longsword nearby.
“Don’t grab it!!” Li Huowang shouted to stop her—that was his missing Purple Tassel Sword!
Bai Lingmiao knew, but in this moment, she had no choice.
As the Heart Turbidity, enduring the pain, just raised his head, the Purple Tassel Sword plunged precisely into his forehead.
The instant the Heart Turbidity died, everything around them fell silent.
Li Huowang’s eyes widened to their limit, staring fixedly at Bai Lingmiao’s hand gripping the Purple Tassel Sword.
“Heh heh.”
Bai Lingmiao suddenly laughed. Her body hunched slightly as she laughed along with the Two Gods, the laughter growing louder and louder.
“Hahahahaha!!!”
(End of chapter)