Chapter 362
Chapter 362
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 362
>Chapter Title: Yin-Yang
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Looking at Jixiang slumped on the ground before him, Li Huowang's face looked exceptionally grim.
Li Huowang remembered Jixiang saying that the male heart turbidity was dead, but the female heart turbidity was still alive. When these two heart turbidities came together, even Zhuge Yuan couldn't handle it.
Li Huowang didn't know how strong Zhuge Yuan was. The only thing he knew was that he was truly in trouble now.
"Huowang, what's wrong with this eunuch?" Bai Lingmiao, warily scanning their surroundings, clearly didn't grasp the severity of the situation.
Looking at her profile, Li Huowang took a deep breath and suppressed the intense unease in his heart. He didn't care about his own life or death, but he absolutely couldn't let Bai Lingmiao get dragged down with him!
Li Huowang quickly stepped forward and helped Jixiang up from the ground. His voice carried urgency as he asked,
"Jixiang, don't lose heart! It's not over yet! Think hard—how did the others in the Directorate escape situations like this?"
Hearing this, Jixiang looked toward Li Huowang and said with deep despair on his face,
"You don't understand anything at all. When this happens, there are no survivors!"
Just as Li Huowang was about to say something more, gazes shooting in from all directions made him grip his sword hilt tightly in alarm.
Gradually, a group of people emerged slowly from the woods—a group that looked exactly like the thing Li Huowang had captured.
They hunched over, crouching in the distance with their bulging bellies, staring fixedly at Li Huowang and the others with their protruding goldfish eyes.
"Newcomers again? Great, great!"
"That girl's quite the looker. Heh heh."
"Yeah, and what a big butt she's got."
Their murmurs made Li Huowang's expression turn savage. He swung his copper coin sword swiftly, and with the red strings pulling, it lashed out like a long whip toward these things.
Yet facing Li Huowang's attack, these things didn't even dodge. They took it directly with their thin, emaciated bodies.
The sharp copper coins sliced through their bodies like cutting tofu. But even severed into pieces, they made no move, just wriggling on the ground while opening their mouths to speak.
"Don't be hasty. We won't do anything. We'll just wait."
"Wait a year, two years, three years—until you turn into something like us."
These people's words sent a chill of horror through Li Huowang, who feared nothing.
They were no longer human. These people, hidden away and forgotten by the heart turbidity, had long since warped into monsters over the endless years.
Li Huowang cursed viciously in his heart. Ignoring the things around him, he turned and hoisted Jixiang up again.
"Jixiang, it's nothing—just being trapped. Think hard! Think of those people outside waiting for you to come back!"
Hearing Li Huowang's words, something seemed to stir in Jixiang. The fear and despair in his eyes rapidly faded.
"Yes, she's still waiting for me at home! I'm taking her back to the village! I'm done with this!"
Seeing this, Li Huowang let out a breath of relief and calmly asked,
"Jixiang, think carefully—what exactly can get us out of here?"
Jixiang, barely pulling himself together, slapped his own face hard and pondered calmly for a moment. Then he looked up at the others and said,
"Now with one heart turbidity alive and one dead, the karmic obstacles inside them are perfectly yin and yang, fused together. We definitely can't get out. To break the deadlock, we must find that living female heart turbidity."
Jixiang grew steadier as he spoke, his words coming faster and faster.
"That's right, exactly—find that female heart turbidity! Turn her into a corpse, and there might be a sliver of hope!"
Hearing this, everyone ignored everything else and scattered quickly, charging into the woods to search for the so-called female heart turbidity.
Trees flashed past as Li Huowang carried Bai Lingmiao through the forest, searching nonstop.
"Huowang, there's something wrong with this damned place—no immortals are coming no matter how I call." Bai Lingmiao, looking thoroughly irritated after beating the drum for a while, said this to Li Huowang.
Li Huowang had anticipated this. In a situation like this, how could minor spirits like the immortals be of any use?
"Blind searching won't work. Looks like we need talismans for divination." Li Huowang reached for the turmeric paper, only to find he'd burned through his entire supply long ago.
"Got any yellow paper?" Li Huowang asked Bai Lingmiao.
Bai Lingmiao thought for a moment and pulled a small paper horse folded from yellow paper from her bosom.
"This is for when I perform the rite. See if you can use it."
Li Huowang took it, unfolded it quickly, glanced left and right, and charged toward a man peeking from behind a tree. Soon after, he returned dragging a bloody skull and began divining.
Looking at the hexagram on it, Li Huowang tossed the skull aside and resumed the search.
But the divination, infallible in the past, failed them this time like never before. No matter how they searched, they couldn't find any trace matching the hexagram's indications.
After a full day and night, Tuoba Danqing finally found them.
"Come quick! Hong Da found it!"
Ignoring their deep exhaustion, the three hurried back the way they came.
They soon returned, just in time to see Tuoba Danqing viciously wrench off the female heart turbidity's head and hurl it to the ground.
Seeing this, Li Huowang's heart clenched instantly. He tensely scanned the pitch-black surroundings.
Yet after a long while, nothing changed around them. None of those hidden people were missing.
"What's going on?" Li Huowang couldn't help but ask.
At that moment, the female heart turbidity's head on the ground slowly crawled back toward her body. Though her eyes were lifeless, she was undoubtedly still alive.
Their actions drew piercing mocking laughter from all around.
"Hahaha! You actually think you can kill her? Don't you know no one can die in this place?"
"You think we don't want to die? We've wanted to die for ages! Do you know what's more terrifying than death? It's living forever like this!"
These words sent a chill through everyone present. To break the situation, they had to kill this female heart turbidity—but in here, she simply couldn't die!
The next moment, Bai Lingmiao drew the purple-tasseled sword from Li Huowang's body and slashed hard across Hong Da's neck beside her.
Seeing Hong Da's blood flowing nonstop with no sign of dying, everyone instantly understood their predicament.
This had formed an unbreakable deadlock.
Jixiang, whose face had collapsed in despair, tried to say something, but a fist smashed viciously into his face.
"You damned eunuch! This is all your fault! If you hadn't dragged us here to catch some bullshit heart turbidity, how would we end up like this!"
It was Tuoba Danqing. Gone was his usual affable demeanor; ignoring all rank and hierarchy, he stormed up to his former superior and unleashed a furious barrage of punches and kicks.
(End of chapter)