Chapter 435
Chapter 435
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 435
>Chapter Title: Key
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Chapter 435: Key
At this moment, Li Huowang inside North Wind's body stared gravely at North Wind, who was trapped within his own body.
His earlier words had left Li Huowang's mind in a bit of chaos. The Siting of the Sitting and Forgetting Dao not only controlled the false, but also the real?
To escape the hallucinations of the heart's element, he had to seek help from the Sitting and Forgetting Dao's Siting, Doumu Taiyin Taiyang??
But after a brief moment of confusion, his extensive experience dealing with the Sitting and Forgetting Dao quickly pulled Li Huowang back.
“No! I don’t believe it! You’re lying to me! You’re trying to trick me into contacting Doumu and lure me into becoming one of the Sitting and Forgetting Dao!!”
Compared to North Wind's previous nonsense, Li Huowang felt his own words were far more convincing and reasonable.
Hearing this, North Wind let out a soft sigh once more.
“What’s there to believe or not believe? Heaven’s Dao has fifty paths, the Sitings divide forty-three among them. Sitings possessing two heavenly paths aren’t just our Doumu Taiyin Taiyang. Surely you knew that? Your master was truly negligent.”
Though North Wind was the one trapped, he held the initiative in their conversation.
Li Huowang furrowed his brows tightly as he looked at him, feeling as though he were the one imprisoned between them.
“Is this guy pretending to be caught by me? Is he feeding me false information?”
He hated this feeling. He needed to seize back the initiative. Fortunately, he had a way. He picked up a saw crusted with dried blood and extended it toward North Wind.
Accompanied by that heart-wrenching scream, Li Huowang watched as the body before him gradually shattered. North Wind had fainted from pain several times, only to be swiftly awakened by Li Huowang again.
After several rounds, Li Huowang tossed the flesh-hooked blade to the ground and asked North Wind word by word once more:
“Now I want to know the real way to escape the hallucinations!”
Tortured to exhaustion, North Wind spoke in pained, halting gasps:
“What do you want me to say! I’m telling the truth!”
When he saw Li Huowang reach for the remaining torture tools again, he quickly changed his tune.
“Wait! If you think it’s fake and don’t want to cultivate the truth, then let me suggest a way. Why not just take this body of mine with you? This body has no hallucinations, and it’s young and strong—far better than your battered one, isn’t it?”
Hearing this, Li Huowang looked down at his current body. The more he looked, the angrier he burned inside.
“This is a fucking woman’s body! I won’t use someone else’s body! I only want my own!”
“Hey, what’s the difference between man or woman? They’re both human bodies. Why be so rigid? Compared to those tormenting hallucinations, does it really matter if it’s male or female?”
As the other mocked him, the increasingly irritated Li Huowang stopped smiling and stared coldly at North Wind.
“You’re still lying to me, aren’t you? All that talk of yin-yang heavenly paths is fake, right?”
“You’ve never actually cultivated any truth-cultivation techniques! If you had, you could easily wield the heart’s element’s innate primordial qi, faking cultivation with ease. When I was torturing you earlier, you would’ve fought back. You suppress the hallucinations with some other method, not truth-cultivation techniques!”
Hearing this, North Wind looked utterly speechless.
“What the hell are you talking about? Who told you that truth-cultivation makes you super powerful? Is there free pie falling from the sky? That person’s a liar! Don’t believe him!”
Hearing the other say this, Li Huowang decided not to tangle with him anymore. Anything he got from this guy’s mouth now could be fake. Continuing to ask would just waste breath.
But since this guy was a heart’s element who could escape hallucinations, he must have some method inside him. He was like a treasure chest. Now that the chest was found, all that was missing was the key to open it.
Li Huowang directly pulled a wine gourd from his waist and forced it down North Wind’s throat while pinching his neck.
“You—” Before North Wind could finish half a word, his head lolled to the side, and his body went limp.
No one understood oneself better. He knew Li Huowang’s weakness. His body didn’t just have heightened pain; all his senses were amplified.
And this was filled with strong liquor—enough to knock him out for a good long while, keeping him quietly in place.
But just as North Wind slumped crookedly to the ground, his body slowly propped itself up again. However, his limbs moved in a very eerie way, like a puppet in a puppet show, suspended by invisible strings.
A double-pupiled eye emerged from his navel. North Wind was drunk now. The one controlling Li Huowang’s body was Li Sui.
For Li Sui, who had already extended her tentacles throughout Li Huowang’s body, this was effortless. Or rather, by the normal process, she should have taken over Li Huowang’s body just like this.
“Sui Sui, let’s go!”
Li Huowang pulled out the Great Thousand Record and other weapons from behind his back, slung them over himself, and cautiously retraced his steps.
“Daddy, where are we going?”
“We’re going to find Zhuge Yuan! His ritual tool can restrain North Wind and make him spit out the truth honestly. Plus, we’ll rescue Zhuge Yuan from the quagmire along the way. I just don’t feel right leaving him in this chaotic mess!”
When Li Huowang carefully passed through the golden walls and returned to his previous position, he was stunned by the sight of flames in the distance.
The tree was on fire—that tree made entirely of gold was actually burning. Flowing molten gold spread like tentacles in all directions.
The once flat golden brick ground was now jagged with strange rocks, completely transformed into a new landscape, sunken overall into a massive pit.
People in heavy armor lay scattered haphazardly within it. It seemed that during his absence, Great Liang’s military cultivators had arrived to protect the emperor.
The eyes in the sky had descended even lower now. Rolling black clouds like a monster’s brain matter wrapped behind that massive eyeball, nearly pressing down to the ground!
Looking at the vague silhouettes in the distance, Li Huowang took a deep breath and rushed toward them.
When he spotted Zhuge Yuan leisurely wielding his judge’s brush amid the chaotic battlefield, Li Huowang finally relaxed a little.
Good thing Zhuge Yuan’s strength was formidable. Even in such utter chaos, he could protect himself.
His position wasn’t at the center either, so pulling him out wouldn’t draw much attention.
Dodging blasts of earthly fire and heavenly thunder, along with flying pai gow tiles and mahjong sets, Li Huowang reached Zhuge Yuan’s side. The surrounding chaos instantly cleared. He had entered Great Qi.
Zhuge Yuan looked shocked at Li Huowang’s face and raised his judge’s brush toward it.
“North Wind?!”
(End of chapter)