Chapter 499
Chapter 499
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 499
>Chapter Title: True or False
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Chapter 499: True or False
When Li Huowang noticed the wariness on the faces of the other four upon hearing the daoist’s words, his mind stirred immediately.
“Hold on, maybe I don’t have to resort to force. Maybe I can try to think of a way to scare them off!”
After a brief moment, Li Huowang gritted his teeth, gripped the Bone Marrow Sword tightly, pointed the head on the hilt outward, and slammed it into the ground. The space around him blurred between real and illusory.
“Hmph? Why aren’t you dead? Then why don’t you ask Zhuge Yuan himself! Silent to the point of tracelessness! Illusory calamity spans the cliffs! Neither dying nor perishing! Transcending the paths of the three realms! Live!”
When the Supervisors of Heaven saw the figure of a scholar with a folding fan flickering in and out of existence before Li Huowang, deep fear appeared in their eyes. They knew all too well Zhuge Yuan’s true power.
Not to mention, there was someone who could revive Zhuge Yuan using the head from his bone marrow!
They fled for their lives almost immediately. The Supervisors of Heaven turned and vanished into the woods at top speed.
Not long after they left, Peng Longteng and Zhuge Yuan faded away as well. Li Huowang collapsed to the ground, clutching his swelling head and groaning in pain.
With his current cultivation level in the path of truth, turning the two hallucinations beside him into entities was far too forced.
Creating some commotion to scare them off was already the greatest effort Li Huowang could muster.
He felt his head splitting apart. Gritting his teeth, he clutched the Bone Marrow Sword and staggered, intending to leave the area first.
Though he had scared them off, there was no guarantee they wouldn’t come to their senses and return.
Right now, Li Huowang felt his head growing larger and larger, like the God of Longevity from a New Year painting.
“Brother Li, are you alright?” Zhuge Yuan asked with some concern.
“I’m fine, I’m fine.” In truth, Li Huowang didn’t know if he was alright. This was the first time he had forcibly cultivated a hallucination into reality, and this wasn’t the same as something small like an apple.
Just as Li Huowang said this, his dantian churned. The surroundings rapidly shifted. “Oh no! The divine light can’t contain the innate qi anymore!”
By the time Li Huowang came back to his senses, he found himself returned to the cold, hard reality.
But this time, he wasn’t in his hospital room. Instead, his mother was pushing him out into the fenced yard to get some sun.
It seemed his atrophied muscles had put the prison staff much more at ease.
Thinking of the situation on the other side, Li Huowang craned his neck and used his teeth to undo the restraint straps. He dragged his frail body and lunged toward the ground nearby.
He remembered there was a bush here, perfect for temporarily hiding.
He was extremely vulnerable right now. Even a wild boar from over there might injure him.
“Son! Son, what’s wrong with you! Get up!”
As Sun Xiaoqin frantically tried to help the dust-covered Li Huowang to his feet, he grabbed hold of her.
“Mom! Trust me just this once, Mom!”
Sun Xiaoqin seemed stunned by Li Huowang’s unusually urgent shout, staring at him blankly.
“Mom, I really can’t get up right now! Those Supervisors of Heaven might not be far away yet. Wait, where’s my sword?”
Li Huowang looked around and grabbed a broom leaning against the wall, clutching it tightly to his chest.
Gripping the plastic broom handle, Li Huowang breathed a slight sigh of relief. He tilted his head back and whispered to her once more. “Mom, I really can’t explain too much to you. Don’t worry, things will get better in a little while. Trust me!”
Watching Li Huowang sprawled on the ground, hugging the plastic broom like a maniac, warily scanning the surroundings with paranoid suspicion, Sun Xiaoqin nodded silently through her tears.
Seeing his mother’s heartbroken expression pained Li Huowang as well. “Mom, don’t be sad. I might not be able to come back for a while. Things are really busy over there. Bear with me a bit, and once I finish handling everything there, I’ll make more time to be with you.”
“Mom’s not sad. You just stay here and lie still, okay? I’ll go find the doctor for you first.”
Watching his mother’s departing figure, Li Huowang cursed under his breath. Damn it, messed up again.
But fortunately, it was only this once. Next time, he’d know that forcibly cultivating reality might work, but it would also destabilize the innate qi in his body.
Li Huowang cautiously scanned his surroundings. Seeing no one approaching, he finally relaxed a little. “Alright, since no one’s coming near me, they probably haven’t followed. I’m temporarily safe.”
But just as Li Huowang thought this, he heard footsteps approaching from behind.
Li Huowang’s heart tightened, thoughts exploding in his mind. He immediately slung the “sword” over his shoulder and stepped out from the nonexistent bush on the ground, walking forward slowly with a cold expression.
After two steps, Li Huowang pretended to hear something. He turned slightly and said with disdain, “What? You little brats are back? Do you think this seat has a good temper? Hm?”
“Huowang.”
The familiar gentle female voice made Li Huowang’s heart tremble slightly. As he turned with the “sword” on his shoulder, he saw Yang Na standing outside the distant fence, tears in her eyes as she looked at him.
It had been a long time. Yang Na had lost a lot of weight. She hadn’t been plump before, but now she was worryingly thin.
Yang Na wasn’t alone. An old man with large round glasses stood behind her. Li Huowang recognized him—Yang Na’s father.
In the past, he had gotten along well with him. Whenever Li Huowang visited Yang Na’s home, he would joke around with a hearty laugh.
But the past was the past. Now, there was no trace of that easygoing nature. His gaze toward Li Huowang was filled with coldness and rejection.
“See? This is the Li Huowang you’ve been pining for! How long are you going to keep deluding yourself?”
As soon as he finished speaking, Yang Na covered her mouth and crouched down, sobbing quietly.
The sight made Li Huowang’s heart quake. “No, I can’t let this side distract me. I’m not out of danger yet. This has to be fake. How could Yang Na show up the moment I wake up? Right, that’s it. This side is fake. This Yang Na is fake!!”
“They showed up because someone’s coming from over there! Two people? Could it be Miao Miao and Li Sui?”
“Miao Miao? Li Sui? Is that you? If it is, give me some kind of sign!” Li Huowang shouted toward the two outside the fence.
As Li Huowang yelled this, Yang Na’s father forcibly dragged her away.
“Now you can give up, right? Let’s go! Put Li Huowang behind you completely from now on. Don’t think about him anymore, and don’t see him again!”
Watching Yang Na gradually recede from him, a completely opposite thought uncontrollably surged in his mind.
“No, no!! This side is definitely real. I’m going to cultivate to truth in the future! Turn this side completely real, so this Yang Na must be real too! She’s real! I can’t let her leave like this!”
Two utterly opposing thoughts clashed repeatedly in Li Huowang’s mind, twisting his expression in agony. He clenched his fists and pounded his swelling head furiously. “Aaaah!!”
(End of chapter)