Chapter 506
Chapter 506
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 506
>Chapter Title: Dice
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> “This... this is impossible!!” Li Huowang stared at Zhuge Yuan right in front of him, staggering back half a step in utter shock.
> The spine bone sword from before had completely transformed. Chaotic, malformed flesh and organs intertwined around the spine, growing out like plants.
> It hadn’t fully grown into a person. It had only sprouted various disjointed, bloody organs before abruptly halting. No skin, no flesh—nothing remotely human.
> Though this form was utterly terrifying, Li Huowang was absolutely certain that this thing was still alive! Zhuge Yuan was still alive!
> “How can you possibly still be alive? You’re clearly dead! I strangled you with my own hands! I’ve taken your soul into my hallucinations!”
> The half-emerged Zhuge Yuan from the spine bone sword extended his completely skeletal left hand from the flesh, using those bone fingers to smooth back the hair at his temple stuck together with blood.
> “Brother Li, what are you talking about? I’m Heart Anchor. Even if Heart Anchor dies, the three souls, seven poises, ten emotions, and eight sufferings all belong to those three former bodies. How could you possibly take them away?”
> Those words made Li Huowang stumble, his face draining to a deathly pallor. He could scarcely stand.
> “So... so they were nothing at all?”
> As soon as those words left Li Huowang’s mouth, some of his past memories in his mind began to change.
> In a daze, Li Huowang realized that in his memories, when he had shaken off the Immortal Family back then, the Second God hadn’t sacrificed herself. Instead, she had come up with a win-win solution.
> That was for him to kill the Second God with his own hands, turning her into a hallucination like Zhuge Yuan! Then, once he achieved great success in cultivation, he would make them both real from the false.
> The Second God had agreed, and she had died happily at his hands, smiling!
> “Big Bro Dice, I just realized now—turns out all my hallucinations were fake. Truly, utterly fake... The Second God couldn’t survive at all. She was just something I imagined.”
> Li Huowang sat lifelessly on a stool behind the messy food stall, numbly repeating himself.
> “Then what do you expect me to do about it? Red Center, you already killed her. Even I can’t do anything about that. I’m not some immortal god.” Dice, the fat, big-eared man frying dough sticks, spoke helplessly.
> “I’m not asking you to revive her. I just want you to help cover up this memory for me. You’re the best at mixing cultivation with lies. Please... I really, really can’t face the hallucination of the Second God that I killed with my own hands.”
> “She’s clearly fake! But why does she feel so real? I’m in agony every single moment!”
> “Sigh, alright then. We’re fellow disciples, so I’ll help you this once. You owe me a big favor now—remember to pay it back.”
> When Li Huowang snapped awake from that altered memory, he clenched his fists tight, his expression twisting savagely as he shouted at the top of his lungs: “No! This is impossible! It’s all fake!”
> “Senior Brother Li, what’s wrong with you? Pull yourself together!” Tears welled in Bai Lingmiao’s eyes as she anxiously reached out to support him.
> And when he saw Bai Lingmiao right there, Li Huowang clutched at her like a lifeline, grabbing her slender arms and shaking them hard.
> “Miaomiao! You were there too! Tell me! How did the Second God leave back then? Did I strangle her to death?!”
> “Senior Brother Li, what are you talking about? The Second God vanished along with the Immortal Family, didn’t she? What’s going on?”
> Hearing that, Li Huowang laughed. Right, this was fake! It didn’t matter if he remembered wrong—had Bai Lingmiao remembered wrong too?
> Just as Li Huowang thought that, he was stunned to see Bai Lingmiao’s body rapidly turning transparent before his eyes.
> “Miaomiao!!” Li Huowang cried out, reaching to embrace her, only to grasp at empty air like a hallucination. His body passed right through.
> “Senior Brother Li, what’s happening to me...” As Bai Lingmiao looked down at her transparent body in shock, the next moment, she vanished completely.
> “Miaomiao!!!”
> “Red Center, this isn’t on me. You refused to pay back that favor first, so naturally I undid the help I gave you before.”
> The fat, big-eared Dice ambled over with a chuckle, slapping Li Huowang’s shoulder with his greasy hand.
> “Where’s Miaomiao? Where did you take Bai Lingmiao!!” Li Huowang’s bloodshot eyes glared at Dice like a man-eating beast.
> “Hey, don’t blame me for this. I said you didn’t pay back the favor. As for your woman, who knows where you lost her, or where you conjured a real one from for yourself later.” Dice waved his hands repeatedly.
> “What did I say before? Cultivate truth without falsehood, and you’ll eventually fall to heartfire sooner or later. With a living person right in front of you, how do you tell if they’re real or something you made real from false? Hmm? Hmm? Hmm? Figure it out yourself.”
> “Heh heh heh~ But anyway, that’s a trifle. Help me out with something: get that little emperor on the throne, and I’ll help you find your woman.”
> “It’s all because of you! All of it!!” Completely hysterical, Li Huowang tore at his back. The Great Thousand Record, wrapped in flesh, slammed onto the ground.
> Then Li Huowang gripped two barbed iron hooks in both hands and viciously plunged them into his abdomen, one on each side!
> As various intestines were dragged out by the hooks and stabbed onto the Great Thousand Record, the heavens and earth abruptly changed color. The senses of everyone nearby began to converge.
> “Whoa, what are you doing? What are you doing? Trying to perform the Cang Qiang Ascension on your own boss?” Dice retreated without a hint of fear.
> Just as Li Huowang felt that gaze—countless times clearer than before—fall upon him, he gradually stopped.
> As the Great Thousand Record on the ground fully shed its form into a sheet of human skin, Ba Hui’s gaze in the sky slowly faded.
> Li Huowang knelt on one knee, frozen in place. As he gasped for breath, the intense pain in his body and mind gradually ebbed.
> This time was different from before. The Cang Qiang Ascension had no effect on Dice—his true body wasn’t here. The fatso in front of him was just a pawn in his hands.
> Since Miaomiao was in his hands, if Li Huowang wanted to save her, he absolutely couldn’t act rashly right now!
> The enemy held good cards, while he had none. Playing wildly would only make things worse—especially when the one he was playing against was Dice.
> Enduring the agony, Li Huowang gritted his teeth and tremblingly shoved the large and small intestines hooked onto the barbs back into his abdomen.
> “Dice! Didn’t you want me to go to the capital? Fine! I’ll help Ji Lin ascend the throne! And you return Bai Lingmiao to me intact, not a single hair missing!”
> “If you really get Ji Lin on the throne, then I’ll help you find that white-haired girl. But Red Center, let me make this clear: I didn’t kidnap her. We’re Sitting Oblivion Dao—if we did something as stupid as taking hostages, that’d be smearing our ancestral master’s face!”
> Li Huowang sneered inwardly. He wouldn’t believe a single word from him.
> This had all been Dice’s scheme from start to finish! Even running into that Celestial Watch Division member with the spine bone sword midway—probably all his doing, just to trick Li Huowang into believing he owed him a favor!
> No! The scheme might go back even further! Maybe even stumbling upon Ji Lin’s deception during the Shangsi Festival had been his handiwork!
> This was Dice’s method. The Sitting Oblivion Dao’s Dice’s method!
> (End of chapter)