Chapter 542
Chapter 542
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 542
>Chapter Title: Secret
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Chapter 542: Secret
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> Two cups of tea's time passed beneath the icy black depths of the deep pool, and Li Huowang's face had turned beet red, shifting even toward a purplish hue.
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> Yet the descent continued, as if this deep pool had no end.
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> He glanced worriedly at Li Sui beside him and saw that compared to himself, she seemed utterly at ease, showing no discomfort whatsoever.
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> Her tentacles swayed through the water across her entire body, allowing her to swim freely like a fish.
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> "Brother Li, hold on! We're almost there!" Zhuge Yuan looked around, trying to find something in the darkness.
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> Just as Li Huowang was on the verge of suffocating, a temple swaying left and right with the water's ripples appeared to his left.
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> "It's right there!"
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> Li Sui hugged Li Huowang as her tentacles pushed backward at the same time, propelling him swiftly toward the temple.
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> When Li Huowang crashed into the temple, the entire structure shook and dispersed. A black hole appeared before him.
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> He tossed away the stone in his arms and dove into the black hole. The next moment, Li Huowang emerged from a pool of spring water, gasping for breath urgently. This cave was an inverted hollow with air inside.
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> "Cough cough~!" Li Huowang coughed violently, spitting out the spring water from his mouth as he swam to the edge and climbed out.
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> Without pausing to rest, the drenched Li Huowang raised his glowing stone high and looked at everything within the cavern.
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> But at that moment, he saw nothing—only a grayish expanse of rock wall before him.
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> "Brother Li, look back."
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> Li Huowang spun around immediately and saw the ripples from the pool he'd just exited gradually coalescing into his own reflection.
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> "This isn't my reflection!" Li Huowang thought to himself, a chill creeping up the back of his neck.
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> The Li Huowang in the water wore a red Daoist robe and a copper coin mask over his face, but his coloration still looked utterly bizarre. If he had to describe it, it was like a humanoid terracotta figurine.
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> "Throw a stone in." Li Huowang did so.
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> As the ripples stirred once more, a "crack" sounded, and the Li Huowang in the water cracked open from between his eyebrows. Fissures spread across his entire body as an eye emerged from the center of his brow.
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> "This is the Upper Extreme Pouring Mouth?" Li Huowang thought in shock.
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> Before Li Huowang could speak, he saw that third eye say something to him. "One secret for enough secrets."
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> "Enough secrets for one secret." Li Huowang instantly understood its meaning.
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> The Upper Extreme Pouring Mouth didn't need anything else—it only wanted more secrets. As long as the secrets were sufficient, he could exchange them for any secret here, even including the Dice's whereabouts!
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> No need for taboos in Da Qi. Li Huowang immediately said to the Upper Extreme Pouring Mouth in the water, "I am Heart Elemental!!"
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> As soon as he spoke, the cracks on the Upper Extreme Pouring Mouth's body healed a little, but still not completely.
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> "It's working!" Li Huowang perked up and continued, "I'm not from this world—I actually transmigrated here!"
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> But this time, there was no change in the cracks on the Upper Extreme Pouring Mouth's body. Instead, that third eye stared at Li Huowang with a strange look.
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> "What? Even this doesn't count as a secret?" Just as Li Huowang couldn't help blurting this out, Zhuge Yuan walked over from the side.
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> "Brother Li, don't panic. Let me handle this."
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> Li Huowang looked at him with a complicated expression. "I've already owed you so many favors before. I never thought that even after your death, I'd owe you more—I'm afraid I'll never be able to repay them in this lifetime."
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> "Brother Li, if you say that, you're being distant. Were our sworn brotherhood back then all for show?"
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> Hearing this, Li Huowang wasted no more time and prepared to risk it all to make Zhuge Yuan real once more.
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> "No need, Brother Li. Just use your 'make the illusory real' on this fan of mine. I've borrowed some blood from General Peng's neck and already written it." Zhuge Yuan held out the fan in his hand toward Li Huowang.
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> "Just the fan will do?" Li Huowang was astonished but did as instructed without delay.
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> To his even greater surprise, though it was merely making a fan real from illusion, it nearly exhausted all of Li Huowang's strength.
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> Seeing Zhuge Yuan's folding fan turn real and fall to the ground, the sweating Li Huowang bent down to pick it up.
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> As he looked at the closed fan in his hand, an uncontrollable thought bubbled up in his mind: just how big a secret was this that it required so much effort from him?
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> With that in mind, Li Huowang opened it just a fold. He glimpsed a large character on the first line and a "Si" on the second before Zhuge Yuan hurriedly shouted, "Brother Li! Don't look!"
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> Seeing Li Huowang look at him, the relieved Zhuge Yuan explained, "Brother Li, it's not that I won't let you see it, but it concerns the Si Mings—anyone who touches it will be entangled in karma."
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> "Even a secret about the Si Mings has this much power?" The shocked Li Huowang decisively snapped the fan shut, not daring to look further. He already had enough troubles without adding more.
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> As Li Huowang tossed the fan into the water, the cracks on the Upper Extreme Pouring Mouth's body healed rapidly.
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> Once all the cracks fully sealed, everything returned to calm. Li Huowang's true reflection reappeared in the water, the only difference being that the reflection now had an extra eye on its forehead.
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> "Brother Li, if one day you want to know the Dice's location, just reach into the water, pluck out that eye, and press it to your own brow."
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> "Is this the secret the Upper Extreme Pouring Mouth gave me in return?" Li Huowang couldn't help growing excited. Finally, he finally had a card to play against the Dice in his hand!
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> Though it was still far from enough, Li Huowang at least saw hope now.
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> "Let's go, Li Sui. We'll get out of the water first!" The impatient Li Huowang jumped back into the water.
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> Though he could use the Spinebone Sword to return directly to Da Liang from here, who knew what lay so deep on that side? If it was all earth, he'd be buried alive the moment he arrived.
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> With a "splash," the icy, bone-chilling pool water enveloped Li Huowang once more. He took a deep breath and dove down hard with Li Sui.
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> His mind was now fully consumed with how to use this hard-won card to defeat the Dice.
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> "First, I've located the Dice. Next, I need to find helpers who can deal with it—people who can actually fight it."
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> "The top choice is definitely the Sitian Supervisor, the highest authority in the Surveillance Bureau. But if I tell him I know where the Dice's true body is, will he believe me?"
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> "Right, and that National Advisor! Pretty much everyone who's clashed with those four Dice have a grudge against them."
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> As Li Huowang pondered this, a flash of white drifted past him.
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> "What is that?!" He instinctively gripped his sword hilt and twisted his head toward the white object, only to realize it was the fan he'd just thrown into the water! And it had fully opened, facing him completely!!