Chapter 549
Chapter 549
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 549
>Chapter Title: Great Qi
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“Brother Li!”
Li Huowang, who had just raised his sword and was about to strike, stopped at the sound of Zhuge Yuan’s unusually grave voice.
“Don’t look at me, and don’t talk to me! There’s something wrong with that woman beside you! You can’t let her know you have hallucinations!”
Li Huowang puzzledly said to Zhuge Yuan in his mind, “Brother Zhuge, what exactly are you talking about? Isn’t she Shangguan Yuting?”
“Think about it carefully again. Where has Shangguan Yuting been by your side all this time?! She’s fake!” After Zhuge Yuan spoke, the Monk and the Sitting Oblivion Dao hallucination chimed in to persuade him as well.
“Daoist, this woman just popped up out of nowhere. There was no her before.”
“Red In, heh heh heh, if you can even be fooled by this, then I really look down on you.”
“Ear Senior, what’s wrong? Didn’t we say we were going to Great Qi?” Shangguan Yuting tilted her head slightly in confusion as she looked at Li Huowang. The crystal-clear hairpin in her hair swayed lightly with the motion.
Breathing in the refreshing fragrance at the tip of his nose, Li Huowang carefully examined this familiar confidante once more.
His memories clearly contained everything about this girl, but now that his other hallucinations had pointed it out, Li Huowang instantly realized that this woman was full of flaws.
More importantly, this woman was wearing the face of Princess Anping, and he hadn’t noticed anything strange about it before.
“Is this the Celestial Supervisor’s method? To hallucinate one person right in front of another, and that other person doesn’t notice a thing?”
Li Huowang truly hadn’t expected that he would one day be glad he was a heart prime. If not for his hallucinations’ reminder, he might have really fallen for the Celestial Supervisor’s scheme. His wariness of this person deepened further.
“What to do?” That was the question Li Huowang had to consider next. They’d clearly been negotiating just fine, so why did the Heavenly Watch Division suddenly place someone like this by my side? What exactly are they trying to do?
“Li Sui, what’s wrong with your dad? Does he often space out like this?” Shangguan Yuting softly asked Li Sui on the side.
Hearing this, Li Huowang steeled his resolve and stepped forward, blocking Li Sui behind him.
Li Huowang didn’t think continuing to hide it would do him any good. He went straight to the point and asked the Shangguan Yuting beside him, “Lord Celestial Supervisor! Why are you doing this? Or do you still not trust me?”
In response, Shangguan Yuting showed no embarrassment at being seen through. Instead, she spoke very frankly. “Ear Senior, what are you saying? Didn’t you say that trading with the Supreme Aqueduct Mouth requires enough secrets?”
She pinched the hem of her long skirt and slowly spun in front of Li Huowang with a beaming smile. “I’m the secret you’re trading with, you know.”
“You?!”
“That’s right. After all, Ear Senior might not have enough secrets on hand to trade with. If I tag along, we won’t come back empty-handed.”
Shangguan Yuting spoke so candidly, as if this was how things were supposed to be, making Li Huowang the one overreacting.
However, Li Huowang knew full well that if he hadn’t seen through this woman’s identity, who knew what she would do next? She could twist his words however she pleased.
If she judged from his odd behavior that he was a heart prime and reported it back to the Celestial Supervisor, that would spell big trouble.
“These people are craftier than foxes one and all. Dealing with them requires absolute vigilance, or one slip-up and you’re done for,” Li Huowang thought to himself.
“Ear Senior, let’s hurry to Great Qi. The sooner we complete the Heavenly Watch Division’s task, the better.”
At her urging, Li Huowang silently nodded and opened his mouth toward Li Sui on the side.
The moment Li Sui burrowed into Li Huowang’s body, Shangguan Yuting’s eyes widened in shock.
“Keep up as best you can. I won’t wait for you!” Li Huowang gripped his sword hilt tightly.
“Ear Senior, what are you talking about? Wherever you go, I go. See? I don’t even leave footprints.”
As he watched Shangguan Yuting walk slowly past him without leaving any trace on the ground, Li Huowang really couldn’t figure out what this woman was right now, or how the Celestial Supervisor had pulled this off.
“Whatever. Just treat it as a trade with the Celestial Supervisor. I help him get a secret from the Supreme Aqueduct Mouth, and he helps me deal with the dice.” With that thought, Li Huowang stopped hesitating. He gripped his sword hilt and swung hard. With two talismans slapped onto his legs, he shot inside like a gust of wind.
The moment he entered, the sky darkened instantly. The surroundings were so dim that Li Huowang couldn’t even tell where he was. “Why is it night in Great Qi?”
Just as he subconsciously prepared to look up, Zhuge Yuan’s warning rang out beside him. “Don’t look! This isn’t night—it’s a heavenly calamity! It’s the Heavenly Dog devouring the sun!!”
The instant Zhuge Yuan finished speaking, Li Huowang forcibly stopped himself from looking up.
He had come that close—just that close—to gouging out his own eyeballs like last time.
Suddenly, a massive claw larger than a person shot out from the left and swatted toward Li Huowang.
“Shing~!” Li Huowang severed the giant claw with a powerful slash, and a strange cry echoed in the darkness as it hastily retracted the severed limb.
Li Huowang didn’t let his guard down. He could feel many gazes fixed on him from the darkness.
Evidently, with the heavenly calamity’s arrival, Great Qi had thoroughly become a world of baleful entities. The reason they hadn’t attacked yet was merely that Li Huowang had temporarily intimidated them.
“Ear Senior, what’s going on in Great Qi? Should we head back to Great Liang first and wait for this heavenly calamity to pass?”
Gripping his spine bone, Li Huowang stood steadily in place for a good while before finally speaking. “No need. It won’t stop me from finding the Supreme Aqueduct Mouth. These ghouls and monsters are nothing to worry about, and who knows how long this calamity will last? I can’t wait for it to end!”
With that, Li Huowang gripped his sword and charged madly through this darkened world. No mindless baleful entity could withstand a single strike from him.
However, such a dangerous place really wasn’t suitable for resting. Fortunately, he could return to Great Liang to eat or sleep.
A day passed, two days, three days, and the heavenly calamity still hadn’t lifted. Li Huowang realized that this calamity in Great Qi was probably different from Great Liang’s.
And gradually, as time wore on, the baleful entities appearing in Great Qi were no longer small fry.
“Die!!” Li Huowang, eyes closed, gripped the Purple Tassel Sword and slashed fiercely ahead.
Feeling that slimy, slippery sensation, Li Huowang thrust his left hand into the thing’s body and unhesitatingly severed his own left hand.
In the next instant, the severed hand detached from Li Huowang’s body. Bone spikes erupted from the arm one after another, burrowing madly into the thing.
Hearing the heavy thuds of something collapsing in the darkness, Li Huowang let out a long breath of relief.
He had no idea what he’d just killed. This period had taught him that some baleful entities couldn’t be looked at. Doing so would trigger abnormalities in the Ten Emotions and Eight Sufferings within him. Everything under this calamity was growing increasingly bizarre.
Just as Li Huowang sensed Li Sui using tentacles to retrieve his severed hand, his expression tightened. He immediately dropped to the ground and pressed his ear to it.
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