Chapter 594
Chapter 594
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 594
>Chapter Title: Self-Preservation
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Wang Wei didn't speak, but Li Huowang still got the answer he wanted from the expression on his face.
"You were using them to test me back then, right?"
Wang Wei took a deep deep breath, his expression firming up.
"Xiao Li, I was your attending physician before. I have ways to maximize your abilities so you can live comfortably on both sides!"
Li Huowang shook his head, casually tossing the paper in his hand onto the bedside.
"Sorry, no deal. I can't do it."
"Are you afraid I'm using you? Whether you can bring things from over there depends entirely on you—I can't force you! Bring out a Yangshou Pill first. Let me see it with my own eyes, and we can talk about everything else."
Li Huowang shook his head and spoke up.
"No, what I mean by 'I can't' is that my illness is cured. I won't have those messy hallucinations anymore."
"What did you say?"
As soon as Wang Wei blurted it out, he was instantly shoved by a tremendous force from behind, his face slammed firmly against the ground.
By the time Wang Wei's hands were cuffed behind his back and he was hauled upright, he noticed several grim-faced prison guards beside him. He also recognized the white coat nearby—Li Huowang's current attending physician, Yi Donglai.
"Doctor Wang, you're sick. Sick people should take their medicine and get treated."
Li Huowang's tone was extremely calm.
Indeed, he had directly told Yi Donglai about Wang Wei. Since others could handle the utilization, why should Li Huowang do it himself? Besides, if he accidentally did something irreversible to him, his own discharge would likely be delayed again.
Seized by the prison guards, Wang Wei struggled desperately, glaring at Li Huowang with unblinking eyes while screaming madly from his mouth.
"Putting me away is useless! I'm nobody! Your abilities have way too much potential! You can't hide them!"
The struggling Wang Wei was forcibly dragged away by the prison guards. The ward was left with only Li Huowang and Yi Donglai.
"Don't worry. His condition is severe. He probably won't be bothering you anytime soon."
"I'm not worried about that. I'm worried about something else."
"Your illness? Don't worry. Your condition has stabilized a lot lately. Even with that man's prodding, you showed no signs of relapse."
Yi Donglai said to Li Huowang.
"That's good? You really think that's good?"
"I just want to ask you—what the hell was all that from Beifeng just now?! Why does it feel like you started shit this time?"
Li Huowang clutched his lotus root head and bellowed at the Supervisor of the Heavens standing before him.
After a moment of silence, the Supervisor of the Heavens spoke.
"Some things have happened, so I need your help right now."
"Help? How the hell can I help you? Aren't I supposed to be your heart anchor?"
Li Huowang shot back.
"What's the point of splitting our heaven so neatly? Am I not you?"
Li Huowang rubbed his lotus root head—now wrapped in flesh—with a budding headache.
"I've finally had a bit of peace. Can't you let me live some stable days?"
"You chose this path. My choices are your choices. You shouldn't complain."
"Fine then. What do you want me to do?"
Li Huowang asked, sounding somewhat helpless.
"The Sitting Oblivion Dao has been wiped out. This is a prime opportunity, so you need to help me seize the Yin-Yang Fighting Matron's true and false heavens."
Li Huowang nearly laughed in fury.
"Ha! Seize them how? Me! A mere mortal! Helping you take on a Rite Master who controls two heavens?"
"And don't we already control Bewilderment? Can't we just manage our own heaven? Why pick a deathmatch with the Yin-Yang Fighting Matron? I'm exhausted. Can't you let me rest a few years first?"
The Supervisor of the Heavens before him spoke up again.
"I'm not picking fights. I just want to protect myself. Don't forget—helping me helps you. If something happens to me, everything that's happened so far will be rewritten."
"Protect yourself?"
Li Huowang's heart jolted as he stared at Ji Zai in front of him.
"What the hell happened in Bai Yujing? Something that threatens even a Rite Master like you?"
"Think about why the Supervisor of the Heavens wants that divine mountain ghost eye. Think about why that dice went to such lengths to possess the dragon vein. They all sense the storm coming. Don't pretend you haven't felt it."
Li Huowang sat there, his mind churning chaotically once more as he silently pondered everything that had come before.
He had sensed it vaguely too, but Li Huowang had always figured such grand events had nothing to do with him. If the sky fell, taller folks would prop it up.
But he never dreamed his future self would become one of those tall ones.
"The Child God?"
Li Huowang recalled Da Qi's crumbling state from before and glanced at Qiu Chibao beside him, wrapped in a white turban.
Everything that had happened before seemed tied to this Child God—especially Da Qi's sun, gnawed more than halfway through by the Heavenly Dog.
"Not just the Child God. If it were only one Child God, it'd be easy enough."
Ji Zai's words cast a deep shadow over Li Huowang's heart.
"Besides the Child God, what else? Where'd they come from? What do they want?"
"I can't tell you. First off, telling you lets them know about you. Second, your future self never told your present self back then."
A flicker of bewilderment crossed Li Huowang's eyes. He had no clue what this guy was on about.
"You're asking me to help seize the true and false heavens. At least clue me in on the next step!"
"You could start with Beifeng. Find the Fighting Matron's hidden heart anchors and eliminate them. Leave the rest to me."
With that, the Supervisor of the Heavens' body gradually dissolved away like yellow sand.
"Damn it! You tell me now?! Beifeng just got nabbed by the Bureau of Central Heaven! Given how the Supervisor of the Heavens guards against me, there's no way he'd let me near Beifeng again!"
But Ji Zai seemed unable to hear him anymore.
Irritated, Li Huowang lay back on the bed and shut his eyes.
Reluctant as he was, Li Huowang knew he had no choice but to handle this. It concerned his future self, after all—and Da Liang's future too.
Whatever the future held, stockpiling strength as much as possible right now was the smart play.
That way, even if he couldn't save the whole world, at least he could save the people he cared about.
"Can't rely on Ji Zai. Gotta figure this out myself. There seems to be another path. Need to think it through carefully..."
The night's events caused no ripples—few people knew about them.
It was New Year's Eve, after all. Most were busy celebrating and glued to the Spring Festival Gala, ignoring everyone else.
Others might not know, but the ward managers certainly did. It showed in Li Huowang's treatment: the constant handcuffs and shackles were finally removed.
What thrilled Sun Xiaoqin even more, though, was something else.