Chapter 715
Chapter 715
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 715
>Chapter Title: Breakthrough
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Chapter 715: Breakthrough
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> Hearing Xuanyin’s words, Li Huowang finally understood why the other party had given him this thing for no reason.
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> “Since we’re allies, shouldn’t something like this have been given to me long ago? Why drag it out until now?” Li Huowang didn’t take the bait.
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> “You think this thing is like a Yangshou Pill, something you can find anywhere? This isn’t some ordinary item. I expended quite a few heavenly materials and earthly treasures to refine it.”
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> “Stop trying to fool me. This thing is just a damn hallucination. What did you expend?”
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> As Li Huowang spoke, he strode toward his carriage, and the spinning light mirror beside him followed along.
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> “The great thousand worlds, all things change in a myriad ways—who says something illusory can’t be refined? To tell you the truth, in this path, you’re no match for me.”
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> In the end, Li Huowang never said whether he’d put aside their previous rift, but Xuanyin didn’t need him to.
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> Sensing the change in the other party’s tone, he knew his goal had been achieved.
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> Though he didn’t want to admit it, the spinning light mirror from Xuanyin had indeed been a huge help to Li Huowang.
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> With this thing, he not only gained a bird’s-eye view of the entire battlefield but could also save some effort.
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> At the very least, they could now follow the path blazed by the allied forces earlier.
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> The road was littered with corpses everywhere, the only living things being the wild dogs and vultures devouring the bodies, but they no longer had to fear enemies suddenly bursting out from the sides. This allowed the others, who had been fighting nonstop along the way, to catch their breath a little.
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> In such conditions, their speed was fast. It probably wouldn’t be long before they reached the front lines.
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> The others had clearly noticed this too, as that evening’s dinner was quite sumptuous.
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> At night, Li Huowang, who had been sleeping in the carriage, was gently pushed awake by Bai Lingmiao.
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> “There’s even fish.” Li Huowang looked at the wild vegetable fish soup in his bowl; the milky-white fish broth looked extremely fresh and appetizing.
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> “Yeah, there are plenty of rivers in Si Qi. Sui Sui found these. She’s really good in the water—specially catches the big ones.”
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> Li Huowang sat at the front of the carriage, scarfing down his meal against the backdrop of the distant battlefield strewn with corpses.
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> Looking at the fish-scale blood scabs on Li Huowang’s face, Bai Lingmiao asked, “Senior Brother Li, what are your plans once we reach the front lines?”
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> “We’re not going to the front lines. That’s where the soldiers belong, not us.” Li Huowang chewed the fish head in his mouth and swallowed it down.
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> “But the place we’re heading now...”
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> “Helping the soldiers kill some Dharma sect followers at the front lines is pointless. They won’t miss us if we’re not there, and we won’t make much difference if we are. There are plenty of those kinds of people. In a massive battle like this, there’s only one thing people like us can do: decapitation.”
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> No matter the scale of the battle, the enemy definitely had commanding generals. To make the Dharma sect’s offensive crumble as quickly as possible, this might be the shortcut.
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> The Celestial Surveillance Bureau’s spies had surely been sent in by now, but who knew how long it would take for reliable intel.
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> Since they still didn’t know where the Dharma sect’s main camp was, the first priority was to swiftly thwart their army.
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> “Is that so? But won’t the Dharma sect have some powerful people guarding against that?”
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> “Yeah. That’s why right now, I need to cultivate true reality as quickly as possible to maximize our chances.”
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> Li Huowang set down his empty bowl and chopsticks, wiped his mouth, and headed toward the pitch-black woods nearby.
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> Bai Lingmiao didn’t follow. For this period, Senior Brother Li had been like this—resting during the day and cultivating at night. She was used to it.
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> In the woods, Li Huowang sat cross-legged on a smooth, rounded stone, holding his breath and focusing his mind as he shut off his five senses.
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> Once everything around him vanished from his mind, Li Huowang silently urged the divine light within him, wrapping the innate one qi as it pressed toward his heart wheel.
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> This process was extremely slow and arduous, like pushing a massive boulder up a slope—each round harder than the last.
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> Gradually, Li Huowang forgot himself, forgot everything. The only thing he wanted was to push the innate one qi toward his heart wheel.
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> This sensation was incredibly strange. He felt like he was on the verge of a breakthrough, but just short by that tiny bit.
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> He didn’t know how much time had passed when Li Huowang slowly opened his eyes. Feeling no change within him, he couldn’t help but sigh.
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> With something like this, he was the only one who knew it now. He couldn’t even find a master to ask.
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> “Daddy, it’s dawn!” Hearing Li Sui’s voice, Li Huowang came down from the boulder and walked over.
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> “Daddy, look what I caught! There’s so much food here!” Li Sui held up several vultures in both hands, showing off to Li Huowang.
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> “This bird’s meat is rancid. Throw it away.” As Li Huowang spoke, he stealthily glanced in Bai Lingmiao’s direction.
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> “Sui Sui, let’s sneak off later. Don’t tell Big Mom or Second Mom.”
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> “Why? Big Mom and Second Mom are really strong too.” Li Sui’s face was full of confusion.
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> “What’s coming up might be tricky. I don’t want to drag them into it.”
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> Li Huowang didn’t know how many backup plans the Dharma sect had or how many Sitting Ones they were secretly allied with.
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> But one thing was certain: the Dharma sect was very dangerous right now—extremely dangerous.
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> Bai Lingmiao hadn’t died last time, but she’d still paid a heavy price, turning into this neither-human-nor-ghost state.
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> Knowing full well how dangerous it would be next, Li Huowang was even less likely to let Bai Lingmiao throw herself into peril again.
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> She might resent him for it, but that was still better than losing her life.
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> “Oh, alright then.” Li Sui nodded.
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> “Shh, keep it down. Your Big Mom can’t see, but her ears are sharp.” With that, Li Huowang took Li Sui’s hand and left.
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> As soon as he entered the woods, he suddenly heard someone calling from above. “Daddy? Who were you just talking to?”
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> Li Huowang froze at the words and looked up, only to find that overhead wasn’t the sky but an inverted ground identical to the one below.
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> And Li Sui was right now half-squatting on the treetop, eager to pounce down at him.
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> Looking at the upside-down Li Sui above, then at the Li Sui whose hand he was holding.
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> He glanced at the woods overhead, then at the identical woods around him.
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> At this moment, the Li Sui beside Li Huowang gripped his hand tighter, looking at him with confusion and fear. “Daddy?”
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> In the next instant, she rapidly faded and vanished completely, leaving nothing behind.
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> Li Huowang looked at the Li Sui overhead, then at his now-empty right hand, and suddenly understood something.
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> With him at the center, the surrounding stones and trees rapidly blurred into illusion, and Li Huowang himself finally felt the downward pull, quickly falling back to the true ground.
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> Once Li Huowang steadily stood on the water surface, he looked up again at the patch of vanishing inverted ground in midair.
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> A long while later, after he came back to his senses, Li Huowang realized that his true reality cultivation had somehow broken through the heart wheel.
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> (End of chapter)