Chapter 743
Chapter 743
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 743
>Chapter Title: Sitting Oblivion Dao
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Hearing Six Thousand mention the highest figure in Sitting Oblivion Dao, Li Huowang immediately focused with utmost attention.
“Pray, enlighten me, senior. How did he become the Dice?”
“It’s because he completely tricked a small kingdom out of existence. Look at that—a whole nation’s people duped by him. Truly worthy of being the Dice’s boss.”
Six Thousand said this with his hands clasped behind his back, his eyes brimming with longing.
“If he pulls off tricking Great Liang, wouldn’t he yank the Fighting Matron Heavenly Venerable right off her throne and take the seat himself?”
Amid Six Thousand’s flights of fancy, a stately mansion appeared before the two of them.
“This is it.”
“How do we scam them?”
Li Huowang’s expression grew tense.
Six Thousand gave his Daoist robes an up-and-down glance before chuckling. He swiped a hand over himself, and the ragged beggar transformed in an instant into an otherworldly old Daoist. Laughing heartily, he charged right inside.
“Play it by ear.”
Seeing the household servants block his path, Six Thousand didn’t spare them a glance. Worry laced with urgency filled his face.
“Your old lady’s possessed today. If you want her alive, get out of the way. Take me to her at once!”
The servant froze for a moment, utterly baffled at how this man knew.
“Move! Bureau of Celestial Surveillance on duty! What are you dawdling for?”
As he spoke, Six Thousand shoved the man. The servant flew off the ground and stuck fast to the wall.
With that, Six Thousand dragged Li Huowang straight inside.
Perhaps it was the weight of that Celestial Supervisor title, but they made it smoothly to the inner courtyard.
No sooner had they arrived than they spotted a doorway plastered top to bottom with talismans, surrounded by a crowd of gawkers.
“Out of my way, all of you!”
Six Thousand shoved through the throng and entered.
The moment Li Huowang stepped inside, he saw a young girl bound to the bed, trembling in genuine terror.
The others in the room appeared to be her family, their faces etched with heartache and concern.
“Disaster! The baleful spirit’s sunk into her heart!”
Six Thousand rushed to the bedside and yanked a Daoist bell shaped like a trident from his bosom. He shook it furiously around the girl.
“No need to panic, everyone. We’re from the Bureau of Celestial Surveillance. Your daughter will be fine shortly.”
Li Huowang picked up on Six Thousand’s cue and continued.
“Wonderful! Immortal masters, you’ve finally arrived! Please save my daughter!”
Seeing the head of the household so flustered yet buying their story, Li Huowang was about to elaborate when a burly man with a fierce glint in his eyes stepped up to him. His stature was imposing.
“Bureau of Celestial Surveillance? Show me your badges.”
Craining his neck to meet the gaze of this man two heads taller than himself, Li Huowang nodded calmly and reached into his bosom.
Just as his fingers closed around something and he was about to pull it out, Six Thousand’s voice rang out from the bed.
“Disciple, hurry over! Lend your master a hand!”
At those words, Li Huowang’s face grew solemn. He rushed to Six Thousand’s back, pinched a hand seal, muttered a rapid incantation, and slammed both palms onto Six Thousand’s back.
The instant Li Huowang struck, Six Thousand surged with energy like he’d been injected with chicken blood, veins bulging on his forehead.
He produced a coil of red cord lined with yellow talismans. With a flick of his fingers, it linked straight to the girl’s hair.
“Spirit Treasure Heavenly Venerable soothes the form, the disciple’s soul and five viscera shrouded in mystic darkness! Azure Dragon, White Tiger array in tumult, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise guard the frame!”
As he finished the incantation, the girl’s eyes rolled back white, and her body began shuddering even more violently, as if something inside were trying to break free.
In a flash, he pulled a copper coin pagoda from his bosom and pressed it between the two ends of the red lines. A beam of white light flowed from the girl along the cords into the pagoda, setting the rice-grain-sized bells along its delicate edges to ringing wildly.
“Disciple, take the pagoda! Her soul’s shielded within by the tower—don’t you dare let it move an inch!”
Six Thousand tossed the looped red cord into Li Huowang’s hands.
Once Li Huowang had secured the little pagoda, Six Thousand began dragging the girl—who was now trailing black smoke—outward.
The red line stretched longer and longer until Six Thousand and the girl vanished from sight. All that remained was Li Huowang, pressing down hard on the exquisite little pagoda, and the red cord quivering in midair.
Everyone else in the room watched the scene with bated breath, eyes fixed on Li Huowang and the pagoda in his grasp.
They’d all heard clear as day: that thing was safeguarding their daughter’s soul.
Under their scrutiny, Li Huowang couldn’t budge an inch. He simply waited alongside them for Six Thousand’s return.
Time ticked by. As the bells on the exquisite pagoda grew quieter, anxiety gripped the room.
Watching Li Huowang’s own anxious expression, no one dared voice a question, lest they disrupt the young Daoist’s efforts.
“Master! Master, it’s bad!”
A servant came rushing in, gasping for breath.
“Master, that old Daoist just kept running farther and farther. Once he hit the city gates, he yanked the red cord right off the young miss and bolted into the woods! Not even on horseback could we catch him!”
“What!?”
The master of the house stared in shock. Beside him, the lady of the house fainted dead away. Every eye in the room turned to Li Huowang, still pinning down the pagoda.
Meeting their stares, Li Huowang released his grip on the pagoda and lifted it. Nothing was inside.
He understood the scheme at once. Everything Six Thousand had said before was a lie. He’d never meant to work with him.
He’d brought Li Huowang along to run this con specifically to leave him behind, soothing the family while Six Thousand made off with the girl. Li Huowang had been nothing more than his tool for the swindle.
Faced with the crowd three layers deep, Li Huowang smiled faintly.
“Don’t worry.”
With that, he clawed at his face and peeled off the youthful mask, revealing the features of a young girl underneath.
The moment this girl laid eyes on her family before her, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
By now, Six Thousand had fled fifty li away. He laughed uproariously, tears streaming down his cheeks as he pictured the boy’s face upon realizing the trick.
“Kid, remember this for your next life! We’re Sitting Oblivion Dao! There’s no such thing as seniors guiding juniors. Sitting Oblivion Dao has just one rule: if you get duped, that’s on you!! Hahaha!”
“Six Thousand senior, that girl’s nothing but a heart-lamp dummy, is she? Is it really worth all this glee?”
Li Huowang’s voice emanated from within Six Thousand’s bosom.
“What?”
Six Thousand reacted just as he clutched the girl in his arms. Pain stabbed at his chest.
With great effort, Six Thousand flung the girl from his embrace. When he looked down, he saw a demon-subduing pestle protruding straight through his chest.
He looked up again, only to stare in shock as the “girl” before him tore away her face-skin, revealing Li Huowang’s true features.