Mutated Tao

Chapter 717: Ambush

The Qi Kingdom is saved? Everyone is equal? Li Huowang never thought he would hear something like that from the Dharma Sect.

He swung his spine sword towards the door. A rift flew out and red liquid spilled out from it, tainting and mutating everything it touched.

Li Huowang pointed at the liquid and snarled, “Is this what you meant by saving the people? The Qi Kingdom is still covered in that crappy stuff! How dare you claim that the people of the Qi Kingdom have been revived and are living in peace!”

“Li Huowang, it seems that I overestimated how much you know about the world. I thought you would easily understand it as a Twisted One, but I was mistaken. It looks like Xuan Pin hid a lot of things from you.”

Before Li Huowang could even answer, a lump of flesh plopped out from the closing rift. It was white, sticky, and looked like a deformed body.

Due to the rift closing, only half of the organism’s body managed to reach the Liang Kingdom. Even so, it tried to crawl on the ground as it expanded and contracted without any signs of dying.

Several short pink tentacles sprouted from the organism's forehead, and it let out a baby’s cry. Its body lacked a fixed shape and continuously changed.

Shenshu looked at the organism and said, “Both kindness and evil are illusions. Our bodies are like bubbles, yet our hearts are like the wind. Everything is an illusion.”

“What the fuck are you talking about? Explain clearly!” Li Huowang said as he stared at the weird organism. He felt unsettled because the organism still had the vague shape of a human.

“All kind acts are illusions, just as all evil acts are. Our bodies are like bubbles that gather together, having form but no essence. Our hearts are like the wind, shapeless and traceless but capable of being felt. In a sense, everything we feel is an illusion.”

Shenshu pointed at the organism that was trying to escape into the courtyard. “But now, things are different. God Yu’er allows us to break free from such illusions and become real. We are no longer like bubbles or the wind!

“As long as you submit to god Yu’er, we will no longer be false! Think about this, Li Huowang. This is what an Immortal looks like. Aren’t you a Daoist too? If you worship god Yu’er, you too can become an Immortal!”

“Immortal?” Li Huowang stared at the organism before realizing what it was and why the people of the Qi Kingdom no longer died.

The people in the Qi Kingdom had indeed revived, but it was a fate worse than death.

Shenshu refused to give up on persuading Li Huowang. “How about it?”

“No.”

“No?” Shenshu stared at Li Huowang in disbelief. “Do you not want to revive the people close to you? Do you not want to become an Immortal?”

“Of course I want to,” Li Huowang said, tightening his grip on his swords, “but I don’t like begging people for it. Since you’ve said that god Yu’er has the Heavenly Dao to revive people, I do not need to negotiate with him. I can just kill him and take it for myself. Isn’t that better?”

To the Dharma Sect, this was nothing short of heresy.

“You dare besmirch the name of god Yu’er?!”

Bam! The doors slammed shut. The red armor of both door gods gradually turned green.

Li Huowang wasn’t surprised that there was an ambush. He shot another rift towards the door gods and dashed towards it.

The door gods had to open the door to let the rift fly out. By the time they closed the doors again, Li Huowang was nowhere to be seen.

The two door gods looked at each other before nodding. They clapped their palms together and chanted, “The Dharma itself is without Dharma, but it is still the Dharma. When facing the lack of Dharma, how can the Dharma not be the Dharma?”

Their consciousness expanded and covered the entire place. Nothing escaped their senses. “Be careful. He knows how to burrow into the ground.”

Without warning, Li Huowang burst out from the ground and cut one of the door gods in half, splitting the wooden door into two.

He was about to attack the second door god when Li Sui shouted in his ears.

“Dad! He’s on your body!”

“What?” Li Huowang looked down and saw the door god in his red robes.

The door god swung his sword and cut Li Huowang’s arm in half, but countless black tentacles sprouted and grafted it back to Li Huowang.

“Scram!” Li Sui gave Li Huowang his ribs, and he stabbed them into his torso. The pain from his chest was transmitted to the door god.

The door god suffered intense pain and tried to escape. It slid onto the ground, but Li Huowang didn’t let it go.

Li Huowang stomped the door god with his right foot and swung his sword downwards.

Suddenly, everything around Li Huowang turned dark. He looked up and saw that the other door god was trying to crush his body with the door itself!

Just as the door god had almost crushed Li Huowang, Peng Longteng crashed into it with the warhorse and destroyed the door into pieces. She then laughed ecstatically as she battered the left wall with her bloody body.

Li Huowang looked at the door god on the ground and grabbed it with both arms. He pulled the door god’s body in two opposing directions and stretched its body long.

In the end, the door god cried in pain as Li Huowang tore it in half. At the same time, the walls and roof collapsed.

By the time the dust settled, Li Huowang had walked out from the rubble. He looked at the army breaching the city wall and mumbled, “Is that it? It looks like the Dharma Sect is fighting a losing battle.”

He didn’t know if it was because his abilities were growing rapidly, but he felt that it had been too easy.

A strange female voice chuckled from behind Li Huowang. “Is that so? Well, I don’t think so.”

He slowly turned around and saw a woman wearing a large porcelain doll’s head. She was sitting on a roof and holding two dolls of door god in her hands.

One was torn in half, while the other was torn into several pieces—just like the door gods that had just perished.