Mutated Tao

Chapter 496: Sword

Chapter 496: Sword

The sparse forest was filled with a cacophonous din of screams and clashing weapons.

The Dharma Sect with black cloth slung over their shoulders were fighting six Surveillance Bureau members.

Li Huowang took one look and knew that the Surveillance Bureau was trying to get rid of as many members of the Dharma Sect as possible, and they were winning the fight.

The Dharma Sect members were unafraid of death, but the difference in strength was just too huge.

If it hadn't been for Hong Da, Li Huowang wouldn't have known that the six figures in the distance were Surveillance Bureau members.

Li Huowang sighed in relief at the blood flowing like a river on the ground. He was worried that the Sitting Oblivion Dao had chased after them, so it was a good thing that his assumption was wrong.

“Let’s go. The Surveillance Bureau can easily deal with random people; they probably don’t need me to do anything.”

Li Huowang’s attitude toward the Surveillance Bureau had gotten better when he discovered that they had been working hard to stop the Natural Disasters. He was about to walk away when he saw one of the Surveillance Bureau members using an unusual weapon, a brush.

More specifically, it was Zhuge Yuan's brush.

“Senior Zhuge, is that your weapon?” Bai Lingmiao heard Li Huowang talking to himself. “So that really is your weapon. I guess the Surveillance Bureau took your stuff after you died. That said, what is the origin of your brush? Is it really that strong? I should’ve taken it with me instead. It's a shame I didn't think of that at the time.”

Even though Bai Lingmiao knew that Li Huowang was talking to his invisible illusions, it was still a bizarre sight to see.

Bai Lingmiao grew curious. She was about to ask what Li Huowang was talking about when she saw him snarling at someone far away.

Bai Lingmiao "looked" in that direction and saw a woman with purple lips holding an unusual sword made out of bone. Bai Lingmiao took a closer look at the weapon and was horrified to see a person’s head serving as the sword's pommel. To make matters worse, the sword was made out of a person’s spine! The head seemed to have been dehydrated until it shrank to the size of a dried orange; the head's orifices were filled with black mud, and there was a purple talisman on its forehead.

The head had shrunk, contorting the head's features, but Bai Lingmiao still saw that the owner of the head had to have been a handsome man when he was still alive.

Crack, crack, crack.

Bai Lingmiao looked at Li Huowang upon hearing him grinding his teeth.

“They... they refined your body into a weapon?!” Li Huowang’s anger couldn't be contained when he realized that his best friend’s corpse was desecrated in such a manner.

“You do not have to be angry. That is normal. Even a Strayed One’s body part is valuable, so how could the corpse of a Twisted One be any less valuable than a Strayed One's body part? Do you really think that the Surveillance Bureau would just leave that corpse to rot on the ground?” said the fake Hong Zhong. He then chuckled and sat on Peng Longteng’s shoulder.

In contrast to Li Huowang's fury, Zhuge Yuan was relaxed. “I do not yearn for material things. My body is just a bag of flesh, and I do not need it. Junior Li, let’s go.”

“No!” Li Huowang exclaimed. It would have been a different story if Li Howang had remained clueless about what the Surveillance Bureau had done to Zhuge Yuan’s corpse.

In addition, Zhuge Yuan had sacrificed himself to save Li Huowang. How could Li Huowang do nothing upon knowing that someone had desecrated his best friend’s corpse?

Of course, Li Huowang was still rational enough to stay put for the time being to observe the woman’s strength.

Based on how Hong Da was addressing her, it seemed that she was a new Ji Xiang.

However, Li Huowang didn’t know which sect she had come from based on her clothes, which was a simple purple dress.

Li Huowang was also worried about the sword made from Zhuge Yuan’s spine. A weapon crafted from a Twisted One's body part was by no means weak.

“Senior Zhuge, what do you think that sword can do? It's made from your spine, after all, so perhaps you know anything about it? Is there a way to counter it?” Li Huowang asked.

“Of course, I don’t know. I’m a Twisted One and would never go and learn about myself by refining myself. Junior Li, let’s just go. No need to cause trouble just because of me.”

Even though Zhuge Yuan was telling him to stop, Li Huowang was adamant about getting the sword. He stared carefully at the woman with purple lips.

Just then, the woman raised the sword and waved it at the Dharma Sect members. The waists of the Dharma Sect members vanished; they were cut in half just like that!

Blood stained the ground crimson as the Dharma Sect members collapsed with agonized screams.

“Daoist, I think we should go. You might be too weak to defeat her,” the old monk’s illusion said, sounding worried.

However, Li Huowang became even more stubborn upon hearing their remarks.

“Junior Li, how strange. A rift opened in the air when she waved that sword, and I saw some fields and mountains beyond that rift.”

“There are fields and mountains beyond a rift in the air?”

“Junior Li, I think I've figured it out. The world beyond that rift must be the Qi Kingdom.”

Li Huowang immediately understood the powers of the sword after hearing Zhuge Yuan’s analysis. The woman was using the sword to open up a small rift in space to send things into the Qi Kingdom.

The moment the rift in space closed up, the rift would sever whatever was trapped inside of it.

And that was how the Dharma Sect members were cut in half...

Rather than a sword, the weapon was like a key that allowed anyone to travel to an alternate dimension, the Qi Kingdom.

The Dharma Sect members were slowly getting pushed back. Li Huowang had already learned the power of the sword, so he chose not to wait any longer.

The Dharma Sect members were instrumental in distracting the Surveillance Bureau members. Once they were defeated, Li Huowang would have to face all six Surveillance Bureau members at the same time.

“Both of you, go back and wait for me at the valley where we stayed two days ago,” Li Huowang said to Bai Lingmiao and Li Sui before taking off his red robe and handing it to them.

He then sent his body image into the ground and approached the woman slowly in an invisible state.

Once he was close enough, Li Huowang took off the bronze coin veil, and his face shifted. His face transformed into that of a stranger's face.

He flipped his palm, and a black cloth appeared. He slung it over his shoulder, and his disguise as a Dharma Sect member was complete.

Li Huowang did not make a move right away. The Dharma Sect members were collapsing one by one, but he bid his time, waiting for the golden opportunity to attack.

Just then, a black jade dagger rushed out of the woman's shadow and flew toward her back. At the sight, Li Huowang immediately made his move, pouncing on the woman like a tiger.

Before he could reach her, he saw cold glints flying toward him from every angle. An old robe with quite a few rusted swords and knives was making a beeline for Li Huowang.

Chacha and Char's Thoughts

Zhuge Yuan's spine sword. RIP brother Zhuge