Mutated Tao

Chapter 539: Trapped

Chapter 539: Trapped

“Tunneling?” Li Huowang immediately swung his spine sword at one of the earth mounds. The earth mound disappeared along with a huge patch of soil.

He destroyed the second earth mound, but the third one managed to reach him.

He suddenly felt an intense pain radiating from his left leg, causing his left leg to collapse like a wet noodle.

Something in the ground just took my femur! Li Huowang gritted his teeth and stabbed the purple-tasseled sword into the ground. A smelly, black blood spread out from the ground.

“Li Sui!” Li Huowang shouted, and Li Sui immediately filled his left leg with her tentacles.

There was no time to waste. Li Huowang ran through the soggy path of blood towards Peng Longteng.

He saw several earth mounds chasing after him and sensed that he was in danger.

There are too many of them! I can’t keep dragging on like this, or I'll get caught! I need to hide in the Liang Kingdom now! Li Huowang grabbed his spine sword.

Zhuge Yuan suddenly stopped him. “Junior Li! You can’t! You must not let them know that you can travel to the Liang Kingdom. Someone in the Dharma Sect might be able to divine when you'll come back here! You would never be able to hide in the Qi Kingdom by then!”

Li Huowang cursed and ran nonstop. He stepped on the bloody path as Li Sui’s tentacles propelled him forward

After jumping several times, Li Huowang landed on Peng Longteng’s shoulders. He saw the endless sect members of the Dharma Sect.

He was already standing on Peng Longteng and he still couldn’t see the end of the crowd. “How many people are here?! Did everyone in the Qi Kingdom join the Dharma Sect?!”

Li Huowang’s instinct suddenly warned him of impending danger. He twisted himself as three rocks fell from the sky. They tore open his robes and made three holes in Peng Longteng’.

He looked around and saw who did that. It was a lady that was dressed in strange attire. Her limbs and neck swayed in the air as her silver jewelry jingled.

She stepped on the crowd as if she was walking on the ground. She ran towards Li Huowang with minimal effort.

Li Huowang never fought much with the Dharma Sect in the Liang Kingdom, but he noticed that the Dharma Sect of the Qi Kingdom primarily used techniques related to earth and stone.

Li Huowang observed the woman before he had a sudden realization! The woman was a member of the Sitting Oblivion Dao!

But the woman no longer had any features resembling the Sitting Oblivion Dao. She no longer believes in Doulao but rather in Arrogant Stone.

He realized how dire the situation was in the Qi Kingdom. To think that the Dharma Sect could absorb the Sitting Oblivion Dao.

Li Huowang didn’t want to get dragged into a fight of attrition here because he didn’t know how many more people from other sects were absorbed into the Dharma Sect. But there were too many people for him to turn invisible.

Li Huowang stared at the woman getting closer to him when he had an idea from seeing how Peng Longteng was throwing the corpses around.

Li Huowang sent two tentacles to wrap around Peng Longteng’s hands. Peng Longteng understood what he wanted to do as well as she swung him around.

She turned faster and faster, to the point where Li Huowang couldn’t keep his eyes open.

Three more stones flew past and bore three holes in him. At the same time, Peng Longteng released her grip and hurled Li Huowang far away.

He felt the wind flying past his ears, and he got farther and farther away from the ground. He was so high up that he finally saw the edge of the Dharma Sect crowd, but he soon fell down into the arms of the Dharma Sect members.

But he wasn’t worried because he finally found a good way to use the illusions.

He rematerialized Peng Longteng, and she grabbed Li Huowang’s tentacles again.

After throwing him three times, Li Huowang finally landed in a place without a crowd. He found himself beside a small earth hill.

Ignoring his headache, he projected his body image beneath the ground and became invisible.

When the Dharma Sect members ran over to find him, he was already halfway up the hill.

“Dad! We won! We escaped their encirclement!” Li Sui’s tentacles wiggled with joy.

“Did we?” Li Huowang looked down at the Dharma Sect members wearing tattered clothes. He recalled the crazy woman who was crushed into a paste by Peng Longteng.

Even though they were from the Dharma Sect, they were being used as cannon fodders. “There’s nothing to be happy about. No one won here.”

“Help… Help!” A familiar voice echoed. Li Huowang turned around and saw that Jin Shanzhao was pointing at the Dharma Sect members.

Li Huowang thought Jin Shanzhao would forever remain muted, so he never expected that Jin Shanzhao would start talking once again.

Even though he had uttered only a single word, Li Huowang understood what he was trying to say.

“Help? How do you want me to help them? How ambitious; you actually want to help the people, but do I look like the Emperor of the Qi Kingdom in your eyes? Or the Chief of the Surveillance Bureau? They're pitiful, right? But what about me? I’m worse than them! Who’s pitying me instead? I can’t even help myself, so how can I help them?”

Jin Shanzhao lowered his trembling finger and went silent.

Li Huowang sat down and pressed down on the scabs all over him. He was waiting for his headache to improve.

He couldn't rush things now. His head was pounding after materializing Peng Longteng so many times in quick succession. He would end up back in the hospital if he lost control of the Primordial Breath inside of him

“I would suggest that you disappear if you were planning on staying by my side just because of that. I’m not as selfless as Senior Zhuge.” Li Huowang panted as he looked at Jin Shanzhao in the air.

Zhuge Yuan said nothing. He had one of his hands behind his back as he stared at the crowd of Dharma Sect members moving around like ants. He was counting something with his other hand.

Li Huowang rested for a while and suddenly felt better. He then stood up to leave and swore not to get involved with the members of the Dharma Sect ever again.

Just then, Li Huowang noticed Jin Shanzhao smiling at him.

Hm? Why is he smiling? Li Huowang realized that Jin Shanzhao wasn’t looking at him but was looking at something behind him.

He turned around and almost cursed out loud.

A woman wearing tattered rags stood just a few meters away from her. She was skinny with a white towel on her head, and she was still holding her dead baby in her arms.

There was another illusion in Li Huowang's illusion roster.