Mutated Tao

“Senior Li, what’s wrong?” Bai Lingmiao was frightened by his suddenly bizarre behavior. She tried holding him down but was surprised to find that his skin was burning hot.

“Senior Li, stop! Don’t think about it anymore! I won’t ask you again!” Bai Lingmiao started sobbing as she hugged him despite the heat.

Hearing her voice, Li Huowang closed his eyes, trying his best to think about other things.

But it was futile. The broken pieces of memory within him soon joined together.

A suffocating image popped up in his mind, one that he was supposed to forget.

The image was both still yet moving at the same time. He tried his best to describe it.

“Behind the jade plate was a place called the Baiyu Capital. I’ve seen things, things that I cannot describe! They are massive and cold!”

Li Huowang’s voice was hoarse and deep, but he stammered a lot. His body trembled uncontrollably as he continued, “Mortals must never set foot there! If they do, they get taken away and decomposed into bits and pieces of abstract items! Humans were all made by them! If everything that constitutes us is taken away, then we would disappear as well, just like Dan Yangzi! But then something within the depths of the Baiyu Capital pulled me in! It sucked me into the depths where I saw the entire world! And then, I felt it! I felt what it was thinking!”

At that moment, another pair of hands pushed down on Li Huowang’s forehead. The hands pushed down stronger and stronger, the pain from the pressure alleviating Li Huowang’s headache a little.

Li Huowang didn’t know who it was but continued talking, “I could understand it and what it was thinking! Only I could do it and no one else! It had gone mad!”

Li Huowang felt the image within his mind slowly escape his grasp. The beings within the image stared back at Li Huowang.

“I saw the past… In the past, it was not like this! It was perfect… But now… it’s crying! IT IS CRYING!”

“Who is ‘it’?” A cold female voice came from behind Li Huowang.

The veins on Li Huowang’s forehead bulged to the point of rupturing but he somehow held it in as he used all his remaining strength and shouted, “Da Nuo! It is Da Nuo!”

The moment he said it, the atmosphere within the horse carriage became bizarre and cold winds seeped into him despite the fact that he was covered by a warm blanket.

At the same time, a blurry voice mumbled within everyone’s ears, causing the horses to start panicking and Bun to bark out loud.

Li Huowang knew that this voice did not belong to Da Nuo; it had gone mad and would never pay attention to him. The one causing the animals to start panicking was something else entirely.

“Scram!” Li Huowang shouted, and everything around him became quiet once more.

Li Huowang sat on the floor and panted.

Bai Lingmiao’s sobbing voice rang out from beside him, “Senior Li, I’m sorry. Please stop thinking about it. I’m already very grateful that you can be beside me. I won’t ask you again!”

After she said those words, two hands propped him up within the dark carriage while another hand carefully used a towel to wipe his forehead. A bowl of water was given to him and he carefully drank it.

With the four hands working in tandem to calm him down, Li Huowang’s breathing soon became normal. The buzzing in his mind and the sharp noise disappeared as well.

Li Huowang looked at the girl in front of him weakly. “That’s… What happened…”

That night, Li Huowang didn’t know when he fell asleep. By the time he woke up once again, it was already bright outside. He looked down and found that his clothes had been changed as well.

Staring at the top of the horse carriage and the space beside his blanket, Li Huowang sighed and massaged his temples.

At this point, everything that he had tried to remember yesterday had been forgotten once again. Some of his memories had also become very hazy.

Still, Li Huowang learned something from it.

Those who worshipped the Flesh Buddha in the Righteous Monastery, the dirty, slothful, and greedy nuns of the Benevolent Nunnery, the liars and swindlers of the Sitting Oblivion Dao, and even the Shamans who summoned the Immortal families using someone’s lifespan.

All their powers were supernatural and bizarre.

Especially evil beings such as the Eighteenth Lunar, the Wandering Gods, the Mountain Grandma, and the God of Happiness.

He had originally thought that he had transmigrated into a bizarre and crazy world.

But from the looks of it, this was not the case.

There was something wrong with this world, something extremely wrong.

It was as if the whole world was sick just like him. However, this was not how it was supposed to be. Instead, it was supposed to be a more… normal world.

“What’s wrong with this world?” Li Huowang mumbled. “And that being… It’s called Da Nuo? Is it related to the Nuo Opera? According to Lu Zhuangyuan, the Nuo Opera was an ancient show, possibly the ancestor of all the other shows. Looks like the Nuo Opera performers worship Da Nuo but…”

Li Huowang recalled the performers who got duped by the members of the Sitting Oblivion Dao. They were neither strong nor influential—they were even weaker than the bandits.

“Ai~,” Li Huowang sighed, too lazy to be bothered by such details.

Regardless of what happened to Da Nuo, it didn’t matter to him.

He was just a normal man, so he should be thinking about his next step.

How should he live here? That was his next question.

Not only had he traveled to the depths of Baiyu Capital, but he hadn’t disappeared like Dan Yangzi. In fact, he was still alive!

Is this the power of a Strayed One? Or was it because Ba-Hui saved me?

Li Huowang made some random guesses, but it was not easy to come up with a satisfying answer. It was great to be alive, but he was afraid that there might be consequences.

After a moment, Li Huowang sat up and put on his clothes.

He stared out from the horse carriage and gazed at the river, only to see Bai Lingmiao’s hair swaying gently with the wind.

At this moment, she was concentrating on washing clothes. The morning sunlight lit up a part of her face and made her look like an ethereal beauty.

Staring at the girl who was willing to go through Heaven and Hell together with him, he felt touched. “Since she is willing to stay by my side, then no matter how I came back to life, I will have to continue living. Thankfully everything has ended now.”

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This is the second rendition of the Ox-tail gate. Credits to 格子的乱七八糟 on douyin

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