Mutated Tao

Li Huowang was having a splitting headache. “Materializing a Twisted One is still too much for me. If I want to materialize Zhuge Yuan to lend me a hand, I need to master the 'Truth' first.”

Knowing that they were at a critical juncture, Li Huowang sat up abruptly. He shook his head and opened his eyes. “Sorry, Senior Zhuge, I fainted. I didn’t see—”

Li Huowang stopped mid-sentence upon seeing doctors wearing white lab coats around him. He then looked around and saw that he was strapped to some sort of medical device. Moments later, Li Huowang finally realized that he had returned to the other side. “I’m back?”

“Li Huowang? Li Huowang? How many fingers am I holding up?” Three fingers were put up before him.

“Three?”

“Good! It seems that increasing the voltage has truly managed to bring you back here.”

Under the instructions of the doctor, the nurses approached Li Huowang and undid his restraints. They also peeled off the two electrodes on his temples and his scalp.

“Eat this first.”

Li Huowang’s pupils shrank at the pills and the cup of water before him. He slapped the pills away and asked, “Who’s been feeding me these pills? I don’t want any of these! Li Sui picked up the spine sword and sent me back to the Liang Kingdom! Do not trust the person that’s near me!”

A doctor wearing frameless glasses told the nurses to back down before carefully approaching Li Huowang. “Li Huowang, don’t be afraid. Have you forgotten me? It’s me, your doctor Yi Donglai.”

“Yi Donglai?” Li Huowang stared at the familiar face in front of him. He remembered a lot of things.

“I don’t care who you are. I won’t eat anything right now! You can feed whatever medicine you want once I get back to the other side!” Li Huowang shouted so loudly that even the people outside the corridor could hear him. Some of them peeked through the door.

“Alright, don’t panic. Relax. I’m not feeding you any medicine and mean no harm to you.” Yi Donglai took a step back and displayed his palms.

Li Huowang sighed when Yi Donglai backed off. No matter who it was in the Qi Kingdom, at least that person meant no harm.

Seeing that his patient had calmed down, Yi Donglai brought out a stool and placed it beside Li Huowang. “Come here and sit down. Don't do any sudden movements. Your muscles are too weak to support you right now.”

Glancing at Yi Donglai and the stool, Li Huowang reached for where his purple-tasseled sword was supposed to be and slashed at the stool before taking it to sit down.

Yi Donglai nodded and looked at the camera at the top-left corner of the room. “Please give me a copy of the footage later.”

With that, Yi Donglai looked at Li Huowang and said, “Based on what you’ve been talking about recently, I feel like you are encountering issues on the other side. Is something wrong there?”

Li Huowang kept quiet when he was being questioned by Yi Donglai. He knew that the doctor would not be able to help him deal with Shai Zi.

Yi Donglai pushed his glasses, “Li Huowang, is Shai Zi aiming for the Dragon Vein of the Liang Kingdom?”

“HM?!” Li Huowang looked up in shock. How did the doctor know what was happening on the other side?

He immediately realized the gravity of the situation. The Dragon Vein could affect the history of a timeline, and Shai Zi wanted Ji Lin to succeed to the throne. Is Shai Zi aiming for the Dragon Vein?

Even though he didn’t know what Shai Zi’s true goal was, his fake memories as a Sitting Oblivion Dao were telling him that deceiving an entire history of a timeline was very alluring.

If Zhuge Yuan was right, it meant that the Liang Kingdom only appeared because the Qi Kingdom’s Dragon Vein was severed.

Even Li Huowang had no idea what would happen if Shai Zi ended up achieving his goal.

Seeing that Li Huowang was deep in his thoughts, Yi Donglai gestured for everyone to leave the room and closed the doors. The room was quiet now that only he and Li Huowang were left inside.

Yi Donglai grabbed a stool and sat in front of Li Huowang, “Coming from my viewpoint as a doctor, I think it’s best that you don’t help the prince to become the emperor. In addition to the fact that it's not really a profitable trade for you, you also have to risk your life by killing the other prices. However, the Shai Zi capturing your Miaomiao is indeed a huge problem. Why don’t we think of a solution together?”

“Wait a minute!” Li Huowang clutched his head in pain and stopped the doctor.

It took him a few moments to catch his breath and calm himself down before he looked at Yi Donglai, “Don’t discuss this with me. You have nothing to do with it!”

“What? Is it that uncomfortable to have reality and the hallucination mix with each other? It’s fine; we can talk about something else. How about a trade?”

“A trade?” Li Huowang was curious as to what Yi Donglai was proposing.

“Yes. A trade. Do you understand the situation you are in right now? You are just like a living Bodhisattva. We can’t throw you, nor can we lose you. The leaders of White Tower Hospital are having a headache dealing with you. Whenever they're having a headache, they'd always pressure us, the doctors. How about this? Can you work with me and become sane during the visits of the leaders? That way, I'll be able to prove that my treatment method is working.”

Yi Donglai stood up and helped Li Huowang stand up before moving to the window. They stared at the scenery outside.

“As your reward, I can do almost anything for you as long as it's within my authority. This is a win-win deal for both of us.”

Yi Donglai produced an unfamiliar smartphone and gave it to Li Huowang.

Li Huowang touched the screen, and an anime wallpaper popped up. Li Huowang realized that it was his smartphone.

“I’ve updated the games. Why don’t you play them?”

Li Huowang tapped into QQ and WeChat. He saw the red message bubbles with the letter +99 on them. He tapped further and stared at the messages.

“I can give you your phone, and I can even grant you a certain degree of freedom. You just have to work with me. You can go to the canteen, play video games on the computer, and even watch movies."

Li Huowang felt a shiver down his spine at the remark, and he exclaimed, “Stop fooling me! The other doctors tried to do the same thing as you did! You want me to interact with this world more frequently so that you can condition me to think that this place is reality while the other side is fake!”

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