Mutated Tao

Swish! A black dagger stabbed towards Li Huowang’s chest.

Li Huowang turned around and glared at the dagger. It floated just an inch away from his forehead before he twisted both the dagger and the attacker into a rope.

Although he defeated every enemy relatively quickly, many of them remained. It was not a pretty sight for him—all the people surrounding him were somewhat strong.

They also took away his weapons. It was clear that they had planned it beforehand.

One of the farmers caught sight of the twisted flesh and promptly let out a sharp whistle. Seemingly on cue, another elderly man swiftly swept his legs, causing a cloud of black soil to scatter into the air. Subsequently, another person forcefully pushed the air with their palm, creating a miniature sandstorm.

As Li Huowang was busy killing the attackers, he lost his target. The sand somehow came alive and tried to bury itself into Li Huowang’s eyes.

The moment he got distracted, a hook shot out from the sand and latched onto his left leg. It tore off his legs just like that.

“Who the fuck are you guys?!” Li Huowang opened his eyes and let the sand batter his eyes all it wanted.

He swiftly turned around with his single remaining leg toward the direction the hook had come from.

A skinny man was grinning while looking at the leg on the hook. Just then, Li Huowang pounced out from the sandstorm and slapped the top of the skinny man’s head. His head rolled on the ground like a ball.

Li Huowang ignored the arrows being shot into his torso as he picked up his leg. He reattached it and stomped onto the ground before running towards the spot the arrows had come from.

“Who are you guys?” Li Huowang grabbed the archer by the ears and tore him in two, just like a piece of paper.

Li Huowang’s eyes were bloodshot from the assault of the sandstorm. His eyes were hurting a lot. It felt even worse than someone poking them out with red-hot iron.

The more his eyes hurt, the angrier he became. He finally snapped when someone tossed a flying guillotine and enveloped his head with it.

“Fire!” Li Huowang shouted as burning flames burned off his skin.

Several metal spikes melted before they could even touch him.

The metal spikes melted even though they were far away. The flying guillotine had long since been burned to nothingness.

The sandstorm grew stronger in an attempt to extinguish his flames, but it couldn’t extinguish them.

Li Huowang glared at the sandstorm and turned it into reeds. With fuel near him, Li Huowang’s flames surged forward like a fiery tsunami.

“Burn! Burn all of them!”

As the sandstorm slowly turned into reeds, various scenes unfolded in Li Huowang’s eyes.

The fire burned fiercely as several people staggered out of the burning reeds. As they scattered, they stepped on the cracking black soil, which was turning into porcelain from the flames.

Half of the burning people were the ones who had ambushed Li Huowang, while the other half were the Bai family.

A lady fell before Li Huowang and stared in a single direction. “My daughter…”

“AAAAAAH!” As the burning flames continued their advances, several burnt corpses fell to the ground. All of them had died.

Li Huowang was still burning up when he panted out of exhaustion. He suddenly remembered something and started searching the corpses.

His anger boiled over after he went through all the corpses. All four of his swords were gone! Their goal had been to take away his spine sword, preventing him from returning to the Liang Kingdom.

Li Huowang looked around and found no other traces. Everything around him had been burned to ashes, and he couldn’t discern anything from the ground.

He didn’t know why they wanted his weapons, but he could not return to the Liang Kingdom without Zhuge Yuan's spine sword. He would be trapped here forever!

Just then, someone hastily approached him. It was Chan Du, the abbot of the Qi Kingdom’s Righteous Monastery, along with other people from the Qi Kingdom.

As they looked at the scorched ground surrounding Li Huowang and the flames still engulfing him, they grasped the situation. The atmosphere was filled with an eerie silence, broken only by the crackling of Li Huowang's burning skin.

Li Huowang glared at Chan Du. The latter clasped his hands together and nervously explained, “Benefactor Li, we did not do this! You are our savior! We would never return your kindness with animosity!”

“Ha! Who says so? They even took the spine sword that I need to return to the Liang Kingdom! You knew I wouldn’t help you with the Dragon Vein, so you devised this plan to trap me here! Or did you want to go to the Liang Kingdom to get food for yourself?”

“Daoist, you are going too far!” The leader of the Mo family stood up. “The Mo family might do other things, but since we have set rules, we would never break them. Your words are an insult to us!”

“Scram!” Li Huowang shouted, his fire burning brighter. The leader of the Mo family scampered back into the group of people.

“Monk!” Li Huowang approached Chan Du. The fire coming from Li Huowang was causing Chan Du’s robes to roll up.

“You said that the Qi Kingdom is mine, didn’t you? Everything here belongs to me, correct?”

“Yes! This is the Qi Kingdom of Benefactor Li! You have shown great grace and compassion to the Qi Kingdom, so this is naturally yours!”

“Fine!” Li Huowang shouted, causing everyone to step back in fear.

“I don’t care how you do it, but you must find my sword! Find it! Otherwise, I will burn all the food I brought here!”

Li Huowang extinguished his flames and ran towards the Righteous Monastery.

“Benefactor Li, you can’t do that! A lot of people would starve to death!”

Li Huowang turned around and glared at him. “What? I thought you said that the Qi Kingdom was mine. Is this place really mine if I can’t even do what I want with the food? Were you just trying to trick me into staying here with your words, all to keep me here?”

Li Huowang ignored them and left. “Also, you guys can’t use the spine sword anyway! Don’t forget how you came here last time! You’re not Twisted Ones, so you can’t travel to the Liang Kingdom with a spine sword!”

Li Huowang walked past the guards and reached the granary that the Righteous Monastery had been guarding. He sat on the food and waited.

He could light up his body and turn the food into ash at any moment. However, even Li Huowang wasn’t sure if they were the perpetrators.

Although he didn't believe Chan Du would do something like this, he had gone through a lot in this world. As a result, he always considered the worst-case scenario.

The entire incident was too bizarre. He had told Chan Du that he wouldn’t involve himself with the Dragon Vein just half a division before the ambush happened. It had been too fast.

And the “farmers” had cooperated a little too well. They were also strong. It was too illogical for Chan Du to gather these kinds of men within half a division and achieve such a result.

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