Mutated Tao

“Boss Hong Zhong, stop resisting. They sent me here because they knew my ability would work on you. You lose this time,” Bei Feng said triumphantly from Li Huowang’s body.

Li Huowang was pissed when he saw Bei Feng acting flirtatiously in his own body.

He raised his right arm and splayed it towards the single-eyed man. “Give me the sword!”

The single-eyed man hesitated briefly, and then Bei Feng took over his body. She jumped away from Li Huowang and chuckled.

Li Huowang ignored Bei Feng and immediately grabbed a sword before running towards his original body.

“Quick! I’m controlling Li Huowang right now! Kill him! He’s Ji Zai’s Twisted One! We cannot let him live for even a moment longer! He could kill all of us with his cultivation of the ‘Truth’!”

Just then, Li Huowang stabbed the sword into his original body’s abdomen and tore it in half.

Bei Feng was stunned and unsure what Li Huowang was trying to do.

Li Huowang then dug out the eyes from his original body to prevent Bei Feng from switching back into his body. He lowered his head and tried to wear his original body like a jumpsuit.

It wasn’t easy. He wasn’t Li Sui, and there were many things inside his abdomen. It wasn’t easy to slip inside his original body.

He heard footsteps approaching. Li Huowang wasted no time and started eating his own flesh and blood, which contained the powers of a Strayed One.

I am Li Huowang! I am Li Huowang! Li Huowang chanted furiously in his own heart.

While Bei Feng didn’t know what Hong Zhong was trying to achieve, she still wanted to stop him.

She piloted the single-eyed man’s body, but it was too late. A plume of fire exploded towards the sky and burned everything around Li Huowang.

“Fire!” An explosion reverberated and the fire burned brighter. The forest began to burn down.

Li Huowang slapped the single-eyed man with his fiery palms.

Under the attack, the single-eyed man’s body disintegrated like paper, revealing the spine sword within it. Li Huowang grabbed onto the spine sword tightly.

But this wasn’t enough to quell his anger. He thrust his hands into his body and tore off his own heart before placing it on the Profound Records.

“Fire heart!”

Li Huowang used the Five Element Intercalation. The moment he did, the entire battlefield shifted in his favor. Bei Feng switched bodies numerous times, but it was futile.

The battlefield finally became quiet after the final tree burned down.

Li Huowang slumped down. The doll enlarged and ate his shadow before reviving him back to life.

“Benefactor Li, we won!” Chan Du excitedly said.

He got back the spine sword. That meant he could continue to send food to the Qi Kingdom, and the people wouldn’t starve. Still, Li Huowang felt worried when he looked at the corpses. “Bei Feng escaped.”

“What? Escaped?”

“She can swap bodies with anyone she makes eye contact with. None of you could’ve stopped her if she wanted to run.”

“What should we do?” Chan Du turned in a circle before saying, “Benefactor Li, don’t worry. The Gan family is still here. We can locate Bei Feng as long as she’s in the Qi Kingdom!”

Li Huowang sighed, his voice low. “No need. Killing her won’t amount to anything. What’s more important is the people backing her.”

Li Huowang didn’t want to explain much to Chan Du. “Bring everyone else back. I will go talk to him.”

Li Huowang swung the spine sword and returned to the Liang Kingdom.

Once he returned, he ignored the voices of the busy surroundings and instead ran towards Shangjing.

Once he was there, he was informed that the Emperor wasn’t there. It was the Spring Equinox, so the Emperor was in the fields to conduct the ceremony of plowing the fields.[1]

It wasn’t difficult to find him. Li Huowang ran towards the black soil at the edges of the city and saw the grand scene. The officials, the consorts, the Emperor's wives, and the princes were present.

There were circles upon circles of guards protecting them. Li Huowang barely even got close when they noticed his presence.

They refrained from taking action when they saw that it was Li Huowang. Only the older eunuchs circled Gao Zhijian more tightly to protect him. Gao Zhijian was currently raising the hoe high up to plow the field.

Li Huowang did not approach him. Instead, he stood on the sidelines and looked at the scene.

The massive Gao Zhijian was showing his wives and sons how to plow the field. As a former soldier, he was used to physical labor.

He brought down the glittering golden hoe so fast that afterimages appeared. His consorts and wives grumbled in pain as they worked, unable to keep up with Gao Zhijian’s pace.

“Your Majesty! Your Majesty! You only need to do it as a gesture of respect! Don’t make your esteemed body tired!” Several eunuchs chased after Gao Zhijian.

“You think mere physical work like this would tire me out? Are you looking down on me?” Gao Zhijian plowed the fields even faster.

He only stopped after an entire field had been completely plowed.

It wasn’t over yet. Gao Zhijian had to whip a plowing cow several times with a multicolored ribbon before the ceremony ended.

Gao Zhijian threw the golden hoe to the eunuchs before approaching Li Huowang.

“Senior Li, look!” Gao Zhijian pointed at the field in front of him.

“This is my land. I never thought that the Emperor would have his own personal land. One mu and a third, no less.”[2]

“What are you doing?” Li Huowang asked lazily.

“I’m conducting the ceremony to plow the field. It’s the Spring Equinox. I need to set an example for the people so that they start working on the fields today.”

“There’s so few divisions in a day now. I’m surprised you can calculate the time now.”

“Well, we can’t stand idly by just because we can’t calculate time.”

Gao Zhijian showed no hint of his regalness as he sat on the ground. He felt better outside than cooped up in the palace.

“Sigh, it feels much better to work my body a bit. I felt like I was getting moldy just from staying in the palace all day.”

Gao Zhijian talked for a bit before he turned and looked at Li Huowang with confusion. “Senior Li, why aren’t you talking?”

Li Huowang smiled and sat beside Gao Zhijian. He picked up a piece of stone and fidgeted with it in his palm.

“Yeah, what should I talk about?”

1. A ceremony in which the Emperor personally plows the field to show respect to agriculture and the farmer during spring, when the first seeds are planted. ☜

2. A mu is a traditional Chinese unit of area, which is approximately 666.67 square meters. ☜

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