Mutated Tao

In the Qi Kingdom, five hundred Li northeast of the You Capital, there was a lowland area with grass as tall as half a meter. The entire place was green, just like Qing Qiu.

No one would’ve expected that the elites of the Qi Kingdom were already waiting for the people from the Tianchen Kingdom to appear here.

Li Huowang lay on the ground while frowning, relying on his sharp hearing to detect any subtle changes in his surroundings. He had been in this spot for a full day, determined to find out if Shai Zi had been lying or not.

“Are you alright inside there? Do you need to come out for some fresh air?”

“Father, they are here.”

Li Huowang became tense, and his heartbeat quickened the moment he heard her.

He soon heard the sound of heavy footsteps and the chirping of birds. However, there were no birds in the Qi Kingdom—the birds were from the Tianchen Kingdom!

Li Huowang slowly liquefied the ground beneath him, sliding down.

Li Huowang looked through the grass and saw the people from the Tianchen Kingdom dressed like those from the Qi Kingdom.

Li Huowang sighed in relief. “Thank goodness it's not the army of Unspeakable. They are sending in spies, so I guess they are trying to set up another ploy.”

There were hundreds of them.

Li Huowang didn’t know why they were sent here, but he didn’t care. Since they had seen the spies appear, the Tianchen Kingdom’s plan was destined to fail.

Without warning, several large shadows flew through the air towards the people from the Tianchen Kingdom.

As the shadows drew near, everyone realized they were—the Buddhas of the Righteous Monastery. They opened their twisted mouths, chanting in unison with the monks embedded within their bodies. “Jie di jie. Di bo luo jie. Di bo luo jie. Jie di pu ti sa po he.”

The Buddhas crashed heavily onto the group of people and exploded like a watermelon falling onto the ground.

Those touched by the flesh of the Buddhas all shouted in pain as their flesh twisted and merged together.

There were many spies, yet all of them dispersed the moment the Buddhas of the Righteous Monastery attacked.

Still, they reacted swiftly. The sound of an instrument rang out, and black, rotting rice surged out from the rift and enveloped the Buddhas.

The fight in the lowlands was intense and vicious. However, no one from the Qi Kingdom had died yet.

We cannot keep this up! I need to head in there and cut off their roots!

Li Huowang swiftly approached the circular rift and looked through it. He saw a dense forest with many people in it.

The Tianchen Kingdom had prepared a lot of spies this time, though most of them looked burly and fierce.

Thankfully, Li Huowang noticed that the Unspeakable army and the golden dragon weren’t in the rift.

At the very least, it didn’t look like a trap, so Shai Zi wasn’t setting up a trap for him.

Li Huowang saw the rift was becoming smaller and quickly projected his body to enter it.

As he arrived at the Tianchen Kingdom, he noticed something he had overlooked before. There was a sizable stage behind the group of men. On that stage, an elderly man stood on stilts, his face adorned in makeup that made him look like a fox. ṚА𐌽ổBĘꞨ

The old man's forehead had a red dot highlighted with a red blush. His hands and feet were balanced on the wooden stilts, and yet he could still move nimbly without any hint of instability.

Li Huowang immediately realized that the old man had to be the Twisted One connecting the Tianchen Kingdom to the Qi Kingdom. Every time the old man’s eyelids twitched, a circular rift connecting the Qi Kingdom would appear near his body. They would then send people from the Tianchen Kingdom into the rift.

The entire place was a forest, with only the troops dispatched to the Qi Kingdom and tens of Unspeakable in the vicinity.

Li Huowang was even more confident after seeing the Unspeakable guarding the fox-faced old man closely.

“Go!” Several tentacles shot out from his body and forcefully struck the ground. Li Huowang curled his body up and shot forward like a cannonball, thrusting his spine sword towards the elderly man.

Just as the sword was about to reach the old man, a rift appeared in front of Li Huowang. There, he saw Chan Du using the scar on his forehead to eat the enemies.

Li Huowang understood that the rift connected to the Qi Kingdom. The old man was using his powers as a Twisted One to attack Li Huowang!

That wasn’t the end of it. Another rift appeared above Li Huowang. The old man was trying to bisect Li Huowang in half with the two rifts!

Several more rifts appeared around Li Huowang. At this point, Li Huowang realized that the Twisted One was very good at using his powers.

Li Huowang didn’t even wait for the rifts to hit him. He charged and entered the first rift before the second rift could hit him. The moment he entered the first rift, he jumped high and quickly turned his body in the air.

He watched as the two rifts completely missed him. Then, he swiftly dove into another circular rift.

This time, he appeared somewhere different. By the time he entered the Tianchen Kingdom again, the old man had hidden himself and the tens of Unspeakable had surrounded Li Huowang.

They raised their jade hands and charged towards Li Huowang.

Li Huowang’s Pain, Death, or even Rot would be stripped away if they touched him even one bit.

At the last moment, Li Huowang’s red Daoist robes expanded, and he split himself into hundreds of himself.

His clones charged around like wasps leaving the nest as they surrounded the Unspeakable.

The jade hands swiped around furiously. Many of the clones managed to dodge the hands, but the few that were touched by the jade hands disappeared like smoke.

Li Huowang’s tactic was to use clones to keep them busy. Since he already knew what kind of techniques they had, he used a different method to counter them.

Li Huowang had already escaped their encirclement by the time the Unspeakable had cleared up the clones.

Li Huowang stood at the crown of a tree and looked down. Everyone in the surrounding area ignored the Qi Kingdom and surrounded the tree.

They even fired flares into the sky, but Li Huowang couldn't even catch a glimpse of the trailing smoke before it vanished. He was confident that their reinforcements would arrive there shortly.

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