Mutated Tao

You Capital, Qi Kingdom. Li Huowang was silently walking on the street but none of the busy civilians noticed him because Li Huowang had put on a fake face using the techniques of the Sitting Oblivion Dao.

In the capital city of Qi Kingdom, Li Huowang strolled through the streets in You Capital from the Qi Kingdom. Li Huowang had put on a face using the techniques of the Sitting Oblivion Dao, so none of the civilians noticed him.

He put his real face on one of the Mo family's “robots” in the palace to confuse the others.

He wasn’t sure if it would work, but he decided to do it anyway. So far, they hadn’t found out which world was trying to kill them, whether they asked the Gan family to use their divination skills or utilized the techniques of other sects.

They could only confirm that it was not the world where god Yu’er came from. They had once taken over the Qi Kingdom, and their world didn’t resemble a world inhabited by regular people.

Li Huowang could do nothing without knowing who was going to attack him. The only thing he could do was to wait and ambush the attackers.

He wasn’t sure if he had tipped them off last time, but no one had attacked the Qi Kingdom for a while. Still, Li Huowang couldn’t just spend all day waiting for them. He still needed to do his work to revive the Qi Kingdom.

He saw the civilians’ health improving and the Qi Kingdom slowly reviving. Both the palace and the Surveillance Bureau were being reconstructed, which also meant that the power he controlled was slowly expanding.

The survivors heard that the You Kingdom had food, so they slowly flocked there. The ones reaching the You Capital the fastest were, naturally, those with supernatural powers.

It was unclear whether this was due to the presence of a common enemy or Chan Du’s promise, but somehow, everything in the Qi Kingdom was within Li Huowang’s grasp.

With them under his command, Li Huowang could capture the assailants alive next time.

He needed to capture the Twisted One and pry out their spine to make another spine sword. He could then use it to enter their world to see what was going on.

He was thinking about it when he stopped after he saw Miao Guihua, the little girl, holding a few ribs while listening to an elderly man along with a group of other children.

Li Huowang took off his fake face and changed into his original face. He patted her head lightly. “What are you doing?”

“Bodhisattva!” Miao Guiha greeted Li Huowang. She was very happy to see him.

Li Huowang asked her again what she was up to, and she revealed the ribs in her arms. “My master told me to collect things that could be burned. I saw a lot of skeletons on the road, so I picked them up.”

Li Huowang thought it was good that the Righteous Monastery could let her work. After all, according to their values, only the helpful, productive people were worthy enough to live right now. A child without value would be stuffed into a vase and sold off as a human “hard drive.”

“Guihua, I’m afraid that bones are really bad kindlings, but go back to tell the monks to grind the bones into powder. That way, they can use them as fertilizer for the fields.”

“Ok, I will remember it!” She nodded vigorously, and the ribs in her arms slid down a bit. She bent down and hugged the ribs even tighter.

“Go and don’t run around aimlessly. While we have patrols here, there are more and more people entering this place, so it’s not as safe as you would think.”

Miaohua looked at the talking old man, hesitant to leave. “Bodhisattva, can I leave after I finish listening to him?”

Li Huowang patted her head while looking at the old man with a beard full of white hair. “What is he doing?”

“He’s talking about old history. My grandfather also talked to me about it before he died.”

Li Huowang chose not to leave but instead sat down and listened.

“Sigh~ You guys were born at the right time. It was even worse last time. We didn’t know anything, and we could only grovel on the ground to eat dirt. However, the Heavens couldn’t bear it any longer and helped us. They told us that we could use cotton to make clothes, and they told us how to plant grains and rear livestock. They told us how to use fire, and more importantly, gave us wisdom. That is why we can now use rules and maintain order. From there onwards, we finally differentiated ourselves from the birds, beasts, and insects.”

Li Huowang frowned and clenched his fist a bit. A woman appeared from a crossroads, waving at them. “Guihua, come here!”

Miao Guihua saw that woman and ran after her excitedly. “Mother, look! I picked up a lot of bones!”

“Is that so? My daughter is amazing! Come, let’s give the bones to the masters.” The woman held Guihua’s hands to bring her to the Righteous Monastery.

Miao Guihua left, and Li Huowang finally questioned the old man. “Old man, can I ask you something? How did you survive last time when you didn’t have food?”

The old man let out a deep sigh, appearing weary as he remembered. “Both my son and son-in-law were incredibly filial. They cut off their flesh to feed me, but now they are dead and I’m still alive. What an ironic twist of fate…”

“Bullshit.” Li Huowang frowned, and the people around him scattered. Soon, they were left alone.

“Who are you, and why are you here?” Li Huowang asked directly because he felt something was wrong with the old man. More importantly, the old man did not try to hide it.

The old man didn’t panic when Li Huowang saw through him and instead introduced himself courteously. “I am called Po Daer. I’m just a minor cultivator without any sect. I greet Daoist Li.”

“What are you cultivating?”

“Zen.”

“What kind of Zen?”

“Wild Fox Zen.”

“Wild Fox Zen?” Li Huowang inspected the old man before him and recalled his actions. He had a strange sense of familiarity to him.

“Old man, did you know I had an old friend who loved telling stories like you?”

“I’m not telling stories. I’m telling histories.”

“That’s doesn’t matter. Just like you, he always ran to another world to talk about stories. And more importantly, he was a Twisted One!”

Li Huowang had just said that when the ground beneath the old man sank, rendering him immobile.

Li Huowang then used his spine sword to stab towards the old man’s abdomen. However, just as the spine sword touched the old man’s body, the head of the old man shook violently before it shot up.

His organs were connected to the bottom of his neck as his head flew upwards into the air. Li Huowang had stabbed into the empty shell of the old man’s body.

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