Chapter 361 - Yin and Yang
Li Huowang’s face was unusually grim as he watched the collapsed Ji Xiang before him.
He remembered that Ji Xiang had mentioned that the male Muddled One was dead, but the female Muddled One was still alive. Even Zhuge Yuan couldn't possibly handle them together.
Li Huowang wasn't sure of Zhuge Yuan's true strength, but he knew one thing for sure: he was in deep trouble.
“Huowang, what happened to this eunuch?” Bai Lingmiao asked, looking around vigilantly, clearly unaware of the severity of their current situation.
Li Huowang took a deep breath and suppressed the strong unease in his heart. Whether he would live or die didn't matter to him; what mattered to him was that Bai Lingmiao couldn't get involved!
Li Huowang helped Ji Xiang up before saying with urgency, “Lord Ji Xiang! Do not be discouraged; we can still fix this! Just think about the fact that others in the bureau have survived something similar to our current situation!”
Ji Xiang looked back at Li Huowang with despair written on his face. “You don’t understand. It's impossible to survive this!”
Just as Li Huowang was about to reply, gazes from all directions made him grip his sword tightly. A group of people emerged slowly from the woods, all with the exact same appearance as the creature Li Huowang had captured.
They were hunchbacks with large bellies swaying as they stared at Li Huowang and his group with their bulging fish-like eyes.
“There are newcomers again? Great!”
“That girl looks pretty, hehe...”
“Yes, and she has a pretty big butt.”
Li Huowang’s expression turned fierce at the hunchbacks' remarks. He brandished his bronze coin sword and tugged at the red threads, swinging it like a whip toward the hunchbacks. However, the hunchbacks didn't avoid Li Huowang's attack and chose to take it with their thin bodies. The sharp bronze coins sliced through the hunchbacks as if it were a hot knife slicing through butter.
The hunchbacks seemed indifferent to their injuries, squirming on the ground.
“We're in no rush, and we're not going to do anything. We’re just going to wait.”
“We'll wait one, two, or perhaps even three years until you become just like us.”
Li Huowang felt a shiver down their spine at the hunchbacks' words. These hunchbacks were no longer humans. They had long forgotten themselves and became monsters themselves after the Muddled Ones had spirited them away.
Li Huowang cursed inwardly and ignored the hunchbacks to lift Ji Xiang off of the ground. “Lord Ji Xiang, this is nothing, really! We're trapped, but that's it! Anyway, just think about the people waiting for you to go back home!”
Ji Xiang's eyes stirred, seemingly recalling something.
The fear and despair in Ji Xiang's eyes vanished as he said, “Yes, she’s still waiting for me at home! I'm going to bring her back to the village, and I'm going to resign!”
Li Huowang breathed a sigh of relief. “Now that you've calmed down, Lord Ji Xiang. Can you start thinking of a way to get us out of here?”
Ji Xiang tried to stay composed by patting his cheeks vigorously while in deep contemplation. Moments later, Ji Xiang looked up and said, “One of the Muddled Ones is alive while the other is dead. The karmic obstacles in their bodies are coincidentally Yin and Yang. The Yin and Yang have blended, so we can't escape.
"We must find the living female Muddled One to escape!”
Ji Xiang became more and more composed and articulate as he continued, “Yes, that’s right! We have to find the female Muddled One! We might be able to live if we kill her!”
At Ji Xiang's remark, everyone set everything aside and made a mad dash into the forest to find the so-called female Muddled One. The scenery around them peeled away as Li Huowang led Bai Lingmiao through the forest.
“Huowang, what’s going on with this damned place? I've been beating the drum for quite a while now, but I still can’t get any response from the Immortal families,” Bai Lingmiao said, sounding frustrated.
Li Huowang wasn't surprised to hear Bai Lingmiao's remark. He knew those low-level Immortals wouldn't be helpful to them at all.
“This is like looking for a needle in a haystack. It seems that we have to use talismans and divination to aid us in our search,” Li Huowang said, but he quickly realized that he had run out of yellow paper.
“Do you have any yellow paper on you?” Li Huowang asked Bai Lingmiao.
Bai Lingmiao pondered briefly before pulling out a tiny paper horse folded with yellow paper. "I use this as a Shaman. Try it out.”
Li Huowang accepted the yellow paper and unfolded it. Then, he looked around and dashed toward a man peeking at them behind a tree. Soon, Li Huowang returned with a bloody skull, and he immediately started his divination.
Li Huowang swept his gaze across the divination symbols. Moments later, he tossed the skull away and continued his search. Divination was usually reliable, but it was ineffective this time. Li Huowang had tried his best, but he couldn't find any reliable information from the divination symbols.
Li Huowang continued the search with Bai Lingmiao until Tuoba Danqing found them a day later.
“Come here, quick! Hong Da has already found it!” Tuoba Danqing exclaimed. Li Huowang regrouped with Tuoba Danqing, and the three ignored their exhaustion to return to where they had come from.
Upon regrouping with the others, Tuoba Danqing immediately got to work as he ruthlessly twisted the female Muddled One's head and hurled it to the ground.
Li Huowang’s heart tightened as he looked around; as always, he still couldn't see anything other than darkness. The group waited for quite a while but found no changes whatsoever. Those who had been spirited away were still here.
“What’s going on?” Li Huowang asked incredulously.
Just then, the bloody head of the female Muddled One moved and rolled slowly toward its body. The female Muddle One's head remained glazed, clearly lifeless, but she was undeniably alive.
A peal of jeering laughter echoed from all around them.
“Hahaha! You actually tried to kill her? It seems that you people have no idea that no one can die here."
“Do you really think that we don’t want to die? We want to die, too! Living forever like this is scarier than death!"
The hunchbacks' words sent a chill down everyone’s spine.
They had to kill the female Muddled One for them to escape, but no one could die here!
Just then, Bai Lingmiao pulled out Li Huowang’s purple-tassel sword and slashed out, targeting Hong Da’s neck. Hong Da bled profusely, but he didn't look like he was going to die.
Everyone understood their predicament just then—they were in an unresolvable deadlock.
Ji Xiang became downcast. He opened his mouth to say something, but a fist struck him right in the face.
“This is all your fault, you damn eunuch! If you hadn't brought us here to catch a Muddled One, this wouldn't have happened to us!" Tuoba Danqing roared, abandoning his sunny demeanor as well as any respect he had for his superior as he rained down punches and kicks upon Ji Xiang.
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