Chapter 410 - Mahjong
“He's the Bei Feng I’ve been chasing after?” Li Huowang asked. He felt as if a hammer had struck his brain; he couldn't quite believe that Bei Feng would end up as a dying man right in front of him.
Li Huowang had been thinking of Bei Feng all day and all night since he learned that Bei Feing knew how to deal with the hallucination and control the primordial breath inside of him
Li Huowang had been thinking about what Bei Feng would look like.
However, he truly never expected that he'd end up meeting Bei Feng here.
“Him? Is he really Bei Feng? Senior Zhuge, are you sure about that?” Li Huowang asked, staring at Zhuge Yuan with surprise.
“Yes, that’s right. He is Bei Feng. He was hiding among the eunuchs, but I managed to find him.”
Li Huowang held Zhuege Yuan’s hands and shook them rigorously. “Thank you! Thank you!”
Then, he crouched down and propped Bei Feng up. Afterward, he whipped out a dagger and slowly sliced the skin layer on Bei Feng's face.
After several layers, Li Huowang finally saw the bloody mahjong tile—Bei Feng.
Li Huowang was so excited that he almost swooned.
Li Huowang's trembling fingers carefully caressed the bloody mahjong tile.
“Haha, how come you're so happy? Are you my long-lost son or something?” asked Bei Feng in a hoarse voice.
Li Huowang took a deep breath to calm himself down, but his voice was trembling from excitement as he said, “B-B-Bei Feng! I’ve been looking for you!”
“Oh? You've been looking for me? I guess you're not going to kill me until I tell you everything I know, then,” Bei Feng remarked.
Li Huowang ignored Bei Feng's remark and gripped the dagger in his hand tighter before walking over slowly to Bei Feng. Then, Li Huowang stared into Bei Feng's eyes.
“Senior Bei Feng, can you help me? Please tell me how to shake off the hallucination of a Strayed One. Tell me that, and I'm more than happy to negotiate terms with you. I'll agree even if you want me to release you.”
Li Huowang didn’t care whether Bei Feng accepted it or not.
He just wanted to go to the next step.
However, Bei Feng’s reply surprised him.
“Strayed One? Hehe, who told you I’m a Strayed One? I’m indeed Bei Feng, but I’m a fake. Fourth Brother is the true Strayed One, not me.”
“Fourth Brother?” Li Huowang's pupils constricted. It was a haunting answer that plunged Li Huowang’s elated heart into the abyss.
Bei Feng chuckled upon seeing the despair on Li Huowang’s face. “What’s wrong? Never played Mahjong before? Don't you know that there are four Bei Feng tiles?”
Four Bei Feng?! Does he mean that there are four Fa Cai? Four Bai Ban?! Four Hong Zhong? Li Huowang stood frozen as if he had been struck by a lightning bolt from out of the blue.
Moments later, Li Huowang snarled and lifted the man into the air by the neck. He thrust his dagger into Bei Feng’s abdomen and twisted it wildly, roaring, “Impossible! How dare you try and trick me! Death will elude you once you've sufficiently angered me! You will never die until you tell me the answer!”
Li Huowang was about to talk about his exploits. "I'll have you know—"
“Junior Li," Zhuge Yuan interjected with an awkward look. "He's telling the truth. He’s Bei Feng, but he’s not a Strayed One. He tried to lie, but I saw through him.”
Zhuge Yuan’s words broke Li Huowang, and he went beyond pallid.
Li Huowang looked utterly lost, and he suddenly found himself unable to breathe. The feeling of immediately losing something that one had worked hard to obtain was truly the worst feeling ever.
“You like telling stories, right? Why did you not tell me that there are four Bei Fengs?"
“I thought you knew. I’m sorry I never told you this before, but it’s not too late to tell you now,” Zhuge Yuan said, opening his fan and regretfully patting his head with it.
“The Sitting Oblivion Dao members are adept at changing their faces. To the outsiders, they'd only appear one at a time, but each mahjong tile is shared with four others.
"That’s why outsiders often think that the Sitting Oblivion Dao only has one individual representing a mahjong tile. They would always appear one at a time and always in different locations, and that is how the Sitting Oblivion Dao deceives everyone.”
They had caught Bei Feng, but he turned out to be the wrong Bei Feng.
Li Huowang felt like his efforts had gone down the drain, and he was so angry at the harsh reality that he saw red. He twisted his dagger and swung upward, tearing through the Sitting Oblivion Dao’s abdomen to slice the latter's heart into two.
Bei Feng’s mouth was bleeding, and his features had distorted from the pain, but he seemed like he didn't care as he taunted Li Huowang. “Hehe, you're from the Ao Jing Sect? It makes sense, as you're an idiot as well.”
“Junior Li, don’t kill him. I kept him alive for you because he might know something.”
Li Huowang was still furious, but he acknowledged that Zhuge Yuan was right. In the end, he whipped out the Fiery Scripture and started treating Bei Feng's wounds.
Bei Feng saw Li Huowang's actions and laughed louder. “Oh, you're not going to kill me? It looks like you still need me, after all, hahaha!”
Li Huowang cauterized Bei Feng’s abdomen before finally taking a good look at the latter. Bei Feng was wearing the face of a plain-looking old man.
Li Huowang was angry, but he couldn't do anything. He also couldn't afford to waste any time, so he decided to move on.
“Since you're one of the Bei Fengs, where are the other three? You should know because the four of you share the same face,” Li Huowang asked.
“Hehehe, looks like my hunch is right. Since you're looking for Fourth Brother, you must be a Strayed One too, am I right? You want to know the method to deal with a Strayed One's hallucination?” Bei Feng asked. He pieced together the puzzle pieces of information that Li Huowang had given to him and came up with the full story.
Li Huowang laid out his torture tools upon Bei Feng's refusal to answer him.
“I hate the Ao Jing Sect. You guys are always using the same antiquated methods. Sure, I can tell you, but ...” Bei Feng smiled at Li Huowang. “Are you going to believe me? I’m from the Sitting Oblivion Dao, after all, hehehe~”
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