Chapter 96 - Ba-Hui’s Descent

Chapter 96 - Ba-Hui’s Descent

“It hurts.” His heart was in extreme pain, almost as if it were being sliced by a jagged knife. At the same time, the large cavity in Li Huowang’s abdomen was causing his body to tremble uncontrollably.

However, even as he suffered from the most extreme mental and physical pain, he was still smiling.

He smiled at the thing running out from within the bamboo forest. He recognized it. It was a mirror copy of himself. However, it had blood-red eyes.

Ka Ka Ka!

Li Huowang’s teeth clattered uncontrollably as he hooked his own intestines before pulling them out and dangling them in the air, almost like a bridge.

“AAAAAAH!!” Li Huowang raised the pikehead in his hand and shoved it into the red bamboo slip that was glowing with an eerie red light, all the while almost going crazy from the pain.

Jiang Jiang!

At that moment, a sinister black flame exploded out from it and covered the surroundings.

Immediately, Li Huowang’s five senses once again melded together; however, this time around, thanks to the intense pain, he felt that his senses were much more sensitive. This time around, he was able to sense everything even more clearly.

Once again, he could feel the presence of Ba-Hui who was high above in the heavens. He could feel its intoxicating presence.

While Ba-Hui just ignored Li Huowang, through sacrificing the pain he felt from his mental and physical state, he obtained something he needed from Ba-Hui, something profound.

With the descent of Ba-Hui’s presence, Li Huowang’s extreme pain was transformed into something else.

In the next instant, a surge of power started radiating from Li Huowang. It was an otherworldly power. N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter's release on N0v3l--B1n.

Everything around Li Huowang started to crack as even the very space itself was twisted apart and bent.

Then, Li Huowang raised the pikehead in his right hand and swiped it gently.

He wasn’t sure how long it had been before he heard the faint sound of a beating drum and footsteps. He could even hear the sound of a nurse rearranging the medicine ampules, causing him to feel irritated by all the noise.

“It’s so noisy! Be quiet!” muttered Li Huowang.

When he opened his eyes in shock, he saw a cart filled with the glass ampules.

After some time had passed, Li Huowang finally realized that he was not dead; instead, he was within his hallucination.

Looking at the beeping machines around him, Li Huowang recognized that this was the ICU.

Was he happy that he hadn’t died? No, rather than being happy, he felt regret.

Why am I not dead?

“Doctor! The patient in room twelve has woken up!” A voice was heard.

Meanwhile, Li Huowang disregarded the nurse’s excited voice, trying to understand what was happening in the real world over there.

At that moment, he heard the door open and he closed his eyes, completely sealing away his senses from the world, waiting for the hallucination to pass.

But then, he heard a familiar voice. It was his main attending doctor at the mental hospital, Li Xiangguo. “Little Li, I know you are awake. Open your eyes and let’s talk.”

However, Li Huowang ignored him; he did not want to interact with anything within this hallucination.

“Yang Na has gotten a new boyfriend,” continued Doctor Li.

Immediately, Li Huowang’s eyes sprung open in shock. But all he saw was the doctor crossing his arms with a mischievous smile.

Seeing this, Li Huowang wanted to smash that conceited face in; however, it was only then that he realized that his right arm had been cuffed to the bed.

“Don’t be rash. Yang Na hasn’t gotten a new boyfriend. But you see? You will still react when something important occurs. So, why are you so conflicted?” The doctor, clad in white, took a stool and sat beside Li Huowang. “Let me guess, you thought that the other side was real, right?”

Instantly, Li Huowang’s breathing started turning rapid as the machines around him started beeping as a warning. But in the end, he didn’t say anything and just closed his eyes.

“Little Li, let’s skip the pleasantries. Since you thought that the place over there is real, then let's talk about the world over there, shall we? Let me ask you this, which world is more illogical? Your world over there, or the one we are in right now?” asked Doctor Li.