Chapter 156 - Peng Zhi

Chapter 156 - Peng Zhi

“I am one of the Three Corpses, Peng Zhi?” Li Huowang’s brain was abuzz. His mind was a complete mess.

“How can that be? I was transmigrated here! How can I possibly be something stupid like Peng Zhi?” mumbled Li Huowang.

“It’s no use even if you don’t want to believe it. Currently, I need you to recall as much as you can and see if you are able to find something bizarre in the details that you remember.”

“Details?”

While Li Huowang was reluctant, after thinking for some time, he did find many suspicious points. Dan Yangzi’s idiotic pride and all his various bizarre encounters fit quite well with the hypothesis of the Three Corpses.

“One more thing. If I am correct, then you can’t recall anything from your childhood, correct? This is natural, since we were never children to begin with. We were already adults when we took form!”

Monk’s words made Li Huowang realize that he could indeed not remember anything from his time before Zephyr Temple. In fact, his very first memories were of him being within the Zephyr Temple!

“What’s going on? What is real and what is fake?” mumbled Li Huowang as he felt his head splitting in pain as various pieces of information swirled within his mind.

“Peng Zhi! Don’t think about it! Stop thinking! You have to go against your instincts! I did it and so can you! Don’t think about it and don’t doubt anymore. Only then can we win against that person!” said Monk as he shook both of Li Huowang’s arms rigorously. “Pull yourself together. Do you see the people that are trying to kill us? The cultivator is using them to try and kill us! The moment he kills both of us, the cultivator will become an Immortal! We are in this together and we can never let his plan come to fruition!”

Li Huowang took deep breaths as he tried to calm himself down before turning to question Monk. “Monk, you—”

“Careful!” Monk quickly pulled him down as another arrow flew past Li Huowang’s shoulder, taking off some of his hair.

“Why are you still asking questions at such a crucial time? Let’s talk more once we leave here. Our enemies are quickly approaching!”

Hearing this, Li Huowang turned around and saw that the black dots chasing them had indeed become larger. They were chasing them on camels!

He could see that the assailants all wore wooden masks and had white fangs protruding out from their mouths, wriggling like antennas.

Li Huowang recognized them—they were the Nuo Opera performers!

He would’ve been fine if only the performers were the ones chasing them, but this time around they had brought an entire group of bandits with them!

Soon, the song came to an end. After that, Li Huowang slowly leaned his body forward and blew out the candles.

Li Huowang’s sudden action surprised both his mother and Yang Na. “Huowang! When did you become coherent?”

However, instead of answering, he just smiled at both of them. “I want you to place a piece of cloth in my mouth. I’m afraid that I will get very loud later.”

Just as he said those words, he felt an impact on his head causing stars to swim around his head. Slowly, everything around him fell apart.

“Wake up!”

At that moment, Li Huowang was back at the cold sand dunes, his face flat on the sandy ground. He was a bloodied mess.

He could see that their three horse carriages had been positioned in a circle and that everyone was taking refuge in the center. Many among them had taken up arms and were fighting against the assailants. Even so, they were slowly being pushed back.

There were just far too many enemies!

Seeing that the situation was dire, Li Huowang wanted to immediately help them.

But he did not move—he did not move because he saw someone standing on his right.

It was Monk.

Immediately, he turned to his left and saw another person—it was Monk, helping him up.

Seeing this, Li Huowang pushed them away. At this moment, there were two identical Monks!

Splurt!

An arrow pierced through Li Huowang’s shoulder. However, neither did he feel any pain nor did he pay any attention to it. He just stared at the two Monks.

“Aiya! Taoist, you have been shot! Are you alright?” asked one of the Monks, about to approach Li Huowang. However, he was stopped by a shout from Li Huowang.

“Both of you! Stay back! I don’t trust the two of you!” Li Huowang raised his sword in anger. He was afraid of being stabbed in the back if he didn’t settle this right now.

Hearing this, the Monk standing closest to him was left speechless. “Peng Zhi, what do you mean by the two of us? That Monk is nothing more than your illusion. You can ask the others; they can’t see the other Monk that you are talking about.”