Chapter 308 - Warmth

Chapter 308 - Warmth

Time slowly passed. As he stared at the flames that were dying out, Li Huowang took off his punctured shoes. He wiped off the water before throwing them into the fire.

With the addition of new fuel, the fire grew stronger and the temperature rose a little. It was to the point that Li Huowang was forced to retreat a little from the flames.

However, even though he moved back, Li Huowang felt the temperature growing higher and higher instead. He, who had been on the verge of dying from hypothermia until just a moment ago, was now covered in sweat.

“Wait, why is it suddenly so hot?” Li Huowang removed his wet clothes and saw a plume of black smoke rising from his body.

Phew~

Li Huowang breathed out, only to see sparks coming out from his mouth.

“Hot! It’s too hot!” shouted Li Huowang as he stood up and removed all of his clothes.

But in an instant, Li Huowang saw as the small fire grew large and enveloped him.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”

Li Huowang kneeled on the ground in pain. The pain was so intense that it almost caused him to faint.

“What is happening?” Li Huowang raised his head and saw that flames had covered everything around him. There were flames everywhere. The entire field of reeds was on fire. Not a single inch of it was left untouched.

Through the flames, Li Huowang saw the people around him running and crying until they could no longer move. Then, they fell onto the ground and became fuel for the fire.

At that moment, Li Huowang realized something—he was lighting up some plastic bottles in his hallucination, but in reality he had lit up his own body to conduct one of the rituals from the Profound Records!

“No! Nonononono!” Covered in flames, Li Huowang stood up and ran toward them in a panic.

Li Huowang got close, but in the process, the flames burning his body became even more intense. The closer he got, the faster the people around him burned up,

At that moment, Li Huowang saw a lady fall in front of him, her finger pointing toward the direction of Cowheart Mountain as she muttered, “My little girl...”

“Why is this happening? I had already suppressed it! So why?!” Li Huowang punched the ground with his blackened fist.

Li Huowang didn’t know when the fire stopped. When he finally came back to his senses, everything around him had been burned to the ground while he just kneeled there motionlessly with white smoke coming off him.

His entire body was in immense pain, but it was nowhere near the pain in his heart.

“Don’t worry. I can handle them. Just go,” said Li Huowang as he sat down on the ground.

Liu Zongyuan scratched his head and turned toward a small forest. He took a few steps, but then sighed and approached Li Huowang once again. “Nevermind. I would rather help you out all the way. Close your eyes.”

“What are you doing?” asked Li Huowang as he looked at the wooden mask.

“Just do as I say. Do you think I would hurt you? If I don’t take care of you, then you will just die in a couple of days,” said Liu Zongyuan.

Hearing this, Li Huowang raised his burnt hands and covered his eyes. His eyelids had also been burned off.

Shua shua shua~

His eyes closed, Li Huowang suddenly felt something moving on his body. He felt the soft fur and thought it resembled a brush.

Half an hour later, Liu Zongyuan’s voice rang out once more, “Ok, you can take down your hands now.”

Li Huowang put down his hands and saw that the skin that had been burned off had regrown. But on closer inspection, Li Huowang noticed that it wasn’t his skin. It was a thin layer of pink paper. The color reminded him of the paper dolls that people burned for the dead.

At this point, Li Huowang not only had a layer of paper skin, but he was also wearing a paper shirt.

But for some reason, even though it looked cheap, all of the pain was completely gone; it was as if he was never burned.

“Don’t touch water and don’t get wet in rain or it will lose its effectiveness,” said Liu Zongyuan.

“Which sect are you from? This is very special.” Li Huowang looked at the person wearing the wooden mask.

“Didn’t I tell you? I’m from Moongate. This is a special method that involves gluing. Other than that, we also specialize in arrangement, fusion, pass, moon, parting, pull, and open,” replied Liu Zongyuan.

When Liu Zongyuan saw Li Huowang just sit there in a daze, he laughed. “You don’t understand it? Hehe, that’s a good thing. We intentionally explain it as such so the others wouldn’t know the specifics of our powers. Oh, you haven’t told me your name yet.”

“Er Jiu.”

“Alright, goodbye Er Jiu.” Liu Zongyuan turned around and disappeared into the forest.

As he saw Liu Zongyuan disappear into the forest, Li Huowang inspected the skin made of paper. He found that the skin would easily puncture or break if he used too much force.

However, the pain couldn’t do anything to Li Huowang. He just remained seated and stared in the direction of Cowheart Mountain.

His eyes were filled with despair.

“I have killed everyone within the Bai family. How am I going to tell her...?”