Chapter 423 - Returning To Shangjing

Chapter 423 - Returning To Shangjing

Li Sui popped out of Li Huowang's navel and looked around with his eyes. He was certain that he had heard voices just now, but no one was around.

“Dad, how come I can hear voices when there's no one around? Who is chanting?” Li Sui asked, but his question remained unanswered. He couldn't help but worry as he asked, “Dad, are you mad at me?”

Li Sui felt that he hadn't made any mistakes. After all, he couldn't have known that he'd have two fathers—a headless father and a father with a head. Upon hearing not even a single command from his headless father, Li Sui entered the navel of his father with a head.

Li Huowang had no time to pay any attention to Li Sui. He stared in the direction of the capital, as he could hear the strange chanting as well. At first, he thought it was just his hallucination, but he saw some civilians rolling on the floor in pain while holding their heads. The source of this content nov(el)bi((n))

Li Huowang realized instantly that he wasn't hallucinating. The chanting was real, and he could hear it, even though it was coming from the distant capital. Li Huowang reckoned that a large-scale incident was happening.

Something major must be happening; I can't wait any longer. I must hurry back. Has the Surveillance Bureau surrounded the Sitting Oblivion Dao? Li Huowang moved as fast as possible, but he failed to reach the capital even after nightfall. It was inevitable, as he left empty-handed but was coming back with a heavy corpse.

His corpse had no head, but he hadn't forgotten that he was a Strayed One.

Li Huowang reckoned that his corpse would definitely be useful, so he drained the blood out of the corpse and filled it with coarse salt inside before covering it with the same salt on the outside.

Li Huowang took a deep breath and wiped away the sweat on his face as he stared at the night sky. Li Huowang eventually put the corpse down and decided to gather firewood to call it a night.

It hadn't been that long since the New Year's celebration, so the weather was still quite chilly. He had to sleep with a campfire, or he would end up getting sick,

While Li Huowang was cutting branches with the purple-tassel sword, snowflakes fell slowly from the sky. It was snowing, and it was Li Huowang's first snowfall in this world.

Li Huowang exhaled while staring at the moon hanging in the sky. Sensing that tonight would be an unusually cold night, Li Huowang decided to pick up the pace and gather more firewood.

Soon, sparks flew out when he used his flint, but the sparks failed to ignite the wood.

Li Huowang tried for a while, but he stopped upon recalling something. He rummaged through his pockets and took out an old almanac. Li Huowang used the flint a few times before the old almanac caught fire. Li Huowang then threw the old almanac into the pile of firewood, and that was it—the campfire was done.

The only strange thing was that the streets weren't as bustling as usual, but Li Huowang chalked it up to the heavy snow.

Li Huowang's assumption was correct. The capital was indeed sprawling with the Surveillance Bureau's informants. He had only taken a few steps into the capital, but the Surveillance Bureau had already surrounded him.

Li Huowang's expression was extremely solemn as he stared at Nangong. "Senior Nangong, the Sitting Oblivion Dao has deceived me."

Nangong looked at Li Huowang with a complicated expression and sighed. "Follow me. I'm sure you can't even imagine what the Sitting Oblivion Dao did with your identity."

Li Huowang returned to the Surveillance Bureau under Nangong's lead. They walked through the wooden corridors and soon arrived at a room. For some reason, the air in the room was dense and heavy.

However, Li Huowang soon found the answer to his question.

A head twisted into the appearance of Hong Zhong was on a table with three incense sticks in front of it. A Daoist clad in a yellow Daoist robe and wearing a hat with the Yin and Yang symbol embroidered on it was standing next to the head.

The yellow-robed Daoist brandished a bronze coin sword in a ritual.

"Lord Jian Zheng, Er Jiu has returned."

The yellow-robed Daoist looked up.

Li Huowang saw two Nascent Souls on the left side of the yellow-robed Daois's neck.

This Jian Zheng has two Nascent Souls. He must be a disciple of Luoism. Li Huowang instantly became wary.

Meanwhile, Daoist Jian Zheng stopped his ritual and examined Li Huowang from top to bottom. Then, he grabbed Hong Zhong’s head and hurled it at Li Huowang.

Li Huowang examined the rectangular head and exclaimed, "What?! The Hong Zhong of the Sitting Oblivion Dao is a Strayed One?!"[1]

1. MC is an amazing actor lmao ☜