Chapter 506 - Truth or Lies?

Chapter 506 - Truth or Lies?

“Come now. Yikes! Be careful. Slowly stuff it back, or your intestines will entwine.” Shai Zi carefully helped Li Huowang up and sat him on the carriage. He then started rummaging around in the carriage. “Hong Zhong, where is the Golden Wound medication? I can’t seem to find it.”

Li Huowang stared at Hong Zhong’s back and was puzzled by what was happening.

“Ah! Found it!” Shai Zi took out a bag of Golden Wound medication and sprinkled some on Li Huowang’s wound. He clapped his hands in satisfaction once he was done treating Li Huowang. “You're heavily injured. Why don’t you rest? I will go boil some bird nests and make you a serving of donkey hide gelatin congee .”

“Why do I need to help Ji Lin succeed to the throne? Is he a Sitting Oblivion Dao member?” Li Huowang asked, trying to piece together the puzzle pieces to determine Shai Zi’s goal.

“You're thinking too much. How could the imperial family be part of the Sitting Oblivion Dao? They are the people chosen by the gods themselves. Don’t worry about the ‘why’ first. You just need to help him ascend to the throne, and your job is done. Of course, you can find me if you want in on the next steps as well after that. Don’t worry; there are people helping us in the palace.” Shai Zi chuckled and patted Li Huowang’s shoulder. “Do you not need me to take care of you? Then I will leave first. Once you’ve recovered, you need to make haste and go back to Shangjing. There are many people scrambling to get official positions, and everything is in chaos.”

Shai Zi covered Li Huowang’s body with a thin blanket before leaving.

Li Huowang stared in the direction where Shai Zi had disappeared before smashing the wooden floor of the carriage with his right fist.

Li Huowang understood them the most. He was afraid that even if he helped Ji Lin succeed to the throne, Shai Zi still wouldn’t give Miaomiao back to him. It would be an insult for a trickster to trust someone blindly!

Shai Zi would definitely use Bai Lingmiao as a hostage and squeeze out every single drop of value Li Huowang had to offer!

However, he was already on the web, so he had no choice but to follow the path that Shai Zi had laid out for him. Of course, Li Huowang swore to find a way to break out of Shai Zi's intricate plan once he learned of the latter's goal.

He definitely wouldn’t be able to do so alone, so he needed to find a way to recruit someone to help him.

He might be able to find a way through Ji Lin or maybe through the Surveillance Bureau.

It was a faint hope, but he had no choice because the enemy had the upper hand here, and worst, his enemy was Shai Zi!

The pressure on his heart was so huge that he could barely breathe.

Even though his head had shrunk, the meat and organs on the sword didn’t. They hung on the spine sword like grapes.

The fake Hong Zhong illusion wanted to say something but Zhuge Yuan’s illusion stopped him. “Don’t worry. If the talisman can be placed onto the sword, it can be removed as well. Let me think about something first.”

“Hoh. What are you thinking?”

Zhuge Yuan opened his fan. “Let me think whether I'm fake, or the sword is fake, or whether both of us are fake while the real Zhuge Yuan has returned back to the Three Ancient Ones.”

Li Huowang sighed when he saw the spine sword not moving anymore. He picked up the cloth on the floor and slowly wrapped the sword.

The cloth was dyed red due to the blood. Since it grew organs and flesh on it, the cloth could not cover the sword completely. There were bones, flesh, and even some hair squeezed out from the gaps of the cloth.

But Li Huowang didn’t care. He only needed to cover the sword enough that people wouldn’t recognize what it was.

Now that the spine sword had grown into this form, he was certain that even the purple-lipped woman wouldn’t be able to recognize it.

“Dad, let me help you.” Li Sui walked over and carried the misshapen sword into the carriage before helping the injured Li Huowang into the carriage.

“Dad, where are we going?”

“Shangjing!”

Li Huowang commanded the carriage to move forward. The wheels rolled and they left the ravaged mountain.

They had just left when a massive foot stepped on the marking of the wheels. It was Shai Zi!

“Hehehe~ It’s so fun to trick Strayed Ones.”