Chapter 743 - Real or Fake?

Chapter 743 - Real or Fake?

“Hehe... You brat! You are fucking vicious!”

Liu Wan held his injury in pain. He twisted his arm to remove the steel rod from his back, but his efforts proved futile. The steel rod had somehow fused into his body.

Li Huowang chuckled, approaching the dying Liu Wan. “Don’t try to take it out, senior Liu Wan. You won’t be able to do so. I am a Sitting Oblivion Dao member myself, so I know what kind of techniques you have. This is an artifact that I acquired by deceiving others, and I went to great lengths to obtain it. It’s specifically designed to kill you.”

Liu Wan stared at the young man before him, a mix of fear and respect filling his eyes. “You... You were pretending. To use False Qi so easily... You must’ve been in the Sitting Oblivion Dao for quite a while. I can’t believe I fell for your deception...”

“You faked being my senior to try to trick me, right? I just set up another plot to counter yours.”

Liu Wan nodded approvingly. “To think there’s someone better than me at tricking others here. The future of the Sitting Oblivion Dao is going to be bright. I lost. The Curved One is yours! I won’t take it from you.”

Li Huowang shook his head, “No. Liu Wan, you must be kidding me. What use do I have for a Curved One? You should know what I want. Honestly, I don’t even have an identity, so I can’t call myself a member of the Sitting Oblivion Dao.”

Liu Wan panicked and touched his face because he knew what Li Huowang wanted. Li Huowang wanted his face!

Li Huowang took out a dagger and slowly approached the struggling Liu Wan, but it was too late. Li Huowang soon dismembered Liu Wan’s limbs.

Li Huowang looked down at Liu Wan before sitting on his chest and grabbing Liu Wan’s neck. Li Huowang used the dagger to slowly carve the sides of Liu Wan’s face.

“Do you know how long I planned for this day? How long I have been stalking you? I know how many secret agents you have and how many backup plans you have. I even know you have a son.”

Li Huowang cut off the old Daoist’s face before putting it on. Li Huowang’s voice became the old Daoist’s voice too.

“But that doesn’t matter to you anymore. All of this is mine now.” Li Huowang cut off another face with a mustache before placing it on his face. “Your secret agents are mine. Your backup plans are mine, and even your son is mine.”

Li Huowang carefully carved out the faces before plastering them onto his own. Only one face remained—the original face of Liu Wan, adorned with the mahjong tile bearing the Liu Wan symbol. Li Huowang didn’t stop at all.

Li Huowang chuckled. “Don’t blame me. These are the rules of the SItting Oblivion Dao. I need to trick others into thinking I’m the real Liu Wan. I will then become the real Liu Wan.”

Li Huowang picked up the objects being sold. He looked at the honest-looking merchant before he placed the items down.

Sigh. Li Huowang didn’t feel like doing something against his morality.

Li Huowang was thinking about what to do when he picked up some unusual sounds.

Since I don’t want to trick ordinary people, I can just trick some bad people instead. I would feel better doing that too.

Li Huowang followed the voice's direction before he found several young people from Qing Qiu brandishing knives and surrounding a man.

The man's skin was tender and pale, suggesting that he was not from Qing Qiu. He appeared to have been taking refuge here.

“Maybe I can try something here...” Li Huowang approached them.

“Uh... There’s a fire.”

He coughed to get the attention of the youths. They all turned around and saw fire at the base of Li Huowang’s feet.

Li Huowang tapped the ground with his feet. The fire snaked towards the youths and scared them away.

After scaring them away, Li Huowang stood still but felt nothing. There wasn’t any False Qi.

Huh? I just tricked them, so why am I not getting any?

He then realized that even though he tricked them, the fire was real since he used his cultivation to conjure it. Since the fire was real and could’ve burned them, it was not trickery.

Should I use my cultivation to conjure something fake? To use ‘Truth’ and conjure ‘Lies’? Cultivate ‘Truth’... Cultivate ‘Lies’...

He frowned from his confusion.