CH 115

At dusk, Li Huowang walked silently along a winding path in the woods. According to the location he obtained from An Ci Temple, the end of this direction was a continuous mountain range.

And the Ao Jing Sect he was looking for was located in these mountains.

Since he had fully awakened from Qingfeng Temple, he had been living with other people. Now suddenly being alone made him feel a little uncomfortable.

"How quiet it is." Li Huowang muttered as he looked around the sparsely wooded area. The further he went, the more barren the land looked.

The silence around him gradually calmed his increasingly restless heart.

He raised his hands and stretched lazily, then sighed and lifted his right foot again.

As he hurried along, it got dark. Li Huowang took out a fluorescent stone from his pocket and continued forward in its light.

But soon he put the fluorescent stone away again because the moon had come out. Today, the moon was very large and there were no clouds in the sky.

The bright moonlight illuminated the path clearly.

With the help of the bright moonlight, Li Huowang continued on his way alone. He had been walking all day and his legs were sore.

"If I can survive, I have to learn how to ride a horse." Li Huowang thought to himself.

He walked until the full moon hung high in the sky and finally grew tired. He leaned against a tree and took out a hard steamed bun to eat, intending to take a few bites and then sleep.

Suddenly, Li Huowang's cheeks, which had been moving up and down, stopped. He stared at a point in the darkness, sensing something.

It was not just his sense of pain and taste, Li Huowang's other senses were gradually surpassing those of ordinary people. For example, he clearly felt that he was being watched by something. "Who's there?"

After he spoke, a yellowish thing timidly emerged from the woods.

It was a large rural dog with four white legs and yellow fur. Its condition looked very bad, with a lot of fur missing, ticks hanging on its body, and its body was extremely thin, with each rib clearly visible.

"A dog?" Li Huowang looked around at the desolate surroundings. It didn't seem like a place where there would be dogs.

The dog stared at the cold steamed bun in Li Huowang's hand, licking its tongue and wagging its tail.

"I don't care what you are, just go away!" Li Huowang patted the Daqian Record in his hand.

Whether it was a real dog or a fake one, he just wanted to continue on his way and didn't want any trouble.

The timid dog backed away a few steps, but it didn't give up. Its tail wagged more vigorously.

The bronze Taoist bell shook violently and the piercing bell rang out. The dog was scared and ran away.

Seeing the dog run into the woods, Li Huowang was about to put away the Taoist bell when his expression suddenly froze. "Damn it! Why now of all times!"

In the pitch-black woods, the dog cautiously poked its head out from under the leaves again and saw an incomprehensible scene.

The person sitting under the tree with a friendly smile on his face was talking to the bright full moon in the sky.

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"Dad, are you here too? Hmm, I know, I'm fine, I'm really fine.""Yes, I know. You two are not illusions. I was confused before, but now... I can tell the difference."

The stray dog wandered around for a while, then turned its attention to the half-eaten steamed bun on the ground when it saw that Li Huowang wasn't hostile towards it.

It cautiously approached and was about to grab the bun when Li's words scared it away.

"Mum, I don't want to eat oranges. Don't unwrap them. It's better to keep my hands tied."

"Oh, by the way, did you exchange the gold for money? Have you paid off your debts? Oh, that's good."

"Mum, you have more white hair. Go dye it. Didn't you used to like perming your hair?" Li Huowang smiled and raised his hand, reaching for the moon hanging in the sky.

"Oh, forget it. Is the gold clean? Did you sell the jade pendant? You didn't? Why not?"

The stray dog carefully circled around again and found that Li wasn't paying attention to it. It approached again, quickly grabbed the bun, and ran away.

Because it was so hungry, the dog ran into the forest and choked on its food. After recovering, it returned to the roadside and looked eagerly in the direction it had come from.

Its keen sense of smell told it that there was still food in Li's bag, even meat!

"Sell the jade pendant and buy back our house. We need our own home to have a family."

"No, you don't need to leave money for my treatment. Find a place and tie me up with an iron chain."

"Mum, I'm not talking nonsense. Hey, don't cry. I'm not sick now."

"Ooh~" The stray dog tilted its head at the strange Li Huowang, unable to understand what he was doing.

It approached him again, crawling in front of him and wagging its tail continuously. "Woof woof~"

Just then, the stray dog noticed that Li suddenly noticed it, and wagged its tail even more vigorously.

"Hehe, who gave you this doll? It's so ugly, looks like a dog... Wait!! There's a problem! The dog is still here!"

Li Huowang, who had just been calm and composed, suddenly stood up and yelled hysterically at the stray dog with a distorted expression. "I told you to get lost! Do you want to die?!"

The stray dog was frightened and "whooshed" into the forest.

When it timidly poked its head out of the forest again, it saw Li talking to the moon again with a guilty expression.

"Mum, don't be afraid. It has nothing to do with you. I'm not sick. I just need to deal with something over there."

"I'm really not sick. Why don't you go first and come back to check on me later. I need to deal with something over there."

"Okay, I know. There's nothing over there. Yes, that's right. Everything over there is an illusion. I will cooperate with the doctor's treatment soon."

"Woof~" The stray dog barked at the red-robed Taoist.

Li Huowang instantly became alert and looked around with unfocused eyes. "No, something's not right. There's movement."

He slowly drew his long sword and looked around cautiously.

He began to look guarded, and then his expression became irritable.

"I can't explain it! I can't explain it! You guys go first, please go first!!"Li Huowang's cry echoed far away.

That night, Li Huowang didn't sleep a wink. He tried his best to guard against possible threats in reality through his hallucinations.

But when the hallucinations gradually disappeared, he found that his methods had not been effective.

He was standing in the middle of a small river, holding a mongrel dog, which was licking his chin affectionately.

There must have been many things that happened last night that he didn't know about.

"Hey... it seems like I can't be alone." Li Huowang walked towards the shore while holding the dog.