CH 163

Li Huowang, carrying pastries, gasped heavily as he struggled up the dirt road on Henghua Mountain.

With only one hand and too many pastries, this climb was even more difficult than the last.

To prevent the pastries from getting wet with his sweat, Li Huowang deliberately held them further away, making it even more exhausting.

Finally, at a corner, Li Huowang couldn't hold on any longer and put the pastries down, leaning against a crooked tree to catch his breath.

Just arrived at the foot of the mountain and rushing up, Li Huowang suddenly felt hungry.

After some thought, Li Huowang reached into the pastry box and pulled out a piece of mung bean pastry, eating it.

The crispy pastry and soft filling soothed Li Huowang's hungry stomach. He had never eaten such pastries before, but after trying it, he found it unexpectedly delicious.

This pastry seemed to have just been made today, and it was crispy and fragrant, even better than the cream cakes and chocolates he had eaten before he crossed over.

As for eating Mrs. Master Jingxin's pastries, Li Huowang didn't think there was anything wrong with that.

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It wasn't the first time he had come, and he didn't need to be polite with Mrs. Master Jingxin. She wouldn't mind either.

"So many pastries, should be enough for Mrs. Master Jingxin to eat, right?" Li Huowang looked at the pile of pastries and then smiled.

"Not enough, even if it's doubled, it's probably not enough for Mrs. Master Jingxin."

Li Huowang smiled and then froze. When did he become so close to Mrs. Master Jingxin?

Thinking back, although Mrs. Master Jingxin was greedy, lazy, and dirty, she was the person who treated him the best in this world besides his fellow disciples.

She didn't harm him because he was a Heart Element, even helped him expel Danyang Zi. And before he left, she even deliberately gave him a sword because she was afraid he would encounter danger on the road.

"If it weren't for sending Bai Lingmiao and them home, it would be a good choice to stay in the town at the foot of the mountain. This is the territory of An Ci An, and other forces won't come looking for trouble."

Thinking of these things, Li Huowang had eaten most of the box of mung bean pastries. He quickly put it away.

Looking at the lush scenery of Henghua Mountain around him, Li Huowang slowly breathed a sigh of relief. He suddenly remembered something and reached into his pocket to pull out a book, the translated version of "Firecoat Scripture."

Slowly flipping through it, Li Huowang wanted to see how much he had been influenced by Danyang Zi, but was shocked to find that he didn't recognize any of the characters.This abnormal change made Li Huowang's heart tighten. "No, I have to hurry!! Danyang Zi's possession of me is accelerating! If I don't break free, I'll be completely assimilated by him!"

Li Huowang quickly put the book in his hand into his arms, picked up the pastry, and continued climbing up the dirt road.

Finally, after the moon rose high, Li Huowang returned to the gate of An Ci An.

Seeing the diamond-shaped couplet of that woman's book again, Li Huowang suddenly felt very close.

"Sister, I'm back! Look at what I brought you!"

Excited, Li Huowang shouted as he walked towards the pitch-black An Ci An.

"Isn't there any light in the temple? It seems they're too lazy to light it."

As soon as he stepped into the dilapidated Bodhisattva temple, Li Huowang suddenly felt that something was wrong.

"Why... isn't it smelly anymore?"

Li Huowang threw the pastry in his hand, stood still, and took a few deep breaths. He was shocked to find that the strong smell that used to fill An Ci An had disappeared without a trace!

"No! There's a big problem!" Li Huowang's mind was in chaos. He didn't care about anything else and rushed towards the depths of the temple.

"Master Jingxin! Miaoyin! Miaoxin! Where are you guys?"

Li Huowang's voice echoed continuously in the temple, but it did not elicit any response from anyone. He was completely panicked.

Suddenly, Li Huowang heard some movement in the distance. He rushed over and found that it was the sound of pigs snorting.

When he came to the pigsty behind the latrine, the scene in front of him made him freeze on the spot.

A fat person who looked like a small house was lying in the pigsty, and the fat pigs with black hair were surrounding her like piglets feeding on milk.

However, they were not feeding on milk, they were eating people!

The pig troughs used for feeding swill and feces opened and closed, tearing off the greasy flesh and blood from the huge fat person and swallowing it into their stomachs. Each pig's nose was arched blood red, and they were enjoying their meal.

"Get out of here!" Red-eyed Li Huowang drew his sword and rushed down. Before the pigs could turn around, he used a single move to cut them all in half.

The other black pigs were scared off by Li Huowang's murderous aura.

When Li Huowang came to the dead fat person, he slowly knelt down, holding the head that was only half eaten. It was Master Jingxin's face.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!" Li Huowang's heart-wrenching screams echoed throughout An Ci An.

Holding the face of his master tightly, Li Huowang's tears fell to the ground. Master Jingxin was dead, the only person in the world who had been good to him, taking his hope with her."Who is it?!" Li Huowang, who was almost insane, rushed out of the pigsty like a gust of wind, holding a sword and searching for enemies in the temple.

However, he found nothing but more dead nuns in the temple, and no one else was present.

Mrs. Master Jingxin had been dead for some time, and whoever those people were, they had already left.

"Who did this?!" This thought almost filled Li Huowang's entire mind. But as he ran towards the mountain gate with his sword drawn, he gradually stopped.

With bloodshot eyes, Li Huowang returned to Mrs. Master Jingxin and took out his sword again to dig a hole next to her. He wanted to bury her so that she wouldn't be eaten by the pigs after her death.

The hole needed to be very large to bury Mrs. Master Jingxin, and Li Huowang dug for a long, long time, barely finishing by noon the next day.

Just as Li Huowang was about to push Mrs. Master Jingxin into the hole, he noticed something unusual. Her body had been lying there all night, but there was no sign of decay or any flies.

Seeing all this, Li Huowang subconsciously remembered the bodies on the water's surface. They also didn't smell or decay and looked just as lifelike.

"Could it be that they were all killed by the same group of people? Do the people they kill not rot? Who are they?!"

"Something's not right! Wait!" Li Huowang suddenly realized that he had overlooked something and quickly rushed into the pigsty, looking at the black pigs he had killed before.

After a night and a day, the dead pigs also showed no signs of decay or attracting flies.

Li Huowang stumbled out of the pigsty, incredulously surveying everything around him that showed no signs of a fight.

In any world, decay is an essential part of it.

However, at this moment, it seemed as if something had gone wrong in this world, and the function of decay seemed to have malfunctioned.

"Maybe... Mrs. Master Jingxin wasn't killed by someone else."

The belated realization made Li Huowang turn his head to look at Mrs. Master Jingxin, whose disgusting skin should have been covered in pus and maggots, but at this moment, it was very smooth and fair.