CH 391

With a "pa" sound, the black flag was placed, and Li Huowang pondered over the opponent's words. "What does 'pan' mean?"

As a Heart Element, and having witnessed the strange abilities of the Heart Impure before, he really couldn't imagine what kind of existence the Heart Pan was.

Looking at the mismatched black stones on the chessboard, Zhuge Yuan shook his head slightly and picked up a white stone with his fingernail, placing it on the chessboard.

"This 'pan' means that I am destined to be entangled with the Three Old Bodies in this lifetime, regardless of life or death."

"What is the Three Old Bodies?" Li Huowang asked as he placed his stone.

When he saw Zhuge Yuan close his folding fan with a smile and pointed to the top of his head, Li Huowang's heart tightened, and his pupils trembled slightly. He remembered those things hidden deep in his memories.

"Brother Li, there are some things that I don't want to tell you. It's just that the more you know, the more dangerous it is. In one's lifetime, it's rare to be ignorant." Zhuge Yuan finished speaking and placed another white stone.

The other party's actions were self-evident. This so-called Three Old Bodies was the name of a Fate Officer in the White Jade Capital. He didn't even dare to say the name, and could only use the ambiguous term Three Old Bodies to replace it.

"I understand, I understand," Li Huowang nodded to himself.

For a while, the bamboo tower fell silent, with only the occasional sound of crisp bird chirping outside the window.

As Zhuge Yuan looked at the chessboard with numerous loopholes, he heard the other party ask again. "Thank you for your generous help, Zhuge Xiong. May I ask why you are helping me since you are not a Heart Element like me?"

This question had been bothering Li Huowang for a long time, and he finally asked it today.

"Why do you say that?" Zhuge Yuan looked very surprised. "Although we have just met, saving a life is more important than building a seven-story pagoda. I can't just stand by and watch you lose your life. Even if your cultivation is higher, your copper coin mask is just a decoration."

"Just that?" Li Huowang looked at the other party in astonishment. During this period of time, he had thought a lot, but he never thought that the reason the other party was good to him was simply because he was kind?

"What do you think, Brother Li? Not only you, even if it's the Heart Element or the Spirit Element, if they are in trouble, I will definitely lend a hand instead of standing by."

"Is he deceiving me? What is his motive?" This thought uncontrollably popped into Li Huowang's mind.

Immediately, Li Huowang personally extinguished the entire thought. Zhuge Yuan didn't care about his identity as a Heart Element, so there was no motive.

With his strength to kill Fa Cai, if he really wanted to find a Heart Element, he wouldn't need to go through so much trouble to deceive himself. Besides being a Heart Element, his other value was not that great.

"Brother Li, did you come all the way to Xing Island just to ask me this?" Zhuge Yuan asked in surprise.

"No, no, I came to find Brother Zhuge because I have something to ask for help," Li Huowang immediately became spirited and explained his discovery of Beifeng.

Although the other party had good intentions towards him, Li Huowang was not the kind of person who took advantage of others. He proposed a win-win solution to the other party.

"Brother Zhuge, you don't need to do anything extra. I know that recently, the Taoist sects have been constantly causing trouble for you, and Beifeng will probably come as well. As long as I stay by your side and help you deal with the Taoist sects, it will be enough!"

Seeing the hesitation of the other party holding the white chess piece above the chessboard, Li Huowang continued to increase his bargaining chips. "Brother Zhuge, rest assured, even if I later get rid of the illusions of the Heart Element, I will not leave decisively. I will wait until everything is settled for you before leaving."

"Brother Zhuge, are you doubting my strength? Although I may not be as good as you in this aspect, I am very skilled in various secret techniques of the Ao Jing Sect. Even the most difficult Ascending the Stairs of the Green Mantis has been done three times. Even a half-immortal cannot withstand such a top-level secret technique!"

Seeing Li Huowang's increasingly urgent tone, Zhuge Yuan quickly raised his hand to signal him to stop. "Brother Li, don't panic. I didn't say I disagree. It's just that there are a few things that Brother Li needs to consider. Firstly, Brother Li, you said you want to fight alongside me, do you know what I am going to do next?"

Li Huowang was stunned by this question, but he quickly figured out what it meant and asked, "Is the matter of taking the Heart Impure from the Buddhist Bone Temple not finished yet?"

To randomly snatch the Heart Impure from the hands of the Monitoring Bureau, there must be a reason, and with Zhuge Yuan's strength, if it had dragged on for so many months without being resolved, it must be a big matter.

Zhuge Yuan looked at a landscape painting behind Li Huowang, and there was a dried corpse lying upside down on the dirt road halfway up the mountain. "Although I can kill Fa Cai, it's difficult for anyone in the Heart Element to live. We have all gotten involved in causes and effects that don't belong to us. It's difficult, very difficult."

"I will face many difficulties on this trip, and the Taoist sects will also cause trouble from time to time. If Brother Li wants to follow and risk his life, is it really worth it?"

"Worth it!" Li Huowang's answer was resolute. He didn't even ask what the other party was going to do next. "As long as it can completely free me from those illusions and confusion, anything I do is worth it!"

Zhuge Yuan picked up the slightly cold tea and took another sip. "Alright, let me mention the second point. Beifeng is indeed a Heart Element and can also get rid of illusions, but is his method really suitable for you? Remember, he is from the Taoist sects."

"Perhaps his method is just like the previous person's, completely deceiving himself? Perhaps his method is some unacceptable evil cultivation technique? Are you planning to practice it too?"The question made Li Huowang's face turn extremely ugly. He picked up the cold tea and poured it into his mouth, reluctantly saying, "Do I have any other choices now? No matter what method Beifeng used, I have to go and see."

Hearing this, Zhuge Yuan fell into deep thought, "Not necessarily. A long time ago, I saw a method in a book."

"What method?" Li Huowang's pupils contracted, his heartbeat quickened.

"Your hallucinations, in the end, are caused by the inability to control the extra innate qi in your body. If the cultivation method mentioned in the book can really control this innate qi, then perhaps the hallucinations will disappear."

"Have you seen this kind of cultivation method?" Li Huowang asked eagerly.

"I only saw it once in a book, and I've almost forgotten it, but I think there's an eighty percent chance it exists."

"Why is that?"

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"Because of the abnormal behavior of the Taoist sects that deceive beings. I've always wondered why they always like to torment and play with the heart element, prioritizing it over everything else. They never do this to the heart coil or heart turbidity."

"I was puzzled before, could it be that the Taoist sects that deceive beings have a grudge against every heart element? Then I realized, if the cultivation method mentioned in the book is true, it would perfectly counter the cultivation method of the Taoist sects that deceive beings. This could also explain why they would play and despise the heart element so much."

"Counter the cultivation method of the Taoist sects that deceive beings? Do the Taoist sects that deceive beings have a cultivation method?"

"Of course, they do. All the absurd things they do are attempts to replace the real with the fake. Everything in the world changes but never deviates from its origin. There are those who cultivate ghosts, cultivate the Tao, cultivate evil, and cultivate the one. To put it bluntly, these Taoist sects that deceive beings are cultivating the fake."

"Hold on, if they cultivate the fake, and the heart element's cultivation method counters them, then what does the heart element cultivate?"

Zhuge Yuan didn't answer, but simply dropped a white chess piece. Li Huowang followed his gaze to the chessboard, where his scattered black chess pieces spelled out the word 'real'.

"Cultivating the real?"

(End of Chapter)