Chapter 689: Chief

Chapter 689: Chief

Li Huowang looked at the oversized mask that covered half of the person’s body. Only a pair of green pants could be seen beneath the mask.

“This is the Chief of Hou Shu’s Surveillance Bureau. His name is Zhang Tan. Since you are here to help, I think it’s beneficial you get to know each other.”

Xuan Pin then pointed at Li Huowang and spoke to Zhang Tan. “This is the one I told you about.”

Li Huowang looked at Zhang Tan before he greeted the Chief. “The disciple of Zephyr Temple, Li Huowang, greets the senior. May I know which sect you are from?”

Zhang Tan uttered a single word, “Nuo.”

“Nuo? As in the Nuo Opera?” Li Huowang was surprised. To his knowledge, Da Nuo was the crazy world itself.

If Da Nuo was crazy, why was someone still worshiping him? It’s one thing to worship Da Nuo, but how did someone from their sect become the Chief of Hou Shu’s Surveillance Bureau?

Is Da Nuo a Siming? Or is he a Greater Siming in the legends? Or is he an imaginary God like the Immortal Heaven of Qing Qiu?

Li Huowang pondered and asked, “Is Da Nuo still granting you powers?”

Zhang Tan shook his head lightly.

Just then, Xuan Pin’s voice came from beside Li Huowang. “It’s best if you don’t ask that. No matter where you came from, it’s very rude to ask such a question, especially when this is also your first time meeting him.”

Li Huowang nodded. He was asking out of curiosity, but he was more worried about the situation in Hou Shu. “How is the war going? How strong is the Dharma Sect?”Fiind updated novels at novelhall.com

“We are losing. The Dragon Vein of Hou Shu has been seized. The trail of corpses you saw was the aftermath. To be honest, since the Dragon Vein was taken, the kingdom’s ‘luck’ has been affected too. That’s why we’ve been losing a lot. If you had come any later, Hou Shu would have really fallen.”

Li Huowang frowned. He knew the situation was dire, but he didn’t think it would be this bad.

“Then what are we waiting for? We need to take the Dragon Vein back! Where is it?”

Xuan Pin and Zhang Tan looked at each other and sighed. “We might’ve been able to do so last time, but the situation has worsened to the point where it would be difficult.”

“Of course. Strayed Ones are the only ones who possess primordial breath. Where else would you find it? Regular people think that a Strayed One’s organs or sense of bewilderment are what make them valuable, but what they don’t know is that the valuable part of a Strayed One is their primordial breath.”

Li Huowang couldn’t accept it. He never would’ve imagined the primordial breath that allowed him to become so strong had been extracted from live Strayed Ones.

Just then, someone floated down from the ceiling and whispered to Xuan Pin.

The person was also one of Xuan Pin’s illusions. When he was done, Xuan Pin said, “It seems that we might actually have a chance.”

“Huh?” Zhang Tan finally spoke after being quiet all this time.

“Qing Qiu’s tribal leader is here. He wishes to fight the Dharma Sect head-on rather than wait for them to invade Qing Qiu.”

Just as Xuan Pin finished speaking, all three of them sensed something was wrong and looked up.

Xuan Pin extended a slender hand from beneath his robes and pointed at the ceiling. The ceiling turned invisible and revealed the cloudy skies. Rain fell as thunder roared in the heavens.

Xuan Pin felt something was wrong and quickly did calculations with his fingers. “Wait, the time doesn’t match. We are missing half a division[2].”

“Wait, what did you say?” Li Huowang was shocked.

“We should have eleven divisions in a day, but we’ve lost half a division.”

“Half a division?” Li Huowang recalled something similar had happened before.

“Xuan Pin, what if the Dharma Sect didn’t want to keep the Dragon Vein? What if they wanted to destroy them?”

Li Huowang had just said that when an earthquake happened. The Earth Dragon was moving again.

1. The character for Li here means Black. ☜

2. A division = two hours. So half a division means one hour. ☜