Mutated Tao

The sight of the empty grass field stunned everyone. It was utterly desolate.

However, the Daoist had firmly affirmed that there was someone here. Could he have been wrong?

Everyone looked down and waited for an answer from Li Huowang, who was currently underground.

Li Huowang was equally confused. What’s going on? The spine sword should be here!

Li Huowang had a bad feeling. What’s going on? The Three Ancient Ones aren’t part of the Sitting Oblivion Dao. Could the Three Ancient Ones also trick others?

As he pondered, his surroundings underwent a sudden and rapid transformation. The lush green grass swiftly morphed into trees, and the plains became a forest that continued to stretch outwards.

A group of armed people walked out from the center of the forest. Their leader, a man with a single eye, was holding onto Li Huowang’s spine sword!

It wasn’t that they weren’t hiding here. Li Huowang and the others had arrived a bit early!

Li Huowang thrust both arms upwards and grabbed the single-eyed man's legs. They sprung their encirclement and everything exploded into action.

The tranquil forest turned into an intense battlefield, descending into utter chaos. Li Huowang ignored everything as he pursued his top priority—taking back the spine sword!

The ground turned soft, and Li Huowang dragged the man downwards. The next moment, just as both of them had sunk into the ground, the entire layer of earth exploded.

The man with only one eye leaped up, his veins bulging across his body. He held onto the spine sword and stabbed Li Huowang.

Instead of dodging, Li Huowang recklessly charged ahead.

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The spine sword phased through Li Huowang’s body, and then he held onto it so firmly that the man could not move it.

Li Huowang glared at the single-eyed man. “Give me back my spine sword!”

“Bullshit! It’s mine now!” He kicked Li Huowang’s abdomen.

“Split apart!” Li Huowang shouted, and the man’s head cracked open like a watermelon.

Even though the man’s pale brain slid down onto the ground along a translucent fluid, he refused to let go of the sword.

The two of them continued to pull onto the spine sword. Li Huowang’s body was slowly cut up, and his flesh fell onto the ground too. Blood splattered around and turned the grass red.

Li Huowang swung his other spine sword and cut off the fingers from the corpse. Only then did he manage to release himself and Zhuge Yuan’s spine sword from the grasp of the man’s corpse.

Li Huowang stood there with the spine sword in his chest. He was about to pull it out when the sword sunk into his body.

Li Huowang understood that the spine sword was not disappearing into his body—someone was trying to pull it out from the other side!

He turned around, shocked to find the same one-eyed man standing behind him! The man, now without most of his fingers and head, was standing there motionlessly.

The headless man swung upwards with his fingerless hand and threw the spine sword high up into the air. It flew up high before descending, piercing the man's severed neck. The blade sank so deeply that only the hilt remained visible at the neck's opening.

Li Huowang was even more furious when he saw Zhuge Yuan’s shriveled head on the decapitated man’s body.

“You are finished!” Li Huowang pulled at the air and began tearing the man in half. However, the tearing abruptly stopped halfway, and the man’s body rapidly regenerated. Even his decapitated head jumped up from the ground and landed on his neck. It had covered the spine sword completely!

The revived man smiled cruelly. He moved his body slightly to reveal a woman. The woman appeared to be around twenty-three years old, with jade-white skin and a beautiful face.

She was wearing a green jacket. While it was a bright color, it seemed dull due to her attractive face. When Li Huowang caught sight of her, he couldn't help but feel a peculiar sense of familiarity.

He was sure this was the first time he had seen her, yet he felt that he knew her. He was very confident that he had worked with her in the past.

He only understood the feeling when the woman spoke.

“Aiyaya~ Boss Hong Zhong, long time no see. Do you still remember me?”

Li Huowang remembered her! It was one of the Liang Kingdom’s Sitting Oblivion Dao members, Bei Feng! He had thought she was dead, but here she was, working for the royal palace of the Liang Kingdom!

“Bei Feng!?” Li Huowang spoke and realized his voice had turned into that of a woman! He looked in front of him and saw Bei Feng in his original body!

Li Huowang looked down and saw the green jacket before realizing what had happened. Bei Feng switched bodies with me!

He was now in a regular woman’s body—he was trapped inside a useless body!

“As long as I kill Hong Zhong, I will become Hong Zhong instead.” Bei Feng, now in Li Huowang’s body, chuckled.

Bei Feng had just said that when everyone around her turned and charged toward him with their weapons. They intended to kill him while he was in the woman’s body!

At that crucial moment, Li Huowang’s memories of being in the Sitting Oblivion Dao resurfaced. Out of nowhere, the woman began scolding the surrounding people with a furious expression.

“You bunch of fools! I haven’t had the chance to switch bodies yet! Are you stupid? Why are you blindly trusting someone just because of their words? Don’t let Hong Zhong deceive you!”

Their weapons stopped just a single inch away from her body. Everyone looked at Li Huowang before looking at the woman before them. They started to hesitate.

“Hehehe~ Boss Hong Zhong. We haven’t seen each other in a while, but you seem better at trickery now. You must’ve been practicing hard.”

“Hehehe~ Boss Hong Zhong. We haven’t seen each other in a while, but you seem better at trickery now. You must’ve been practicing hard.”

Li Huowang and Bei Feng spoke the same words at the same exact time, and now everyone was confused as to who was who.

“Interesting. This is really interesting…” Li Huowang and Bei Feng spoke and laughed simultaneously.

The winner would now be determined by a game of deceit.