Chapter 167 - Chaotic Battle

When the ritual is over, I should be dead, right?

Li Huowang slowly raised his sword, and the worms in his abdomen climbed along his robes before wriggling toward his broken stub of an arm.

In just a few moments, he had a new left hand that was formed with wriggling worms.

After testing his new hand, Li Huowang nodded in satisfaction. Then, he once again looked into the distance, where Dan Yangzi was locked in battle with the five people from the Sitting Oblivion Dao.

From what he could see, Dan Yangzi still had the same terrifying appearance, while the faces of the other five had morphed into fleshy mahjong tiles.

When he thought about his imminent death, Li Huowang’s heart began to calm down. He lifted his sword before walking toward them.

When he got closer, he charged forward and sliced off Dan Yangzi’s central head. “Master, don’t panic, your disciple is here to assist you!”

Meanwhile, the five from the Sitting Oblivion Dao seized the opportunity created by Li Huowang ambushing Dan Yangzi to quickly start levitating in a sitting position. Then, they began to chant while circling the two of them, “What is sitting in oblivion?”

Their voices continuously reverberated throughout the spacious cavern, becoming louder and louder.

On the other hand, as soon as they said those words, Li Huowang and Dan Yangzi pushed off each other, and simultaneously leapt toward one of the members of the Sitting Oblivion Dao on either side.

At that moment, a black domino flew toward Li Huowang’s wrist. Just as he was about to dodge it, Yao Ji[1] put his fingers together and snapped. In an instant, the black shadow beneath the domino and the domino switched their positions—the shadow became the domino, and the domino had turned into the shadow.

This caught Li Huowang off-guard, causing the domino to pierce through Li Huowang’s wrist, leaving behind a square gap in its wake.

Without the support of his wrist bones, Li Huowang’s hand was about to droop powerlessly. However, that square hole was quickly filled up by those worms, allowing him to once again hold his sword firmly.

Hehe, we get what we pay for. Looks like I gain quite a bit from sacrificing my internal organs.

Li Huowang thought to himself as he dashed toward Qi Wan[2] in the distance.

This time, Li Huowang did not bother with dodging anything the enemy threw at him, using his body to meet it all head-on. Any damage or loss of body parts was quickly filled in by the wriggling worms. With the strength he borrowed from Ba-Hui, for the moment Li Huowang was evenly matched with them.

Li Huowang, Dan Yangzi, and the Sitting Oblivion Dao—these three parties had completely different goals, and were engaged in a chaotic battle.

At times, it was Li Huowang and Dan Yangzi fighting off the Sitting Oblivion Dao, and at others, it was Dan Yangzi and the Sitting Oblivion Dao fighting off Li Huowang.

Dan Yangzi was wielding a fleshy coin sword, and had terrifying strength. He could still suppress the Sitting Oblivion Dao, even though he had lost one head.

On the other hand, it seemed like the Sitting Oblivion Dao was more adept at psychological games, and not as good at direct confrontations. The five of them were even being suppressed by Dan Yangzi.

But this was partly thanks to Li Huowang.

Though Dan Yangzi was slightly stronger, their three sides mutually balanced each other out; none of them wanted to let either of the other parties win.

In this chaotic battle, Li Huowang always chose to help the weaker side, and fight against the stronger side; he was already giving up his life, and so there was no reason to not take down a few more with him. The best outcome would be if both Dan Yangzi and the members of the Sitting Oblivion Dao could die with him.

Soon, this intense battle reached a temporary stalemate, with each person calculating their own interests.

Taking advantage of the moment when Dan Yangzi was pressuring the others, Yao Ji quickly approached Li Huowang and said urgently, “Boss! Don’t mess around anymore! Can’t you see how powerful this half-Immortal is? Continuing will only lead to everyone dying!”

“Hehe, do you think calling me ‘Boss’ will make me spare you? Even calling me “ancestor” is not going to help you at all!” said Li Huowang. As he spoke, he reached out toward the edges of the wound on his body, and abruptly pulled them apart.

Immediately, the blood-red worms burst forth from his abdomen and crashed toward Yao Ji.

Currently, these worms were all under Li Huowang’s control. As long as a worm managed to come into contact with someone, it would immediately burrow into their body and pierce through that person’s intestines.

“Boss Hong Zhong! We really have to stop fighting! Feel the skin at the back of your neck! Tell me if I’m lying!” said Yao Ji.

Hearing this, Li Huowang reached behind his neck. Then, the worms burrowed through his flesh before propping up a hard object from within.

It was a mahjong tile—Hong Zhong[3].

This scene left Li Huowang feeling somewhat hesitant.

Yao Ji hurriedly explained, “Your true identity is that of one of the three bosses of the Sitting Oblivion Dao. It was you who felt that you had played through everything possible and felt that everything was boring and meaningless. And so, you sealed up your consciousness for us to play with you. Now, Er Bing is dead because of you. We can’t play any further; after all, we’re all brothers. Any more will be too much, and we can’t lose our lives just to satisfy your desires.”

“Are you speaking the truth?” Li Huowang looked very confused as he stared at the Hong Zhong mahjong tile.

“Ah! Didn’t you see that this mahjong tile was dug up from within your flesh! Could there still be—” said Yao Ji before coming to an abrupt stop. He suddenly felt that something was amiss as he spoke. At that moment, he looked down, only to see that several worms had already burrowed into his leg.

Just as Yao Ji’s attention shifted onto his leg, there was a cold flash in front of him, and then Li Huowang’s sword had directly pierced through his neck.

Li Huowang smiled mockingly at Yao Ji before continuing to act in accordance with his lies. “Yes, I recall now. I’m one of the three leaders of the Sitting Oblivion Dao, Hong Zhong. I even recall that back in the day, you stole my woman, and so I’m publicly seeking revenge now.”

As long as he could ascertain the identity of a member of the Sitting Oblivion Dao, it was very simple to deal with them—treat anything and everything they said as worthless.

“Boss, I’m speaking the truth!” shouted Yao Ji as he desperately clutched onto Li Huowang’s sword.

“I believe you!” said Li Huowang as he exerted force with one hand, slicing off Yao Ji’s fingers and his square-shaped head.

After that, the worms within Yao Ji’s body burrowed back into Li Huowang’s chest before he turned around and dashed toward the distant battlefield.

One of the liars from Sitting Oblivion Dao had died, and it was time to handicap Dan Yangzi a little.

“Master! Xuan Yang is here to help you!” shouted Li Huowang as he dashed toward Dan Yangzi.

Sploosh!

With the combined efforts of the members of the Sitting Oblivion Dao and Li Huowang, Dan Yangzi’s child-like head was cut off quickly.

However, even before Li Huowang could catch his breath, an indistinct fleshy and immature infant head had started to grow out from the wound on Dan Yangzi’s neck.

When Yi Wan saw this happen, he quickly turned toward Li Huowang. “Your Master is semi-Immortal, so it’s completely futile to keep going on like this! Help us fend him off for a moment, and we’ll help you take care of him!”

But all he got in response was Li Huowang spitting a mouthful of blood at him.

“Alright, fine! We did fool you before, but you have already killed Er Bing and Yao Ji. Shouldn’t two lives be enough to soothe some of your anger? And besides, compared to us outsiders, shouldn’t you hate your Master even more?” asked Yi Wan.

1. one bamboo in mahjong ?

2. seven characters in mahjong ?

3. Hong Zhong is also known as the Red Dragon in mahjong ?