Chapter 953 - Truth

“Miaomiao...”

Li Huowang felt at a loss for words when he saw Bai Lingmiao in Zuoqiu Yong’s hands.

Zuoqiu Yong didn’t stop there. Fleshy tumors grew in Bai Lingmiao’s body.

The ball of flesh exploded. Bai Lingmiao exploded along with the bone spikes.

Whether it was intentional or not, a single bone spike impaling Bai Lingmiao’s head fell in front of Li Huowang.

“Miaomiao!” Li Huowang shouted in despair.

Zuoqiu Yong laughed. “Hahaha! Savor this well, for this is just the start. You have a lot of people you care about in the Liang Kingdom, don’t you? All of them shall die.”

Zuoqiu Yong turned around and grabbed the fox-faced Twisted One in his palm.

As the Twisted One danced, a rift connecting the Qi Kingdom to the Liang Kingdom appeared before Zuoqiu Yong.

Zuoqiu Yong was too big for the rift, but it wasn’t an issue. He only needed a path into the Liang Kingdom.

He stuck two fingers into the rift and pulled it apart. The rift slowly widened like the rift that Chan Du had desperately tried to seal shut just now.

However, Li Huowang remained standing in place, his gaze fixed upon Bai Lingmiao's head.

Xuan Pin stood beside him but did not stop Zuoqiu Yong. He knew that he could not stop a Siming’s rampage.

He was still thinking about what to do when he heard Li Huowang’s voice. “Xuan Pin! Xuan Pin!”

He looked down and noticed that Li Huowang was abnormally calm.

Li Huowang said, “Miaomiao isn’t here with us. The one in front of us is fake.”

The moment he uttered those words, Bai Lingmiao’s head disappeared, as if it had never been there.

“I used the Sitting Oblivion Dao’s methods to buy us some time,” Li Huowang explained, staring intensely at Zuoqiu Yong’s back.

“You’ve only bought a little time. Is that enough? Can we defeat the Siming with this much time?”

Li Huowang didn’t respond to Xuan Pin, as he didn’t know either. He'd tried every trick in the book, including the Cang-Qiong Ascension, but nothing worked. He still couldn’t defeat Zuoqiu Yong.

Xuan Pin sighed. “I never thought Zuoqiu Yong would be able to take over the Tianchen Kingdom and even control a Heavenly Dao with just his physical body.”

“You are the Chief of the Surveillance Bureau! If Zuoqiu Yong reaches the Liang Kingdom, everything will be over. Use everything at the disposal of the Surveillance Bureau!”

Xuan Pin shook his head. “The Surveillance Bureau’s method is to use the Dragon Veins to set up a barrier and prevent the Simings from entering our plane in the first place. However, Zuoqiu Yong is already a Siming in our world. The Surveillance Bureau cannot do anything to him.”

Li Huowang felt helpless. He didn’t want to sit and do nothing. They hadn’t lost yet, and they still had a chance.

“Ji Zai! Ji Zai!”

Li Huowang shouted into his shadow to find a solution, but there was no response from his future self. Perhaps he no longer had a future.

𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Neither Doulao nor Ba-Hui wanted to help, and even Ji Zai proved to be useless.

“No... I haven’t lost! I haven’t lost!” Li Huowang said, glaring at Zuoqiu Yong.

His head started to grow uncontrollably. This was the first time he had used so much strength after reaching the sixth stage of his cultivation.

Li Huowang clenched his teeth and forcefully stomped on the ground. He tore a large hole in Zuoqiu Yong's chest.

What would typically be a mortal wound was nothing more than a scratch to Zuoqiu Yong, who laughed it off.

“Disappear!” Li Huowang howled.

Zuoqiu Yong’s head exploded, and his fleshy form also disappeared completely.

However, Zuoqiu Yong regenerated slowly, and his blood, flesh, and bones grew layer by layer.

While Li Huowang could make Zuoqiu Yong’s physical body disappear, he could not do anything to his Heavenly Dao. He was the Siming that controlled the Heavenly Dao of Growth and would continue to regenerate as long as he held onto it.

Li Huowang fell to the ground and saw that half of Zuoqiu Yong's body had already regenerated. He felt helpless, unable to do anything substantial despite using everything he had.

Li Huowang angrily shouted, “Maybe if I was at the seventh stage, I could defeat her! As long as I can reach the seventh stage!”

He abruptly glanced up at Xuan Pin. “Wait, aren’t you a Strayed One too? The Black Taisui assimilates its victims. After eating so much of my flesh, you must be a Strayed One too, right?”

Li Huowang's plan completely took Xuan Pin by surprise. He had never imagined Li Huowang would think of something like that.

Xuan Pin nodded thoughtfully. “Take it back then. I suppose it's a form of repaying her parents.”

One of the heads of an Unspeakable popped out from the tower of heads. Xuan Pin reached into his own body and extracted his own primordial breath and inner sight. His tentacles were already trembling from the ordeal.

Looking at Zuoqiu Yong, who was trying to enter the Liang Kingdom, Li Huowang embraced his last hope and absorbed the primordial breath.

He started cultivating immediately.

This was his final chance. If he didn’t take it, Bai Lingmiao would truly die. It would no longer be an illusion.

He didn’t know how long it took, but when he stood up, he realized he hadn't reached the seventh stage.

Zuoqiu Yong was gone, and Li Huowang found himself back in the Liang Kingdom. Li Huowang dared not think about what was happening because one stray thought could wipe out the Liang Kingdom.

“Why? What’s going on? Why isn’t it working? I’m already so strong, but I still can’t protect my family!” Li Huowang shouted, his mental state crumbling.

Everything around him swiftly changed.

The people and scenery changed randomly.

Zhuge Yuan suddenly appeared in one of the scenes and stopped him. “Junior Li, remember that you are not cultivating the seventh stage. You are cultivating the ‘Truth’!”

The words of Zhuge Yuan hammered into Li Huowang’s mind, revealing the reason behind his inability to reach the final stage. He had always believed he was stuck in the sixth stage, which had prevented him from ever progressing to the seventh stage.

“I’m not cultivating the sixth stage. I am already at the seventh stage,” Li Huowang declared firmly in his heart.

As he spoke, several familiar scenes flashed before his eyes.