Mutated Tao

Li Huowang was dressed in a blue and white striped hospital gown. He sat on a bench in the exercise yard and stared silently at the barbed wire fence in the distance. He was waiting for Shai Zi to contact Doulao.

At that moment, someone next to him gently bumped into him and passed him a small piece of paper.

Li Huowang reached out and unfolded the crumpled note. He read the contents as a slight smile appeared on his lips. “Has it finally arrived?”

Just then, Li Huowang saw his black motorcycle flash by on the overpass in the distance.

“What are you looking at? Why can’t I see it?” A bald patient leaned over and asked Li Huowang in confusion.

Li Huowang sneered. “Hmph! You’re not a Siming, so of course you can’t see it.”

“Bed number 13! Come here! Dr. Yi is looking for you!”

Li Huowang stood up and walked toward the sandplay therapy room. Yi Donglai was already waiting there.

“Li Huowang, based on my observations of your mental state these past few days, I must say your issues are quite serious.” Yi Donglai adjusted his glasses. “Have you really not experienced any hallucinations recently?”

“You should reconsider it. Did you take your medication today? Maybe you have experienced them but didn’t realize it?”

Li Huowang looked at the empty sand table, searching for something. “Where’s the little figurine?”

“No, today we’re doing something different. Those figures don’t represent you.” Yi Donglai pointed his pen at the wall of models. “Today, you decide which model represents you. Whatever you choose will be you.”

Li Huowang glanced at the door, walked over to the model cabinet, and began to choose.

First, he picked up a ferocious monster, then a human figure. He threaded a rope through them and bound them tightly, back to back.

Suddenly, he thought of something. He reached into the drawer on the left, then took out two magnets stuck together and tied them together.

The rope rose high and made Ji Zai fly off the ground. Fortunately, the other Simings pulled it back, preventing it from flying away.

“Get away!” Ji Zai changed his opponents' Truths and Falsehoods. However, no matter how many times he altered them to be falsehoods, they always returned with their bodies spread from various angles. Their Heavenly Dao let them metamorphose!

No contact was needed. Just knowing of its existence was enough to become part of it.

This Heavenly Dao was too strange, clearly not originating from the Baiyu Capital. It was from outside, and there were sixteen others like it.

Voices traveled through the rope into Li Huowang’s ears. “You need eyes to see the Five Purities. Heaven and Earth are born together. Just stripping away their shells is useless. You need to see their hearts.”

“Eyes? I’m blind now! How the hell am I supposed to have eyes?!” Li Huowang removed the extra metamorphosed parts of his body and shouted, “Who will give me eyes? I need to see them!”

“Eyes! The Heavenly Daos of Truth and Lies are not enough! I still need eyes!” Li Huowang shouted with all his might.

“You have eyes! They’re with you. Find them carefully!”

“I don’t have them!” Li Huowang frantically searched for mirrors while he dodged the attacks. No matter how strange his reflections were, he never found the eyes he wanted.

“You do! Look closely, don’t just focus on one side.”

Li Huowang quickly altered reality and evaded the enemy’s attacks. He suddenly lifted his body. “Give me eyes!”

His body shuddered, and a slight smile appeared on his lips. He saw them—the eyes had arrived.

Li Huowang put down the model he was holding. “I want to go to the bathroom,”

Yi Donglai nodded. “Alright. Go ahead.”

At that moment, a phone call came in, which Yi Donglai quickly answered. Soon, a furious expression appeared on his face.

“What did you say? Transfer hospitals now? Do you have any idea how unwell this guy is right now?

“Don’t tell me about these. His treatment has just started, so transferring is absolutely impossible.

“No matter who you send, it’s not happening! Don’t forget that the White Tower Hospital isn't private!”

After he hung up the phone, Yi Donglai sat back down at the sand table. He noticed a drop of blood on the ground.

He frowned, walked to the model cabinet, and looked at the chaotic model Li Huowang had assembled. A few drops of blood had stained the table.

“What’s going on? Did Li Huowang cut himself on the model?” He used his pen to straighten the peculiar model.

Suddenly, on the back of the model, a terrifyingly bloodshot eyeball appeared and stared at Yi Donglai!

The eyeball had just been gouged out—it was Li Huowang’s left eye! At that moment, Li Huowang’s left eye was tightly bound to the model with a rope!

Just a moment ago, he had gouged out his own eye!

Yi Donglai felt a chill run down his spine. He immediately turned and rushed outside. “Orderlies!”

As he left, the eyeball on the model slowly slid down from the model to the edge of the table, then toward the ground. Upon reaching a lower point, numerous tendrils swiftly attached themselves to the flesh behind the eye, seamlessly intertwining them together.

“Father! Do you see it coming?” Amidst the chaos, Li Sui held up the eyeball and asked loudly.

“I... I can see! I can finally see!” Li Huowang gazed at them in the distance and made out even more details.

The lost divisions had not vanished. They were in their bodies, twisted into something more suited to them—their three souls and seven spirits!

With these divisions, they could come to the Baiyu Capital. Those missing divisions had been transformed into shells.

“Finally.....!” Li Huowang took a deep breath and raised his hands toward a division in the distance.

The missing divisions were returning to their rightful places. Li Huowang intended to forcibly take their three souls and seven spirits away!

Rip! One of their shells shattered. It vanished without its three souls and seven spirits, never to reappear in Baiyu Capital.

Li Huowang saw that it was effective, so he immediately seized the opportunity and continued his actions.

However, it was apparent that they did not plan to stand by and let Li Huowang attack. Some things overlapped with each other, and it would take Li Huowang a long time to remove their shells. The situation seemed to reach a stalemate once again.