The Unruly Immortals

In the unusually chaotic White Jade Capital, everything around Li Huowang became unstable.

However, this instability did not stem from his cultivation abilities but from the Heavenly Dao influence of the San Qing.

Li Huowang could feel that the San Qing were very, very close to him now.

Thinking of the disgusting actions they had taken before, Li Huowang's expression immediately twisted in rage, and his breathing became heavier.

He immediately gripped the military knife in his hand and slashed fiercely in all directions, yet as the feeling of a hair-like presence brushed past, his blade struck nothing but air.

Seeing his attack couldn't harm the San Qing, just as Li Huowang was about to change tactics, a gunshot rang out, and he immediately sensed something invisible before him tremble violently, revealing a brief glimpse of its form.

It was something vast beyond measure, translucent, immensely expansive. Something resembling shapeless primordial protoplasm, flickering with faintly perceptible glimmers.

In that instant, Li Huowang noticed that this being's body was an existence interconnected by the causality of secrets.

As he glimpsed those secrets, he began to comprehend them, subconsciously absorbing their endless mysteries, seeing he was on the verge of understanding what exactly the San Qing had taken from him.

With a sudden rush of heat in his mind, a "bang" sounded, and Li Huowang felt sweat trickling down from above to his chin.

He had no time to worry about this now, as he realized the San Qing intended to flee!

"Nana! Quickly follow, your attacks affect them!!" Li Huowang urgently pursued in the direction the San Qing were retreating.

As he chased, Li Huowang vigilantly glanced around, guarding against potential ambushes by the San Qing; Qing Wanglai wouldn't be like this, his sudden appearance here had to have a reason!

Yang Na, riding her motorcycle at high speed, swept past Li Huowang, blocking in front of him, and immediately raised her gun, firing. "You act quickly! I'll hold him back!"

"Alright!!" Without hesitation, Li Huowang wiped his severed hand on the military knife, leaping high into the air with the bloodied blade, lunging in the direction of the San Qing alongside Yang Na's gunfire.

A "squish" sound, as Li Huowang's blood stained the blade, finally managed to injure the San Qing. Secrets, interlinked great and small, flowed from the wound like blood.

Facing Li Huowang's attack, the San Qing reacted swiftly, and the body formed of secrets directly dissipated before him, drifting in all directions.

Managing to finally wound the San Qing, there was no way Li Huowang would let them go so easily, and he immediately chased after the hair-like sensation drifting away.

"Nana!!" As Yang Na swept by his side, Li Huowang leaped onto the passing motorcycle.

Seeing the distance shrinking, Li Huowang could even feel himself receiving the secrets flowing down from the San Qing, one the size of a ping-pong ball, hitting Li Huowang's blinded eye precisely.

With a cool sensation, an image rapidly flashed through his mind—a blind old Taoist sat cross-legged with a bitter expression, burning incense and kowtowing, softly speaking to the three statues.

His words echoed clearly in Li Huowang's ears, "Heavenly Venerable, recently I heard a secret revealed by the Jade Scroll of old, disciple knows not its truth or falsehood, may the Heavenly Venerable clear my doubts."

"Why does the world suffer? Why does disaster strike here? Why are the sects and schools so strange? The answer is in the ancient Jade Scroll."

Saying this, the blind old Taoist's expression turned fearful, and his voice trembled, as if he was deeply reluctant to believe the words to follow but had no choice but to speak them.

"This... is because the karma we deserve, this world should not be the Mortal World, it was meant to be a Ghost Domain, and we were not mortals, but suffering ghosts!"

"At first, it was wild and chaotic, the Five Realms and six cycles of reincarnation were complete. This explained the abnormalities where humans are unlike humans, and ghosts unlike ghosts."

Finally speaking these words, the blind old Taoist seemed to have exhausted all his strength, letting out a bitter, tragic laugh, "Heavenly Venerable, if we are all ghosts, then what Dao do we cultivate and what immortals become?"

The vivid sense of the scene vanished in a flash, and when Li Huowang regained his senses, he found himself back in the White Jade Capital.

"What?! The reason this world is so strange is because it was meant to be the Underworld and not Da Liang?!"

Thoughts of the flesh and blood Bodhisattva at Zhengde Temple and the fly-covered Avalokitesvara at An Ci Nunnery, along with the charred Nestorian God of the Ao Jing Sect, all suddenly felt oddly justified.

The intense shock made Li Huowang's mind momentarily freeze, and in that brief moment, the San Qing once again increased the distance.

Shaking his head forcefully, Li Huowang cursed under his breath, what a mess! This secret isn't the main point at all.

The primary issue is that Qing Wanglai intends to use this secret to hinder him; using secrets for defense, only the San Qing, who controlled the secrets of the Heavenly Dao, could achieve this.

Looking at the distant San Qing, Li Huowang couldn't allow them to continue fleeing. Who knew what trick they had up their sleeves if left unchecked?

Steadying himself on Yang Na's back, he stood up, planting both feet on the motorcycle's rear seat and lunged forward with all his strength toward them.

Seeing the distance still insufficient, with Li Huowang's brow tightly furrowed, Peng Longteng appeared by his side, his giant halberd swinging in to hook him and hurled him fiercely over.

This time, the distance was enough. Li Huowang raised the blood saber in his hand and roared, fiercely stabbing towards the San Qing.

Li Huowang grasped the military knife with one hand, almost splitting the San Qing entirely apart, when threads began to attach to Li Huowang's head, suddenly pulling upward.

Forced to look up, Li Huowang was momentarily frozen in place when he saw what was above him, as the normally chaotic and indistinct White Jade Capital turned unexpectedly different.

But now, right above him, a drastic change had occurred. The multicolored blackness, previously capable of immersing all of Da Qi, appeared again.

However, this time it wasn't water, it had become some kind of color that draped the entire sky in black.

Li Huowang hadn't forgotten where he was! He was currently in the White Jade Capital! When did Fusheng Heaven manage to assimilate part of it?

Moreover, unlike last time, where only a fissure had opened, now it was assimilation, taking over half the sky of the White Jade Capital, if indeed it had a sky.

Furthermore, among the dim multicolored blackness, those colors pulsed as if alive, seemingly nurturing something terrifying.