Mutated Tao

The enemy’s attack was too weird. Li Huowang had never thought a single button could regress his cultivation from the seventh stage to the sixth stage.

The enemy was right beside him, and his cultivation had plummeted. If things stayed this way, he could die.

Fighting them at his current stage was impossible, especially since there were two of them.

Li Huowang tried to convince himself that he was at the seventh stage. As long as he believed it, he would naturally be in the seventh stage.

He kept murmuring to himself, and his surroundings gradually changed to their superimposed state.

However, the Simings from Fu Shengtian were not going to let him succeed so easily, especially after going to great lengths to drag him down a stage.

While Li Huowang was trying to bring his cultivation back to the seventh stage again, a finger-sized black hole appeared on Li Huowang’s head. Soon, the black hole spread like a plague.

In mere moments, tiny black holes covered his entire head. Each time he tried to think, his thoughts liquefied, dripping out of the holes and pooling at his feet.

No matter how hard he tried to focus, his thoughts leaked out, and his cultivation slipped back to the sixth stage.

Li Huowang tried to dig out the things inside the hole, but it was futile. They were spreading faster than he could dig them out.

In the end, worms suddenly emerged from the holes in his head. Li Huowang’s head inflated and looked terrifying.

Boom! A massive, house-sized flesh worm erupted from Zuoqiu Yong’s face, sending viscous slime crashing onto Li Huowang.

Li Huowang’s bones snapped. Even the white worms on his face were crushed and squeezed out.

The nightmare continued. As worms filled his body, black humanoid figures began to emerge from the holes in his flesh.

The small humanoids stumbled around. Every time their feet touched the ground, a small black hole would form, and more worms would come out.

Sensing that they were about to attack him, Li Huowang tried to use his cultivation to fight back, but he simply could not focus. Whenever he did, his thoughts would leak out from his head and drip to the ground.

Li Huowang grunted in pain as he reached down to the puddle of his thoughts and tried scooping them back into his head.

The Simings didn’t let him. The black humanoids reached out and touched Li Huowang’s arms. As they did, they scooped out his flesh using the holes in their hands.

They shaved Li Huowang’s body away little by little until Li Huowang lost his chance to fight back.

If Li Huowang’s body completely disappeared, he would be dead for real this time.

“Zhao Shuangdian! Qing Wanglai! Wu Qi! Chen Hongyu! Where are you? Help me!”

Li Huowang shouted into the sky for help.

But the people who swore to help him didn’t reply.

Li Huowang was really about to die when an angry voice came from afar. “Scram!”

A strong wind blew, causing the black humanoids to distort and fuse into a single amalgamated being.

Using this chance, Xuan Pin appeared and quickly brought Li Huowang to safety.

The flesh worms crawling on Zuoqiu Yong’s body launched into the air and rained down to stop Xuan Pin.

The strange wind blew them away, their bodies twisting into different shapes.

After Xuan Pin brought him to safety, Li Huowang finally saw who had helped him. It was his clone, holding onto his spine sword.

Another Li Huowang had saved him, the same one he had asked to kill Shai Zi.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

“Why are you here? Is Shai Zi dead?”

Li Huowang pressed onto his head, filled with painful holes.

“Ignore him for now. The situation here is more dire. Xuan Pin saw that you were in trouble, so he brought me here to help you.”

Li Huowang’s clone looked at Zuoqiu Yong’s massive body and saw how she had changed entirely.

The small holes had completely covered his body, and strange worms crawled out from them as they secreted slime.

Zuoqiu Yong had been transformed into a fleshy hive for the worms.

While the two of them were speaking, Zuoqiu Yong's massive mountain-like body collapsed, and uncountable worms fell off it and charged toward them.

Anything the worms touched was dyed with the strange iridescent liquid. They weren’t just attacking Li Huowang—they were trying to devour the Tianchen Kingdom too. �

“Help me remove the worms in my head! I can’t reach the seventh stage with them on my body!”

The clone glared at the worms, but no matter how hard he tried, the worms continued to pour out incessantly. His cultivation was useless here.

“Allow me.”

Xuan Pin waved his right arm and cut off Li Huowang’s head, which was riddled with holes.

Then, he kicked the head away without waiting for it to touch the ground.

“How about now?”

After the worms were gone, Li Huowang could finally focus. The headless Li Huowang sighed deeply. “Much better.”

He then clenched his fist and muttered in his heart. The seventh stage faintly reappeared in his mind, and the strange superimposed state appeared once more.

He turned and scolded both Zhao Shuangdian and Qing Wanglai, saying, “Are you guys just waiting and watching a show? Is this how you help? Are the words of a Siming that fickle?”

Li Huowang’s outrage left them completely clueless.

“What do you want us to help with? You seemed to lose it just now, and we have no idea what you are talking about.”