Chapter 198: Change

Chapter 198: Changes

His own body moved. This phrase was easy to understand, but appearing on Li Huowang, it became exceptionally perplexing.

Li Huowang straightened his waist, looking at the red back before him that was similarly straightening its waist.

Immediately after, he raised his right hand over his head, and saw the red back before him make the same motion.

This was his body, absolutely without error.

Li Huowang lowered his head to look at his own body again; there was nothing there, empty space, yet somehow he could touch himself.

He used his hand to touch his arm and the copper coin mask on his face, and the phantom Li Huowang ahead was doing the same.

Li Huowang now felt like a puppeteer manipulating shadow puppets; that thing in the distance was the puppet in his hand.

Compared to what this thing was, Li Huowang now wanted more to understand how this thing came to be, and how to solve it.

"Right, I remember now, just before when my hand was nailed to the ground, when that woman split towards me with her long halberd, my body appeared displaced!"

Li Huowang also recalled, previously when facing his own attacks, that woman was always attacking from elsewhere, which was why she revealed such obvious openings.

At the time he simply hadn't had time to think much, but looking at it now, she was attacking his phantom.

"What exactly is going on? How could I have this ability, as if this world has a BUG, could it be this world is fake??"

At this thought, a trace of terror began to show on Li Huowang's face, and this terror grew deeper and deeper.

Looking at his own body beside him, the more he looked, the more excessively fake it felt.

Breathing rapidly, he quickly hugged his head, constantly speaking to impose psychological suggestions upon himself, attempting to stabilize his swaying heart.

"No, this world is absolutely real, it cannot be a fantasy in the mind!! I must have awakened the special ability of a Heart Essence!"

"Yes, correct! It must be so! I have been unlucky for so long, I should have encountered good luck long ago! This is normal, Li Huowang! Don't be suspicious! That world over there is fake, this world is the real one!!"

Seeing Li Huowang's painful appearance, Bai Lingmiao walked over, reaching out to embrace him.

However, her hand embraced nothing, passing straight through that phantom.

"I'm fine, I'm fine." Li Huowang, having calmed his breathing, stepped back one pace.

Lu Zhuangyuan spoke with a timid face: "This is still fine? Can't even touch the body, this is a ghost! Little Daoist Master, when did you forget you died?"

In this situation, others could not help Li Huowang; he could only rely on himself to digest it slowly.

After two sticks of incense, Li Huowang gradually restored his calm.

"I am not dead, I just have some extra abilities with my body."

Taking advantage of the time when everyone was resting, Li Huowang simply told them the course of events once.

"Oh~ I see, so this is Little Daoist Master's divine power." Lu Zhuangyuan's face showed an expression of understanding, and he couldn't help but nod.

Bai Lingmiao explored, touching Li Huowang's invisible body. A trace of worry showed on her face.

"Senior Brother Li, will you be like this for the rest of your life?"

"I... wait. Let me try." Li Huowang struggled to recall the feeling at that time, took a deep breath and closed his eyes.

"Move back, hurry up and move back for me! Stack them together again!"

After wracking his brain for a good while, Li Huowang suddenly opened his eyes wide; he was surprised to find his body had returned!

But before he could be happy for long, Li Huowang discovered another problem.

His sensation and body this time were indeed overlapped, but the position was not quite right; his lower body was stuck in the earth.

Although his body was stuck in the earth, Li Huowang felt as if he was stepping on the ground.

His own body was also displaced with this spacetime.

"I know this, I know this divine power, Senior Brother Li, this is the Earth Burrowing Technique, right!" Gou Wa said excitedly about his discovery.

Li Huowang was too lazy to bother with him, closing his eyes to continue trying.

Opening his eyes again, the body had indeed come out of the earth, but his perspective appeared in the air, suddenly changing from first-person perspective to third-person perspective.

Watching the red Daoist below move and lift his head under his control, Li Huowang at this moment had a feeling of playing a game.

"No, again! I don't believe I can't go back!"

Li Huowang began a new round of attempts, controlling his body's position.

Wanting to move was not simply enough by thinking alone, but required a strong feeling of movement. That feeling was like looking at flowers through the fog, extremely difficult to grasp.

After tossing about in place for one double-hour, Li Huowang finally barely returned to position.

The reason it was called barely, was because at this moment his visual sensation was slightly higher, standing on his forehead.

Slightly off is slightly off, Li Huowang didn't want to try anymore; this group of theirs was still fleeing for their lives.

"Rested enough, let's go, leave Later Shu as soon as possible, the longer we stay here the more dangerous it gets."

Hearing this, everyone nodded, picking up their remaining luggage once more.

"Husband.... I can't run anymore, I am still pregnant." Luo Juanhua's whisper was heard clearly by Li Huowang.

Li Huowang looked up, and saw Lu Juren, saying not a word, bend down to pick up his wife in his arms.

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The small town previously filled with smoke and gunpowder was already thoroughly destroyed; broken walls and ruins were everywhere, some houses were on fire and no one cared.

The dead, stripped like white pigs, were casually piled into small hills.

During this time, the thief-soldiers sat in groups around bonfires formed by burning main beams, drinking alcohol and eating meat.

A pink-skinned fat man wearing a hat and holding a handkerchief over his nose, shrunk his body and dodged among these things.

Suddenly he felt a slip under his foot, looked down only to discover it was a section of intestine! "Aiya! Oh my mother!"

Seeing this person's exaggerated reaction, the thief-soldiers around burst into laughter.

"Supervisor Cao, come taste some? Just roasted." A scorched yellow thigh with blood threads appeared before Supervisor Cao without warning.

"Ugh~" Cao Hai could no longer endure it, leaning against a broken wall nearby to vomit.

"Look at your cowardly appearance, don't worry, this is pork, not human flesh, didn't you see the hooves?"

Hearing this, Cao Hai finally felt a bit better, carefully extending two fingers to push that pig leg away slightly.

"This humble one has urgent matters to discuss with General Peng, do you know where she is? Just went to the main camp to look, she wasn't there."

"You are a supervisor and don't know, how would I know, just now I was busy grabbing money and women with that bunch of livestock."

Just when Cao Hai looked difficult, a hairy hand suddenly reached over from the side, groping towards his lower body.

The flustered Cao Hai quickly retreated several steps, only then discovering the owner of that hand was a sword-browed youth, who was pretending to look at his own hand with surprise.

"Aiya ya~ I seem to have touched something just now, Eunuch Cao, not cut clean oh~ did you leave a bit for the Cao family to continue the lineage?"

Cao Hai saw this person, disregarding his teasing, quickly asked: "Hou Wen, you are General Peng's bodyguard, where is she now, you surely know?"

"Hehehe~~ Want to know?"

Hou Wen leaned over with a bad smile on his face, lightly slapped his butt with his hand, and when the other party covered the back, quickly struck the front.

"Aiya aiya, don't tease me, this humble one really has business with General Peng! This matter concerns the General's future!!"

"The General is wounded, recuperating over yonder. Mind yourself, for her temper is hardly forgiving at present."

Cao Hai, heedless of all else, strode toward where Hou Wen pointed, making for that scant cluster of intact dwellings.