Chapter 237 - Sheng Erzi

Li Huowang was crawling on the ground while trying to pinpoint the location of the two voices. He started listening to their conversation.

Cultivation of Dao? Is he a Daoist? Is he talking to someone else? But it doesn't seem like a Daoist that I know, or at least I don’t know any Daoists that cultivate the One.

As Li Huowang continued listening to them, the two of them continued with their discussion, the girl was scoffing at the older man.

“What rubbish are you talking about? Your mother was pregnant for ten months before she gave birth to you. Don’t you think it’s stupid to abandon your flesh?” said the girl.

“No, no! You must be thinking that the flesh on our bodies, the Seven Emotions, and the Three Corpses all belong to us, but that’s wrong! They all belong to someone else! Even life and death belonged to someone! It was them who gave it all to us!” said the older voice.

“They belong to someone?”

“That’s correct! The pain of our body, the smile on our faces, our previous lives, and our future lives all have an owner! Do you think it’s good for us to carry all that with us? No, they are all shackles! We need to remove all of them! Fifty Major Daos, and the Heavens controlled forty-nine of them; on the other hand, we humans only needed to have access to one! That is how we become One!”

After hearing all that, the girl asked the question that Li Huowang wanted to ask. “What happens after we become One?”

“Hehe, after we become One, no one owes anyone anything. Then, we will all be truly free, free from the Three Realms and Five Elements.”

What are they talking about? What owners and what One?

Li Huowang frowned and tried his best to understand their conversation.

Do all of them have their respective owners? Pain belongs to Ba-Hui while happiness belongs to the God of Prosperity?

At that moment, Li Huowang instinctively remembered the big cauldron.

Are they... worshiping the owner of death?

Li Huowang shook his head and cast aside all excess thoughts.

No, I can’t let myself get roped in by them. They might just be talking about what they believe in and it might not even be real. They might as well be another Dan Yangzi, thinking that they know everything while truly knowing nothing! I shouldn’t be thinking about this right now. I should be thinking about how to react if I happen to meet them and how to get out of here. Should I just reveal myself to them?

Li Huowang thought about it but felt that it was too risky.

Staring at the darkness around him, Li Huowang thought about another idea.

Should I slowly tail them and hope that they will leave the cave? No, this is even worse than last time!

Just as Li Huowang was thinking about how to deal with both of them while escaping the cave, someone pulled on his sleeves. “Senio... Senior Li!”

“Sh! Quiet!”

Li Huowang was getting angry. If those two people heard them, then they might lose their only chance to escape the place.

“Senior Li, someone is holding my wrist, but there’s no one on my left!” Sun Baolu was almost crying as he said that.

Hearing this, Li Huowang gulped. He slowly moved his hands across Sun Baolu’s sleeves.

He felt a very rough hand.

When Li Huowang held that hand, it instead grabbed onto him and pulled him toward the darkness.

Immediately, Li Huowang unsheathed his sword and swung it down.

At the same time, upon sensing the movement within the darkness, Chun Xiaoman brought out her glowing stone.

A green glow illuminated their surroundings but there was nothing there.

While Li Huowang was looking around, a young Daoist ran toward them. The Daoist was wearing a yellow Daoist robe while his cheeks were sunken. He wore black cloth shoes and a crown with a picture of the Taiji.

Compared to Dan Yangzi, this fellow actually looked like a Daoist.

When the Daoist and Li Huowang saw each other, the Daoist stopped in his tracks and suddenly shouted at them, revealing his black and rotten teeth, “Run! Sheng Erzi is coming!”

Li Huowang recognized that voice as the one who had been speaking just now! However, he looked much younger than his voice would indicate. This chapter was originally shared via N0/vel/Biin.

When all of them saw the Daoist running into the darkness, Li Huowang and the rest immediately followed after them. They didn’t know what Sheng Erzi was, but they knew it would definitely be terrifying if it was something that lived within the cave.

Compared to that man, Li Huowang’s group was considerably slower due to having to drag the heavy Black Taisui around.

Just as Li Huowang was beginning to think that the Daoist might be using them as meat shields, the Daoist suddenly turned back.

The Daoist bit both his fingers and blood flowed out from the wound. He used the blood to quickly draw a talisman in the air. “Hide the lights!”

Staring at his thin back, Li Huowang hesitated for only a moment before ordering everyone to hide their lights.

Within the darkness, the Daoist started to chant. It was a peculiar chant. It wasn’t the chant of a sutra or a spell, but seemed like a completely different system.

When the chant was over, a peculiar pressure enveloped them. Li Huowang felt goosebumps rising all over his body, as if something unidentifiable had covered it. He then felt his body temperature to drop rapidly.

“Shh~” The Daoist shushed them and told them to stand there quietly.

At that moment, Li Huowang felt something hairy hiding beneath his two feet. Sensing the trembling, he knew that it was Bun.

Bun was afraid of something that was approaching them.

Li Huowang felt the ground trembling, as if something massive was closing in on them.

The trembling gradually became stronger, and Li Huowang was barely able to see something massive coming out from within the darkness.

Huff~

A warm gust blew Li Huowang’s hair. The rancid stench indicated that something massive had just exhaled at them!

Then, a rusty scale dropped in front of Li Huowang from the darkness above. The scale was tied to a rope and the rope in turn was tied to a pair of cloth shoes.

Cloth shoes?

When Li Huowang saw what it was, the scales suddenly tipped and the cloth shoes fell downward.

Shua!

A female corpse clad in red clothes with a long tongue suddenly dropped in front of Li Huowang.

Both of them were just an inch away from each other.