Chapter 555: Shangguan Yuting |
Li Huowang made a deal with Shangji Guankou before so he knew something was wrong. Shangguan Yuting hadn't come here to make a deal with them!
The surroundings shifted as a cold breeze flew out from the clay statue. The breeze seemed to contain indecipherable whispers as it flew upwards in a spiral.
Li Huowang recognized what the words were—it was Shangji Guankou themselves! Li Huowang also saw that it was composed of secrets.
Shangji Guankou wanted to escape, but the Surveillance Bureau would never let it happen. At some point, the skies had become like a mirror, reflecting the ground.
Shangji Guankou floated upward to escape, but they collided against the reflected "ground" and sank into the shadow of the clay statue. The clay statue’s shadow in the sky shrank and expanded numerous times.
“They are not exchanging secrets, but rather the Surveillance Bureau is trying to rob its secrets,” Zhuge Yuan explained. His words had yet to finish echoing in the air when the shadow of the clay statue expanded, revealing a myriad of eyes.
The space around them shifted, and Li Huowang felt he was somehow returning to the hospital.
Realizing that something was wrong, he quickly retreated to avoid getting caught in the strange technique. He had suffered it once and did not want to suffer it again.
He also had no intentions of helping Shangji Guankou. Shangji Guankou wasn't going to affect his plans, so there was no reason for him to do so.
He finally understood that the Surveillance Bureau never had any intentions to make a deal with Shangji Guankou. Instead, they were here to rob the secrets for themselves.
“Can they really just forcefully grab the secrets like that?” Li Huowang asked Zhuge Yuan.
Zhuge Yuan looked at the scene with hesitation before sighing. Li Huowang’s question was answered without a word.
“A normal person might not even be able to touch Shangji Guankou, but the Chief of the Surveillance Bureau can probably do it. He's a master of illusion techniques, after all. I also think he’s an extremely special figure.”
“He has a strange illusion technique capable of dragging unsuspecting people into illusions, and he could also project an illusion to someone's side without them noticing it. Senior Zhuge, what do you think about the Chief?”
“I fear that he’s not using any regular illusion techniques. I fear that it's Unspeakable.”
“Unspeakable? Again? Not even a name?”
Zhuge Yuan looked at the chaos in front of him and shook his head. “No, that is the name. Unspeakable. The true name cannot be spoken with our language nor could we write it, so we call them Unspeakable.”
Unspeakable? Li Huowang slowly ruminated on those words.
“I know only a little bit about them. When I was out on the seas, I once found a half-rotten bamboo slip and read about it from it. It was said that Unspeakable was born from the void and lived on the boundary of life and death. If we want to meet them, we have to quite literally be either on the edge of death or crying on a grave to the verge of collapse. Only then would we catch a glimpse of them. It's incredibly hard to even catch a glimpse of them, much less learn something from them. The Chief probably had an extraordinary fortuitous encounter long ago.”
Li Huowang looked at the flashing lights and hesitated, “Is Unspeakable a Siming? Which Heavenly Dao does it control? I've never heard of something so bizarre.”
Zhuge Yuan shook his head. “I’ve only managed to scrape a small bit of info from that bamboo slip. They are generally unknown.”
“So the Chief of the Surveillance Bureau obtained his position through his sheer strength. That’s great. We now have a great chance at defeating Shai Zi.”
While Li Huowang was conversing with Zhuge Yuan, the sounds from afar slowly grew soft. A large shadow with unblinking eyes slowly extended from the broken temple.
There were hundreds of eyes, and Li Huowang recognized them. The eyes looked the same as the eye on his forehead.
The scene made his scalp go numb, but what happened afterward almost made him think that he was going crazy.
Shangguan Yuting walked out from the shadow as if she were walking up onto invisible stairs.
But this time, she looked different. Her figure looked the same, but her head was covered in blinking eyes.
Li Huowang thought that he was staring at a kaleidoscope of eyes, and he instinctively found it repulsive.
Shangguan Yuting nodded with her head covered in the eyeballs. Her soft voice echoed from beneath the eyes. “Senior Er, I’m done here. Let’s go back.”
“Why do you need so many secrets? Are there really so many things you need to know?” Li Huowang averted his gaze and took out his spine sword.
Shangguan Yuting laughed, and her laughter sounded like chimes. “You have to ask the Chief to know the answer to that question. I’m just here to do my job. I don’t care about the other details.”
Li Huowang nodded. He was done here, so there was no reason for him to stay in the Qi Kingdom. He carved open a rift and entered the Liang Kingdom again.
The scenery peeled away, and Li Huowang found himself in the middle of a golden wheat field with workers busy harvesting the wheat.
The sight was so surreal that Li Huowang thought he had traveled through time.
“Can you let the Chief know that our mission is done?” Li Huowang asked Shangguan Yuting with his back facing her.
The Chief of the Surveillance Bureau was the only thing left he needed to kill Shai Zi.
“Don’t worry. Just head to Shangjing. I'll find a way to notify him. He will be back once he’s finished with his business.”
Once I’m done with Shai Zi, I could probably go and look for Shangji Guankou again to find out where Bai Lingmiao is located. Li Huowang hastened his steps as he walked into the village.
He reached the village and bought a horse from a wealthy family.
He didn’t bring much money with him, but thankfully, he still had the jade pendant that he had taken from the Zephyr Temple.
He didn’t know how much the jade pendant he had taken from Xuanyang was worth, but the people who had sold him the horse were more than eager to accept it.
Unfortunately, Li Huowang was still suffering from severe injuries. His charred skin was showing signs of recovery, but it was only thanks to Li Sui inside of him that his body had yet to cave in.
Li Huowang dragged his injured self onto the horse and rushed back to Shangjing.
Chacha and Char's Thoughts
Ah, there it is. The bizarreness is back. She looks like an Amygdala from Bloodborne now. Credits to 格子的乱七八糟 on douyin!
