Chapter 1011: Swallowing the Heavenly Dao

Li Huowang's heartbreaking cry of "Nana!" echoed through the room. Yang Nana lay dead in his arms.

As he looked at Yang Nana, who lay peacefully dead in his arms, Li Huowang felt a rusty, blunt knife twisting in his heart.

"Don't panic, calm down! Calm down, we haven't lost! We haven't lost! There's a way!" Li Huowang panted, gritting his teeth. He repeatedly tapped his head with the hilt of his knife, attempting to use the pain to regain his composure.

However, his go-to method proved useless. No matter how many times he tapped, he felt no pain; the Pain God was dead.

As Li Huowang's vision started to blur, he heard a faint, indistinct musical sound.

With his single eye, he quickly scanned the corpse-strewn room. His gaze finally settled on Zhao Shuangdian's laptop; the sound was a notification from it!

The injured Li Huowang stumbled toward it. He found that the data on the computer screen was gone, replaced by a lone, empty infinity symbol (∞).

Staring blankly at the symbol, Li Huowang instantly realized it was a clue Zhao Shuangdian had left him before she died. There was still a chance!

"What does this... represent? Infinity? A loop?" Li Huowang pondered the symbol, his expression growing more agonized with each passing moment of difficult thought.

Yet, no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't decipher the meaning of the symbol Zhao Shuangdian had left.

Even as he desperately pounded his head with his broken hand, it was no use; the pain was gone.

"Why... why couldn't you just speak clearly? Why couldn't you just say it directly?! Why do I have to guess?!" Li Huowang roared, rushing forward and kicking Zhao Shuangdian's corpse with all his might.

As he watched Zhao Shuangdian's corpse move from his kick, Li Huowang's enraged eyes suddenly lit up.

"I don't understand because the Heavenly Dao I control is 'Confusion.' Though I can't yet grasp Zhao Shuangdian's Heavenly Dao, if I can absorb it, I'll surely understand the secret behind the information she left!"

Understanding everything, Li Huowang immediately prepared to absorb the Heavenly Dao from Zhao Shuangdian's body.

Before he could even search, his consciousness began to blur. An overwhelming drowsiness washed over him, leaving his body weak, and even the pain he'd felt was gradually fading.

This was not a good sign. Li Huowang had experienced this state before: the fading of pain signaled near-death. He was about to follow the other Heavenly Officials.

"No... I can't! I can't die, not yet! If I die, it's all over! I'm the only chance left!"

"Quick... think of something, there has to be a way!"

Li Huowang struggled desperately. Even plunging his military knife into his thigh did nothing to combat the growing heaviness of sleep in his mind.

He didn't know what was happening, but when he regained awareness, he saw Yang Nana's body lying peacefully before him, as if asleep.

Li Huowang was instantly startled by the sight and stumbled backward. "No! Nana! I can't do this! I can't take your Heavenly Dao of Death! I can't!"

Despite his words, as Li Huowang stumbled and fell, about to be completely overcome by drowsiness, his expression twisted. He roared in grief and fury, "Qingwanglai! Just you wait!"

He truly didn't want to do this, but if he wished to survive, the only option was to seize the Unborn Mother's Heavenly Dao.

He absolutely couldn't die; if he did, Yang Nana would truly be gone forever.

Shedding bloody tears, Li Huowang used his last ounce of strength to crawl to Yang Nana's side. Trembling, he gently lifted her head and kissed her with profound tenderness.

After completely absorbing the Heavenly Dao of Death, Li Huowang felt the sensation of nearing death in his body stabilize, neither intensifying nor diminishing.

Though he was no longer at death's door, Li Huowang, clutching Yang Nana's head and weeping, felt a heartache so profound it almost choked him.

Nevertheless, Li Huowang had no time for sorrow. If he stopped now, all his previous efforts would be for nothing.

"It's alright, Nana. I won't leave you here alone; we'll go together!" Forcing himself to calm down, Li Huowang gently stroked Yang Nana's beautiful hair and draped it around his neck, as if bringing her with him.

Li Huowang looked down and saw the continuously shifting chaos of the Unborn Mother hanging on his chest, accompanying him.

"Nana! Let's go! We'll go together! This isn't over yet! There's still a chance!"

Li Huowang stumbled back to his feet and walked toward Zhao Shuangdian, ready to finish what he'd started.

With his single eye bloodshot, he stood up and stared intently at the symbol on the computer screen.

As he looked, he gradually understood the symbol's hidden meaning: The factory. That factory was the key to breaking free. The factory wasn't dead!

Even if he was poisoned, even if everyone else was dead, there was still a chance. It wasn't over! As long as he found and utterly destroyed that factory, he could turn back time. Everything could start anew!

With this thought, Li Huowang immediately stood up, ready to head out and search for the factory beneath the Gobi Desert.

As he walked past Dice, Li Huowang noticed the reflective aviator sunglasses on his face. He crouched down, removed the sunglasses, put them on, and then also seized the Heavenly Dao from Dice's body.

As Li Huowang stood up, with the various Heavenly Daos now integrated into him, he felt significantly better than before.

He vigorously wiped his mouth. Without hesitation, he gripped his weapon and walked toward the tightly closed door.

Breathing rapidly, Li Huowang gripped the door latch. With a deep breath, he pushed hard, flinging the door open to reveal the familiar Gobi Desert once more.

With a grim expression, Li Huowang stepped over the dilapidated threshold and strode into the Gobi Desert.

The Gobi Desert was arid and scorching. Sweat mixed with blood streamed down his face, but Li Huowang wasn't particularly thirsty. He continued walking along the path he had traveled before.

But the Gobi Desert was vast, and every direction looked the same. For a moment, Li Huowang couldn't tell if he had taken a wrong turn.

Just then, Li Huowang spotted a black speck in the distance. He quickened his pace toward it.

After walking for about five minutes, Li Huowang reached the black speck.

Only when he was this close did Li Huowang finally discern what the black speck was: it was the body of Chen Hongyu, who had died previously, covered in a thick, black layer of flies.