Chapter 1021: Eyes

Li Huowang roared and charged forward, reaching behind him to pull out a spine and swinging it fiercely. Like a furious wind, Xinsu's cultivation ability began to affect Sanqing's secrets. Under Xinsu's bewildered influence, various secret chains started to constantly form, break, and distort.

He directly grabbed three secret chains with one hand, raised the spine, and brought it down forcefully. The interconnected secrets began to break, dissipating within the White Jade Capital. However, as Li Huowang acted, secret chains began to pass through his body, continuously draining the bewilderment from within him. Even so, Li Huowang did not lose ground, severing secret after secret. As the scattered secrets became denser around him, the edges of Li Huowang's body astonishingly began to split into new secrets and gradually turned transparent.

"Not enough! Too slow! Still not enough!" Li Huowang reached out, grabbed a piece of mirror, looked at his reflection, and after a moment of sluggishness, roared, "Help! The more help, the better! I need help! Success or failure hinges on this moment!"

The next moment, a crimson hue began to emerge from below. Li Huowang looked down and saw three mutually tearing General-Prime Heads, guided by five dragon veins, floating towards him. Just as Li Huowang was about to reach for them, invisible and intangible secret chains from Sanqing formed a net, blocking the General-Prime Heads from Li Huowang, attempting to ensnare them.

But then, Wusheng Laomu made her move. As her watery sleeves swept past, all living beings entangled in karmic chains within the secret links rapidly perished. As the living beings died and the secrets were buried by death, Li Huowang extended one hand, easily pierced through the tattered net, and firmly grasped the three mutually gnawing General-Prime Heads.

After quickly swallowing them one by one, Li Huowang's eyes turned completely blood-red. His teeth began to lengthen, the spine in his hand sharpened, and his disposition was also influenced by the General-Prime Heads. With a furious roar, Li Huowang raised the spine-sword, now wrapped in a tangible aura of malevolent energy, and brought it down on Sanqing with the force of Mount Tai. The immense force almost tore apart the entire chaotic White Jade Capital. If this strike connected, Sanqing would undoubtedly face severe consequences.

At this critical moment, the various secret karmic chains forming Sanqing's body rapidly dispersed like grey snakes, dodging Li Huowang's thunderous attack. Wusheng Laomu, who was assisting, seized the opportunity. Vast swathes of death surged over, continuously burying Sanqing's secrets.

However, just as Li Huowang and Wusheng Laomu prepared to press their advantage and utterly destroy Sanqing, a Siming appeared before them. It was Wuzhi Rulai. At this most crucial moment, she surprisingly intervened to help Sanqing! The scattered Sanqing gradually re-overlapped behind Wuzhi Rulai's five self-inflicted bodies. Only then did Li Huowang discover that Sanqing's secret karmic chains were actually threaded through Wuzhi Rulai's back. Wuzhi Rulai, now blocking the two, seemed like a shadow puppet propped up by Sanqing with a pole.

"Where are they? Where did everyone go?!" As Li Huowang roared, Sanqing's situation changed again. Wuzhi Rulai's overlapping crimson flesh began to liquefy, like a fluid, wrapping around Sanqing's secret karmic chains. Shortly after, both Sanqing and Wuzhi Rulai disappeared from the White Jade Capital. What appeared before Li Huowang was a tangled, overlapping mass of flesh tentacles, constantly pulsating and dripping with slime.

"Damn it! Sanqing stole Wuzhi Rulai's Heavenly Dao!" Although he had intervened in time, it seemed that after establishing the Buddha statue for Zhuge Yuan, Wuzhi Rulai's Heavenly Dao was ultimately controlled by Sanqing. All of this had been planned from the very beginning. Li Huowang could see that Sanqing's previous injuries from his sneak attack had now fully healed, filled by the new flesh.

It was then that the other Simings in the White Jade Capital finally arrived, floating high and low within its expanse. Seeing Sanqing's current form, all Simings finally realized that Li Huowang's words were true. Their previously wavering attitudes began to change. "Attack from a distance if possible! Don't get close to Qingwanglai's body! This guy will poison you!" Li Huowang shouted to the others.

However, facing the encirclement of the Simings, Sanqing, now possessing flesh, did not flee. Instead, its twisted, deformed body charged directly at Li Huowang. Just as Li Huowang prepared to flee, he was utterly shocked to discover that the secret karmic chains previously seen on Wuzhi Rulai were now emerging from his own body, and they were even more numerous and dense than on Wuzhi Rulai!

Sanqing had no intention of fighting all the Simings. Its plan was to strike first and swallow Li Huowang's Heavenly Dao! These secret karmic chains twisted together, eventually forming the character "Wang." Seeing this character, Li Huowang understood when Sanqing had acted against him. Pulled by these secret karmic chains, the two rapidly drew closer. If this continued, Li Huowang would soon follow in Wuzhi Rulai's footsteps!

Wusheng Laomu, positioned nearby, was about to use death to conceal the secret karmic chains on Li Huowang's body. However, just as death was about to envelop them, she was forced to stop. She realized that most of the karma within those secret chains belonged to Li Huowang and Zhuge Yuan. Using death to conceal these secrets wouldn't just mean losing an experience; it would be tantamount to concealing Li Huowang himself with death. Meanwhile, other Simings also made their moves, but with little effect. Something within Sanqing seemed to be blocking the influence of their Heavenly Daos.

With a "bang" of a gunshot, a bullet pierced right through Qingwanglai. Yet, he seemed completely unaffected, drawing even closer to Li Huowang. As Sanqing drew ever closer, Li Huowang's anger and murderous intent intensified. He ignored the secret karmic chains on his body, gripping the spine-sword in his hand tightly.

"Come on, Sanqing!" Fearless, Li Huowang suddenly exerted force and charged towards Sanqing. As the two Simings collided violently, accompanied by the sound of tearing flesh, Li Huowang's and Sanqing's bodies instantly ripped into fragments of various sizes, colliding and intertwining, before re-coalescing behind each other.

Li Huowang twisted his head, his fang-filled maw suddenly opening wide, intent on swallowing Sanqing whole. However, Sanqing's flesh tentacles, like thin snakes, tightly coiled around Li Huowang's fangs, preventing him from swallowing. And as more secret karmic chains appeared on Li Huowang's body, his form rapidly liquefied and etherealized, just like Wuzhi Rulai's.

"You want to devour my Heavenly Dao? Don't even think about it!" Li Huowang raised his hand and abruptly gestured towards the chaotic White Jade Capital. "Eyes!"