Chapter 433: North Wind

Feeling the soft skin in his hand, Li Huowang's heart pounded with excitement. After searching for so long, he had finally found it!

This person was the key to escaping his hallucinations! He had yearned for this day, day and night.

His mind was chaotic, yet his body remained incredibly calm.

In such a chaotic situation, even the Dice couldn't notice Li Huowang's actions; they were fully occupied fighting the Grand Preceptor of Daliang and the Directorate of Astronomy.

As the two reached the edge of the battlefield, only Xin Su Beifeng noticed something was amiss. "Wait! Who are you?! Why do you have nine Red Dragons?!"

Just as Li Huowang was about to explain, Beifeng suddenly looked up, and their eyes met.

"Let me explain," Li Huowang began, but to his shock, his voice came out as a woman's. At that moment, he realized his own body was supporting him—he had swapped bodies with Beifeng.

Beifeng looked at Li Huowang, trapped in his own body, a smug expression on her face. "Well, well, well, if it isn't Red Dragon. What's this? Tired of being Red Dragon, are we? Want to play as Beifeng for a few days? Alright, alright, I agree."

Li Huowang gazed at his stolen body, but there was no panic on his face. "Did you think I wouldn't anticipate this move? I forgot to tell you, this body isn't just mine anymore. Suisui! Now! She's already switched!"

Beifeng's heart sank. She instinctively tensed, but a wrenching pain interrupted her. The sensation was excruciating, as if her pain receptors were magnified several times over, making it almost unbearable.

Yet, it wasn't over. Li Sui's tentacles rapidly emerged from all seven orifices, wrapping around her eyes, blocking her mouth, and spiraling out of her nostrils, swiftly depriving Beifeng of her five senses. This had all been pre-arranged.

Knowing from the Directorate of Astronomy that Xin Su Beifeng was highly skilled at body-swapping, Li Huowang naturally had prepared countermeasures.

Just as a dark lightning bolt struck fiercely beside him, Li Huowang hoisted Beifeng and charged outward.

Amidst all the chaos, no one noticed. Li Huowang quickly escaped the battlefield. The commotion behind him seemed to intensify, but Li Huowang no longer cared, for he had now obtained what he wanted.

At a golden street corner, Li Huowang stopped, gasping for breath, and looked at Xin Su Beifeng, who now occupied his body. "Alright, Suisui, retract the tentacles from her ears and mouth! I need to talk to her!"

As he spoke, the continuously writhing tentacles that had emerged from deep within Beifeng's throat quickly coiled into a ball and retracted.

Li Huowang looked at his own body. After calming his agitated mind for a moment, he spoke, "I don't care what you Sitting Forgetters are trying to achieve with all this fuss. Just give me what I want, and I'll let you go immediately."

Hearing this, not a trace of worry appeared on Beifeng's face. Instead, she praised him, "How impressive. To dare to fish in troubled waters while the Directorate of Astronomy and the Sitting Forgetters are fighting, and to actually succeed—you truly live up to the name Red Dragon."

Li Huowang pulled a small shovel from his hem, gripped his own hand, and slid the shovel directly into the gap under his fingernail.

With a tearing sound of flesh, the thin nail was pried away. Beifeng seemed to try to endure the sensation, but her index finger still trembled with pain, and cold sweat beaded on her brow.

"My body has undergone three ascensions of the Azure Scarab, and my pain receptors have been greatly amplified. Even a minor scratch feels like a broken arm to me. Our time is precious, and I'm sure you don't want to endure more severe torture than this, do you?"

As he spoke, Li Huowang's finger burrowed into his own navel, directly inserting and latching onto something slick inside.

"Haha," Beifeng chuckled, trembling with pain. "The Aojing Sect? Are you one of them? If you have troubles, why don't you seek help from your Valley God, Bahui, instead of coming to us Sitting Forgetters?"

Li Huowang swallowed with difficulty, his voice trembling slightly. "You are Xin Su, aren't you? I want to know how you shed your identity as Xin Su, how you got rid of those hallucinations."

"Hmm?" Beifeng's voice took on a surprised tone. "So, you went through all that trouble to capture me just to ask this? You should have said something earlier! You chased me so frantically, I thought it was something major! It turns out you're looking for cultivation methods."

"You didn't need to go through all this trouble. If you had just asked me directly before, I would have told you."

"What?" Li Huowang's brows furrowed at her words.

"Sigh," Beifeng sighed softly, then began to speak with a hint of sadness in her voice.

"I am also Xin Su, so I naturally understand our suffering—the pain of being unable to distinguish between two sides. I can empathize with that."

"Therefore, I would naturally be happy to see all Xin Su freed from this suffering. It's a pity there are so few of us Xin Su."

Li Huowang's (Beifeng's) face twitched slightly. He didn't believe a single word of her explanation. "Stop rambling! If you don't want to suffer, tell me the method now!"

"Alright, I'll tell you. But stop pulling, okay? This is your own body; you'll be living back in it later."

"Okay, I'll tell you now. But before you practice this method, you need to know a few things. First, why do we Xin Su experience hallucinations?"

"You don't need to explain that part; I already know. It's caused by the Innate Qi within our bodies."

"Oh? You know quite a lot, then. Alright, I'll continue. To get rid of hallucinations, you must completely control this Innate Qi, just like me. Of course, you can't do it on your own. You naturally need to borrow from the true master of this Innate Qi: Doumu."

"Hold on!" Li Huowang instantly interrupted her, his expression grim. "What are you trying to do, leading me to your Sitting Forgetters' Si Ming? Don't try to trick me! Doumu Taiyin's Si Ming controls falsehood!"

Beifeng sighed, a helpless look on her face. "What is real? What is false? Can you tell the difference? Others say we Sitting Forgetters cultivate falsehood, but they don't tell you that we also cultivate truth, do they? Doumu Si Ming is different from other Si Mings. It's like the twin lotuses in a pond: one Doumu Taiyin controls falsehood, and one Doumu Taiyang controls truth."

"The Heavenly Dao of Yin and Yang is different from other Heavenly Daos. Other Heavenly Daos either exist or don't, but truth and falsehood are Heavenly Daos that correspond to each other. The opposite of truth is falsehood, so without truth, there is no falsehood, and without falsehood, there is no truth. Do you understand?"