With Bailian Miao in his opponent's hand, Li Huowang's throat felt constricted, and he couldn't utter a word.
However, Zuo Qiuyong's actions weren't finished yet. A swollen mass of flesh began to grow inside Bailian Miao.
With a bang, as the fleshy mass burst open, Bailian Miao's body, along with the bone spurs embedded in her, was instantly blown to pieces.
Perhaps intentionally, Bailian Miao's head, pierced by a bone spur, landed directly in front of Li Huowang.
"Miao Miao!!"
Seeing Li Huowang cry out in despair, Zuo Qiuyong burst into laughter.
"Hahahaha~ just suffer through it. This is just the beginning! You probably care about many people in Daliang, don't you? They will all die."
As Zuo Qiuyong spoke, he turned around. He bent down and picked up the Fox-Masked Xinpan, which had appeared at some point, holding it in his palm.
As the Fox-Masked Xinpan's eyelids twitched incessantly, a portal from Daqi to Daliang appeared before Zuo Qiuyong.
However, compared to Zuo Qiuyong's enormous body, the portal appeared somewhat too small.
But this was not a major problem for Zuo Qiuyong. As long as there was a stable passage, it was enough.
Zuo Qiuyong's two massive fingers directly inserted into the portal. With a forceful tear, the portal instantly ripped open. It looked exactly like the massive fissure that had just been sealed by Chan Du.
Meanwhile, Li Huowang stood frozen, staring at Bailian Miao's head in front of him.
Xuanpin stood beside him, not attempting to stop Zuo Qiuyong, because he now understood that he alone could not prevent this fleshly Si Ming.
As he pondered what to do, he suddenly heard Li Huowang call out in a low voice, "Xuanpin, Xuanpin!"
When he looked over, he found that Li Huowang, who had just been overwhelmed with grief, showed no sorrow in his eyes; instead, he was unusually calm.
"Miao Miao never came with us to Daqi. This Miao Miao is just a fake I manifested!" The moment Li Huowang uttered the word "fake," Bailian Miao's head before him instantly vanished, as if it had never been there.
"I was just using the deception of the Zuowang Dao to buy us some time!" Li Huowang stared at Zuo Qiuyong's back in the distance.
"Is a little time useful?" Xuanpin retorted. "Can we defeat this fleshly Si Ming by gaining a bit of time?"
Li Huowang did not answer; he couldn't. He had used everything he could, even the Cang Qiang Ascent, but he still couldn't affect the opponent.
"I never thought Zuo Qiuyong would use this period of time," Xuanpin said with emotion, "not only to unify Tianchen Kingdom, but also to control the Heavenly Dao with his physical body."
"You are the Supernatory Bureau, you are the Daliang Supernatory Bureau! If Zuo Qiuyong goes to Daliang, Daliang will be in complete trouble. Think of something! Use the Supernatory Bureau's ultimate hidden methods."
Xuanpin shook his head. "In the past, the Supernatory Bureau's method for dealing with Si Ming was to use the Dragon Veins to prop up a sky, preventing Si Ming from descending to the mortal realm."
"But Zuo Qiuyong is a fleshly Si Ming. He is already here in the lower realm. The Supernatory Bureau's methods cannot deal with him."
A strong sense of powerlessness enveloped his heart. At this moment, Li Huowang felt intense indignation. He was unwilling to simply sit by and wait for death; he hadn't lost yet!
"Ji Zai, Ji Zai!!" Li Huowang shouted at his shadow, attempting to find the only possibility. However, his future self still gave no response, if he even had a future.
Neither Dou Mu nor Ba Hui were willing to help, and neither was his future self, Ji Zai.
"No, I haven't lost! I haven't lost!" Li Huowang suddenly looked up, glaring at the opponent's figure.
His entire head began to swell uncontrollably. This was the first time he had struggled so much since cultivating to the Six Cycles.
Li Huowang gritted his teeth, staring intently. Suddenly, as his eyes flared, a gaping hole instantly appeared in the chest and head of the colossal, mountain-like Zuo Qiuyong in the distance.
Yet, this mere fatal wound, Zuo Qiuyong burst into laughter, as if it were nothing more than an itch on his back.
"Vanish!!" With Li Huowang's furious roar, his entire head exploded, and Zuo Qiuyong's entire physical body in the distance instantly vanished from his spot.
However, with layers of flesh and bone growing, Zuo Qiuyong regenerated once more.
Flesh and blood might succumb to Li Huowang's ability to erase them, but the Heavenly Dao would not. As the Si Ming controlling the Heavenly Dao of growth, as long as the Heavenly Dao was under his control, he could always regenerate.
Li Huowang stumbled and fell to the ground. He looked at Zuo Qiuyong in the distance, more than half of whose body had already passed through the portal, and felt utterly hopeless. He had used everything he could, but still couldn't inflict the slightest injury.
"Perhaps, perhaps if I reach the Seventh Cycle, as long as I can reach the Seventh Cycle! I will definitely defeat him!" Li Huowang cried out, unwilling to give up.
At this, Li Huowang suddenly looked up to Xuanpin, who was deep in thought. "I remember you are also a Xinsu, right?"
"The Black Grand Emperor excels at absorption. Li Sui has eaten my flesh for so many years. You must be a Xinsu now too, right?!"
Xuanpin froze. He hadn't expected the other person to want to do that.
After a moment of thought, he nodded gently. "Then take it back. It can be considered 'returning bone to father and flesh to mother.'"
One of the heads from the Human Head Tower, belonging to a "Cannot Be Spoken Army" soldier, was lifted. Tentacles drilled into flesh and blood, trembling as they delivered divine light and the Innate One Qi into Li Huowang's body.
Watching Zuo Qiuyong's back in the distance, focused on entering Daliang, Li Huowang clung to his last shred of hope. He crossed his legs and began to cultivate.
This was his only chance. If he didn't seize this opportunity, the illusion of Bailian Miao's death would become a complete reality.
An unknown amount of time passed. When Li Huowang suddenly stood up, he realized he had not broken through to the Seventh Cycle.
Zuo Qiuyong in the distance was gone. He had now reached Daliang. As for what he was doing there, Li Huowang didn't even dare to imagine.
"Why not?! Why still not?! Why am I so powerful, yet I can't even protect those I want to protect?!"
As Li Huowang roared in despair, his mental state began to collapse. Everything around him changed rapidly and uncontrollably. Various figures and scenes constantly shifted around him.
Zhuge Yuan's figure flashed by amidst the changes. "Brother Li, remember, what you cultivate is not the Seventh Cycle; what you cultivate is the 'True'!"
This sentence exploded in Li Huowang's mind. He suddenly understood why he couldn't achieve the Seventh Cycle. It was because he had always believed himself to be at the Sixth Cycle; such a mindset would never allow him to fully achieve the Seventh Cycle!
"My cultivation is not the Sixth Cycle; I am already at the Seventh Cycle,"
As Li Huowang declared this to himself in his heart with utmost certainty, some familiar scenes flickered in and out of existence before him.
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