Chapter 979: Switching

"Li... quick... wake... up..."

Upon hearing this, Li Huowang trembled, stepping back several paces in disbelief, as if encountering a monstrous flood. He looked at Yi Donglai with terrified eyes. "What did you just say?!"

"What?" Yi Donglai frowned, seemingly confused by what Li Huowang was trying to express.

"It wasn't you? You didn't speak just now?"

"No," Yi Donglai replied decisively.

"If it wasn't you! If it wasn't you, then there's only one possibility: that voice just now belonged to Gao Zhijian on the other side! This is bad! Gao Zhijian is in danger!" Li Huowang's voice suddenly reached its highest pitch.

"Doctor Yi! Find a way! Quickly find a way to send me back! Gao Zhijian is a Dragon Vein! He's also my junior brother! He can't be in danger!" The anxious Li Huowang rushed forward, gripping Yi Donglai's collar tightly.

"My treatment hasn't even begun! How can I make you experience your delusions again?!" Yi Donglai struggled to step back half a pace, a hint of fear in his eyes.

Li Huowang, burning with impatience, stood still, anxiously considering his options.

Suddenly, he stopped and shouted to his surroundings, "I don't care who you are! If you dare to touch the Great Liang Dragon Vein! Just try it if you have the guts!"

"Hahahahaha!" An extremely sharp laugh echoed again, making Li Huowang's ears ache.

However, Li Huowang paid no attention to her at this moment. He looked up again at Zhao Shuangdian. "Use your computer to calculate! See if it's people from Fusheng Heaven who launched a sneak attack!"

Zhao Shuangdian slowly shook her head. "Senior Brother Li, I'm fine, no one is threatening me."

Hearing this, Li Huowang instantly froze, staring directly at Zhao Shuangdian.

"Fine? No one is threatening Gao Zhijian on the Tianchen Kingdom side for now, but if he's fine, then whose voice was that just now?"

Thinking this, Li Huowang hesitantly looked back at Yi Donglai. "Did he say it? Why would he want me to wake up? Am I not awake right now?"

"Or... is this world I'm perceiving now fake?"

"Wake..." A similar jarring sound rang out again, causing Li Huowang to contort his face and cover his ears in pain.

Ba Nanxu was laughing again, her laughter extremely unpleasant. Li Huowang remembered that she had never been so fond of laughing in the past.

"No... something's wrong! Why is she laughing? Why is Bahui, who controls pain, laughing?! What exactly are you laughing at?!!" Li Huowang pounced, straddling her.

"What are you doing! You're getting crazier.""Let go, quickly!""Look at this mess."

As the others frantically pulled Li Huowang up, he looked at Ba Nanxu's face and suddenly realized something. He immediately said, "I know! I finally know why you're laughing! Somewhere, there must be some extreme suffering that's pleasing you! Bahui, I understand you! Because that's exactly what I did back then!"

For Bahui to laugh like this, it could definitely not be ordinary pain; such agony must far exceed even his imagination.

Although Li Huowang had tackled her, Ba Nanxu didn't seem angry at all. Instead, she said with a teasing smile, "Hahahaha, trying to please me? That might be a bit difficult for a high schooler like you."

"Stop with the nonsense! What exactly are you doing?! Answer me! Where and what happened?! Where is this pain coming from?!"

Just as Li Huowang was about to look around, the entire study, along with everyone in it, turned into piles of sand, scattering across the floor.

A surprised Gao Zhijian stood not far away, looking at the emotionally unstable Li Huowang. "Senior Brother Li... are you alright?"

He was back; he didn't know when the two sides had switched back again.

"Shh... wait a moment... let me think, let me think!" Li Huowang, his face contorted in struggle, raised his hands and repeatedly pounded his head, the pain helping to clear his mind.

Just as his head was bleeding, Li Huowang's body rapidly flickered and disappeared, then reformed in front of Gao Zhijian. "Where are those fifteen dragon veins now? They haven't been sent over yet, have they?!"

"Not yet, Senior Brother Li. If you don't send them, no one else can. They're all coiled up at the Imperial Temple. Senior Brother Li, why are you asking about the dragon veins?"

"I'm going to Baiyujing! I need to find out what exactly is going on!" The somewhat hysterical Li Huowang said, grabbing Gao Zhijian's shoulder and stamping his right foot, instantly returning to the Great Liang Imperial City.

Upon arriving before the Imperial Temple, Li Huowang slammed his hands down onto the ground. Accompanied by his furious roar, a massive rumble sounded, and an enormous ancient bronze tree, piercing through the entire Imperial Temple, tore it apart as it rose from the earth, carrying the writhing dragon veins with it.

Six arms sprouted from Li Huowang's body and began to perform the Dragon-Slaying Immortal-Slaying Array, following his chanting.

The invisible and intangible dragon qi swirled around Li Huowang, gradually being absorbed into his body. This dragon qi, which once turned everything it touched into a dragon, had no effect on Li Huowang, who had achieved great mastery in cultivation.

Li Huowang stomped his feet fiercely and, imbued with dragon qi, soared towards the Outer Heavens. He broke through the clouds, then pierced through the Outer Heavens beyond the scattered stars.

As Li Huowang passed through the stars, grotesque, terrifying, yet indescribable monsters appeared throughout the vast expanse.

When Li Huowang appeared, these chaotic entities all looked in his direction.

However, they seemed to sense something and promptly vanished, revealing a chaotic, colorless jade plaque suspended between heaven and earth. Those entities had been drawn by this plaque.

This jade plaque seemed to be suspended by something in the extreme darkness far away. As their shapeless bodies continuously writhed and flowed, the jade plaque also moved up and down.

Through that gate, Li Huowang saw something moving inside Baiyujing, a great many things moving. All the Si Ming of Baiyujing were there!

Li Huowang, covered in dragon qi, gritted his teeth and charged inside.

However, when he charged into the jade pendant's opening, he was shocked to find himself emerging from the other side. "What?! How can this be?!"

Li Huowang hovered in mid-air, looking at the colossal Yak Gate before him, a structure as massive as a mountain. He had never imagined there would be a day he couldn't enter it.

Even when he was with Dan Yangzi, he could enter, yet now he was unable to.

"Let me in! I am Ji Zai!" Li Huowang roared, charging towards the Yak Gate once more.

As he did so, just as he was about to re-enter, everything before him instantly turned transparent. A peculiar sensation of stagnation enveloped his entire body, and Li Huowang was pushed out from the other side of the Yak Gate once again.