Chapter 982: Dice

"Dice?" Li Huowang looked at the constantly spinning dice in his hand. The words he had said himself echoed in his ears: "I'll help whoever wins."

The dice had indeed told the truth back then, but the one it believed would win wasn't him, but Qingwang!

And there were two dice, which meant that the Grand Preceptor of Daliang was also one of Sanqing's people!

"No! Perhaps it's worse! Dou Mu's Heavenly Dao has already been seized by Sanqing!" Li Huowang sharply turned his head to look at Zhao Lei, who was becoming increasingly imperceptible.

Observing the others around him who were looking at him, Qingwang gently pushed the glasses on his nose, a slight smile gracing his face. "It seems if I don't speak today, I won't be able to leave?"

He then turned his gaze to Li Huowang. "That's right, I did this. In fact, I've done even more, but it seems you haven't discovered it."

"In reality, from the very beginning, you were just one of my many pawns. Everything has been under my control."

"However, this pawn of yours has always been too unpredictable, breaking free from my control several times and causing me a great deal of headache."

"I originally just wanted to create an effective helper for myself. I never imagined you'd come this far. Sometimes, I truly can't understand what's going on in your mind. Even when the optimal solution is clear, you insist on not choosing it, leaving me unsure how to guide you."

"Of course, your current status isn't just because of your restlessness, but also because there have always been people clinging to you, obstructing me throughout this process." Qingwang said, his gaze shifting from the siblings Ba Shengqing and Ba Nanxu.

But then, his gaze shifted again, finally settling on Zhao Shuangdian. "My painstakingly crafted pawn ended up becoming a dowry for someone else. Zhao Shuangdian, I underestimated you."

Hearing this, Li Huowang looked at him, at Sanqing before him, in disbelief.

Bahui was Zhao Shuangdian's person, and Dou Mu was Qingwang's! Furthermore, under Bahui was Zoroastrianism, and under Dou Mu was the Sitting-Forgetfulness Dao. So, from the very beginning, ever since he left Qingfeng Temple, he had been inextricably linked with these two sects.

Pain and lies had always accompanied him, tormenting him constantly, making him die and revive multiple times. Was the source of all this the contest between two Fate Rulers?

Li Huowang had always believed that clashes between Fate Rulers would be earth-shattering.

But Qingwang's words made Li Huowang understand that ordinary mortals couldn't perceive the contests between Fate Rulers, because the outcome of their clashes was simply everything that mortals experienced normally.

"I don't know what you're talking about," Zhao Shuangdian's expression remained very rational. "Could you explain?"

Qingwang suddenly gripped the two dice between his fingers, his slender index finger pointing directly at Zhao Shuangdian. "Of course you don't know, because you are merely a projection. I'm speaking to the true entity beneath the projection!"

Li Huowang took a step forward, breathing heavily as he looked at him. "So you know about the Great Nuo World? You can even control various things within the Great Nuo World! You already knew everything that was happening there?"

Sanqing's various schemes, seizing the Heavenly Dao of other Fate Rulers—all of this indicated that this guy had been capable of doing this for a long time! Yet he had kept it hidden from everyone.

"No, what I see isn't what you see. After all, our identities are different, and so is our level of understanding."

"But you're right, I can. In fact, you all can too; it's just that your actions are subconscious, while mine are deliberate." Qingwang still wore that faint, gentle smile on his face.

"Sanqing!!" With a "boom," everything Li Huowang had experienced in the Great Nuo World exploded in his mind.

There were the three clay statues of masters in Qingfeng Temple, the reason for the abbess's son going mad. There was also the sense of déjà vu he felt when he received Hong Zhong's memories, the Shangji Guankou, the Sitting-Forgetfulness Dao's ambush of the Daliang Celestial Observation Department, and Zhuge Yuan's death.

All of this had truly happened, but it turned out that for higher-dimensional beings, everything had a cause and effect.

Suddenly, that button appeared in Li Huowang's mind, and the anger in his eyes gradually transformed into intense murderous intent.

"Sanqing! What exactly do you want? To achieve your personal goals, you would actually use your abilities! Helping the Fate Ruler of the Blessed Sky to deal with me!? If it weren't for you! Li Sui wouldn't have died at all!!"

Back then, no one knew about that button except the abbess. If the abbess died, that secret should have completely vanished, much less been used by the Fate Ruler of the Blessed Sky!

For the button to reappear before him, there was only one answer: the Fate Ruler in charge of the secret Heavenly Dao within Baiyu Jing had colluded with the enemy! To deal with him, they had directly given the secret of the button to the Fate Ruler of the Blessed Sky!

Facing Li Huowang's accusations, Qingwang didn't deny anything. "Li Huowang, do you really think you understand a lot? Do you really believe your theory of a single Fate Ruler's Heavenly Dao is the truth?"

"No, you're wrong, Li Huowang. Do you really think the so-called Blessed Sky is our enemy? You are mistaken again."

Qingwang's expression gradually turned cold. "You, with a single leaf obscuring your vision, only care about the small troubles in front of you, completely unaware of where the true cause originates. Only I know this secret, which outsiders cannot perceive."

"Have you considered that the incredibly dangerous Blessed Sky you perceive isn't an elephant, but merely a projection of a wrinkle brushed on an elephant's body?"

"Have you considered that they aren't trying to invade, but their 'invasion' is simply a manifested projection of some true existence passing by unintentionally?"

"Do you know what's most despairing? The most despairing thing is that the enemy we're resisting with all our might is merely a breeze caused by some being's casual wave of the hand!"

Qingwang's face finally shed its easygoing expression, becoming stern and grim. Perhaps this was his true self.

"You have no idea what true reality is!! Reality is far more terrifying than you can imagine!"

As he spoke, a hint of fear gradually appeared in his eyes, and that fear was deepening.

"Contradictions have appeared in our projection, and more than once. Their mere unconscious proximity has already begun to interfere with the projection. When the contradictions are significant enough, this entire world will collapse! Everything will become utterly false!"

"Qingwang, what's the difference?" Zhao Shuangdian interjected. "Regardless of what form our enemy takes, it's always better for everyone to work together than for you to fight alone."

"Rely on you? Hehehe... Rely on you? Rely on this group of madmen squabbling among yourselves? I've never relied on you. Communication with you is too inefficient. I only trust myself."

With a flick of the dice in Qingwang's hand, a young man wearing reflective aviator glasses suddenly burst through the door and firmly caught the two dice.

"Hehehe, your young master has arrived," the man holding the dice said with a chuckle, smiling at Li Huowang.