Ten Emotions

When Li Huowang, standing in the seawater, realized that someone was manipulating his emotions, he decisively shut his eyes and kept chanting in his heart, No! I'm not angry. I'm not furious!

As he continued chanting, the towering rage in his heart gradually steadied. Yet the feeling did not last long. When he opened his eyes again and the rain fell into them once more, violent fury and agitation surged back into his heart, impossible to dispel.

He could think freely, but his emotions were beyond his control.

By then, the Tanka People had vanished again, submerging themselves in the water. Ghostly shadows filled the murky depths.

With Lu Xiucai in tow, Li Huowang slaughtered them madly. Yet with every person he killed, the fury in his heart condensed further, nearly burning away every last shred of his reason.

Li Huowang knew this would not do. If this continued, once he completely became a rage-crazed madman devoid of reason, it would truly all be over.

Faced with an enemy of unknown origins that had yet to show itself, Li Huowang suppressed the fury in his heart. "This thing seems connected to water. A gentleman does not stand beneath a crumbling wall. I have to get away from the water first!"

"Go!! Everyone, go!!" Soaked to the bone beneath the pouring rain, Li Huowang shouted at the others.

The Tanka People tried to stop them along the way, but their strength was clearly insufficient to hold Li Huowang back.

Li Huowang's group sped away from the shore with men and carriage alike. At last, their lower bodies gradually left the seawater as they headed inland toward Later Shu.

Yet at that moment, the furious mood still weighed upon everyone's hearts, not weakened in the slightest.

That rage kept accumulating within them,