Ambush

Great Harmony throughout Great Qi? Li Huowang had never imagined such words would come from the mouths of Fa Sect Believers.

He immediately drew the Spine Sword and flung it hard at the door.

A rift flew out, and all manner of rainbow-colored fluids crawled forth from within, defiling everything they could touch.

Li Huowang pointed his right hand at the Door Gods on the door and roared, "This is your world of Great Harmony? Great Qi is full of this kind of ghostly filth now, and you still dare say it to my face! That all the people of Great Qi have come back to life! That they live and work in peace and contentment, and all under Heaven is in Great Harmony?!"

"Li Huowang, you are Attached to Appearances. I thought that, as a Heart Coiling One, you would know something. Who would have thought that you understood nothing at all? Xuannü and the others truly have guarded against you deeply."

The moment the Door God finished speaking, a mass of twisted flesh squeezed out from the closing rift—deformed, ugly, grayish-white, slick flesh.

Because the rift was closing, the thing only had half a body. Yet even so, it still lay sprawled on the ground, struggling to expand and contract, showing no sign of having suffered a fatal wound.

A cluster of short, constantly trembling pink tentacles burst from its forehead, letting out the cries of an infant. This thing had no fixed form; every part of its body changed from moment to moment.

"All wholesome dharmas are but illusions; all evil karma wrought is likewise illusion. The body is like gathered foam, the heart like wind; illusion arises rootless, without true substance."

"What nonsense! I don't understand! Say it plainly!!" Li Huowang stared fixedly at the deformed