"You damned, thousand-blade-liar swindlers!!" With Li Huowang's furious roar, the white rice around him instantly blackened and rotted, as though a thousand years had passed in a single moment.
From this alone, it was clear that even if Great Qi wanted to cooperate with them, Tianchen Kingdom had never intended to honor its promise. In this sowing-discord scheme of theirs, they could not even be bothered to put out real bait.
Li Huowang's appearance startled both sides, but Tianchen Kingdom seemed to have prepared for it long ago. The blackened, rotten rice suddenly began to surge like a raging sea.
The body soaked in the black rice suddenly felt a sharp pain. When he lifted his right foot, he discovered that everything below his thigh had become stark white bone.
"Zhuge Yuan, since you're here, don't leave today." At some point, the woman had floated atop the black rice. Smiling sweetly, she spoke to Li Huowang.
"Zhuge Yuan?" The enraged Li Huowang instantly reined in his emotions and looked around in shock, searching for him.
When he saw no trace of white around him, and a thread of fei gang rose within his heart, he instantly understood two things.
First, this woman was calling him, not that dead scholar. She thought his name was Zhuge Yuan.
Second, the fei gang that had suddenly appeared, as well as why this woman called him by that name, were both consequences he had caused unintentionally.
It was all because, when he had delivered grain, he had casually said that he was Zhuge Yuan. As a result, many people of Great Qi believed that was truly his name.
Afterward, every time they mistook him for Zhuge Yuan, another sum of fei gang was credited to his side.
As Li Huowang pondered this, the Lute-Holding