502: Chapter 502 The Power of Nine Dragons

"Ah! I'll talk, I'll confess everything! Please, don't torture me anymore..."

Inside a cave, Li Hua suddenly snapped his eyes open. As if waking from a nightmare, his entire body was trembling.

"This... what happened?"

Li Hua's head throbbed. Clutching his forehead, he surveyed the empty cave, a sense of confusion rising in his heart.

For some reason, Li Hua felt as though something had been in this cave, that something had happened here. But whenever he tried to recall it, his body couldn't stop shaking, filling him with an intense dread for the place.

The longer he stayed, the more wrong it felt. In a panic, Li Hua scrambled out on all fours. The moment he reached the cave entrance, he channeled his full cultivation and took flight, stumbling and swaying in the air.

However, because his flying posture was wrong and his Qi circulation was erratic, he repeatedly plummeted from the sky, hitting the ground several times.

Only after Li Hua had been gone for a while did two figures appear in the cave.

They were Xiao Sheng and Wang Yao, who had hidden themselves beforehand using a Talisman.

Looking at the spot where Li Hua had just been, Xiao Sheng scratched his head in confusion and pointed.

"The way he looked just now, it's like he has amnesia. Was that your doing?"

Wang Yao spread his hands.

"Wasn't the plan your idea? Giving him amnesia has nothing to do with the follow-up plan. If I had that kind of time, I'd rather have punched him a few more times."

Xiao Sheng became even more puzzled upon hearing this.

"Then how is this possible?"

"The kindness return plan has been continuously refined by me until it's near perfect. It shouldn't have amnesia as a side effect."

"Found it," Wang Yao suddenly interrupted Xiao Sheng's thoughts, looking at a medical book in his hand. "It's written here; his situation is quite similar to this."

Xiao Sheng's interest was piqued, and he crowded over to see what was written.

[Dissociative Selective Amnesia]

"Mostly occurs as a sudden onset of memory loss when extreme abuse breaks through the psychological tolerance threshold."

"The party involved has no intention of lying or faking illness; the subconscious mind automatically activates an extreme self-protection mechanism."

"It forcibly isolates and destroys traumatic content devastating enough to completely shatter one's mental defenses."

"The individual is completely unable to autonomously recall segments related to the victimization; there is no external head trauma or organic brain damage."

As Xiao Sheng read, his expression grew worse. By the end, he stopped reading entirely and waved his hand dismissively.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. This was definitely written by a quack."

"My kindness return plan is based on the influence of love. What 'abuse' bullshit? Where did you find this fake book?"

Wang Yao stuffed the book back into his storage ring with a look of disdain and replied casually.

"It was published in the Eastern Region. Those demonic cultivators can be considered quite the authorities on research in this field."

"Although they deserve to die, the quality of their research is indeed very high."

Xiao Sheng was momentarily speechless. After snapping out of it, he hurriedly tried to cover for himself.

"Then... then it must have been you!"

"I only said a few words at most to get him to cooperate with some friendly actions. How could that fit the description above?"

"It must be because your beating was too painful. I told you sticking the celestial master sword in his mouth to attract lightning was inhumane, but you insisted on doing it, saying some crap about how those in the Nascent Soul Stage are durable."

Wang Yao waved his hand, not intending to listen to Xiao Sheng's self-deception, and asked instead.

"Can this plan of yours really work? Is your divination even accurate?"

A few days ago, because Li Hua underestimated his enemies, Xiao Sheng and Wang Yao had easily captured him and provided him with an 'education of love'.

During the process, the two learned that Li Hua was a Prodigy among the current younger generation, and his father was a high-ranking official in the School of Physics of the Truth Cult.

That was why he was able to come here to claim some credit under his father's recommendation.

Also because of his father, he had some understanding of certain important matters.

The current scheme the Truth Cult was plotting in the Southern Desert was called the Apocalypse Plan, with the goal of creating Apocalypse Knights comparable to immortals and gods.

One method he knew of was to incite a massive war, making everyone in a certain region slaughter each other to achieve the goal.

Before this, a suitable host body had to be selected; otherwise, once created, the Apocalypse Knight would go out of control.

Xiao Sheng and Wang Yao were currently the two highest-priority hosts.

He didn't know which one specifically was needed; he had simply snatched someone else's vanguard mission, wanting to capture them ahead of time to add a brilliant stroke to his own achievements.

He just hadn't expected to be ambushed by the two and end up in this state.

After extracting this information, the two knew their time might be running out.

After all, if what he said was true—that they could create something comparable to the immortal and Divine-Grades—wasn't that equivalent to using Mortal bodies to forge an Immortal Artifact?

Both had experienced Kaifeng and knew more or less how terrifying an Immortal Artifact was, let alone the Truth Cult planning to cause a disaster. The loss of life would be unimaginable.

Reason dictated that they had to act quickly and contact the Liyan Holy Land or other major powers as soon as possible.

Whether it was a demonic sect possessing a method to mass-produce Immortal Artifacts, or the fact that they were now being targeted and might face threats later, they could no longer afford to drag out the time to continue 'reforming' Li Hua.

The question Wang Yao asked was about the plan Xiao Sheng had summarized.

Li Hua had a monitoring device on him, which Xiao Sheng had noticed from the start.

Therefore, the fact that Li Hua had fallen into their hands must have already been transmitted back to the Truth Cult, making it impossible to use his identity for any schemes.

Although Li Hua didn't know where the main base was, given his father's status, he might have been useful for something, but that identity was now unusable.

So Xiao Sheng decided to just let him go back. Killing him wouldn't be very useful anyway; at most, killing a Nascent Soul would pad his resume, but it had no practical value.

It was better to let him go and see if his return would throw those people into disarray, making them think his identity had been swapped or something else.

In any case, a person returning intact (debatable) would definitely attract their attention and serve some purpose, at least better than him being dead.

Furthermore, if he actually returned to the headquarters, Xiao Sheng could use divination to deduce his location, thereby pinpointing his home base.

To this, Xiao Sheng gave a confident smile.

"Don't worry, I have absolutely no confidence in my divination skills."

"Oh, then I'm re... relieved my foot!" Wang Yao looked completely shocked. "Is there something wrong with my ears? If you can't calculate accurately, why are you even doing it?"

But Xiao Sheng remained incredibly confident.

"Relax, I collected many things related to him during the education process. There will definitely be no problem in terms of precise positioning."

"Although my divination is poor—I might calculate a male as a female, or even as something else entirely—can't I just take the opposite of the result?"

"With so many Materials anyway, as long as the calculation is precise enough, it'll work."

"When the time comes, I'll do a reverse deduction. By flipping the answer, even if part of it is chaotic, the rest will surely be correct."

Looking at Xiao Sheng's confident face, Wang Yao wiped his own face and said speechlessly.

"But don't we need coordinates?"

"What's the use of guessing right or wrong?"

"You might precisely know it's a coordinate, but once it's scrambled and reversed, who knows where it points?"

Xiao Sheng's eyes widened instantly as he realized this seemed to be the case.

"Holy crap, why didn't you say so earlier!"

Just as Xiao Sheng was about to ask if they should chase him back, he saw Wang Yao's expression suddenly turn grave. Wang Yao shielded him behind his back and looked toward the cave entrance.

"Stop chatting. It seems the enemy has found us. Looks like we need to break out first."

Seeing Wang Yao so alert, Xiao Sheng also prepared to summon his mecha at any moment.

But Wang Yao broke into a smile and gestured for Xiao Sheng not to summon the mecha.

"Quite a few people are coming, so there's no need to fight. We'll just head straight for a big city."

"And if we're just traveling, there's no need to summon the mecha."

As he spoke, Wang Yao took out a special syringe from his ring.

The syringe was very thick and large, about twenty centimeters long, filled with a golden liquid that boiled violently like lava.

Xiao Sheng couldn't help but swallow hard looking at the syringe. The contents clearly weren't simple; even the syringe itself seemed to exceed the third-tier level.

Wang Yao took a deep breath and slammed the injection into his heart, shouting at the same time.

"Power of Nine Dragons, Godspeed!"

Xiao Sheng only felt Wang Yao's Aura suddenly shift. Before he could sense it carefully, his vision blurred, and he felt as if he were being pulled by a massive force.

Then it was like being on a flying boat, but a flying boat moving at full speed with zero protection and a 360-degree view.

"I'm gonna die!"