Autumn, full and holding her child, kept swallowing saliva, her eyes filled with longing as she watched the red-robed Taoist who was gnawing on dry rations. Her voice almost pleading, she said, "Please, kind sir, can you give me some food? I haven't eaten in three days, I'm so hungry."

Watching the pitiful woman beside him, Li Huowang once again took out a steamed bun from his arms. When he saw the steamed bun completely soaked in blood and turned into a blood bun, he casually threw it aside.

Autumn, full, eyes instantly lit up, pounced on the blood bun like a hungry tiger, trying to pick up the blood bun and stuff it into her mouth.

But it was all in vain. The blood bun that fell on the ground passed through her hand time and time again, and she couldn't pick it up.

Autumn, full of despair, looked up at Li Huowang and said in a miserable voice, "What are you doing! You clearly don't want this steamed bun, why won't you let me pick it up? Such a big steamed bun could save a life!"

"Sob, sob, sob! I'm used to being hungry, I'm not afraid of hunger! But if I'm hungry, my body won't produce milk, and my son will starve to death! Do you have any conscience at all!" She shouted, biting her finger and putting it in the swaddle.

Watching the despairing cries of Autumn, full, Li Huowang sighed with some annoyance, stood up, and walked towards the east.

It had been a long time since he had a new hallucination, and Li Huowang had almost forgotten about this troublesome special ability of his.

"What's going on? Why has she become my hallucination?"

"So many people have died in front of me, why did this crazy woman become my hallucination?"

This question, Li Huowang was destined not to get the answer to, and even Zhuge Yuan didn't know the answer.

"Why won't you let me eat! You evil person!" Autumn, full, grabbed the rusty knife and rushed to Li Huowang, stabbing him in the left eye socket.

As Li Huowang's footsteps continued, his body overlapped with Autumn, full, and finally walked out from behind her.

He had tried a few times at the beginning, but Li Huowang quickly gave up trying to communicate with this woman.

Whether telling her that she was already dead, that her child was already dead, or that she had become a hallucination, she couldn't accept any of it.

This woman named Autumn, full, had completely gone mad, and even as a hallucination, she was still a lunatic.

Li Huowang, who sympathized with her, still couldn't change the fact that this woman was always immersed in her own world.

Fortunately, there was an easy way to make this woman quiet down.

Li Huowang took out the last piece of dry rations from his arms and threw it into Autumn, full's arms. Excited, Autumn, full, immediately calmed down and wolfed down the steamed bun.

As she ate, she glared fiercely at the other hallucinations around her, as if afraid that these people would steal her food.

"Peng Longteng, Jinshan Zhao, Zhuge Yuan, monk, Autumn, full. Zuo Wangdao, Jiang Yingzi." Li Huowang calculated in his mind the rules for these people becoming his hallucinations.

It seemed that when these people died around him, his emotions fluctuated violently, which was why these people became his hallucinations.

To avoid the appearance of hallucinations again, he would have to avoid similar situations in the future.

But after thinking for a while, Li Huowang found that some rules applied to some hallucinations, but not to others.

For example, he still hadn't figured out whether the monk's true body was dead or not.

And these people were not all closely related to him. The woman who had just appeared, when she was alive, hadn't said a word to him, but had still become his hallucination.

"Could it be... that there are several ways for someone to become my hallucination?" Li Huowang muttered to himself.

"Brother Li, this is not the time to think about these non-urgent matters. Let's go find the Upper Extreme Guankou first, and then hurry back. The current Daqi is unstable, it's dangerous for you to stay here." Hearing Zhuge Yuan's words, Li Huowang nodded and immediately regained his composure.

Right, the trouble with the dice was the most critical thing now. With so many hallucinations, what did it matter if there were a few more or a few less? With many debts, there was no worry, and with many lice, there was no itch.

Perhaps when he had perfected his cultivation technique, he could just turn all these people into real ones and let them leave his side.

"No, no, no." Jinshan Zhao's words made Li Huowang look at him.

At this moment, Jinshan Zhao, with his hands propped up on the ground, stood there, smiling at Li Huowang.

"Good, good. Good!" Jinshan Zhao said a few good words, dragging his half body to Autumn, full, comforting her silently.

Li Huowang didn't say anything, quickened his pace, and ran in the direction Zhuge Yuan had mentioned.

The sun in the sky gradually shifted, and as Li Huowang got closer and closer to the so-called Upper Extreme Guankou, his expression became more and more serious.

The peeled tree trunks around him became sparser, and Li Huowang followed a dry riverbed all the way. As the sky gradually darkened, a sinkhole finally appeared at the end of the riverbed.

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Looking down into the sinkhole, it seemed that, due to the drought, a bottomless deep pool was hidden in the deepest part.Seeing Zhuge Yuan beside him, Li Huowang furrowed his brows and asked, "Is this the Supreme Confluence?"

"No, because it's the hour of Zi right now, the Supreme Confluence is hidden beneath these waters. After the hour passes, it will be somewhere else."

"It's just like alchemy, bound by specific times." Li Huowang dared not delay any longer. He picked up a large stone from the side and, with a fierce charge, plunged into the pit's pool.

With a splash, Li Huowang and Li Sui hit the water's surface. Before he could take a deep breath, the stone in his arms dragged him downwards.

The water in the deep pool was cold, so cold that Li Huowang's limbs went numb. Darkness surrounded him, and suddenly, he felt something slimy slide across the back of his neck, but he had no idea what it was.

Gritting his teeth, Li Huowang freed one hand and pulled out a luminous stone from his embrace.

As the dismal green light illuminated the surroundings, the darkness and whatever was in it quickly receded.

Still clutching the stone, Li Huowang continued to sink. The pool was deeper than he had imagined.

He gestured to Zhuge Yuan beside him, who spoke in the bone-chillingly cold water, "Brother Li, don't panic. Relax your mind. The hiding place of the Supreme Confluence is exceedingly secretive, and evil spirits can't find it at all, so there's no danger."

Hearing this, Li Huowang finally eased his mind and continued to descend.

In the pitch-black, icy water, there were no other sounds, only the continuous screams of someone who had eaten their fill in autumn.

"Ah, ah, ah, ah! I'm drowning! I'm going to drown!" She desperately struggled towards the diminishing surface above, her hands holding up swaddling clothes, trying to keep them as close to the water's surface as possible.

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