974 Strategic Shif (1/2)

”Please behave yourself.”

Sea breeze during the night was a bit chilly. It rolled up piles of snow and hit on the verge of the port with clear sound. Huo Lishang felt so cold as if the whole lake water was poured on him from head to toe. He stared at Youhu walking back to the cabin.

His strong control of everything now seemed to be so fragile.

”Something must have happened in the ship. What did that Lord Taiyi Han Guang do to them?” Huo Lishang soon realized that something went wrong after seeing Youhu. ”Did I set a fox to keep the geese?”

Or it might be worse. Maybe I exchanged my identity with a tiger!

Huo Lishang pondered and thought, ”Youhu was a very careful woman and would not act quickly before she understood the situation. But Yunyue is quite young and ignorant. She cannot hide things and she's very much into me. Maybe I should ask her to get my pills.”

Youhu is worried that Lord Taiyi might find it out?

Also Yunyue has a habit to breathe in flowers' scents in the early morning without being disturbed. This is my chance!

Huo Lishang went back to port and pier and took a rest peacefully. He's going to wait for tomorrow.

A red glow from the sun dyed the boundary between sea and sky. Yunyue walked out from the cabin in her boots. She was as pretty as always with her eyes even more bright than stars.

”Yunyue! Yunyue!” Huo Lishang secretly went nearby the ship and disguised himself as the Night Emperor's attendant. He shouted to Yunyue in a low voice.

His breath was weak and hard to be perceived by Han Guang.

Though he said in a very low voice but Yunyue heard it quite clearly.

She turned around and saw a young man dressed as attendants. He was looking at with bright smile and expectation.

Yunyue pouted her lips and asked,

”Who are you?”

Who are you… Huo Lishang was stunned by her words.

I'm your master, your real Night Emperor… real Night Emperor…

Even closest Yunyue cannot recognize me?

Suddenly he recollected the memory of the last fake Night Emperor shouting at the end of their game. And now he was in the same position.

When false is taken for true, true becomes false?

When all my concubines, subordinates, friends, and enemies, saw that man as the real Night Emperor, does it mean that I was replaced by another person?

Then who am I now?

Huo Lishang stood lost in thought as if he just suffered a heavy blow. Suddenly he saw Yunyue turned facing those flowers again with her left hand folded on back. She raised her left hand a little and a green light was cast to his collar band.

A pill the size of a longan in bright green color. He felt better instantly by just smelling it.

Night glow green pillow… Huo Lishang took the pill and pretended to leave in great disappointment.

He could at least return to the Exterior Realm level with this pill.

Yunyue still loves me, just as I expected.

And she prepared the pills in advance then it must be Youhu who told her. Youhu cares about me, too. But just because the changes made by that Lord Taiyi Han Guang, they dared not to show their real feelings… Huo Lishang felt as if he was back to the Night Emperor again, that everything was still under his control and he was still at the top of everything.

”I should wait till after I return to the Exterior Realm level and then talk to Yunyue and Youhu again to get better pills. Only by that I will have the chance to recover completely and tell that Han Guang the game is over.”

Or maybe it won't be so troublesome. I am badly hurt right now and can no longer convey power to that mask. After Han Guang uses up all its power then people around would soon find out. Yin Master shall not treat a man nicely who disguises himself as the Night Emperor…

Huo Lishang became even more confident and positive about his return to the Night Emperor.

…

Inside the cabin of the Night Emperor's ship,

Meng Qi took off the Thousand Illusion Mask and pondered on its theory about power transfer. This mask was different from the token of Dharmakaya.

The Real Night Emperor Huo Lishang has not been conveying any more power for half a day's time. Is it because the Qing Emperor or Lord Taiyi's curse was that scary? Huo Lishang gets in trouble now? Or is it that he is trapped in Golden Turtle Island? Meng Qi frowned and pondered.

”The Yin Master has come and he wants your answer,” Liushang and Yunyue lifted the jade curtain and reported.

Meng Qi nodded and his face and breath changed at the same time. He became the Night Emperor in just one second and was now no different from the real Night Emperor.

”You…” Yunyue swallowed.

He could change his appearance like this without the help of Thousand Illusion Mask?

Nobody could tell he's fake.

Meng Qi smiled and said, ”I have been studying on Mr. Lishang's breath and power transfer for a while. My arts are enough for me to imitate him.”

Youhu and Liushang looked at his face and could not tell if it was false or true.