512 Awakening Li Feihong 2 (1/2)
It took Li Feihong three days to settle down with his new power and self-healing. Xu Shu and Zhou Cang also rested nearby, concentrating on recovering from the injuries as well.
Lu Lingqi sat behind Li Feihong, watching over him while he was cultivating the whole time. She didn't know what attracted her to this otherworlder, but she didn't hate his hard-working face.
Although everything seemed to not go according to Zhuge Liang's plan, the strategist was smiling from ear to ear.
While Li Feihong was cultivating, the throne room meeting had concluded, but none of the people in this dimension cared anymore.
Finally, Li Feihong reopened his eyes after he got used to the new power, his other life's memory, and karmic sense, and the god's eyes.
Looking at the karma chains and everyone's real souls, Li Feihong had a complicated emotion. He summoned his 8th soul, which had the appearance of Liu Bei, to stand before himself.
”Goddammit! Why was I Liu Bei!? Just … How!?”
Li Feihong couldn't help but scream as he didn't like what kind of person he was in the other previous lives. Li Feihong couldn't accept the fact that he was once Liu Bei.
It hurt him more when he recalled that he killed Zhang Fei and Pang Tong with his own hands. Yet, the swelling anger stopped his tear and override the guilty feeling he had.
Zhang Fei and Pang Tong might have been Liu Bei's loyal retainers, but they had unforgivable flaws.
Zhang Fei was a hoodlum through and thorough. His excessive violence also cost Liu Bei his post when he started his career as a town official. When Liu Bei entrusted him to protect Xiapi, Zhang Fei drank too much wine and lost the city to Lu Bu. Then, his cruelty and harsh treatment toward his soldier subordinates ended up killing him before Liu Bei launched a revenge campaign on Sun Quan.
From Li Feihong's point of view without Liu Bei's bias memory, Zhang Fei was just a strong brute, which was more suited as a vanguard, not a general of an army. For the other fields, he was useless.
Pang Tong was not any different. He enjoyed appraising people to the point that it inflated his pride. He also misjudged the abilities of many people by his bias virtues, prioritizing the latter over the former. As a result, he performed poorly when he was a minor official in Jing Province under the Sun Clan during his early career.
In this world, Pang Tong mistreated Tong's ways of government. He never forgot one mistake that Tong had made in Liyang, the town massacre incident, and overlooked the achievements that Tong had laid the groundwork for the people.
And lastly, the order of Pang Tong at Hongnong contradicted his beliefs. He wanted to kill the townspeople for the sake of capturing the city even though he proclaimed that he hated evil acts.
The hypocrisy made Li Feihong disgust. He got angry by just remember Pang Tong's face.
'Those assholes don't deserve to live! I did nothing wrong! I'm here to repent for what I did to Tong, and that hasn't changed! No matter who I was, I AM LI FEIHONG, A FUCKING SINNER!! GO AHEAD AND TORMENT ME, YOU FUCKS!! I REGRET NOTHING KILLING ALL OF YOU HERE!! UNTIL ZHANG TONG FORGIVES ME, I WILL STILL BE HERE WORKING FOR HIM!!'
Unbeknownst to Li Feihong, Zhuge Liang, or anyone, three chains of karma, which had the resentment of Tong's former friends and relatives in the other world. They released Li Feihong from their bind as if they wanted to approve Li Feihong's mindset.
*BOOM*
One of the karma chains other than the fading ones shattered and freed Li Feihong from its binding. They belonged to Tong's former parents who resented him because of this previous life's deed.
The fragments of the broken karma transformed into glittering light and entered Li Feihong's body. As soon as they become one with him, the remaining soul injuries disappeared like magic.
The development shocked Li Feihong as well. He opened his eyes and examined his souls and his physical body.
He was healed!
While Li Feihong was confused about his past and the karma knots on himself, Zhuge Liang knelt and prostrated to his lord.
”Welcome back, my lord. I'm glad to be your vessel again in this life.”
When Zhuge Liang kowtowed to Li Feihong, Xu Shu and Zhou Cang also got back to their senses even though they were still in the middle of healing their soul injuries.
”What?”
”Why are you…?”
Something was not right with Zhuge Liang's behavior. Even Li Feihong squinted his eyes in suspicion.
Although Li Feihong could see his other form of his souls, the others should not be able to identify his true identity without having the same cultivation or higher. Yet, Zhuge Liang's action indicated that he knew something.
”First of all, how do you know that it's me? Normally, you can only see my appearance as Li Feihong, not Liu Bei.”
For now, Li Feihong put the fact that he was once Liu Bei to the back of his head. He wanted to interrogate Zhuge Liang for what he was planning.
”I just knew, my lord.”
'Just knew?'
Li Feihong had a suspicion. Zhuge Liang shouldn't be able to identify his other pasts with his cultivation, so the only answer should be the external influence – Lilim!
Since many people were acting suspiciously in the election meeting, Li Feihong got paranoid if someone might have a deal with Lilim while Tong and other demonesses were not paying attention.
”Was it Lilim who told you?”
Nonchalantly, Zhuge Liang smiled, ”Impressive deduction my lord. That's correct!”