Chapter 15 - Zheng Kun

Chapter 15 - Zheng Kun

“My home is located in the Lower Liang city; enter the city through the east gate, and go to the 22nd house on Prosperity Street. I’ve hidden two pieces of gold within the third pickle jar under my bed, between the layers of pickles. Spend wisely. It should be enough to ensure that our child grows into a proper adult. Please pass my message to my wife.”

A middle-aged man, his face riddled with pimples, held back his fear as he told Li Huowang his final words.

The man was the guiding drug ingredient needed in the Pill Room today. Li Huowang could do nothing but listen to his final words and remember them.

Staring at the back of the trembling man walking into the Pill Room, Li Huowang turned around and left. He was feeling agitated.

This was the eighth person that he had taken to the Pill Room. As time went on, there were fewer and fewer people within the Preparation Room. But what made him feel awful was the fact that he had started to grow accustomed to it.

But he didn’t want to grow familiar with this feeling! He refused to become Dan Yangzi’s accomplice.

He needed to find a way out of this, and away from this terrible place. But it wasn’t easy. With only himself and the malformed people from the Preparation Room, it was impossible to fight against the seemingly invincible Dan Yangzi.

There were two key pieces of information he had ascertained. One was that on the first and the fifteenth day of each lunar month, without the Wandering Gods, Dan Yangzi could not spy on them. The other was that Dan Yangzi could not read, meaning that there was someone else in Zephyr Temple translating the sacred texts for him.

Should I slip into Dan Yangzi’s place and see if I can kill that person? Then I would become the only literate disciple here. He would have to use me to translate the sacred text! Then it should be very easy for me to kill Dan Yangzi.

This idea had just come into his mind when he dismissed it.

Firstly, while he knew where Dan Yangzi lived, he didn’t know if there were any traps laid out there. Secondly, he didn’t know just how strong the person reading the sacred text for Dan Yangzi was. If he just entered blindly, he might end up dying instantly. Embark on a quest to the commencement at n0v#lbin★

Should I poison his ingredients? No, he was the one who taught me how to refine pills. He would easily identify the poisoned ingredients and kill me.

Li Huowang kept thinking as he walked back, trying to find a way to kill Dan Yangzi.

Just then, a moody man wearing Taoist robes and Huyuan hat came in from the opposite direction. Li Huowang recognized him as the direct disciple Zheng Kun.

Li Huowang knew next to nothing about him. He barely even saw him with the exception of meal times. Even then he had only seen him a few times.

Compared to the official disciples like Li Huowang, Zheng Kun didn’t have to bother with the daily maintenance of Zephyr Temple. As to what he was normally doing, Li Huowang had no idea.

Seeing Li Huowang’s grin and maniacal laughter, Zheng Kun kicked Li Huowang to the ground. “Damned hysteric!”

Li Huowang laid on the ground motionlessly for at least half a day. After some time, a pair of large hands gently picked him up.

“Sigh... Junior brother Xuan Yang, why didn’t you listen to me? Didn’t I tell you to show respect to Zheng Kun? Why did you have to taunt him?”

It was Xuan Yuan, the kind disciple. Because of his peaceful temperament, he was the only person Li Huowang would talk to regularly.

Li Huowang pressed against his injury and endured the pain as he said. “Why? Would he have killed me? Master’s Wandering Gods are still around. If any more disciples were to die here, Zephyr Temple might not be able to maintain itself.”

“Wandering Gods?” Xuan Yuan was perplexed.

He doesn’t know?

Li Huowang suddenly came to a realization.

Wait, don’t tell me no one else knew how Master had complete control of all information within the Zephyr Temple?

Thinking about how the other two direct disciples had died, it seemed that not everyone knew about this.

“Nothing, I’m just saying that he wouldn’t dare to kill me.”

“You can’t say that. He’s a direct disciple, and you are only an official disciple. He might not be able to kill you, but he could make your life harder.”

“Haha! So what? I've been used to such a hard life ever since I was born.”

As he spoke to Xuan Yuan, Li Huowang chuckled at what he had discovered through Zheng Kun—that even the direct disciples didn't have the qualifications to learn the method of becoming an Immortal.

Dan Yangzi didn’t even trust Zheng Kun.

But most importantly, when he told Zheng Kun that Master would rather teach the method of becoming an Immortal to him rather than Zheng Kun, he saw a strong sense of dissatisfaction from Zheng Kun’s eyes.

It seemed that Dan Yangzi’s disciples were not as loyal as he had thought.

He had a feeling that he might be able to exploit this...