CH 7

Li Huowang lay on the bed wearing a hospital straitjacket, silently staring at the hook hanging from the IV bag above his head, as if waiting for something.

With a creak, the door to the ward opened. "Hey, Xiaoli, weren't you recovering well before? What happened now?" Li Huowang's attending physician walked in, looking at him with disappointment.

Hearing this, Li Huowang, whose head was wrapped in gauze, became anxious and explained, "Doctor, they attacked Yang Na first! I had to fight back to protect her!"

The doctor pushed his glasses up with his index finger and said, "Is that what you call fighting back? You call it killing! Liu Jianye is still in the ICU. Your kick almost sent him away for good. You've been here for a while, and everyone knows what happened. Did you even think about Master Liu's condition before you attacked him? I thought you were a sensible kid."

Thinking of Yang Na, who was scared and crying, Li Huowang became a little defiant. "What's wrong with him having a mental illness? Does that mean he can do whatever he wants? If I had to choose between Yang Na being hurt and going to jail, I'd rather choose the latter."

"You..." The attending physician was speechless.

In the end, he sighed and shook his head. "Forget it. The hospital director has called both families. You don't have to worry about these things."

Li Huowang heard this and curled up his body slightly to lie on the other side of the bed where no one was present. He began to calculate whether the jade pendant worth 400,000 yuan would be enough for compensation.

But he wasn't worried at all. After seeing the efficacy of the pill, Li Huowang suddenly realized that he had many new choices in life.

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Feeling that his young patient's emotions were low, the doctor comforted him, "Don't worry, Xiaoli. You won't go to jail. The hospital can issue a certificate for you. Don't worry about these things. Just focus on getting better. We will take care of the rest."

Li Huowang sensed the doctor's concern for him in his words and said, "Thank you, doctor."

"What are you thanking me for? I'm your attending physician. You're so young, so I naturally have to take care of you." Li Huowang felt the doctor patting his shoulder.

"But Xiaoli, tell me the truth. How did you hurt them like that? It's not something ordinary people can do. Were you in a normal state at that time, or did you experience some new stress-induced hallucination?"

Hearing this, Li Huowang's heart tightened, and his attention immediately focused on the pocket of his jacket. "Uh... I..."

"I'm a psychologist, and I have some experience in this area. Don't try to hide your condition. You'd better think carefully before you answer. I hate it when my patients deceive me." Although the doctor's tone was gentle, Li Huowang felt an invisible pressure in the room.

As Li Huowang anxiously searched for a way out, everything around him began to become unstable, and the doctor's voice became increasingly vague.

After a few seconds, he found himself once again in a hallucination, lying on the stone bed in Xuan Yang's single room cave.

Covering his head and sitting up, Li Huowang looked around at the simple furnishings and laughed. "Hehe, anyway, this is also a solution."

This time, he didn't plan to go back so soon, lest the doctor would be waiting by his side.

Leaving the room, Li Huowang looked at the disciples coming in and out of the cave tunnel and began to calculate what he planned to do next.

Since those pills were real, he couldn't be as reckless as before. He had to manage this place well in order to fleece more sheep from this place.Fortunately, Li Huowang's identity was no longer a medicine boy in the pharmacy, but had become a named disciple of the leper head, giving him more freedom in his actions.

When he saw another Taoist wearing a Daoist robe walking past him, Li Huowang's eyes lit up and he quickly chased after him. "Brother, brother!"

The Taoist with a beard turned his head and saw Li Huowang, his attitude indifferent. "Xuanyang junior brother, what's the matter?"

Li Huowang imitated their way of speaking and replied, "I just became our master's disciple. Please enlighten me, what should I do next?"

"Don't blame me for speaking bluntly. Although you were personally accepted by our master, your qualifications are the shallowest. You can only run errands within the Qingfeng Temple for now."

"If you want our master to teach you the path to immortality, that is a privilege reserved for closed-door disciples. You're not qualified yet. Follow me and wait outside the Dan Room for now."

"Immortality...?" Li Huowang murmured to himself. He had never heard of any immortal being created through alchemy.

"Can our master really become immortal?"

The Taoist with a beard showed a hint of self-satisfaction on his face. "Of course he can. Our master has great supernatural powers. Just serve him well."

From this brother named Xuanyin, Li Huowang learned about the composition of the entire cave temple. There were five named disciples, one direct disciple, and the temple master, Danyang Zi.

Apart from these people, the rest were peripheral members, such as cooks, medicine boys, and other miscellaneous Taoists. There were about 180 people in total.

This was the first time Li Huowang had a complete understanding of the entire temple. The number of people was relatively small, and it could even be described as simple, especially after the recent deaths.

During their conversation, the oppressive alchemy furnace appeared in front of Li Huowang once again, emitting faint white smoke as if it was refining something.

Besides Danyang Zi, there was also a gloomy-looking youth, his direct disciple, beside the alchemy furnace.

After waiting with Xuanyin for a while, Li Huowang received his task and went to the pharmacy to count the ingredients on the list, just like what Xuanyang did before.

When Li Huowang, covered in white dust, arrived at the pharmacy, everyone who was working there looked at him nervously with a hint of fear in their eyes.

The white-skinned girl took two steps forward with her lips pursed, but eventually said nothing and retreated in fear.

Their roles had changed from oppressed to oppressor.

Li Huowang's mind became active as he looked at them. Perhaps he could benefit from this change in their roles.

"Um, do you guys have any money on you?" Everyone was stunned by his question. "Money, don't you understand? Silver, gold, or jade pendants are all fine."

To be honest, Li Huowang needed money now. He didn't know how much compensation he would receive from Lao Liu, and his family was just an ordinary one. If the compensation was large, his mother might have to sell their house, which was something he urgently needed to avoid.

"Since you can't use it here, why not give it all to me? Consider it protection money. I'll look after you guys from now on."

His words were straightforward, and the people in the pharmacy began to search their pockets. They didn't want Li Huowang to protect them, they just didn't want to be bullied after giving him something.

Half a thumb-sized blackened silver, a copper hairpin, and over 40 square copper coins were all he received.

Looking at these things, Li Huowang sighed. He seemed to have miscalculated. These guys didn't have any money, and the things he received probably wouldn't even be worth as much as his medical insurance card.