CH 18

The person who broke his own bottle was found, but Danyang Zi was not happy at all. He looked at Zheng Kun's remains with a complicated expression and kicked it fiercely.

"I almost raised you as my own son! And this is how you treat me!"

The whole cave was silent, only Danyang Zi's rapid breathing could be heard.

This situation lasted for the time it takes to burn two incense sticks. Danyang Zi slowly raised his hand and pointed directly at Li Huowang in the crowd. "You, come here and kowtow to your ancestor."

Li Huowang hesitated for a moment, but eventually walked over in front of everyone and knelt down to worship the three sculptures on the wall.

After completing the ritual of three bows and nine kowtows, Li Huowang, holding three incense sticks, understood what Danyang Zi wanted him to do. "From now on, you are my closed-door disciple!"

"Yes, Master!" Li Huowang was so excited that he was trembling. "This moment has finally come. Don't worry, Lai Zi Tou, I will definitely help you achieve immortality!"

"Follow me. I have something for you to do." Danyang Zi carefully held the remains of the flower vase head in his hand.

Following behind Danyang Zi, Li Huowang returned to his residence.

"Shoo, shoo, shoo!" The black lines wrapped around the stone tablet flew like snakes and quickly entered Danyang Zi's sleeve. The so-called Heavenly Book appeared in front of his eyes. "Can you understand what's written on it?"

Li Huowang pretended to carefully examine it and asked with some confusion, "Master, didn't you tell me that the way to achieve immortality is to cultivate both inner and outer elixirs? But there's no mention of inner elixirs on it."

"Hmm? What?!" Danyang Zi looked uncertainly at the corpse of the flower vase head beside him.

"It's absolutely true." Li Huowang said firmly.

Who knows what the flower vase head had told Li Huowang before. If he couldn't answer, he was afraid he would be exposed. Instead of that, he might as well be honest and start over.

And he didn't lie. The method of achieving immortality that Danyang Zi had previously mentioned was indeed made up by the flower vase head, and was completely fake.

Of course, what he would come up with next wouldn't be true either.

Danyang Zi thought about it with uncertainty. At first, he didn't want to believe what Li Huowang said, but the more he thought about it, the more suspicious he became.

No wonder he hadn't achieved immortality for such a long time. No wonder the girl said that the contents of the Heavenly Book would change. It turned out to be like this.

"Crack!" A disgusting green sputum was directly spat onto the flower vase head by Danyang Zi. He turned to Li Huowang and asked, "So, what does it say on the Heavenly Book?"

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"Well...it's a set of inner cultivation techniques. It says that during the time between the old and new year, you need to take several different types of outer elixirs while cultivating, in order to intercept the spiritual energy from the heavenly realm that comes to the mortal realm, and absorb it into your body to achieve immortality." Li Huowang looked at the stone tablet, frowning and making up things.

"There are several types of elixirs to take, for example, there is a recipe that requires 2 liang and 4 qian of cinnabar, 1 qian of white moneywort, 1 liang and 2 qian of arsenic...and...who is 'You Lao Ye'? Master, what kind of medicinal herb is this?"

Danyang Zi didn't answer, but looked at Li Huowang quietly. "Kid, if that little girl can deceive me, can you deceive me too?"

Li Huowang answered firmly, "Master, this is the way to achieve immortality. How could I deceive you? I want to achieve immortality too!"

"Good!" Danyang Zi clapped his hands heavily and laughed loudly. "Then, this time, let's achieve immortality together, Master and disciple!"Li Huowang's expression froze for a moment, then became extremely excited. "Is this true? Master, can this really be done? Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master!!"

Danyang Zi carefully observed his expression and, after finding nothing unusual, nodded knowingly.

"Well, don't rush with the elixir for now. First, tell me about that set of cultivation techniques, and we'll refine the external elixir after we both become proficient in it. It's still some time before the New Year."

"Yes, Master!" Li Huowang then fabricated a set of cultivation techniques called the Inner and Outer Great Zhou Tian and told Danyang Zi.

As a modern person who had read many novels, it was easy for him to come up with a set of cultivation techniques like this.

Li Huowang stayed in Danyang Zi's room for a long time that day, not returning until late at night.

Carrying a lantern, Li Huowang walked through the tunnel, his happy plan going smoothly. He would soon achieve his goal.

After suppressing it for so long, something good had finally happened.

When he arrived at the warehouse, he found that the remaining people were still awake.

Seeing that it was Li Huowang, everyone immediately rushed over, their eyes full of excitement. They all understood what today's events represented, as Li Huowang had already provided them with the news beforehand.

"Don't worry, as soon as I have good news, you can all go home."

As soon as Li Huowang spoke, everyone was almost moved to tears with excitement. They could finally go home.

"Li Senior Brother, you are our reborn parents! You are a living Buddha!!" One of the children with polio knelt down excitedly and was about to kowtow to Li Huowang.

He seemed to have taken the lead, and the others followed suit.

After persuading them for a while, Li Huowang finally managed to stop the commotion. "If it weren't for you all at noon today, I would have been done for. Do I also need to kowtow to you?"

As they got up from the ground, everyone was beaming with joy, as happy as they would be during the New Year.

Li Huowang looked at the smiling faces in front of him and felt a warm feeling in his heart. In this strange world, these strange-looking people were his companions.

"Li Senior Brother, did I perform well? That leper head was fooled by me like a fool." Gouwa patted his shriveled chest and grinned, seeking praise from Li Huowang.

"Indeed, you did well. If it weren't for you, Danyang Zi wouldn't have been so easy to appease."

While everyone was surrounding Li Huowang and asking him questions, someone was worried about something else.

"Li Senior Brother, are you okay? Did he really not trouble you?" Bai Lingmiao walked over, a little worried.

Hearing this, Li Huowang remembered Danyang Zi's words about becoming immortals together and the fact that Danyang Zi had tried to use him as a test subject for the elixir. He knew it was better not to tell her.

"He's now having me translate the contents of the Heavenly Book for him. I'm fine, don't worry. I'm doing well."

After chatting for a while, Li Huowang's expression turned serious. "The first day of the New Year is coming soon, and those Game Grandpas will be back soon. To make a long story short, I still need your help with something. Did your grandfather tell you any stories before?"

He still hadn't finished fabricating the elixir from the Heavenly Book.

Simple cinnabar, this kind of mercury ore was no longer enough for him. He needed to put something else in it, something even more sinister.

He hadn't forgotten Danyang Zi's strength. He had to make sure he was thoroughly dead.