CH 19

Upon hearing Li Huowang's words, Bai Lingmiao widened her eyes and said, "Yes, yes, my grandfather also told me not to go outside the village because the people outside are wicked. If they catch a child, they will skin them and put on dog skin to train them as dogs. Because the child is intelligent, they can use the dog that understands human language to perform acrobatics on the streets. The child will suffer because their body will stick to the dog skin and they will never grow up."

Li Huowang frowned and shook his head. "No, I'm not talking about those stories that old ladies tell their grandchildren. I'm talking about things like the likes of You Laoye."

"Things like You Laoye? Let me think..." Bai Lingmiao furrowed her brows and began to ponder. "My grandfather's stories are usually very messy, but most of them are about long worms in the mountains that eat people. There are really very few stories like You Laoye."

"Who told your grandfather the story of You Laoye?"

Bai Lingmiao innocently widened her eyes. "Of course, it was my grandfather's father who told him, and then my grandfather told me. I will tell my grandson in the future."

Li Huowang scratched his head. It seemed that this story was indeed passed down from generation to generation, and he had miscalculated.

"Li Shixiong, I know one." A weak young man who was listening by the wall suddenly spoke up.

This person had deformed joints, with one shoulder higher than the other, and his whole body was very twisted. Even in the warehouse, he could be considered "outstanding" in appearance.

"Li Shixiong, my surname is Zhao, and I am a member of the Zhao family from the fifth generation. You can call me Zhao Wu."

It didn't matter who was speaking, Li Huowang walked up to him and said, "Okay, go ahead and tell me."

Zhao Wu looked around and deliberately lowered his voice. "I've heard from the older generation that there is a kind of thing that you're talking about. It's called the 'Da Laolao'."

"Da Laolao? What does it look like?" Li Huowang quickly searched his mind, but didn't find any relevant pictures, and there were no clues from the literal meaning.

"Shh~ Li Shixiong, don't speak so loudly. This thing is very evil. I heard that if the Da Laolao hears what you say, they will come looking for you! "

"Oh?" Li Huowang became interested when he heard this.

"I heard from my cousin that in front of everyone, it looks different. Some look like mischievous creatures with long ears, and some look like old people who have passed away. But the only thing that is similar is that anyone who stays with them for a while will also turn into a Da Laolao! "

Li Huowang stroked his chin thoughtfully. "This place is really strange. There are all sorts of inexplicable things. Okay, is there anything else?"

"Yes, there is also the in-laws fish. This thing is also very strange..." In Zhao Wu's place, Li Huowang learned a lot of strange terms, all of which were materials he would put into his elixir."You know quite a lot, thank you, this information is helpful to me." If Dan Yangzi only mentioned the poisonous ingredients, he might have noticed, but adding in these things that even he couldn't distinguish, the credibility was much higher.

What was needed was to not understand. Anything that couldn't be understood would appear profound.

Upon hearing Li Huowang's words, Zhao Shi smiled joyfully. "I heard all of this from my cousin-in-law, who is a traveling merchant and has been everywhere, so he knows a lot."

"Alright, it's almost time, I'm going back, you guys wait quietly for my message." Li Huowang took a deep breath and stood up, walking towards the door.

Just as he had taken a few steps, a tall figure of at least 1.9 meters blocked his way. "I-I-I..."

Li Huowang recognized the bald man in front of him. The people in the material room called him a fool, the kind with a drooling, cross-eyed stare.

To say that he was completely foolish might not be accurate. He was just slightly stuttering, slow to react, and had low intelligence. "I-I-I also know!"

Li Huowang sighed and patted his bald head before turning around and walking towards the door.

It was better to just make up something than to ask a fool.

Early the next morning, Dan Yangzi called Li Huowang to his residence. "I've almost mastered the inner and outer small universe techniques you mentioned. Tell me the medicinal pills that should be taken with them."

"Yes, Master." Li Huowang walked up to the stone tablet and pretended to observe it again. "Hmm... two hearts of the Great Witch, refine its essence? What does Master mean by this?"

Dan Yangzi's expression changed as he paced back and forth in the room, muttering to himself. "So that's how it is? The path to becoming an immortal actually requires such evil methods?"

"Master, what is the Great Witch?"

"Don't worry about it, continue."

"One pair of in-laws fish, take its gills, soak in two liang of arsenic..."

With the things he had learned from Zhao Wu and the knowledge he had from modern times, Li Huowang mixed them together with his energy from staying up all night to create a comprehensive method to become an immortal.

After Li Huowang finished speaking, he saw Dan Yangzi become extremely excited and muttering to himself.

However, when he carefully listened, he suddenly felt extremely shocked.

"Yes, that's right, it's wrong, arsenic is too cold, it must be balanced with something hot like the in-laws fish. Brilliant! And also, using the Great Witch as a medicinal ingredient, why didn't I think of that before? Since humans can be used as ingredients, why can't these evil things be used as well?" This guy started imagining the balance of medicinal properties in the pills.

Li Huowang noticed that when Dan Yangzi was clever, he was very clever, but when he was ignorant, he was truly ignorant. He didn't believe anyone else and only believed in the set of methods he had devised in his own mind.If there was one word to describe it, it would be superstition. In a world without gods and ghosts, superstition represents ignorance, but in a world with gods and ghosts, superstition is still ignorance, it's just a different kind of thing to be superstitious about.

At this moment, Danyang Zi reached into his sleeve with his right hand and pulled out a copper bell with a missing corner. It was the kind of bell he had seen in zombie movies used to control zombies.

As he began to shake it vigorously, the piercing sound of the bell instantly rang out, and Li Huowang suddenly felt a splitting headache. He instinctively covered his head and clenched his teeth.

This eerie sound of the copper bell not only affected his hearing, but also his eyes.

Everything around him began to twist and distort, and the whole world seemed to shake violently like an earthquake.

"What's going on? Danyang Zi, what are you doing? Did I make a mistake? Did he discover something?"

Just as Li Huowang was thinking this, he saw the corners of the table, the edge of Danyang Zi's Daoist robe, and even the side of the Tian Shu next to him, all the edges and angles of anything visible in the room, slowly gathering and twisting in front of Danyang Zi.

It was difficult to describe what this thing made up of the edges and corners of objects looked like, but the only thing that was certain was that it could be alive.

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Li Huowang thought he had seen it wrong. He shook his head hard, and it was fine if he didn't shake it, but when he shook his head, that thing actually split into two.