CH 56

"Li Senior Brother, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Li Huowang's expression a little off, Ling Miao instinctively tightened his grip on Li Huowang's hand.

Li Huowang smiled and shook his head. "It's nothing. I just thought that I'm about to leave seclusion soon, and I'm a little worried about the outside world. Let's go. Let's go help the Lu family dismantle the stage, and then leave quickly."

Li Huowang said this, but his gaze was cold, and his temper was becoming more and more like Danyang Zi.

This change made Li Huowang's spine chill. Coupled with the fact that others saw Danyang Zi as himself, the speculation at that time was no longer just a speculation, but gradually becoming a reality.

If it was just a personality change, it would be fine. Li Huowang was more worried that he would eventually become Danyang Zi himself over time.

"If that's the case, everything said before makes sense. Danyang Zi is not protecting me, but protecting himself!"

Thinking of this possibility, Li Huowang's heart began to feel restless. If there was someone he hated the most in this world, Danyang Zi, the old lunatic, would definitely be the first.

He didn't want to become Danyang Zi. If that was the case, he would rather die!

Li Huowang even suddenly had an impulse in his heart to turn around and return to Zhengde Temple immediately. No matter what difficulties he would face later, he would let those monks hold a great salvation feast first, and deal with Danyang Zi later.

But this was just a thought. It was still possible to reconcile if they didn't tear their faces apart before. However, after killing those seven Buddhas, Li Huowang believed that those monks would probably write him off at first sight.

Those monks were not real monks who ate vegetarian food and chanted sutras. They were capable of doing anything.

Fortunately, according to the description of the abbot before, besides Zhengde Temple, there were other sects. Li Huowang could only think of a way from them now. If Zhengde Temple could do it, other sects could do it too.

Li Huowang walked to the mule cart and opened the map to study it carefully.

He had never planned to contact those people before because Zhengde Temple had a bad reputation.

But now he had to, since Zhengde Temple had a way to deal with Danyang Zi, other sects could do it too.

Although he didn't know what they wanted, he could tell from their actions that they coveted something of his.

"Is it the celestial book left by Danyang Zi?" Li Huowang thought to himself.

If he didn't want to become Danyang Zi, he had to find a way from them.

"If all else fails, I'll take out that celestial book and exchange it with them." Li Huowang secretly made this decision. This was the only bargaining chip he had at the moment.

In Li Huowang's uneasy mood, they finally arrived at the checkpoint town.

This small town was full of merchants coming and going, and some people with different clothing styles. They were all here to do business.

Looking at the distant checkpoint, Li Huowang looked at Lv Zhuangyuan beside him. "Master Lv, it seems like we have to part ways here."Lv Zhuangyuan also sighed and bowed to Li Huowang, "Thank you, Little Daoist, for your help. Without you, we would have suffered a lot on this journey."

Of course, the Lv family troupe could not pass the checkpoint. They had to take another route back and return to their village.

After they rested at home, their routine would repeat itself. This was the destiny of small theater troupes. If they wanted to get rid of the hardships of living outdoors, they had to buy a theater building and settle down permanently.

"Have a safe journey. I don't know what Little Daoist is up to, but we wish you success! Here, take some of our homemade salted duck eggs for the road."

Lv Xiucai placed the jar of salted duck eggs on the cart with reluctance.

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"Thanks for your kind words. If we have the chance, we will watch the Lv family's play again. Honestly, after watching it so many times, I've become addicted."

After bidding farewell to each other, the cart, now restocked with food, slowly approached the checkpoint.

Watching them leave, Lv Zhuangyuan smoked his tobacco pipe and hit his son's head, who looked like a little boy, with it, showing his reluctance to part with them.

"Don't think about that white-haired girl. Our family is not wealthy, so we can't afford to provoke her. Go home and find a matchmaker."

"Dad, what are you talking about? I don't like her. I really don't." Lv Xiucai denied it frantically while the horse's head turned towards the bustling street.

"Dad, you're so stingy. How could you give him a jar of salted duck eggs?" Lv Juren, holding his daughter, asked curiously.

"What nonsense! Don't think your dad is a stingy person. Remember, when it's time to be frugal, be frugal. When it's time to be generous, don't be stingy. Little Daoist is not an ordinary person, so if we make friends with him, our Lv family will have connections."

After wandering for a while, they finally passed the checkpoint. Although the surroundings were still forests, Li Huowang felt that something was different.

There were not only their group on the road, but also other carriages and people carrying poles.

It was easy to distinguish their identities by their clothes. Those from inside the checkpoint wore left-collared clothes, while those from the Four Qi kingdom wore right-collared clothes.

Li Huowang opened Lv Zhuangyuan's jar and found it was filled with salted duck eggs.

The little boy beside him leaned over and said in surprise, "Duck eggs are valuable these days, and salt is also valuable. Lv Zhuangyuan is really generous."

Li Huowang covered the jar and his impression of the old man improved.

"Stop talking nonsense. Does anyone here have a family in the Four Qi kingdom and is ready to go home?"

Everyone looked at each other, and Little Man, wrapped in black fur, raised her right hand and said in a trembling voice, "My family is in the Four Qi kingdom."

As soon as she said that, the surroundings fell silent. Everyone knew about her grievances with her parents and what she planned to do when she returned home.

"Little Man, what if..." Bai Lingmiao was about to persuade her, but Li Huowang interrupted her directly."Okay, you should be familiar with this place. Tell me, what kind of place is Sizi, and are there any big sects like Zhengde Temple?"

Little Man, whose face was covered by a black hood, took a deep breath. "I don't know. Although I live here, I have never left the village in more than ten years. I saw a shaman dance once when I was nine years old at the entrance of the village."

"Shaman dance..." Li Huowang felt a little scared when he heard the word "shaman." The God of Happiness had given him too much shadow.

"Is there any place where they live together?"

"No, I heard that the shamans all live in their own homes and worship the immortals at home."

"Immortals? Do they have names?" Li Huowang's mind flashed with all sorts of strange things in this world.

"Red, yellow, white, willow, and sorrow. I've heard of five different immortal families, but I don't know what they are."