75.Xu Shan's Inner Demons

In the main hall of the Baodan Sect. Yuan Yuan squatted in front of Xu Shan, looking at him with envy on his face. Huang Zhiwen kept pacing back and forth on the spot, his hair was all messed up from scratching, and he was muttering to himself.

"What went wrong.... Which part exactly went wrong...."

Half an hour had passed. Xu Shan's performance at the beginning was still normal. But later, he somehow perked up and then started giggling... And he had been laughing until now.

He had never heard of anyone having such a strange reaction when crossing the inner demons. The inner demons were definitely a matter of life and death, or the heaviest burden in a person's heart. It had always been like this throughout history, without exception.... But it was the complete opposite with Xu Shan.

There was only one possibility, that he had refined the pill wrongly. But he had combined ancient and modern pill formulas and experimented for a whole year to make this pill. He had also been refining pills for decades. Although it was a brand-new pill, he still had confidence in his ability to succeed or fail. The Heart Demon Crossing Pill was refined just as he had envisioned, and there shouldn't be any problems.

After pacing around a few more times, Huang Zhiwen looked at Yuan Yuan who was squatting on the ground. "Disciple, I refined another Heart Demon Crossing Pill yesterday. How about you give it a try?"

Yuan Yuan swallowed a mouthful of saliva and couldn't help but feel a little tempted. Looking at Xu Shan's coquettish expression, he clearly seemed to be having a great time. Combining with his previous physical reactions, it seemed that he hadn't encountered the inner demons but a fox demon! His master's pill had failed, and not only that, but the effects of the pill were magically reversed! Instead of being torturous, it was enjoyable. Maybe it was worth a try! For now, there definitely didn't seem to be any risks.

A strange smile appeared on Yuan Yuan's face, and he turned his head. "Then your disciple will first..."

Before he could finish his sentence, a pitch-black pill had been flicked into his mouth by Huang Zhiwen. He always did this! He didn't even listen to what others had to say!

Yuan Yuan pulled a long face and sat cross-legged. Huang Zhiwen walked up to him and glanced at Xu Shan. Seeing that he still had a calm expression and showed no signs of pain, his gaze focused on Yuan Yuan.

Five minutes passed. Yuan Yuan, who had shown no signs of anything unusual before, suddenly trembled violently all over. He couldn't even maintain his cross-legged sitting position and fell to the ground! His limbs seemed to be controlled by some mysterious force, stretched straight, and shaking so fast that they created an afterimage. At the same time, his eyes rolled up, and a large amount of foam came out of his mouth.

Huang Zhiwen's face changed instantly. He reached out and lifted Yuan Yuan up, and with his other palm, he struck Yuan Yuan's back.

Puff! A mouthful of black water spurted out of Yuan Yuan's mouth. Huang Zhiwen forced out all the unabsorbed medicinal power of the pill, and then Yuan Yuan fell into a coma.

Huang Zhiwen did a quick check. After confirming that Yuan Yuan was okay, he let out a sigh of relief. Strange.... It was completely different from Xu Shan's performance. His disciple seemed to be having the normal reaction of encountering the inner demons. Although the reaction was a bit intense... He didn't know what Yuan Yuan had encountered.

After the time it took to burn a stick of incense, Yuan Yuan slowly woke up, but his mind was still in a state of extreme confusion. However, when he saw Huang Zhiwen leaning over, Yuan Yuan's chubby body shuddered, and he crawled backward several meters using his hands and feet!

"Master... I was wrong!!" Yuan Yuan screamed.

Huang Zhiwen frowned. "Did you encounter the inner demons? What did you see?"

Yuan Yuan came to his senses, looked around, touched his round face twice, and said in a frightened voice, "I... I... I saw you holding a jar of pills and stuffing them into my mouth..."

What? Had he become his disciple's inner demon? This unfilial disciple had too little experience. He should have thrown him into the Biluo Forest for some training earlier! Huang Zhiwen laughed out of anger. "You ungrateful wretch! I've raised you for nothing!"

"Master, I didn't mean that... There must be something wrong with the pill." Yuan Yuan, who had regained his senses, quickly argued.

That inner demon was too terrifying... It was unbearable to look at. In the inner demon illusion, his master was worse than an animal. He was tied up and forced to take pills, both from the mouth and... other places. He had no power to resist! But in reality, his master was still a human being and wouldn't want to kill him.

Huang Zhiwen ignored Yuan Yuan's explanation and frowned in deep thought. So it seemed that the pill was okay. Then what was going on with Xu Shan? Could it be that some people were born with an addiction to suffering and seeking death? Or was it just that his first attempt at refining the pill had failed?

"Master! Master, Xu Shan is crying... He's crying!" Yuan Yuan's shout woke Huang Zhiwen from his deep thought.

He immediately turned to look at Xu Shan. The smile that had been on his face before had disappeared. Two lines of tears flowed down his cheeks.

"Ah! It matches!" Huang Zhiwen was overjoyed.

Crying? Crying was right! He must have been scared to cry. The pill he refined was fine!

.....

"Mom?"

"Xiao Shan? Didn't you go to work today?"

Hearing this extremely familiar voice, Xu Shan's heart trembled. Tears streamed down his face.

He was holding a knife and taking President Lü hostage with one hand, and holding a phone with the other. In front of him were three armed personnel pointing guns at him and a negotiator. Everyone in the room was carefully observing Xu Shan's reaction.

"I'm on my lunch break. I thought of calling home. Is everything okay at home? Where's my dad?"

"Your dad is out. Everything at home is fine. Don't worry about it. How are you doing at the company?"

Hearing that gentle and patient female voice, Xu Shan's tears poured down like rain.

On Earth, he was just a small employee, an ordinary office worker who would feel nervous even when going abroad alone. But he was unexpectedly sent to another wild and mysterious world.

There were terrifying demonic beasts thousands of meters tall, cultivators who could overturn mountains and seas with a wave of their hands, and mysterious and unpredictable spells... In just a few months, he didn't have any time to adapt at all. The only thing he could do was to bury his fear deep in his heart and think about how to survive.

He was extremely happy to be able to return to the modern world in the inner demons. But when he saw President Lü wetting his pants out of fear, Xu Shan felt no joy in his heart.

He couldn't deceive himself. This was just a 'hoax' woven in his own consciousness. Even the videos in President Lü's computer were probably just because he couldn't forget the retired Youya.

His experience in the modern workplace was already insignificant to his identity as a cultivator. He didn't hold any grudges against anyone in his previous life. All he had wanted to do before was to do things that he had wanted to do but didn't dare to in his previous life and to experience the feeling of home more.

Until this phone call... Xu Shan finally understood. The real obstacle in his heart, the thing he was afraid of, was that he could never reach that destination.

The distance between the two worlds was something that he didn't have the courage to cross even if he exhausted all his strength.

Now, home was thousands of miles away. A train ticket or a plane ticket would be enough for him to see the figure that he had been longing for. But the inner demons wouldn't give him that time. Once he noticed the time, he only had two hours.

Even so, it was enough for him. Just being able to hear this voice... Just hearing it once would be enough, even if it was fake.

Xu Shan looked at the white clouds in the sky with blurry eyes and murmured softly. "Mom.... Have you eaten?"

"Xiao Shan, are you crying? Did you encounter something? If you have something, tell us at home." The voice on the other end of the phone sounded a bit nervous.

Xu Shan pursed his lips, turned the phone upside down, and turned his head to blow his nose hard. A large lump of green snot stuck to President Lü's bald head. It slowly flowed down his numb old face....

Seeing this, the negotiator relaxed all over, and the three armed personnel silently put away their weapons.

"Mom, I got promoted!" Xu Shan suppressed his emotions and said excitedly, "My boss is right beside me. He wants to say a few words to you."

He handed the phone to President Lü's ear. President Lü quickly adjusted his emotions. "Auntie.... Ah, no, ma'am. Xu Shan has always had excellent work performance in our company. This time, he won a major client for the company and is the number one hero of the company! So he was promoted to manager beyond the normal rules. His salary is 20,000 yuan a month, and the company will focus on training him as a reserve leader in the future."

"We have to thank you for raising such an excellent child who has made outstanding contributions to society!"

"Really?" The phone was on speakerphone, and the voice inside sounded extremely happy. "Then what about that Manager Li before?"

"He was fired."

"Thank you, President Lü. Xiao Shan has been honest and dutiful since he was a child. You can trust him to do things. He's so lucky to have a leader like you. I will definitely ask him to learn from you well..."

Hearing the somewhat humble voice on the phone, Xu Shan gritted his teeth tightly, and tears still couldn't stop flowing.

The clock on the wall showed that it was already 11:59. As the secon