007 Qingfeng Taoist Temple

Li Huowang was lying in the hospital bed,wearing a restraint suit specially designed for the hospital.He silently stared at the hook for the drip bottle above his head,as if waiting for something.

With a"creak,"the door of the ward opened."Hey,Xiao Li,you were recovering so well before.What happened this time?"Li Huowang's attending doctor walked in,looking at him with disappointment on his face.

Hearing this,Li Huowang,with his head wrapped in white gauze,immediately grew anxious and began to explain,"Doctor,they attacked Yang Na first!I was forced to fight back to protect her!"

The doctor bent his index finger and pushed his glasses up."Is that what you call a counter-attack?It's more like a counter-kill!Liu Jianye is still in the ICU.That kick of yours almost sent him straight to hell.You've been here for quite a while and know everyone's situation.Didn't you think about Master Liu's condition before you took action?I thought you were a sensible kid."

Thinking of Yang Na,who was scared into a flood of tears,Li Huowang seemed a bit indignant."So what if he's crazy?Does having a mental illness give him the right to do whatever he wants?If I had to choose between letting Yang Na get hurt and going to jail,I'd choose the latter."

"You—"The attending doctor was rendered speechless by Li Huowang's retort.

Finally,he sighed and shook his head."Forget it.The dean has already called the families of both sides.You don't need to worry about these things."

Hearing this,Li Huowang curled up slightly and lay on his side facing the empty side of the bed.He started to calculate in his mind whether the jade pendant worth 400,000 yuan would be enough for the compensation.

However,he wasn't panicked at all.After seeing that the pill really worked,Li Huowang suddenly realized that there were many new options in his life.

Noticing that his young patient was in a low mood,the doctor comforted him,"Xiao Li,don't worry.You won't go to jail.The hospital can issue a certificate for you.Stop thinking about these things.Just focus on recovering,and we'll handle the rest."

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

"What are you thanking me for?I'm your attending doctor,and you're so young.Of course,I have to take good care of you."Li Huowang felt the doctor's hand patting his shoulder.

"However,Xiao Li,tell me the truth.How did you hurt them like that?That's not something an ordinary person can do.Were you in a normal state at that time,or did you fall into some new stress-induced hallucination?"

Hearing this,Li Huowang tensed up,and his attention immediately focused on his coat pocket."Well...I..."

"I'm a psychologist and quite good at this.Don't try to hide your condition.You'd better think carefully before you answer.I really hate it when my patients lie to me."

Although the doctor's tone was gentle,Li Huowang felt the invisible pressure in the room."What should I do?I can't let him know about the pill."

Just as Li Huowang was anxiously looking for a way out,everything around him began to become unstable,and the doctor's voice grew more and more faint.

Within a few seconds,he found himself in another hallucination,lying on the stone bed in Xuanyang's single-room cave.

He sat up,covering his head,and looked at the simple furnishings around him,then smiled."Well,anyway,this is also a way to solve the problem."

This time,he didn't plan to go back so soon,in case the doctor was still there.

Walking out of the room,Li Huowang watched his fellow disciples coming and going in the cave tunnel.He started to plan his next move.

Since those pills were real,he couldn't be as casual as before.He had to manage this place well to get more benefits from it.

Fortunately,his current identity was no longer a medicinal ingredient in the material room but a registered disciple with a scabby head,which gave him much more freedom in action.

When he saw a bearded Taoist priest in a Taoist robe walking past him,Li Huowang's eyes lit up,and he quickly chased after him."Senior brother,senior brother!"

The bearded Taoist priest turned around and saw that it was Li Huowang.His attitude was neither warm nor cold."Junior brother Xuanyang,what's the matter?"

Li Huowang imitated their way of speaking and replied,"Junior brother has just become Master's disciple.Please,senior brother,clarify for me what I should do next?"

"Don't blame senior brother for speaking bluntly.Although you were personally taken in by Master,you have the shallowest qualifications.For now,you can only run errands in Qingfeng Taoist Temple."

"If you want Master to teach you the way to become an immortal,that's only for the closed-door disciples.You're not qualified yet.Come with me and wait outside the alchemy room now."

"Become an immortal...?"Li Huowang murmured to himself.He had never heard of any immortal being made through human-based alchemy.

"Can Master really become an immortal?"

A hint of pride appeared on the bearded Taoist priest's face."Of course.Master is a person with great supernatural powers.Just serve him well."

From this senior brother named Xuanyin,Li Huowang also learned about the personnel composition of the entire cave Taoist temple.There were a total of five registered disciples,one closed-door disciple,and the temple master,Danyangzi.

Apart from these people,the rest were peripheral personnel,such as cooks,medicinal ingredients in the material room,and young Taoist boys doing odd jobs.There were about a hundred or so of them in total.

This was Li Huowang's first time having a new understanding of the entire Taoist temple.The number of people in the temple was relatively small,and it could even be described as shabby,especially after a large number of people died not long ago.

During the conversation,the oppressive alchemy furnace appeared in front of Li Huowang again.Wispy white smoke was floating out of the furnace,as if something was being refined inside.

This time,besides Danyangzi,there was also his closed-door disciple,a gloomy-looking young man.

After waiting beside Xuanyin for a while,Li Huowang was assigned a task.He was asked to take the material list to the material room to check the ingredients,just like what Xuanyang used to do.

When Li Huowang,holding a white whisk,arrived at the material room,everyone who was working there looked over.Their nervous eyes showed a hint of fear.

The albino girl pursed her lips and stepped forward two steps eagerly,but in the end,she said nothing and slowly retreated in fear.

Their identities had changed.The oppressed had become the oppressor.

Li Huowang's mind started to work as he looked at them.Since their identities had changed,he might be able to get some benefits from this.

"Hey,do you have any money on you?"As soon as he said this,everyone was stunned."Money,don't you understand?Silver,gold,or jade pendants are also okay."

To be honest,Li Huowang really needed money now.He didn't know how much the compensation for Old Liu would be.His family was just an ordinary one.If the compensation was large,his mother might have to sell the house.This was what he urgently needed.

"It's useless to keep the money here anyway.Just give it to me.Consider it protection money.I'll protect you from now on."

Put so bluntly,the others understood.The people in the material room began to rummage through their clothes.They didn't expect Li Huowang to protect them;they just hoped that after giving him the things,he wouldn't bully them.

Half a thumb-sized piece of blackened broken silver,a copper hairpin,and more than forty copper coins with a round outer shape and a square inner hole were all his gains.

Looking at these things,Li Huowang sighed.It seemed he had miscalculated.These guys didn't have much money at all.The money these things could be exchanged for was probably less than what was on his medical insurance card.