009 The Black Tai Sui

"The Tai Sui, the Black Tai Sui," came the icy voice of Master Danyang in the small storeroom.

Li Huowang tilted his head slightly and took another look at the disgusting thing in the master's hand. After a careful look, he found that this thing seemed somewhat similar to what was inside the black cauldron. No, it was exactly the man - eating thing from the black cauldron.

"So, this thing is called the Black Tai Sui? Could it be that he intends to use it to make pills? What a strange taste," Li Huowang thought to himself.

With a gentle flick of Master Danyang's wrist, the wriggling mass of Black Tai Sui arced through the air and landed right on Li Huowang's instep. The sticky and soft feeling made his scalp tingle. His legs trembled uncontrollably as he stepped back continuously.

Staring at the Black Tai Sui on the ground, now covered with dust, Li Huowang looked up at Master Danyang in shock, utterly confused about what the master meant.

"This is a reward for you. Pick it up and swallow it. Before, as a medicinal guide, it didn't matter. But now that you're my disciple, you can't be so careless. It can suppress your hysteria."

Li Huowang seemed not to understand what he was saying, nor did he want to. His face turned deathly pale as he kept backing away. "I won't eat it! I'm not sick!!"

"Refusing? Humph, it's not up to you. Changming, Changren."

Master Danyang tilted his chin slightly. Two sword - carrying Taoist priests beside him quickly stepped forward and grabbed Li Huowang's arms, one on each side.

Then, with a wave of his right hand, the Black Tai Sui, which was wriggling towards the corner on the ground, flew straight into Master Danyang's hand.

Watching Master Danyang approaching him with that revolting thing, Li Huowang's body began to tremble uncontrollably. A bone - chilling cold seeped through his body from the inside out.

He instinctively tried to struggle and escape, but the hands of his two senior brothers on his shoulders were as firm as iron.

Fortunately, he still had one last resort. As Li Huowang gasped for air, his chest heaving violently, out of fear, he gritted his teeth, squeezed his eyes shut, and concentrated all his inner and physical strength towards the center.

"Huowang? Huowang! What's wrong with you? Are you in great pain?" Yang Na's gentle voice sounded like heavenly music to Li Huowang at that moment.

When he opened his eyes and saw the young girl in a high - necked white sweater in front of him, he was so excited that he rushed forward and hugged her tightly, as if grabbing a life - saving straw.

A faint blush appeared on the innocent girl's cheeks. She struggled gently and whispered in a voice as soft as a mosquito, "Huowang, Huowang, let me go quickly. Auntie and the others are watching from behind."

Li Huowang looked up and saw his mother standing beside the attending doctor, looking at them with an affectionate smile. "Oh~ My son is so brave."

Looking at the clean and tidy ward, the bright sun outside the window, and his beloved family, Li Huowang's heart, which had been shrouded in fear, gradually calmed down.

The attending doctor pushed his glasses up and stepped forward with a slight frown. "Xiao Li, what did you see in the hallucination? Your emotional fluctuations are quite intense. What's going on recently? Have you been following my instructions?"

Thinking of what he had just experienced, Li Huowang's heart clenched suddenly. He said anxiously to his attending doctor, "Doctor, is there any medicine that can temporarily suppress these hallucinations? I really can't take it anymore. I just want to take a short break."

"Alas, fine. I'll prescribe some Haloperidol and Perphenazine for you. But, Xiao Li, drug treatment can only play an auxiliary role. If you want to completely get rid of the hallucinations, you still have to follow my method," the doctor said and started prescribing medicine on his tablet.

When he saw the few blue capsules brought by the nurse, Li Huowang rushed forward, too impatient to drink water, and popped them into his mouth directly.

He didn't want to think about his master or the pills anymore. All he wanted was to be quiet for a while. The previous scene had really scared him badly.

The capsules had a sticky and gritty texture and tasted disgusting, but he forced himself to swallow them despite the nausea.

"Xiao Li, tell me, what scared you in the hallucination just now?"

After taking the medicine, Li Huowang felt much better. He replied with a smile, "It was nothing. It's just that the tone of that guy over there was so strange. It seemed as if he was saying that the other side was the real world and our side was the hallucination. Hahaha."

As soon as he said this, the air around him seemed to freeze. The unusually bright colors dimmed. Yang Na, her mother, the attending doctor, and the nurse who had brought the medicine all froze in place.

The sudden change around him made Li Huowang's body tremble gradually. His breathing became more and more rapid. He looked out of the window helplessly. The once - bright sky had turned pitch - black, and the safe and peaceful environment had vanished.

A tangible sense of fear enveloped him. Panic overwhelmed all his other emotions. Instinctively, Li Huowang grabbed Yang Na and rushed into his mother's arms.

But as soon as he touched his mother, her body exploded like a bubble. His reliable and strong mother, who could always shield him from the wind and rain, was gone.

"Huowang..." Li Huowang's body shuddered violently. He turned around abruptly and watched helplessly as Yang Na's body completely faded away before his eyes. The only one he loved was gone forever.

At this moment, all the positive and beautiful things that Li Huowang cared about had disappeared, leaving him with only despair, depression, and pain.

The white walls of the hospital faded away rapidly like a receding tide, and he was back in the dim cave among the mountains.

Li Huowang, with blood - shot eyes and veins bulging on his forehead, wanted to howl and pour out all his despair and suffering. But he couldn't. His throat was stuffed tightly with the Black Tai Sui, and he couldn't make a sound. All the despair and pain came back to him, and he had to bear it all.

Watching his disciple kneeling on the ground, trembling and retching, Master Danyang, with his hands behind his back, shook his head and walked towards the door of the storeroom.

"Tsk tsk tsk tsk. You're so crazy and still say you don't have hysteria? You're the sickest one in the whole storeroom. Do you think I just randomly picked medicinal guides before?"

"Alright, the hysteria is gone. Now you can work properly. Remember, Qingfeng Hall doesn't keep idle people. Come to me on the first day of each month to get your medicine."

After saying that, Master Danyang's other disciples followed him out. In the entire storeroom, besides Li Huowang on the ground, there were only the other medicinal guides around.

The medicinal guides, with their strange looks and various congenital or acquired diseases, looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment.

After about half an incense stick's time, the Black Tai Sui in Li Huowang's mouth finally slid down, and his heart - rending howls echoed continuously in the cave.

"Why!! Why, even after I've come to this hellhole, this illness still won't leave me alone!!"