016 The Head

Thanks to Zheng Kun's actions,two of Li Huowang's ribs were broken,and his body was left with several dark,sunken bruises.Fortunately,this wasn't a big deal.With the help of the pills,he could barely treat these minor injuries.

Compared to his injuries,he cared more about his own scheme.

It happened to be the first day of the lunar month.Taking advantage of another conflict with Zheng Kun,Li Huowang casually told him the information about"Lord You"that he had learned from Bai Lingmiao.

When he saw Zheng Kun's expression change slightly,Li Huowang couldn't help but feel a rush of joy in his heart.

In fact,he had no idea what the other person would do after getting this information.He just wanted to give it a try.Anyway,he had nothing better to do.It was like beating the bushes to see if there were any dates.Now it seemed that he had succeeded.The other person must have his own selfish motives.

Time passed without a sense of day or night in the cave.Soon,the first day of the lunar month arrived.This was the best time for Danyangzi to refine pills.He would stay in the pill-refining room for the whole morning,and coincidentally,it was also the time when"Lord You"was away.

Although Qingfeng Taoist Temple wasn't very large,it wasn't small either.After living there for so long,Li Huowang had already figured out Zheng Kun's routine.However,he didn't do anything and quietly sat cross-legged in the Zhengyi Hall.

"Did I guess wrong?Is this guy not as greedy as I thought?"Li Huowang lay on his bed,thinking about what had gone wrong.

Fifteen days passed,and it was the first day of the second lunar month.Zheng Kun still showed no sign of action.

Just when Li Huowang thought he had miscalculated,on the fifteenth day of the second lunar month,the Zhengyi Hall,which Zheng Kun often visited,was empty.Finally,Li Huowang couldn't hold back his curiosity.

When he saw Danyangzi opening the furnace,Li Huowang rushed towards Danyangzi's residence as planned.

Just as he was about to reach the cave entrance,Li Huowang suddenly stopped in his tracks.He saw Zheng Kun standing guard in the distance.He didn't go inside.

Watching him carefully observing at the door,Li Huowang immediately understood that someone else had gone in for him.He was keeping watch.This guy was more suspicious than he had imagined.

After about half an hour,Li Huowang saw Xuanyin sneaking out from inside.

Zheng Kun glanced at him,took out a black talisman and pasted it on their knees,then disappeared like a gust of wind.

The door was only slightly ajar,like a tempting trap waiting for someone to enter.

Seeing that the other person had acted as a pathfinder for him,Li Huowang knew that even if there were any traps in the room,Zheng Kun might have removed them.He slowly approached.This was his chance.

Danyangzi's residence was quite spacious,but it was very messy and dirty,and there was a terrible smell of dead rats inside.

Despite the poor environment,Li Huowang immediately spotted the most valuable thing at a glance:a stone slab covered with a net of black-threaded copper coins.

Without a doubt,that stone slab was the Heavenly Book that Danyangzi had mentioned.He walked over carefully and examined the contents on it through the black threads.

Zheng Kun must have been trying to secretly learn the immortal-cultivating technique,but judging from the scene,he hadn't succeeded.

Li Huowang carefully tried to make out the contents of the Heavenly Book.The words were extremely obscure.He could barely tell that they were pictographic characters,but they seemed to be from an even more ancient dynasty.

Although the evolution of Chinese characters over the past thousand years had been relatively small,he still had a hard time reading them.

The more he read,the more something seemed off.Didn't Danyangzi say that the way to become an immortal was to practice both inner and outer pills?It seemed that this guy wasn't following what was written on the book at all.

"Happy steps,the sound of Gandharvas...Spread like clouds,providing universal shade...With a wonderful body,let all obtain peace and liberation..."

Moreover,this thing didn't seem like an immortal-cultivating technique at all.It looked more like a sutra.

"Hehe."A strange snicker sent a chill down Li Huowang's neck.He quickly turned around but found no one behind him.

On the wall with a hole dug out,there was only a blue-and-white porcelain vase as thick as a forearm.

"Something's not right."A frightened Li Huowang started to retrace his steps.It seemed that Zheng Kun hadn't cleared all the dangers.

"Don't move,okay?"A high-pitched and delicate female voice came from behind.

Li Huowang slowly turned around again,and the sight in front of him made his hair stand on end.At the mouth of the narrow vase just now,there was a white,skeletal head of a little girl.

Although it was a little girl's head,the skin color didn't look like that of a living person.Especially the bright red blushes on both sides of her face were extremely scary.

Staring at the tiny,extremely red dot in the center of her forehead,Li Huowang found it more and more eerie.

In that instant,he also understood what Danyangzi used to read the Heavenly Book for him.It was the thing right in front of him.

"Are you in the same group as the guy just now?Hehe,you're in big trouble.As long as I shake the bell,my dad will come back."There were several copper bells tied with red thread on her pigtails.

Hearing what she said,Li Huowang was extremely anxious at first,but the next second,his expression suddenly calmed down."You can call him.It'll just let your dad know that you've been lying to him."

When he saw a hint of panic flash across the vase-headed girl's face,Li Huowang sneered inwardly.He had guessed right.Yes,he wasn't the only one trying to deceive the illiterate bald-headed Danyangzi.This unknown thing had been doing it for a long time!

If the upper beam is crooked,the lower beams will follow.Everyone in Qingfeng Taoist Temple had their own ulterior motives!

"Well...it's not my fault.Those words are so badly written.I simply can't understand them.Dad forced me to read them to him.What could I do?"The vase-headed girl said aggrievedly,on the verge of tears.

Looking at the completely panicked expression on the vase-headed girl's face,Li Huowang thought for a moment and quickly made a decision.

"Okay,let's make three rules.I'll leave this place now.You act as if you didn't see me,and I'll act as if I don't know about your business.This will be good for everyone."

The vase-headed girl swayed and finally nodded."All right,hurry up and leave.I'll act as if you've never been here."

Li Huowang slowly moved towards the door,"Since the Heavenly Book is fake,did you make up those pill recipes for human-based alchemy and tell them to your dad?"

A simple-minded smile appeared on the vase-headed girl's face."Yes,because those are the only things I remember.I pretended they were written in the book and told them to Dad.Don't worry,they won't kill anyone.I don't want Dad to die.I'm just afraid that Dad will think I'm useless and abandon me.Look,I don't have hands or feet..."

Just as the vase-headed girl was getting excited,Li Huowang suddenly raised his right hand high,clenched the jade pendant,and smashed it hard against the vase.

The round jade pendant crashed into the vase with a white blur.Cracks appeared,and in the panic of the vase-headed girl,she fell heavily to the ground.

The vase shattered,and the internal organs wrapped in black Buddhist beads,mixed with feces and urine,were directly exposed to the air.

"WuwuwuDad!!It hurts.Dad,it hurts so much."The cries of the vase-headed girl grew weaker and weaker.