The Unruly Immortals

"Taoist Master, this way, watch out for the dung, don't step on it."

With a bitter expression, Wu Shuifeng guided Li Huowang while muttering under her breath.

"Oh, my life is so hard, from the time he was a child, he was weak and sickly. I raised him with so much hardship, and after much difficulty, he got married. Yet, before he could have a grandson, his wife got possessed. Oh... life is so hard."

"She must have been chopping wood on the barren mountain some days ago, got too close to that broken temple, and stirred something up. That place is a no-go, it's where the Wutong is worshipped, very sinister."

Li Huowang, carrying two swords on his back, frowned deeply, listening to the old woman's rambling, as he observed the surroundings.

This village looked very rundown, with dilapidated fences and slanted walls, and filth everywhere made him frown even more. The people in this remote mountain village seemed not very industrious.

Just then, Wu Shuifeng stopped at her doorway, turned around, and looked at Li Huowang with hope in her eyes, saying, "Little Taoist Master, see, this is my home, the girl is being worshiped inside."

What lay before Li Huowang was a row of three decrepit houses with cracked, muddy, filthy walls, but they didn't let the wind through.

Li Huowang didn't speak, stepped inside, and immediately spotted a simple bald man squatting in a corner of the wall, talking miserably to an old man.

A frail-looking woman, wrapped in an old red quilt, sat cross-legged on the kang, her expression languid. In front of her were three bowls of rice, each with three incense sticks stuck in it.

"Daniu, don't worry, Mother found a Taoist Master! No matter what evil spirit possessed your wife, he can surely drive it away!"

Lv Shuifeng comforted the bald man, then hurriedly came to Li Huowang, who stood with his arms crossed, to explain.

"Taoist Master, you see, this is my daughter-in-law, her name is Zhao Er, born in the year of the Rooster, her birth particulars are..."

"Don't talk nonsense, speak the important stuff!"

Li Huowang's stern words interrupted Wu Shui'er's ramblings. The others in the room immediately took a step back, intimidated by his presence, as this Taoist Master seemed to exude a faint scent of blood and had quite a temper.

"She... she got possessed, she was fine before, then suddenly went crazy, grabbing and biting my son and me, you see, she's bitten me, it's like a cat demon!"

Li Huowang quickly stepped over to the woman on the kang, staring intensely at her.

However, faced with Li Huowang's gaze, the woman's pale-blue face showed no panic, as she sat feigning sleep.

Even when Li Huowang's Copper Coin Sword was pressed against her neck, she had no reaction.

This scene frightened the bald man behind Li Huowang. "Tao... Taoist Master! Don't do that, she's my wife! I spent a fortune to marry her, and she hasn't borne a son yet, you can't kill her."

Just then, the woman on the bed made a new move, her body shuddered abruptly, let out a burp, then as she kept shaking, accompanied by more burps, she began to speak.

"...Burp! Dare to call for help...burp... Chen Family father and son? Do you want the Chen Family to die out? Hmm?"

Upon hearing this, the bald man and his father at the door were terrified, quickly kneeling in front of the kang, kowtowing repeatedly to the woman.

"Oh, Great Immortal, please, you're magnanimous, spare my family. Our Chen Family has had a poor fate, we've never done anything evil!"

That disheveled Zhao Er suddenly raised her head, glaring at Li Huowang. "Meat! I want to eat meat!!"

"Oh! There's meat, I'll get it right away!!" Soon, a bowl of steamed preserved meat was brought over.

Zhao Er on the kang suddenly thrust her bruised hands out from under the quilt, snatched the bowl, and started devouring it fiercely, as if she were a starving ghost reborn.

After eating half, her right hand suddenly pointed fiercely at her mother-in-law, "Wu Clan!! You are evil to the core, you deserve to not live past fifty!!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Shui'er's face turned completely pale, knowing that she was only a year away from fifty. The Great Immortal had extensive divine skills; if he said she wouldn't live past fifty, she probably truly wouldn't last past fifty!

She immediately knelt on the ground, begging for mercy, pleading for her life, blaming her greed for hiring the Taoist in a moment of folly.

The room was in chaos at this moment, but Li Huowang stood there in the center like a spectator, gazing at everything around him.

Just as Li Huowang noticed the bald man whipping his mother under Zhao Er's direction, he finally acted.

He reinserted the Copper Coin Sword back behind him, directly grasped the quilt wrapped around Zhao Er's body, and yanked it free, revealing Zhao Er's slender figure, yet that was not all.

Li Huowang extended his hand again, gripping Zhao Er's chest, and tore abruptly once more, with the tearing of fabric, Zhao Er's inner wear was suddenly exposed to the air.

"Ah!!!" Zhao Er let out a shriek, crossed her arms to cover her chest, and at this moment, everyone in the room was dumbfounded.

"Ha, I didn't know that someone possessed could still feel shame." Li Huowang's words shattered the façade, Zhao Er's possessed antics were all fake. There was no evil spirit in this room at all.

Upon realizing the truth, the bald man kneeling on the ground, gnashing his teeth in humiliation, suddenly grew enraged remembering everything experienced during this period.