The Unruly Immortals

"Sss, sss--" The sound kept ringing out as black liquid spurted from Li Huowang's gash.

After all, it was his own stomach, and Li Huowang fell to the ground in extreme agony.

Yet, when he saw Master Danyang's eerie body also begin to falter, a trace of satisfaction flashed across his face.

As long as he could kill Master Danyang, any amount of suffering was bearable!

"You ungrateful beast! If it weren't for the Taoist Master's intervention, you'd still be wallowing in your hysterical delusions!"

Li Huowang gritted his teeth, pressing down harder with the trembling blade.

"Did I fucking ask for your help? It's because of you!! I'm living in such agony!!"

"Very well then!!" A supreme killing intent flashed in all three of Master Danyang's eyes, and this intent also infected Li Huowang.

In that moment, Li Huowang's heart was devoid of any other feelings; his sole desire was to kill Master Danyang!

Just as the oppressive atmosphere reached its apex, a massive swarm of flies descended from the sky, enveloping the two men completely with decay and filth.

In the distance, the six nuns of An Ci Nunnery, clasping Buddha Beads in their hands, forcefully pressed their palms together, and with the giant Buddha statue behind them, they began chanting anew.

"Suffering, accumulation, cessation, path, no wisdom, and also no attainment, with nothing to attain, Bodhisattva relies on prajna paramita, hence the mind is without obstacles, without fear, far from inverted thoughts, it is nirvana, all Buddhas of the three times rely on prajna paramita!"

As the chanting began, the nuns' aging, dirtiness, and corpulence rapidly diminished.

These elements intertwined and spread incessantly toward the sky.

In contrast, a remarkable change occurred in the sky: where the firmament cracked open, an all-encompassing eye appeared—an eye of an Arhat, unblemished and unclouded, in furious defiance.

"Ha!" A fierce shout resounded for tens of miles, vibrating the entire space, and all the anomalies of An Ci Nunnery swiftly dispersed, including Master Danyang.

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Groggily, Bai Lingmiao came to, and when she fully regained her senses, she found herself face down in front of a greasy pot of fried rice, frantically shoveling it into her mouth with both hands.

"Ugh--!" She spat out the nauseating fried rice from her mouth and looked around in panic.

After looking around for a while, she realized she was sitting normally in the kitchen of An Ci Nunnery, surrounded by fat nuns eating, with the sounds of chewing and swallowing incessantly penetrating her ears.

Turning her head back to the iron pot, she saw that the rice wasn't just for her alone; it was for the whole table.

Gouwa, Xiaoman, Baolu, Yang Kid, Gao Zhijian—everyone was there, devouring their food just like the nuns.

However, they soon came to their senses and looked around in a panic.

"What... what's going on? How did we end up here?" The others clearly hadn't grasped what had happened yet.

Bai Lingmiao quickly scanned the area and noticed that everyone was there, except Li Huowang was nowhere to be found.

"What the hell is going on? Weren't we supposed to be exorcising evil from senior brother? How did we end up here eating? They didn't even serve a single side dish, how can we eat something so greasy?"

Gouwa finished speaking, glanced at other tables, but the nuns there were too engrossed in their frenzied gorging to pay him any attention, feasting not on fried rice but on some moldy mantou and other foodstuffs.

A hint of urgency on her face, Bai Lingmiao walked over to a fat nun and inquired, "Esteemed master, have you seen my brother Li?"

"Brother Li? Is it the kid Xinsu? He's with Master Jingxin, you go find her."

The nun answered without turning her head, greedily snatching food as she spoke, fearing that being too slow would mean getting less to eat.

As the group once again made their way through the swamp of moldy food and arrived at the front of Master Jingxin's quarters,

they saw Li Huowang standing there talking to a very strangely looking nun. This nun was odd indeed, her eye sockets devoid of eyes, with both eyes completely shrunken inward.

She appeared very thin, yet the skin on her body was excessively loose, with the skin from her chin hanging down to her belly, and the skin from her belly draping to the ground, resembling a large Taoist robe.

Hearing footsteps, Li Huowang turned around, smiling and waving them over.

Bai Lingmiao felt surprised in her heart, this was the first time she had seen Brother Li smile.

"You've arrived? Weren't scared, were you? The divine skills of the masters at An Ci Nunnery can be somewhat uncontrollable, affecting others is quite normal," Li Huowang explained to the others.

As soon as Bai Lingmiao approached, she was dazzled by the emaciated nun's appearance, the other party was too beautiful.

Even if the other party looked bizarre, even if she herself was also a woman.

Pulling Li Huowang a little aside, Bai Lingmiao asked in a low voice, "Brother Li, who is this person?"

"She is Master Jingxin, what, don't you recognize her?"

As soon as Li Huowang finished speaking, the blind girl with flesh dragging on the ground nodded at the others.

"Her?! Jingxin?! The one who couldn't even walk because she was so fat?"

All were shocked, their eyes widening at the stark contrast.

"The cultivation techniques of An Ci Nunnery are different from other places. Let's not ask any more questions, but fortunately, Master Jingxin's great efforts had an effect, my troubles are now gone. Master Danyang won't be coming out."

Upon hearing Li Huowang's last sentence, everyone smiled and congratulated Li Huowang.

After a brief exchange, a smiling Li Huowang raised his hands and pressed down, suppressing further questions from the others about the details.

"I still have some matters to attend to here, I'm going to have to stay a bit longer, you go ahead. I will catch up as soon as I'm done."

"Brother Li, what matter requires so much time? Why don't we stay and help you?" Bai Lingmiao was the first to disagree upon hearing that they were to split up.

"Don't fuss, you can't help with cultivation matters. Just go ahead, it won't be more than ten days, I will catch up."

"Besides, don't you all want to go home? Hurry up and leave, you've already been delayed long enough, any more and you'll be spending New Year's out here."

"I'm not saying I won't leave. Don't worry, as long as you follow the route marked on the map, I can definitely catch up."

With Li Huowang's persuasion, the other disciples were finally convinced and turned to leave An Ci Nunnery.

As their figures gradually disappeared, the smile on Li Huowang's face also slowly cooled off, and was replaced by pain.

He untied his red Taoist robe and opened his shirt, revealing a huge gash in his abdomen, with dense white maggots burrowing in and out.

"Inside An Ci Nunnery, such a wound will heal in no time, but there's something else you should worry about, you know what I mean."