The Unruly Immortals

Lying on the soft grass, Li Huowang, gasping for breath from exhaustion, looked at the writhing Black Taishui in the distance and laughed with joy.

Since Yang Na had given him chocolate before, he really hadn't been this happy in a long time,

even though his body ached unbearably, and he felt completely drained of energy. However, this time, after going through hell and high water to reach the underground, he finally achieved his goal.

With Black Taishui, he was finally able to say goodbye to those illusions—no longer having to toggle between reality and fantasy—he could escape from Xinsu's bewilderment.

"They all say that if you eat Black Taishui for too long, it will grow bigger and bigger inside your stomach."

"I don't believe it! If worse comes to worst, when I've eaten enough of it, I'll just cut open my stomach and dig it out, and then swallow it again!"

As Li Huowang was considering the probability of success for his plan, he suddenly realized that the expressions of the others were all wrong.

They had clearly escaped disaster, so why were they standing there with faces as if they had seen a ghost? And despite being injured himself, nobody seemed willing to offer him a hand.

"Don't just stand there, keep pulling the zipper. The other end of the chain is tied to Han Fu," Li Huowang ordered, "His little head is somehow still alive. Pull him up so I can pry some information from his mouth." Yet, unusually, no one paid any attention to him.

"What's gotten into you?" Li Huowang propped himself up with one hand on the soft grass and crawled towards them, but everyone instinctively took a step back.

"Brother Li? Are you really... Brother Li?" Bai Lingmiao, with hands clasped to her chest, cried as she looked at the thing before her with terror.

Without waiting for her to speak, Li Huowang had already sensed something terribly wrong with his body. He lifted his hands and with his single eye beneath his ear, he stared in shock.

As he slightly moved his fingers, Li Huowang saw the two fused fingers at his elbow twitching lightly.

"How is this possible! What in the world—" With his deformed hands braced against the grass, he flipped over abruptly.

In the moonlight, when Li Huowang saw his own body, he nearly screamed with fright.

He couldn't imagine that this messy mass of flesh could be his own body!!

The condition of Sun Baolu's body before him was nothing compared to his. His body parts were overturned and reversed, white hairs mixed in between them, slightly swaying, with no trace of a human figure at all!

"It's the power of Bai Sui! It pulled me down, and then I turned into this," Li Huowang grabbed a strand of Bai Sui on his body with his hand, shocked as he watched the fingers holding Bai Sui slowly twist.

"Am I still human?" This question surfaced in Li Huowang's extremely confused mind as his trembling hand reached for his unrecognizable face where the features had completely shifted, no longer in their original places.

"How is this possible! This is too absurd! Is this... really the real world?" Li Huowang shivered violently.

"No, Li Huowang, calm down, it's not a big deal, yeah, it's not a big deal," he convinced himself.

Li Huowang turned to face the others, his monstrous face donning a confident expression. "Don't worry, nobody panic, there's definitely a solution."

Having said that, Li Huowang hooked a dagger with his distorted right hand and plunged it into his own cheek.

In front of everyone's incredulous eyes, he forcibly cut through his flesh.

Li Huowang grabbed the edge of the slit near the ear and, with a roar of anger, brutally shifted it to where it belonged.

But in the next moment, the ear that had been moved back drooped powerlessly onto the ground.

Seeing the ear on the ground, Li Huowang laughed even harder, "Yes, this will also work. My body has a strong healing ability. All I need to do is to cut off all the things that grew out of place and let them regrow."

"It's just being a cripple for a few days, what does it matter?"

As La Huowang started to aim the dagger at his own eyes, the kid shivered and stepped forward, gesturing wildly from a distance.

"Big brother Li, don't do this. A bad life is better than a good death, besides you have arms and legs...."

He stopped in the middle of his sentence, not knowing what to say next. Big brother Li was in such a terrible condition that he couldn't bear to look.

If he had to end up like this, he might as well just die outright.

Li Huowang's blade paused as he stared blankly at his twisting pinky finger. A thought suddenly flashed across his mind.

"Wait! If this Bai Sui can turn me into this ghostly figure, doesn't it mean that it can also change me back?"

Li Huowang's eyes brightened. He looked at the Bai Sui stuck to his hand and grabbed a bunch, placing it directly over his eyes.

The Bai Sui moved and also caused Li Huowang's fingers to continue twisting.

"You damn stay quiet!" Li Huowang slammed the Bai Sui to the ground and then pressed it back onto his face.

Gradually, Li Huowang felt his vision begin to shift. Under the influence of the Bai Sui, it started to slide downwards.

Li Huowang fiercely held his eyeball with three fingers, slowly moving it in the direction where it was supposed to go. However, no matter how much he moved it, it would not return to its original position.

"Swoosh!" A deep cut ripped from the corner of his eye as Li Huowang once again grabbed his bloodshot eyeball and forcefully shifted it a bit more toward the right place.

"Is it almost there?" Li Huowang, gasping for air, asked the others.

Upon receiving a unified response, he started to move other organs on his face.

After finally managing to arrange the features on his face with great difficulty, the pain nearly caused Li Huowang to faint. He looked around at the others and hissed, "What are you staring at? Come and help me!"

His words reminded everyone, and they all rushed forward to help Li Huowang reposition his organs.

The process was not easy. Although the Bai Sui could help with movement, it was never quite accurate.

When it came to this, it was necessary to use a knife to make the adjustments themselves.

Gouwa, carefully moving Li Huowang's left ear, accidentally trembled and the thing snapped off, falling to the ground.

Panicking, he picked it up, stealthily looked around, spit some saliva on it, and tremblingly stuck it back onto Li Huowang's head.

A hand rested on his shoulder, startling Gouwa. He turned around to see Bai Lingmiao holding a needle and thread. "Give it to me, I'll sew it on for him."

Gouwa let out a huge sigh of relief and quickly handed it over.

This ordeal was almost comparable to torture, perhaps it was the joy of pleasing Black Taishui that kept him going, or maybe because Li Huowang had already grown accustomed to the pain.

By the time his disheveled body was roughly patched back into human shape, dawn had broken, but Li Huowang's screams were still full of vigor.