The Unruly Immortals

Looking into their indifferent eyes, Li Huowang heaved a sigh, knowing that anything he said now would probably be useless.

At this point, persisting might really lead to bloodshed, and he didn't want to spill the blood of Bai Lingmiao's family members.

Putting himself in their shoes, he understood what Bai Lingmiao meant to her family.

With that in mind, Li Huowang didn't say another word and immediately turned to burrow back into the dense reed marshes the way he came.

"Later, I'll see if that kid with the mask is still around. If he is, I'll have to figure out a way to delay him and buy some time for the Bai Family members to retreat."

But as he walked, Li Huowang's expression grew uncertain.

Based on the time it took him before, he should have been out of the dense reed marshes by now, but he hadn't even caught a glimpse of the edge of the reeds.

He immediately remembered what Bai Sai had said before: it was very easy to get lost in this reed marsh.

"What's this? Am I trapped inside?" Li Huowang suddenly stopped and slowly turned his body, carefully observing the identical surroundings.

"Swish!" A flash of cold light shot towards him from the reed marsh, and Li Huowang quickly twisted his body to dodge it.

But in the next moment, a sharp pain exploded in his lower back.

As Li Huowang opened his mouth in pain, countless black, writhing tentacles extended from deep within his throat, trembling incessantly.

Feeling the sensation of the tentacles sweeping across his mouth, Li Huowang's heart sunk, "Not good! My stomach is injured!"

Before he had time to react, more and more cold lights shot out from the reed marshes, and giant arrows, two meters long, quickly engulfed Li Huowang from all directions.

When all the arrows piled up, Li Huowang, with his hand pressed against his bleeding abdomen, slowly walked out from the wooden heap.

As he looked around at the silent reeds, not a trace of warmth remained in his eyes.

The number of arrows demonstrated that the Bai Family members had been hiding weapons here; this place might even be their territory, and Bai Sai might not have told him the truth earlier.

Li Huowang's body color slowly blended into the ground beneath the reed marshes.

In his invisible state, he made his way step by step towards the edge. "Once I get back, I must question Bai Lingmiao thoroughly!"

Li Huowang walked slowly, and finally, the surroundings quieted down with no new disturbances.

After about two hours, a winded Li Huowang stopped and released his hand from his abdomen, looking at the mangled mess of flesh and blood inside.

A worried thought crossed his mind: "Black Taishui is not dead, just injured, that shouldn't affect the suppression of Huan Jue, right?"

Just as he pondered this question, a slight shake in the surroundings made Li Huowang's color drain from his face.

Relieved to see no change around him, Li Huowang let out a sigh.

"Don't scare me, getting caught in Huan Jue now is no joke."

No sooner had Li Huowang spoken than a blurry object suddenly emerged from the ground and pierced right through his abdomen.

In the next moment, Li Huowang immediately felt as if his intestines were about to break, the pain causing him to break out in a cold sweat.

Another vague figure appeared from the ground intending to repeat the attack, Li Huowang swiftly drew his sword and slashed, and the figure dissipated with the breeze.

The remaining figures didn't dare to approach Li Huowang anymore and circled around him like ghosts, looking for an opportunity to strike.

"What is going on! I'm already invisible! How did they find me!"

As he looked to the ground, his gaze froze, blood—the blood dripping onto the ground had betrayed his position!

In that moment, as if sensing a vulnerability, the surrounding figures rushed towards him all at once.

Li Huowang instantly sheathed his sword and then drew the Copper Coin Sword again. As he chanted loudly, the Copper Coin Sword exploded in a burst, with copper coins embedding into Young Master You's body, causing them to dissipate into smoke and vapor.

"What on earth are you trying to do!! Don't forget that I once saved your lives!!"

Li Huowang felt a twinge of frustration in his heart. After all he had done, why were they still treating him this way!

Just then, the ground beside Li Huowang suddenly swelled with a mound of earth, and the next second, a man swung a knife single-handedly at Li Huowang.

Li Huowang's expression grew fierce, and he decided not to hold back any longer, even if it meant killing, it was better than dying himself.

However, as Li Huowang's hand was originally on the execution tool, he stopped when he saw the face of the man. This person was Bai Lingmiao's father.

"Don't!" Li Huowang instinctively raised his hand, but the next moment, most of that palm was sliced off.

The next moment, spears gleaming with cold light shot from the reeds, piercing Li Huowang's abdomen like a ragged doll, nailing him to the ground.

As Li Huowang was pinned to the ground, the end seemed to be ordained. The sound of "puchi puchi" rang out as Li Huowang's limbs were all pinned down.

Li Huowang, in excruciating pain, looked at the apathetic faces surrounding him and asked with difficulty, "Is this necessary? What exactly did I do to you?"

Hearing this, one of the Bai family women looked at Li Huowang with disgust and said, "You have no idea the extent of our hatred for the Imperial Court's dogs! Since you are a dog of the Imperial Court, nothing we do to you is too much!!"

Li Huowang swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva with difficulty, his mind groggy and his face showing a bitter smile.

"Now that you've won, why not take me back to Niuxin Village and ask Bai Lingmiao what should be done with me? After all, I am her husband."

At these words, a buzz of discussion suddenly rose around them.

At this moment, Bai Lingmiao's mother rushed to the forefront, her expression extremely stern, and said to Li Huowang, "A marriage is decided by the parents' command and the matchmaker's word! We decide whom she marries, and we will never let our daughter marry a dog of the Imperial Court!"

Bai Lingmiao's father glanced at the pitiable Li Huowang, flung the bloody knife from his hand, pulled his wife aside, and whispered something into her ear, seemingly with a different idea in mind.

Afterward, he walked over, looking down at Li Huowang from on high.

Li Huowang looked at his face, and the more he looked, the more he thought the man resembled an orange, which made him laugh through the pain despite himself.

But as he laughed, the man's head actually started to turn into a moldy, rotten orange right there in his own hands.

"An orange?"

The next moment, a downpour fell from the sky, stinging Li Huowang's face.

Drenched in the rain, Li Huowang sat bewildered next to a garbage bin, trembling as he held the rotten orange in his hands.

Jolting as though electrified, Li Huowang leaped up, the rotten orange falling into the muddy pit nearby, bobbing up and down in the rainwater.

The next moment, he immediately realized where he was. "Not good, the Black Taishui in my stomach has been attacked, and the ability to suppress hallucinations has vanished!"

Then another thought struck him, "But why am I in the street? Shouldn't I be confined to the mental hospital? What exactly has happened during this time??"

The bewildered Li Huowang looked down at his clothes, a dirty, oversized coat hanging on his body, his lower half clad in a pair of waterlogged cotton pants, his left foot in a leather shoe with toes poking out, and his right in just a sock.

This vagrant madman's attire was thoroughly soaked by the downpour from above.

Before Li Huowang could figure out the answer to this question, an intense wave of hunger suddenly overtook his consciousness from his abdomen.

He had never felt so hungry before, as if he hadn't eaten in more than ten days.

Li Huowang immediately bent down by the filthy puddle, picked up the moldy rotten orange, and stuffed it into his mouth, skin and flesh and all.

Just then, a car tire rolled over the puddle, splashing water all over Li Huowang, but he remained unfazed.

Freezing and shivering, Li Huowang curled up, leaning against the green sanitation garbage can, taking big bites and swallowing the moldy orange in his mouth.