The Unruly Immortals

Hearing the noise, Li Huowang turned his head and saw that the wall covered with brambles and ivy had some characters faintly visible in its crevices.

The Copper Coin Sword, transformed into a long whip, swiftly lashed out several times, and the wall in front of them was instantly cleared.

"What is it for, and what am I ultimately? Strange indeed."

"I do not wish to kill it! I merely want to observe it!"

"If it stands sideways and doesn't see me, I want to go everywhere!"

"It looks like it's written by Heart Turbidity, only these records don't seem to be written by the same person," contemplated Tuoba Danqing intently.

"Oh, Danqing, stop looking. Give me some of your Gu, I want to take it with the Yangshou Pill," exclaimed Record of Appearance as he took out a Yangshou Pill from his pocket and stuffed it into his mouth, his white hair visibly reducing by a lot on his head.

"Record of Appearance, sir, you're almost at the limit, continuing to take Yangshou Pills could be troublesome."

"Ah~ don't you think I know that? Let's get this matter resolved first. Otherwise, I won't even live to the day I transform into a specter."

Li Huowang couldn't be bothered to listen to Record of Appearance's endless babbling, bracing himself against the pain as he remained vigilant of his surroundings.

The current situation was temporarily under control; hopefully, it would end quickly and not sprout any new problems.

"Hehe....." Hearing the sound, Li Huowang looked up slightly, and in an instant, he was face to face with a filthy-faced woman.

The woman had long hair and a delicate complexion, and she just appeared hanging upside-down in front of Li Huowang, looking at him with an exceedingly excited expression.

In a brief moment, an instinctive thought appeared in Li Huowang's mind, "She is Heart Turbidity!!"

Without hesitation, Li Huowang raised his sword and thrust it into the woman's abdomen.

Heart Turbidity fell to the ground coughing up blood, looking at Li Huowang with an extremely shocked expression, repeating over and over.

"You're alright? You're actually alright?"

Li Huowang, overwhelmed with excitement, paid no mind to the consequences. Raising the iron spoon in his hand, he mounted her, ready to gouge out her eyes, which could make a person vanish.

"Er Jiu! Leave her eyeballs! Don't gouge them out! Even if you kill her, don't gouge out her eyes!"

Hearing this, Li Huowang quickly dislocated all her joints, leaving her unable to move anything except her eyeballs.

Although unclear about the entire situation, there was no reason to let go of Heart Turbidity who had delivered herself to his doorstep.

He tore off a red strip from his Taoist Robe and was about to bind Heart Turbidity's eyes with it.

However, at this moment, she showed no sign of struggling, instead staring in horror at the various characters on the wall.

"No! I didn't kill them; I don't know anything! But I didn't kill them!"

After thoroughly wrapping her eyes with layer upon layer, Li Huowang finally breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed to the ground, gasping for air.

After a short rest, Li Huowang exchanged glances with Record of Appearance and the others, all wearing very strange expressions. This was all different from what they had expected.

"Brother Er, how did you avoid being hidden by Heart Turbidity? And how did you make Heart Turbidity jump out right in front of you for you to capture?" asked Tuoba Danqing.

After hearing Tuoba Danqing's words, Li Huowang looked down in thought, then looked up and replied, "Perhaps I just got lucky."

He suspected it might have something to do with his Xinsu identity, but such things he could never reveal to them.

As soon as these words came out, Tuoba Danqing's eyebrows furrowed and he asked no further, muttering to himself in disdain, "What does he mean by 'just got lucky'?"

But at that moment, Heart Turbidity shouted again, "No! I didn't kill them, I don't know anything! But I didn't kill them!"

When Li Huowang turned around, his pupils shrank to an extreme extent.

The cloth that had been covering Xinsu's eyes had disappeared at some point, and she was once again staring at the writing on the wall.

"This won't do, inanimate objects can't cover Xinsu's eyes; it has to be something alive, Li Sui, come out and help!"

As two writhing tentacles emerged from the wound in Li Huowang's abdomen and wrapped around Xinsu's eyes, she finally quieted down.

Seeing that Xinsu was truly captured, Record of Appearance walked over excitedly, grabbing Li Huowang's hands and shaking them in gratitude. "Er Jiu, you've really helped us out this time! If you ever need anything, don't hesitate to come to us!"

"You're making too much of it, Record of Appearance," Li Huowang could tell what the other party meant; they were saying they owed him a favor.

Although the process was somewhat unexpected, as long as the goal was achieved, everything was negotiable.

"Let's go, everyone. Capital City is in a hurry," Record of Appearance seemed more anxious than anyone else.

Li Huowang nodded, picked up Xinsu, slung her over his shoulder, and walked towards the outside. Before leaving, he didn't forget to glance at the wall.

"If my wife dies, then I abandon her in the corner of the wall, but what is the purpose of there being so many deaths in that corner?"

When Li Huowang saw this, his expression turned to one of surprise. He pulled apart the straw in the corner with his hand, revealing corpse after corpse with horrifying and fierce expressions.

"How come there are so many dead people? And they're all women." Even the usually composed Shentu Gang couldn't help but show a hint of astonishment at the scene.

This unexpected sight made the others stop as well.

"Isn't it written on the wall?" Tuoba Danqing looked at the writing and said slowly, "These are all Xinsu's wives. There are actually fewer here; he made the others disappear."

"That's really strange. Xinsu is clearly a woman, how could she possibly have wives?"

"Let's move on, who cares whether she does or not," Record of Appearance urged, growing impatient. As long as Xinsu could be safely taken back, he couldn't care less about whether Xinsu was male or female.

But this remark immediately raised Li Huowang's alertness, and he felt a sudden jolt in his heart. He looked at the others and said, "Could there be another Xinsu?"

The atmosphere inside the room became somewhat oppressive.

"Dammit, what's there to fear! Am I afraid of that damn Xinsu? If it weren't so difficult to find that thing, like a rat playing hide-and-seek, I could take on three by myself!" Shentu Gang's words swiftly restored some warmth to everyone's faces.

"That's right, and if it comes to it, we still have Brother Er Jiu. Xinsu is useless against him," Tuoba Danqing laughed heartily, patting Li Huowang on the shoulder in a friendly manner.

The group continued towards the outside of the village and reached the village head without any incidents, which allowed Li Huowang time to worry about Hong Da who had been unusually quiet.

"What's the matter, Brother Hong? We've escaped death; why isn't there a hint of a smile on your face?"

Previously, Hong Da was used as a shield; otherwise, he might not have made it back at all.

Hong Da's lips were white as though he wanted to crack a smile, but he just couldn't do it.

"So many people, there are so many people inside," Hong Da finally spoke in a hoarse voice.

"What do you mean 'so many people'?"

Hong Da stared intently at Xinsu on Li Huowang's back, "The karmic obstacles in Xinsu's heart affect no one more than herself."

"Many people inside there are Xinsu's enemies, but there are also many of her family and friends. They told me, whenever she faced danger, Xinsu would hide these people away, inside her own karmic obstacles."

"She intended to release them once it was safe, but Xinsu forgot, completely forgot."

"At first, Xinsu could control it, but as time went on, she would uncontrollably hide her own memories, her age, even her gender."

"One could say that Xinsu one hour might be completely different from Xinsu the next!"