The Unruly Immortals

Filled with guilt, the moment Li Huowang finished speaking to Yang Na, his tense spirit finally gave way, and he completely passed out.

The sound of footsteps, shouts, and Yang Na's crying gradually faded away in his ears, and everything around him fell into silence.

Li Huowang came around after who knows how long, roused by the choking fragrance.

The only color he could see was blue, and it took a good while for Li Huowang, coming to his senses, to realize that he was lying on his back, staring up at the sky.

The silhouettes of the waves striking the boat and the feel of the wooden deck beneath him made it clear that he had returned to the ship.

When Li Huowang finally lowered Gao Yang's head, the scene before him made his pupils shrink in shock.

Offerings and an incense burner were placed in front of him, and behind the incense burner was a row of people bowing in worship. What truly horrified him was that the offerings included a boy and a girl sitting just right. It was as if they were worshipping him as if he were a Bodhisattva.

Seeing this, Li Huowang was instantly enraged, unable to contain his anger. He stood up and kicked over the incense burner with a foot.

"Are you all fools? Why always place your hopes on someone else? And you actually offered children to me!!" After speaking, Li Huowang forcefully pulled the two children with red dots on their foreheads from the plate.

Li Huowang's sudden outburst terrified everyone, who kept backing away, while the ship's captain continuously kowtowed, pleading for mercy. "Grandfather Dragon King, please calm down, please take a deep breath!"

"Grandfather Dragon King?" Li Huowang looked down and saw black tentacles continuously writhing from all over his body, especially from his severed arm, which was entirely entwined with five tentacles.

It seemed the people on the ship treated him, covered in black tentacles and devoid of skin, as if possessed by an evil spirit.

"Li Sui, retract, don't scare them," Li Huowang ordered, and all the tentacles on his body instantly disappeared.

First looking at the damp deck and then at the cloudless sky, Li Huowang, with little desire to explain to them, directly ordered the ship's captain, "Get up! Hurry up and sail to Apricot Island!"

"Yes, yes, yes! I'll sail! I'll sail!" The captain dared not disobey; the man before him, even if not the Dragon King, was not someone he could afford to provoke.

Making his way through the crowd, Li Huowang came to a quiet corner of the cabin. After taking a deep breath, he looked up and asked the monk, "How did I get back on the ship before?"

"Taoist, you came out of that creature's belly, the water was too dark, and Icouldn't see clearly what it looked like; oh, and I remember, there was another living person in its belly, not sure if he came out, and also, its back was covered with eyes..."

Listening to the monk's account, Li Huowang replayed all the experiences he had on the other side.

As he had anticipated, breaking through the window and jumping out meant he had crawled out of the creature's belly. Climbing over the electrified spiked cage signified his escape from the entanglements beyond the water, and when he reached the watchtower, it was like climbing back onto the deck.

By moving in the illusion, he ultimately saved his own life. This time was a valuable experience. If he encountered the same situation again, he could use this method to solve it.

It shouldn't have been so difficult, but whatever was in the water had managed to negate the power of Black Taisui in his abdomen. Fortunately, despite many twists and turns, the outcome was still somewhat acceptable.

"Taoist, the Li Sui in your belly definitely helped you a lot. Without it, you wouldn't have been able to get back on the ship at that time."

Li Huowang touched his belly with his hand, reflecting on everything that had just happened, and felt somewhat reassured.

"Huowang!" A piercing tinnitus suddenly rang out, and Li Huowang instinctively covered his ears with his hands.

This was Yang Na's voice; Li Huowang would never mistake it. His heart ached like it was being stabbed as he thought of her look of utter desperation.

Li Huowang, his expression fierce, kept comforting himself by covering his ears and muttering, "That must be a hallucination, too many coincidences over there, it's just a hallucination! I don't need to worry about what's happening over there; it's all an illusion!"

Li Huowang spoke to himself for a long time, making a great effort to push Yang Na's shadow out of his mind.

Only when he put down his tentacles, no longer feeling any ringing in his ears, did he finally take a shuddering breath of relief.

It seemed this auditory hallucination was a lingering effect from before. He would have to be careful when encountering unfamiliar evil spirits in the future; there was the chance they might have the ability to render Black Taisui's power ineffective.

"Hehe...look at the ghost you've become; you might be better off dead."

Ignoring Hong Zhong's mockery, Li Huowang took out the "Fire Coat True Scripture" and quietly began healing himself.

"No matter how much suffering I endure, there will be an end to it; I always have hope of escaping this life worse than death! As long as I find a way to force Bei Feng to divulge how to get rid of the hallucinations..."

"Three Wen Money."

"Empty bottle."

"Half a Wen, I win."

Seeing the cards revealed in Li Huowang's hand, the other three players tossed their cards down in frustration. "How is it you again, wise one? You didn't use divine skills to switch the cards, did you?"

"If I were to use divine skills, I might as well just rob you directly, why go through such a huge detour? Quit your moaning, you agreed to the gamble, pay up," Li Huowang demanded sternly.

A collection of tarnished Silver Fragments and copper coins of various vintages were all pushed in front of Li Huowang.

Just as Li Huowang was shuffling the cards for another round, a stomping sound suddenly came from the deck above his head. "The ship's docking! We've arrived at Apricot Island!"

At these words, everyone, whether they were playing or watching the game, crammed towards the cabin stairs in unison.

The moment Li Huowang's feet touched the dock of Apricot Island, he sighed deeply; he had finally arrived.

But then, Li Huowang suddenly found himself in a dilemma. Although Zhuge Yuan had told him to find him, according to the ship's captain, Apricot Island was half the size of Jiangnan. In such a vast place, how would he find Zhuge Yuan?

After pondering for a moment, Li Huowang took out a piece of ginger yellow paper from his bosom, thinking that to find someone, he still needed to use a talisman to perform divination.

However, to perform divination, human bones were absolutely necessary, and that was a problem as he hadn't prepared any.

Although it was difficult, after mulling it over for a long time, Li Huowang finally thought of an alternative method.

First, he slit open his healing stump of an arm, then Li Huowang, clenching his teeth, reached into his flesh, grasped the bone of his arm, and yanked it out forcefully.

Accompanied by intense pain and a profound sense of hollowness, Li Huowang pulled out the entire blurry bone of his upper arm as if uprooting a radish.