The Unruly Immortals

Upon hearing this, Li Huowang felt the sliver of concern in his heart disappear without a trace, as long as someone was responsible for this huge trouble. If the Astrological Bureau of Da Liang wasn't reliable, there was still the Astrological Bureau of Huo Shu, and that of Siqi.

If the sky fell, there would be tall ones to withstand it, anyway, it had nothing to do with him.

As time ticked away, with the passage of minutes and seconds, when everyone realized that apart from the sky turning dark, there wasn't any other danger, their attention was completely drawn to the aroma of the beef, and they crowded around the Bai Family's kitchen, pack tight as herrings.

"Are we really eating beef? This is breaking the king's law. I'm a bit scared."

"Yeah, and it's such a pity to kill a cow, how many fields could it plow in its lifetime?"

"The cow has already been slaughtered, so what's the use of talking about it, hey, I've never really eaten beef in my life."

Soon, bowls of rice covering large chunks of beef were handed to everyone. They compared with each other whose bowl contained bigger pieces of meat and whose had smaller, eating gleefully.

"Eat up, don't overthink it. Do you think you're an Immortal? You even want to handle natural disasters." A huge ox heart, stewed with rock sugar, was placed in front of Li Huowang.

"This is really too big." Li Huowang stared at the ox heart, weighing at least four jin, and commented. It's a good thing it was stewed; otherwise, the center might not have been cooked through.

"You eat first, if you can't finish, give it to me, my appetite is quite big."

Bai Lingmiao picked up two chopsticks, scratched at the ox heart a bit, picked out the gold ring buried in it, and then presented the ox heart to Li Huowang's face.

"Why would you bury gold when stewing an ox heart?"

"My mother taught me, said it's good for the body."

Ever since getting up that morning, all the commotion had indeed made Li Huowang feel a bit hungry.

He plunged two chopsticks into the ox heart, picking it up like a zongzi and taking a bite. Instantly, the taste lingered in mouth and nose, savory and chewy.

Just as Li Huowang was filling his stomach, a distraught Gouwa came over, holding his daughter.

Once overly obsessed with food, he now showed no desire for it at all.

With a "thud," the despondent Gouwa suddenly knelt on the ground and gave Li Huowang, who was heartily feasting, three heavy kowtows.

Li Huowang paused his chewing and looked at him and the infant in his arms.

Without waiting for Gouwa to speak, Li Huowang simply said, "I can't help you with this. Your daughter is neither ill nor disaster-stricken. This is something she was born with, even if she were skinned and regrew her skin, it would be just the same."

As for attempting with the Innate Qi within his own body, that was completely out of Li Huowang's consideration.

With his current state of just reaching the Root Wheel level in Cultivation of Truth, if he were to forcefully use it, heaven knows what irreversible consequences might arise.

Over at Hong Zhong from the Oblivion Path, there are indeed some tricks that deceive the eyes, but those are useless beyond kidding oneself.

Hearing this, Gouwa's face turned ashen. Holding his daughter, he turned and walked away. After only a few steps, the tearful Gouwa raised his hand and fiercely slapped his own face several times.

"Ah, Gouwa is really pitiful, his daughter, when she grows up, who knows if she will resent him."

Bai Lingmiao's words made Li Huowang look up at her, his voice heavy with inquiry, "He's pitiable, but what about you?"

"What?" Bai Lingmiao's pupils shrank slightly, obviously startled.

"Do you think you can deceive me? How long exactly do you plan to keep hiding this from me?" Li Huowang put the ox heart he was holding back into the bowl.

"Who told you!!" Bai Lingmiao at first seemed extremely angry, but when she saw the look in Li Huowang's eyes, her emotions gradually subdued.

"Don't worry, after all, I'm not blind yet, and as for my life being shorter than ordinary people's, there's even less need to talk about it. I'm not even twenty yet, and even if it's shorter, I still have more than a decade of good life left, it's too early to discuss that."

"There's more, isn't there?" Li Huowang's tone remained flat, his gaze tightly fixed on any minute expression on her face.

Bai Lingmiao's face showed a hint of annoyance. "The affairs of the Immortal Sects really don't need your involvement. You're so mentally disturbed, just mind your own business."

"Who the hell is blabbing, to tell you everything? There aren't many who know about this! Was it Second God?"

"Not her, it's you, you just told me yourself." Li Huowang picked up the ox heart and started eating again.

Bai Lingmiao was at first taken aback, but she quickly realized what he meant. She slammed her right hand down, knocking the ox heart from Li Huowang's hand onto the ground. "You tricked me! You actually dare to trick me!!"

"If I don't deceive you, will you speak on your own? Do you really plan to wait until you're completely blind before telling me?" Li Huowang said, staring into Bai Lingmiao's pink eyes.

Li Huowang had already taken to heart Second God's entangled appearance earlier; he knew Bai Lingmiao definitely was hiding something from him.

To his surprise, this ruse had revealed so many secrets.

Hearing Li Huowang's words, Bai Lingmiao's tone also sharply rose, "Since we're being open about it, fine! I've been hiding things from you, but do you think you haven't been hiding things from me? Your illness isn't cured at all! You deliberately go to Niuxin Mountain to have your episodes! Do you think I'm really blind?!"

Li Huowang took a deep breath, just about to explain, when a burst of urgent dog barking interrupted the quarrel between the two.

He recognized the sound, it was Mantou's bark, and it was not normal. Mantou had been with him for so long, it had never barked so fiercely before.

By the time Li Huowang and Bai Lingmiao went out to the courtyard, they saw Mantou with its fur standing on end, baring its sharp teeth and barking incessantly in the direction of the gate.

And that gate was half-open, swinging slowly, making a creaking sound.

"Eh! What's going on? I'm sure I locked the door properly, how come it's opened?" Zhao Wu, leaning on a crutch, rushed up and said.

He inexplicably felt a chill, knowing full well everyone from Niuxin Village was inside the compound.

Li Huowang made a dash for the courtyard wall to one side, his right foot pounded against the wall, and with a quick maneuver, he steadied himself on top of the wall, looking around the tiled rooftops.

As he surveyed his surroundings, his gaze suddenly fixed on a dark corner of the wall, where stood a person dressed in silk shroud, a man with a watermelon hat on his head facing away from him.

From the back, the pear-shaped head accounted for half of the body, the head with hat was enormously large, and while the legs were oddly short, the arms were unusually long. The proportions were extraordinarily uncoordinated.

In this world, Li Huowang had only seen such strangeness and disproportion on one thing, the small-footed, two-faced woman who could summon the God of Happiness, an Evil Spirit.