The Unruly Immortals

As the Fire Sickle scraped across, sparkles fell onto Li Huowang's skin.

With a loud boom, accompanied by an almost unconscious, intense pain, Li Huowang's entire body burst into flames instantaneously.

The extreme temperatures caused the air around him to warp, and his skin blackened rapidly.

Yet when he saw the Nine-colored deer emanating black smoke, Li Huowang, his mouth curling up in a grin despite having no lips, charged towards it.

As Li Huowang, ablaze from head to toe, collided with the mass of flesh, the flesh instantly ignited, enveloped by intense flames.

Watching those pieces of flesh burning violently and beginning to distort and blacken, Li Huowang took a slight breath of relief, feeling validated in his decision to not turn his skin into a Life-saving Charm before coming here.

But gradually, as the twisting flesh stopped moving, Li Huowang sensed something was amiss.

He rushed into the flames, lifting the Purple Tassel Sword in his hand and cleaved down hard on the charred mass, searching inside and out, but he couldn't find the evil spirit he was looking for.

"It's escaped!" Li Huowang's face turned ugly; the evil spirit was much more cunning than he had imagined.

"Let's see where you can run to!" Scanning his surroundings, Li Huowang crouched and placed his hand on the ground, pressing into the withered grass and twigs. Quickly centered around him, a ring of fire spread outwards, climbing the peach trees like a living thing.

Like a contagious plague, one peach tree after another ignited, and soon the place became a sea of fire.

Standing amidst the flames, Li Huowang surveyed his surroundings for any abnormalities. However, there was no sign of anything happening; the evil spirit was not driven out by the blaze, proving more difficult to deal with than he thought.

"What do I do now? If it escapes, finding it again will be trouble." Li Huowang pondered for a moment then decided to cast a divination for this creature.

But just as Li Huowang was slicing a cut on himself with his sword, he noticed a clump of fire on the back of his hand suddenly come to life, burrowing directly into his wound.

"Damn it! The evil spirit has possessed the fire!" Li Huowang then realized, but it seemed to be too late.

The flames on his body and the fires on the peach trees instantly went out, and his body also began to collapse just like the Nine-colored deer before, with flesh, bones, skin, and hair gradually separating and dissolving into a puddle.

Li Huowang felt every inch of flesh tearing apart; the sensation of being melted and ripped apart was torturous enough to make one long for death.

However, at this moment, Li Huowang couldn't even manage to die, as his body was nearly under the control of the evil spirit!

He could sense the other's malice, an unabated evil that from inside to out, was filled with venom and loathing for everything in the world, continually assimilating his consciousness.

The Evil Spirit seemed not like a living entity but rather an embodiment of sin! Even the worst of people couldn't be utterly devoid of some goodness!

Feeling half of his face slide off onto the ground, Li Huowang clenched his teeth and fiercely balled his fists. "My body is in great health! There is no evil spirit inside my body!"

In a fleeting moment of distraction, Li Huowang's melting body suddenly returned to normal, and even his skin sacrificed to Bahu came back.

But Li Huowang knew this was merely an illusion; he couldn't possibly create chaos with falsities right now!

Seizing this momentary opportunity, Li Huowang ran frantically toward the outside of the Peach Grove.

By the time he saw the carriage again, his body collapsed like a house of tofu. Just as his head was about to separate, he shouted in the direction of the carriage, "Li Sui! There's something inside of me! Help me drive it out!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Li Huowang's body instantly transformed into a writhing mass of flesh, sliding toward the depths of the Peach Grove.

Sudden rapid footsteps, "da da da," rang out. Controlled by the Evil Spirit, Li Huowang's eyes twisted around to look. He saw a skinless flesh dog sprinting towards him on all fours.

"Dad, I'm here!!" Midair, Li Sui's body instantly disassembled, his flesh and tentacles rapidly merged into a mass, and fiercely slammed onto Li Huowang's flesh.

The two masses of flesh intertwined, twisting into a huge mass teeming with tentacles, and began to roll violently in the burning Peach Grove.

Li Huowang's face and Li Sui's face emerged intermittently within the mass of flesh, only to disappear just as quickly. The flesh would sometimes gather into a human form, then disperse into a pile of flesh again, appearing very unstable.

The Evil Spirit seemed to want to occupy Li Sui's body as well, but it wasn't that easy. After all, Black Taisui, the Evil Spirit, was born to seize bodies. Moreover, Li Huowang, who had struggled to regain some control, was also obstructing it.

Faced with a two-on-one situation, the Evil Spirit was eventually defeated. By the time Li Huowang's body reformed into a huge fatty, his belly burst open, and something wriggled out.

Li Huowang tried to find it but couldn't see the thing at all, he could only watch the footprints in the grass ash on the ground, disappearing quickly around the distant corner.

That was the Evil Spirit, it would never be seen by a person possessed by the Ten Emotions and Eight Miseries.

"Dad, are you okay?" As Li Sui crawled out from Li Huowang's belly, Li Huowang's swollen body finally returned to normal.

Although the organs were in disarray, and some were even connected wrongly, at least this time the body was completely his own.

Looking at the very strange two-fingered footprints in the grass ash on the ground, Li Huowang covered his abdominal wound, his eyes filled with a hint of resentment. After all the hardships he'd endured, he had almost fallen into a trap right here.

Then, he painfully endured the pain in his skin, following the footprints deeper inside.

"Li Sui, you wait outside. If I call out, rush in! Any other time, stay by Miaomiao's side!"

This time, Li Huowang slowed down, moving cautiously through the burning forest.

He was fully alert, listening to every sound around him. Since he couldn't see, he had to listen!

This creature was more cunning than he had imagined. It had to be overcome in one fell swoop.

Suddenly, Li Huowang heard a faint rustling sound coming from behind him.

Li Huowang didn't immediately do anything; instead, he kept walking slowly. When he saw a tree hole that was clear from front to back, he bent over and crawled inside as if searching for something.

Right behind Li Huowang, two strange sets of footprints appeared in the ash of the burned vegetation, rapidly approaching the bottom of Li Huowang's feet, ready to climb inside through the split flesh.

But as it burrowed in, the Evil Spirit instantly realized something was wrong. Only half of the man's body remained; the upper half with the head was missing.

"Heh heh... I finally caught you. Who would have thought I'd use my own lower half as bait?"