The Unruly Immortals

"Pain." The agony inside was like being carved with a knife, and the massive gash in his abdomen made Li Huowang tremble all over.

However, whether it was the heartache or the excruciating pain of flesh and blood, Li Huowang, who had almost reached his peak, had a smile on his face.

He smiled at those beings running out from the Bamboo Forest, among them, he recognized one—it was his own image, only the Li Huowang over there had a pair of large blood-red eyes.

"Crack crack crack!" As Li Huowang ground his teeth with a crunching sound,

his small and large intestines were gruesomely yanked out by the barbs, and the "bridge" in the middle just dangled in the air.

"Aaaaahhh!!!" Nearly driven mad by the pain, Li Huowang raised the Long Awl in his hand and fiercely stabbed it into the bamboo slip glowing with a strange red light in front of him.

"Clang clang~!" A sinister black flame instantly splashed in all directions.

Li Huowang's facial features began to recombine together, but this time, drawn by the intense pain, his perception was much sharper, allowing him to sense more clearly.

This time he once again felt Bahu's presence high and deep in the sky, and saw the enchanting aura emanating from his body.

But Bahu was still Bahu, still not noticing him, yet Li Huowang, through sacrificing his own extreme agony, obtained from it what he desired, which was an incredibly peculiar sensation.

Under Bahu's aura, both the physical and mental pain Li Huowang felt started to gradually transform into something else.

The next moment, an utterly fearful and despairing presence spread out from Li Huowang, a power that absolutely did not belong to the Mortal Realm.

As if a tremendous atmospheric pressure was present, everything around Li Huowang, accompanied by a creaking sound, began to bend and collapse towards one side.

Li Huowang raised the Long Awl in his right hand and made a gentle slash.

Space seemed to tear apart, and the bamboo, the bamboo leaves, and all living creatures within were all chopped in half.

Among them, a girl with half-rotted head crawled out some finger-sized little figures, which also had faces identical to the girl's.

These creatures were just about to flee, but fell dead on the ground after running only a few steps.

Although Bahu was not among them, Li Huowang, whose facial features were now completely blended together, could clearly sense its location.

It was fleeing eastward, it was afraid, all five of its heads were afraid. Li Huowang could even sense the deepest thoughts in its heart.

Listening to the fearful sounds coming from those red eyes, Li Huowang laughed. He raised the Long Awl in his hand again and forcefully plunged it into his abdomen once more.

In an instant, everything within a radius of Li Huowang shared in the ultimate pain, even the bamboo and the stones on the ground felt the same.

They began to grow more twisted and deformed, more terrifying, and even emitted desperate screams from the pain.

This naturally included the distant Bahu.

In fact, Bahu had no organs to feel pain, but now it too was endowed by Li Huowang with the ability to feel agony.

At this moment, all it felt was profound regret for having offended this person.

But in just that instant, it was overwhelmed by the intense sensation of pain and, in utter despair, committed suicide.

When everything had settled, the swaying body of Li Huowang slowly toppled over to the right.

At this moment, his whole body ached, yet Li Huowang laughed. He did not know why he did it, but he just laughed.

"Such a serious injury, I should be dead, right? Hahaha!!"

He felt his organs spill out from the hole in his abdomen, yet Li Huowang had no intention of putting them back in place.

"It would be good to die! There would be no more pain if I were dead, I'm really so tired... But why does it have to be me... Actually... I don't want to die... I want to feel like everyone else feels..."

Li Huowang, teetering on the brink of death, had a foggy and sluggish mind, everything a beat slower.

His blended features began to disperse, as if they were about to return to their places.

In that moment of reassemblage, Li Huowang felt as if Bahu in the sky glanced at him.

The next second, everything went dark for Li Huowang, and he knew nothing more.

After an indeterminate amount of time, Li Huowang, in his groggy state, heard the sound of drums, footsteps, and even the noise of nurses turning ampoules, all of which annoyed him tremendously.

"So noisy! Be quiet!!"

Li Huowang suddenly opened his eyes and stared blankly at the IV stand in front of him.

It took him a long while before Li Huowang realized he was not dead but caught in the midst of an illusion.

Looking at the machines beeping around him, Li Huowang understood that this was the intensive care unit.

Not dead, was he happy? Li Huowang didn't feel much joy, but rather a twinge of regret.

"Why am I not dead yet?" Li Huowang pondered this question.

"Doctor, patient in bed 12 has woken up!" a shout rang out.

Ignoring the nurse's excited voice, Li Huowang silently estimated his situation in the real world.

Hearing the door open, Li Huowang slowly closed his eyes, completely sealing off his perception of the outside world, quietly waiting for this illusion to pass.

Suddenly, Li Huowang heard a familiar voice. It was his psychiatrist, Dr. Li Xiangguo, from the mental hospital.

"Little Li, I know you're awake. Open your eyes and take a look, shall we have a chat?"

Li Huowang was unmoved. He didn't want any contact with this place right now.

"Yang Na has a new boyfriend."

Li Huowang's eyes snapped open, only to see the smirking doctor in front of him, a triumphantly scheming smile on his face.

He was just about to smash that smug face into pieces with his fist, but then he found his right hand handcuffed to the hospital bed.

"Don't get so worked up, Yang Na doesn't have a new boyfriend. Look, when it comes to important matters, you still react. Why resist so much?"

The doctor in white coat took a stool and sat down beside Li Huowang's bed, "Let me guess, you've mistaken that place for reality again?"

As Li Huowang began to breathe rapidly, the machines next to him started to sound alarms, but ultimately he said nothing and closed his eyes once more.

"Little Li, let's skip the pleasantries this time. Since you believe that place is real, why don't we talk about it? Ask yourself, which world seems more like the normal one, that world or ours here?"