The Unruly Immortals

The raindrops pounded down, making the leaves sway heavily. The wind, wrapped in rain, blew the entire forest into a constant tremble.

The rain had turned the dirt path into a muddy swamp, making the road extremely slippery and difficult to walk on.

Yet even on such a treacherous path, there was still someone in haste, moving along.

That thin figure, cloaked in a raincoat and wearing a bamboo hat, occasionally glanced back, as if wary of someone pursuing from behind.

With a gust of wind, the thin veil of the bamboo hat was blown aside, revealing Shangguan Yuting's exquisite visage.

Despite the hat, the raging wind splattered everywhere, leaving droplets on Shangguan Yuting's face, akin to pearls on lotus leaves.

A few black tentacles stretched out from under the clothing, swiftly wiping away the droplets.

At that moment, "Hahahaha..." the mad laughter from behind caused Li Sui to panic instantly within.

"Damn it, after all these years of bad luck, I've finally hit the jackpot. To encounter someone with Xinsu, hahaha!!" The voice was coarse and unpleasant, like sawing wood.

With the sound of bells carried by a fierce wind, a large tree fell crashing in front of Li Sui, blocking her path.

Li Sui turned around and saw a man with a face full of muscle, grinning maliciously at her. "It's useless. You've taken my medicine, and your Xinsu tricks won't work."

The bald head with scars proved this man was once a monk, but the hair around his head showed he had long since returned to secular life.

Moreover, if he were truly a disciple of Buddhism, he would not be holding a ringed butcher knife in his hand. "Damn, this bitch looks really nice. I haven't played with Xinsu yet."

"Don't come over! Don't come over!" Li Sui frantically stepped back, but the more she did so, the wider the man's malicious smile grew.

A flash of white, and Li Sui's two arms were instantly severed at the root, blood spraying out as she let out a sharp scream.

"Hahahaha! Scream louder! The louder, the better!!" The man said, grabbing Li Huowang's legs forcefully.

But the moment her skirt was lifted, countless tentacles burst forth, instantly latching onto the man's face.

With an angry roar, the man pulled all the tentacles off him, and with them came his facial features and appearance.

Having been through such baptisms many times over, Li Sui was no longer the person who was only passively beloved before.

Even with such serious injuries, her opponent was still not dead, gripping the butcher knife tightly, aiming a strike at Li Sui with overwhelming Evil Qi.

It was just at this moment that a dark golden Vajra, entwined with tentacles, was lifted high, banging against a silver talisman, and then along with that talisman, it smashed into the skull's brow.

Cracking sounds arose, the silver talisman instantly dissolved, pouring into the fissures of the cracked skull, forcibly leaving a wild cursive talisman within the opponent's flesh and bone.

The bald man hit by the talisman seemed frozen, unable to move an inch.

In the next instant, tentacles wielding a dagger swung forth, swiftly slicing off the opponent's ear.

But this wasn't the end; dozens of tentacles armed with sharp blades followed closely, dancing continually, causing the skin and flesh and organs of the opponent to disappear piece by piece.

Finally, when the man's entire body was nearly whittled down to a bloody skeleton, Li Sui thrust a knife into the man's heart, twisting forcefully, finally causing the man to breathe his last.

Looking at the masterpiece before her, Li Sui nodded in satisfaction, raising the heart meat clinging to the knife's edge to taste.

But as she chewed and looked around at the blood-soaked scene, Li Sui's expression turned to one of fear, "No... no, this isn't me... this isn't me..."

Saying this, Li Sui swallowed the meat hurriedly and ran off in panic.

This escape lasted for four hours, and as the rain ceased, the blood on Li Sui's raincoat was rinsed completely clean.

By now, Li Sui's mood had calmed significantly, and she continued silently down the road.

As more people were possessed, Li Sui could feel herself becoming less like herself.

Ever since she was forced to ingest her first person, Li Sui had this worry. She feared she would unknowingly become another person.

Then would that person still be considered Li Sui? Would her father still recognize that person as Li Sui?

But despite the worry, for her survival now, she had no choice but to do this. Da Qi's Astrological Bureau had already issued a wanted notice, and different forces were searching for her.

What made it worse was, in order to claim her life, Zuo Qiuyong now had even announced her identity as a bearer of Xinsu.

This further complicated her situation. Even if they weren't members of the Astrological Bureau, they could still pose a threat to her. Anyone she encountered could be a potential enemy intending harm.

So, to stay alive, she was forced to keep possessing others, merging their divine skills to strengthen herself, absorbing their memories to learn about the Astrological Bureau's internal information.

"I was saying before, I need to find a way to return to Da Liang first, but now given the situation, I'm afraid it has to wait,"

"I should first find a way, like my father did, to conceal my identity as a bearer of Xinsu, otherwise this identity will be too problematic."

"But how should I do it? I lack both the copper coin mask and that spindle that my father worn back then."

Li Sui rationally pondered in her mind, considering her next steps.

As Li Sui was thinking like this, she spotted a village emerging to her left, its black-tiled buildings lined up in the hazy morning mist.

Feeling her fatigued body, she gazed afar for a while. After using divine skills from different sects for a preliminary scan and detecting nothing unusual, Li Sui cautiously headed inside.

Just as she reached the village entrance, Li Sui saw a child, looking about eight or nine, playing with a vine ball there.

Replacing the prominent Shangguan Yuting's head, Li Sui donned a kindly woman's face as she headed towards there.

"Stop, who are you, and what are you doing here?" The child with the vine ball looked up, curiously asked Li Sui. "Are you a kidnapper? Are you here to snatch kids?"

"I'm not a kidnapper. I'm a face threading artisan," Li Sui showed a kind and ingratiating smile. "I spent the night in the rain, freezing all night, and just want to rest here for a while."

That was one of her identities. In order to evade enemy pursuit, she needed several different identities for swapping, a skill she learned through continuous possession.