The Unruly Immortals

Even though treating my own father as an Immortal feels weird.

Li Sui felt indifferent; on the contrary, she thought it was better this way, representing that her father was always watching over her.

"Dad!! Wait for me, I will return. I will meet you again as Li Sui! I swear!!!"

After speaking joyfully, the rational thoughts within Li Sui began to take over. No matter what, one should not only consider the good but also the bad.

No matter how unlikely, there must be a contingency plan for failure.

However, Li Sui was clearly very resistant to such rational thinking. She wanted to be like she used to be, simply imagining only the good side of everything.

After much consideration, Li Sui looked down at the clay figurine in her hand and spoke with a hint of grievance, "If, if... when the time comes I become someone else, then I'll just hide secretly and not tell you. At least this way, Dad, you won't have to worry about me, and your heart won't hurt as much."

"Li Sui! Soul return!" With a swish, the white round hole joss paper was thrown high by the mourning Li Huowang, landing on the soul banner behind him, falling onto the black lacquered coffin.

Beside him, Bai Lingmiao, whose eyes were red from crying, held a red rope in her hand and followed behind silently. The other end of the rope attached to a piece of meat, which was Li Sui's favorite meat dish prepared by Li Huowang.

This is the custom of Da Liang. When someone dies, a red rope ties around the deceased's favorite or most treasured thing, held by a close relative, to guide the deceased's soul to rest with the coffin.

The blaring sound of suona and beating drums didn't change Li Huowang's expression at all.

At this moment, his wooden expression showed not a hint of sadness, as he continued to scatter joss paper, headed towards Niuxin Mountain.

The grave that would hold the coffin had already been dug in advance, and the Feng Shui Master from Da Liang selected the best burial site.

With all the people from Niuxin Village showing solemn faces as they paid their respects to the coffin, following the procedure, the coffin gradually descended into the pit.

After deciding not to give birth herself, Bai Lingmiao always considered Suisui her child. Having barely gotten closer, she found it hard to accept her child dying like this.

"Suisui!" Bai Lingmiao lunged towards the coffin but was stopped by Li Huowang grabbing her wrist, preventing the irrational action.

At this moment, the Second God emerged from behind Bai Lingmiao, his slender sharp figure filled with hatred, slashed through Li Huowang's flesh, leaving deep scars.

"Li Huowang! Didn't you kill even the Fate Commander? Aren't you powerful? Why couldn't you protect your own daughter!!"

Soon, Li Huowang's body became covered in blood, yet he remained silent, quietly watching the coffin sink into the pit.

"Are you mute? Speak!" The Second God's actions were finally stopped by Bai Lingmiao. She curled up into a ball, hugging her knees, as she quietly sobbed by Li Sui's tombstone.

Besides Bai Lingmiao's sobs, there was another voice crying, that of Qiu Chibao, desperately lying on the coffin as she held a decaying child, repeatedly trying to pull Li Sui out from inside, which was always in vain.

With the coffin buried, the earth sealed, and the stone tablet erected, Li Sui was considered to have rested in peace after the whole procedure.

The mourners returned to Niuxin Village along the mountain path. With Li Sui buried and the procedure completed, the atmosphere became slightly more relaxed.

Yang Xiaohai led a dozen kitchen helpers to work busily in the kitchen, preparing a grand feast with eight hot and eight cold dishes.

Li Huowang did not eat. He sat alone at the main seat, silently pouring cup after cup of wine into his mouth.

Once unable to handle alcohol, Li Huowang now drank without getting drunk, no matter how much he drank, he felt nothing.

No matter how long he drank, the wine in the jug never decreased, and the tears of Qiu Chibao's hallucination flowed as much as he drank.

He drank from dusk until deep night, after everyone at the feast had dispersed, Li Huowang continued to drink.

Finally, as Li Huowang downed another cup, Bai Lingmiao snatched the cup from his hand and smashed it to the ground. "Stop drinking!"

Li Huowang nodded, opened his mouth, and said, "Indeed, it's time to stop drinking and get to business."

With that, Li Huowang stood up, and with a step forward with his right foot, he was directly in the Capital City.

He arrived at the Celestial Master's Mansion and found Da Liang's State Preceptor, Huangfu Tiangang, a blind elderly man playing chess with Gao Zhijian.

Li Huowang sat between the two and said, "Xuan Pin is dead."

Huangfu Tiangang nodded, picked up a black stone with two fingernails and placed it on the chessboard, "Hmm, we already know, it was quite a commotion."

"She said before she died, that you knew some things and told me to ask you."

Beside him, Gao Zhijian noticed Li Huowang's unusual behavior and put down the white stone in his hand, "Li brother, are you okay?"

Li Huowang didn't look at him, always staring at the blind Huangfu Tiangang.

After contemplating for a moment, Huangfu Tiangang spoke, "It's not a big deal. What Xuan Pin meant to say is that with the Astrological Bureau leading, we are not as weak as imagined."

"The Fate Commander from Fusheng Heaven, as long as they dare come again, we will push them back like the other day."

"The Military family's forces are pretty much wiped out." Li Huowang stated coldly, expressing this brutal fact.

"No." Huangfu Tiangang gently shook his head, "Young man, what do you consider the Military family?"

At this, Huangfu Tiangang stroked his long beard on his chin, "In this situation, with the Fate Commander causing chaos in the world, if we want to survive, we must go all out."

"No matter how strong, the Military family are humans. Anyone can become part of the Military family; as long as the people of the entire world are tainted with Evil Qi, the whole world becomes our Military family."

Li Huowang's breathing grew erratic; he really didn't expect the other party to dare to do this. "Then I'm afraid they will all perish."

"Hmm." Gao Zhijian nodded, placing the white stone on the chessboard, "Li brother, I know you are kind-hearted, but people are bound to die, even the Royal Family is no exception."

At this moment, a sturdy young boy ran by with a grin, but Gao Zhijian grabbed him directly.

"Look, this is my son, whom I chose. I have so many sons, but they can only survive one, all others must die." Gao Zhijian's coldness sounded like he wasn't talking about his own child.

"The Fate Commander from Fusheng Heaven, the Fate Commander from White Jade Capital, we cannot fully trust them; to protect ourselves, we can only trust ourselves. This is the way of the world now, human life is cheap, anyone can die, and people can be reborn, as long as the lineage isn't wiped out."

"Human life...is cheap...but do you know what it means for those who care about them?"

Images of Master Jingxin, Lv's Troupe, Zhuge Yuan, Suisui, all flashed continuously across Li Huowang's mind; his expression began to distort, teeth grinding noise audible.

"I've had enough, enough!! Why!! Why is it!!!"

With Li Huowang's fist, veins bulging on the back of his hand, smashing against the chessboard, it shattered into pieces instantly.