The Unruly Immortals

"Don't come near, don't come near!" When Yi Donglai heard Li Huowang shout these words, he froze in place.

He stood in the pouring rain, watching everything inside. At this moment, his mind was a mess, really a mess.

Yang Na looked at the now crazed Li Huowang with eyes full of distress and immediately turned to Doctor Yi at the door, saying, "Doctor Yi! Now that you're alert, help us!"

"Huowang can't hold out against so many Fate Commanders from Fusheng Heaven on his own!"

"I... I..." Yi Donglai's breathing started to become erratic and increasingly chaotic. He gritted his teeth, uncontrollably pounding his forehead.

He even thought of taking out the mirror again to see if his face had indeed become younger, questioning whether what he experienced was real or just an illusion.

In the past, he didn't understand why patients did this; now he finally knew.

Just then, Li Huowang, covered in dirt and bleeding from the head, roared as he emerged from the dust, swinging his military knife and leaping towards another mud statue to the left with force.

The strong impact knocked the clay statue down, toppling over the entire structure along with Li Huowang onto a nearby pillar.

Accompanied by the creaking sound of wood breaking, the half-decayed pillar began to tilt and bend.

Then, with a crack, the pillar snapped, and pieces of moss-covered tiles began to fall from above, increasing in number.

"Run out quickly! This temple is going to collapse!! If you don't come out now, you'll both be buried inside!" Noticing the shaking dilapidated temple, Yi Donglai, ignoring his own confused cognition, urgently reminded the two of them.

Upon hearing this, Yang Na's heart immediately tightened, and she grabbed Li Huowang's arm with both hands to pull him out.

In this situation, Li Huowang naturally didn't want to stay any longer, but he couldn't move; his left foot was stuck in the chest cavity of a clay statue, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't pull it out.

Seeing the tiles falling more frequently and the whole decrepit temple beginning to tilt, Li Huowang unhesitatingly pushed hard, directly pushing Yang Na out the door.

The next moment, Li Huowang heard an unsettling, sticky gulping noise above his head.

Li Huowang's body began to tremble uncontrollably. It wasn't him trembling; it was Bai Sui, the patches piecing his entire body together, trembling.

The trembling grew more intense, and the Bai Sui from the Lion Dance Palace began to dissolve, turning into pools of blood that dripped from Li Huowang, and without Bai Sui, the Prime Minister also peeled away from his body.

Suddenly sensing something, the evading Li Huowang sharply looked up, and a towering, oppressive, inverted hollow black mountain filled his vision.

Something seemed to be continuously roaring and struggling inside the hollow mountain, the Heavenly Dao emanating from it incessantly eroding Li Huowang's body.

When the oppressive inverted black mountain pressed down on Li Huowang like an ever-present menace, he suddenly realized it wasn't an inverted mountain! It was a tooth! Something was about to eat him!

Just one tooth was so vast; how immense must the Fate Commander of Fusheng Heaven be? What does it govern!!

Li Huowang figured it out, but it seemed a bit too late. As that tooth came down, Li Huowang, unable to move a muscle, fell into a black abyss, staring at the deep pit behind the tooth.

However, he wasn't dead; half-awake, half-asleep, Li Huowang saw something — memories from his past, fragments from his childhood, or rather, memories.

In his wax-yellow home, his mother, Sun Xiaoqin, smilingly brought a cake towards him.

He remembered this; it was his tenth birthday, the day he played games all day and had the happiest day of his life!

And just then, darkness enveloped from the left; in that fleeting moment, the scene brightened again, the cake's cream scattered on the ground, ribbons used to tie the cake box dangled from the ceiling fan, and the elongated tongue of Sun Xiaoqin's corpse. Everything froze right there.

Not only did it freeze in front of Li Huowang, but it also froze in his memory; after age ten, there was no trace of Sun Xiaoqin.

Li Huowang's body, which should have been normal and healthy, grew gaunt and sallow in a bizarre manner after his mother vanished from his memory, his face deteriorated, and even his height shrank.

And this was just the beginning; all the beauty in Li Huowang's memory was gradually overshadowed by scenes of oppression and despair.

He saw his father start drinking, hanging him up, beating him frantically until he ultimately drank himself to death on the sofa.

Li Huowang began to feel his heart becoming dark, his personality changed, and uncontrollably resenting everything.

"No! This isn't right! This isn't how it should be!!" Feeling these horrifying changes, the frantic Li Huowang struggled desperately in the darkness. He didn't know what was going on, but he unmistakably felt something was very wrong!

As Li Huowang watched his memory self yank out one of Yang Na's fingernails and bite off one of her fingers with his teeth, about to continue to the next finger, he screamed hysterically.

"No! This isn't my memory! This isn't mine!!" In the darkness, Li Huowang opened his skull, reached in to grab something, and yanked it out.

Those memories of despair and oppression disappeared, but the memories of the past didn't return; the emptiness was only filled with a vast emptiness.

"I want to leave here!! I must leave here!! I want to leave, and I will leave!!" Li Huowang declared, tearing off the remaining Dragon Qi from his body, wrapping it around his hand, thrusting it into the darkness before him, and, with force, prying it open. Rainwater mixed with the light of lightning shone in from outside.

A coarse and a delicate hand simultaneously reached in, grabbed Li Huowang's clothes, and dragged him out of the temple ruins with a sharp pull.

The rain from the sky still fell, the cold droplets constantly hitting Li Huowang's face.

Though his whole body ached, Li Huowang ignored this; he immediately grabbed Yang Na's hands and carefully examined them.

When Li Huowang saw that Yang Na's right index finger was indeed broken off, disappearing without a trace, his pupils sharply contracted.

Seeing Li Huowang staring at her severed finger, Yang Na shook her head, "It's okay, I don't blame you, I knew you couldn't control yourself then. We need to leave this place quickly, it's really too dangerous here."