Chapter 1: Master
Li Huowang lifted up the medicine pounding rod in his hand, and smashed it into the medicine pounding jar one by one in a bored manner, slowly grinding the flowing light lapis lazuli mixed with silt inside into powder.
Although this cave is damp and cold, the young man is only wearing a coarse cloth. But he was full of unconcern, seemingly not putting all this in his eyes.
He was not the only one in the cave, there were also other men and women of similar age, with the same hair tied up and the same coarse cloth and hemp rope.
The only difference between them and Li Huowang was that all of them had obvious external defects on their bodies, among them there were albinism as well as polio.
All kinds of congenital and acquired physical deformities could be found here, and the not-so-large material room cave seemed like a museum of deformities.
The work of these people was the same as Li Huowang's was to pound things, only the things they pounded were different, there were golden stones as well as medicines, but it was obvious that some people were not at ease with their work.
"Ah!" A woman's terrified scream drew everyone to look.
Only to see that on one side of the cavern, a fat teenager with a hare lip had a lewd smile on his face as he attempted to pull an albino girl into his arms.
"I'll just get it, just a little bit, promise, hehehehehe~"
Li Huowang ignored the noise and closed his eyes as he continued to do his job one at a time.
Listening to the woman's cries in his ears getting more and more miserable, the annoyed Li Huowang cursed darkly, picking up the stone medicine jar with one hand and stood up.
"Do," the stone and bone collided together with a muffled sound.
The fat man with cracked lips whose head was broken and bloodied sat on his butt on the ground and froze, obviously dumbfounded by this smash, after two seconds, his expression twisted in pain as he covered his wounds and dryly howled.
The white-haired, white-skinned girl who had escaped the fate of being defiled, covered her clothes in fear and hid behind Li Huo Wang.
"I tell you! You finish ruffling, do you know I am master what Jen? Let his old man know tease, he get you dead!" The fat man with cleft lips threatened with an unusually angry expression.
"What is he, he's not even a fart!!!" Li Huo Wang's words shocked the entire audience into silence.
The others present had never imagined that the man in front of them would actually dare to say such.
Looking at the looks of these so-called senior brothers and sisters before him, Li Huo Wang took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart.
"What's wrong with me, how can I get angry with these things, one's character is obviously not so flamboyant to be right, one can't let these things affect one's character, the person I was just now is not the real me, calm down and be calm."
Just as Li Huo Wang was still calming himself, he heard someone call out to him from the doorway.
"Senior Brother Li, Senior Sister Wang, Master has summoned you and the others to go over." The tall youth who shouted was obviously of a different status than Li Huowang, wearing was a green-colored dao robe.
Although the robe looked very old, the cuffs were washed white, but it was far better than the tattered linen Li Huo Wang was wearing by many times.
This person had one hand wrapped around a ponytail duster, looking at the juniors in front of him with a hint of arrogance in his eyes.
Seeing the appearance of the young Taoist priest, the fat man with a broken head immediately revealed an expression of pungent joy. "Haha! You finish ruffling! It's your turn to tease today."
But Li Huowang completely ignored him, turned around to follow a crooked mouth drooling woman toward the door, the woman's face looks very unhealthy.
He had just taken two steps when he realized that someone was tugging at his sleeve, pulling him back and preventing him from leaving. Li Huowang turned around and found that it was the albino girl who was saved by himself.
Tears in her eyes, she constantly shook her head, eyes full of fear.
The indifferent Li Huowang was unmoved, and with a forceful slam of his sleeve, he took a big step forward.
From the material room out is a bigger cave, cave wall there are a lot of with the same material room of the cave to serve other purposes, see that the pitted appearance, when the construction of this place is obviously not good craftsmanship.
The entire cave is very large, large and small tunnels in all directions, as if the enlarged version of the anthill.
A piece of rotten peach wood was nailed on top of each small cave knot, on which the name of each cave was carved with the force of the wood, Spirit Palace Hall, Old Law Hall, Celebration of Ancestors Hall, and Four Royal Halls.
A naturally occurring cave was actually primed to look like a dojo.
Just as the two of them continued to walk along the cave, the crooked-mouthed woman next to them pulled out a piece of black stuff from her pocket and suddenly handed it to Li Huowang's face, saying in that demented voice, "Eat ..... thin candy?"
Li Huowang frowned slightly, seems to know the other party's naivety, impatiently over directly into his sleeve.
See Li Huo Wang took over, she also took out another piece from her pocket and stuffed it into her mouth, foolishly continued, "Master is good ..... With master have sugar to eat ...."
To this Li Huo-wang did not intend to say anything, the two continued to walk, so walked almost a quarter of an hour or so, an ancient color, black body tall alchemy furnace appeared in front of him.
The smoldering cauldron poked straight to the top of the cave, and the furnace was huge looking like a small mountain of metal.
From far to near, he watched the furnace gradually become bigger and bigger, and finally the shadow of the furnace directly submerged over himself, which made Li Huowang feel doubly depressed.
What made him feel depressed besides that huge five-layer Dan furnace, there was also a back figure in front of the Dan furnace.
From the back he was wearing a greenish-blue Taoist robe, hairpin and crown, white hair at the temples, looking very immortal.
Sitting on the ground, he seemed to be doing the same thing as Li Huowang before, getting the pill pounding pole and pounding it one by one, only that the pill pounding pole in his hand was obviously much bigger and looked like a giant pillar.
As it fell together, the sound of gold and stone crashing echoed continuously within the cave.
"Master ...... Master!" The slant-mouthed woman clumsily pinched the thumb of her left hand with her right hand, placed the four fingers of her left hand on top of the fingers of her right hand, and placed her hands on her chest to make a bow to that back, her eyes full of respect.
As soon as she opened her mouth, the ear-piercing crashing sound stopped.
As soon as the back figure turned around, even though she was prepared for it, Li Huowang's pupils were still slightly constricted in shock.
The front of the Taoist priest was very different from the back, from the back of the immortal style and Taoist bones, but from the front, it was a disgusting mangey old man, a few yellow teeth in the mouth of the earth so exposed in the air.
"Come? Good disciple, let me wait."
With a wave of his dirty Taoist robe, the old Taoist priest rose up into the air and retreated back by grabbing the crooked-mouthed woman's neck with one hand.
Before that demented woman could open her mouth and say another half-sentence, she was instantly thrown into a half-man-high stone urn, and in the next moment, the master with a hideous expression fist-sized stone pounding rod in both hands, smashed down heavily on her head.
With the screams came to an abrupt end, from that stone urn came, some kind of foot stepped into the mud of the barking sound.
That wasn't all, as the previous impact echoed again, accompanied by the pounding pole lifting high and falling hard, every part of the woman's body falling to the same end as her head.
With every blow, the right side of Li Huowang's face, who was breathing heavily, shook violently.
Flesh scraps and blood splattered onto the old Taoist priest's face and body, but he was unperturbed as he recited something in accordance with a certain melody with an exuberant expression.
"Ding ugly prolongs my life, ding hei protects my soul, jia zi protects my body, jia xu protects my form, jia shen fixes my life, jia wu guards my soul, jia chen true my spirit!"
When thoroughly mashed into mince, he lifted the stone weng that weighed several hundred pounds with one hand, and poured all the mess mashed out by his own hands into the alchemy furnace in front of him, and then immediately raised his hands violently into the air with an extremely exuberant expression.
"Start the furnace, alchemy!"
Two Daoist children wearing exaggerated blushes came out from the shadows, fanning themselves while pouring all kinds of condiments into the furnace, among which there were all kinds of golden stone powders as well as quite a few living and wriggling things.
Not long after, a weirdly rich aroma filled the air.
At this moment, that mangy-headed master closed his eyes and inhaled deeply before stroking his chin without a few whiskers, a satisfied expression appearing on his dirty and ugly face.
When he slowly opened his eyes, he put his hands behind his back and turned his head towards Li Huowang. "I heard that you called this Taoist Master a fart? Can this be true?"
In an instant, the air around them seemed to freeze.
Looking at the murderous so-called master in front of him, Li Huowang was unmoved, slowly closing his eyes to calm his somewhat rapid breathing, and silently reciting in his heart, "You can't fool me, it's all a lie, it's all a lie."
"Speak! Mute? Hmm?!" With the sound of Master's footsteps getting closer and closer, the stench of his body mixed with the smell of blood hit his nose like a wall.
Trembling Li Huowang fiercely clenched his teeth and used his whole body's strength to violently open his eyes.
Just now also dim and full of depressing cave Taoist temple instantly disappeared, a bright and clean, fresh air ward appeared in front of him, while his lower body was bound by the cloth belt dead on the bed.
