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After Zheng Kun's actions, Li Huowang's ribs were broken in two places, and his body was left with several bruised dents. Fortunately, this was nothing, and with the help of pills, he could barely heal these minor injuries.

Compared to his injuries, he cared more about his plan.

It just so happened to be the first day of the lunar month when Li Huowang, taking advantage of his renewed conflict with Zheng Kun, unintentionally told him the information about "Lord You" that he had learned from Bai Lingmiao.

When he saw the slight change in Zheng Kun's expression, Li Huowang was immediately overjoyed.

In fact, he didn't know what the other party would do with this information. He just wanted to try it out. Anyway, he had nothing to do, so he might as well take a shot and see what happens. Now it seemed that he had succeeded, and the other party definitely had his own selfish motives.

The days in the cave were endless, and the first day of the lunar month soon arrived. This day was the best time for Danyangzi to refine pills. He would stay in the Pill Refining Room all morning, and it also happened to be when "Lord You" was away.

Although the entire Qingfeng Temple was not large, it was not small either. After living there for so long, Li Huowang had long figured out Zheng Kun's movements. However, he didn't do anything, quietly staying in the Zhengyi Hall with his legs crossed.

"Could it be that I guessed wrong? Is this guy not that greedy?" Li Huowang lay on his bed, wondering where he had gone wrong.

Fifteen days passed, and it was the first day of the second lunar month, but Zheng Kun still hadn't made any move.

Just when Li Huowang thought he had miscalculated, on the fifteenth day of the second month, Zheng Kun was not in the Zhengyi Hall where he usually went. He finally couldn't hold back.

Just as he saw Danyangzi opening the furnace, Li Huowang hurried towards Danyangzi's residence according to the original plan.

Just as he was about to reach the entrance of the cave, Li Huowang suddenly stopped. He saw Zheng Kun guarding in the distance. He didn't go in.

Watching him standing at the door, carefully observing, Li Huowang immediately understood that someone was acting as his proxy. He was keeping watch. This guy was even more suspicious than he had imagined.

After about half an hour, Li Huowang saw Xuan Yin sneaking out from inside.

Zheng Kun glanced at him, took out black talismans, stuck them on their knees, and disappeared like a gust of wind.

The door was only ajar, as if it were a trap to lure people in.

Seeing that the other party had already acted as his pathfinder, Li Huowang knew that even if there were preparations in the room, they had probably been removed by Zheng Kun. He slowly approached. This was his chance.

Danyangzi's residence was very spacious, but it was messy and dirty, and there was a foul smell of dead rats in the room.

Although the environment was harsh, Li Huowang immediately saw the most valuable thing: a stone slab covered with a copper net of black lines.

As expected, that stone slab was the Heavenly Book that Danyangzi had mentioned. He cautiously walked over, examining the contents through the black lines.

Zheng Kun must have been trying to secretly learn the immortal cultivation methods, but judging from the scene, he hadn't succeeded.

Li Huowang carefully identified the contents of this Heavenly Book. The contents were very obscure and difficult to understand. He could barely make out that they were pictographs, but they seemed to be characters from an even older dynasty.

Although the evolution of Chinese characters over thousands of years was minimal, he still had a hard time reading them.

The more Li Huowang looked, the more he felt that something was wrong. Didn't Danyangzi say that the way to become an immortal was to cultivate both inner and outer elixirs at the same time? It seemed that this guy hadn't been practicing according to the book at all.

"Happy Step Universal Sound Gandharva... Obtain Like Clouds Widely Spread Universal Shade... Wonderful Body Enables All to Obtain Peace, Joy, and Liberation..."

Moreover, no matter how he looked at it, this thing didn't seem like a so-called immortal cultivation method, but a scripture.

"Hehe." A strange chuckle sent a chill down Li Huowang's spine. He quickly turned around but found no one behind him.

On the wall with a hole dug out, there was only a celadon vertical vase about the thickness of a forearm.

"Something's not right." Alarmed, Li Huowang began to return the way he came. It seemed that Zheng Kun hadn't cleared all the dangers.

"Don't move, okay?" A sharp and slender female voice sounded from behind him.

Li Huowang slowly turned his head again, the scene before him sending a chill down his spine. At the mouth of the narrow, upright vase was a pale white head of a girl.

To call her a girl, her skin color didn't quite resemble that of a living person, especially the rouge on both sides of her cheeks, which was frighteningly red.

Staring at the extremely red dot in the center of her forehead, the more Li Huowang looked, the more eerie he felt.

In that instant, he understood what Danyangzi relied on to read the Heavenly Book for him; it was this thing in front of him.

"Are you with that person from before? Hehe, you're in big trouble. As long as I ring the bell, my daddy will come back." Several copper bells were tied to her sky-piercing braids with red thread.

Watching her say this, Li Huowang was immediately anxious, but the next second, his expression suddenly calmed down. "Go ahead and call him. It's just as well to let your daddy know that you've been deceiving him."

When he saw a trace of panic on the Vase Head's face, Li Huowang sneered inwardly. He guessed right. It wasn't just him who wanted to fool the illiterate Laizi Head; this thing, whatever it was, had been doing it for a long time!

The upper beam is not straight, the lower beam is crooked. Everyone in the entire Qingfeng Temple harbored ulterior motives!

"It's... it's not my fault. The words are written so badly that I can't understand them at all. Daddy forced me to read them to him. What could I do?" The Vase Head said aggrievedly, on the verge of tears.

Seeing the Vase Girl's completely flustered expression, Li Huowang thought for a moment and quickly made a decision.

"Alright, let's make a deal. I'll leave this place now, and you pretend you didn't see me, and I'll pretend I don't know about your affairs. This is good for everyone."

The Vase Head hesitated, finally nodding. "Alright then, hurry up and leave. I'll pretend you never came."

Li Huowang lifted his foot and slowly moved towards the door. "Since the Heavenly Book is fake, then the pill formulas for refining pills with people are all made up by you?"

A naive smile appeared on the Vase Head's face. "Yes, because I only remember those things, so I pretended that those pill formulas were written in the book and told Daddy. Don't worry, they won't kill anyone. I don't want Daddy to die. I'm just afraid that Daddy will know I'm useless and won't want me anymore. Look at me, I have no hands or feet—"

Just as the Vase Head was getting excited, Li Huowang suddenly raised his right hand, gripped the jade pendant, and smashed it hard against the vase.

The round jade pendant, carrying a white shadow, instantly struck the vase. Cracks appeared, and under the Vase Head's terrified gaze, she fell heavily to the ground.

The vase shattered, and the internal organs, mixed with feces and urine and entangled by black Buddhist beads, were directly exposed to the air.

"Wuwuwu~ Daddy!! It hurts, Daddy, it hurts so much." The Vase Head's cries grew weaker and weaker.