Superstition

Hearing Li Huowang's words, Bai Lingmiao widened her eyes and said, "Yes, yes, my grandpa also told me not to run outside the village. People outside the village are very bad. If they catch a child, they will skin him and put on dog skin to train him as a dog. Because children are smart, they can use this dog that understands human language to perform acrobatics on the street. That child is miserable because his body is stuck to the dog skin, and he will never grow up again."

Li Huowang frowned and shook his head, "No, I'm not talking about these stories that old ladies use to scare their grandchildren. I'm talking about something like Lord You."

"Something like Lord You? Let me think..." Bai Lingmiao frowned and began to think. "The stories my grandpa usually tells are very messy, but most of them are about snakes in the mountains eating people. There are very few like Lord You."

"Then who told your grandpa the story of Lord You?"

Bai Lingmiao innocently widened her eyes, "Of course, it was my grandpa's grandpa who told him, and then my grandpa told me, and I will tell my grandson in the future."

Li Huowang scratched his head. So this story was passed down from ancestors. It seems that he miscalculated.

"Senior Brother Li, I know one." A weak young man who was listening by the wall suddenly spoke.

This person had deformed joints, one shoulder was higher than the other, and his whole body was very twisted. Even in the material room, he could be considered relatively "outstanding in appearance."

"Senior Brother Li, my surname is Zhao, and I'm the fifth in my family. You can just call me Zhao Wu."

Regardless of who was speaking, Li Huowang walked up to him and said, "Okay, tell me."

Zhao Wu looked around, deliberately lowered his voice and said, "I heard the older generation say that there was a kind of evil thing you're talking about, that thing is called Grandma."

"Grandma? What does it look like?" Li Huowang quickly searched his mind, but couldn't find any related pictures. Judging from the literal meaning, there were no clues at all.

"Shh~ Senior Brother Li, don't be so loud, keep your voice down. This thing is very evil. I heard that Grandma can hear you. If you talk about it often, they will come to you!"

"Oh?" Hearing this, Li Huowang became interested.

"I heard my cousin say that it looks different in everyone's eyes. Some look like goblins with long ears, and some look like their deceased elders. But the only similarity is that anyone who stays with them for a while will also become Grandma!"

Li Huowang stroked his chin thoughtfully. "This place is really strange. There are all kinds of inexplicable things. Okay, is there anything else?"

"Yes, there is, there are also Husband and Wife Fish, this thing is also evil."

From Zhao Wu, Li Huowang learned a lot of strange nouns, and these were the materials he was going to put into the immortality pills.

"You really know a lot. Thank you, this information is helpful to me." If he only talked about the highly poisonous pill ingredients, Danyangzi might notice something, but adding these things that even he couldn't distinguish would make it more credible.

The point was to be incomprehensible. Anything that is incomprehensible seems profound.

Hearing Li Huowang say this, Zhao Wu smiled happily. "I heard all this from my cousin. He is a peddler and has been everywhere, so he knows a lot."

"Okay, it's almost time, I'm going back. You guys wait quietly for my news." Li Huowang took a deep breath, stood up and walked out.

He had just taken a few steps when a tall figure of at least 1.9 meters blocked his way. "I...I...I..."

Li Huowang recognized the bald man in front of him. People in the material room called him a fool, the kind with crossed eyes and drool.

It wouldn't be accurate to say he was completely stupid. He was just a bit stuttering, slow to react, and mentally retarded. "I...I...I...also know!"

Li Huowang sighed, reached out and patted his big bald head, then turned and walked towards the door.

Early the next morning, Li Huowang was summoned to Danyangzi's residence. "I've practiced the inner and outer Great and Small Circulation cultivation methods you mentioned. Tell me about the pills to take with the cultivation methods."

"Yes, Master." Li Huowang walked to the stone slab again and pretended to observe it. "Hmm, two Grandma hearts, refine their essence? Master, what does this mean?"

Danyangzi, with an uncertain expression, paced back and forth in the room, muttering to himself, "So that's how it is? The path to immortality actually requires such sinister things?"

"Master, what is Grandma?"

"Never mind that, keep talking."

"One Husband and Wife Fish, take its gills, soak in two liang of arsenic..."

The things he learned from Zhao Wu, combined with Li Huowang's knowledge from the modern world, and mixed with the energy of a sleepless night, were kneaded in his mouth into a systematic method of becoming an immortal.

After Li Huowang finished speaking everything he had made up, he saw that Danyangzi was very excited, muttering to himself.

However, when he carefully distinguished what he was saying, he was immediately taken aback.

"That's right, there's no mistake, arsenic is cold, so it must be neutralized with a hot thing like the Husband and Wife Fish. Wonderful! And this actually uses Grandma to enter the elixir, why didn't I think of that before? Since people can enter the elixir, why can't these sinister things enter the elixir?" This guy actually began to imagine the medicinal properties of the elixir being balanced.

Li Huowang found that Danyangzi was very smart when he was smart, but he was really ignorant when he was ignorant. He didn't believe anyone, only the set he had formulated in his heart.

If there was a word to express it, it would be superstition. In a world without gods and ghosts, superstition in ghosts and gods represents ignorance, but in a world with gods and ghosts, superstition is still ignorance, only the things that are believed in are different.

At this moment, Danyangzi stretched his right hand into his sleeve and pulled out a copper Taoist bell with a missing corner. It was the kind of bell he saw in zombie movies used to control zombies.

As he began to shake it vigorously, the piercing bell rang instantly, and Li Huowang suddenly felt a splitting headache. He instinctively covered his head and gritted his teeth.

This strange copper bell sound not only affected his hearing, but also his eyes.

Everything around him began to twist and deform, and the whole world shook violently as if in an earthquake.

"What's going on? Danyangzi, what is he up to? Is there something I missed? Did he find out?"

Just as Li Huowang thought this, he saw the corner of the table, the edge of Danyangzi's Taoist robe, and even the side of the Heavenly Book next to him. In the entire room, the edges and corners of anything he saw seemed to come alive, slowly condensing in front of Danyangzi as they twisted.

It is difficult to describe what this thing formed by the edges and corners of objects looks like, but the only thing that is certain is that it is alive.

Li Huowang thought he was seeing things, he shook his head vigorously, but it was okay if he didn't shake it, but after shaking it, the thing actually turned into two as Li Huowang shook.