Looting

Now that he had decided to leave, Li Huowang of course had to suppress the hallucinations from appearing again, otherwise he would always be switching between hallucinations and reality, and he wouldn't be able to do anything well.

To suppress the hallucinations, Danyangzi's Black Tai Sui was key.

When the group arrived at the cave, they stopped. They saw that the Black Tai Sui had actually crawled out of the Black Cauldron. This was the first time they had seen the true form of the Black Tai Sui.

It was a large, slimy, black mass covered in mucus. The covering on its body looked like hair at first glance, but upon closer inspection, it was a dense growth of dark, slender tendrils, or immature filaments.

The entire body expanded and contracted freely like a giant python.

Some openings grew on the bloated body, and with each wriggle, a disgusting stench spewed out.

This scene frightened everyone. Their hands and feet went weak, and they almost turned to run away.

However, Li Huowang keenly noticed something was wrong. This Black Tai Sui was much smaller, and black liquid was constantly seeping from under it.

"What's going on? Could it be that its life is connected to Danyangzi's?" Li Huowang's heart sank.

Thinking of this, he quickly ran out. When he returned, he was holding some of Danyangzi's remains in his hand.

Li Huowang rushed to the Black Tai Sui, knelt on one knee, and laboriously hugged the wriggling mass of rotten flesh on the ground. He stuffed the remains in his hand into some of the gaps in the Black Tai Sui's body.

It would have been better if Li Huowang hadn't stuffed it in. As soon as he did, more black water seeped out of its body, and its body shrank even smaller.

At this time, Li Huowang's face was full of anxiety, as if the wriggling, twisting black monster in his arms was his sick child.

Anxiously, he grabbed the Black Tai Sui on both sides and gently shook it. "Hey, hey, hey, don't scare me! What am I going to do if you die?!"

The Black Tai Sui did not respond. None of its organs moved anymore.

Seeing the Black Tai Sui getting smaller and smaller, Li Huowang suddenly became ruthless, opened his mouth, and bit hard into the Black Tai Sui's body.

Li Huowang's actions really stunned Bai Lingmiao and the others. They could only stand there, watching Senior Brother Li, covered in blood, tearing at the wriggling monster.

In their opinion, Li Huowang looked more like a monster than the Black Tai Sui at this moment.

Gou Dan moved to Zhao Wu's side and said in a low voice, "How about... we go our separate ways? Being with him, I'm really afraid he'll eat me in my sleep."

A hint of fear began to appear in everyone's eyes as they looked at Li Huowang.

The concentrated Black Tai Sui meat was obviously more compact. Li Huowang felt like he was chewing on a tire.

But he couldn't care so much at this time, swallowing mouthful after mouthful. No matter how much he ate, he couldn't keep up with the Black Tai Sui's self-dissolution. Before long, only a layer of black skin remained in Li Huowang's arms.

"Um, Senior Brother Li, are you full? Can we leave now that you're full?" Gouwa asked cautiously.

Li Huowang regretfully threw the stinky skin in his hand on the ground. He didn't know how long this would last. He only hoped to find another Black Tai Sui, or some other way, before his hallucinations came out.

"I'm going to change my clothes." The remaining things were basically worthless. As for any cultivation methods or secret books, forget about it. Danyangzi didn't even know how to read.

Li Huowang took off his sticky Daoist robe and immediately felt refreshed after putting on a brand new Azure Daoist Robe.

After changing his clothes, Li Huowang led the others towards the entrance, explaining to them why he did what he did.

When they understood that Li Huowang wanted to suppress the hallucinations with the Black Tai Sui meat, the hearts that had been hanging in their throats finally fell back down.

"Hey, so that's what happened. I thought Senior Brother Li was just hungry," Gouwa interjected, jokingly easing the atmosphere.

As they walked, there was a new fork in the tunnel. Li Huowang stopped as if possessed. The end of this tunnel was Danyangzi's residence. "Should we go in and see how the three senior brothers are doing?"

Although he didn't want to bother with them fighting like dogs, he didn't want another Danyangzi to appear if he could help it.

"Let's go, let's go take a look." Li Huowang led his group of old, weak, sick, and disabled towards the commotion.

Arriving at the door, Li Huowang found that the door he had just closed hadn't been opened, proving that no one had come out.

"Senior Brothers, are you done fighting? We're leaving." Li Huowang shouted into the room.

After waiting for a while without any response, Li Huowang pushed open the door. A pungent smell of blood rushed out, and a bloody hand was presented before everyone's eyes.

Everyone's gaze moved upwards, and an even more gruesome scene unfolded before them. Xuan Yuan was dead, and he had died a terrible death. His body had almost been split in two by a sword.

Chang Ren was also dead, stabbed in the back with a sword. Xuan Yuan cultivated talismans, not swords, so the only one who could have done it was his brother, Chang Ming.

And Chang Ming, who had survived to the end, was still in a bad situation. His body had been pierced through and through by the black threads with copper coins, pinning him to the wall. It seemed he had triggered Danyangzi's contingency plan.

Chang Ming wasn't dead. His eyes, full of desire, were still fixed on the so-called Heavenly Book of Immortality.

"Cough cough... cough~" Seeing Li Huowang walk in, Chang Ming on the wall seemed to want to say something, but the copper coins embedded in his neck had completely severed his trachea, preventing him from speaking.

Li Huowang walked over to him, smiled, and bent down to pick up his sword.

It was a longsword, about 1.2 meters in length. Under the light of the lamp oil, the blade reflected a cold light, looking extremely sharp.

After struggling to swing it a few times with one hand, Li Huowang said to Chang Ming, "Good sword. It looks like Senior Brother won't be needing this sword for the time being, so Junior Brother will use it for now."

"Although Junior Brother isn't a sword cultivator, it's always better to have a piece of iron in hand than to go empty-handed when traveling. Senior Brother, wouldn't you agree?"

Chang Ming tried to signal something with his eyes, but it was clear that Li Huowang couldn't understand.

Li Huowang took the scabbard from the dead Chang Ren, inserted the longsword, and carried it directly on his back.

Then came the most important part, the main event: the Heavenly Book.

Li Huowang turned towards the Heavenly Book, which was now without any protection.

Just then, Chang Ming suddenly began to struggle violently. As he struggled, the copper coins on the black threads sank deeper and deeper. After a few struggles, the light in his eyes quickly faded.

"Senior Brother Li, Senior Brother Chang Ming is dead." Gouwa said in surprise, his eyes wide.

Li Huowang looked at the so-called Heavenly Book before him and sighed softly. So many people had died because of this thing, which came from who knows where.

Li Huowang moved his head closer again, carefully observing it, even more earnestly than when he was being coerced by Danyangzi.

But after looking at it repeatedly, he still felt that it was just a scripture. Half guessing, it seemed to be a scripture that encouraged people to do good.

Li Huowang took a step back, then reached behind him with one hand and slowly drew his sword. With a "clang!", the sharp longsword heavily struck the stone slab covered with scriptures.