CH 7

Li Huowang was lying on the bed wearing a hospital specific restraining suit, silently looking at the hanging bottle hook on his head, as if waiting for something.

Suddenly, the door of the ward opened,”Hey, Li, you’ve recovered quite well before, but what’s the matter now?”

Li Huowang’s attending doctor walked in and looked at him with disappointment.

Hearing this, Li Huowang, whose head was wrapped in white gauze, suddenly became anxious and explained, “Doctor, they hurt Yang Na! I was forced to attack them to protect her!”

The doctor pushed the glasses on his face and said, “You call that a counterattack? You’re killing someone! Old Liu is lying in the ICU right now, and your kick almost killed him directly. 

“You’ve been here for a long time, and you know the condition of other people. Didn’t you consider Old Liu’s condition before the attack? I thought you were a sensible child.”

Li Huowang thought of Yang Na, who was frightened to cry, and he seemed unconvinced. 

“What if he were a mentally ill person? Can he do whatever he wants if he gets mentally ill? I would rather go to prison than have Yang Na hurt.”

“You…” The attending doctor couldn’t speak for a moment.

Finally, he sighed and shook his head,”Forget it, the dean has already called your families, so you don’t have to worry about these things.”

Upon hearing this, Li Huowang curled up and lay down on the other side of the room. In his heart, he began to estimate whether the 400000 yuan jade pendant was enough to compensate Old Liu.

However, at this time, he was not at all flustered, because when he saw that the pill really worked, Li Huowang suddenly found that his life had many new choices.

Feeling that his patient’s mood was not very good, the doctor spoke to reassure him and said, “Oh, Li, don’t worry. You won’t go to jail. The hospital has already issued a certificate for you. Don’t think about this. Rest assured and recuperate. We will handle other matters properly.”

Li Huowang sensed the concern of the doctor’s words for himself, “Thank you, doctor.”

“You’re welcome, after all, I’m your attending doctor. You’re so young, so I need to take care of you more.” Li Huowang felt the doctor’s hand patted on his shoulder.

“But Li, tell me the truth, how did you hurt them like that at that time? That’s not something ordinary people can do.Were you in a normal state at that time, or did you fall into some new illusion?”

Hearing this, Li Huowang became nervous and immediately focused on the pocket of his coat. “This… I…”

“I am a psychologist and have some experience in this area. Don’t hide your condition from me. You’d better think it over before answering. I hate my patients cheating on me.”

Although the doctor’s tone was pleasant, Li Huowang felt invisible pressure,”What should I do? I can’t let him know about the pills.”

As Li Huowang anxiously pondered how to answer, everything around him began to become unstable, and the doctor’s voice became increasingly dim.

Within a few seconds, he found himself entering the illusion again and lying on the stone bed of the karst cave of Xuan Yang.

He sat up with his head covered and smiled at the simple furnishings around him. “Hey hey, no matter what, this is also a solution.”

He doesn’t plan to go back so soon this time in case the doctor hasn’t left yet.

Walking out of the room, Li Huowang looked at the senior brothers and sisters entering and exiting the cave tunnel, and began to plan for the next step in his heart.

Since those pills are really useful, he can’t be as casual as before. He must take good care of this place and gain more benefits from it.

Fortunately, his current identity is no longer as a medicinal herb in the material room, but as a registered disciple of the master, and he has gained a lot of freedom in action.

When he saw a bearded Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe walking past him, Li Huowang quickly chased him,”Senior Brother, Senior Brother!”

The bearded Taoist turned his head and found that it was Li Huowang speaking, and then said to him, “Junior Brother Xuan Yang, what’s the matter?”

Li Huowang replied, “I have just become the master’s disciple. Please clarify my doubts, Senior Brother,what should I do next?”

“Don’t blame me for speaking poorly. Although you were personally promoted by the master, you are the most junior, and now you can only work as a coolie in the Qingfeng Temple.

（Note：清qing风feng观guan，清风means a breeze，Temple has two types, one is Taoist temple, and the other is Buddhist temple.Here, the temple refers to the Taoist temple）

“If you want the master to teach you the way to become an immortal, it’s impossible. That’s the treatment only given to the master’s favorite disciple, and you don’t deserve it at all. Now follow me to wait outside the alchemy room.”

“Becoming an immortal…?” Li Huowang muttered to himself, but he had never heard of anyone who became an immortal using human alchemy.

“Can the master really become an immortal?”Li Huowang said.

A trace of complacency appeared on the bearded Taoist’s face,”Of course, Master has profound magic power. Just serve him well, and he will never forget your contributions.”

From this senior brother named Xuan Yin, Li Huowang also clarified the composition of the entire temple in the karst cave.

There are five registered disciples, and one master’s favorite disciple, and the master, Dan Yang Tzu.

In addition to these people, the remaining people are all peripheral personnel, such as cooks, medicinal materials in the material room, and Taoist children handling groceries. These people add up to nearly 100 people.

This is Li Huowang’s first time to gain a new understanding of the entire Taoist temple. There are relatively few people in the temple, and the facilities and environment are primitive, especially after a large number of people died recently.

During their conversation, the repressive alchemy furnace reappeared in front of Li Huowang, with faint white smoke wafting out of the furnace, and Dan Yang Tzu seemed to be refining something inside.

This time, Dan Yang Tzu and his favorite disciple, a young man with a gloomy expression, were refining pills.

After waiting for a moment with Xuan Yin, Li Huowang received his task and took the material list to the material room to count the ingredients, just like the work of the previous Xuan Yang.When 

Li Huowang arrived at the material room with a white horsetail wheel in his hand, everyone at work looked over, with a hint of fear in his nervous eyes.

The albino girl pursed her lips and walked forward, but in the end, she didn’t say anything and slowly retreated in fear.

At this time, Li Huowang’s identity had changed from a victim to an oppressor.

Li Huowang looked at them and thought. The identities of both parties have changed, and he may be able to find some benefits in this regard. 

“Do you have any money on you?”The words stunned everyone. 

“Money, don’t you understand? Silver, gold, and jade pendants are also okay.”

To be honest, Li Huowang really needs money now. He doesn’t know how much Old Liu’s compensation needs. His family is just an ordinary family. If the compensation is large, his mother may have to sell the house, so money is urgently needed by him.

“Anyway, you can’t spend any money here. Why don’t you give it all to me and I’ll protect you in the future.”

The others understood, and the people in the material room began to search for valuable things on their bodies. 

They don’t expect Li Huowang to protect them, they only hope that Li Huowang won’t bully them after collecting things.

A small piece of blackened silver, a copper hairpin, and forty small copper coins are all Li Huowang’s harvest.

Looking at these things, Li Huowang sighed, as if he was mistaken. These guys don’t have any money at all, and the value of these things won’t even be as much as the money on his medical insurance card.