Li Huowang raised the medicine tampering rod in his hand and smashed it into the medicine tampering jar out of boredom, slowly grinding some of the flowing bluestone mixed with mud into powder.
Although the cave was damp and cold, and the young man was only wearing rough cloth, he looked unconcerned and didn't seem to take it all seriously.
He was not the only one in the cave, there were also other men and women of similar age, with the same hair tied in the same coarse cloth and linen rope.
The only difference between them and Li Huowang is that they all have obvious physical defects, including albinism and polio.
All kinds of congenital and acquired physical deformities can be found here. The small cave is like a museum of deformities.
The job of these people is the same as that of Li Huowang, but the things they smash are different. There are gold stones and medicines. But it is obvious that some people do not work with peace of mind.
"Ah!" A woman screamed in terror, causing everyone to look.
I saw a fat boy with harelips on the side of the cave with a lewd smile on his face, trying to pull an albino girl into his arms.
"I'll just do it, I promise, hehehe~"
Li Huowang ignored the noise, closed his eyes and continued to work step by step.
Listening to the woman's cries becoming more and more pitiful, the annoyed Li Huowang cursed secretly, picked up the stone medicine jar with one hand and stood up.
"Duo" the stone and the bone collided together, making a muffled sound.
The fat man with a cleft lip, whose head was bleeding and bleeding, sat on the ground and froze. He was obviously stunned by the blow. After two seconds, his expression was distorted and painful, and he screamed while covering his wound.
The girl with white hair and fair skin who had escaped the tainted fate covered her clothes and hid behind Li Huowang in fear.
"I'm telling you! If you're done flirting, do you know how kind I am as a master? If he finds out about flirting, he'll kill you!" The fat man with the cleft lip threatened with an extremely angry expression.
"Who the hell is he? He's not even a shit!!" As soon as Li Huowang said these words, the entire audience fell silent in shock.
Others present never thought that the man in front of them would dare to say such a thing.
Looking at the expressions of the so-called brothers and sisters in front of him, Li Huowang took a deep breath and suppressed the anger in his heart.
"What's wrong with me? Why am I angry with these things? My personality is obviously not so flamboyant. I can't let these things affect my personality. The person I was just now is not the real me. Stay calm and collected."
Just when Li Huowang was still calming down, he heard someone calling him at the door.
"Junior Brother Li, Junior Sister Wang, the master has called you to wait here." The tall young man who shouted was obviously of a different status from Li Huowang. He was wearing a blue Taoist robe.
Although the robe looked very old and the cuffs were washed white, it was infinitely better than the tattered linen cloth Li Huowang wore.
This man held a ponytail whisk with one hand and looked at the juniors in front of him with a hint of arrogance in his eyes.
Seeing the young Taoist priest appear, the fat man with a bloody head and a bloody head suddenly showed a joyful expression. "Haha! You're done teasing!! It's your day today."
But Li Huowang ignored him completely and turned around to follow a woman with a crooked mouth and drooling water towards the door. The woman's face was pale and looked very unhealthy.
After taking just two steps, he found someone tugging on his sleeve, holding him back to prevent him from leaving. Li Huowang turned around and found that it was the albino girl who had just saved him.
With tears in her eyes, she kept shaking her head, her eyes filled with fear.
The indifferent Li Huowang remained unmoved. He threw down his sleeves and strode forward.
Coming out of the material room is a larger cave. There are many caves on the cave wall that are similar to the material room and are used for other purposes. Judging from the pits and pits, it is obvious that the craftsmanship of the people who built this place was not very good.
The entire cave is very large, with large and small tunnels extending in all directions, like an enlarged version of an ant nest.
Pieces of decayed peach wood were nailed to each small cave knot, and the name of each cave was carved on it with three-thirds of force, including Ling Palace, Laolutang Hall, Qingzu Hall, and Siyu Hall.
A naturally formed cave was actually decorated to look like a Taoist temple.
Just as the two of them continued walking along the cave, the woman with a crooked mouth next to them took out a dark object from her pocket, suddenly handed it to Li Huowang, and said in a stupid voice: "Eat it."
....thin sugar?”
Li Huowang frowned slightly, as if he knew the other person was stupid, so he impatiently came over and stuffed it into his sleeve.
Seeing Li Huowang take it, she took out another piece from her pocket and stuffed it into her mouth, and continued stupidly: "Hello, master... I can have some sweets with the master..."
Li Huowang had no intention of saying anything about this. The two of them continued to walk like this for about a quarter of an hour when a tall, antique-looking, black alchemy furnace appeared in front of him.
The cauldron that was emitting green smoke only penetrated the top of the cave. The huge alchemy furnace looked like a metal hill.
From far to near, he watched the alchemy furnace gradually grow in size, and finally the shadow of the alchemy furnace directly overwhelmed him, which made Li Huowang feel even more depressed.
What made him feel depressed was not only the huge five-story alchemy furnace, but also a silhouette in front of the alchemy furnace.
Seen from the back, he is wearing a blue Taoist robe, with a hairpin and a crown, and white hair on his temples. He looks very immortal.
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, he seemed to be doing the same thing as Li Huowang before. He got the medicine stick and pounded it, but it seemed that the medicine stick in his hand was much larger and looked like a giant pillar.
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As they fell together, the sound of the collision of gold and stone continued to echo in the cave.
"Master...Master!" The woman with a slanted mouth 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, put her hands on her chest and bowed to the back, her eyes full of respect.
As soon as she spoke, the harsh crashing sound stopped.
As soon as his back was turned, Li Huowang's pupils shrank slightly in shock, even though he was already prepared.
The Taoist priest's front and back were completely different. From the back, he looked sanctimonious, but from the front, he looked like an old man with a malignant head, with a few scattered yellow teeth exposed in the air.
"Here you come? Good disciple, please let me wait." With a wave of his dirty Taoist robe, the old Taoist priest rose into the air, grabbed the crooked-mouthed woman's neck with one hand and retreated.
Before the stupid woman could say another sentence, she was instantly thrown into a stone jar half as tall as a person. The next moment, the master with a ferocious expression smashed down the medicine stick with a fist-sized stone in both hands.
With the sound of bones breaking, the woman's head was instantly smashed into a piece of paper. There was no space left, and the white brains were forced to spurt out from the seven orifices.
This was not the end yet. The previous impact echoed again. As the poisoning rod was raised high and then dropped heavily, every part of the woman's body ended up like her head.
With each knock, the flesh on Li Huowang's right face trembled violently as if it was being touched.
Meat residue and blood spattered on the old Taoist priest's face and body, but he remained unmoved and excitedly chanted something to a certain melody.
"Ding Chou prolongs my life, Ding Hai protects my soul, Jia Zi protects my body, Jia Xu protects my shape, Jia Shen secures my life, Jia Wu protects my soul, Jia Chen is my soul!"
After completely pounding his apprentice into a pulp, he raised the stone weighing several hundred kilograms with one hand and poured all the mud into the alchemy furnace in front of him, followed by his hands with extremely excited expressions.
He jerked into the air.
"Start the furnace and make the elixir!"
Two Taoist boys with exaggerated blush makeup walked out of the shadows, fanning themselves while pouring various condiments into the alchemy furnace, including various gold and stone powders and many living and wriggling things.
After a while, a strange and rich aroma filled the air. It was not any other aroma, it was the aroma of human flesh.
At this moment, the leprous-headed master closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then stroked his chin, which had few beards, and showed a satisfied expression on his dirty and ugly face.
When he slowly opened his eyes, he put his hands behind his back and turned to look at Li Huowang. "I heard that you called me a bastard? Is this true?"
In an instant, the air around him seemed to freeze.
Looking at the murderous so-called master in front of him, Li Huowang remained unmoved. He slowly closed his eyes to calm down his rapid breathing, and silently said in his heart: "You can't deceive me. This is all fake. It's all fake."
"Speak! Are you mute? Huh?!" As the sound of the master's footsteps got closer and closer, the stench of his body mixed with the smell of blood hit his nostrils like a wall.
The trembling Li Huowang gritted his teeth and used all his strength to open his eyes.
The cave Taoist temple that was dark and depressing just now disappeared in an instant, and a bright, clean, and fresh-air ward appeared in front of him, and his lower body was tightly bound to the bed with a cloth belt.