Chapter 243: Treatment

Chapter 243 Treatment

Lying prone on the soft grass, Li Huowang, exhausted and panting, looked at the writhing Black Tai Sui in the distance and smiled happily.

Since Yang Na had given him chocolate to eat before, he truly hadn't been this happy in a long time. Although his body ached terribly all over and he was too tired to have any strength left, this trip underground had undergone countless hardships, yet ultimately his goal was achieved.

With the Black Tai Sui, he could finally say goodbye to those hallucinations. He would no longer have to sway between reality and illusion; he could rid himself of the inner confusion.

"They all say eating Black Tai Sui doesn't last long; it grows bigger and bigger inside your stomach."

"I refuse to believe it! If nothing else works, when it gets big enough, I'll cut open my own belly, dig out the Black Tai Sui inside, and swallow it down again!"

Just as Li Huowang was pondering the probability of success for this idea, he suddenly noticed that everyone else's expressions were quite wrong.

They had clearly escaped death already, so why were they standing there looking as if they'd seen a ghost? Moreover, he was injured like this, yet no one came to lend a hand.

"Don't just stand there, take hold of the chain. The other end is bound to Han Fu. That small head of his is actually still alive. Drag him up so I can pry some information from his lips." Li Huowang spoke, but the others, unusually, paid him no heed.

"What is wrong with you?" Li Huowang propped himself up on the soft grass with one palm and crawled toward them, yet almost everyone instinctively took a step back.

"Senior Brother Li? Are you really... Senior Brother Li?" Bai Lingmiao, her hands tucked against her chest, looked at the thing before her with tears streaming down her face and terror in her eyes.

Without needing her to speak, Li Huowang had already sensed something was amiss with his body. He raised his hands, examining them in shock with his single eye that grew beneath his ear.

As he moved his fingers slightly, Li Huowang saw two fingers fused together at the position of his elbow twitch faintly.

"How is this possible! What exactly--" Li Huowang braced himself on the grass with those deformed hands and flipped over violently.

Under the moonlight, when Li Huowang saw the form of his own body, he was nearly scared into making a sound.

He simply could not imagine that this chaotic mess of blood and flesh could actually be his own body!!

Compared to this, Sun Baolu's body before was merely child's play. His current body had various organs flipping wildly, left and right reversed, specks of white tassels mixed among them swaying gently, showing absolutely no human shape!

"It's the power of those white tassels! Only after it dragged me down did I become like this." Li Huowang grabbed a strand of white tassel from his body with his hand, watching in shock as the fingers grasping the tassel slowly twisted.

"Am I still human?" This question appeared in Li Huowang's extremely chaotic mind. His trembling hand reached for his face, which was unrecognizable; his features had completely shifted positions, nowhere near where they used to be.

"How is this possible! This is far too outrageous! Is this... really a normal world?" Li Huowang shivered violently.

"No, Li Huowang, calm down. This isn't a big deal. Yes, it's not a big deal."

Li Huowang turned around, looking at the others, a confident expression appearing on his terrifying face. "It's fine, don't panic. It can definitely be solved."

Speaking thus, Li Huowang hooked a dagger with his deformed right hand and drove it directly into his own face.

In the gaze of disbelief from everyone present, he forcibly carved out a wound.

Li Huowang grabbed the ear at the edge of the gash, and with a roar, forcibly shifted it upward to where it should have been.

But the next moment, the relocated ear fell limply to the ground.

Seeing the ear on the ground, Li Huowang smiled even happier. "Yes, this works too. My body's healing ability is very strong. As long as I cut off everything that grew wrongly, let them grow back correctly."

"Just being a human stump for a few days, what does it matter."

Watching Li Huowang begin to aim the dagger in his hand at his own eyes, Gouwa walked forward trembling, standing at a distance and gesturing frantically with his hands.

"Senior Brother Li, don't do this. A bad life is better than a good death. Besides, you have hands and feet..."

Halfway through, Gouwa really didn't know how to continue. Senior Brother Li was too miserable; he couldn't bear to watch.

If he had fallen to this state, it would be better to just die outright.

Li Huowang's knife stopped. His eyes stared blankly at his inverted pinky finger. A thought suddenly appeared in his mind.

"Wait! If these white tassels can turn me into this ghostly appearance, does that mean they can also turn me back?"

Li Huowang's eyes lit up. Looking at the white tassels stuck to his hand, he grabbed a bunch and placed them directly over his eyes.

The white tassels were moving, and they were still causing Li Huowang's fingers to twist continuously.

"Shut the hell up!" Li Huowang threw the white tassels onto the ground and pressed them against his face again.

Gradually, Li Huowang felt his vision start to move, sliding downward under the effect of the white tassels.

Li Huowang suddenly gripped his eyeball with three fingers, slowly shifting it toward where it should go. However, no matter how he moved it, it never returned to its original position.

"Slash!" A deep gape tore open from the corner of his eye. Li Huowang grabbed his bloodshot eye again and forcibly pulled it over a bit more.

"About right?" Li Huowang asked the others, panting heavily.

Upon receiving a unified reply, he began to shift the organs elsewhere.

Having barely managed to shift the facial features into place, Li Huowang, in pain nearly fainting, looked at the others around him and screamed hoarsely, "What are you staring at? Why aren't you coming to help?"

These words reminded everyone. They all surged forward, beginning to help reposition Li Huowang's other organs.

The process was not easy. Although the white tassels could help move things, they were never quite precise.

When it came to this point, one needed to use a knife to fix it back oneself.

Gouwa, who was carefully shifting Li Huowang's left ear, shook his hand. The thing pattered and fell to the ground.

Panicked, he picked it up, glanced left and right secretly, spat a bit of saliva on it, and trembled as he tried to stick it back onto Li Huowang's head.

A hand rested on his shoulder, making Gouwa jump with fright. He turned his head and saw Bai Lingmiao holding needle and thread. "Give it to me. I'll sew it on for him."

Gouwa instantly breathed a huge sigh of relief and hurriedly handed it over.

This ordeal was comparable to torture. Perhaps the joy of obtaining the Black Tai Sui was sustaining him, or perhaps because Li Huowang was already accustomed to pain.

When his chaotic body was finally pieced together into a human shape, dawn had broken, yet Li Huowang's screams remained full of vigor.

(End of Chapter)