Mutated Tao - Chapter 54

“Bang!” The huge wooden stick smashed heavily onto the ground, raising a thick cloud of dust. Then, the heavy wooden stick was lifted high again and fell heavily.

Bai Lingmiao helped Li Huowang to stand on the side and watch Plonker lifting the wooden stick.

Although the wound on his neck had not yet healed, after a few days of recovery, he could barely stand up.

“Use more force! Smash harder!” Li Huowang shouted.

By the campfire, Lv Zhuangyuan walked over with two steamed breads and smiled, “Little Taoist Master, what are you doing?”

“Hehe, nothing much. It’s just that he’s such a big guy, but he’s just carrying people and luggage around here. I’m training him,” Li Huowang said.

“Oh, that’s good,” Lv Zhuangyuan nodded and retreated.

Li Huowang looked back at Plonker, he was sweating profusely with his upper body bare. Although this guy’s brain wasn’t working well, his body was really good.

“With such a big size, he should be able to deal with ordinary bandits,” Li Huowang thought to himself. This was his plan, to enhance the strength of these people. After all, the negative effects of summoning Master Wander or Dan Yang Tzu were too great.

It was necessary to train Plonker whether it was assisting him against enemies in the future or guarding him when he was sick.

“Enough! You’ve done 100 times, you can rest now!”

Upon hearing this, Plonker threw his wooden stick aside and walked quickly towards the campfire, panting heavily. Without taking a break, he immediately picked up his oversized bowl and wolfed down the noodles.

After a short while, he had already eaten half a kilogram of noodles, but Plonker still seemed very hungry. He went back to the big pot and started to scoop more noodles into his bowl.

Watching him eat another half kilogram of noodles, Li Huowang couldn’t help but feel a little emotional. Thankfully, he still had some money left, or he wouldn’t even have enough for Plonker’s meals.

Suddenly, Li Huowang thought of something and took out the small copper bell from his pocket. Looking at it, he remembered the shattered Master Wander that had been smashed.

“Can this still be used?” In this strange world, this thing was important to them.

“Come, help me go to the woods on the side,” Li Huowang said to Bai Lingmiao.

They continued until they were far away enough that they couldn’t hear the sounds from the campfire before stopping.

“You go back first,” Li Huowang said, but this time, Bai Lingmiao didn’t listen to him.

“Just pee, I won’t look…” This made Li Huowang feel a bit helpless.

“I don’t need to urinate. You go back first, i will come back in fifteen minutes.”

After waiting until he was alone in the woods, Li Huowang leaned against a white birch tree and began to shake the copper bell.

Everything around him began to distort, but various lines were scattered everywhere and did not form Master Wander.

Li Huowang shook the copper bell vigorously, feeling restless. “Is this thing really useless?”

As soon as this thought came up, the twisting lines around him recombined to form a new Master Wander.

“Art thou still alive?”

However, when Li Huowang asked Master Wander this question, its strange language showed no emotional fluctuations, as if it had never been smashed before.

Despite feeling dizzy, Li Huowang quickly talked to Master Wander and learned some unexpected information.

Firstly, Master Wander has its own name, but it cannot be pronounced by human mouths.

Secondly, Master Wander doesn’t have the concept of death, or perhaps it is not even living creature. And, it don’t have the concept of quantity either.

“No concept of quantity?” Li Huowang shook his head hard, trying to clear his thoughts. His already dizzy head became even more dizzy.

He was seeing double, including Master Wander in front of him. Looking at them, Li Huowang seemed to understand something and shook his head vigorously.

As he shook his head, more and more Master Wander appeared. In the end, the dizzy Li Huowang saw almost twenty or thirty Master Wander in front of him.

Li Huowang couldn’t bear the dizziness anymore and finally bent down to vomit. The ringing sound disappeared, and everything returned to normal. The Master Wander also disappeared quickly.

After vomiting for a while, he finally stopped. Li Huowang wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and held the copper bell in front of him.

“If I had known these things earlier, would I have needed to self-harm to summon Dan Yang Tzu?” Li Huowang thought to himself.

After considering it, he decided to put away the copper bell.

“No, summoning Master Wander requires sacrificing one’s lifespan, and each time it takes three months. If I use so many Master Wander, I’m afraid it will cost me ten years of my life.”

Li Huowang leaned against the tree trunk and staggered back along the same path.

As soon as Li Huowang reached the road, he saw everyone gathered in a circle.

“Look, everyone, these are all top-quality goods. If there is anything inferior inside, I, Zhu Dexi, won’t die well!” Zhu Dexi was leading a donkey cart, selling items to others non-stop.

Li Huowang went over to take a look and found that there was a peddler leading a donkey cart, trying to sell things to others. Bai Lingmiao and Chun Xiaoman were standing by the cart, holding some needles and threads hesitantly.

“In such a chaotic world, how can you still dare to come out and sell things? Aren’t you afraid of being robbed by bandits?” Li Huowang asked.

In response to Li Huowang’s question, the youth just smiled and didn’t explain anything.

“Taoist Master, do you want cinnabar? I have everything here!”

Lv Zhuangyuan, who was watching from the side, came over and whispered to Li Huowang, “How could bandits rob him? This kind of person is in league with the bandits. The bandits rob, while people like him collect and sell the items!”

“I see.” Li Huowang nodded in understanding.

“Taoist Master, if you don’t want cinnabar, you can also take a look at other things. I have everything here!” Zhu Dexi continued to talk non-stop, not paying attention to the looks of others.

Li Huowang thought for a moment and asked, “Do you have anything that can be used to kill people?”

As soon as he said this, everyone around him looked over. Zhu Dexi clapped his hands excitedly and began to search through his cart. “Of course! I have!”