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Mutated Tao - Chapter 1

Published at 26th of May 2023 10:15:29 AM


Chapter 1

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Chapter 1

(This is the best Cthulhu-style cultivation novel in China so far. It is very famous in China, but there is no English translation. I will try my best to translate this book well

In the previous chapters, there may be some grammatical and wording mistakes, but it does not affect the reading. I will correct them when I have time. If you find any problems in the translation, please leave a message to tell me in time)

Li Huowang raised the Hammer medicine rod in his hand and smashed it into the medicine jar like a robot, slowly grinding the bluestone mixed with mud inside into powder.
Although the cave was humid and cold, he was only wearing a coarse cloth coat. But he didn’t care, as if he didn’t take it all seriously.
He is not alone in the cave, but there are also other men and women. They also wore hair tied and coarse cloth clothing.
The only difference between them and Li Huowang is that they have obvious physical defects, including albinism and polio.
Various congenital and acquired body deformities can be found here, and the small karst cave looks like a museum of deformities.
The work of these people is the same as that of Li Huowang. They are all using Hammer medicine sticks to pound things, but the things are different, including gold and stone as well as medicine.
However, it is obvious that some people are not concentrating on their work.
“Ah!”
A woman’s frightened scream drew everyone’s attention.
On the side of the cave, a fat boy with cracked lips showed a dirty smile on his face, trying to pull an albino girl into his arms.
“I’ll just touch you once, I promise just once, hey hey hey……”
Li Huowang ignored the noise and closed his eyes to continue his work.
The woman was crying more and more tragically, and Li Huowang secretly cursed in anger.
He picked up the stone medicine jar with one hand and stood up.
“Bang!”
The stone collided with the bone, making a dull noise.
The fat man with a broken head and bleeding blood suddenly sat on the ground and froze, apparently stunned by the impact. After two seconds, his expression twisted and he covered his wound in pain and howled.
The albino girl who escaped the stain hid behind Li Huowang in fear, and covering her clothes.
“I tell you! You’re dead. Do you know who I am from the master? If he finds out, he’ll kill you!”The fat man with cracked lips threatened with an angry expression.
“He’s nothing! He’s not even as good as a fart!” Li Huowang said this, and the audience was completely silent.
The other people present had never imagined that the man in front of them would dare to say such a thing.
Looking at the expressions of the so-called senior 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? How can I be angry with these things? My personality is clearly not so arrogant, and I cannot let these things affect my personality. I just wasn’t the real me, calm and calm…”
While Li Huowang was still calming down, someone suddenly called him at the door.
“Junior Brother Li, Junior Sister Wang, the master asked you to pass.”
The tall young man who spoke clearly differed from Li Huowang in status. He was wearing a blue Taoist robe. Although the robe looked very old and the cuffs were washed white, it was much better than the coarse cloth clothing on Li Huowang’s body.
The man hugged a horsetail whisk, looking arrogantly at the younger generation in front of him.
Seeing the young Taoist appear, the fat man with cracked lips immediately showed a look of gloating.
“Haha! You’re done!! You’re going to die today!”
But Li Huowang completely ignored him and turned around to follow a woman with a slanted mouth and drooling towards the door. The woman’s face was waxy white and looked very unhealthy.
But Li Huowang had just taken two steps when he noticed someone tugging at his sleeve and holding him back.
Li Huowang turned around and found that it was the albino girl who had been saved by himself. She kept shaking her head in tears, her eyes filled with fear.
Li Huowang remained unmoved, vigorously flicked his sleeve and strode forward.
After coming out of the material room, there is a larger karst cave, and there are many karst caves on the wall that are similar to the material room. They are used for other purposes. Looking at the uneven appearance, it is obvious that the people who built this place at the beginning are not very skilled.
The entire karst cave is large, with tunnels of all sizes extending in all directions, like an enlarged version of an ant’s nest.
Many decayed peach trees were nailed to the top of each small karst cave, and the names of each cave were forcibly engraved on them, including the Spirit Palace, the Old Law Hall, the Hall of Celebration, and the Hall of Four Kings.
A naturally formed karst cave is actually made to look like a Taoist temple.
As the two continued walking along the cave, the woman with a crooked mouth suddenly took out a dark object from her pocket and handed it to Li Huowang.
She said in a foolish voice, “Do you want to eat…sugar?”
Li Huowang frowned slightly, as if he knew the other person’s foolishness. He impatiently took it and put it directly into his sleeve.
Seeing Li Huowang take it over, she also took a piece out of her pocket and stuffed it into her mouth, foolishly continuing, “The master is very good… follow the master and there will be sugar to eat…”
Li Huowang didn’t say anything about it, so they continued walking.
After walking for about a quarter of an hour, a tall, antique, blackened alchemy furnace appeared in front of him.
The smoky alchemy furnace was about to poke into the top of the cave. It was huge and looked like a metal hill.
Watching the alchemy furnace gradually grow larger from afar to closer, and finally its shadow disappeared beyond him, this scene made Li Huowang feel very depressed.
What made Li Huowang feel oppressive was not only the huge five layer furnace, but also a silhouette in front of the alchemy furnace.
From the back, the man is wearing a blue Taoist robe, with hairpins and a crown, and white hair on both temples. He looked very immortal.
Sitting on the ground, he seemed to be doing the same thing as Li Huowang before. He kept pounding with the Hammer medicine stick, but the Hammer medicine stick in his hand was obviously large and looked like a giant pillar.
Following the rise and fall of the Hammer medicine stick, the sound of the impact of gold and stone continued to reverberate in the cave.
“Master… Master!” The woman with a slanted mouth clumsily grabbed the thumb of her left hand with her right hand, placing the four fingers of her left hand on top of the fingers of her right hand, and then placed her hands on her chest to bow to the figure in front of her, her eyes filled with respect.
As soon as she spoke, the harsh crash stopped.As the figure in front turned around, Li Huowang’s pupils shrank slightly in surprise, although he had been prepared for it.
The front of the Taoist priest is completely different from the back. From the back, he looks like an immortal. From the front, however, he is a disgusting old mangy man with scattered yellow teeth exposed to the air.
“Finally? Good disciple, I’ve been waiting for so long!”With a wave of the dirty Taoist robe, the old Taoist rose into the air, grabbed the woman’s neck with one hand, and retreated to the alchemy furnace.
Before the woman could speak, she was immediately thrown into a half human high stone urn. The next moment, the old Taoist with a grim expression held the huge stone Hammer medicine stick in both hands and smashed it heavily.
“DingChou extended my life, DingHai protect my soul, JiaZi protect my body, JiaXu protect my form, JiaShen solid my life, JiaWu keep my soul, JiaChen really my spirit!”(spells/scriptures,Chinese:丁丑延我寿,丁亥护我魂,甲子护我身,甲戌保我形,甲申固我命,甲午守我魂,甲辰真我灵)
He lifted the stone urn weighing several hundred kilograms with one hand, poured all the contents into the alchemy furnace in front of him, and then said with an extremely excited expression.
“Start refining pills!”
Two Taoist boys with exaggerated powder blusher stepped out of the shadow, and poured various condiments into the red stove while fanning, including various kinds of gold and stone powders and many living crawling things.
After a while, a strange and rich aroma filled the air.
At this moment, the mangy master closed his eyes and took a deep breath, stroking his chin without a few whiskers, showing a satisfied expression on his dirty and ugly face.
When he slowly opened his eyes, put his hands behind him, and turned to look at Li Huowang.
“I heard you call me a fart? Is that true?”
In an instant, the air around seemed to solidify.
Looking at the so-called master who killed people without blinking an eye in front of him, Li Huowang remained unmoved and slowly closed his eyes to calm his somewhat hasty breathing.
He silently said to himself, “You can’t fool me. This is all fake, it’s all fake……”
“Why not speak! Are you deaf? Hmm?!” As the master’s footsteps drew closer, the stench of blood mixed with his body rushed towards him.
The trembling Li Huowang clenched his teeth and opened his eyes with all his strength.
The cave and the temple disappeared, and a bright, clean hospital room appeared in front of him with fresh air, while his lower body was tightly bound to the bed by a cloth strap.





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