CH 319

Li Huowang confirmed again the stolen items on the paper. Although he couldn't distinguish the efficacy of the medicine from the materials, as Dan Yangzi's direct disciple, Li Huowang could still easily recognize that it was a prescription.

"Could it be another Dan Yangzi?" Thinking back to his past at Qingfeng Temple, Li Huowang's expression became unpredictable.

Seeing Li Huowang's changing expression, Lou County Magistrate asked carefully, "Sir, did you find something? Have you found the missing babies?"

"No, not yet, but I have a clue." Li Huowang patted the paper in his hand against his chest.

"I don't know what they are refining, but some things cannot be changed. Alchemy must conform to the principles of one qi, two poles, six elements, and seven returns. These medicinal materials are still incomplete. In order to achieve the six elements, they will definitely steal some medicinal materials like Wushi Powder next."

"Count all those medicinal materials and keep an eye on them! No matter what they are, they will definitely come again!" Li Huowang said firmly.

Whether it was another Dan Yangzi or not, the first thing was to find him. Once he was found, everything else would be easier.

"Okay! As long as I can help the people find their children, I will listen to you, sir! I will call all the medicinal shop owners in the county!"

"Wait," Li Huowang stopped him. "You will just be alerting the enemy. I will handle this. First, you need to cooperate with me and act out a play."

"A play?"

That afternoon, Lou County Magistrate sent Li Huowang away with a grand procession of people. He held Li Huowang's hand tightly and flattered him all the way.

When they learned that Li Huowang was the one who caught the flower thief, the crowd around them grew thicker.

Many grateful county residents tried to give Li Huowang various things, but he refused them all.

After being sent away for five miles, Li Huowang advised them again, and Lou County Magistrate reluctantly turned back to the county with the others.

As the flower thief was executed, there were no more reports of women being violated in Cangshui County.

Although the missing babies were not recovered, no other infants were lost either. The fearful people of Cangshui County gradually calmed down.

A few days later, on a deserted street at night, a hunchbacked night watchman was knocking on his wooden clappers. "The weather is dry, be careful with the candles..."

At first, nothing was unusual, but after three o'clock in the morning, things became strange.

With the sound of knocking, the night watchman's shadow rose from the ground, and his limbs became thin and long, moving slowly and similarly to him.

The shadow seemed to be propped up by something, and there was something moving inside the dark shadow.

It can be hard to make great work when its stolen from "pawread dot com".

The sound of wood hitting the ground and the night watchman's shouts rang out again. "The weather is dry, be careful with the candles..."

When the night watchman approached a pharmacy, some oil-cloth wrapped medicinal materials passed through the wall and disappeared into the shadow of the night watchman. The shadow became larger. "The weather is dry, be careful with the candles..."

More and more medicinal materials were integrated into the shadow of the night watchman. The shadow became more and more distorted and terrifying.

And all of this was seen by Li Huowang, who was lying on the roof, with a cold eye.Before, when Lou Zhixian saw him off, it was just an illusion to make the other party think that Li Huowang had left and relax his guard.

Using his invisibility ability, Li Huowang quickly figured out the quantity and location of the remaining Wushi San in Cangshui County.

After several days of secret surveillance, he finally waited for these things to act again.

Alchemy requires a specific date, and he predicted that the other party could not wait forever.

"Taoist! Since we have found them, why are you still standing there? Hurry up and catch the thief who stole the child! We can't let them harm others."

On this matter, the monk seemed even more anxious than Li Huowang.

"Don't rush. There's no point in catching someone who went out to steal. We have to let him go to catch the bigger ones behind him."

Seeing the watchman walk away, Li Huowang, who was invisible, quietly followed him on the tiles.

As time passed, when it was four in the morning, the bulky shadow had become the size of a house, like a black dwarf, moving slowly and unsteadily on the street.

At this time, the monk next to Li Huowang was so anxious that he was jumping up and down because he saw a child in a bamboo basket climbing over the wall and merging into the huge shadow.

It seemed that he had almost got what he wanted, and the shadow broke away from the watchman and waved its long limbs, floating into the sky.

"Taoist! He's going to run away! Go after him!" The monk who saw this scene was so anxious that he was about to cry.

"Don't make a fuss!" Li Huowang stamped his right foot heavily on the stone beast on the roof and ran towards the shadow.

The shadow was floating in the sky, and Li Huowang was chasing on the ground. Fortunately, his eyesight was good enough now, otherwise he would not be able to distinguish the black shadow in the black sky at all.

As Li Huowang ran farther and farther, he ran out of Cangshui County and came to a dirt road outside the county.

By this time, he was already panting and the thing was getting farther and farther away.

"This won't do. I'll lose him!" Li Huowang immediately took out a talisman, bit his finger and began to draw.

As the two talismans were attached to Li Huowang's knees, his face suddenly became hideous with bulging veins, and an indescribable heat enveloped Li Huowang's heart.

But this sacrifice was rewarded, and his speed instantly increased several times.

Because of the increased speed, the breeze blew Li Huowang's flesh back. He finally caught up with the shadow.

Gradually, it became daylight. With the first rays of the morning sun and the sound of waves, the shadow shattered, and the things inside fell into a surging river.

When Li Huowang rushed to the riverbank, he saw something indistinct in the water, carrying the medicinal materials that had fallen into the water.

The water rippled, and Li Huowang could hardly see what it was. He could only watch the blurry things under the water, wrapped in those medicinal materials, moving towards the underwater cave in the distance.

Li Huowang raised his head and looked at the low gap in the distance. "Could this be their lair?"

Above the cave was a towering green mountain. The cave at the foot of the mountain, like a black giant mouth, swallowed the wide river continuously.

After carefully identifying the location and map, Li Huowang found that this was exactly the center of the child loss incidents in the county. They should be hiding in this remote place just like Danyang Zi did.Li Huowang found the hiding place of the other party, which should have been a happy thing, but he hesitated when he looked at the dissolved cave on the water surface.

"But how can I get in?"