When Li Huowang realized that the lump in his chest was indeed real, his heart raced and his first instinct was to tell Dr. Li.

But as he raised his right foot, it hung in the air, and other thoughts suddenly flooded his mind.

He knew that his hallucinations were not limited to sugar cubes; there were other valuable things, even more valuable than that!

Savoring the sweetness melting in his mouth, Li Huowang paced slowly in the hospital room.

"This is an opportunity! A chance to make Yang Na and myself rich overnight! It could even be a chance for me to succeed in life!" He was thrilled at the thought.

"I can't tell Dr. Li. I don't want to be sent to the lab for experiments. Besides, it's not his business." Li Huowang thought to himself.

"But, I can't rush to conclusions about this matter. I need to thoroughly understand what is happening." He made up his mind about what he wanted to do.

Just as he was thinking this, the environment around him started to distort and the clean, tidy hospital room began to fade away.

Facing this situation, Li Huowang was already accustomed to it. He quickly put the papers and books into his bag and threw it into a distant corner of the wall, so that his hallucinating self wouldn't tear them apart.

Then he pressed the red button next to the bed, and after a few seconds, he saw the last scene: several nurses walking in and tying him to the bed with a wide cloth bag.

When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the crude, icy cave-like environment. The "junior brothers and junior sisters" with physical disabilities looked at him curiously.

Rising from the cold stone surface, Li Huowang examined everything around him with his special perspective, which seemed incredibly real.

Perhaps he wasn't actually sick, but had acquired a rare and extraordinary ability. The incompetent doctors just couldn't detect it.

"Maybe I'm not sick at all, yes, that's right, I'm not sick."

These years, he had had enough of the label of being mentally ill, with everyone looking at him with strange eyes.

As soon as he thought about the possibility of getting rid of this label in the future, Li Huowang couldn't contain his excitement.

With a joyful smile, he reached out and playfully messed up the shiny bald head of a nearby person. "Haha, this is really interesting."

"Why are you all standing here? Why don't you get to work? If Master's medicine doesn't work, he'll skin you alive!" A voice filled with dislike came from the entrance of the cave.

Li Huowang turned around and saw the high and haughty Taoist who had delivered the message earlier. His face still carried the same arrogance, as if speaking to these medicine takers would tarnish his eyes.

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Li Huowang remembered the name of this guy; this hallucination guy's Taoist title seemed to be Xuan Yang.

Facing Xuan Yang's contemptuous gaze, Li Huowang didn't bother to pay attention to his Yin and Yang peculiarities. Instead, his attention was focused on the round jade pendant hanging from Xuan Yang's waist.

"This must be an antique, right? If I sell this in the real world, it must be worth a lot of money."

"But what should I do? Should I snatch it and put it in my chest like the sugar cube?"

After thinking for a while, Wang Huowang made a decision. This jade pendant would be his next experiment for teleportation.

As for how to obtain it, it was simple: just steal it at night. "That jade pendant is good, but soon it will be mine."

A small white hand reached out from beside him and gently pulled on Li Huowang's hemp cloth sleeve. A soft and sweet voice sounded in his ear.

"Senior Brother Li, let's get to work. If we don't finish, we won't have food."

Li Huowang turned his head and saw the girl with albinism whom he had helped before.

After a moment of thought, he reached into his pocket and handed her the remaining half-melted black sugar. Then he turned and went to his position, picking up the pestle and starting to work.

For the time being, no matter whether it was here or the hospital, he decided not to do anything too outrageous.

Such mind-blowing things were not suitable to be told to anyone, and he needed to understand the rules completely before making any other plans.

As the monotonous sound of pounding medicine filled the air, Li Huowang slowly opened his eyes in the darkness while lying on the bunk bed.

The cave, devoid of any windows, was pitch black, but Li Huowang reached out and felt his way towards the door.

He first went to his workplace and picked up a piece of grinding stone that emitted a faint fluorescent light. It prevented him from stumbling in the pitch-black cave.

Although it was a bit too conspicuous to hold such a stone in the dark, Li Huowang didn't care.

"If I'm discovered, I can just retreat back to the hospital. I have an escape plan, so what am I afraid of?" He confidently muttered to himself.

The whole cave was quite extensive, and Li Huowang had been here for some time, so he was familiar with the surroundings.

Soon, he entered Xuan Yang's cave. Although it was still simple, the fact that there was a bed alone indicated the fundamental difference between Xuan Yang and the medicine takers.

But to Li Huowang's surprise, Xuan Yang was not in the cave. His clothes were there, but he wasn't. Li Huowang couldn't be bothered with all that and reached into his robes to grab the jade pendant.

After sneaking out of the cave, Li Huowang carefully examined the round jade pendant in his hand under the glow of the fluorescent stone.

The jade pendant was translucent and smooth, with exquisite cloud patterns carved on it. Even someone unfamiliar with this field could tell that it was a high-quality jade.

The more Li Huowang looked at it, the happier he became. If he could bring this thing to the real world, this jade pendant alone could cover his and Yang Na's four years of university tuition.

"Hehehe~ Yang Na, get ready to be a wealthy woman." Li Huowang laughed and slipped the jade pendant back into the cave. He then turned back and walked away.

Everything was going smoothly, but some things weren't meant to be smooth all the time. Just as he was about to reach the door, turning a corner on the stone steps, Li Huowang came face to face with a group of people.

It was a group of boys and girls around Li Huowang's age. Their terrified faces flickered in the light of the box of fire in Li Huowang's hand.

Both sides were startled by each other, standing still without saying a word for a while.

In the end, it was Li Huowang who spoke up. He pointed at Xuan Yang, dressed in coarse clothing, among the group and asked, "Brother Xuan Yang, is this your punishment for the material room?"

Among these people, there was not only Xuan Yang but also Taoists in charge of other tasks. One of them was the Taoist who had fanned the alchemy furnace before.

But regardless of what they were doing before, now they were all wearing coarse robes and pants, with nothing else on them.

Xuan Yang's expression quickly changed a few times as he walked up to Li Huowang and lowered his voice.

"Let's go! Come with us! We're escaping from this hellish place! Brother Doorman has already opened the way."

"Escape? Oh! So you guys want to—" Li Huowang's words of escape were cut off abruptly as Xuan Yang covered his mouth with his hand.