The only way

The station in Qingfeng Mountain is actually not close to Canglan City. After all, it is close. We were afraid that the disciples would have accidents or contract the strange disease, so they placed the station between Canglan City and the isolation border.

If it were a mortal, the distance would certainly be long, but for the two Nascent Soul monks Lingchu and Si Bai, it would only be a blink of an eye.

The two of them worked in tandem and easily found the location of the Qingfeng Mountain disciples.

A village inhabited by mortals, with more than a dozen families, large and small, but completely deserted.

Formations were arranged around it to isolate all outsiders and the village here.

When Lingchu and Si Bai arrived here, their spiritual consciousness swept over and saw that there was actually a lot of aura in the village, but they were all trapped in a courtyard in the center of the village.

Outside the courtyard, there were only two breaths.

One is a monk in the foundation-building realm, and the other is an ordinary mortal.

Without hesitation, the two of them came directly to the location of the two auras, a small yard surrounded by a fence, with a tall jujube tree growing in the center of the yard.

A little girl of eight or nine years old was holding a bucket and fetching water while sweating profusely.

Turning her head, the little girl saw a man and a woman suddenly appearing outside the fence. She forgot to blink, and the bucket she was holding fell to the ground, then she turned around and shouted.

"Immortal! Someone is there!"

The little girl yelled, turned around and ran into the house, as if Lingchu and Si Bai behind her were some kind of savage beast.

Lingchu was surprised and glanced at Si Bai, only to see that Senior Brother Si Bai's expression was as indifferent as before, as if he didn't seem to think that the little girl's reaction had anything to do with him.

Sensing Lingchu's gaze, he tilted his head in confusion.

Lingchu looked away silently, but it seemed that she was making a fuss.

"Noisy!"

The man's rich voice sounded, and a tall figure appeared in the room where the little girl ran towards. He was wearing a monk's robe, but it was rolled up and stuffed into his belt casually. His hair was like a fried lion, flaming red and messy. On the head.

His face was also covered with a fiery red beard, and only a pair of narrow eyes were exposed.

If he hadn't been wearing Taoist robes and had the foundation-building level of cultivation, Lingchu would have thought he saw some green forest hero at first glance, completely different from the monks in the Eastern Continent's cultivation world.

His eyes passed over the corner of this man's clothes, which was embroidered with the logo of Qingfeng Mountain. He was obviously the foundation-building monk left here by Qingfeng Mountain.

As soon as this red lion-like man went out and saw Lingchu and Si Bai, the expression changes on his face were completely hidden by his beard. He only saw a pair of eyes that had changed from sharp to calm, and even bent. He picked up the screaming little girl and trotted over to open the door for Lingchu and his wife.

"Oh, these two seniors are the seniors of the Sanqing Dao Sect mentioned by the leader, right? Please come in, please come in!"

While bending down and smiling, he did not forget to slap the little girl's mouth so that she could no longer scream.

The little girl was also smart. Looking at the man's attitude, she knew that the man and woman in front of her were not bad people. She blinked and became obedient.

"No need, are all the people with strange diseases over there?" Lingchu shook his head and rejected the man's proposal, looking towards a corner of the village.

Seeing that the two of them didn't want to come in, the man didn't say anything. He scratched his head and said, "Yes, I locked them all in the ancestral hall. They are people with strange diseases. They bite people when they see them, and their strength has become much stronger. They can also Don't be afraid of pain. Anyone who is bitten will soon contract this strange disease." The man led the way, and the little girl following him became quiet when a few people mentioned the strange disease and the ancestral hall. Revealing fear and sadness, a pair of small hands tightly pulled the man's sleeves.

"Has the alchemist seen it?"

When such a situation occurs, it may be poisoning, or it may be some kind of vicious magic.

But through biting, it can infect others, and Lingchu even thought it might be some kind of poison.

Mortal doctors may not be able to solve it, but alchemists among monks should obviously know more about this situation.

"Two of the three Qingfeng Mountain disciples who were infected in the ancestral hall are alchemists." When he mentioned this, the man scratched his hair anxiously, making his already messy hair even more messy.

There are not many alchemists in Qingfeng Mountain, and there are even fewer high-level alchemists. His senior brother is the alchemist with the highest attainments in alchemy in Qingfeng Mountain, and he is also one of the people who is currently locked up in the ancestral hall.

It was also because his senior brother was here that he took on the thankless job of guarding Canglan City here.

The ancestral hall was not far away. Lingchu and Si Bai stood on the roof, looking down at the figures standing blankly in the courtyard of the ancestral hall.

These people's faces were pale, their eyes were dull and lifeless, their eyes were red with bloodshot eyes, saliva was flowing from the corners of their mouths, and their limbs seemed stiff and clumsy even if they moved from time to time.

There doesn't seem to be anything offensive about it.

But when the man brought the little girl to the roof, the originally calm and sluggish crowd below suddenly seemed to smell something tempting. They all turned their heads sharply and looked at the little girl with their red eyes.

Then they rushed towards the little girl crazily, but because they could not climb up to the roof, they gathered under the roof, and kept making wild beast-like roars from their mouths.

Among these crowds, there were three figures that stood out. They were tied tightly with ropes. The ropes were not ordinary ropes, but low-level magic weapons.

These three figures were also wearing the Taoist robes of Qingfeng Mountain. Unlike those mortals who could not climb onto the roof, they jumped up from the ground with a low roar and rushed towards the little girl.

But the moment it flew up, the formation above the ancestral hall lit up for a moment. Before it was three feet away from the ground, it was pressed down and hit the ground heavily.

The little girl was not frightened. She must have seen this scene many times. She just stared at the man and woman in the crowd.

The man remained silent, only stretched out his hand to rub the little girl's sparse hair, and said nothing.

"Although these mortals have increased strength, they can't hurt the monks." Lingchu only took a few glances and came to a conclusion.

The man nodded, "Yes, my senior brother and the disciples in the sect, except for the two young disciples, were not aware of the fact that being caught and bitten would be contagious. They were caught and bitten because they wanted to help mortals, but my senior brother was... I suddenly fell ill a few days after coming here."

"It is not easy for the whole city and the people outside the city to be infected with this disease." Lingchu thought for a moment and looked not far away, "I have seen a river running through the inside and outside of Canglan City along the way. .”

Before he finished speaking, the man already understood the meaning, "This river has no name. The local people often call it Canglan River. The daily water used by the people inside and outside Canglan City comes from this river. My senior brother has never been fond of fasting." Dan has a penchant for good food, and I suspect that’s what got him involved.”

"The well water in this little girl's home has nothing to do with that river. It's just that many women in the village go to this river to wash their clothes..."

In a few words, several people had already made guesses in their hearts.