Chapter 96: Sudden Breakthrough in State of Mind

  As expected, under the pull of a middle-aged family, the villagers quickly came to the pavilion, and each person held two bowls in their hands, one empty bowl and one filled with clear water. Under the personal explanation of the middle-aged family, everyone drank the strange-tasting and bitter water that Xiaochun Tian personally poured for them.

  Because there were middle-aged people's personal explanations, after they finished drinking the medicine, they didn't discuss anything. The men all rushed towards the woods not far from the village, and the village toilets were left to the women. Fortunately, this world's greening is very good, otherwise, I really don't know what to do.

  More than twenty minutes later, everyone felt the change in their body as clearly as the middle-aged uncle. It was only then that they truly believed the middle-aged uncle's words, and it was at this moment that they truly felt the dawn of life and deeply felt the hope of survival.

  At this moment, they were so excited that they completely ignored the heavy rain. They shouted loudly on the empty ground, screaming and venting their emotions. Even women who normally behaved very elegantly had completely overturned themselves at this moment, but it was unclear whether the water in the corners of their eyes was more rainwater or tears.

  Since yesterday, the entire village has been shrouded in the shadow of death. They have thought countless times about ending their own lives to avoid suffering, but they can't muster up the courage. They always cling to illusions, holding onto a thread of hope that a miracle will happen and they will survive.

  But many people died quickly, those were very familiar people, just the day before yesterday they were together, a day later they became cold corpses, and not one or two! The fear this brought to them was undoubtedly huge. This fear weighed on their ordinary minds, making them feel a bit suffocated, as if the air suddenly turned into a solid, making it difficult for them to breathe.

  The village had mercenaries coming, many mercenaries came, hundreds of people. They heard that they were tasked by the city lord to rescue them. At this time, they thought their hope had arrived, so they felt a bit better. Unexpectedly, hope came quickly and left quickly. They didn't expect those mercenaries who claimed to come and rescue them all fell down, only a few managed to escape, and then ran away in extreme fear, carrying with them the corpses. This was still thanks to the kindness of the villagers who helped them gather several carts, otherwise their bodies would have been left here!

  The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and the greater the blow to the soul. After that event, their heavy hearts became even heavier. Everyone locked themselves in their homes, not speaking to anyone, just quietly waiting for the arrival of death. At this time, they saw the passing of people around them without feeling sad anymore, because they knew they would soon be like them, only a little later.

  What they didn't expect was that on the second day, just when they thought their lives were about to end, hope came again. They had thought it was just another illusion, but the person who was very familiar with them told them that this time was real, really true, and said that he (she) had already recovered a lot, so they were moved, and with a try-it-out attitude, they went according to what he said.

  Anyway, the worst that could happen is death, so there's nothing to worry about. They drank down that strange, ugly and smelly medicine. Unexpectedly, their bodies really improved a lot, so they were excited, excited to the point of not knowing what to do, and could only use shouting to vent their emotions. Venting the excitement in their hearts, while also venting the pain in their hearts. Sometimes it's not just silence that can triumph over sound!

  Looking at the scene in front of him, Xiaoliu Xingxing, who had always maintained a calm and composed expression, did not change his facial expression, but he was deeply moved in his heart. In this world, he had directly or indirectly saved many people with his medical skills, but it was the first time that he was touched by a patient's actions.

  Moved by their sincere emotions, he was shocked. Also because of this shock, he stopped for more than a year and suddenly broke through again, from the original late Yuan Ying to the middle of Fen Shen, breaking through two levels at once! In an instant, the whole person's temperament changed completely, becoming more stable, more unpredictable, of course, this was only a momentary thing, afterwards he turned himself back into his original shape, and restrained his breath.

  And this time, it's not just him. Xiaochuntian, the person involved, has also broken through from Yuanying middle stage to Fenzhong early stage in one go, and even broke two stages at once! Of course, Xiaochuntian also restrained his breath instantly, just like his brother, without letting the excited villagers feel anything unusual.

  Only Xiao Bao, a demon beast that had just broken through to the Divine Realm not long ago, felt something, but only because it was too fast, and its strength was far inferior to those of Xiao Liu Xing and the others. So it only felt that Xiao Liu Xing and Xiao Chun Tian looked a bit different, but if it were asked to say what exactly was different, it couldn't say anything. It simply relied on its beastly instincts, which were much sharper than humans', to sense something.

  Apart from Xiaoliu Xing and Xiaochuntian, who had a breakthrough, Xiaolei and Xiao Bao didn't have much of an impression. If anything, Xiaolei felt that the scene before him was so touching that it moved this future man to tears, which he couldn't stop even if he wanted to.

  The meteorites stayed in the village for most of the day, leaving only after 5 pm. Before they left, Xia Chun Tian once again decocted medicine for the villagers and personally served them a second time. At the same time, he also left the remaining medicinal herbs that had been used to make the medicine with the village chief, instructing him to place them in various corners of the village, which would help eliminate any remaining toxins in the air.

  Although the villagers have all drunk the preventive medicine brewed by Xiaochun Tian, they no longer need to fear toxins entering their bodies. However, killing those airborne toxins can prevent the spread of toxins to a certain extent. Of course, when they left, the village gave Xiaoliu Xing a Shadow Crystal, in which the village chief left words about Xiaoliu Xing completing the task. When the time comes, Xiaoliu Xing can use this Shadow Crystal to complete the task at the Mercenary Guild.

  Of course, there was a small episode in the afternoon when Xiaoliu Xing alone had a brief conversation with the village chief of this village. As for what they talked about, it's temporarily kept under wraps.

  Xiao Liuxing and his group left, bid farewell by all the villagers. At this time, they did not directly return to that small town to hand over the mercenary task, but instead returned to the first village where the plague broke out. Xiao Liuxing wanted to go back and find the source of the plague!

  This morning, because of concerns about the safety of those villagers' lives, Xiaoliuxing only took a rough look at the village when using his divine sense to check on it, and immediately withdrew his divine sense after finding no one there without making a careful examination. Now that all the villagers over there have been rescued and treated, of course he has to come over and take a closer look.

  And Xiao Liuxing wanted to find the source of the plague, firstly because he wanted to see what kind of thing could spread such a terrible plague, and secondly because since he had taken on this mercenary task, he had to complete it thoroughly. Otherwise, many more people would die from it. Not finishing things was not Xiao Liuxing's style.

  A person stood in the center of the village, with a true energy shield surrounding his body, isolating all the rainwater outside his clothes. His divine sense spread out, covering the entire village, and then carefully examined each place one by one. Not only him, but also Xia Chun Tian and Xia Bao also spread out their own divine senses, searching as carefully as Xiao Liu Xing. Even Xiao Lei En was no exception, it's just that his strength was relatively low, only in the middle of the foundation building stage, his divine sense could only cover more than 20 meters, not as far as what he could see with his eyes, so he was directly ignored by Xiao Liu Xing.

  The village wasn't big, but Little Meteor and the others had searched for over 40 minutes without finding anything. They had combed through the entire village multiple times. Just as Little Meteor was thinking that maybe he had made a mistake and the source of the plague might not be here after all, Little Rain, who had been ignored by them all along, suddenly exclaimed "Huh?" and then looked at Little Meteor with a puzzled expression, saying: "Master, I've found something strange."

  Xiao Liuxing didn't respond to his words, but instead looked at him calmly with her eyes. As for his own master, Xiao Leiyin now knew his temper very well, so he didn't say anything about his reaction. However, when Xiao Liuxing's eyes turned towards him, he continued in a surprised tone, pointing to the ground not far from them: "Master, just below that spot on the ground, about 15 meters down, there is a small magical beast hiding! And its body is emitting green light!"

  After hearing Little Rain's words, Little Meteor's heart moved, and his true yuan surged towards the position pointed by Little Rain. As for underground, unless it was an underground room, divine sense couldn't directly inspect it, but Little Meteor's true yuan could penetrate, and his true yuan contained his divine sense, so he could also clearly know the information under the ground, only that this would consume more divine sense, of course, as well as true yuan. Therefore, in general, he wouldn't use this method. This was also why Little Meteor and others didn't discover what Little Rain discovered.

  Xiao Lein himself knew that his divine sense coverage was short and couldn't help much, so he let his true yuan wander underground casually. Because he had an earth-based physique, he was extremely close to the earth element, so Xiao Lein liked to transport his true yuan onto the ground very much, which made him feel extremely comfortable.

  His spiritual awareness on the ground only had a range of 20 meters, but his true yuan could travel up to 100 meters underground! Such a distance usually only high-level cultivators in the late Golden Core stage could achieve, but he was already capable of it at the mid-stage of Foundation Building. It couldn't be helped that his earth-type physique's affinity for earth elements was abnormal.

  The true yuan of the little meteorite quickly arrived at the location pointed by Little Rain, and indeed, as Little Rain had said, there was a demon beast that looked like an old mouse curled up in a ball, quietly lying in a hole just big enough for it to fit. Just as Little Rain had said, its body was emitting green light. Oh no, not green light, but rather many green toxins constantly emerging from its body, making Little Rain think it was green light. And those green toxins were exactly what Little Meteorite saw in the air. It was clear that this thing was the source of the plague he had been searching for.

  The first volume is coming to an end, and the second volume is about to begin...

  ;