Chapter Thirty: The Mysterious Taoist

  Ye Chen poured a cup, the wine was clear but not colorless, and it had a light green color. The aroma was not only fragrant with the scent of wine, but also had a refreshing and invigorating scent that cleared one's mind. Ye Chen just took a slight sniff and knew that this wine must have been brewed with spiritual medicine, although the amount added was small, and it was only some low-grade spiritual medicine. However, it could make such wine have a strong body-building effect, which was very beneficial to the spleen.

  "No wonder a jug of clear wine costs 500 gold coins, it's indeed that good." Ye Chen raised his cup and drank it all in one gulp, the fragrance and aroma filled his mouth, with a cool sensation in his throat, leaving a lingering aftertaste.

  Ye Chen ate and drank while casting his gaze down at the streets below, a smile spreading involuntarily across his face as he caught sight of a scene that sparked an idea in him.

  On the corner of the street, a young man with bright but flickering eyes was walking slowly. A middle-aged man in brocade clothes happened to be coming from the opposite direction. The young man's eyes lit up instantly and he patted the middle-aged man on the shoulder as they passed each other.

  The middle-aged man in brocade clothes trembled instantly, and then the whole person shook. Ye Chen clearly saw that on the young man's shoulder, the next second, the middle-aged man in brocade clothes had dull eyes, his eyelids closed, and he was about to fall to the ground.

  It was then that the young man flashed out his hand to hold him up, and after a moment's fumbling on his body, he took away a purse with great satisfaction.

  "My god, does the Longevity Continent also have such tricks?" Ye Chen was somewhat stunned. The young man's effect was truly powerful, and in just one second, he had already bewildered him.

  Ye Chen revealed a hint of a smile, if such a dose were to be increased several times or even tenfold, then it wouldn't be difficult to knock out the Ye family's convoy, but on one condition: they must not be discovered when administering the drug.

  For Ye Chen, even if there were eight-segment strongmen in the Ye family's racing team, as long as he didn't attack and was blocked by obstacles, it would be absolutely impossible to discover him five meters away.

  "Hmm, I didn't think this world still had something like this." Ye Chen rubbed his chin, the matter of robbing the Ye family's spiritual medicine was now easily solved, and it would also save a lot of effort.

  "I hope Ye's team arrives here before nightfall and rests for a night in this nameless town, which would be more convenient for me to take action." Ye Chen thought, his eyes scanning the streets below.

  The young man under the streetlight turned into an alley at a corner, Ye Chen got up and went downstairs quickly to follow him. Just as he was about to enter the alley where the young man had disappeared, a soft voice came from behind his ear.

  " Fellow Taoist, please stay your step!"

  Ye Chen's footstep paused, turned around, just in time to see a young Taoist priest about twenty-five or six years old, wearing a gray Taoist robe, with the Taiji Bagua diagram embroidered on his chest, medium build, round face, small eyes, and a short mustache, looking like a sly character, not having any demeanor of a Taoist priest at all.

  The Taoist walked over with a smile on his face, came to Ye Chen's side, and directly pulled his hand, saying: "Fellow Taoist has an extraordinary bone structure, I, Dao Ye, have a good impression of you at first sight, please come and sit down."

  Ye Chen pressed his nose tip and muttered to himself, "Unexpectedly met 'Shen Gong Bao' here too, is Grandpa Ye going to have bad luck now?"

  "What's going on?"

  The Taoist priest, upon hearing this, immediately narrowed his small eyes with a smile, "Fellow Taoist is indeed a person of destiny, knowing the name of our ancestor, haha, today I'll calculate a divination for you free of charge, haha."

  Ye Chen took a step back, uncertainly saying: "Is your sect's ancestor really Shen Gong Bao, the plague god?"

  "Hahaha..." The Taoist burst out laughing, his face full of pride. "That's only natural," he said. "In the past, our ancestor traveled across the continent, and people everywhere made way for him. Hehe... Our ancestor was truly a divine being! Just thinking about how he stole the underwear of the female disciples from various sects and treasured them, filling his room with fragrance... what an exhilarating thing! Unfortunately, this heaven-defying technique has been passed down through generations, but when it came to my hands, I couldn't display its invincible prowess. Alas, it's really a shame."

  Ye Chen: ......

  Led by the Taoist priest to a fortune-telling stall and sat down, Ye Chen was speechless for a long time before asking, "May I ask, what is your Taoist name?"

  "Infinite younger sister's Mimi, I am Yin Jian, also known as Yin Dao Ren." The Taoist said with one hand raised to his chest, in a most unbridled manner.

  Ye Chen's face stiffened, and for a moment he couldn't speak. Lewd? Licentious? He couldn't help but think to himself, truly a person lives up to their name.

  "Hmm...alright, Daoist friend, does Daozhang have something to discuss with me?" Ye Chen asked.

  "Master Dao observes that you have an extraordinary bone structure, and in the future, you will not be a mediocre person. I'd like to make friends with you." The lustful Daoist smiled mysteriously and obscenely, saying: "Is Fellow Daoist entering this small alley alone just to obtain something?"

  "How did you know this?" Ye Chen's heart skipped a beat, but his face remained calm. He had thought that the Taoist was just a swindler in the jianghu world, but unexpectedly, he saw through his motives with one glance, and couldn't help but become wary of him.

  "Hmm." The two wisps of whiskers on the Daoist's mouth twitched slightly, as if with deep meaning, and he looked at Ye Chen with a glance. "Fellow Daoist has a strong murderous aura, a bloody smell that pierces the sky, should be that not long ago killed many people, now wants to deal with another batch of people, is it that you don't want to stain yourself with blood? I wonder if what I say is correct?"

  Ye Chen's eyes flashed with a sharp light, staring directly at the lustful person, who had a smile on his face and didn't seem to mind Ye Chen's cold gaze.

  "Who are you, after all?" Ye Chen raised his hand and gently tapped the surface of the divination platform, asking calmly, but in his heart, he was surging like a wave. Since this Taoist priest had deliberately stopped him, what was his origin, and what did he want to do?

  "Master Dao, I'm just a fleeting lotus in the mortal world. Today, I have the fortune to meet you and offer some advice out of kindness." The licentious Daoist let out a deep sigh, extremely sentimental. "Oh, in this vast red dust, there's too much beauty that we need to be good at discovering. For example, the young lady behind you, her buttocks are so round and high, but unfortunately, few people know about the style of her underwear... what a pity! Fortunately, Master Dao has seen it today, allowing her beauty to be discovered..."

  Ye Chen broke out in a cold sweat, turned his head to look, and just saw a fat woman with a waist like a water bucket and legs like an elephant's walking by with her hips swaying, and suddenly several black lines appeared on his forehead.

  "I'm in a hurry and can't stay long, if you have something to say, please speak directly." Ye Chen rubbed his stiff face, originally wanting to leave immediately, but he always felt that this Taoist priest was not simple, setting up a fortune-telling stall yet not soliciting customers, only calling out to himself, absolutely with a purpose.

  "Daoist friend, don't be anxious, my eyes have always been accurate. When I saw you on the second floor of the Nameless Inn earlier, I calculated your fortune and knew that you would meet a noble person today. Hehe, your opportunity has arrived."

  "Benefactor?" Ye Chen's eyes sparkled with amusement as he looked at him and said, "The benefactor in Daozhang's mouth wouldn't be you, would it?"

  "No." The licentious Daoist pointed with his hand and said: "Your noble person is over there, fellow Daoist."

  Ye Chen looked in the direction of his finger, and saw a little girl jumping and running towards him, probably only five or six years old, with tattered clothes and shoes with several toe holes.

  When Ye Chen first saw her, a certain part of his heart seemed to be touched. He couldn't describe what kind of feeling it was. This little girl, especially her eyes, seemed to make people fall into a pure world with just one glance, without any impurities. Her gaze was innocent and harmless.

  Her face was very pale, her body was thin and weak, she should be malnourished and sick, but there was not a hint of despair in her eyes, what shone in her eyes was radiant beauty.

  Ye Chen was drawn in for a moment and said in a low voice: "Daozhang, do you know this little girl?"

  "Of course, as long as you stay in the Nameless Town for a while, you will know about Xian Shuang, this little girl. She is the most special child in the Nameless Town." said Yin Dao Ren.

  "What's so special about it?" Ye Chen was talking to the Taoist, but his eyes remained fixed on the little girl called Xianfeng, watching her skip and jump happily along the road. As they drew closer, Ye Chen saw the red and swollen marks on her small hands, and his heart felt as if it had been pricked.

  He didn't know why he had such a feeling, the moment he saw this little kid for the first time, Ye Chen's heart was inexplicably touched. It was a very strange feeling, looking at her, as if he saw his former self.

  From Ye Chen's memory, he had never seen his parents. He was an orphan and didn't remember anything before the age of three. At the age of three, he wandered alone, with no place to live, nothing to eat, blown by the wind, beaten by the rain, scorched by the sun, frozen by the cold, and starved for three whole years. Finally, at the age of six, he met a fat-headed and big-eared old monk who adopted him.

  During those three years, the young boy often rummaged through trash cans for something to fill his belly due to hunger, but never begged. In winter, he almost froze to death because of the cold, and at that time, he was so thin that only skin and bones were left, and his clothes were as tattered as a small fairy's.

  However, Ye Chen on Earth at that time did not have the optimistic attitude of Xiao Xianfeng. At that time, he was full of resentment towards that world. The young him often had a light of disgust in his eyes, while Xiao Xianfeng's eyes were so pure and innocent.

  The man's gaze was withdrawn from Xiaoxian Shuang, and he looked at Ye Chen in a low voice: "In Wuming Town, there is another legend that can be said to be a taboo. This taboo is about the legend of Xian Shuang."

  "What legend?" Ye Chen's heart skipped a beat, and he intuitively felt that this legend about the immortal frost was not simple, or it wouldn't have become a taboo in Nameless Town.

  The town of Liumen has existed for a long time, perhaps tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years ago. At that time, it was called Lie Shan Town. One day, a little girl about five or six years old came to the town. She was thin and pale, looking ill. The people in the town didn't pay much attention to her at first, but seeing how pitiful she looked, some kind-hearted townsfolk took her in.

  As a result, all the townspeople who had adopted her fell mysteriously ill and died one after another. From then on, no one dared to adopt the little girl, but neither did anyone drive her out of town. Many years later, the little girl remained the same, never growing up, until she died 100 years later and turned into a fairy flower. The fairy flower bloomed for 100 years, and when it was in full bloom, another little girl was born, identical to the previous one.