After having lunch at Liu Xiaoyuan's house, Tan Wanyi and her family said goodbye.

Liu Xiaoyuan drove his pickup truck to take Tan Wanyi and her family home. After sitting at Tan Wanyi's house for a while, he went home.

After arriving home, Liu Xiaoyuan had just parked the car when he saw Chen Bo running back, looking disheveled and panting.

"What happened?" Liu Xiaoyuan noticed that Chen Bo's face still showed some fear, as if he had seen something terrifying.

When Chen Bo saw Liu Xiaoyuan, he stopped in his tracks, took a few deep breaths, and said, "Something terrible has happened...something terrible has happened...something horrible has happened."

Liu Xiaoyuan said, "Don't rush, tell me slowly!"

After resting for a while and calming his breathing, Chen Bo said, "Several of the people who went to search for the Blood Spirit Mushroom met with misfortune and died in the mountains. Moreover, according to the survivors, they saw a strong wind blow, followed by a white shadow, and then they died. Everyone says it's a ghost. Damn it, I'm not going to look for the Blood Spirit Mushroom anymore. I'm going back to my sect."

"Brother Liu, you shouldn't bother looking for that Blood Spirit Mushroom. I reckon that white figure, even if it's not a ghost, is definitely a highly skilled expert, someone we can't handle!"

Chen Bo and the others didn't know who the white figure was, but Liu Xiaoyuan did. He had seen the mysterious woman in white before, but he didn't know her identity.

I never expected that the mysterious woman in white would actually kill someone this time. Thinking about it, I'm really glad I did last time. If the woman in white had intended to kill me last time, even if Liu Xiaoyuan could summon a master at the first level of the Innate Realm, I would definitely be courting death.

"Aren't you going to look for the Blood Spirit Mushroom anymore?" Liu Xiaoyuan asked.

Chen Bo said, "Our lives are more important. Not only am I not looking anymore, but those people aren't looking anymore either. Who knows when that white figure will kill someone again? Nobody wants to lose their life here!"

After saying this, Chen Bo ran back to his room, hurriedly packed his things, and then left home with his luggage.

"Brother Liu, I'm sorry to have bothered you these past few days. See you again sometime!" Chen Bo said and then left.

Looking at Chen Bo's back, Liu Xiaoyuan seemed to have guessed the mysterious woman in white's motive for killing him.

It's estimated that Chen Bo and his group are close to finding the Blood Spirit Mushroom, and the mysterious woman in white, in order to prevent the Blood Spirit Mushroom from being exposed, has no choice but to go on a killing spree, killing a few people to scare the others away!

If that's really the case, Liu Xiaoyuan felt that such a method would only backfire. Since he could guess this outcome, the old foxes in Chen Bo's sects could naturally guess it too.

As the saying goes, "People die for wealth, birds die for food," so they will definitely send even more powerful people when the time comes.

As expected, Liu Xiaoyuan's guess was correct. About a week after Chen Bo and the others left, a group of strangers came to the village, and they were all martial arts masters of the Transformation Realm.

Of course, that's all in the future!

After Chen Bo left, Mom sighed and said, "Sigh! It's really a little hard to see him go like this!"

Upon hearing this, Liu Xiaoyuan felt it made sense. People aren't plants or trees; how could they be without feelings? Chen Bo had lived at home for a while and had gotten used to it. Now that he was gone, it felt like something was missing.

However, what his mother said next almost made Liu Xiaoyuan collapse to the ground.

Then Mom continued, "If Chen Bo had stayed a few more days, our family could have made a few hundred yuan more!"

It wasn't that Mom couldn't bear to see Chen Bo leave, but rather that she couldn't bear to part with the money in Chen Bo's wallet!

At 5 p.m., Fang Jianyang called Liu Xiaoyuan and said that Hao's Leisurely Hotel had been sealed off because it was suspected of illegally dealing in wild protected animals, such as certain snakes, pangolins and other relatively rare and valuable species.

Liu Xiaoyuan knew that the crime of illegally trading in protected wild animals alone would be enough to give Boss Hao a hard time.

In addition, Fang Jianyang learned that many egrets inhabited the cedar forest in Liu Xiaoyuan Village, and he planned to develop it into a tourist attraction.

Liu Xiaoyuan thought this was a good idea, at least it could earn some income for the village.

However, Liu Xiaoyuan has a concern: if there are too many tourists, it will definitely scare the egrets away, and they won't come to roost there again next year.

When I shared this concern with Fang Jianyang, he said he would personally lead a team to investigate tomorrow before we discussed it further.

The next morning, Fang Jianyang arrived as expected, bringing with him the county leader in charge of the tourism industry and the town leaders. Upon receiving the news, the village secretary immediately rushed over.

Fang Jianyang called Liu Xiaoyuan and told him that they had arrived and asked Liu Xiaoyuan to come over as well.

Liu Xiaoyuan drove his pickup truck over, and when the village secretary saw him, he tried to squeeze into the group of leaders. The secretary immediately pulled Liu Xiaoyuan back and said, "Don't push around, kid. Those are all big leaders. Don't mess around! If you anger them, I won't let you off the hook!"

No sooner had the village secretary finished speaking than Fang Jianyang saw Liu Xiaoyuan, waved to him, and called out, "Xiaoyuan, Xiaoyuan, come here!"

The village secretary was dumbfounded. Had he seen that right? Secretary Fang actually knew Liu Xiaoyuan, and was even calling him so affectionately. How could this be?

No, I have to apologize to that kid Liu Xiaoyuan later, otherwise he'll say a few bad things about me in front of Secretary Fang, and I won't be able to stay as the village party secretary!

Those leaders weren't fools. Upon hearing Fang Jianyang's words, they immediately made way for Liu Xiaoyuan, allowing him to walk to Fang Jianyang's side.

“Xiao Yuan, we just discussed it, and if we let tourists go directly into the cedar forest, it will definitely disturb the egrets. So, we've decided that tourists should stand outside the cedar forest, at a certain distance, to observe the egrets. This way, they won't be disturbed, and they can still observe the egrets' habitat! What do you think?”

Liu Xiaoyuan said with a smile, "Secretary Fang, I don't know much about this matter either, but I think this method is good."

Upon hearing Liu Xiaoyuan's words, the other leaders nearby immediately turned their attention to him. Those who did not recognize Liu Xiaoyuan began to speculate about his background.

Subsequently, Fang Jianyang immediately summoned the town's top official and assigned him the task of developing tourism in the cedar forest.

The town's top official immediately promised to complete the task as soon as possible!

"Secretary Fang, would you like to go into the cedar forest for a look?" Liu Xiaoyuan invited.

Fang Jianyang asked, "Won't this disturb the egrets?"

Liu Xiaoyuan said with a smile, "No, as long as it's not a large number of people going in every day, it's fine. When we were kids, we often came to play in the cedar forest, and we never scared away the egrets."

"Then let's go in and take a look!" Fang Jianyang said with a smile.

Led by Liu Xiaoyuan, Fang Jianyang and his team entered the cedar forest. When they saw the egret eggs and the baby egrets whose feathers had not yet fully grown in, they were completely captivated by the sight before them.

They never imagined that such a magical place existed in the area under their jurisdiction!

(End of this chapter)