Master Dao waved to the group, telling them not to be so polite. Lin Yiheng was his student and had saved his life. He felt a connection with Lin Yinan, and upon closer inspection of the girl's appearance, he concluded she was a person of great fortune and destined for great things.

As the group was asking Master Dao about things to be careful about, a rumbling sound from their stomachs suddenly caught their attention, and they looked at Master Dao with puzzlement.

Master Dao looked embarrassed. "It wasn't me."

"Mother, I'm hungry!" Lin Yinan's cool voice rang out from inside the carriage.

Overjoyed, Li Shulan quickly covered her mouth with a handkerchief, tears welling up in her eyes. Trembling, she asked Old Madam Zhao, "Mother, did you hear that? Has Anan woken up?"

Grandma Zhao nodded. "That's right, it's Anan's voice."

Yun Mo leaped onto the carriage in one stride. Lin Yinan opened her eyes wide and met his gaze. Her head was covered with gleaming silver needles.

"Is there anything that's bothering you?" Yun Mo asked, his hands trembling as he carefully helped her up.

Lin Yinan felt a sharp pain on her scalp, as if it were being pricked with needles. She instinctively reached out to scratch it, but Yun Mo stopped her in time.

"You have needles stuck in your head, don't move!"

Is she all better now?

Lin Yinan looked up at the group of people outside the carriage, among whom was a disheveled old man who was smiling at her.

"The timing is perfect, let me remove the needles for you."

Lin Yiheng helped Dao Fuzi back onto the carriage.

A foul stench emanated from the old man, and Lin Yinan subtly sniffed, trying her best to stay still.

Although the man's clothes were tattered, he exuded a calming aura.

After all the silver needles in her head were removed, Lin Yinan tentatively asked him, "Sir, I saw myself floating up. Will my soul be scattered?"

Master Dao's voice was firm yet gentle, "No, but remember not to take off the jade pendant around your neck."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yinan reached out to touch her neck. When she realized it was Yun Mo's jade pendant, she was filled with surprise. Would wearing Yun Mo's jade pendant really solve the problem?

She had suspected it before; it was after she threw the jade pendant back to Yun Mo that she started to become so sleepy.

Hmm, this old man is actually quite skilled!

Dao Fuzi then turned to Yun Mo and instructed, "You have abundant yang energy, so spend more time with her so she can recover faster. If you hadn't been watching over her these past few days, even a celestial being couldn't have saved her."

At this moment, Qianwu brought in the food, and Daofuzi tactfully got off the carriage, leaving the couple alone.

Yun Mo saw Lin Yinan's expression and stuck his head out to instruct Yun San to fetch a bucket of water and a clean set of clothes for Dao Fuzi to change into.

After Lin Yinan finished eating, Yun Mo stayed in her carriage the whole time until the group set off.

Knowing he had a question, Lin Yinan cut to the chase, "What do you want to ask?"

"You're not a fairy?" Yun Mo frowned. It was too strange for her to conjure things out of thin air last night.

"I never said I was a fairy; that's your own opinion."

Yun Mo stated bluntly, "You know magic."

Lin Yinan denied it, saying, "No, that's my storage space, which needs to be controlled with soul power."

"You're not allowed to use it again." Upon hearing that she was going to use some kind of soul power, Yun Mo was afraid that she would be too exhausted and wouldn't be able to wake up, so he firmly opposed it.

"I know what I'm doing." Lin Yinan did not give a definite answer.

After Lin Yinan put the jade pendant back on, her health improved day by day. In order to make up for the nutrition she lost during the period of unconsciousness, Grandma Zhao disregarded the strange looks from the villagers and prepared special meals for her three times a day.

Yun Mo would feed it from time to time, and Lin Yinan was worried that the little thing was not getting enough nutrition, so she would occasionally give it some nutritional supplements stored in her space.

Although Lin Yinan still looks very thin, she feels that the strength she lost is slowly returning. Afraid that her skills will become rusty, she insists on exercising every morning and evening.

The drought in Nandu County was more severe than expected. The caravan passed through several towns, only to find them deserted and abandoned.

As more and more refugees died of thirst and emaciated along the road, the people in the group put on cloth towels and masks again.

As night fell, the corpse was surrounded by scavenging crows and vultures.

Yunmo would send several small teams out of the clouds every day to search for water, but they always returned disappointed.

The looting was even more serious. Yunmo ordered that all the pottery jars, water bags and wooden buckets that each family had used to store water be placed on a cart and covered with tarpaulin.

People didn't even dare to drink water or eat during the day. Children would only sneak into the tarpaulin to drink when they were unbearably thirsty.

After discussing it with Yun Mo, Lin Yinan managed to get the team to go easy on them once every three days.

Yunye and several of the secret guard leaders had a vague idea of ​​what was going on, but none of them mentioned it.

When the villagers asked, Yunye attributed the credit to the secret guards. He knew the principle that "a common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime." His younger brother and sister-in-law's family was weak and powerless, and there were also people with ulterior motives within their ranks, so he and Yunmo had to be on guard.

Under these circumstances, the Yun family was still able to distribute water to the team every few days, which further strengthened Wu Xingwang's determination to curry favor with the Yun family.

He and his small group negotiated with Yunye to exchange silver or food for water.

As for the money earned from exchanging the water, Yunye didn't take a single penny and gave it all to Lin Yinan.

After the team persevered for another ten days, they finally saw a patch of green on the hill ahead, no longer the barren, grassless yellow mud land.

They finally left Nandu County and arrived in the Southern Lands!

"Heavens above! We've finally survived!"

The refugees rushed forward like madmen, forgetting their hunger and thirst, their eyes filled with the hope of survival.

Regardless of whether the weeds were edible or not, some refugees would pluck them and stuff them into their mouths.

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