Chapter 179 Night Visit (Bonus Chapter) What I did last night, I'll do tonight...
"You mean, by some twist of fate, you stumbled upon the secret of the Human Emperor's possession and reincarnation, which led him to send people to hunt you down. You hid in the Great Snow Mountain, which is how you met me. But for some reason, they didn't kill you afterward; instead, they chose to seal your memories?"
Ru Xian's expression shifted slightly, and a rare look of surprise appeared on her face.
His eyes narrowed slightly, and then he spoke.
But how did they know that I was determined to go to the Valley of the Sacred Hearts?
A light drizzle began to fall in the northern suburbs. Lin Feiran opened his golden umbrella to shield the two of them. Hearing this, he paused slightly and glanced to the side.
Ru Xian only appeared a few times in the book as a demon lord, and his background and origins were completely unclear. The only plot related to him was when he helped Qiu Tong and Wei Changzai during the chaos of the fox clan.
Therefore, she couldn't be sure if anyone else knew about the pilgrimage valley.
She couldn't help but ask, "You've never told anyone this before? You told me before, and I thought it wasn't a secret for some important people."
Like hail brushing aside the drooping branches, I brushed the raindrops off my shoulders and looked up at her.
"Do I look like someone who enjoys chatting with people? I have four or five close friends, but none of them know this, because I have never said it to any of them."
When I formed a pact with you, our relationship was already extraordinary. Moreover, it was impossible for me to ask you to help me find something in the Valley of the Pilgrims without saying anything.
I am certain that no one knows I intend to go to the Valley of the Sacred Hearts.
Lin Feiran lowered his eyes: "That is strange."
Ru Xian glanced sideways and saw that her shoulder was slightly damp, so she brushed it off with her fingers and pushed the umbrella a little closer.
"Don't be too surprised. The world is full of wonders. Even mortals have ways to possess bodies, so what's so difficult about knowing my secret?"
Divination, spirit writing, calculation, and deduction—any of these could reveal something, but it's obvious that I'm not important to them.
Now I'm rather curious: what exactly do they intend to do after introducing the spiritual energy of the demon realm into the human realm?
Lin Feiran looked to the side and saw several people wearing straw raincoats and hats working in the fields.
"Is there really a way in this world to give mortals spiritual veins so that they can cultivate?"
"impossible."
Surprisingly, Ru Xian rejected the idea without hesitation.
"The operation of heaven and earth has its own laws, just as wolves eat sheep, sheep eat grass, and grass absorbs the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. This cycle repeats itself, which is the way of nature."
To allow mortals to develop spiritual veins is tantamount to letting sheep devour wolves, grass devouring flesh. It may work for a while, but in the long run, it will only lead to extinction.
The reason why cultivators can cultivate and use such dazzling moves is fundamentally because they possess spiritual veins and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Lin Feiran suddenly realized.
"It's like skipping the step of eating wolves, sheep, and grass, and directly transforming spiritual energy into spiritual power through spiritual veins, making it work for us?"
“That’s right.” Ru Shan’s eyes were full of praise. “If you want to cultivate, you must have spiritual veins. Spiritual veins are something that are born naturally. You can dig them up and use them, or pick them up and use them, but you can’t create them out of thin air.”
I don't believe Ding Yi doesn't understand this principle; there must be other reasons for his elaborate scheme.
"But if that's the case, why do all the demons have spiritual veins?"
Ru Xian raised his lips: "Everything has its balance. The demon race has difficulty producing offspring, far fewer than the human race. If we only count human cultivators with spiritual veins, wouldn't your numbers be comparable to those of the demon race?"
Lin Feiran understood for a moment, then suddenly felt a little surprised.
"They've dragged you into this game, using you as a pawn, and now you don't even seem angry?"
Ru Xian curved her lips and raised her eyebrows, attracting many sidelong glances: "Yes, according to my personality, I should indeed be angry, but I really can't bring myself to be angry."
"If it weren't for their actions, you wouldn't have ended up in the Demon Capital by chance. Thinking about it that way, it's really hard to feel any anger."
Lin Feiran paused.
That makes perfect sense. If it weren't for this incident, even if she had fled down the mountain and sought refuge in the demon realm, none of the subsequent events would have occurred, and she wouldn't be where she is today.
Truly, the secrets of heaven are unpredictable and unfathomable.
Ru Xian saw her nod secretly and couldn't help but chuckle. Then, remembering something, she added.
“I suddenly remembered something equally strange. Do you remember? You asked me about the Holy Palace’s illness before, but I didn’t tell you then.”
Lin Feiran recalled for a moment, realizing she had almost forgotten about it: "I remember, but didn't you also want me to exchange secrets?"
Ru Xian glanced up at the umbrella above her head, then at her expression: "Didn't you also tell me the secret of the Emperor? You gave me one, so naturally I have to return one."
After all, they were secrets of the Emperor and his wife, so exchanging them was quite fitting.
"When I first examined the Holy Palace, I almost immediately discovered her identity as a demon. At the time, I found it interesting that the wife of the human emperor was actually a demon."
But soon, I realized something was wrong.
Lin Feiran stopped and looked at him: "What's wrong?"
Like a cherry blossom in the moonlight, her slender index finger was slightly raised, and as she followed his gaze, it gently touched her heart.
"This isn't right."
In the misty drizzle, they slowly approached, seemingly whispering, but in reality, they were talking about something horrifying.
Not far behind the two, a pale blue figure followed quietly, trailing from a distance as if it might disappear into the rain and mist at any moment.
...
Lin Feiran planned to sneak into the palace at night, but it was too early, so the two of them did not return by sword, but chose to walk.
Less than five miles from the city gate of Luoyang, there is a reasonably well-built inn called Fenglin Inn.
As the rain intensified and walking became difficult, Lin Feiran originally intended to take Ruxian there to rest for a while, but the two stopped at the sight before them as soon as they entered.
The inn consists of three buildings arranged in a U-shape, with a large courtyard below. In the courtyard grows an old pear tree with leaves but no flowers.
Under the old pear tree, the area was almost crowded with people dressed in tattered clothes, all of whom looked ashen and sickly.
Many cultivators dressed in star-patterned Daoist robes moved among them, brewing spiritual medicines, drawing arrays and chanting incantations, and then hurriedly delivering medicines to everyone.
These are all cultivators from the Star Domain.
"Fellow Daoists, are you heading to Luoyang City?" Upon seeing them, one of them hurriedly stepped forward and showed his waist token.
“We are subordinates of Wenqu Star Lord of the Can Star Domain. Now that the Maple Forest Inn has been requisitioned, we have nowhere to stay. Why don’t you two walk a few more miles into the city to rest?”
Lin Feiran looked around and asked, "Are these people who recently moved to Luoyang? Is there some kind of epidemic?"
The cultivator looked her over a few more times and saw that she had clear and bright eyes, a dignified bearing, and no trace of filth. So he did not drive her away: "She is indeed a person who has moved here. However, what she has is not an ordinary epidemic. Although it is not contagious, it is difficult to cure. We can only use some medicine to temporarily alleviate the symptoms."
Lin Feiran calmly observed the people lying down, and one of them caught her attention.
The man seemed to have just had a relapse; his body was still trembling, his face was covered in frost, his lips were pale, and the breath he exhaled was not warm but had a chilling quality.
Cold-related illness.
Lin Feiran made the decision almost instantly.
She looked at them hesitantly. Although the people were pale and weak, they looked much better after drinking the medicine and were no longer trembling as before.
"What kind of medicine is this?" Ru Xian, who was standing to the side, suddenly asked.
"We come from Dongyu Prefecture, where there are also people suffering from this ailment. We wonder if this medicine will be effective?"
The cultivator turned his head and saw only an ordinary male cultivator. He replied, "I see. This medicine can't cure the disease completely, but it can temporarily alleviate the symptoms. However, we don't know the prescription either. This is a pill that was distributed from the palace."
"From the palace?" Lin Feiran asked, somewhat surprised.
A commoner nearby swallowed the medicine and immediately chimed in, "We all know that this medicine was prepared by the Holy Empress. Out of gratitude to Her Majesty, if we had had a bowl of this sooner, my child wouldn't have died halfway there!"
Most of the relocated people were residents of the northern part of Zhongzhou, which is quite far from Beiyuan. It seems that they were unaware that this was the cold disease ravaging Beiyuan.
Lin Feiran's eyes flickered slightly as he said to the cultivator before him, "I wonder if you could give me two doses of medicine? We'll be returning to Dongyu Prefecture in a couple of days so they can take them to temporarily alleviate the symptoms."
The cultivator had a good impression of Lin Feiran and gave them small bottles of pills. He then instructed them, "Fellow Daoist, you should return as soon as possible. People from the palace have sent word that this medicine must be dissolved in water and taken within ten days. Three days have already passed, so there are still seven days left for its effects."
Lin Feiran thanked him, took the medicine bottle, and, not wanting to linger, opened his umbrella and returned to Luoyang City with Ru Xian.
"Why can this pill temporarily alleviate the symptoms of coldness?"
Back at the inn, Lin Feiran immediately poured out a pill from the bottle and examined it closely.
This pill is pure white with several rings of light purple patterns, and its quality is immediately apparent.
Ru Xian raised her hand to take it, lowered her eyes and said, "There are many ways to temporarily relieve cold symptoms, but none are as effective as this one, where just drinking a bowl of lightly brewed medicine can stop the illness."
He was also curious about what kind of medicinal ingredient was added to this pill to achieve such a rapid effect.
"How this pill was made can be determined by simply disassembling it." He looked up at Lin Feiran but asked an unrelated question.
"You've been sneaking into the palace tonight, around what time will you return?"
Lin Feiran pondered for a moment: "I'll be back at midnight."
Ru Xian, on the contrary, was somewhat surprised: "I thought you would say you didn't know."
Lin Feiran frowned and said, "The palace's security array is extraordinary. I don't plan to venture too far tonight, lest I alert them. Besides, I have a feeling something is amiss. I know such a huge secret, yet I can appear openly in Luoyang without alerting anyone..."
I plan to scout out the location today, then explore the city further, looking for the best opportunity to infiltrate deeper. It won't take too long; just the next couple of days.
After saying that, she turned to me and asked, "Why are you suddenly asking me when I'm coming back?"
Ru Xian took out many tools from his mustard seed bag, and with a flick of his fingers, a corner of the pill was cut off and melted into the porcelain cup.
He glanced at Lin Feiran, tapped his silver knife against the rim of his cup, and said with a half-smile, "I've done so much for you, I should at least get some compensation."
"What do you want me to do?" Lin Feiran asked eagerly, without the slightest reluctance.
"What you did last night, you'll do tonight too. You're so smart, you'll definitely learn it after being taught just once, right?"
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