Wanyao Youyun

Chapter 183 The crisis emerges

Feng Huan briefly reviewed his current progress in various aspects, clarified the next direction of cultivation, and planned the time arrangements for various cultivations. Only in this way could he improve himself in an orderly and efficient manner. It can be regarded as sharpening the knife before chopping wood!

Now the outside world is relatively calm. The business of the Holy Hand Hall is on track, and with Hua Luzhu in control of everything, there is nothing for Feng Huan to worry about. The intelligence team has also begun to take shape. After investing a lot of resources, many new people have joined the intelligence work. Driven by resources, some of the original dark hunters from other forces have also switched to the Holy Hand Hall. Of course, the loyalty of these people will be worse, but it doesn’t matter. As long as the intelligence is provided, it will not necessarily have much impact on the forces. There are many such multi-faceted dark hunters in the major forces. They are only responsible for providing information and earning resources from this information. The confirmation, analysis and use of intelligence are the responsibility of other special people.

As for the training of the talented young men that Feng Huan specifically asked, although Hua Luzhu was also looking for them through various channels, geniuses were not easy to come by. Some of them were from powerful forces and had probably been discovered long ago. Moreover, these people were unlikely to be used by the Holy Hand Hall, unless they were unpopular in the forces. And finding one or two geniuses among the ordinary cultivators was as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

Feng Huan then focused on his cultivation, and would only come out to meet and chat with Ziyun every few days, and would also find a few people to practice martial arts together.

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"Brother Feng, there is a very difficult matter that needs your help." Feng Huan was practicing peacefully when a message from Wushuang came from the Sky Star Ring.

"What's the matter?" Feng Huan stopped practicing and replied.

"About 5,000 miles north of the imperial capital, there is a small city. Due to the lack of resources nearby, there are not many cultivators in the city, and the overall level of cultivation is relatively low. It has never attracted much attention. But recently, some strange things have happened in the city. Some people disappeared inexplicably, and after a while, these people reappeared, but they seemed to have changed completely. There also seems to be a plague in the city. The court selected many pharmacists to go there, but not only did they fail to solve the problem, even some assistants of pharmacists who had no cultivation were infected with the plague."

"Oh, did anyone from the Yin family go there?"

"Well, even Patriarch Yin went there in person, but he was also at a loss."

"Okay, I'll go over and take a look." Feng Huan did not refuse. On the one hand, he had to go because Wushuang asked him to help. On the other hand, he also wanted to study this disease, which would improve his ability to make medicine. In Longxing Continent, pharmacists not only make medicine, but also have the skills of healing and diagnosing diseases, which are generally only provided to cultivators. Among ordinary people, there are doctors who specialize in treating diseases.

"Thank you, Brother Feng. Do you need to notify the people over there to cooperate with you?"

"Not for now! I'll tell you after I get there and learn the details."

"Well, you have to be careful about your own safety. If there is no other way, forget it. You are more important than all of them."

"I know. I won't get myself involved."

Feng Huan finished his training and asked Hua Luzhu about some situations. The information obtained by the Holy Hand Hall was more detailed than that provided by Wushuang. After analyzing the information, they believed that these might be man-made.

"I'll go over and take a look first." After understanding the situation, Feng Huan gave some instructions and rode on the Miemeng Bird to the north.

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Rather than calling it a city, it is better to call it a tribe, where everything is primitive and backward. There are no tall city walls, no neat and prosperous streets, and the road surface is also primitive mountain soil, which has not been repaired and is bumpy.

When Feng Huan arrived here, he did not go in directly, but flew around the periphery of the entire city and carefully observed the surrounding environment.

Outside the city, there was nothing special except some basic farmland that ordinary people depended on for survival. The forest was also some distance away from the city. Feng Huan did not find any ferocious beasts around the forest. There were only ordinary wild beasts that did not have much attack power against ordinary people.

After observing the environment outside the city, Feng Huan came into the city. Everyone in the city had a sad face. Funeral processions could be seen everywhere, and the ground was covered with paper money, making the whole city a little eerie.

Arriving at the makeshift rescue center in the city, the team sent by the royal family was concentrating on handling the case. The site was simple, with some sheds built randomly to protect against wind and rain. As soon as you entered, you could smell a pungent smell of herbs.

"Master Yue, you are really here. I was not sure when the people in the listening room sent the message. Now that you are here, these people should be saved!" Seeing Feng Huan coming in, the head of the Yin family, who was sitting at the only big table and talking to the people around him, was delighted and immediately came to greet him. Although their Yin family is one of the top forces in the imperial capital, and he has been the head of the family for many years, but now he can only keep his family business by relying on the Holy Hand Hall, so he has to humble himself and respect Feng Huan.

"Master Yin, you have been here for a while. Do you have any ideas about this disease?" Feng Huan asked after sitting down in Master Yin's seat.

"This disease first appeared about a month ago. The patient has no other symptoms except progressive fatigue of the whole body including the internal organs. After about five or six days, the heart will stop beating due to fatigue, breathing will be difficult, and eventually death will occur." The head of the Yin family stood aside with his hands hanging down and briefly explained the condition.

“Is there a connection between the emergence of this disease and those who disappeared and then returned?”

"Master Yue has a keen eye. It was after these missing people came back that the plague spread." The head of the Yin family flattered him a little. "More than a month ago, a person who had been missing for more than half a month suddenly returned home. His family was overjoyed, and everyone else rushed to ask what happened. But this person just said that he got lost in the mountains and nothing special happened."

"After that, several more missing people came back with similar reasons. No one paid much attention to them. A few days later, the first person who returned home went to see a doctor in the city and found out that he had the same disease, and his whole family had the same disease. Then, more and more patients with the same disease appeared, and some people began to die. The doctor was helpless and reported to the city lord's mansion."

"Are there any survivors among those missing?"

"No, they are all dead, and the bodies have been burned. Because we haven't found out how the disease is transmitted between people, for safety reasons, all the bodies must be burned."

"Take me to see the patients!" Feng Huan must see these patients in order to obtain more information than he has now.

"If you get close to these people, you must protect your body with your true energy to ensure that you will not get sick. This is the only useful method we have found." Patriarch Yin took Feng Huan to check it out and explained along the way.

Feng Huan nodded, walked into the nearest shed, reached out and grabbed a person's wrist, wanting to inject his true energy into the meridians to check. But he found that the true energy could not enter at all. His eyes flashed purple, and he found that the person's meridians were thin and his hair was thin, and his seven orifices were tightly closed. He realized that these were ordinary people, without the qualifications to practice. As they grew older, their meridians gradually atrophied. There was no way for the true energy to enter the body to check. If it was forcibly injected, it would only damage their meridians and would be useless.

"True essence cannot detect the meridians of these ordinary people!" The head of the Yin family, who was standing by, saw Feng Huan take action and hurriedly explained. He thought Feng Huan should know this, after all, it was common sense. But thinking about it, it might be that this kind of genius has never come into contact with ordinary people, so it's not surprising.

Feng Huan did not respond, and continued to use his star pupils to scan the man's body from top to bottom, from inside to outside, not missing a single spot. Finally, he found a small mass of black matter at the bottom of his brain, but he could not see clearly what it was.

Feng Huan then checked on a few more people and found that they were all in the same situation.

"It looks like this is the little black shadow, but I can't tell what it is unless I open its head to see the real thing." Feng Huan pondered in his heart, and asked the head of the Yin family beside him, "Is there a dead body that has not been burned? Can you bring one over?"

"I'll go check it out now. There should be some that haven't been burned yet. Have you found anything?"

"Yes, but I'm not sure yet. It will take a few days to study further. Clear out a separate shed for me to use, and don't let anyone else get close."

"Yes, Master Yue is indeed extraordinary. He makes progress as soon as he takes action. I will arrange it right away."