“Ah–”

At this moment, Xiao Chen’s entire body burned with fire. The backlash from reckless use of profound arts gradually eroded his consciousness, causing his subjective consciousness to become blurry. At this moment, there was only one thought in his mind: kill Zi Weisi!

“You! Go! Die!”

Xiao Chen’s eyes were bloodshot as he rushed towards Zi Weisi in an instant. He raised his palm and angrily stirred the clouds in the sky, shattering the surrounding mountains.

With such terrifying power, Zi Weisi had truly miscalculated this time. In a hurry, he could only carry the Genuine energy all over his body. Layers of purple gas immediately enveloped his body.

However, under Xiao Chen’s terrifying palm force, the layers of purple gas began to dissipate. With each layer of purple gas that dissipated, a stream of blood oozed out from Zi Weisi’s eyes, ears, mouth, and nose. In the end, blood flowed out of his seven orifices. Clearly, his internal organs had been shattered!

Looking at Xiao Chen again, his consciousness was blurry, causing him to risk everything to risk his fate, causing him to be like Zi Weisi. Blood oozed out from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and it was an imposing aura of perishing together!

“Rumble!”

Right at this moment, the mountain range below began to tremble again. At the same time, an extremely powerful Spiritual Energy surged forth ferociously.

“Shit …”

Zi Weisi’s expression suddenly changed as he said, “Xiao Yichen! Stop! Otherwise, both of us will die here …”

However, at this moment, due to the backlash, Xiao Chen’s consciousness was already unconscious. He still fiercely urged his profound arts and struck down with his palm.

“Boom!”

With a loud explosion, a few more mountains below were shattered. At this moment, the Spiritual Energy below seemed to have finally lost its balance. It was like a ten thousand meter tsunami that surged towards the two of them.

“Boom!”

Both of them were sent flying by this terrifying Spiritual Energy. Zi Weisi gushed out a mouthful of blood, wanting to circulate his Spiritual Energy. However, he had just been heavily injured by Xiao Chen, so it was difficult for him to circulate his Spiritual Energy at this moment.

In the blink of an eye, that terrifying Spiritual Energy surged up again, and with a “boom”, it sent him flying.

No one could block the power of heaven and earth. Both of them were already heavily injured. They were now like two small boats in a violent storm. Countless cracks had appeared on the hull of the boat. How long could they last? Most likely, they will be buried here …

“Ah!”

Zi Weisi shouted, forcefully mentioning Genuine energy. However, how could he resist this sudden power of heaven and earth when he was seriously injured, even at his peak?

“Boom!”

With another loud explosion, he was knocked over, smashing a mountain in the distance into pieces. Finally, his consciousness gradually became blurry with severe injuries, and even his spiritual will was unable to be transmitted out …

“Rumble!”

The mountains cracked and the earth shattered. Spiritual energy flew in rage. The two of them were knocked around by the Spiritual Energy in all directions. Their minds were completely unconscious. If it weren’t for the fact that their bodies weren’t comparable to those of ordinary people, their bodies would probably have already been wiped out.

After an unknown amount of time, the tremor slowly stopped. Beneath the mountains was a river. A few days ago, it had just rained. At this moment, the river was flowing rapidly and the waves landed several zhang high. Xiao Chen, along with the rocks in the sky, fell into the river. He had long since lost all consciousness.

Just like this, three days had passed since they drifted eastward along the river, and they encountered branches and drifted into the river.

In the past three days, Xiao Chen hadn’t been conscious at all, but a series of subtle changes were happening in his body.

The strand of Primordial Chaos Purple Qi that he had absorbed had slowly healed his damaged heart meridians, while the Spiritual Energy that he had absorbed from the Samsara Jade had slowly healed his internal organs …

This area was tens of thousands of kilometers in radius. Most of them were villages. The Ancient River Village was located at the lower reaches of the Great River. There were rivers winding through the village, nurturing more than two hundred people in the village. Thus, this place was named the Ancient River Village.

It was early April, and the weather wasn’t hot. It was just past noon, and two young girls were picking amaranth beside the river with bare feet and bamboo baskets.

The two girls, one wearing a light red skirt, the other an older one wearing emerald green clothes.

The woman in green looked eighteen years old. She was graceful and elegant. Her fingers were long and slender, like white jade carvings. Even the action of picking amaranth was graceful and moving. The action of leaning over and gently stroking her hair behind her ears was as if the breeze was blowing across the river, giving off waves of refreshment.

As for the girl in the light red dress, she looked much younger. She was only about twelve or thirteen years old. Compared to the girl in green, she was more lively and playful than a little girl.

“Sister Liu’er, I heard that Uncle Liu is going to marry you to Zhao Dahu in the next village next month. Is that true …”

The red-dressed girl asked innocently as she picked the amaranth. Ordinary women, especially those who were just beginning to fall in love, would often blush when they heard about the marriage. There was even hope in their bashfulness. However, the green-dressed woman seemed to have completely ignored it and still bent down to pick the amaranth from the shore.

“Sister Liu’er, why aren’t you talking?” Seeing that she ignored him, the red-dressed girl raised her head and blinked her large, watery eyes as she asked.

At this time, the green-robed woman stood up and stroked the amaranth in the basket. She said casually, “That Zhao Dahu is a famous bully. He bullies men and women. Who doesn’t know? This is the kind of person my father hates the most. How did he marry me to him? Where did you hear those words?”

“It seems so. Uncle Liu hates those people the most …” The red-dressed girl bit her finger and raised her head again. “It was me who heard Brother Monkey say it yesterday …”

Hearing this, the green-clothed woman shook her head and smiled, “You should take that little monkey’s words seriously. Forget it, we’re almost done here. Cai Wei, go upstream and see if there’s anything else.”

“Oh …”

The red-dressed girl pursed her lips and walked upstream, whispering, “But Zhao Dahu, I heard that there is a distant relative working as an official in the county. He has always been thinking of big sister Liu’er. I’m afraid that he will come looking for trouble in the next two days …”

The green-robed woman did not listen to her chanting and lowered her head to pick the amaranth on the shore. However, at this moment, a wisp of worry flashed across her eyebrows.

After a long time, the girl did not come back. The woman in green raised her head and looked upstream, shouting, “Cai Wei? Is there anything up there?”

“Sister Liu’er, there are so many water plants here … Ah! Ah!”

“Cai Wei! What’s wrong?”

“Ah! Ah …”

The screams of the young girl kept coming from the upper reaches of the river. The woman in green hurriedly walked to the shore and shouted, “Cai Wei! What’s wrong with you?”

“Dead people … there are dead people! Sister Liu’er, there’s a dead person here … Ah!”

The girl ran back in horror. When the green-robed woman heard that there was a dead person in the river, her expression changed. There was a plague in all directions. Wasn’t the eight villages within ten kilometers all affected by the plague?

But very quickly, she calmed down, put down the bamboo basket in her hand, and ran upstream. The red-dressed girl was so scared that she plunged her head into her embrace. Her entire body trembled, pointing upstream and trembling, she said, “Right, inside those water plants …”

“Cai Wei, don’t be afraid. I’ll go take a look.”

“Ah … no, don’t, don’t go over, big sister Liu’er, it looks so scary …”

“Don’t be afraid.”

The green-clothed woman gently stroked her hair and comforted her. Then, she walked upstream. When she arrived at the bush, she saw a person floating up in the water. She thought that she was entangled in the water grass, so she did not float down.

“Big Sister Liu’er, did you, did you see … right there under your feet …” The red-dressed girl covered her eyes with her hands and shouted in a trembling voice on the distant shore.

The green-clothed woman held her breath and carefully flowed into the water grass. Fortunately, the water on the shore was shallow and did not reach her waist. When she reached the water grass, she slowly pushed away the water grass on the man’s face. This time, she was stunned.

He had originally thought that this person was a white-haired old man who had accidentally fallen into the water, but he never expected that he would be such a handsome young man. His face and arms were fair, his skin was not purple, his body was not swollen, and it was obvious that he was not dead.

“Cai Wei, hurry up and come over! This person isn’t dead, I don’t have enough strength alone, let’s quickly pull him ashore …”

“Ah … I … I … Wu, Cai Wei is afraid …”

“Don’t be afraid, this man is alive and well. I think he just fainted from drowning. Come over here quickly and we’ll pull him ashore. Otherwise, he will really die in a moment …”

“This, this? Alright, then, Cai Wei is not afraid anymore …”

The person in the water was naturally Xiao Chen. The two of them took a lot of effort to pull him to the shore. When they saw Xiao Chen’s handsome face, the red-dressed girl was no longer that afraid. She whispered, “Sister Liu’er, if this person, he, if he died, would he become a water ghost?”

“Don’t talk nonsense. I’m not dead.”

The green-clothed woman glanced at her and turned around. She pressed a few acupoints on Xiao Chen’s body and frowned, “Strange, he didn’t drown … Cai Wei, quickly return to the village and call my father.”

“Call Uncle Liu. Good, good …”

The red-dressed girl didn’t think too much. She turned around and ran in the direction of the village. The green-dressed woman turned around and her gaze fell on Xiao Chen. Her brows were still tightly knitted, and she had doubts in her heart. This person was dressed extraordinarily. He was definitely not someone from the nearby village. How could he drift here …

After a while, a noise slowly came from afar. The sound was getting closer and closer. The woman in green stood up and looked over. There were actually quite a few villagers following behind Cai Wei. She couldn’t help but frown. This girl had asked her to find her father. Why did she bring so many people here …

“Jingjing! What happened? Where is that person?”

A middle-aged scholar dressed as a doctor hurriedly ran over. Looking at his appearance, he seemed a little anxious.

“Daddy, it’s right there …”

The green-clothed woman pointed at Xiao Chen behind her. At this moment, more than twenty villagers also ran over, but they didn’t dare to approach her. They were all whispering in the distance, constantly mentioning the words “plague” and “Southern River Village”.

The green-clothed woman frowned and said, “I can see that his internal organs seem to be slightly damaged. It’s not drowning. Daddy, look …”

“Don’t go there yet!”

The green-robed middle-aged man pulled her back. His gaze fell on Xiao Chen and he looked very cautious. The green-robed woman said, “The summer is not coming yet. The stream is still cold. He has been in the water for a long time, and he is afraid that cold air will invade his internal organs. Father, it’s not appropriate to leave him outside like this. Otherwise, let’s bring him home first.”

“This, this won’t do! I absolutely can’t …”

The twenty-odd villagers behind them all looked over in panic. A white-haired elder with a walking stick said, “Last month, there was a plague in Nanhe Village. Several villages suffered. In less than a month, many people had already died. The origin of this person is unknown. If there was a plague on his body, then … it would be indescribable.”