Traveling through the Immortal Realm: Starting from Becoming a Top-Level Furnace Cauldron

Zi Xiaoya raised her eyes and looked at him.

"First, serve three bowls of tea, and then some food, especially meat."

The old shopkeeper said awkwardly, "Sir, our shop still has some pickled vegetables and buckwheat left. As for meat, I really can't offer it."

Zi Xiaoya frowned and said, "Alright, alright, serve the food quickly."

"Thank you, Immortal!"

After the old shopkeeper said this, he limped back.

Qi Wei stared at the old shopkeeper's lame leg with a serious expression, "I always feel like something is wrong."

Li Chonglin nodded slightly, but did not say anything, just kept looking around.

"Brother Qi is right," Zi Xiaoya said, looking at the empty seat at the square table. "If Zhao Zimo were here, we could play Pai Gow together."

Li Chonglin:?

Qi Wei:?

Zi Xiaoya looked at Li Chonglin with a strange expression, "Hey, have you met Zhao Zimo?"

Li Chonglin shook his head: "No."

He really didn't know.

Ever since Lu Yuguan fell into a coma after the battle with Eunuch Mao, Zhao Zimo set out on a journey to Zhongdu to seek the holy medicine.

Li Chonglin kept his promise and wrote a letter to Xin Zhao after Yuguan woke up, but Xin Zhao never replied.

"This name..."

Qi Wei touched his chin, his eyes brightening: "Could it be one of Junior Brother Lu's suitors?"

Li Zhonglin said expressionlessly: "Don't force me to slap you."

"Oh, are you two having an affair?" Zi Xiaoya squatted on the bench, hugging her knees with her hands, almost eating some melon seeds.

"It's not the two of us," Qi Wei smiled and held up four fingers, "It's the four of us."

Boom!

Li Chonglin pulled out the dragon-patterned sword and slammed it heavily on the table.

Zi Xiaoya whispered, "Are you angry?"

Li Chonglin: “No.”

Zi Xiaoya: "So what are you doing?"

Li Chonglin: "I'm getting angry."

Qi Wei tapped his fingertips on the pearwood tabletop and said with a smile, "The environment in Sand City is dry, so it's inevitable that your body will accumulate heat. Just drink more cold water to calm it down."

"It's none of your business to speak on matters related to Yuguan Pass," Li Zhonglin glared at him. "You don't need to butt in on what's going on between the prince and Zhao Zimo."

Qi Wei crossed his legs and said cleverly, "This Saint Son likes Junior Brother Lu, and you like him too. We have similar interests, so why can't we sit at the same table and have tea?"

Li Zhonglin snorted coldly, "Sir Qi, you really have a good mouth. I once lived and ate with you in Yuguan. What do you think?"

Qi Wei: "I kissed him."

"..."

"Don't look at me like that. I really did kiss him."

"when."

"Back when we were at the Mermaid King Ruins, Junior Brother Lu loved me so much that he couldn't live without kissing me."

Qi Wei blinked guiltily.

You are right.

If I hadn't given Junior Brother Lu a chance to breathe, he would have died at the bottom of the sea.

"Smooth talk! Shameless man!——"

Li Chonglin's eyes were full of ferocity. He cursed loudly and immediately drew his sword and stood up.

Seeing that things were not going well, Qi Wei quickly ducked under the table.

Zi Xiaoya quickly stopped them: "Hey, hey, we haven't killed the monster yet, let's stop fighting!"

"This scoundrel will only cause trouble if he is kept alive. It's better to kill him together!" Li Chonglin said gritting his teeth.

Qi Wei raised his hand and argued, "A gentleman uses his mouth, not his fists. This Saint Son did use his mouth, I swear!"

The atmosphere was tense.

Zi Xiaoya struggled to stop Li Chonglin, who was about to overturn the table and chop people, while Qi Wei hid under the table and kept making excuses.

"Three Immortals, here are the food and water you requested."

The old shopkeeper limped over with a plate in his hand, his face looking rather grim.

"Cough...cough cough cough..."

At this moment, a heart-wrenching cough came from the back room.

The sound was extremely painful, with an inhuman hoarseness, which was completely unlike that of an ordinary illness.

The old shopkeeper's face was pale, and he bowed repeatedly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, everyone!"

"It's the child, his old illness has recurred. I'll go take care of him right away..."

As he said this, he was about to run back.

As a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect, Zi Xiaoya often deals with living creatures and is particularly sensitive to their scent.

She frowned and said, "Boss, the old illness you mentioned...I'm afraid it's not simple, right?"

The old shopkeeper froze, his back facing the three men, and his shoulders began to tremble violently.

Li Chonglin's eyes were as sharp as swords, locked on the old shopkeeper: "We noticed something was wrong the moment we entered the door. Could it be related to your son?"

"Or... the entire Sand City?"

Although the dragon-patterned sword has not been fully unsheathed, the sharp sword intent has already spread.

Qi Wei emerged from under the table, dusted himself off, and turned serious. "Father, if you really have any difficulties, please speak frankly."

"Although we are outsiders, we are also cultivators, so perhaps we can help you."

"Otherwise, if a disaster occurs, it may not be your family's fault."

Although he quarreled with Li Chonglin, he did not lose his responsibility as the Holy Son of Xuanyu Sect at the critical moment.

The old shopkeeper slowly turned around, tears streaming down his face, and fell to his knees with a thud, "Master Immortal, please understand! It's not that I intentionally concealed this, it's just... I really had no choice!"

He choked up and told the whole story.

His son went out a few months ago and has become increasingly haggard since returning. Every night he suffers from severe pain all over his body and wails incessantly.

Soon after, he began to be afraid of light. When he was occasionally lucid, he would crave raw flesh and blood. He was in a state of confusion and did not recognize people at all.

He consulted a doctor, but he was helpless. He only vaguely heard that it might be related to the devil.

In addition to his son, people with the same symptoms appeared one after another in the city.

The city lord once ordered the arrest and execution of those infected with the strange disease, but gradually, more and more people were infected, and even the city lord's mansion was affected.

Then, the whole city became a dead silent place.

No one knows.

How many people are left alive in the city?

His son's time spent awake was getting shorter and shorter, and he had no choice but to lock him in the cellar in the backyard and barely fill his stomach with pickled vegetables. How could he dare to prepare any meat?

"Demon cultivator?"

Li Chonglin and Qi Wei looked at each other with serious expressions.

Zi Xiaoya said in a deep voice, "If that's the case, then the reason behind the strangeness of Sand City may not be as simple as we imagined..."

at this time--

"Roar!!"

From far outside the city, bursts of shrill howls that were neither human nor beast were heard, one after another, as if countless terrifying creatures were awakening!

Immediately afterwards, screams of terror and the sound of houses being crashed were heard in the city!

"They're coming out! They're all crawling out!"

The old shopkeeper's face turned pale as he collapsed to the ground, muttering, "It's over... It's all over..."

"not good!"

Li Chonglin instantly flashed to the window, opened a crack and looked out.

On the dim street where the moonlight was obscured by the yellow sand, dozens of shadowy figures were rushing towards them in a crooked manner.

Those people were stiff in their movements, had dark blue skin, red eyes, and made hoarse sounds from their mouths. They looked exactly as horrible as the old shopkeeper had described.

They are all poisonous corpses transformed from humans!

Qi Wei poked his head out: "What's going on outside?"

Li Chonglin lowered his eyes slightly and said, "I'm afraid... there's a big trouble."

But in just a moment, the roar surrounded the restaurant.