Before the black-clad, masked man pulled out a dagger that pierced his throat, he leaned back and then jumped down from the beam.

The two men drew their swords, and the sound of weapons clashing in the yard alarmed the people guarding outside. Yun Zhan broke open the gate of the yard and rushed in with his men.

Seeing that they were outnumbered and led by Yun Zhan, a Nascent Soul cultivator, the thief turned around and ran away.

"Mr. Xiao, stop this man!" Yun Zhan shouted loudly, "Ms. Yu, take your men and surround this place!"

Although Yu Nian and the others had tried their best to rush forward, the yard of this family was very large, with rockery, pavilions, gardens and ponds interwoven inside. Even if they flew to the place where the two people were fighting, it would take some time.

But the thief made a fake attack to confuse Xiao Muyu, then turned around and ran away, not wanting to waste any more time with Xiao Muyu.

Xiao Muyu flew up right after him. Just as he reached a high altitude, the spiritual power in his dantian was interrupted for a moment, and he fell directly from the sky into the pond.

The thief just escaped right under the noses of Yu Nian and others.

Yun Zhan fished Xiao Muyu out of the pond and placed him on a stone bench in the family's garden. Xiao Muyu choked and coughed, spitting out a mouthful of saliva.

"The thief was right in front of you, yet you managed to escape? How could you do that?"

A young foundation-building disciple from the Yun family next to him had a bad temper and yelled directly at Xiao Muyu.

As the first disciple of the Yaoguang Sect's leader, Xiao Muyu had never been scolded like this before. He raised his head and glanced at the man, and the pressure of a Jindan cultivator directly crushed him.

The disciple was so frightened by the pressure that he knelt on the ground, his face flushed red and he didn't even get up.

Since when did the distinction between seniority and inferiority disappear and Foundation Establishment cultivators could yell at Golden Core True Immortals?

"Brother, just teach this disciple a lesson. Why bother with him..." Lan Qingqing immediately stepped out to smooth things over: "Brother, what happened to you just now?"

Everyone here saw with their own eyes that Xiao Muyu fell from the sky while flying.

Xiao Muyu hesitated for a moment and said, "I don't know why... Just now, I felt the spiritual power in my dantian suddenly interrupted for a moment."

Spiritual power interrupted?!

Ling Cang frowned, and suddenly a bad feeling arose in his heart.

Although he had never been to Flower God Island in his previous life, he had heard that a high-level evil cultivator had come to Flower God Island, causing almost all the people in the city to be slaughtered.

Now, Xiao Muyu suddenly showed symptoms of spiritual power interruption... He had a hunch that this matter was related to other evil cultivators.

"I know a little bit of medical skills. Why don't I take your pulse?" After thinking for a moment, Ling Cang stepped forward and spoke.

Xiao Muyu hesitated for a moment, but still stretched out his wrist.

Ling Cang gently placed his fingertips on Xiao Muyu's wrist. In his normal and even pulse, there was occasionally an early and weak beat, followed by a normal and prolonged pause... This was poisoning!

He had just come to a conclusion, but before he could say it out loud, the other disciples around him spoke up.

"Spiritual power was interrupted in an instant?" A disciple of the Yun family scratched his head. "After hearing what Senior Xiao said, I seem to have had this symptom recently. But because it was so short, only a moment, I thought it was just an illusion."

"Now that you mention it, I think I've experienced this before..."

"By the way, I felt this way before I went to bed the night before last..."

This situation occurred not only among the disciples of the Yun family, but also among the disciples of the Yaoguang Sect.

Ling Cang and Yu Nian looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes. Then Ling Cang took the pulse of these disciples and diagnosed them, and they all suffered from poisoning.

After taking his own and Yu Nian's pulse again, Ling Cang found that he and Yu Nian did not have such symptoms.

Ling Cang opened his mouth, but ultimately did not tell them directly that these disciples were poisoned.

This matter is too horrifying. If it is said directly, it may cause panic among the people and make the already tense situation even more tense.

In order to calm people's hearts, he had to tell Yun Zhan privately, find out the cause and solve the problem before anything serious happened.

Lan Qingqing, who was standing by, felt a sinking feeling in her heart when she saw Ling Cang's hesitant look and the ominous premonition became even stronger.

"Big Sister, can you please excuse me for a moment?"

To be honest, after discovering the formation, Yu Nian felt that Lan Qingqing was not an incompetent person.

It's just that the novel is too Mary Sue. She is pampered by countless men like a treasure in the world, and her delicate and gentle personality makes people ignore that she is also a genius.

Although Yu Nian was unable to reconcile the original owner with Lan Qingqing, in the face of a powerful enemy, it was natural to unite all the forces that could be united. After all, the heroine in the book walked out of the Flower God Island alive.

She put aside her grudges and called Lan Qingqing and Xiao Muyu to conspire together.

Since there was no one around, Ling Cang told him the bad news that Xiao Muyu had been poisoned.

Xiao Muyu: "...What about Junior Sister?"

Ling Cang took Lan Qingqing's pulse again and was surprised to find that she was not poisoned.

"She wasn't poisoned, but many others were. We don't know the details yet. We need to hurry to the Yun Mansion and tell the island master about this. He should find a way to suppress the news and calm people's hearts. We need to know in advance so we can be prepared, lest rumors spread and catch people off guard. We can then send monks to investigate the source of the poison."

Yu Nian nodded and said, "There's no time to lose, let's go now."

The four of them took advantage of the night and hurried to the Yun Mansion. Yun Zhan, who was worried, heard the servant's message and came out immediately.

"Miss Yu, what are you doing here in the middle of the night?"

"Brother Yun, something big has happened."

Seeing Yu Nian's serious face, Yun Zhan's heart skipped a beat. Then Yu Nian told Yun Zhan about the matter in general, and Yun Zhan's heart sank to the bottom.

"City Lord Yun, could you please extend your hand so Ling Cang can feel your pulse?"

Yun Zhan looked at Ling Cang and stretched out his wrist readily. Ling Cang placed his fingers on Yun Zhan's pulse and found that Yun Zhan was also suffering from poisoning.

He called in several maids and servants outside the door, and Ling Cang took their pulses one by one and found that they all had the same symptoms.

Yun Zhan called over the Yun family's trusted disciples with a serious look on his face and distributed orders one by one.

Soon after, all the medical practitioners from the Flower God Island arrived. Ling Cang discovered that all these doctors, whether ordinary people or cultivators, had been poisoned.

The characteristics of this poison are very strange and ordinary doctors cannot detect it. Ling Cang teaches these people how to take the pulse and identify the pulse beating condition after being poisoned by this poison.

At dawn the next day, all the clinics on Flower God Island offered free medical treatment in the name of the island owner's favor as the Flower God Festival was approaching.

Since it was free, countless people flocked to the clinic to see a doctor, and the doctors recorded the pulse conditions of the patients.

At one o'clock in the morning, Yu Nian and the other three, as well as Yun Zhan, who were waiting in the City Lord's Mansion, received the first batch of data from the medical clinic.

"As expected." Yun Zhan tightly grasped the letter in his hand, his face heavy. "First, we found that all the more than 60,000 people who sought treatment were poisoned... So, we can infer that almost all the people and cultivators on the entire Flower God Island have been poisoned by this unknown poison."

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