My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

Although Ji Yunshuang had her eyes closed, she was not asleep.

She placed her thoughts into the space, using them to harvest nectar, as well as gather ripe medicinal herbs and fruits.

These days she's been busy fighting the plague and hasn't had time to tend to the black soil.

However, the black soil is different from other places in the region. Crops grow quickly in the black soil and need to be harvested when they are ripe.

She was too busy to tend to it on weekdays, so she used her mind to harvest the mature crops and medicinal herbs.

Fortunately, her mental abilities have improved considerably, making the task much easier for her.

Because the demand for medicinal herbs is now high, she plans to expand the scope of medicinal herb cultivation after harvesting the herbs and fruits.

She was busy when she heard the signal.

She abruptly pulled herself back to her feet and looked in the direction the signal had come from.

The soldiers also stood up from the ground to identify where the signal was coming from.

A soldier said, "Sir, the sound is coming from the southwest, so it doesn't seem to be too far from here."

After reviewing the routes of the several teams in her mind, Ji Yunshuang immediately pointed out the routes and told everyone to follow them.

She rode her horse to the front and quickly put some distance between herself and the soldiers.

Even so, she still found it too slow. So, once she was completely out of the soldiers' sight, she moved Tianrui out of her spatial dimension and rode a tiger instead.

In this way, the speed is several times faster than before.

As Ji Yunshuang and her group saw the signal and hurriedly headed towards the direction from which it came, Mo Lingyuan also saw the dazzling signal in the sky.

She didn't know what it was, but the sound and the sparks in the sky that she had never seen before made her subconsciously feel that something extraordinary had happened there.

Without thinking much about it, she rode her horse in that direction to see what had happened.

Youying, who had been sent by Fu Weiyi to gather information, had the same idea and quickly headed towards the direction from which the signal was sent.

The only difference is that one uses horseback riding, while the other uses light-footed skills.

Both of them moved incredibly fast, rapidly heading in the direction from which the signal had been sent.

*

To track down the witch, Ji Yunshuang divided her soldiers into three teams, one each led by herself, Lu Yinheng, and Xu Xi.

When Lu Yinheng and Xu Xi led their team to investigate the whereabouts of Prince Duan and the witch, they were similar to Ji Yunshuang in that they would stop and help patients infected with the plague when they encountered them on the road.

Each of their soldiers carried a lot of medicine, but the scene was just too horrific. In many villages, most of the people had fallen ill.

Seeing the children lying on the ground, Lu Yinheng's eyes turned bloodshot. If this plague were just a natural disaster, he wouldn't hate it so much.

But this was done by human intervention.

So many innocent civilians, and so many children...

Lu Yinheng clenched his fist, ordered a few soldiers to stay behind and be in charge of rescuing people, while he led his men to investigate the whereabouts of the witch and Prince Duan.

The soldiers who were left behind were full of worry: "What if you run into the witch and Prince Duan? Why don't we go together? Maybe the prince's troops will arrive here to rescue us soon."

Lu Yinheng said, "There are more infected villagers than we expected; they didn't arrive as quickly as we anticipated!"

Moreover, Ji Yunshuang didn't provide them with many protective suits, so the ordinary soldiers who came might have contracted the disease and fallen ill before they even started treating the villagers.

There are simply too many uncertainties.

He kept them there with a firm stance.

Then, he led the remaining soldiers to continue searching for the priestess and the Prince. After walking for a while, he found several pregnant women who were heavily pregnant but looked normal and unaffected by the plague.

At first, he didn't pay much attention to it or think much about it.

They assumed it was as Ji Yunshuang had said: everyone's constitution is different, and their reactions to the disease vary. These pregnant women were simply not infected because of their physical condition.

But soon, he realized something was wrong.

It's one thing for older women to be pregnant, but why are some young-looking women also carrying such large bellies?

Moreover, apart from these pregnant women, everyone else in the village was infected with the disease.

They were either their fathers, brothers, husbands, or children...

In the end, many of them are relatives.

Logically speaking, one should be worried and anxious when a loved one is sick.

But these women didn't seem anxious or worried at all. Some of them were working by the river, humming tunes, looking quite carefree.

Although he didn't understand what was wrong, and perhaps these people had nothing to do with his investigation of Prince Duan and the witch, he stopped because of his doubts and decided to find out what was going on.

Unexpectedly, these women avoided them like the plague, as if they were some kind of monstrous flood.

One of the soldiers, observing the women's reactions, looked at himself strangely and said, "Is it because our attire is too odd?"

Lu Yinheng frowned, carefully recalling the expressions and actions of the women when they saw them, and said somewhat uncertainly, "It doesn't seem like they were frightened by our attire, it seems like there's something about us that they're afraid of."

One of the soldiers said, "Could it be the sword he's carrying?"

He shook his head as soon as he finished speaking, "If they were scared by the swords they carried, they didn't hide when they saw us from afar!"

Another soldier added, "Yes! She even smiled at me when she saw me walk towards her! She definitely wasn't scared by our outfits. Judging from their reaction, they were only scared after we got close to them."

"Why are you scared when we get close? Are we that ugly?" One soldier even made a rare joke to lighten the mood.

"We may be ugly, but Commander Lu is not!"

Everyone agrees with this statement.

Lu Yinheng was not only tall and had long legs, but also a flawless face. This face even slightly surpassed that of the young master.

Not only his face, but his demeanor was no less impressive than that of the Crown Prince.

That's the heir apparent, a true member of the royal family.

And the clothes they were wearing, it's unknown which master made them from what material.

Although their faces were covered by a transparent material inside their clothes, they could still see each other's faces clearly.

As men, they couldn't help but admire Lu Yinheng's face, so how could any woman find him ugly?

Lu Yinheng didn't notice the soldiers' jokes. He thought about it over and over again, and suddenly said, "It's the smell!"

"What's that smell?" The soldiers looked at him in confusion, not yet having reacted.

"The smell of medicine!" Lu Yinheng said, "We're all covered in the smell of medicine."