After the alien water-eating vine was surrounded and killed, it transformed into its original form - a dead vine of the most common water-eating vine and a small piece of octopus tentacle, which was not even half the length of a human forearm. If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, it would be hard to believe that they could grow into such a huge monster. It formed a sharp contrast with the corpse of Liu Amma's son next to it.
Liu A-ma's son was a burly blacksmith. His hometown suffered from famine in his early years. More than half of the family members died of starvation on the way to escape the famine. When they arrived at Qianlong Town, only the mother and son were left to depend on each other. One night in early March, Liu A-ma suddenly had a high fever at night. The honest and filial son went out to find a doctor in the dark and never came back. Liu A-ma waited in a daze for more than half a month. When she recovered from the illness, everyone said she was crazy.
But she knew she was not crazy. Her child would come back to see her every night. How could she be crazy? She waited day and night. The only thing she wanted in this world was to see her child a few times when night fell.
But more than half a month later, her child no longer came to see her. She ran to the street day and night. During the day, many people on the street had the scent of her child. He seemed to be everywhere, but Aunt Liu could not find him. She wanted to tell the child that his mother was here, so she repeated these two words over and over again until this obsession was the only thing left in her mind.
After her son's body was vomited out, Aunt Liu regained some consciousness, but her reactions were slow and she couldn't understand many words. She just hugged her son tightly, who had been corroded beyond recognition, and tears of sadness flowed continuously from her bloodshot eyes.
Everyone couldn't bear it and turned their heads away.
Jun Wen placed his hand on her forehead, a soft orange light emanating from between his fingers. After a moment, he shook his head and said, "She was so traumatized that part of her soul was devoured. She can no longer recover."
Mayor Bai had expected this result, but he still felt sad and sighed heavily, "Thank you very much, immortals. Since she is a resident of our town, we will never sit idly by and watch her suffer such a disaster. Please rest assured, immortals."
After watching the sunrise, Max came down from the roof and raised his eyebrows and said, "Although she had no choice, it was the water-eating vines attached to her son that killed so many people. Mayor Bai, can you still tolerate her?"
After all, the previous rumors about the misfortune suffered by helping Amma Liu had caused panic and resentment among the townspeople towards Amma Liu. In comparison, once the truth came out, Amma Liu would rightfully become the target of public criticism.
Mayor Bai obviously remembered this incident, his expression changed slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he said solemnly: "I am willing to guarantee with my life that even if others cannot tolerate her, I will definitely find a good home for her."
"I hope so." Max looked into his eyes and smiled, then stepped over the water stains on the ground and walked towards the door. "Ache, we should go now."
Mayor Bai met the pair of fox eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat, so he turned his gaze away.
"Wait a minute, Master Zhou!"
Max paused, turned slowly, looked up at the slightly nervous person in front of him, and smiled.
"What is it?"
Zhao Huaishan unconsciously tightened his grip on the hilt of the sword, and his clear and gentle voice suddenly became a little stammering: "Well, I don't know where you two are going. If it's convenient, we can give you a ride."
Max's eyes lit up as he smiled. "Nan Cangzhou, are you going?"
"Go, go, our Lingyun Pavilion's boat kite..."
"how?"
"...very big."
Zhao Wenruo looked down uncertainly at the smallest flying kite in the magic bag: "Is it big?"
A head suddenly jumped in between the two of them. Chu Shaoxuan exclaimed in surprise and pushed Zhao Huaishan aside. "Zhou Xuan, you are going to Nancangzhou as well? To participate in the Thousand Immortals Alliance, right? But don't you have no spiritual power?"
Jake: "Ahem."
Chu Shaoxuan immediately understood: "Oh, yes, yes, you have a powerful junior brother, so you two are not the same sect, right? Tell me, which sect are you from? Let's make friends, and we'll be acquaintances when we meet in the future."
Max just smiled mysteriously, touching his chin without saying anything.
In fact, what he was thinking was: Is the boat kite a flying magic weapon from the immortal world? But what is the logic of this kid? Is he just making up a sect to fool him?
Suddenly, I heard a voice, like the texture of 360° surround sound with headphones, and the cold voice sounded very exciting, "Not everyone can join the Thousand Immortals Alliance. The threshold is very high. Basically, only the well-known and well-known sects in each continent can join."
Max glanced at his side calmly, and Jake looked straight ahead with an expressionless face, as if nothing had happened.
"Who said we are going to the Thousand Immortals Alliance?" Max turned his eyes slightly and said to Chu Shaoxuan in a somewhat brisk tone: "We will go by land and travel along the way. You know, my body can't stand long distances, so I can only walk and stop."
Chu Shaoxuan was a little disappointed: "Oh, so where is the next stop? Maybe I can go and play with you guys."
Max thought about the route, "Wanqi City."
"Wanqi City?" Town Chief Bai had sharp ears despite his age. He pushed Yue Heng out at the right time, looked at Max, then looked at Jake, and said sincerely: "Master, I have something to ask of you. It is time for Yue Heng to go home. Qianlong Town may not be able to spare any manpower after the catastrophe. I beg the two masters to be kind and send Yue Heng back on the way."
Yue Heng stared at Max with her big watery eyes.
She wanted to play with Jun Wen the most, but the little brother was too serious and not as fun as this bad guy.
Max crossed his arms and glanced at her with his eyes downcast: "You can't cry, ba5tard."
Yue Heng's eyes were instantly covered with mist: "I am not!"
Mayor Bai lowered his head and sighed in distress: "Alas, the money for the journey has been prepared, so I can only find someone else..."
Max glanced at Mayor Bai again: "She said no, it's okay to send it."
Mayor Bai: "?"
Everyone: "......"
Jake held his forehead with his hand: "......left."
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The people from the Xianmen still needed to stay in Qianlong Town to deal with subsequent issues. When they left, Max had already been traveling on the road for two days with Jake and Yue Heng. Considering the tight time, neither of them had the heart to travel around. After they no longer had to pretend to be sick, the carriage sped along the road and soon entered the central and southern parts of Sangzhou.
In addition, Max also discovered that Jake was a good driver of the carriage. The carriage was so stable under his control. After Max racked his brains for all the compliments, he praised him a lot. Jake listened with a raised lip corner, then pointed to the "fast as the wind" talisman and the "stable as Mount Tai" talisman pasted on the body of the carriage.
Max drank some water to moisten his throat, "...Excuse me."
Two days later, a horse-drawn carriage carrying two adults and one child slowly moved into Wanqi City.
"My home is here." Yue Heng led them into an alley on East Street and stopped in front of a house that was more imposing than the ones on the left and right.
"Wu Mansion." Max crossed his arms, looked up at the two large gold-plated characters on the carved door plaque, and said with a smile: "I wonder if there is a night-shining pearl as big as the one in the mayor's house."
Jake did not respond immediately. After sending Yue Heng back and the two of them walked out of the alley, he said confidently: "You knew it was the mayor who was behind this."
Max said indifferently: "Qianlong Qianlong, he is old and is anxious to transform into a dragon. The four pitiful spiritual beads in the corner are almost scrapped by him."
The Soul-Transforming Pearl is one of the most evil magical instruments. It can absorb the souls of the dead and transform them into its own spiritual power. Most of the magical instruments in the world can only be used by cultivators with spiritual power, but the Soul-Transforming Pearl treats cultivators and mortals equally.
Max: "Do you think they can find out?"
There was no wave in Jake's voice. "Yes."
Max raised his eyebrows, "No way, you trust me so much just because we fought together? I will fight alongside you some other time."
Jake said: "I left a clue."
Max was stunned for a moment, and then an idea suddenly came to his mind, "The one called Mu Fengyang?"
Mu Fengyang has been unconscious since he was besieged when he went to intercept the Shui Shiman who was originally planning to escape. After Zhao Huaishan and Chu Shaoxuan carried him back, they immediately joined the battle and did not bother to wake him up. He had been lying with the three outer disciples of the Liuyang Sword Sect in the room behind Max. Jake turned back once when he was protecting him and Liu Ama and others who accidentally broke into the inn.
Jake pursed his lips into a straight line. Max acquiesced and clicked his tongue a few times, looking at him with a hint of admiration: "Okay, you are better than your teacher, but when will you be able to have some awareness of being a villain?"
Jake tried to hold back, but couldn't help it, "You didn't teach me anything."
Max raised his eyebrows. He felt that his disciple was in a good mood today. He even started arguing with him. He usually ignored him, but it was cute that he still wanted to tease him.
"Want me to teach you? Call me Master and let me hear it."
Jake: "."
One sentence ends the topic.
Max felt bored and looked around, and took Jake to a crowded place.
There was a commotion near a notice board not far away, with people pointing and gesticulating at a portrait. Max was tall, and even through the crowd he could see that it was a missing person notice. The picture showed a young woman with charming eyes and eyebrows, and a reward of five hundred taels of gold was offered.
"Look, Miss Chu's item has been missing for over a month and still hasn't been found."
"What can we do if we find her? Miss Chu's beauty would have been ruined. How can she get married in the future?"
"Oh, worry about whether you can find a wife first. Miss Chu has been engaged to the second son of the city lord! If she hadn't disappeared, she would have been married by now!"
"That lecherous tyrant who has more wives and c0ncubines than his father at such a young age? Pah! Marrying him is worse than marrying a turtle!"
"At least she is marrying into the city lord's family. I heard that the city lord's wife already disliked her daughter-in-law who was not married yet because she was mute. I think this marriage is definitely a failure. It is said that the people from the Chu Mansion really went into the brothel to search for people a few days ago. They are really not afraid of tarnishing Miss Chu's reputation..."
After eavesdropping on a lot of things in the corner, Max roughly understood the whole story. He was wondering whether he should take the job and try his luck, after all, the bonus was five hundred taels of gold. Turning back, he saw Jake staring at the opposite corner of the street, his brows furrowed and relaxed, with a complicated look in his eyes.
Max approached curiously and followed his line of sight. Before he could see the bottom, he vaguely saw the back of a young man with two large cloth bags hanging on his waist. Before the young man turned his head, a deafening roar suddenly came from the sky and earth, as if thousands of troops were rushing in. Max frowned and subconsciously covered his ears.
Dust and yellow sand suddenly flew up on the clean street, blocking most of the vision. A burst of shrill laughter due to excessive excitement entered the mind through the ear canal, like a devil's sound filling the ears, and people on both sides of the street avoided it.
He heard someone around him muttering, "dmn it, why is it this ba5tard again!"
In the yellow sand, a group of tall horses with iron hooves jumped past Max's sight. Suddenly, their reins were pulled, and they roared, raised their front hooves, and walked towards him.
The leader was holding a black horsewhip in his hand and his voice was extremely arrogant.
"Who is scolding me? Stand up for me!"
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