Chapter 235 Meeting an Old Friend in a Foreign Land

After entering the city, Yuan Ming found that the situation inside was more serious than he had imagined. There were dead bodies everywhere in the streets and alleys, and some of them had already rotted and stank.

Along the way, he encountered two medical clinics and a government office, which were also full of corpses, which was a miserable sight.

In the city, there were more dead people than living people.

Yuan Ming brought medicine to eliminate the plague. Originally, he wanted to throw it into the well water and let the people in the town drink the water to eliminate the disease, but in the current situation, it was naturally impossible.

With his own strength, it was impossible to feed medicine to treat one by one.

So Yuan Ming found a house, cleaned up the corpses inside, took out the incense making materials he had bought before, and started to get busy.

By the evening, he had made several new incense sticks with a light yellow color.

The basic materials of these incense sticks were still the same as those for making mist incense, but some powder for eliminating the plague was added, and combined with some special refining techniques written in the secret book of spiritual incense, this was made.

After the anti-epidemic incense was made, Yuan Ming brought the incense to an open space in the center of Hekou Town and pointed at his forehead.

Four soul crows flew out separately, three of which landed on the three corpses that had just died nearby, and the remaining one flew high above his head to guard the surroundings for him.

After the soul crows sank into the three corpses, two green lights lit up in their eyes, and they climbed up slowly and walked to Yuan Ming.

Yuan Ming gave each of them an anti-epidemic incense and asked them to carry it to three directions of the town. He held the Stealing Heaven Cauldron and inserted the anti-epidemic incense and sat in the center.

When the four corpses arrived at the right place, Yuan Ming controlled them to light the long incense with him.

After the anti-epidemic incense was lit, it took only a moment for large yellow smoke to rise from all over Hekou Town, and the billowing smoke soon submerged the entire town.

In the thick smoke, the people who were already dying thought that they had died and reached the underworld.

However, given their current physical condition, they were unable to avoid it, so they simply ignored it.

But after inhaling the thick smoke, they all felt refreshed and no longer depressed. For a moment, they didn't know whether they were just having a last burst of energy before death or were they really well?

After a long time, when the thick smoke gradually dissipated, the people who were still alive in the city had all been freed from the plague. When they saw the surrounding environment again and found that they were still in the town, they cried with joy, and then their cries resounded throughout the town.

Yuan Ming had put away the Heaven Stealing Cauldron at this moment, and all four soul crows flew back into his body.

After being promoted to the foundation-building stage, his soul power increased greatly. Now, even if he released all six soul crows, it would no longer be a burden on his soul power consumption.

After a little breath adjustment, Yuan Ming recovered as usual.

When he opened his eyes, he saw that some people who had recovered had gathered around him one after another.

These people were still very weak, and some needed to support each other to barely stand.

But when they heard a child who saw Yuan Ming casting the spell say that the savior was here, they all gathered around.

"Kneel down to thank the immortal master for saving my life."

I don't know who shouted first, and someone immediately responded.

Then, the crowd shouted "Kneel down to thank the immortal master for saving my life", and then some people knelt down and kowtowed to Yuan Ming.

"You have just recovered from the epidemic and your bodies are still weak. Don't bother kneeling here. Go back and eat and recuperate quickly. You have to properly deal with the bodies of your relatives. Go back." Yuan Ming shouted helplessly.

However, there were still survivors around, approaching this side, and then knelt down to thank them.

Yuan Ming knew that persuasion would not work, so he raised his hand and patted the spirit beast bag on his waist, released the Qingyun Crane, and then stepped on it and flew into the sky on the crane.

"It's an immortal, it's really an immortal..."

"Thank you for saving my life."

"We are saved!"

The people in the open space in the town became more and more excited.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming had to leave first.

Watching Yuan Ming leave, the people who had walked through the gates of hell stood up one after another.

An elder who was originally quite prestigious suddenly spoke up and said to everyone: "The immortal does not ask for anything in return, and leaves after doing favors. We are not ungrateful people, we should build a shrine for the immortal and offer incense."

"Yes, we must build a shrine for the immortal! Cast a monument and write a biography!" Someone responded immediately.

"Lu Xiucai, are you still alive?" The elder shouted with a strong breath.

"Uncle, I'm alive, I'm still alive." A scholar in the crowd responded immediately.

"Did you see the immortal master clearly? Go back and draw a picture, and we will refer to the statue." The elder shouted.

Hearing this, Lu Xiucai felt a little troubled. The immortal master was wearing a bamboo hat and his appearance could not be seen clearly, but he could only bite the bullet and agree.

In later times, Hekou Town had a temple called "Epidemic Removal Temple", in which stood a statue of a man wearing a bamboo hat and standing on a crane. Although it was not officially conferred by the government, it was still very popular, and many people even came from thousands of miles away for a hundred years.

This is a later story, so let's not talk about it for now. Let's just say that after this short episode, Yuan Ming flew away from Hekou Town on a Qingyun crane and continued to travel north.

Along the way, he studied the secret book of spiritual incense and found that there were quite a few spiritual incense for curing diseases, saving lives and maintaining health. Most of them were weak for cultivators, but they were rare panaceas for ordinary people.

Besides, the materials used were very common, so Yuan Ming refined some of them one by one after practicing, making his incense refining skills more and more proficient. He also used incense to treat the poor and sick people he met along the way, which made him feel at ease.

In this way, Yuan Ming finally arrived at the city of Haiyan City, which is near the East China Sea in the northeast of Yue State.

When they parted in Heiyan City, Wu Lu said that he would come here to recuperate for a while and invited Yuan Ming to join him.

However, Yuan Ming was determined to return to Dajin at that time and had other arrangements, so he did not agree.

Now that he has arrived in Haiyan City, he wants to see Wu Lu again, and he also has something to ask for.

Haiyan City is the entrance of a river called Haihe in Yue State. It is named after the meaning of "clear river and peaceful sea". In addition to the most famous "waves hitting the cliffs" here, there is also the river and sea tide on August 15 every year.

The season is not right now, and the magnificent tide cannot be seen.

However, Yuan Ming was not interested in this, and he was happy to see Wulu.

After entering Haiyan City, Yuan Ming found that the prosperity of the city was no worse than that of the capital of Dajin, regardless of the scale of the city.

There are branches of the Haihe River running through the city, and the water system is rich. The water is distributed in a network in the city, forming a unique landscape of streets and buildings distributed along the river.

The folk customs and even architectural styles in the southern part of Yue State are still similar to those in southern Xinjiang. There are still some traces in the central part. When it comes to Haiyan City in the north, it is completely in the style of the Central Plains.

There are rows of archways of various buildings, and brothels and tile shops are mixed in between, which seems noisy and lively, and full of fireworks.

After entering the city, Yuan Ming did not go to find Wulu immediately, but first found a brothel, drank tea, listened to music, and relaxed.

When he was in the capital of Dajin before, he often went back to the brothel to listen to music, and occasionally wrote lyrics and composed music by himself, but the number was not as many as the picture albums and storybooks. To this day, Yuan Ming's lyrics and music are still circulating in Dajin.

In the afternoon, Yuan Ming took a nice bath in the inn, changed into new clothes, and then went out to the famous sea-viewing cliff in the east of the city.

Yuan Ming had already found out about Wu Lu's whereabouts through the possession of the Stealing Heaven Cauldron before coming to Haiyan City.

He lived in a cliff inn facing the East China Sea, near the sea-viewing cliff. There was the best view of the tide in the whole Haiyan City. He could look down and see the spectacular scenery of the waves hitting the cliffs and rolling up thousands of waves.

When Yuan Ming found Wu Lu, the latter was sitting on the second floor of the restaurant of the Guanhailou Inn, a window seat facing the sea. He ordered a few small dishes and drank by himself. It was obvious that he was living a very comfortable life.

When seeing Yuan Ming sitting opposite him, Wu Lu was obviously stunned, and it was obviously a little unbelievable.

"Brother Yuan..."

"Brother Wu Lu, how are you?" Yuan Ming said with a smile.

"Brother Yuan, it's really you! What a coincidence!" Wu Lu was stunned for a moment while holding the wine glass, and suddenly he felt infinite joy inexplicably.

This joy of "reunion after a long separation" and the surprise of "meeting an old friend in a foreign land" made him feel a little unreal when he saw Yuan Ming.

And the reason why he had such a big emotional fluctuation was not entirely due to these two emotions.

In fact, Yuan Ming had used the Stealing Heaven Cauldron to light incense to possess Wu Lu three times in a row when he decided to set out to find Wu Lu, and each time he possessed, Yuan Ming used the power of black incense to constantly hint to Wu Lu that he regarded himself as a lifelong confidant.

So much so that Wu Lu once felt that he had a mental problem and always thought of Yuan Ming inexplicably.

However, for some reason, the black incense made from the incense ash of Xuanhua Temple was much weaker in psychological suggestion than the incense ash obtained from Liu Xinzong before. Unfortunately, the incense ash of Liu Xinzong was too little and had been used up before.

"Why are you here?" Wu Lu asked with some surprise.

"I was returning to Dajin on my way back to the north, but something happened on the way, so I changed my route temporarily and took a detour to Yue State. Since I knew Brother Wulu was here, how could I not come to meet him?" Yuan Ming said with a smile.

"Then how did you know I was having a meal here?" Wulu said.

"It was just a coincidence. I saw that the scenery here was nice, but I didn't expect to meet you." Yuan Ming said.

"What happened to you on the way?" Wulu frowned.

"I met an old debtor near Tiehu Town, and I just happened to ask for some interest on their debts." Yuan Ming nodded and said.

Wulu looked at Yuan Ming carefully, his pupils suddenly shrank, and he said in surprise: "Brother Yuan, you have already established your foundation?"