After Bai Qingzhou cleaned himself under the spring water, he returned to the shore, took off his robe, washed it carefully, and then dried it with spiritual energy.
After doing all this, he took off into the air and flew towards the predetermined direction.
After being promoted to the sixth level of foundation building, Bai Qingzhou became refreshed and looked at the scenery in front of him with a smile on his face.
"We are just one step away from the late stage of foundation building. If we go at the current speed, I might be able to be promoted in a year!"
Bai Qingzhou thought with joy in his heart that his cultivation aptitude seemed to have gained some clarity, and his cultivation speed was no longer as slow as before.
He was thinking while flying, and his figure quickly passed through the sky.
And just when Bai Qingzhou wanted to lie down and read a book for a while, he discovered that the scenery below had changed.
After arriving in this area, the originally green land suddenly became dry and split. On the official road below, there were still many mortals rushing on their way, looking dusty.
"What's going on?" Bai Qingzhou looked down curiously.
Generally, when encountering such arid areas, most of them are caused by terrain reasons, or there is no water source in the surrounding area or there is no rain here.
Looking at the pitiful people below, Bai Qingzhou felt compassion. After pondering for a moment, he immediately put away the magical instruments and various books, turned around, and flew downwards.
On this long official road, there are many mortals dragging their families with them, slowly moving forward. Their lips are dry and their eyes are dull, like zombies.
Bai Qingzhou slowly controlled his body to descend, and this scene immediately attracted the attention of some people, who quickly shouted.
Soon, everyone looked up at the white boat in the sky.
"Immortal! There is an Immortal!"
"Everyone, look!"
"It's the Immortal Master, the Immortal Master is here to save us..."
After a lot of noise, a team of hundreds of people knelt down and knelt down to worship the white boat parked in mid-air.
Bai Qingzhou activated his spiritual power, spread his voice as loudly as possible, and shouted loudly:
"I am a monk passing by here, why are you running away?"
The mortals who saw the gods for the first time looked at each other in shock after hearing these words, and all turned their attention to the seventy-year-old old man in the middle.
The old man seemed to be the most senior among these mortals. After hearing Bai Qingzhou's question, he immediately raised his head and replied:
"Back to Immortal Master, we were forced to flee because of the plague..."
Bai Qingzhou raised his eyebrows, "Plague? Please tell me carefully."
"Yes, we are all from the villages near Qinyin County. A large plague broke out in the county a dozen days ago. The government ordered the entire county to be sealed off. In order to survive and not be infected, we had to flee the whole village." The old man replied truthfully.
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After hearing this, Bai Qingzhou thought carefully for a moment, and then asked: "Why did the plague break out?"
The old man shook his head: "I don't know, but there has been a severe drought here, and there has never been heavy rain for more than ten years. But just before this plague came, there was a heavy rain suddenly, and then the plague happened. I guess
, it should be God punishing the people in the county."
"A sudden heavy rain?" Bai Qingzhou touched his chin, with many thoughts in his mind.
Perennial drought and sudden heavy rains are indeed prone to plague outbreaks.
"Then the entire county is now surrounded and waiting to die in Qinyin County?" Bai Qingzhou continued to ask.
"Yes, the imperial court is heavily guarded, and you cannot enter or exit at will..."
Hearing this, Bai Qingzhou raised his head slightly. There were tens of thousands of people in one county. If the plague really could not be cured, then the lives of these tens of thousands of mortals would be certain.
"Now that we have met, we can't just ignore it..." Bai Qingzhou thought to himself, then glanced at the old man and asked:
"Where exactly is Qinyin County?"
The old man turned around and pointed back, saying, "Follow the official road for another three hundred miles or so."
Bai Qingzhou nodded slightly, slowly rose up, looked at the many mortals with chapped lips below, and said loudly:
"I see that your water source is scarce. Since you encountered it today, I will give you some rain!"
Then he raised his hand and waved, and a spell flew high into the sky.
As he activated it, the [Cloud and Rain Curse] in the air exploded instantly, and then turned into clusters of clouds. In less than two breaths, drizzle began to fall.
"Wow!"
"It's raining! It's really raining!"
"Bring out the plates and buckets quickly!"
When everyone saw this magical scene, they all raised their heads and opened their eyes wide, letting the rain fall on their faces, with a look of disbelief on their faces.
Among them, the old man reacted the fastest and kowtowed immediately, shouting:
"There are 385 people in Shenjia Village. Thank you Immortal Master for the rain!"
Bai Qingzhou looked around and saw everyone kowtowing. There were also quite a few half-year-old children looking at him with wide eyes, full of longing.
"Okay, I'll go to Qinyin County to have a look, and you can collect the water here."
After Bai Qingzhou said this, regardless of what everyone thought, he continued to move directly towards the official road.
His figure moved all the way along the official road.
On the road, he found that many people were walking slowly and hurriedly fled in groups.
Apparently, Shenjia Village was not the only one to flee.
Seeing these crowds, Bai Qingzhou couldn't bear it, and made rain along the way so that everyone could have water to drink and not die of thirst.
As he walked along, he soon saw the so-called Qinyin County.
At this time, the four city gates of the entire county were tightly closed, and there were horses blocking the city gates. There were also many soldiers wearing masks on duty, looking like they were ready.
"As expected, you can't come in and out at will..."
Bai Qingzhou sighed secretly, and without talking to the troops here, he flew directly over their heads at high speed and entered the city.
"Well...there is indeed a deathly aura floating around here."
Bai Qingzhou frowned slightly. As soon as he entered the city, he could clearly smell a disgusting smell. This was the stench caused by too many dead people at one time.
Bai Qingzhou held his breath and began to look at the current appearance of the county.
At this time, there were no people walking around on the street. Garbage was everywhere. The cloth strips on the shop front curtains were torn and blowing in the wind. The whole county looked dilapidated.
"Huh? So many people died?"
Bai Qingzhou took a closer look and found that there were many dead bodies covered with white cloth on the street. They died very casually on the street. They were thin and thin, as if their blood had been sucked dry.
He slowly walked to a corpse, lifted up the white cloth, and stared at the corpse in front of him.
In addition to being listless and with a yellow complexion, the corpse also had thumb-sized black spots on its face and body, all over its body.
"Are these black spots caused by the plague?"
Bai Qingzhou quickly walked to several other corpses, looked at them one by one, and found that the death characteristics of each corpse were the same.
"well......"
Bai Qingzhou sighed, stood up again, looked at the lifeless county, shook his head helplessly, and sighed that he was a step too late.
After standing there for a moment, Bai Qingzhou calmed down a little. With a thought in his mind, he activated the spiritual energy in his body and spread it in all directions.
After a moment, he touched his nose, opened his eyes, and said calmly: "There is no peculiar smell in the air. This means that this plague is not caused by the air. Airborne transmission can be eliminated..."
After pondering for a moment, Bai Qingzhou used his spiritual energy again and rushed towards a corpse beside him. The spiritual energy directly entered the corpse and began to explore.
Suddenly, Bai Qingzhou frowned and murmured: "There are black spots on the throat and stomach. It may be a plague caused by food, and it can turn the county into this in such a short period of time...
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"Water source!"
Bai Qingzhou's eyes lit up, and he immediately realized that since there were no infectious substances in the air, it was probably the water source that people drank every day that had bred the plague.
His heart moved, and he jumped into a house on the street.
There was no one in the house, and the owner might have died outside. Bai Qingzhou went directly to the well, stretched his right hand into a claw shape, sucked hard, and immediately took out a lot of water from the well.
Bai Qingzhou used his spiritual energy to probe into the water mass and began to check.
"Sure enough, it's the water problem!"
He instantly discovered the problem. There was a strange substance in the middle of the water. This kind of thing could only be seen by cultivators and could not be detected by the naked eye.
"A sudden heavy rain caused the water source to deteriorate?" Bai Qingzhou guessed in his mind.
"No, we still need to go to the water sources throughout the city to check..."
Thinking of this, Bai Qingzhou slowly controlled his body to fly up, rose to a high altitude, and began to survey the whole city from the air.
And his move instantly attracted the attention of some people. Not only the people in the city, but also the troops outside the city noticed it, and they all shouted in the air.
Bai Qingzhou didn't care about this at all. His eyes quickly scanned the entire city.
"At this!"
Suddenly, he found a small river in the northwest of the county. He moved and flew directly towards it.
Due to the perennial drought, the river is not very big, only a few feet wide, and there are three people squatting on the bank, talking in low voices.
When he saw these three people, Bai Qingzhou's mind suddenly moved, and he immediately became vigilant. These three people were actually cultivators!
Before he could react, the bloated young man in the middle suddenly turned his head and stared at Bai Qingzhou closely.
When the two women beside him noticed the fat monk's movements, they quickly turned their heads.
"How dare the person who cast the curse come back! Follow me!" The fat man roared, and a pair of huge hammers suddenly appeared in his hands. He roared and smashed towards Bai Qingzhou.
The two girls who looked exactly the same next to her also immediately moved upon hearing the sound, each using their own magical weapons and attacking Bai Qingzhou together.
Bai Qingzhou's face changed, he waved his hands and shouted quickly: "Fellow Taoist misunderstanding!"