latelenovela Chapter 371 - 371 Xiaozhai Village!
Chapter 371 - 371 Xiaozhai Village!
Lowly?
When have I ever been lowly?
Qin Feng still didn't understand.
Fortunately, the patrol police who rushed over stopped the group of agitated people and asked, "What exactly are you doing?"
"Officer, it's him! He's the pretentious one! Arrest him quickly!"
Someone in the crowd angrily pointed at Qin Feng.
The patrol officer glanced at Qin Feng and said in dismay, "Being pretentious isn't against the law."
"Then don't stop us! Let us beat him up. Even if we go to jail, we want to turn him into a pile of mush!"
"Yes, turn him into mush!"
"…"
People began shouting.
The patrol officer, helpless, desperately tried to hold the group back while saying to Qin Feng, "What are you standing there for? Get going quickly!"
"Oh, thank you."
Qin Feng said.
After taking a few steps, he couldn't help but turn back and said to the struggling patrol officer, "Actually, you don't need to bother with them. They won't be able to hit me."
"…"
The patrol officer was speechless.
Won't be able to hit him?
He's just a twenty-something kid, and there are over a dozen people here!
Suddenly.
He seemed to understand the group's anger…
…
Qin Feng and his two companions entered the station, and he let Xiao Lian head back to Lake City first.
After all, going to Ai Yeqing's hometown involved crossing mountains and ridges, which would be difficult for her without any cultivation.
After saying goodbye to Xiao Lian,
The two boarded the train to Southwest Yun City.
Xiao Lian's village is called Xiaozhai Village.
Located in the mountains west of Yun City in the Southwest.
Qin Feng thought it would be a good opportunity to take a trip to the Southwest and see how Mu Jiangyue's research was coming along.
From Yanjing to Yun City, they had to take an overnight train.
It wasn't until the next morning that they arrived in Yun City.
Upon getting off the train,
the two took a taxi to the foot of Yun Mountain in the west.
Yun Mountain was vast and expansive.
Even in tourist-developed Yun City, only 1% of the peripheral area of the entire mountain was developed for tourism. The deep parts of the mountain are full of tigers, wolves, and other fierce beasts, as well as some inhabitants of the Hidden World.
The Hidden World is so-called
because it is often in the depths of large mountains where rich Spiritual Energy exists, and its inhabitants have lived there generation after generation, rarely interacting with the Mortal World, hence it is called Hidden World.
Of course,
not every deep mountain area harbors Hidden World inhabitants; only those with rich Spiritual Energy do.
Such places are rare.
Most of them are concentrated in places like Northwest Tianshan, Northeast Changbai Mountain in Da'an Ridge, Qinling Land, Shu Mountain, Kunlun Mountain, among others, with some scattered sporadically across unknown large mountains.
They are not some sort of sages; they just have a different circle of life, not understanding why people in the Mortal World are always busy working, bathing, singing, making money, massaging, etc., thinking that their perspectives are too small, like ants.
Because of the rich Spiritual Energy, they often pursue refinements of their bodies and the pursuit of longevity.
The key reason they prefer not to stay in the Mortal World is that they are used to the air mixed with Spiritual Energy that is extremely beneficial to the human body. In contrast, even on the clearest days in the Mortal World, the air is filled with car exhaust and industrial emissions.
To them, the Mortal World is like a dirty landfill.
Yun Mountain may not be a famous mountain,
but it also has gathering spots of Spiritual Energy.
Qin Feng and Ai Yeqing crossed over a dozen kilometer-high mountains before finally seeing a village under a small hill.
The village was not very large.
Surrounding are patches of farmland, with most people here living like in ancient times, dependent on farming for sustenance.
Of course.
There are also a few who go into the Mortal World to buy some practical tools.
Such as kitchen knives, delicate glass water cups, some attractive bedsheets, razors, mirrors, and so on.
"Finally back home."
Ai Yeqing looked at the village and wiped the hot sweat from her forehead.
Qin Feng then muttered, "This location seems to be not far from Hundred Herbs Hall."
Hundred Herbs Hall.
One of the three major branches of Spirit Cloud Pavilion.
This was what Qin Feng obtained from Wang Qingguo, who had initially compensated him with Hundred Herbs Hall, a place specifically designated for planting Spirit Grass and refining Elixirs.
"Perfect, after we finish our business, we can take a look at Hundred Herbs Hall."
He said.
Ai Yeqing's brows flickered with displeasure, "I won't go!"
Saying so.
She proceeded to walk down the mountain.
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Qin Feng suspiciously said, "Huh? Why is this village so quiet?"
"Didn't I tell you, our village's Temple God fell ill, and then everyone got sick. We asked a highly skilled person who said that only by curing the Temple God would everyone's illness be cured," Ai Yeqing explained, "From the information we got, it seems only the 'Rejuvenation Pill' can cure the Temple God."
At this moment.
An old woman leaning on a cane, upon seeing Ai Yeqing, became extraordinarily excited and immediately started shouting to the people on both sides of the street, "She's back!! Our village's savior is back!!"
With her shout.
People fervently opened their doors, and upon seeing Ai Yeqing, they too started shouting excitedly.
"They…"
Qin Feng observed the villagers, raising his eyebrows and said, "Their illness seems to be not simple."
These villagers were all pale and skinny, their skin darkened, and eyes lackluster and dim, somewhat like movie characters drained of vitality by a female ghost.
Very soon.
Almost the entire village knew of Ai Yeqing's return and under the crowd of villagers, she was led to the big locust tree clearing in the center of the village.
An old man with white hair, sporting a goatee and leaning on a cane, and stooping emerged.
He was the village chief of Xiaozhai Village and asked Ai Yeqing, "Little Ai, did you get the Rejuvenation Pill?"
Others were also eagerly looking at Ai Yeqing.
"No."
Ai Yeqing shook her head.
Upon hearing this, the crowd instantly burst into commotion, an and each one of them began to clamor anxiously, "You! How can you be so unruly! Now only the Rejuvenation Pill can save the village, how can you not obtain it!"
"Yes! You are the hope of the entire village, and now even this bit of hope you've crushed!"
"You, you have greatly disappointed everyone!"
"…"
Qin Feng watched, puzzled.
Whether Ai Yeqing succeeded or not, it shouldn't be her fault, right?
What were these people thinking?
The old village chief then called everyone to calm down and asked Ai Yeqing again, "I heard from your grandfather previously, that you didn't get the 'Rejuvenation Pill' because you were deceived?"
"Deceived?"
Ai Yeqing was puzzled.
She didn't know that a few days earlier, her grandfather had returned to the village first and recounted the events at the Martial Arts Tournament, mentioning that they didn't need the "Rejuvenation Pill" but had consulted a highly skilled Doctor who was on his way to the village.
But the villagers were furious.
In their eyes, only the "Rejuvenation Pill" could save the village; any doctor was worthless!
So, it had always been presumed that she was deceived.
"Ah, I told you outsiders can't be trusted, you see how foolish you are, even this could deceive you!"
"Yes! Really, how foolish, how could our village produce someone as foolish as you, it's really disappointing."
"…"
The people once again started blaming her one after another.