Chapter 114

“What the heck? Li Kuang actually hid in a city?”

Xiao Yang’s head was spinning just thinking about it.

He floated high in the sky, gazing down at the bustling city below.

This wasn’t some ghost town; it was full of people!

Finding Li Kuang in the crowd was going to be a real pain.

Plus, with so many people around, Li Kuang could just siphon off their energy to heal himself.

With that, the death toll was bound to rise.

“This is infuriating!”

Having lived two lifetimes, no one understood how ruthless the Demon Sect members were better than Xiao Yang.

These guys didn’t hold back; whatever it took to get what they wanted was fair game.

If draining the life force of everyone in the city could heal Li Kuang, he wouldn’t hesitate to go on a killing spree.

Xiao Yang knew that as long as he was around, Li Kuang wouldn’t dare go wild.

But if he left, Li Kuang would unleash his evil without a second thought.

A powerhouse like Li Kuang could wipe out everyone in the city in a blink.

Xiao Yang pondered.

The next moment, he flipped his right hand, and twelve top-notch Fire Spirit Crystals floated above his palm.

With a surge of powerful Sword Intent, he engraved formations into the twelve crystals.

He was going to seal off the whole city.

In his previous life, he had roamed the Northern Region for a thousand years and knew a thing or two about formations.

Soon enough, he had carved the formations and waved his hand, sending the twelve crystals shooting down like fiery meteors to land at twelve points around the city, sinking into the ground.

“Heavenly Seal, Rise!”

Xiao Yang activated the formation.

“Buzz!”

A resonating sound filled the void.

In an instant, the spiritual energy surrounding the city was drawn in.

A nearly invisible giant light shield appeared in the air, enveloping the entire city.

Once the formation was successfully activated, the glow covering the city vanished into thin air, as if it had never existed.

This was the Heavenly Seal God Fire Formation, cloaking the city in ethereal fire—if Li Kuang tried to leave, he’d trigger the formation.

Then he’d get smacked down right away.

After setting everything up, Xiao Yang swooped down from the sky and landed outside the city gate.

He looked up.

“What? Is it really here?”

He was surprised—he had inadvertently come to Tianshui City.

This city wasn’t far from the Heavenly Medical Sect.

Because it was already within the sect’s territory.

“At this time…”

A thought crossed his mind, and his expression turned serious.

It was only seven days until the major competition.

He strode into the city.

Sure enough, the atmosphere was off.

The streets were mostly empty, and even when there were people, they were rushing through.

Shops lined the streets, all closed up tight, their seals flapping gently in the breeze.

Once-bustling markets were now desolate, goods scattered on the ground, collecting dust, whispering tales of past prosperity.

This sight tugged at Xiao Yang’s heart.

Just as in his previous life, a plague had struck Tianshui City.

She should be here too.

Thinking of his past close friend, he felt a sudden wave of nervousness.

In the last life, they had traveled the Northern Region together—she healed the sick; he kept her safe.

They shared a slice of ordinary yet joyful time.

He hadn’t had many true friends in his past life; she was his only confidante.

Maybe there were some subtle feelings that began to sprout later on, but at the time, Xiao Yang’s heart was only filled with thoughts of his junior sister, Jiang Ting.

In the previous life, when he heard Jiang Ting was in trouble, he left.

He hadn’t realized it then.

Looking back, he could clearly see the reluctance in her eyes as he walked away.

When the news of her death arrived, he went on a three-day bender.

“In my past life, I promised to protect you but failed; in this life, whoever dares to hurt you will suffer my wrath.”

As this thought crossed his mind, he clenched his fists.

In his previous life, her kindness had led to her downfall; her death was the greatest regret of his life.

Having reincarnated, he would never let anything happen to her again.

In the past, she almost missed the major competition because she was saving lives here.

Now, every household had their windows tightly shut.

An oppressive atmosphere hung over the city.

Xiao Yang had only heard of it in his past life.

But now, he had tracked Li Kuang all the way here.

With a plague in the city and Li Kuang lurking in the shadows, it was enough to give anyone a headache.

While he wasn’t afraid of the plague, Li Kuang was a serious threat hiding among the people.

Xiao Yang marched forward.

Before long, he arrived near the square in the city.

He caught a whiff of herbal medicine in the air.

When he reached the square, he was shocked to discover it was packed with people.

All the patients had gathered here.

They had set up large tents in the square.

Disciples of the Heavenly Medical Sect moved among the tents, which were filled with sick people.

Xiao Yang searched through the crowd.

Soon, he spotted a familiar figure.

In this new life, seeing her again filled him with excitement.

Clad in white, with her hair tied back with a red ribbon, she stood out among the sick like a celestial being, truly ethereal.

She was feeding medicine to a little girl, her demeanor so gentle.

The girl’s face and hands were covered in red bumps, some oozing pus and blood, giving off a foul stench.

The woman in white didn’t show a hint of disgust, carefully cuddling the girl as she administered the pill.

“Sister, am I going to die?”

The little girl asked.

“No, sister will make you better.”

The familiar voice reached Xiao Yang’s ears.

She was just as gentle as before, still that idealistic saintess of the Heavenly Medical Sect.

Indeed, she was Ning Shu, the sect’s current saintess!

In his previous life, she had been a beacon of light in Xiao Yang’s dark world.

She had redeemed him, proving that kindness existed in the world.

In his past life, he failed to protect her, leading to her tragic end, the fall of a generation of healing masters.

This time, he would guard her closely and help her fulfill her dreams.

“Sister, stop comforting me; my illness can’t be cured. If I die, can I meet my parents and little brother?”

The little girl coughed suddenly, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Clearly, the medicine hadn’t taken effect.

“Saintess, what kind of poison is this? It’s incredibly powerful,”

a masked female disciple of the Heavenly Medical Sect gasped.

The plague was just a convenient label for the ordinary folk; in fact, the people in the city had been poisoned.

This strange poison was so potent that even their saintess couldn’t neutralize it immediately.

Moreover, it was contagious.

Martial artists could also fall victim to it.

Only cultivators above the Divine Ability Realm could escape its grasp.

Fortunately, some disciples of the Heavenly Medical Sect were also infected.

Ning Shu remained silent, pulling out a small jade bottle.

She uncorked it and poured out a green pill before directly feeding it to the little girl.

“Saintess, that’s your life-saving divine pill! Is it really okay to give it to her?”

The female disciple was dumbfounded by what she saw.

Xiao Yang was equally moved.

That pill was known as the Reviving Pill of the Heavenly Medical Sect.

This divine pill was exclusive to the sect’s saintess, given by the sect itself, and each generation only received one.

Once used, it was gone for good.

This pill could not only dispel unique poisons but also help someone on the verge of death to prolong their life.

No matter how severe the injury, as long as there’s still a breath left, taking this pill would grant a second chance at life.

There were very few such precious pills within the Heavenly Medical Sect.

Yet Ning Shu had given such a valuable sacred pill to an ordinary little girl.

Xiao Yang couldn’t help but admire her.

“It’s just one pill.”

Ning Shu brushed off the concern.

After taking the pill, the little girl indeed stopped coughing up blood, and the swelling on her body quickly disappeared—she was healing fast!

What a miraculous pill!

The patients around them were utterly moved, rushing towards Ning Shu.

“Ning Fairy, save me…”

“Ning Fairy, I don’t want to die…”

“Ning Fairy, please help me…”

“My child is dying; please save him, Ning Fairy!”

Everyone encircled Ning Shu.

They thought that since she could save the little girl, she could surely save them too.

They had no idea how precious that previous pill had been.

This left Ning Shu in a bind.

That Reviving Pill was her only one!

To save so many, how many of those pills would she need?

Even the entire Heavenly Medical Sect probably couldn’t produce that many!

As the crowd continued to swell, the situation was spiraling out of control.

The disciples from the Heavenly Medical Sect were in a panic.

Ning Shu was completely flustered.