After returning from my cultivation journey, I built a farm through fortune telling.

Chapter 67

Just three days ago.

At 7:00 AM, the evening news program on CCTV urgently interrupted its broadcast with a news report—

Last night, the security system of a zoo malfunctioned, and a group of wild animals, including tigers, lions, and brown bears, escaped from the zoo. They have not yet been found, and there have been several incidents of wild animals injuring people. All residents of Yangcheng and neighboring towns and villages are advised to go out in groups during the day and avoid going out at night as much as possible. If you encounter any danger, call the police immediately for help!

Following this, major video platforms and marketing accounts reposted the story, and it quickly became a trending topic on various short video platforms.

The villagers had already heard about it, and it had become another topic of conversation, but not many people took it seriously.

But when Bai Chen and Bai Wei saw it, their hair stood on end.

If they didn't know about the zombie outbreak in Yangcheng, they might have believed it. But now, they just think the authorities are using the zoo incident to remind the public to be careful!

However, it was too subtle and did not serve as a significant warning in the village.

That's why we ended up with this scene of people gathering to play cards today!
"Mom, I'll take a banana downstairs for Uncle Shun."

Bai Chen was about to go downstairs when Qin Xiu stopped him, saying, "I haven't finished speaking! Where are you going!"

She counted on her fingers: "You count, how many drinks have you had these past few days?! How much fruit have you eaten?! How many cookies, candies, and dried fruits have you consumed?"

“Tell me the truth, does your sister think farming isn’t profitable and want to open a mahjong parlor at home? I’m telling you, I don’t agree! Do you hear me? You’d better tell all these uncles and brothers to go back to their own homes right now!”

Bai Chen said helplessly, "First of all, my sister would never think that farming doesn't make money. These past few days, a lot of wild animals have escaped from the zoo, right? My sister told us not to go to the mountainside yet, so we went back to pick wild vegetables. She absolutely did not have the absurd idea that running a mahjong parlor wouldn't make money. How much money can you make running a mahjong parlor!"

"Secondly—it's still about the wild animals. What if they come into the village? I think it's safer with so many family members. Besides, I'm not stupid. I bought cheap fruit: bananas for 1.99 yuan a pound, and local oranges and dragon fruit for 2.5 yuan a pound. We can eat as much as we want without spending much! Biscuits and dried fruit are also sold by weight! For safety and to keep everyone here, we have to make sure everyone has a great time..."

Bai Chen pronounced the word "Xing" very softly because his eyes were drawn to a figure not far away. He immediately pushed Qin Xiu back to the second-floor hall: "Mom, let's go play cards, go!"

Ignoring Qin Xiu's objections, he locked the door to the second-floor balcony and rushed downstairs. Bai Wei's expression froze, and she followed him down.

"Chenchen..."

Uncle Shun shifted his gaze from the cards in his hand to him. He had just called out when he saw Bai Chen disappear into the distance. He then turned his attention back to his own bad hand and muttered, "Why is this kid running so fast?"

Bai Chen saw a white egret!
As he looked out from the balcony, he saw her suddenly appear on the village road several hundred meters from their house, covered in blood, staggering, and after taking two steps, she stumbled and fell face down to the ground.

Fortunately, most of the villagers lived at their house; otherwise, her appearance would have terrified them.

"sister!"

Bai Wei focused her spiritual energy on her legs and rushed over, helping the person up from the ground. She wanted to wipe the dust off her face but was afraid of hurting her: "Are you... in pain? How did you get hurt like this..."

Before she could finish speaking, her eyes reddened.

Her sister's face, hands, and the skin exposed by her torn clothes were covered with wounds of all sizes. How could she not be in pain?

Sure enough, Bai Lu leaned against Bai Wei's chest, grimacing and weakly cursing, "$$_$&$@@:_ It hurts so much!"

Bai Wei was at a loss: "Then...then what should I do?"

Bai Chen pushed her aside and squatted down in front of Bai Lu: "Stop talking nonsense, let's go home first. How are you going to treat your injuries—"

He paused, then asked, "Have you been scratched by zombies?"

With Bai Wei's help, Bai Lu climbed onto Bai Chen's back. Her muscles and bones felt as if they had been crushed; she was in so much pain her brows were almost completely furrowed. Her hands weakly clung to Bai Chen's neck, and upon hearing this, she responded softly, "Yes..."

Bai Chen: "..."

It was both expected and unexpected.

Perhaps he subconsciously rejected this affirmative answer; upon hearing Bailu's words, he froze completely.

It turns out that when a person is extremely shocked, cold air can really emanate from the top of their head; he now felt a chill running through his entire body.

My mind is filled with thoughts of what to do!
His sister is going to turn into a zombie!

He hesitated, unsure whether to go home or not, carrying the egret on his back. He took two steps and said, "What should I do? Are your teeth starting to itch? Are they growing? Second sister, go check! My God, eldest sister, don't breathe! I'm getting goosebumps! And could you please not have your mouth so close to my neck? It's scaring my blood vessels! -- It shouldn't turn into a zombie so quickly, right? Is there any hope? There should be!"

A series of questions revealed that Bai Chen was in a panic, but he still didn't drop Bai Lu on his back. Instead, he held her tightly by the back of her legs. Because he was too shocked, he didn't hold on tightly enough, causing Bai Lu to slide down a bit. He quickly tossed her up, but he didn't dare to look at Bai Lu's face. He was afraid that if he turned his head, he would see his sister with a mouthful of buck teeth!

"Sister!" Bai Wei was also terrified and rushed forward to check on her. Seeing that her face was pale and her eyes were red, she didn't know whether it was true or not!
Just kidding.

Bai Lu chuckled lightly: "Don't worry, I wasn't hurt by the zombies. Don't go home, this is an invisibility talisman. Go to the Sanqing Temple. If you're too badly injured, you won't even be able to control the exit of the ghost path..."

As Bai Lu spoke, her voice began to lower, her eyes closed, and her hands went limp. The yellow talisman floated to the ground, and it was unclear whether she was dead or unconscious.

Bai Wei was so frightened that she immediately stepped forward to check her breath. Feeling the warm breath, she breathed a sigh of relief: "It's alright, it's alright, she's still breathing! Let's hurry to Sanqing Temple!"

He picked up the invisibility talisman and activated it with force. As long as the three of them had physical contact, the talisman would work on them. Otherwise, only whoever held the talisman would have the invisibility effect.

She helped Bai Lu from behind. After entering Sanqing Mountain, they walked towards the cable car. Luckily, there was only one person in one cable car, so they quickly squeezed on.

The tourists on the cable car were looking around when they were startled by the noise of people getting on – why was the cable car shaking when no one was getting on?
Bai Wei and Bai Chen dared not make a sound the whole time, even controlling their breathing, for fear of scaring people, because although the invisibility talisman could make them invisible, others could still hear them when they spoke.

The cable car only goes up to Yutai. The remaining hour or so of mountain path must be climbed by oneself. Around ten o'clock, there were quite a few tourists. The path up the mountain was not wide, so Bai Wei put the invisibility talisman on Bai Lu to prevent herself from falling behind the two. She would disappear and reappear at different times, so that the news of the ancestral master of Sanqing Mountain appearing would make the headlines.

She stood to the side, clearing a path for Bai Chen to avoid anyone bumping into him. The mountain path was steep, and Bai Chen was also carrying Bai Lu on his back. Even with his cultivation, he felt somewhat strained, and his breathing became increasingly labored. Fortunately, he wasn't the only one who was weak, so it didn't seem too conspicuous.

……

Inside the Sanqing Temple.

Master Qingxu had been waiting for several minutes, but still hadn't seen Bailu emerge from the Ghost Path. He was extremely anxious: "Could something have happened?!"

The second brother thought for a moment and said, "It shouldn't be. Xiao Lu is more powerful than all of us. If it weren't for her ultimate move, we would all have died at the hands of that evil cultivator."

"Why haven't we arrived yet? We agreed to go back to the temple. She would never go somewhere else without telling us—I told you to hold her hand and not get separated, but you wouldn't listen. Now look what's happened, she's gone. I don't know if she's lost in the ghost realm—I don't know what you're hesitating about!"

Qingxu Dao is the master of Qi Dao.

The second brother was scolded so badly that he went bald. He silently raised his hand, which was only half-bandaged and looked like a white pig's trotter, with the gauze still swaying back and forth without wind: "Dear Master, both of my hands are broken, comminuted fractures. How am I supposed to pull Xiaolu? Besides, I did want to pull her, but she looked down on me!"

The second brother felt extremely wronged. He had already asked Xiaolu to hold his Taoist robe! How could he have gotten lost?
Master Songfeng was also seriously injured. He was lying on his side with an arm hanging from his neck and a foot wrapped in bandages. It was hilarious that he had kicked a wandering corpse and broken his own bone. If word got out, he wouldn't know how he would survive in the Xuanmen sect.

Compared to Master Songfeng and Master Lao Er, Master Qingxu fared slightly better; he only lost a leg and his beautiful hair.

His meticulously tied bun had been shaved off by something, leaving behind short, dog-chewed hair that bristled like an angry hedgehog with every movement.

"No, I have to go find her!"

Master Qingxu, limping on one leg, was about to leave when the second master hurriedly said, "Let's make a phone call and ask first, just in case she went somewhere else!"

The call went through, but Bai Wei answered. Master Qingxu breathed a sigh of relief, but when he learned that Bai Lu was injured and needed to be sent to Sanqing Temple, his heart tightened again. After hanging up the phone, he rummaged through drawers and cabinets looking for something.

……

"Taoist Master!"

After an unknown amount of time, Bai Chen's voice suddenly rang in everyone's ears: "Come quickly and see my sister, she has fainted. Do you have any medicine here?"

Only his voice is heard but his person is not seen.

After Master Qingxu and the others searched around, Bai Wei finally realized and put away the invisibility talisman: "Sorry, I forgot."

The three figures suddenly appeared in the side room of the Sanqing Temple. Master Qingxu, hopping on one leg, directed Bai Chen to place Bai Lu on the couch. He took out a small wooden box he had just found from a drawer on his desk. A pill lay quietly on the bright yellow lining. Without hesitation, he picked it up and put it into Bai Lu's mouth.

Master Songfeng and Master Er simply watched without saying anything, even though they knew the value of the pill.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a family heirloom.

This was made by their advisor and then passed down to their master. It was rare; besides the one that the egret ate, there were only three left.

They're incredibly precious. Even though they're badly injured, they deserve to get one!

The Taoist temple has inherited many pill formulas, but very few can actually be refined into pills. The few good healing pills available have an extremely low success rate. Don't be fooled by his master's domineering manner when he was injured and told to take pills. In reality, he only had three pills in his entire fortune, and unfortunately, he didn't have any with him.

Aside from fatal injuries, these kinds of superficial wounds are usually treated with traditional methods, such as going to the hospital, unless you have your own medicine.

The Xuanmen sect also offers elixirs as rewards, provided you have made outstanding contributions.

For example, they'll definitely get a reward for handling this case of wandering zombies today!
She took the pill, but Bailu didn't wake up. However, judging from her pulse, her condition had stabilized. The reason she didn't wake up was probably because she was too tired and fell asleep.

Bai Wei felt extremely sorry for Bai Lu. She changed Bai Lu's clothes, and before she even finished changing them, all of Bai Lu's wounds had healed.

This means the elixir is still within its shelf life!
"Master, what exactly happened? How did my sister get injured like this?" Bai Chen asked.

Master Qingxu sighed and began to explain.

It turned out that they had been chasing the zombie for three days and two nights, fighting fiercely and exerting tremendous effort to finally stop it. However, just as they were about to completely eliminate the zombie, a masked man in black suddenly appeared and saved it.

Today, dressed like this, even ghosts wouldn't believe it if you said there wasn't something fishy going on.

They just didn't expect that this person could actually control this wandering corpse!
The zombies, which were originally at their last gasp, have surprisingly risen from the ashes and are even more powerful than before!
Dealing with a single zombie was already difficult enough, but now there's an evil cultivator at the Great Perfection of Qi Refining, making it a hellish situation for Bai Lu and the others.

Master Qingxu and the others were almost entirely on the defensive, and couldn't find an opportunity to launch an attack.

Gradually, they began to feel something was amiss. The man seemed to be wary of something, and he didn't allow the wandering corpses to harm them. Even though the wandering corpses had already captured Master Songfeng, they didn't immediately suck his blood, but instead handed it over to the man in black.

This gave Bai Lu and the others a chance to save him; otherwise, Master Songfeng would have been turned into a zombie long ago!
Bai Lu saw through the man in black's thoughts. He was worried about the uncontrollable situation after the cultivators turned into zombies. He was more afraid of them being transformed into zombies than they were!
Bai Lu seized on this point and risked her life. The man in black even came to her rescue, which gave her the opportunity to fight back!

The man in black stared wide-eyed before he died, his face filled with disbelief and resentment.

Pulling down his mask revealed him to be an old man in his fifties or sixties.

Master Qingxu did not know this person, nor did he exist in the entire Xuanmen system.

But the zombies being eliminated is something to celebrate.

The price was that Bai Lu, who had forcibly broken through to the third level of Qi Refining, suddenly plummeted to the first level of Qi Refining, suffering severe damage to his vital energy and almost destroying his foundation. Otherwise, he wouldn't have even gone to the wrong exit of the Ghost Path.

(End of this chapter)