Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 194 - Killing Father, Scoring Goals, and Sealing Off the Village
In front of a courtyard house, a middle-aged man looked at the old man running back with some surprise and hurriedly went to greet him: "Father, why are you so late?"

"Hey, you've run into some trouble." Old man Yuan Ze waved his hand. "Pack your things and get ready to leave."

"Oh, okay." The middle-aged man was a little confused, but he didn't ask why.

Yuan Ze entered the house and was surprised to see his daughter-in-law already packing up their belongings. He couldn't help but ask, "Xiuqin, where are you going with all this packing?"

"Ah!" The middle-aged woman turned her head and saw the old man Yuan Ze. She screamed as if she had seen a ghost.

Yuan Ze seemed to realize something and turned to look at his son.

But when he turned around, he saw a stone hurtling towards him.

With a thud, the old man Yuanze slowly collapsed to the ground, staring in astonishment at the son he had raised with his own hands.

Looking into his son's fierce eyes, the old man Yuanze understood everything; those people had already come to his house.

Blood stained his vision until it became blurred.

The woman opened her mouth wide and covered it with her hands, looking at the man in front of her with the same horror. She never expected that her husband would dare to kill her father.

"Husband, what are you doing?" the woman asked, her voice trembling.

"We can't let this old geezer get in our way," the middle-aged man said fiercely. "Master Zhang has already told me that if we perform well tomorrow, he'll give us a thousand taels of silver!"

"That's a thousand taels of silver! That's more wealth than the old man could ever earn in his entire life. How can I let him ruin this good thing!"

"Then why kill him? He's your father!" the woman questioned.

The middle-aged man gave her a cold look: "You know how stubborn this old man is. Do you think he would agree to trade his entire life's reputation for this money?"

The woman lost all courage after being glared at by her husband and shrank back, saying timidly, "No."

"Then hurry up and come help!" the middle-aged man said, lifting the old man's body.

"Oh." The woman walked over.

On the other side, the five people were greedily inhaling the fragrance emanating from an incense burner in the center. Each of them had a flushed face and looked like they were floating on air.

Just then, the door to the secret room was suddenly kicked open.

Before the five people could react, five beams of azure light shot out and struck them.

The five people froze on the spot, but their five senses were not sealed.

They watched as a woman with thick limbs, resembling a strong peasant woman, entered, followed by a man with a fair complexion holding a sign that read "cures all diseases."

Lin Le glanced at the five people and nodded slightly: "You've improved; you know how to launch a sneak attack now."

As soon as he finished speaking, his divine sense invaded the brains of the five people, broke the restrictions, rummaged through their memories, and shattered their souls.

Ling Muzhu glanced at the incense burner with some curiosity. She thought it smelled quite good. She reached out and opened it to take a look, then immediately turned away and vomited.

Lin Le glanced at them and saw that they were some mushrooms, but they were growing on some chopped organs.

With a flick of his sleeve, flames filled the secret room, burning some things to ashes.

Then, with a sweep of his divine sense, Lin Le checked the epidemic situation in this city. As he expected, it was extremely dense.

But after sweeping through a courtyard, he suddenly sighed.

Grasping Ling Muzhu's hand, Lin Le suddenly took a step forward.

In the blink of an eye, the two appeared in a courtyard.

Ling Muzhu looked around in confusion, and then saw Lin Le raise his hand, and a corpse flew out of a well.

She glanced at the corpse and her eyes widened in shock. Wasn't this the old man they had just rescued? How could he have suddenly died?

"Soul, return!" Lin Le shook the sign, and a wisp of true spirit flew out from the corpse and landed in the sign.

Then, with another shake, an elderly man, somewhat similar to the one on the ground but appearing younger, emerged from the sign.

"Greetings, Your Excellency," Yuan Ze said, bowing to Lin Le.

"What do you want to do?" Lin Lechao raised his chin slightly at a middle-aged couple who had been startled by the sound of water coming from the well.

Yuan Ze turned around and glanced at his son and daughter-in-law, then suddenly sighed, "I beg you, sir, to spare their lives."

What else could he do? These were his son and daughter-in-law; he couldn't possibly kill them.

Lin Le wasn't too surprised by this result; Yuan Ze was kind-hearted and would never commit patricide.

Lin Le glanced at the two of them briefly, then took another step and disappeared with Yuan Ze and Ling Muzhu.

The middle-aged couple initially thought they were seeing things, but upon seeing the still-wet body nearby, they knew it was real.

My goodness, I've met a celestial master!

The two nearly fainted.

Appearing atop the city wall, Lin Le silently recited the Purifying Mantra to dispel the plague.

However, this time he made a slight trick, amplifying the plague energy of two individuals.

He promised not to kill them, but those two were already terminally ill.

Inside the courtyard, the couple were looking at the corpse with a troubled expression, unsure whether to deal with it or not.

Suddenly, the woman started coughing, and then the man started coughing too. At first, they didn't pay much attention, but when they realized the coughing wouldn't stop, they became terrified. They knew what it was—it was the recent pneumonia outbreak!
The woman immediately thought of something and turned to run to the pharmacy.

The man also quickly ran over.

They started stewing the medicine, but as the coughing intensified and their vision began to darken, they didn't care whether the medicine was cooked or not, or how hot it was, and they drank it.

Unfortunately, that wealthy man Cai didn't expect them to live. The plague he planted in them was one of the strongest, and it couldn't be controlled by ordinary herbs.

"Cough cough!" The two of them couldn't stop coughing even after drinking their medicine.

With a spurt of blood, the two collapsed to the ground one after the other.

Then a gentle breeze blew by, completely erasing the plague from their bodies.

After purifying the plague, Lin Le took out more jade stones to carve, including some grade eight jade stones.

This time, he worked until the early hours of the morning to engrave the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra on these jade talismans.

"Guan Wenzhong and Yuan Ze, you two are in one group; Yinshan She and Bai Piao, you two are in one group; Li Zheng and Li Qi, you two are in one group." Lin Le distributed the jade tokens to the spirit generals and Dao soldiers who appeared, "Purify the plague in the other counties."

"Yes." The six nodded.

After watching the six people depart, Lin Le and Ling Muzhu set off again, their destination: Jiujiang, the capital of the state.

Half a day later, Lin Le and Ling Muzhu arrived at the vicinity of Jiujiang City.

When Lin Le came across a village, he saw a white sign at the entrance and barricades placed there to prevent outsiders from entering.

But as Lin Le's tiger-shaped brace made one tapping sound after another, someone poked their head out and whispered, "Hey, Tiger Brother, it's a traveling doctor from out of town!"

"From out of town?" A young man also peeked out, glanced at Lin Le, and his eyes lit up with delight. "Hey, doctor, wait, wait!"

"Holy crap!" The companion immediately pulled the young man down. "Tiger, are you crazy? The village chief told us not to let anyone into the village!"

"Bullshit! My mother is dying, why should I care about this and that?" the young man shouted angrily.

In recent days, the village heard news that a plague had broken out in Jiujiang City, and they were so frightened that they immediately sealed off the village, forbidding outsiders from entering and forbidding those inside from leaving.

But this has caused hardship for some people who need to go to the city. While people can share some daily necessities, they can't share the sick.

There are no doctors in the village, and how could people who can barely read possibly cure serious illnesses?

Lin Le approached: "What's the matter?"

"My mother is seriously ill, and I would like to ask you to come and see her," the young man asked urgently. "Doctor, have you encountered anyone coughing on your way?"

"What do you think? I'm a doctor, after all," Lin Le chuckled. "What, has the plague broken out in your village too?"

"No." The young man shook his head.

“I don’t think so,” Lin Le shook his head. “Your eyes are bloodshot, and your voices are hoarse. I think you don’t know that you have been infected with the plague.”

"Ah!" The young man and his companion were startled. "Doctor, don't scare us!"

"Why would I scare you? Don't you realize that you've been sleeping less and having more dreams lately, you're thirsty more often, and you often feel a tightness in your chest in the afternoon?" Lin Le said leisurely.

Gulp! The young man and his companion clearly swallowed, because they did indeed feel this sensation.

"Doctor, can you cure this?" the young man asked anxiously.

Lin Le said calmly, "Didn't I already say? I'm a doctor."

"I spoke out of turn, I spoke out of turn!" The young man slapped himself several times, then moved the barricade aside. "Doctor, doctor, please come in!"

Then the young man kicked his companion: "What are you all standing there for? Hurry up and go invite the village chief to my house!"

The two burly men had already contracted the plague, not to mention the others. It was fortunate that he stopped Lin Le, otherwise everyone in the village would have died.

"Oh, oh!" His companion wasn't as quick-witted as the young man; his mind was still a bit foggy. But he knew that Tiger Brother rarely made a mistake, so he just had to do what he said.

"Doctor, this way please, this way please!" the young man gestured.

His mother is seriously ill and bedridden. If she were to contract the same pneumonia as him, her chances of survival would be even slimmer.

Therefore, we need to get Lin Le to see a doctor for his mother as soon as possible.

Lin Le and Ling Muzhu followed the young man to a brick house.

Lin Le couldn't help but take another look at the young man. After all, in this era, building a brick house in the countryside still required some financial resources.

Upon entering the room, Lin Le saw a middle-aged woman lying on the bed, her face flushed and visibly sweating.

Lin Le glanced at her and a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes, because this woman was no ordinary person; she was actually a cultivator.

Lin Le didn't know exactly what realm this person was at, since his cultivation had been destroyed.

Ling Muzhu followed her in, but found that the woman looked somewhat familiar.

The young man rushed to the bedside and helped the woman up, saying, "Mother, hang in there, I've called the doctor for you."

The woman slowly got up, forcing a smile, and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine. This little illness can't defeat me."

She then looked at Lin Le and Ling Muzhu and said, "I'm sorry, I'm currently unwell and unable to bow to you both."

"Sir?" The young man was taken aback, not understanding what his mother meant by that.

(End of this chapter)