Human environment.

Human special realm.

Among the hills in a rugged area, there are many scattered houses. At a rough look, there are probably tens of thousands of households, and most of them are ordinary people.

This town is called Jijia Town.

Nearly one-third of the tens of thousands of households living here have the surname "Ji".

On the top of a mountain in the distance, Chen Mu's figure emerged quietly, looking towards the ordinary town.

It is not accurate to say that it is a mortal town, because there are still some monks in this town, but the number of these monks is very small, and their cultivation level is very shallow. The highest among them is only at the seventh level of mortal transformation, and has not yet reached the level of foundation building.

realm.

"A generation of holy land families have also declined to this point."

Chen Mu looked down at Jijia Town and murmured.

Yes.

The Ji family in Jijia Town is the descendant family of the Lord Wuji. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, they were also a Holy Land family and ruled the world.

But as Lord Wuji failed in his attempt to reach a higher realm, and his body and soul disappeared, this family also declined step by step over hundreds of thousands of years, from glory to end.

In those days, the Holy Land family that had the True Lord in charge and the Golden Core True Master emerging one after another now only has a dozen or so scattered monks, and the ones with the highest level of cultivation can't even reach the foundation building.

but.

In Chen Mu's opinion, this is already considered lucky.

Only the True Lord can remain immortal for hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years and maintain a holy land. However, no matter how powerful the Jindan True Lord is, he can survive dozens of Taoist tribulations and only have a lifespan of tens of thousands of years.

For hundreds of thousands of years, without the True Lord, it is impossible for the True Lord alone to maintain such a long-lasting inheritance. Even if it declines to complete extinction, it is possible.

Chen Mu glanced across the town.

And just as he was carefully observing this dilapidated family that had declined to the point of losing its inheritance and almost everything, a look of surprise suddenly flashed in his eyes.

"That is……"

After a brief moment of surprise, Chen Mu showed a slightly thoughtful look, then took a step forward and disappeared silently.

…

Jijia Town.

It is located somewhere on the outskirts of the town, among low-rise buildings.

"Cough, cough cough..."

A violent cough sounded from a room. The sound was extremely weak and lifeless.

Look inside along the sound.

In the somewhat shabby house, a girl about thirteen or fourteen years old, dressed in shabby clothes, was lying sideways on the bed. Her face turned red due to violent coughing, and she was so thin that she was almost skeletal.

The girl's mother was sitting by the bed, patting the girl's back constantly. Seeing the girl's painful look, she couldn't help but shed tears from the corners of her eyes, and kept saying: "Stop coughing, stop coughing, your father will be here soon."

I just came back from collecting medicine, just bear with it a little longer, and it will be fine."

It seemed that her comfort had an effect, and it seemed that the girl coughed until she lost all strength. She reluctantly lay down on the edge of the bed, panting weakly, and every breath was so difficult.

Her name is Ji Yunying, and she has a nice name. She was named by a teacher with the help of her. She was handsome and smart when she was born, so even though she is a girl, she is still deeply loved by her parents and elders.

only.

From the time she reached the age of eight, her health gradually deteriorated.

At the beginning of the period, I just contracted wind and cold. I went to Ji's pharmacist to prescribe some medicine and suppressed it. However, the disease went away one after another, from wind and cold to insufficient qi and blood to weak heart fire. I have been sick intermittently since I was eight years old.

At the age of eleven.

Although the Ji family has monks and is not a purely secular family, Ji Yunying's family is only the most remote branch of the Ji family.

Ji Yunying's father invited monks from the Ji family. After investigation, he said that Ji Yunying was born weak and needed the best heaven and earth spiritual things to nourish her body. However, such heaven and earth spiritual things are also extremely precious in the Ji family.

The most outstanding young disciples in the clan will be rewarded to nourish the body and improve their cultivation. It is impossible to give Ji Yunying a remote collateral line.

Today, Ji Yunying is thirteen years old.

Continuous infections caused by her congenital weakness finally made her completely ill this year. She kept coughing all day long and could no longer get out of bed. She coughed every day until she was so weak that she breathed her last breath.

Ji Yunying's father was a herbal collector, but after two years of desperate search for elixirs, he could only collect some ordinary nourishing medicines, which were never able to fully meet Ji Yunying's physical needs.

Looking at her daughter who was so weak that her breathing was weak, Ji Yunying's mother sat aside and shed tears.

at the same time.

She kept raising her head to look out the window, with a little worry in her eyes.

Ji Yunying's father went out to collect herbs for a long time. It had been three days. The longest trip in the past only took three days to get back.

suddenly.

There were footsteps outside.

Ji Yunying, who had barely regained some strength, and her mother sitting next to her, suddenly became much more energetic, and they looked out the door together.

I saw Ji Yunying's father walking in from the outside with hurried steps. There was still some blood stains on his body, but with a little smile on his face, he said: "This time I picked a good medicine..."

The words are not finished yet.

Ji Yunying, who was lying on her side beside the bed, seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief when she saw her father returning safely. Her whole body suddenly lost strength and her arms dropped.

The smile on Ji Yunying's father's face stopped instantly, and he ran to the bed in a panic, grabbed his daughter's hand, and when he noticed that she was still breathing, he quickly took out the collected medicine and ran outside.

"I'm going to make some medicine."

soon.

The medicine is ready.

Ji Yunying's father came to the bedside with a bowl of medicine, helped his daughter up, and tried to drink the medicine down, but this time he couldn't.

Drink a little bit and all of it will spill out from your mouth.

Before the medicine was poured down, Ji Yunying gradually woke up. For some reason, she felt that all the pain in her body had disappeared. Although she still had no strength, she no longer hurt.

Her consciousness was also sober as never before, and she even vaguely seemed to see a burning line, which had burned to the end, as if it was about to reach its end.

She tried to speak.

But I couldn't open it.

I could only look at my anxious father and mother.

"Am I going to die?"

This thought came to Ji Yunying's mind.

She could feel that death was approaching, very close, but at this time she had no fear, only a trace of regret, regret that she could not see more scenery in this world, regret that at this time,

I want to leave, regretting that I haven't been able to help my parents much and can't repay my parents' kindness.

My father's shouting could still be vaguely heard in my ears, but gradually the shouting began to muffle and fade away.

Ji Yunying slowly closed her eyes.

I felt that the world in front of me was gradually falling into darkness, and my consciousness began to leave my body bit by bit, being pulled by something outside, trying to pull it out of my body.

The consciousness leaving the body bit by bit fades away bit by bit and disappears bit by bit. I can only feel the coldness and loneliness all over my body, and I am about to fall into eternal darkness.

I don't know how much time has passed.

Sudden.

Ji Yunying felt a beam of light appear.

It was a beam of extremely warm light that instantly dispelled the coldness around her, enveloping her completely, pulling her consciousness back to her body bit by bit.

Whoosh!

A moment.

Pain, weakness, and all sorts of sensations returned.

My ears can hear sounds again, and I can feel everything in the outside world again.

Ji Yunying was stunned. She slowly opened her eyes and saw that besides her parents, a strange young man appeared in front of her bed.

The young man was looking at her calmly, and there was a faint light in his eyes, as if it was the same light that pulled her out of the darkness and brought her back to reality.

"Wake up, wake up!"

"Great, great, thank you Immortal Master..."

Ji Yunying's father looked at Ji Yunying who had regained consciousness, and was overwhelmed with excitement, and saluted Chen Mu repeatedly.

At first, when he saw Chen Mu suddenly appear at the door, claiming to be able to cure diseases, he didn't quite believe it because Chen Mu looked too young.

But then Chen Mu simply raised his hand, and brilliance flowed in his palm. Ji Yunying's father immediately knew that Chen Mu was an immortal master, and quickly invited Chen Mu into the room.

Seeing that Ji Yunying was no longer breathing, Chen Mu just pointed his finger and lit a ray of light, which immediately revived Ji Yunying and resumed breathing.
To be continued...