Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 517 The Survivors

The winters in Dongyi are not as long as in the northern frontier, but autumn has arrived, with gusts of autumn wind and a desolate atmosphere.

Despite having drunk some wine, Wei Xi found the autumn scenery delightful, and as he gazed at the horizon where the sea met the sky, he felt genuinely grateful to be alive.

Although he had escaped from the Bone Reef Sea, the oppressive feeling of being suspended by a thousand pounds of seawater still haunted Wei Xi, occasionally surfacing to cause trouble.

"At this moment, it looks calm and peaceful, but who knows that the sea is burying so many secrets?" Wei Xi, whose face was as red as a sunset, let the wind mess up his hair. "Yu Xianzhou, Luexi, Zuo Fei, Yan Ci, Bone Reef Sea and Dead Water City, Heavenly Dao and Weaver of Heaven, one after another takes the stage."

Wei Xi usually doesn't drink alcohol, but today she became an apprentice and received a set of top-quality protective gear. The alcohol made her head feel numb and warm, and she actually felt a little interested in going for a stroll on the beach.

Not many people in Fishtail Town had the leisure for this, after all, the junior cultivators had spent so much time collecting corpses and were finally catching up on sleep indoors. The big shots were busy discussing important matters and had no time for this kind of leisure.

So you can imagine how surprised Wei Xi was when he was squatting down digging for seashells and found himself surrounded by a group of people.

"Fellow Daoist Wei?" Ge Cang, whose appearance had changed drastically, asked hesitantly, "Are you... digging in the sand?"

Wei Xi stared at the other person for a moment before realizing who it was.

“You seem a bit stronger than before,” Wei Xi said, gesturing with his hands as if afraid the other person wouldn’t feel his sincerity. “I used to be a little timid, but not anymore.”

Upon hearing this, Ge Cang rubbed his arms, clearly not quite used to Wei Xi like this.

"Has Fellow Daoist Wei been drinking?" Ge Cang seemed to be gathering his courage as he suggested in a low voice, "Should I call Fellow Daoist Qin over?"

"You have such a keen sense of smell?" Wei Xi chuckled, pulling up her shirt from the shoulder and sniffing. "I've only had three or four drinks!"

Ge Cang: ...You can't reason with a drunkard.

Wei Xi held up a colorful conch shell, covering one eye. Ling Yin bounced around on her head, muttering, "No one's bullying you anymore, right? If anyone does, fight back... How come you've grown so much taller?"

Ge Cang, who has indeed grown quite a bit taller: ...

Ge Cang glanced at the pile of food and medicine under his control, sighed, and sent a telepathic message to Qin Feng using a magic hand gesture.

“Fellow Daoist Qin will come to pick you up later,” Ge Cang said gently. “I will stay here and watch over you for now.”

Wei Xi blinked. "You don't trust me? Are you worried that I'll die an unexplained death like those merfolk?"

Ge Cang shuddered, looking somewhat timid.

“Don’t be afraid,” Wei Xi said. He and Xiao Ge were old acquaintances. “Those bad guys have already fled for their lives! Just stay away from Linchuan Pavilion.”

"what?"

Wei Xi stopped talking this time and kept laughing while covering her mouth.

Ge Cang was at a loss for what to do, and assumed that Wei Xi was just talking nonsense because he was drunk.

Fortunately, Qin Feng arrived quickly and took over from the grinning Wei Xi.

"I'm sorry to trouble you, Fellow Daoist Qin... but things aren't very peaceful here lately. If we leave Fellow Daoist Wei alone here, especially since she's drunk, it could be disastrous if those... villains come back."

"Thank you very much, Fellow Daoist Ge," Qin Feng said sincerely, then awkwardly added, "She's not usually like this."

“I guess he drank too much on a whim,” Ge Cang whispered. “Senior Brother Geng is still waiting for this batch of supplies, so I can’t help him.”

Qin Feng politely asked what the supplies were for, but the answer he received was unexpected. "They said they rescued a boatload of people from the sea," Ge Cang thought for a moment and added, "They were... fishermen who had been adrift at sea for a long time."

Qin Feng felt a sudden boom in his head, and only one thought remained in his mind: get Wei Xi awake as soon as possible!

Ge Cang hurriedly bid farewell to Wei and Qin, clearly eager to report back.

Qin Feng then took Wei Xi back to their room and urged the kitchen to bring over a pot of hangover soup.

About half an hour later, Wei Xi, with red eyes, propped her head up and sipped her second bowl of hangover soup.

“I never expected the fisherman who carried us to safety would survive,” Qin Feng said, sitting at the table, his tone mostly filled with relief. “But as soon as he returned, his family was destroyed.”

Lian Gouyan paced back and forth in the room. Hearing this, he sneered, "In this situation, it's good enough that you're alive. You can't possibly regret saving people!"

The words may be rough, but the reasoning is sound. Qin Feng was speechless for a moment, his mind a jumble of reason and emotion.

Wei Xi put down his soup bowl, grabbed a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, and then said, "I did it on a whim, but I didn't expect them to be so lucky and survive. That's good, with them as witnesses, when the case broke out, you and I were in Bone Reef Sea, which is a foregone conclusion and saves us a lot of trouble."

"As for their feelings," Wei Xi shrugged, "I can't take care of them. But I'm curious, how did they survive?"

"How did they survive?" Lian Gou asked, puzzled. "They are all fishermen. They might be more comfortable at sea than on land."

Wei Xi shook his head and replied, "According to what you said, after we switched back, the moon outside was green?"

“Yeah, didn’t you call this the Green Moon Tide? And there were several of those red threads you raised,” Lian Gouhan recalled the eerie scene, goosebumps rising all over his body. “If those fishermen had seen it, they would probably have been scared half to death.”

"How many? Are you sure there are only a few red threads that look like [Tethered Silk]?"

“You can count them on one hand,” Lian Gou Lan said confidently. “They’re still hanging there listlessly.”

Wei Xi hadn't expected that the "severe damage" Yan Ci mentioned to the Heaven and Earth meridians was no exaggeration; it truly meant that the originally dense Heaven and Earth meridians had been completely destroyed.

"Thinking about it this way, there must have been quite a few cultivators involved in Zuo Fei's plan. No wonder no one in the cultivation world has attained immortality and ascended to heaven. The Heavenly Dao is still severely weakened and unable to seize the power of cultivators."

Wei Xi only dared to think these words to himself, not only because he was afraid of implicating his two friends, but also because he was wary of the Weaver of Heaven's intentions.

Qin Feng, who was the most soft-hearted, hesitated for a moment before suggesting that he visit the fishermen who had escaped death and give them some more silver.

However, it was rejected by both Wei Xi and Lian Gouyi.

Wei Xi's reason was to be on the safe side; now the three of them should stay far away from those fishermen to avoid suspicion.

Lian Gou's reason was that such a matter naturally required the Wan Jian Sect to take the lead, otherwise where would its leader's face be?

Both reasons were plausible, and Qin Feng could only sigh.

"Forget about those unlucky guys," Lian Gouyan joked. "From now on, neither you nor Wei Xi can drink! They can't hold their liquor, but they're quite the drunkards."

Wei Xi was unusually ashamed and vaguely said that he was happy to have a couple of drinks with his master today, and that he would never drink again because it caused trouble.

Qin Feng, not one to mince words, spat and laughed, "Say that again and I'll throw you into a wine jar! That'll teach you to talk nonsense!"

Wei Xi: I'm drunk!