Xu Chunniang took only one look and then looked away, driving her flying sword to cut the soil like mud, cutting off soil and rocks from the nearby hilltops to fill the hole left by the stone pillar.
After doing all this, she returned to the cave and started to pack up.
The big ash pillar had been taken away by the roots, so there was no need for it to remain here.
After packing up her things, Xu Chunniang set out on the road back to the Censorate.
Nine years have passed, and the Censorate must have become a wasteland, overgrown with weeds.
But she has never been particular about external things. She just needs to tidy up a little and make it habitable. Anyway, her ten-year garrison period will be over soon, and she will have to return to the sect in a year or two.
However, when she returned to the Censorate, Xu Chunniang was stunned.
The house in front of her still retains the appearance it had when it was first built. Although it is no longer shiny after ten years of wind and rain, it is not as dilapidated as she had expected.
Under the window in front of the steps, it is bright and clean with little dust.
The yard was clean and tidy, with only a few weeds that had just sprouted sharp corners and a few leaves blown down by the wind.
Apparently, someone has been cleaning and dusting here for the past ten years without any slacking off.
Could all this have been done by County Magistrate Li Zheng
It has been more than eight years. I guess even if he had the intention, he couldn't have persisted for that long.
Xu Chunniang seemed to have some sense and looked down, only to see a slightly old man walking up the mountain.
Even though many years had passed and the man had aged a lot, she still recognized him from her past memories.
That day, she noticed that there was something strange about the spiritual energy in Yang County, so she used the spiritual rain technique to verify it and watered a wheat field.
Later we learned that this man was the owner of the wheat field.
Xu Chunniang's eyebrows twitched slightly. Could it be that this person has been managing the Censorate all these years
She did not want to show herself, so she disappeared.
The man was heavy-hearted. After climbing the mountain, he knelt down and kowtowed in the direction of the Censor, with a hint of sadness in his piety.
"Thanks to the immortal master, there have been occasional rains in the past few years, and the harvest is barely enough to survive. But three days ago, my little daughter suddenly fell ill and there was no cure. She was about to die..."
When he said this, the man's eyes turned red, his voice was choked, and he almost cried.
He was in his thirties when he finally had this girl, and he doted on her very much, but who knew that misfortune would befall her.
After a while, he spoke again, "It has been eight years since the Immortal Master last appeared. They all said that the Immortal Master had long since left Yang County, but I don't believe it. I only pray that the Immortal Master will show up and bless my little girl to get through this difficult time."
After bowing three more times, he walked down the mountain and left.
Looking at the direction he left, Xu Chunniang hesitated for a moment, then hid her figure and followed him.
The man didn't know that the immortal master he had been waiting for for years actually heard his prayers.
Although he held a glimmer of hope in the Immortal Master, he also knew how elusive this hope was.
Coming to the Censor to pay homage and pray is just a last-ditch struggle when one is helpless.
After going down the mountain, he walked towards home.
Xu Chunniang followed behind him, frowning slightly.
The man was trying his best to hurry on his way, but in her eyes, the speed was still too slow.
If his little girl really had a sudden serious illness that could not be cured, he must rush to treat her as soon as possible.
Otherwise, if she delays any further, even if she has a way to treat him, it will be too late.
Xu Chunniang pursed her lips, moved slightly, and instantly surpassed the man, rushing towards the direction of the wheat field in her memory.
She remembered that the wheat field was near a village, and his home should be in that village.
The man was on his way when he felt a gust of wind passing by him, so fast that it was unbelievable.
He ignored it and continued on his way.
Not long after, Xu Chunniang found the man's home.
The reason why they were able to find it so quickly was because the cultivators had very sensitive senses. As soon as they entered the village, they heard a woman's low and suppressed sobbing in a yard.
She climbed over the wall and found the room following the crying sound. Lying on the bed was a little girl with her eyes closed, purple face and a painful expression.
The woman with a sad face stood by the bed, crying.
After seeing the girl's appearance clearly, Xu Chunniang's expression changed slightly. Her spiritual energy turned into threads and quickly penetrated into the acupuncture points all over the woman's body, causing her to fall into a deep sleep. Then she went straight to the bedside and fiercely penetrated the spiritual energy into the girl's body.
The more she probed, the gloomier her expression became.
This girl didn't have a sudden illness, it was clearly because she was under a spell of corpse-killing.
The so-called Yin corpse technique is an evil technique that turns living people into Yin corpses.
Anyone who is hit by this technique will suffocate to death.
But although they seem to be dead, in fact only their bodies are dead, and their souls are trapped in the dead bodies and cannot be freed.
Ordinary people did not understand the meaning and mistakenly thought that he had contracted a serious illness and buried him hastily.
After the people who have been possessed by the Yin Corpse Technique are buried, the evil cultivators will take out their bodies and use sinister methods to refine them into real Yin Corpses.
Xu Chunniang used her spiritual silk technique freely and quickly found the crux of the problem. She used her spiritual energy to force it out without hesitation while the Yin Corpse Technique had not yet been activated.
The girl's face turned from purple to blue, and from blue to red. Then she opened her mouth and spat out a mouthful of black blood.
After spitting out the black blood, the girl's complexion improved visibly, though still a little pale.
Xu Chunniang's face turned slightly cold. Although the current problem had been solved, the evil cultivator who had secretly attacked had not been found yet.
We must think of a way to lure that evil cultivator out.
When she was on patrol last month, she had not heard of any such incidents. She thought that this evil cultivator should not have been in Yang County for long.
Looking at the girl in front of her who had recovered and fallen into a deep sleep, Xu Chunniang frowned slightly.
If there are evil practitioners who dare to take human lives and practice evil magic in Yang County, they must be eradicated.
She injected a trace of spiritual energy into the sleeping woman, and soon the woman woke up slowly.
Seeing Xu Chunniang, the woman's eyes flashed with suspicion and her face was alert. "Who are you and why are you here?"
"I come from the Attorney General."
The woman's husband often went to the Ancha Si to clean and weed, and she also knew that was where the immortal master lived.
It’s just that the Immortal Master hasn’t appeared for many years. I never thought that I could actually meet him at home.
The woman's mind was filled with thoughts, and she fell to the ground, "Master, please help save my daughter. I will do whatever you want me to do."
Xu Chunniang slightly turned sideways to avoid the bow, "Please stand up and look at your daughter."
The woman was surprised and confused when she heard this, but with a glimmer of hope, she turned her head to look at the bed, only to see that her daughter, who had originally had a purple face and a painful expression, had returned to normal at some point.
She cried and laughed at once, her expression was very excited, and she kept repeating, "Master, bless me, Master, bless me!"
If the immortal master had not intervened, my daughter would not have survived this disaster.
After a while, the woman's emotions gradually stabilized and she bowed to Xu Chunniang again.
Xu Chunniang used her spiritual energy to gently lift her up, exempting her from the bow. "Don't spread the news of your daughter's recovery. Keep it secret for now."
There was a look of confusion in the woman's eyes. After listening to the immortal master's explanation, she suddenly realized what was going on. She then showed emotions such as anger, fear, relief, and gratitude.
Just after Xu Chunniang finished giving instructions to the woman, the man hurried all the way and finally entered the village.
He walked towards his home, but before he got close, he heard a heart-wrenching cry coming from inside.