The Rise of the Shen Family

Looking at the ink-colored jade bottle in his hand, a chill flashed in Shen Ruiling's eyes.

He had suspected before that the plague that swept Linhai County and Jiangmin County was not a natural disaster, but someone deliberately did it.

Now finding this jade bottle from the bank of the river at the foot of Yunbi Peak directly verified his previous conjecture.

Apparently, someone poured the source of the plague into the rivers around the various families in Linhai County. In this way, whether monks, mortals, or livestock, after drinking the water in these rivers, they will be infected with this kind of disease. Terrible plague.

And these people who contracted the plague by drinking the river water polluted by the plague, unknowingly spread the plague to the crowd, thereby infecting more people.

Combined with the diagnosis these days, Shen Ruiling also understood.

Those people who are seriously ill obviously should have directly drank water contaminated by the source of the plague, so their condition is even worse, and it is even more difficult to treat.

And those people with mild illness should have been infected by those people with severe illness unknowingly, and the situation is better.

The Yangshui was polluted by the evil air, which not only infected the monks on Yunbi Peak with this terrible plague, but also infected the large and small mortal villages at the foot of Yunbi Peak who lived by the Yangshui. on this plague.

And this is also the fundamental reason why the plague between these mundane mortal villages at the foot of Yunbi Peak cannot be controlled.

Worldly mortals are not like monks, who can go without water for several days. They are drinking water that is contaminated by evil energy every day.

So no matter how you isolate patients, you can't stop the spread of the plague.

Fortunately, the source has now been found, so there is a solution.

All existing exposed water sources cannot be used, or in other words, cannot be used until the evil air has been purified.

So, Shen Ruiling immediately ordered that all the clansmen on Yunbi Peak could no longer drink the water at the bottom of the mountain, but could only drink the spring water from the spiritual spring in the back mountain.

The monks on Yunbi Peak were easy to handle, but those mortals below the mountain were difficult to handle.

These mortals cannot live without water. If there is no pure water, they will die of thirst even if they do not contract the plague.

However, Shen Ruiling had no choice.

They can only let the people on the mountain use space instruments to transport water down the mountain, and at the same time let them bring a lot of spiritual rain charms to create artificial rainfall in a small area.

Although this was only a drop in the bucket, it also showed signs of improvement in the epidemic situation in several mortal villages and towns near Yunbi Peak.

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While the Shen family members on Yunbi Peak had basically restrained the spread of the plague, dozens of other families, large and small, in Linhai County were still living in the water.

Among them, there is no cultivator like Shen Ruiling who cultivates high-level spirit fire, so there is no way to suppress the evil with spirit fire like the Shen family.

The monks in these families can only rely on the medicinal pills that exorcise evil spirits and turn poisons to suppress the spread of evil spirits in their bodies.

As a result, their consumption of this kind of elixir is naturally astonishing, and it didn't take long for them to consume the elixir stored in the clan.

Without the inhibition of medicinal pills, the cultivators could not fight against this plague at all, so these families could only find a way to acquire spirit pills and spirit medicines.

At present, the elixir in Linhai County has already been purchased by various families, so they can only find a way to buy elixir and elixir that can restrain the plague from outside Linhai County.

However, the passage from Linhai County to Hushangfang and Pingzhou has been completely blocked, and only the base-building cultivator can quietly pass through from the air.

But even if they smuggled into the city of Neifang, Shanghai and Pingzhou, it would be extremely difficult to obtain those exorcism and poison elixir.

Not long after the large-scale plague broke out in Linhai and Jiangmin counties, all the elixir in other places that could restrain the plague have been copied for high prices.

Because not only the clan forces in the two counties of Linhai County and Jiangmin County are buying, but also other forces in places where there is no plague outbreak are desperately buying these elixir.

Some of them are just in case, afraid that this kind of plague will break out here, so they start to save their lives in advance.

There are also some other forces, who are fighting the idea of ​​hoarding goods and then selling them at a price, preparing to make a lot of money in this plague.

Although Qingyunmen has begun to rectify, but nothing can be changed, these are real human nature.

Therefore, in such a situation, it is not easy to obtain the elixir or elixir that can restrain the plague.

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In the Pill Pavilion, Shen Ruiling is helping a clan to remove the evil spirit from his body.

Suddenly, a message talisman exuding aura appeared in front of him.

After reading the above content, Shen Ruiling couldn't help but murmur:

"How did they come?"

He shook his head slightly, and then immediately walked out of the Pill Pavilion.

At this time, a middle-aged man and a young woman dressed as a man were standing together in front of the mountain gate of the Shen family.

"Fellow Daoist Du, have you noticed that there seems to be much less plague wafting around the spiritual mountain of the Shen family than our two families?"

The middle-aged man turned his head to look at the woman, and said in a puzzled manner, apparently aware of the strangeness on Yunbi Peak.

Hearing what he said, the woman's eyes also turned to this spiritual mountain covered by the great formation, and soon a beautiful color flashed in her warm and beautiful eyes.

Looking at the blue arcs that kept moving on the large light curtain, she said softly:

"The Shen family's great formation of protecting the clan contains the power of domineering thunder, and it is not surprising that it can effectively dispel those evil spirits."

Hearing this, the middle-aged man nodded slightly, but there was a strange look in his eyes when he looked at the great formation.

It didn't take long for a passage to allow people to walk on the light curtain of the great formation, and Shen Ruiling walked out of it the next moment.

"Friend Li! Fellow Daoist Du!"

Shen Ruiling slightly bowed to the middle-aged men respectively.

The two people who were waiting outside the Shen family's guardian clan were none other than Li Dianji of the Li family and Du Mingjun, the contemporary head of the Du family.

Since Li Dianji's dantian was damaged, his cultivation base has been staying in the middle stage of foundation building, and his whole person also looks very old, and he has lost the spirit and energy that a foundation building cultivator should have.

Shen Ruiling's eyes stopped on Du Mingjun's body for a while.

This young woman, who was established as the contemporary head of the Du family by Du Wenfu before her death, had already made a breakthrough to the middle stage of foundation building without a sound.

After careful calculation, it has only been more than ten years since she established the foundation, but she did not expect that she has quietly broken through to the middle stage of foundation establishment.

When Shen Ruiling went to participate in the Du Family Foundation Establishment Ceremony, he secretly guessed that the Du family woman, who was hidden by Du Wenfu, had an extraordinary talent for spiritual roots, which now seems to be the case.

Fourth brother Shen Ruizhi succeeded in foundation building at about the same time as her, but now it is only the peak of the initial stage of foundation building.

If you want to break through the bottleneck in the mid-term, if there is no special opportunity, it will take at least a few years of hard work.

On the other hand, Li Dianji noticed Shen Ruiling's gaze on Du Mingjun, and his heart couldn't help but feel bitter.

When he met Du Mingjun before, he was also surprised at the improvement in her cultivation. The speed of her cultivation was even higher than that of his previous years.

Now I feel the pressure of the late foundation-building stage on Shen Ruiling, and I can't calm down for a long time.

He is now a crippled person who cannot cultivate enough money, but these juniors have already walked in front of him.

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