California, countryside.
The wind blowing across the fields felt dry and hot.
When Sun Yan parked the car by the roadside, Sosia, wearing tight jeans and a snug jacket, stepped out from the passenger seat.
"Is this the place?"
"Yes."
Sun Yan strode towards the town and soon encountered many townsfolk with weary expressions on the road.
On these people, Sun Yan saw threads of ominous aura drifting out from their bodies using his Celestial Eye.
Everyone carries a certain aura of fortune.
This aura can be divided into misfortune and fortune. When fortune abounds, naturally everything goes as planned and all is well.
But when misfortune is plentiful, one ends up having everything go wrong and encountering bad luck at every turn.
If a person is entangled in ominous aura, it can only be said that their fate is unfavorable.
But if several people are all entangled in ominous aura, then there’s only one reason.
That is, these people recently ca into contact with sothing unclean.
After inquiring around, Sun Yan quickly learned the location of the farm owned by the farr who discovered the mysterious stone.
When he and Sosia entered the farm, they noticed that both the crops and the plants looked lifeless.
Even the soil emitted a rotten sll.
Clearly, sothing bad was happening.
"Who are you?"
As Sun Yan attempted to enter the depths of the farm to search for the mysterious stone,
a tender voice suddenly rang out. Looking back, he saw a white child holding a long-barreled rifle.
He wore a cowboy hat and looked at Sun Yan and Sosia warily.
"Are you the farr’s child here? No need to worry, I am a priest from Saint Anna City. I heard there’s a demonic object in your town, and I’ve co specifically to help you with exorcism."
Sun Yan looked at the child with a calm smile.
"Priest?" The child lowered the rifle in confusion. "Are you sure?"
"Certainly, not a priest with a cross though. Have you heard of the Earth Shrine? That’s under my production."
Sun Yan grabbed a handful of soil from the ground: "It’s very dry, full of dead energy, and no longer suitable for planting. Your family’s land is heavily polluted now, and if you don’t quickly perform an exorcism, it will only get worse. Where are your parents? Maybe they can talk with ."
"Dad’s sick, Mom took him to the hospital. Only Bao Li and I are at ho on the farm."
"Who’s Bao Li, your sister?"
"No, it’s my pony."
The white child whistled, and imdiately a gray pony ran over from afar.
However, the pony’s eyes seed strange, with a few strands of flesh extending out from its pupils, dancing in the air.
Perhaps the discomfort in its eyes made the gray pony sowhat irritable, appearing rather uneasy even when standing next to its young owner.
Its hooves kept turning the soil.
"Take to see that stone in your farm. You’d not want a demon hiding in your ho, right?" Sun Yan said patiently.
"Then follow ."
The white child imdiately turned and led Sun Yan away, quickly arriving near a well.
About ten ters away from the well lay an unusual stone.
And this stone was exactly the sa shape as the one Sun Yan saw in the photo Rick provided.
"There’s no doubt about it, it’s the mana from the Plague Division."
Sun Yan stared at the stone, about to reach out and inspect it.
At that mont, the gray pony beside the boy suddenly went berserk.
It charged straight at Sun Yan, and just as it was about to collide with him, Sosia stepped in, pressing down on the pony’s head. Forced to halt its actions right there.
"Moo!"
The gray pony let out an angry roar, lifting its front hooves to strike at Sosia.
"Bao Li! What are you doing!" The child shouted in horror as his pony turned suddenly violent.
But in Sun Yan’s eyes, it was a different scene.
The pony was shrouded in plague energy, controlled by sothing within, thus losing its mind.
"Sosia, take the child farther away, to avoid any impact."
With a wave of his hand, Sun Yan dispersed the plague energy within the gray pony, and the pony cald down as a result.
"Yes, let’s go." Sosia took the child away from the place.
Leaving Sun Yan alone on the scene.
Sun Yan carefully examined the magical talisman decree on the stone, furrowing his brow.
On the stone, he clearly sensed a mana aura, surely left by an immortal being.
Though it had significantly weakened due to ti’s passage, Sun Yan nonetheless felt a hint of dread.
Not from a lack of power, but the stone’s hazard was too imnse; if leaked, it would wreak havoc on the land for thousands of miles around.
"This magical talisman decree appears to be a seal," Sun Yan said to himself.
Reaching out, he produced the Mountain-Cracking Axe, and with a forceful swing, struck the stone’s surface.
A crack split open imdiately, with a vast amount of plague energy emanating.
Fortunately, Sun Yan was prepared and promptly used the Three-Flavored True Fla to refine it, preventing the plague from spreading and harming innocent locals.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
As Sun Yan continually wielded the Mountain-Cracking Axe, the stone could no longer withstand its power.
It completely shattered, revealing a purple mummy.
The plague energy was dispersing from this mummy.
"A corpse?" Sun Yan was astonished.
An ordinary person wouldn’t possess such strong plague energy; only a True God from the Plague Division could et these conditions.
Could it be that the stone was sealing the body of an immortal?
"How could an Eastern immortal appear in North Arica?" Sun Yan wondered, continuing to smash the stone until the full form of the purple mummy was exposed.
"Surprisingly, having survived that battle back then, it’s incredible to see such a complete divine body remain intact,"
True Monarch of Pure Origin and Mysterious Dao materialized, closely examining the purple corpse.
Soon he decisively said, "If I’m not mistaken, this should be our fellow Taoist, the Western Plague Envoy Zhu Tianlin."
"What’s this divine being doing here?"
"Who knows? In that war back then, many immortals fell, and it’s possible they fell anywhere across the world. Fellow Taoist Zhu Tianlin might have sealed his own body to prevent his internal plague energy from harming innocent lives, only to be unearthed," deduced True Monarch.
"Fellow Taoist Zhu Tianlin was truly kind-hearted. I can’t let his body be exposed in the wilderness. Master, is there a way to handle Zhu Tianlin’s body?" Sun Yan asked.
If it were another immortal, even if fallen, having their body at ho would be akin to a fortunate charm, enhancing the family’s fortune and prospects.
The Plague Division’s immortal, however, is a bit different. While living, they could control their mana and contain the plague energy’s impact. But death changes that scenario.
"Let see..."
True Monarch of Pure Origin and Mysterious Dao opened his Celestial Eye, scanning Zhu Tianlin’s body.
His expression subtly shifted, "Remarkably, he isn’t dead; there’s still a thread of life force within."
"What!"
Sun Yan was shocked that Zhu Tianlin still harbored life force.
If he could revive, he’d be the first true immortal Sun Yan encountered.
Thinking of this, Sun Yan couldn’t help but feel a quiet excitent.
"Teacher, is there a way to bring back fellow Taoist Zhu Tianlin?" Sun Yan quickly asked.
"There is a way, though reviving an immortal isn’t easy, especially one fallen from that life-and-death battle. Retrieving the soul of this Taoist friend is likely difficult,"
True Monarch of Pure Origin and Mysterious Dao said calmly.
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