Revelation of the Way of Heaven

Chapter 323 Past Illusions

The four finished dinner amidst laughter and chatter. Guo Shiyi helped Han Keyun clear the dishes and said to Han Keyun, "Sister Keyun, why don't we go investigate the source of the summer fever tonight?"

"That's what I think too," Han Keyun said while washing the dishes. "I'm too busy during the day, so I can only investigate at night."

"Okay, we'll lend you a hand," Guo Shiyi said happily.

After finishing their preparations, Qin Xiaochuan and Guo Shiyi followed Han Keyun to the back mountain of the village to investigate the source of the disease. Han Keyun took out the bottle containing the fire plague worms and released them. The fire plague worms flew all the way up the mountain. The group followed the fire plague worms until they arrived at a mountain hollow. In the hollow, there was a depression where many bright red fire plague worms were flying up and down in the air, like fireflies or sparks flying up and down.

A cool night breeze kept blowing in my face, and in that breeze, I could faintly hear the sound of flowing water coming from the hollow.

"It seems this is the source of the disease," Han Keyun said softly. "The mountain spring here flows down the mountain and is an important water source for the villagers. These fire plague insects lay their eggs here, polluting the water source, so the villagers have been infected with summer fever."

"So what should we do now?" Guo Shiyi asked.

"I'll purify the water here. You all stay here and keep an eye on things so these fire plague insects don't escape. Once we eliminate all the fire plague insects, the source of the disease will be cleared away."

As Han Keyun spoke, she took out a bell from her bag and walked to a distance of two meters from the depression. She pulled out the bell plug and gently shook the bell. Qin Xiaochuan felt a mysterious power spreading from the bell. After hearing the bell, the fire plague insects in the depression suddenly froze in mid-air. At the same time, a lotus flower emitting white light slowly condensed in Han Keyun's right hand.

Threads of white light, like fine silk threads, drifted out from the lotus. These threads entangled the fire plague insects, turning them into small cocoons. White light continuously shone on the threads, and in a short while, they turned into powder along with the fire plague insects, scattering into the air.

Just when Qin Xiaochuan thought he was about to succeed, there was a splash of water, and something rushed out of the stream. After that thing rushed out, the fire plague insects that had been frozen in mid-air started moving again, flying to the thing and merging with it. In the blink of an eye, a monster with flames all over its body, long hair, and resembling an old woman appeared in front of the three of them.

"You've finally come out." Han Keyun seemed to have anticipated the monster's appearance. The white lotus in her hand transformed into a beam of white light and flew towards the monster. The monster clearly knew Han Keyun's power. It let out a shriek and separated a portion of the fire plague insects to hold back Han Keyun's white light, while it flew up the mountain itself.

However, before it could fly away, countless willow branches suddenly appeared from the sky and tightly bound it. It was Guo Shiyi who intervened in time to stop it.

The monster shrieked and spewed flames, trying to burn the willow branches, but found that Guo Shiyi's willow branches glowed faintly and were not afraid of being burned at all.

Just as Guo Shiyi was triumphantly thinking she had caught the monster, it suddenly scattered and turned into countless fire plague insects, which flew out from the gaps in her willow branches, then gathered together again and continued to escape.

"Don't let it get away!" Han Keyun shouted, and immediately took the lead in chasing after it, with Qin Xiaochuan and Guo Shiyi following closely behind.

The three chased the monster for nearly ten minutes and were about to catch up when they suddenly saw two people coming towards them on the mountain path ahead. Upon seeing them, the monster immediately flew towards them.

"Watch out!" Han Keyun shouted, shaking the bell in her hand. The monster paused for a moment, while Qin Xiaochuan flashed in front of them and cast a fire wall spell to block the monster's escape route. Han Keyun took the opportunity to take out a small red gourd. A white light floated out of the bottle, entangled the monster, and then pulled it into the red gourd.

"That was close! It almost hurt someone." Han Keyun stuffed the red gourd back into her bag, then looked at the two people and asked, "Uncle Zhou, Aunt Yang, what brings you here so late? Judging from the weather, it might rain tonight."

The two people, a man and a woman, dressed as local villagers, looked to be in their thirties. They were Zhou Bin's parents. Han Keyun knew them very well and knew that they had leased a quarry in the mountains.

"It's precisely because it might rain that we need to go check on the quarry, to make sure the gunpowder doesn't get damp. Also, we planted some watermelons there before, and they're almost ripe. We need to keep an eye on them, otherwise the wild boars will eat them all," Mr. Zhou said, still somewhat shaken. The scene he'd just witnessed had frightened him considerably. He added, "Dr. Han, you're truly amazing! You've solved so many problems for our village!"

"Uncle Zhou, you flatter me," Han Keyun said with a smile. "In that case, be careful, we should head back too." After saying that, the three of them returned the way they came. Han Keyun found the downstream of the mountain stream, then cast a spell to make a lotus flower grow in the water. Then she took out a bottle and dripped a drop of golden liquid onto the lotus flower. The lotus flower emitted a faint white light, as if it were shrouded in moonlight.

"Alright, with this Pure Lotus, we can continuously purify the eggs of the Fire Plague Worms in the water. After three days, the source of this Summer Nightmare Fever will be completely eliminated," Han Keyun said with ease.

"Sister Keyun, you're amazing! What was that monster you just caught?" Guo Shiyi said admiringly.

"That's Yan Yin Po, a spirit born from the resentment of people who died in the past. Because the resentment lingers, it has transformed into an evil spirit to take revenge on this world," Han Keyun said. "I've caught it, hoping to dispel its resentment and let it return to the world."

"So that's how it is. I've learned so much again," Guo Shiyi said with a smile. "I feel like the villagers are quite innocent, suffering this disaster for no reason."

"It's hard to say that anyone is absolutely innocent. People in this world influence each other. A person's indifference, pettiness, or evil thought can all create a shared karma that will eventually affect everyone. I hope that everyone in this world can be more tolerant and kind," Han Keyun said with a sigh.

Guo Shiyi listened attentively to what Han Keyun said and said with deep agreement, "I completely agree with what Sister Keyun said, and I will learn more from Sister Keyun in the future."

After returning to school, Qin Xiaochuan and Guo Shiyi exited the illusion. Qin Xiaochuan checked the time and found that only two or three minutes had passed. It seemed that the time in the illusion was different from real time, which was very similar to dreaming.

Since they didn't want to waste any more time, Qin Xiaochuan and Guo Shiyi entered the illusion of the past again and chose the same room as before. When Qin Xiaochuan opened the door, a lot of information flooded into his mind. Qin Xiaochuan discovered that he had experienced things here before. Those things were like memory archives, and he could reload these memories from any point in time.

So Qin Xiaochuan chose to enter the room again the day after capturing Yan Yinpo, and then took Guo Shiyi's hand.

The torrential rain poured down from the sky like an unstoppable flood. Fortunately, the two had left in the shade of the courtyard last time, and when they came back in, they were in the same spot as when they left. Otherwise, they would be soaked to the bone by now.

The Han sisters, Han Keyun and Han Kexin, were not at their residence; they seemed to have gone out, leaving the courtyard empty.

"Splash, splash~" Rainwater kept falling from the locust tree, hitting the ground and splashing up countless tiny mud droplets. The rainwater flowed down the trunk, carving out small grooves at the roots.

"This rain is really heavy," Guo Shiyi remarked, gazing at the torrential downpour outside the shed.

"How about we choose a day with better weather?" Qin Xiaochuan said.

"No, it's summer now. It'll be cooler if it rains." With that, she used her spiritual power to conjure two simple bamboo hats in her hands, put one on Qin Xiaochuan's head, and said, "Let's go see what Sister Keyun and the others are doing now."

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