I was just making up techniques… how did all of you become Emperors? - Chapter 632 The Terrifying Plague
Chapter 632 The Terrifying Plague
“Jiuwu, are you sure you want just one follower?”
Madam Ji looked at her son with a puzzled expression after those seven little fellows had left and asked.
Ji Jiuwu explained: “Mother, the number of attendants doesn’t hold much meaning for me. As long as I am strong enough, there will be an endless stream of followers.”
Hearing this, Madam Ji said with a face full of relief: “My son has finally grown up.”
Ji Jiuwu scratched his head: “Mother, don’t be like this, I’m not quite used to it.”
“Alright, I won’t delay you any further, I’m heading back to the backyard.”
After saying this, Madam Ji turned and walked towards the backyard.
Ji Jiuwu said to Quanya, who was standing silently to the side: “Quanya, take this Young Master for a stroll around the tribe’s outskirts.”
“Young Master, where do you wish to go?”
Quanya didn’t know what the Young Master wanted to do, so for a moment, he didn’t know where to take him.
Ji Jiuwu said indifferently: “Let’s go fishing at the Long River. I haven’t fished in a long time and somewhat miss the feeling of fishing from when I was young.”
“As you command.”
After responding, Quanya said: “Young Master, please wait a moment. I will go prepare the fishing tools.”
Ji Jiuwu said: “No need for the trouble. Get a steward from the residence to bring two fishing rods; we’ll just have some casual fun.”
Quanya: “Okay.”
Soon, the two of them rode horses and left the Long River Tribe lightly, traveling slowly towards the Long River.
Meanwhile, ten thousand li away at the Sky Fire Tribe, unlike the liveliness and joy of the Long River Tribe, the Sky Fire Tribe was currently shrouded in a plague, and everyone was in a state of panic.
To prevent the plague from spreading, the Sky Fire Tribe expelled anyone infected with the plague, imprisoning them in a closed-off valley. If anyone infected with the plague died, soldiers of the Raging Fire Tribe would burn them on the spot.
However, even so, the plague in the Sky Fire Tribe was still not effectively controlled, and every day many people were sent into the valley due to infection.
Even the nobles within the tribe were no exception. On this day, a young man of extraordinary and handsome appearance arrived outside the Sky Fire Tribe, covered in the dust of travel.
Currently, the Sky Fire Tribe only allowed exit but not entry. He had just arrived at the city gate when his path was blocked by soldiers.
“Halt!”
Jiang Yan looked at the stance of these soldiers before him, revealing a puzzled expression on his face, and spoke: “I am the clan leader’s grandson, Jiang Yan. Here is the jade pendant.”
As he spoke, Jiang Yan took out a fire-red jade pendant from his waist and shook it before the group of soldiers.
Seeing this jade pendant, the soldiers hurriedly dropped to one knee and said: “We greet the Eldest Grandson Lord. However, the High Priest and the clan leader have ordered that our Sky Fire Tribe may only exit and not enter. We hope the Eldest Grandson Lord will forgive us.”
Hearing this, Jiang Yan furrowed his brows subconsciously. Just as he was about to ask what exactly had happened in the tribe, the city gates opened, and a carriage slowly drove out from the city.
With just one glance, Jiang Yan saw the emblem of their Sky Fire Tribe carved on the carriage.
This was his family’s carriage; who exactly was sitting inside?
The soldiers guarding the city gate saw the carriage appear and one by one moved away from it as if they had seen something terrifying.
Only Jiang Yan stood still in his original spot. Just as the carriage was about to reach him, he spoke: “Stop.”
Woo…
The carriage driver pulled on the reins, stopping the carriage. The driver was about to get angry when he saw the young man before him raise a token unique to the Sky Fire Jiang family.
He hurriedly jumped down from the carriage and said: “I greet the Eldest Grandson Lord.”
“Spare the etiquette.”
Jiang Yan continued to ask: “Who is in this carriage, and where are you going?”
Hearing this, the driver revealed a look of puzzlement, but he still answered honestly: “Replying to the Eldest Grandson Lord, the Sixth Madam and the Thirteenth Young Miss are in the carriage. They have both contracted the plague, and the Master ordered me to take them to Red Maple Valley.”
“What?”
When Jiang Yan heard the three words “Red Maple Valley,” his face changed drastically. Although the name Red Maple Valley sounded pleasant, it was actually a place where the Sky Fire Tribe exiled criminals and served as a mass grave.
Sending the Sixth Aunt and Little Thirteen there was effectively taking their lives.
He asked with a somber face: “Isn’t it just a mere plague? Why must you send these two to Red Maple Valley?”
“Eldest Grandson Lord, this plague is incurable. Anyone who contracts the plague is doomed to die. Although the Sixth Madam can still speak now, the Thirteenth Young Miss doesn’t have much breath left. If we don’t send them away soon, the entire Young Master’s Residence will be destroyed.”
As soon as the driver mentioned the word plague, a terrified expression appeared on his face. He didn’t want to send these two nobles out of the city at all; if they left, they wouldn’t come back.
However, his son had committed a crime, and the only way to let his son escape punishment was to send these two nobles out of the city.
For the sake of his son, the driver ultimately decided to sacrifice his own life.
“Let me see them.”
As Jiang Yan spoke, he walked toward the carriage.
This action drew shock from everyone around. The captain of the city guard hurriedly rushed forward and knelt in front of Jiang Yan: “Eldest Grandson Lord, this must not be done. If anything happens to you, all of us will be punished by the clan leader.”
Jiang Yan’s status in the Sky Fire Tribe was not low. In everyone’s eyes, he was the future clan leader. The current Young Master owed his status entirely to this Eldest Grandson Lord before them.
Seeing this, the other soldiers also stepped forward one after another to kneel and block Jiang Yan’s path.
“Are you all trying to teach this Young Master how to act?”
As Jiang Yan spoke, the pressure on his body also radiated out. Feeling this terrifying pressure coming from him, those present revealed expressions of shock.
The captain of the guard muttered: “True Blood Realm… Eldest Grandson Lord, how have you become a True Blood expert?”
“This is not something you can inquire about. Do you still wish to stop me now?”
Jiang Yan’s tone carried a manner that brooked no refusal.
The members of the guard squad broke out in cold sweat on their foreheads. The captain wanted to commit suicide by drawing his sword to force the Eldest Grandson back, but he discovered to his horror that the Eldest Grandson’s True Blood Realm was different from other True Blood experts.
The pressure radiating from his body approached that of the Condensing Spirit Realm, leaving him unable to move in the slightest.
He hurriedly said: “We dare not. Please withdraw your pressure, Eldest Grandson Lord.”
“Hmph!”
Jiang Yan let out a cold snort and ignored the group of soldiers. Under the terrified gazes of the crowd, he boarded the carriage.
Seeing this, the guard captain hurriedly took out a bamboo tube from his waist. After pulling it open, accompanied by a whoosh, a ball of firelight shot straight into the sky and exploded overhead.
This was the city guard squad’s emergency communication method. Unless a major event occurred, he would not dare to use this method to send a message under normal circumstances.
Jiang Yan naturally heard the explosion, but he didn’t care. In his view, there was no plague in this world that he couldn’t solve.
As soon as he entered the carriage, he smelled a foul stench, which nearly made him vomit.
He endured the foul stench and looked inside the carriage. He saw that Little Thirteen’s face was black at this moment, and black blood would occasionally spill from the corners of her mouth. The foul stench he had smelled earlier came from here.
On the side, the Sixth Aunt’s face was also covered in black lines. These dense black lines were constantly spreading, and within a few hours, they would cover the Sixth Aunt’s entire body.
Jiang Yan had never seen this type of plague before, but he wasn’t worried. Over the past three years, he had refined many spirit pills for detoxification and removing poisons.
Even his master had praised that the pills he refined could cure any poison under the Half-Saint level.
He took out an exquisite porcelain bottle from his storage bag. Inside were pills he had refined using high-quality spiritual medicines.
He poured out one pill from it, then split the pill into two halves. He carefully fed them into the mouths of the two and then used spiritual energy to help them swallow it.
The Sixth Aunt and Little Thirteen had average cultivation bases. If they were made to swallow an entire pill at once, the medicinal power alone would burst their bodies.
Just as Jiang Yan was treating his aunt and younger sister for the plague, unrest also broke out within the Sky Fire Tribe.
Over a thousand soldiers surrounded the Young Clan Leader’s residence. Leading them was a middle-aged man with a rough face and a tall stature. He held a giant hammer in his hand and rode a Fire Lion, looking particularly terrifying.
He shouted at the top of his lungs: “Big brother, don’t think you can secretly send people away and hide it from our eyes! If everyone in your residence doesn’t leave the city together today, then let this younger brother send your whole family, old and young, out of the city!”
Such a massive commotion naturally alarmed the households within several miles. The people living around the Young Clan Leader’s residence were either rich or noble.
For a time, the attention of the high-level members of the Sky Fire Tribe was focused on the Young Clan Leader’s residence.
Inside the residence, the Young Clan Leader Jiang Qi wore a face full of worry. He thought his actions had been airtight. He never expected that he had just sent the people away, and his reckless second brother would bring people to the door right after him.
What should be done now?
The others were not doing any better. All the women and children hid in their own courtyards, shivering. They dared not go out, partly for fear of contracting the plague, and partly for fear of being forcibly taken out of the city.
Outside the residence, the Jiang Second Master saw that his big brother dared not respond to his words, and his heart felt incredibly gratified.
He thought: I finally waited for this opportunity!
He opened his mouth again: “Big brother, don’t say that I, your brother, am heartless. If you don’t come out within a quarter of an hour, then we are going in!”
Before his voice had faded, a loud noise suddenly came from the direction of the South City Gate. Everyone raised their heads to look and saw that it was an emergency signal.
The atmosphere in the city changed once again, and everyone’s attention was drawn to the direction of the South City Gate…
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