Chapter 1527 - 1520: The Mysterious Deaths Around Haotian Platform

Chapter 1527: Chapter 1520: The Mysterious Deaths Around Haotian Platform

Tu Suxuan had barely finished speaking when he saw a scorched creature lying in the courtyard.

A little fellow resembling a Rong Qiu was merrily munching away.

Tu Suxuan recognized that Rong Qiu; it was his third sister’s summoning spirit. Last time, at Kutuo River, it suddenly breathed fire and forced King Hua to retreat.

This little creature usually looked adorably harmless, but when eating...

Tu Suxuan stared in disbelief, his eyes wide.

Such a small creature managed to gnaw away a third of a bowl-sized "monster" in just a few blinks.

He only saw the flesh disappearing at an astonishing speed, but he couldn’t distinguish how the little thing was eating.

In Tu Suxuan’s arms, the little fox glanced at Rong Qiu, even devouring such low-level Spiritual Beast.

"Brother, did you manage to gather any news?"

Xin Lin had already collected the Spiritual Wisdom Grass. To achieve the best medicinal effects, it’s actually better not to brew it into medicine. She previously misled Bai You and Poison Venerable at the Daffodil Chamber of Commerce on purpose.

Bai You, unfamiliar with pharmacology, and Poison Venerable, who knew poisons but had little medical skill, were both misled by Xin Lin’s guidance. She imagined both of them were brewing the medicine by now.

Once the Spiritual Wisdom Grass is brewed into medicine, it depletes quickly.

Seeing Tu Suxuan return, Xin Lin knew he must have brought news.

Several mysterious events occurred in Wangjing; Xin Lin suspected ghostly apparitions were involved.

But if they were ghosts, besides affecting local livestock and plants, there wasn’t anything else, which seemed odd.

If they were ghostly apparitions wanting to cultivate more quickly, human Essence Qi would deplete faster, so Xin Lin thought there might be more behind it.

"I did gather some news indeed. You guessed right; those mysterious events largely occurred near the Haotian Platform. Look, here’s the information I obtained."

Tu Suxuan utilized some connections to gather information from the county government.

He organized the data and drew a map, discovering the first instance of Essence Qi consumption happened about two and a half months ago.

At that time, it coincided with Crown Prince Yuan taking over the arrangements for the Hao Tian Festival.

Nearby, at a flower bed east of the Haotian Platform, a hundred-year-old cypress tree withered overnight.

Naturally, it was only a cypress tree, so at the time, no one in the city paid attention.

Later, around the same distance, a few patrolling city guards found several horses tied by the roadside dead after their night patrol.

Those horses were fine, sturdy military horses without any issues, yet overnight they died in an eerily strange manner, utterly parched, without a single wound...

"After that, about a mile and a half and expanding outward—from plants to horses, cows, and sheep—approximately in the last half month, it spread to those vendors’ stalls and homes we visited this morning."

Tu Suxuan didn’t realize the severity until he gathered the information.

Not mentioning anything else, just the hundreds of inexplicably dead livestock and plants wouldn’t happen this frequently in usual years.

Moreover, it’s continuously spreading, with the map’s center precisely at the Haotian Platform.

Had Xin Lin not brought this up, Tu Suxuan wouldn’t have noticed.

There were some explanations among the locals, but due to the imminent Hao Tian Festival, repeated county government investigations found no traces or signs of foul play, so eventually, the matter faded into obscurity, and the residents soon forgot about it.