Chapter 9: Clues to the Fairy

“Huh?”

Hearing Lin Fan ask this, Bai Ling couldn’t help but be a bit dumbfounded.

Just as Bai Ling was about to explain, Lin Fan had already walked over to the “zongzi.”

“This… there’s a person inside here?!”

After getting a clear look at the situation inside the “zongzi,” Lin Fan couldn’t help but turn pale with shock.

“Ling’er, what… what is going on?!”

“Master, actually, this is…”

Before Bai Ling could finish speaking, Lin Fan had already dragged the “zongzi” inside.

“You watch him first, Master will go look for some healing medicine.”

“Oh, okay!”

Bai Ling replied, then bent down and began to unwrap the “zongzi” layer by layer.

“Am I… am I… in heaven…”

Feeling the jostling stop, the middle-aged uncle asked, his breath as faint as a thread.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m truly sorry!”

Bai Ling put her hands together and apologized repeatedly.

“My strength is too small, I had no choice~ but to resort to such a measure!”

In the main house, Lin Fan was frantically rummaging through a pile of medicinal herbs.

“This one… no…”

“This one… also no…”

Even with a huge pile of heavenly materials and earthly treasures, he couldn’t find a single healing medicine that a mortal could use.

After a bout of aimless searching, Lin Fan’s mood gradually became irritable.

“Which one can actually be used!”

[Yo~ Since when did our great Demon Lord become so warm-hearted? Actually starting to care about the life and death of a mortal?]

Just as Lin Fan was going crazy, the System’s faint voice echoed in his mind.

“Cut the crap!”

Lin Fan snapped in a low voice.

“Hurry up and tell me which one I can use!”

[Uh… it’s not me, but is this how you usually ask people for help?]

The System was rendered speechless by Lin Fan’s tone.

[Forget it, forget it, this System is in a good mood today, so I’ll make an exception and tell you.]

[Although mortals can’t withstand the medicinal power of immortal medicines, you can dilute it~]

“Hm?”

Lin Fan was stunned for a few seconds, then slapped his thigh.

“How did I not think of that!”

“Master—are you done yet?”

In the courtyard, Bai Ling looked at the dying middle-aged uncle and called out anxiously.

“Coming, coming!”

Lin Fan carried a small bowl out from the house and brought it to the middle-aged uncle’s mouth.

“Open up.”

The moment the medicinal liquid went down his throat, the wounds on the middle-aged uncle’s body began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the blink of an eye, his entire body was restored to its original state.

“This… how can this be?!”

The middle-aged uncle sat up from the ground, his cloudy eyes filled with shock.

“Ling’er, tell Master, what exactly happened here?”

Lin Fan pulled Bai Ling aside to ask.

“It’s like this…”

Bai Ling gave Lin Fan a concise description of what had transpired.

“So that’s how it is…”

Lin Fan beckoned to the middle-aged uncle.

“Uncle, you must be hungry, right? Come eat with us~”

However, the middle-aged uncle just stood there, still in a daze.

It was obvious he hadn’t yet recovered from what had just happened.

“Uncle?”

Seeing that Lin Fan’s call had no effect, Bai Ling also tried calling out tentatively.

“Ah? Ah… okay!”

Originally, the middle-aged uncle had planned to say his goodbyes and leave, then pay a visit another day to express his thanks.

After all, his attire was too shabby, and sitting at the table would truly be a blot on the landscape.

But after smelling the aroma of the meat, the middle-aged uncle’s stomach immediately growled in defiance.

“Uncle, why are you sitting so far away?”

Lin Fan gestured to the middle-aged uncle.

“Sit closer, it’s no trouble!”

Looking at the amiable Lin Fan, Bai Ling’s heart was suddenly filled with a sense of happiness—‘Master is really so approachable…’

At this time, Lin Fan also noticed the change in Bai Ling’s expression.

‘Excellent, I’ve left another good impression on my dear disciple…’

“I-I’m intruding…”

The middle-aged uncle sat down timidly.
Looking at the grilled fish on the table, his eyes widened so much they almost popped out.

“Th-th-this…”

The middle-aged uncle’s voice began to tremble.

“This fish… why is it so big?!”

“A country bumpkin is a country bumpkin, making a big fuss over a small thing~”

Just as the middle-aged uncle was in shock, a grass carp swam over and spoke in a mocking tone.

“The… the fish can talk?!”

Seeing this, the middle-aged uncle was even more shocked and began to suspect he was dreaming.

“Stop pinching your thigh, you’re not dreaming. The reason this fish can talk is because this fish’s body contains the bloodline of a true dragon, you know~”

Probably because boasting didn’t cost anything, the grass carp spouted nonsense with a straight face.

“A true dragon!”

That was a race worshipped by the vast majority of mortals!

Hearing this, the middle-aged uncle was so scared that he immediately dropped his chopsticks and was about to kneel in worship.

“Hold it!”

Seeing this grass carp being so arrogant, Lin Fan couldn’t bear it anymore.

“Ling’er, I have a task for you. Go bite this grass carp to death!”

“Alright, Master!”

Ever since leaving her clan, Bai Ling hadn’t eaten such a plump and delicious fish raw in a long time.

Now that the opportunity was right in front of her, Bai Ling couldn’t help but lick her lips.

“No… no!”

Watching Bai Ling approach it step by step, the grass carp was terrified.

“Sir~ I was wrong! I’ll never spout nonsense again!”

With that, the grass carp zipped away and dove to the bottom of the pond.

“Alright~”

Lin Fan beckoned to Bai Ling.

“Come back.”

“Uncle, may I ask your esteemed surname?”

Lin Fan asked with a friendly expression.

“Esteemed is too much!”

The middle-aged uncle waved his hands repeatedly.

“My surname is Xiao, and my given name is a single character, ‘Nan’.”

“So it’s Uncle Xiao Nan!”

Lin Fan enthusiastically poured wine for Xiao Nan.

“I wonder how Uncle Xiao Nan encountered such a demonic beast?”

“Sigh!”

Hearing this, Xiao Nan let out a heavy sigh.
“It’s a long story!”

“Originally, I wanted to go up the mountain to pick some wild fruits for my children at home to enjoy. I heard there were many wild fruit trees at the summit of Green Peak Mountain. So I thought I’d try my luck, but who would have thought…”

“So this mountain is called Green Peak Mountain…”

Lin Fan muttered to himself.

“Sorry, I interrupted you just now. Please continue.”

“Who would have thought that just as I found a decent wild jujube tree, in the next second, I was targeted by that d*mned Two-Headed Eagle. If not for this young lady’s timely arrival, I’m afraid today… I would have died on the spot…”

After speaking, Xiao Nan took out a somewhat worn cloth pouch from his bosom.

“Young lady, my family is poor, I don’t have anything of value to offer. This hairpin was given to me by a young lady back then. It’s worth a little something, so please take it as a thank-you gift from this uncle…”

“No, no, Uncle Xiao, I can’t accept it!”

Bai Ling waved her hands repeatedly, refusing.

“Take it, this hairpin is very beautiful. A kind-hearted and beautiful girl like you would look just right wearing it,”

Xiao Nan insisted.

“No, Uncle Xiao…”

Just as the two were pushing it back and forth, Lin Fan suddenly noticed that the guiding stone on the table was emitting a faint glow.

“Wait a minute!”

Lin Fan shouted.

“Uncle Xiao Nan, this hairpin… could you let me see it?”

“Senior is interested in this?”

Xiao Nan respectfully handed the hairpin over.

Lin Fan took the hairpin and immediately placed it on top of the guiding stone.

The moment the hairpin got close to the guiding stone, the light it emitted intensified slightly.

“As I thought!”

Lin Fan was overjoyed—now he could be sure, this hairpin was, in all likelihood, an item belonging to one of the reincarnated fairies.

“Uncle Xiao Nan, can you tell me… where did this hairpin come from?”

“It was given to me by a young lady who was acting righteously.”

Xiao Nan explained.

“Back then, my family’s situation was fairly good; we owned a tavern in the city. But one day, a group of ruffians barged in, claiming our tavern had stolen their business. Not only did they smash up my shop, but they also threatened to kill my family.”

“Fortunately, a young lady intervened in time, and that’s how our whole family’s lives were saved. Before she left, the young lady gave me this hairpin, saying that if I ever needed help in the future, I could use this item to find her at the Heaven Sword Sect.”

“Heaven Sword Sect?”

Lin Fan heard the clue.

“Where is that?”

“This… I don’t know either.”

Xiao Nan scratched his head, a little embarrassed.

“The Xianling Continent has numerous sects. Mortals like us have no understanding of the various sects’ situations at all. Let alone the specific location of a sect…”

[The Heaven Sword Sect is located in Heaven Sword City in the northwestern part of the Xianling Continent. The sect has a total of 50,018 members. The current Sect Master is Ye Qingxuan, at the peak of the Great Ascension Realm.]

The System suddenly popped up to explain.

“Not bad,”

Lin Fan praised.

“I didn’t expect… you’re actually quite useful sometimes.”

[What do you mean… useful sometimes?! I’ve always been very useful, okay!]

Hearing Lin Fan say this, the System couldn’t help but go a little crazy.

“Uncle Xiao Nan,”

Lin Fan said with a solemn expression.

“It’s like this—this hairpin is very important to me. I wonder if Uncle Xiao Nan would be willing… to part with it and sell it to me?”

“What sell or not sell,”

Xiao Nan waved his hand.

“If Senior likes it, just take it!”

“That won’t do.”

Lin Fan took out a money pouch from his sleeve.

“This is ten thousand spirit stones. It should be enough to ensure your family’s food and clothing.”

Lin Fan was not wrong.

In Qingyang City, let alone ten thousand spirit stones, even one thousand spirit stones would be enough for an ordinary person to live extravagantly for a lifetime.

“Ten thousand spirit stones?!”

Hearing this, Xiao Nan was so scared he stood up on the spot.

“No, no, this is too valuable, I can’t accept it!”

“Take it,”

Lin Fan said faintly.

“This is what you deserve.”

With that, Lin Fan gently waved his sleeve.
Xiao Nan only felt his vision go black, and when he opened his eyes again, he was already standing at the foot of the mountain.

“Spatial magic!”

Xiao Nan was utterly shocked.

“Senior is indeed a reclusive great power!”

Although Xiao Nan didn’t understand the realms of cultivators, when he was a tavern owner, he had often heard the guests in his shop mention it.

Spatial magic could only be cast by great powers at the Immortal realm and above.

Thinking of this, Xiao Nan’s expression grew even more solemn.

After a long while, he knelt on the ground and, facing the direction where Lin Fan was, silently kowtowed three times.

“Let’s go too,”

Lin Fan said with a composed demeanor.

“Target—Heaven Sword City.”