Emergency

"Big brothers, call me again next time you want to spar!" Duanyu Fan saw that he could no longer release his First Soul Skill, so he prepared to go cultivate in the Simulated Cultivation Environment.

"Heh!" Xie Yue and Yan watched Duanyu Fan walk away, speechless for a while.

"Holy Son! How did you come back so quickly from hunting a Soul Ring? I thought you'd be delayed for a few days." Xie Yue lay on the ground, very surprised.

"And you're still talking! I told you, if we were going to spar, we should do it somewhere hidden, but you just had to say the Holy Son wouldn't come back that quickly and spar in such an obvious place." Yan spoke to Xie Yue with a look of utter despair.

Duanyu Fan was also very puzzled. Neither of his Two Professions came with an ability like releasing Soul Skills on others and feeding Soul Power back to himself, so Duanyu Fan could only chalk it up to the system.

"It's been a year since this system appeared, and there's been no reaction at all. Looks like it's completely scrapped. Good thing it left behind this cultivation method." Duanyu Fan silently grumbled about the system that had appeared a year ago. Ever since last time, it had never appeared again.

In the blink of an eye, a month passed after Duanyu Fan returned from hunting his Soul Ring.

Recently, Bibi Dong had encountered an extremely troublesome incident. In several villages west of Spirit City, many people had become listless, their faces sallow with a hint of purplish blue, and they were also suffering from high fevers, repeated coughing, and a kind of weakness throughout their bodies.

At first, this situation appeared in one village. There were not many cases, only a few dozen villagers. Because the village was not far from Spirit City, the village chief reported it to the West Hall branch of Spirit Hall. Spirit City's West Hall sent support masters to the village to treat them, and they seemed to recover, but not long after, a few days later, the symptoms reappeared.

In just two short months, the villages near this village strangely developed the same symptoms. One spread to ten, ten spread to a hundred, and even the earliest batch had begun to die.

"What is going on! Didn't you go to the village to treat the villagers? Why is the situation getting worse and worse? Now even a few cases have appeared in the west city." West Hall Bishop Lin Zhengguang looked at the support-type healers of West Hall and shouted angrily. Vice Bishop Mo was here as well.

"Bishop, we did indeed go to Flowing Light Village. We personally watched the villagers recover completely before returning. And when we went the second time, there were actually a dozen more people. We cured them as well, but after only a few days, somehow it appeared again." The support master leading the team said in a low voice.

"Could it be the methods of an Evil Soul Master? Strange and hard to guard against. Evil Soul Masters appeared near Spirit City a year ago. Bishop, the urgent matter now is to report this to Your Majesty the Pope and save the villagers," Vice Bishop Mo suggested in a low voice.

"We do indeed need to report this to Your Majesty the Pope. Our West Hall can no longer control this matter. Vice Bishop Mo, go to the Pope Palace and inform Your Majesty the Pope of this truthfully!" Bishop Lin Zhengguang sighed helplessly. With this incident, his position as bishop was probably coming to an end.

"Yes, Bishop!" After receiving the order, Vice Bishop Mo walked out of the great hall.

"Have you controlled the few people who appeared in the west city?" Lin Zhengguang looked at the five support masters and said.

"Bishop, they have already been controlled, but I'm afraid it may already be too late. It seems this illness can spread to others. But there are many Soul Masters in the city, so it probably won't have much effect on Soul Masters, right?" the team leader said.

"Hurry and pass down my order to investigate. Gather together everyone these people have come into contact with and investigate them all," Bishop Lin Zhengguang hurriedly said.

"Yes, Bishop."

Vice Bishop Mo arrived at the Pope Palace and was stopped by the guards.

"Halt. Why have you come to the Pope Palace?"

"I am the Vice Bishop of West Hall. I have an important matter to report to Your Majesty the Pope! It is extremely urgent." Bishop Mo took out the Token proving his identity and handed it to the guard.

"Please wait a moment. I will go in and report." The guard checked it and, seeing no problem, entered the gate.

"Reporting to Your Majesty the Pope! Outside, the Vice Bishop of West Hall has an important matter to report to Your Majesty the Pope." After the guard came in, he knelt on one knee and spoke to Bibi Dong.

At this moment, there was only Bibi Dong in the great hall, along with her two trusted aides, Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo.

"Oh! Bring him in," Bibi Dong instructed the guard calmly.

"Yes, Your Majesty the Pope." The guard respectfully rose and retreated backward, taking a few steps before turning around and going out.

"Vice Bishop! Your Majesty the Pope invites you in!" After the guard came out, he immediately spoke.

"Many thanks!" Vice Bishop Mo said, then walked through the gate.

"Greetings, Your Majesty the Pope!" Vice Bishop Mo also knelt on one knee and spoke.

"Rise! Why have you suddenly come to the Pope Palace to report to me?" Bibi Dong recognized Steward Mo, whom she had met a year ago.

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Pope!" Bishop Mo said respectfully, then stood up and continued speaking.

"Reporting to Your Majesty the Pope, several villages near the west side of Spirit City have suddenly developed an illness. It seems like poisoning, and it can also spread to others."

"At first, it was a dozen or so people in Flowing Light Village who developed these symptoms. A month ago, our West Hall received the village chief's request, so we sent the support-type healers from West Hall."

"They arrived at Flowing Light Village that same day, personally watched the villagers recover completely, and only then returned to Spirit Hall. But seven days later, the village chief of Flowing Light Village came to West Hall again, and the village chief had also developed the same condition. We healed the village chief."

"Then we followed the village chief to Flowing Light Village again. The people who had been treated before had developed the symptoms again, and half the village had developed the same symptoms as well. This repeated over and over. Within a month, we received requests from five or six villages. Recently, several people with the same symptoms also appeared in the west city."

"So I suspect that an Evil Soul Master has put some unknown poison on the villagers. As a result, one infected ten, ten infected a hundred, and West Hall can no longer control it, so I came to disturb Your Majesty the Pope." Vice Bishop Mo truthfully reported the situation over the past month.

"Ghost Elder, organize ten Soul Saint-level support-type Soul Masters with healing abilities and have them go treat the villagers. Remember, after treatment, quarantine them all together and continue observing their condition. If anything happens, report to me at any time." After listening to Vice Bishop Mo's words, Bibi Dong made arrangements decisively.

"Also, organize teams to search for traces of Evil Soul Masters in Spirit City's west city and the surrounding villages. We must catch the Evil Soul Masters who like hiding in the shadows. Chrysanthemum Elder, you go help search for the Evil Soul Masters as well." Bibi Dong continued instructing Ghost Douluo.

"Yes, Your Majesty the Pope!" The two elders accepted the order and immediately went to make arrangements.

However, although they did treat the villagers, the illness relapsed again about seven days later, and even Soul Grandmaster-level people were also infected.

In another month, the symptoms began breaking out across the entire group of villages west of Spirit City, and they even spread to the west district of Spirit City. Bibi Dong immediately blocked everyone from the west city from entering the other three districts of Spirit City.

Bibi Dong had no choice but to call over Duanyu Fan, who was at the Academy, because Bibi Dong had thought of Duanyu Fan's Purification Ability and wanted to try seeing if it could resolve this poison.

Duanyu Fan had not heard this news. Information was already inconvenient to pass on, and on top of that, Duanyu Fan would meditate in the Simulated Cultivation Field from time to time, which lasted several days at once.

"Teacher, is something the matter for you to suddenly summon me?" Duanyu Fan asked in confusion.

"Xiao Fan, can the Purification Ability of your First Soul Skill cure any poison?" Bibi Dong said with a deeply worried expression.

"It should be able to, Teacher!"

Afterward, Bibi Dong told him about the situation that had occurred over the past two months.

"What! A plague." The moment Duanyu Fan heard this, he immediately understood the situation.

Duanyu Fan found it very strange. Something like a plague could actually appear on Douluo Continent too.

The contract was sent out and arranged several days ago, so why hasn't the status changed yet!