Many of the children seemed to be sick. Each one was frail and filthy, and hardly any of them were clean.
Some of the children had already been tormented until they were sallow and emaciated. The innkeeper was shocked when he saw them.
Only then did he remember that these children had just been carried out of those rooms.
The innkeeper knew that those rooms had always been occupied by that old Taoist priest.
After renting the rooms, the Taoist priest had told them not to go near them.
There was no need to clean the rooms, nor was there any need to provide any services. At the time, the innkeeper had thought the priest was cultivating.
After all, the priest had seemed quite mysterious. Although immortals had rarely appeared in their city,
he had an air of transcendence about him, so they assumed that the old Taoist priest was a cultivator.
Cultivators surely had mysterious matters to attend to, which was why he had forbidden ordinary people like them from approaching those rooms.
Thus, the innkeeper and the waiter had never suspected that the old Taoist priest was doing anything wicked.
But now, seeing this helpless group of children, with several of them on the verge of death and apparently ill,
the innkeeper immediately panicked. What was he supposed to do? Would the authorities arrest him as well?
Would they say he was an accomplice? Li Changsheng, Immortal Lord Miaoyi, Li Xue, and Sun Hongyu walked toward the sick children.
Preparing to Wait Outside the Inn to Catch the Fake Taoist Priest
They each took out Healing Pills they had refined and gave them to the children.
After finishing this, Li Changsheng stood up and said to the still-dazed waiter beside him,
"Hurry and report this to the authorities.