For a while now, the arrival of a certain troublesome little girl and her outrageous behavior had caused a string of incidents in the once peaceful and quiet Shengyu Village. Little by little, life there had become less tranquil.
What the simple villagers of Shengyu Village found even harder to accept was that, at some point, all the young people had started going astray. The boys no longer wanted to find decent jobs so they could marry, have children, and support their families. Instead, they were learning some inexplicable "immortal arts"?
As for some of the young women who were still unmarried, things were even worse!
They'd stopped cooking and doing needlework. All they did was run around with the boys all day, learning some so-called "great art" right alongside them.
The simple villagers of Shengyu Village couldn't understand or accept such things, no matter how they looked at it.
Of course, compared to the villagers who only grumbled about it, the three Miao travelers stranded at the inn for various reasons were actually having the worst time of all!
For some reason, every single person they'd chosen as a target had become a disciple of that so-called Flame Immortal.
The remote, picturesque Shengyu Village in Yuhang County, Hangzhou, wasn't very large. At most, it had just over thirty residents and a dozen households. There were only a handful of people suitable for their plans. And yet?
At first, they'd wanted to go after Granny Li, but Li Xiaoyao was a disciple of the Flame Immortal, so they hadn't dared act rashly.
With no choice, they'd just switched targets. They'd only just poisoned the salt seller—Old Wang next door—when Wang Xiaohu became a disciple of the Flame Immortal, too. The next day, the Flame Immortal healed the poisoned Old Wang