Volume One, Chapter 292
They entered a large tent. On the bed lay a gaunt man, his body covered in a layer of white frost as painful groans escaped him.
Beside him stood a woman around thirty-seven or thirty-eight, voluptuous in figure, sweet-faced, with her white hair coiled up.
She was the chieftain of this tribe, named Xue Yan.
Xue Qiao smiled. "Grandma! I brought someone here!"
Xue Yan frowned slightly. "Didn't I order that outsiders were not to be allowed in? Why did you bring someone inside?"
Xue Qiao said, "Grandma, don't be angry yet. He came here to investigate the strange incidents, and he said he might be able to solve our tribe's troubles."
Xue Yan looked somewhat surprised. Her eyes turned to Zhao Fu as she asked, "Do you truly have a way to solve this?"
Zhao Fu said, "That depends on the exact circumstances."
A faint smile appeared on Xue Yan's face. "Then come take a look now!" She pointed at the man lying beside her.
Zhao Fu said, "Could you first tell me exactly what happened here?"
After thinking for a moment, Xue Yan said, "It started nearly a month ago. Some of our people drank a mouthful of Pure Water from a well and contracted this strange illness. Their bodies gradually grew colder and formed a kind of frost, and the process was extremely painful."
Zhao Fu nodded and looked at the man. As he carefully sensed him, he discovered blue aura rising from the man's body rather than blue motes of light.
However, he could confirm that this was related to the Eightfold Water World, because that blue aura was also the power of the Eightfold Water World.
Zhao Fu then stepped forward and stretched out a hand, sending a stream of power