After sitting alone until the eastern sky grew pale, Black Snake rose and returned to his body.
With too much weighing on his mind today and no appetite, he climbed a large tree on the slope to gaze at the monastery, listening to the morning recitations and watching the Daoists sweep and clean.
Not long after the mountain gates opened, a group hurried onto the stone terrace.
Black Snake noticed that one person's heat signature was weak, heavy with yin energy and thin in yang energy.
Several of them ran into the Azure Cloud Monastery, crying out.
The respectably dressed elderly couple cried the loudest, clutching the Daoists' hands and pleading incoherently for them to save a life. Everyone hurried along at a trot, carrying a young man whose breath hung by a thread into a side hall.
Daoists made their way to the side hall one after another. Soon, chanting drifted out, and He Ning was busy running back and forth as well.
From the tree, Black Snake could just see through the doorway into the hall. His heat sense showed the elderly couple kneeling. They were probably the young man's parents. They kowtowed forcefully, again and again, the dull thuds carrying far.
He could not understand it, and it troubled him.
He stayed in the tree, staring blankly in silence and struggling to think.
After an unknown length of time, the crying and chanting gradually subsided. The Daoists emerged one after another. He Ning seemed to still be moving things inside the hall. The elderly parents helped the young man out, endlessly thanking the Daoists for saving his life.
It was too far away to see clearly. Black Snake only knew that a mysterious energy had appeared within the young man, suppressing his yin energy.
They went down