Awakening

After briefly explaining what they had discovered to Jiang Youfu, the two headed towards the man.

Let's go take a look first.

Upon arriving at the spot where the person was lying, Lin Xiao stopped Jiang Youfu from going over to help him up and stepped forward himself.

Walking up to the man, Lin Xiao saw that his breathing remained unchanged and he was not moving at all, so he carefully bent down and turned the man over.

The person was turned around, and his face revealed him to be a very young man.

She looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old.

His face was covered in blood and grime, making his features unclear.

But Lin Xiao felt that this person looked somewhat familiar.

After thinking for a moment, he used a Dust Removal Technique on the person's face, and the next moment, a clean and fair face appeared in front of him.

Looking at that rather familiar face, Lin Xiao thought for a moment and then remembered.

This person turned out to be the Qi Refining cultivator he had encountered in the Green Field Mystic Realm who was being besieged.

Lin Xiao subconsciously probed his cultivation level.

Unexpectedly, a year later, he was still only at the Qi Refining Stage.

I vaguely remember this person being a disciple of the Heavenly Profound Sect?

It seems to be called... Oh, Yuan Qing.

It's unbelievable that a disciple of a renowned sect like Heavenly Profound Sect would fall into such a predicament.

But considering that this person was also besieged in the next secret realm, it's not too surprising that he ended up like this now.

Seeing that Xiao Ge'er had been staring at the man's face without moving after turning him over, Jiang Youfu Brother Xiao, standing to the side, wondered what was wrong and asked nervously:

"Brother Xiao, what's wrong with this guy?"

Lin Xiao snapped out of his daze and turned to him, saying:

"I've met this person once before. It's not convenient to talk here, let's take him back first."

At this moment, Liao Pantu, who had already confirmed with Soul-Nourishing Pendant that the current situation posed no threat to him, spoke up to remind him:

"This man clearly has enemies. If his enemies are in Yuanling City, it would be easy for us to be discovered if we just take him back like this."

Lin Xiao had naturally thought of this problem.

He sighed and took out the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation Disk.

Fortunately, this place isn't too far from Yuanling City, so even if we use this formation to teleport in, it won't cost many Spirit Stone.

However, it's still a bit more expensive than paying the city entry fee.

"I'll take him inside. Senior Liao, why don't you and Fuzi go through the city gate?"

Seemingly unable to bear his stingy behavior, the Spirit Stone flew out of the Soul-Nourishing Pendant and gave it to him:

"Look at you, so stingy! Take it!"

Looking at the Spirit Stone in his hand, Lin Xiao felt somewhat helpless:

"Aren't your Spirit Stone still Spirit Stone? I'm just trying to avoid wasting them, okay?"

But he knew that Senior Liao meant that the four of them should go back together to save trouble, so he didn't mention letting them go through the city gate again. He found a secluded place, picked up Yuan Qing, and activated the Heaven and Earth Transposition Formation Disk.

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Yuan Qing opened his eyes again and saw wooden beams.

The pain and sticky feeling in his body had disappeared, but he was still extremely weak and could hardly move.

He felt a sense of bewilderment as he realized that his clothes had been changed into ordinary mortal clothing that he hadn't worn for many years.

It took him a while to remember that he had been chased in the wilderness and had only managed to escape by burning his life Essence Blood using a Lineage secret technique.

But given his condition at the time, his Spiritual Power was exhausted, his Essence Blood were depleted, and he was covered in serious injuries, making him almost as good as dead.

He simply didn't want to die at the hands of those people, so he used his last breath and disregarded his own life to escape using Lineage secret technique.

But given the current situation...

Am I dead?

Or... were they rescued?

He turned his head with difficulty, and what he saw was an ordinary room, empty and without a single person in it.

Confirming that he was indeed alive, Yuan Qing smiled bitterly from his bedside.

I never imagined that someone would come to my rescue in my predicament...

He could feel his wounds healing, which suggested that the person who saved him had used the finest medicine.

In this world, there are still kind people who would come to his rescue...

No, that's not right.

It's quite possible that the person who saved him knew him, knew he was from the Yuan Household, and wanted to exchange him for some benefit from the Yuan Household, which is why they saved him.

This is the reasonable approach.

However, it seems this person's idea is going to be in vain.

He forced a bitter smile.

As a disciple who had been expelled from the sect, he couldn't gain much benefit from the Yuan Household.

I wonder if this benefactor will be furious when he finds out his precious elixir has been wasted.

Thinking about it, he felt a little tired and gently closed his eyes again.

Forget it, I'm just a worthless life now anyway, let whoever wants it take it.

The exhaustion from recovering from serious injuries overwhelmed him instantly, and he fell into a deep sleep again.

When Yuan Qing woke up again, he was awakened by the noise around him.

He heard someone speaking softly to someone not far from the bed:

"Brother Xiao, do you think this person might not wake up?"

Clearly, although Jiang Youfu had been at the Foundation Establishment Realm for a long time, he still did not have the habit of using his Divine Sense to investigate others.

But Lin Xiao is different.

He kept a close eye on Yuan Qing's movements on the bed, lest Yuan Qing overhear something he shouldn't.

So right now, as soon as Yuan Qing woke up, Lin Xiao knew.

Then, Yuan Qing, who had just woken up, heard another voice that seemed somewhat familiar to him say:

"No, he's already awake."

But for a moment, he couldn't recall where he had heard that voice before.

These two people speaking must be his saviors.

Realizing that the other person had noticed he was awake, Yuan Qing stopped pretending to be asleep, opened his eyes, and turned to look in the direction of the person who had spoken.

"Many thanks to you two benefactors for saving me. I Yuan Qing, will certainly..."

Before he could finish speaking, Yuan Qing looked at the face of one of the people sitting at the table and fell silent.

Lin Xiao raised an eyebrow and said:

"You seemed to have said the same thing last time."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Qing finally came to his senses and stammered:

"My benefactor..."

Recalling how Lin Xiao had saved him in the secret realm, Yuan Qing suddenly felt ashamed of the speculations and conjectures he had made when he first woke up.

This was the only person, besides his closest relatives, who had selflessly extended a helping hand to him in times of crisis, and twice at that.

"I told you not to call me that, doesn't it feel awkward?"

Yuan Qing stared blankly at him and shook his head.

Lin Xiao helplessly shrugged:

"But it sounds awkward to me. Please don't call me that anymore. If you don't know what to call me but still have to, just call me Fellow Daoist Lin."

Without waiting for Yuan Qing's reply, Lin Xiao asked again:

"What's wrong with you now? Are you so hateful? I get beaten up every time I run into you."

Jiang Youfu, who was standing to the side, added:

"Aren't you a disciple of that powerful Heavenly Profound Sect?"