Awakening

After briefly explaining his findings to Jiang Youfu, the two walked toward the person's direction.

They decided to take a look first.

Arriving at where the person lay, Lin Xiao stopped Jiang Youfu from rushing over to help and stepped forward himself.

Standing beside the person, Lin Xiao saw that his aura remained unchanged and his body was completely motionless. Only then did he cautiously bend down and roll the person over.

Once turned over, the face revealed a very young man.

He looked only sixteen or seventeen years old.

However, his face was covered in blood and dirt, making it hard to see his exact features.

But looking at him, Lin Xiao felt that this person was somewhat familiar.

After a moment of thought, he cast a Cleansing Spell on the person's face. The next moment, a clean and fair face appeared before him.

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

This was actually the Qi Refining cultivator he had encountered being besieged in the Green Field Mystic Realm.

Lin Xiao subconsciously probed his cultivation.

To think that a year had passed, and he was still in the Qi Refining stage.

He vaguely remembered that this person seemed to be a disciple of the Tianxuan Sect?

His name seemed to be... oh, Yuan Qing.

He never expected that a disciple from a renowned major sect like the Tianxuan Sect would fall into such a state.

But considering this person was also besieged when he entered the mystic realm back then, it did not seem too strange for him to end up like this now.

Beside him, Jiang Youfu saw that after Brother Xiao turned the person over, he just stared at the person's face without moving. Thinking something was wrong, he could not help but ask nervously:

"Brother Xiao, what is wrong with this person?"

Lin Xiao snapped back to reality, turned to him, and said:

"I have met this person once before. It is not convenient to talk here, let us take him back first."

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

"This person clearly has enemies. If his enemies are in Yuanling City, taking him back just like this would make us easily discovered."

Lin Xiao naturally had thought of this problem.

So he let out a long sigh and took out the Heaven and Earth Shifting Array Disk.

Fortunately, this place was not too far from inside Yuanling City. Even if he used this array to teleport in, it would not cost many spirit stones.

But it was still a bit more expensive than paying the city entrance fee.

"I will teleport in with him. Senior Liao, how about you and Fuzi go through the city gates?"

As if unable to stand his stingy appearance, a hundred spirit stones flew directly out of the Soul-Nourishing Pendant to him:

"Look at how petty you are being, take it!"

Looking at the spirit stones in his hand, Lin Xiao felt a bit helpless:

"Are your spirit stones not also spirit stones? I am just reasonably avoiding waste, okay?"

But he also knew that Senior Liao's intention was for all four of them to just go back together to save trouble. So he did not bring up making them walk through the city gates again. He directly found a hidden spot, hoisted Yuan Qing onto his shoulder, and activated the Heaven and Earth Shifting Array Disk.

When Yuan Qing opened his eyes again, he saw wooden ceiling beams.

The pain and sticky feeling of dirt on his body had quietly vanished, but his body was still severely drained of strength, making it difficult for him to move.

Feeling that the clothes on his body had been changed into ordinary mortal garments that he had not worn in many years, he felt a bit dazed in his heart.

After a good while, he remembered that he had been hunted down in the wilderness earlier, and only managed to escape by relying on a secret family technique to burn his life essence.

But given his condition at that time—spiritual energy depleted, life essence drained, and suffering from severe injuries—he was practically a dead man.

He just did not want to die at the hands of those people, so he risked his last breath, disregarding his own life or death, to use the family secret technique to flee far away.

But looking at the current situation...

Was he dead?

Or... was he saved?

He struggled to turn his head slightly. What entered his vision was an ordinary room, completely empty with no one around.

Confirming that he was indeed alive, Yuan Qing on the bed gave a miserable smile.

To think that in such a desperate situation, he actually encountered someone to save him...

Feeling that the injuries on his body seemed to be healing, he figured that the person who saved him must have used top-grade pills.

To think there were still good people in this world who would lend a hand to save him...

No, that is not right.

It was highly likely that the person who saved him knew him, knew he was from the Yuan family, and wanted to use him to exchange for some benefits from the Yuan family, which was why they saved him.

This was the only logical explanation.

However, he was afraid this person's plans were going to go down the drain.

He mournfully twitched the corners of his mouth.

As a disciple who had been expelled from his sect, he would not be able to fetch much in exchange from the Yuan family.

He wondered if this benefactor would fly into a rage out of humiliation upon learning that his good pills were wasted.

Thinking of this, he felt a bit exhausted and gently closed his eyes again.

Forget it, his life was worthless now anyway. Whoever wanted to take it, could just take it.

The exhaustion of recovering from severe injuries instantly surged forward, and he fell into a deep sleep again.

When Yuan Qing woke up again, it was because he was awakened by noises around him.

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

"Brother Xiao, do you think this person might never wake up?"

Obviously, even though Jiang Youfu had advanced to the Foundation Establishment stage for a long time, he still had not developed the habit of using his divine sense to probe others.

But Lin Xiao was different.

He had been paying attention to Yuan Qing's movements on the bed to prevent him from overhearing anything he should not hear.

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

Thus, the newly awakened Yuan Qing heard another somewhat familiar voice say:

"No, he is already awake."

But for a moment, he could not recall where he had heard this voice before.

Presumably, these two speaking were his lifesavers.

Realizing that they had already noticed he was awake, Yuan Qing stopped pretending to be asleep, opened his eyes, and turned his head toward the direction of the speakers.

"Thank you both, benefactors, for saving me. In the future, Yuan Qing will definitely..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Yuan Qing looked at the appearance of one of the men sitting by the table and was struck dumb.

Lin Xiao raised an eyebrow and said:

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

Hearing this, Yuan Qing finally came back to his senses and mumbled:

"Benefactor..."

Recalling that he was also saved by Lin Xiao in the mystic realm back then, Yuan Qing suddenly felt incredibly ashamed of the speculations and conjectures he had in his heart when he woke up the previous time.

Aside from his closest relatives, this was the only person who had reached out a helping hand to him in times of crisis asking for nothing in return, and it had happened twice.

"I told you not to call me that. Don't you feel awkward?"

Yuan Qing stared at him blankly and shook his head.

Lin Xiao helplessly spread his hands:

"But it sounds awkward to me. Don't call me that anymore. If you don't know what to call me but insist on addressing me, just call me Daoist Lin."

Then, without waiting for Yuan Qing to answer, Lin Xiao asked again:

"What happened to you this time? Are you that hated by others? Every time I run into you, you are getting beaten up."

Beside him, Jiang Youfu also chimed in:

"Aren't you a disciple of that super powerful Tianxuan Sect?"