The scholar in the green robe is Chen Xu.

Chen Xu walked over in a few steps, and it was unclear whether it was due to his exceptional demeanor or because the others feared responsibility. In any case, as he approached, the crowd actively made way for him.

From a distance, the patrolling soldiers were still shouting, "Move aside, make way!"

The crowd was indeed moving aside, but unlike the area near the roasting oven, the people on that side of the street were becoming increasingly chaotic as they retreated.

Amid the bustling chaos, Chen Xu squatted beside the fallen Daoist child.

Chen Xu sensed that there was something unusual about this child. To others, the child appeared dead, but to Chen Xu's senses, this child was like a burning, thriving furnace!

Every moment, strange things were being annihilated inside this furnace, releasing immense and invisible energy.

Yet this energy was trapped within the frail body of a child, with no place to contain it.

Eventually, it caused the child's Qi Blood to become disorderly and their spirit to weaken.

Rather than saying the child was "pushed to death" by the roast chicken vendor, it was more accurate to say that the child was shocked into an illusory death state by the immense energy within.

The child's condition immediately reminded Chen Xu of Ah Shi and Master Jiu, making him feel that the situations were somewhat similar.

A beggar-looking child having a similar condition to a mysterious Mouse Demon—could this be reasonable?

As the saying goes, when something unusual happens, there's bound to be a demon involved.

This child surely has an extraordinary background.

While pondering, Chen Xu flipped his palm to retrieve the invisible Life-Reflected Fiend.

The Life-Reflected Fiend had absorbed the Disease Fiend from the little mouse over these days, gathering a total of six strands of Evil Qi.

Once forty-nine strands of Evil Qi were gathered, this Life-Reflected Fiend would undergo a transformation.

Chen Xu was not in a hurry to induce this transformation, as the Life-Reflected Fiend's ability to absorb Disease Fiends was quite practical.

He placed the Life-Reflected Fiend about half an inch from the child's forehead and carefully activated it using the Spirit Manipulation Technique.

In an instant, Chen Xu cautiously absorbed a layer of shadow from before the child's Mud Ball Palace.

The forty-nine strands of Evil Qi were immediately filled with another half-strand.

Chen Xu promptly moved the Life-Reflected Fiend away, and then heard a muffled murmur from the child on the ground: "So hungry, even starving a Daoist master..."

This murmur immediately stirred Chen Xu's thoughts.

He says he's hungry; wouldn't feeding him some food be a perfect way to probe this child's background?

Chen Xu moved his hand, and a small piece of sesame candy appeared in his palm.

This sesame candy was a craft Chen Xu learned from Chef Sun recently. He made some himself and mixed in a bit of powder ground from Pill Jade Spirit Rice, which he carried conveniently.

Chen Xu brought the sesame candy to the child's mouth. The fragrant and sweet aroma was the ultimate temptation for the starving.

Even in his dazed state, the child instinctively opened his mouth, quickly taking the sesame candy in and chewing it.

Then he suddenly opened his eyes, sprang to his feet like a carp.

And immediately spoke: "So sweet, is there more? I want to eat!"

Wow—

The onlooking crowd immediately gasped, "A corpse has risen!"

From the time Chen Xu came to the child, used the Life-Reflected Fiend to awaken him, to feeding the sesame candy which made the child leap up, all these events, though elaborate in description, happened in an instant.

Others only saw the scholar in the green robe approach and squat down, gently waving his hand over the seemingly deceased child on the ground.

In a blink of an eye, the person who seemed dead rose on his own.

Such a strange act, who could witness it and not be frightened?

Immediately, it was more chaotic near the roasting oven, with shouts of "A corpse has risen!", people retreating in haste, and others stepping in for a closer look...

Even farther away, the patrolling soldiers, blocked by the crowd, were all jostling together.

Yet at the very center of the chaos, Chen Xu suddenly felt an extremely absurd sensation.

[Like +500]

Previously, when the child spoke of how sweet the candy was, it had brought Chen Xu 500 likes!

Chen Xu immediately realized that the "expert" captured by the Food Cauldron Celestial Book, with a daily basic like limit of 1000 points, was actually this child.

A daily basic like limit of 1000 points, in Chen Xu's original view, should at least be of a "Great Scholar" level.

For such an "expert" to suddenly appear in the remote Yunjiang City, Chen Xu had speculated a lot in secret, weaving a long series of conspiracy theories, even without meeting the protagonist.

But who would have thought that the so-called expert would turn out to be this seemingly sickly little child?

This child... must have a big issue!

Or rather, is he truly a child?

As Chen Xu's thoughts raced, the patrolling soldiers on the other side of the street finally waded through the crowd and rushed forward.

The roast chicken vendor, sitting limply on the ground, hurriedly got up, mixing joy with tears, anxiously saying:

"The child isn't dead, the child isn't dead! I didn't kill someone on the street, I didn't do anything wrong, boo hoo hoo..."

The crowd roared once again.

"Whoa, he really isn't dead, thank goodness, someone must have misseen earlier. I mean, how could a light push kill someone?"

"Who knows? Maybe that young master has the power to revive the dead..."

"Tch, dreaming of reviving the dead, do you really think an Immortal walks amongst us?"

The crowd continued to chatter, amidst the chaos, a patrolling soldier attempted to closely inspect the child who had previously fallen, only to find that the child had already run off.

The scholar who had just saved the child had also disappeared.

A farce, leaving behind only a series of reprimands: "Alright, alright, why are you all blocking the way? Disperse quickly!"

"If you block the road again, it will be regarded as causing public nuisance, move, move..."

"As for you, vendor, conduct business if you wish, yet you push people around, are you not planning to do business properly?"

The vendor repeatedly replied, smiling, "It was my fault, officers, this chicken has some flavor, I ask you to have a taste..."

"How dare you! We patrol the streets, not for your few chickens!"

"Yes, yes, sorry dear officers, it is my narrow-mindedness, your compassion for the people is beyond these, it was presumptuous of me to ask for your help in delivering these chickens to that child earlier.

I was wrong, I shouldn't have pushed him, I hope the officers will help in mediating this."

The vendor smiled as he sent off the chickens.

...

In the distance, the ragged Daoist child who had earlier avoided the crowd couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

He leaned against the wall, half his body peeking out, exclaiming, "These chickens were sent to me, this vendor knows his stuff, and I, the Daoist, shall go and retrieve those chickens."

A chuckle suddenly sounded from the side, startling the Daoist child to turn and glare.

It was the scholar in the green robe who saved him earlier, who said, "The person pushed you with the intent to save you, do you really have the heart to eat their chickens?"

The Daoist child retorted indignantly, "But he did send them, and since he sent them, why can't I eat them?"

"Think carefully, was it really sent for you to eat?" Chen Xu asked, while scrutinizing the Daoist child's expression without appearing deliberate.

The person was full of mystery, with deep cultivation.

But he appeared so "innocent", was it true innocence, or feigned innocence?

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