Master of Strange Dao

After completing his deduction, Yu Ziqing left Dinghai City with Lou Huai, flying directly into the high sky, seeking to escape.

After flying several hundred miles, when Yu Ziqing saw Dinghai City suddenly appear right in front of him, he knew he couldn't escape.

Looking back, there was another Dinghai City behind, with both views identical.

Taking another step forward, the Dinghai City still remained ahead, but the scene behind had already turned into wilderness.

Yu Ziqing realized that the wilderness was just an overlay he couldn't pass through, completely out of the map's range.

He could only move within this sealed area.

Unless he was strong enough to break through the seal directly, he had no choice but to endure whatever disaster occurred here.

His disaster should not be too severe, unlike Yang's, whose disaster map could stretch from Silver Lake all the way to Dinghai City.

After comparing the map sizes, Yu Ziqing quietly breathed a half sigh of relief.

He believed he could endure it.

It made sense; after all, Dadui sealed each disaster not to trap people.

Even if they separated everyone, dispersing them into individual disasters, resolving the disasters was the primary premise.

During the division, he couldn't be sent to Yang's Alien Fire disaster.

Upon landing, he looked up to see a ball of Alien Fire descending from the sky, igniting thousands of miles.

He wouldn't even have the chance to escape; how could one resolve a disaster like that?

The initial purpose was different, so the outcome would naturally differ.

After this deduction, Yu Ziqing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

It wasn't entirely hopeless; as long as he wasn't crushed to death upon meeting his fate, he was fine.

Not rushing back to Dinghai City, Yu Ziqing ran a circle around the entire disaster map, measuring it to be only a few hundred miles in circumference.

Besides Dinghai City, there was no second city.

He returned to Dinghai City, behaving like a loafer every day, chatting with people on the streets, listening to scattered stories about the place and Dadui.

He also drank and bragged with some cultivators, relishing the harmonious coexistence of cultivators and mortals here, which Yu Ziqing rather enjoyed.

There was no sense of division between cultivators and mortals.

After waiting for a full month, nothing unusual had happened.

Yu Ziqing had been lurking near the Western City Gate, as it was where he appeared and entered.

The probability of something unusual occurring here was much higher.

"Big brother, I smelled something," said Lou Huai, who was eating and drinking beside, suddenly speaking up.

Yu Ziqing's expression turned serious as he set down his teacup.

"What did you smell?"

"The scent of a devil." Lou Huai took a deep breath, then pointed toward the city gate.

Yu Ziqing saw a young man wearing only a vest, exposing his arms, who, after entering the city gate, immediately clutched his stomach and ran to the side.

"It's the scent on him."

Yu Ziqing tossed a small piece of broken silver aside and disappeared from the spot.

He appeared on the rooftop of a house, overlooking the young man in the distance, who clutched his stomach and dashed into a small alley.

Seeing no one around, the young man quickly pulled down his pants and squatted down, a barrage of sounds echoing as he relaxed his frown.

Yu Ziqing's Yin God's eyes suddenly opened, seeing faint wisps of black aura coiling around the young man's abdomen.

The excrement he expelled was also surrounded by black aura, unusually thick.

When the young man left, a yellow dog from afar seemed attracted by the scent, wanting a hot meal.

However, in the next moment, a flame descended from the sky, incinerating the area into ashes.

The strands of black aura spiraled within the scarlet flames, seemingly trying to scatter and fly away.

Yu Ziqing pointed a finger, and a ball of black flame flew from his fingertip, burning the black aura into nothingness.

Meanwhile, Lou Huai had already brought back the young man who had just left.

The young man's expression changed slightly, "What are you doing? Let go of me."

"Big brother, I understand now. The strange scent should be that of a disease Devil. That guy didn't dare enter the city, so he used a bit of power and placed it on this young man to bring it in.

If you hadn't intervened, it would have soon spread, and the whole city would be doomed."

Yu Ziqing nodded, looking at the young man.

"I am a physician. How many days have you had diarrhea?"

"O-one day." The young man didn't understand much else, but he understood the word "devil," immediately realizing his illness was caused by a devil.

"Have you seen anyone outside the city? Or eaten anything?"

"I haven't seen anyone, just ate a few green fruits in the woods outside West City. They might not have been ripe..."

"Alright, you're fine." Yu Ziqing released the young man, patting his shoulder, "Go."

The young man was doubtful but, after turning around, saw Yu Ziqing extend a hand, grabbing at the air toward him, extracting the remaining wisp of black aura from his abdomen, burning it to nothing.

"Let's go, and see."

Yu Ziqing walked out of the city, feeling relieved.

If it was a disease Devil that could cause diarrhea and spread, considering the young man's habit of relieving himself wherever, it could quickly spread within the city. If the water source got contaminated, it would be even faster.

It was understandable why Dadui didn't resolve this back then and directly sealed the disaster.

Letting such a devil escape would indeed have significant consequences, potentially causing many deaths.

However, the devil...

Ha.

If it were a devil, at least there was hope for resolving the issue.

He wouldn't be trapped here.

"Lou Huai, tell me everything you know about the disease Devil."

"Big brother, I think caution is best. In my inheritance, disease Devils are insidious creatures, never confronting directly. Often, they don't even have demonic Qi."

"Alright, caution first. Let's scout it out. If we find it, we'll ambush it and kill it with a single strike."