"Big brother!!!"
Zhang Fei listened to Zhang Chen’s babbling, initially feeling unconvinced and about to retort, but the next moment, Zhang Chen’s body fell straight down, his back of the head heavily hitting the deck. This sight immediately scared Zhang Tuowei and Zhang Fei, causing their souls to fly beyond the sky as they hurriedly threw down their fishing rods and rushed over.
"Big brother, what’s wrong with you?" Zhang Tuowei kept shaking Zhang Chen’s body, his voice full of terror, but as soon as his small hand landed on Zhang Chen’s chest, he immediately noticed that Zhang Chen’s heartbeat had stopped.
Zhang Tuowei is now a second-level cultivator, and his divine power is not too shabby. As soon as he touched Zhang Chen’s body, he immediately noticed something was wrong.
"Big brother... Big brother’s heartbeat is gone!" Zhang Tuowei, touching Zhang Chen’s chest and realizing that Zhang Chen’s heartbeat had ceased, hurriedly reached out to touch Zhang Chen’s nose, but at this moment, Zhang Chen’s breath was cut off, devoid of vitality.
"Big brother’s heartbeat is gone? His breath is gone too?" Hearing this, Zhang Fei turned pale with fright, eyes filled with terror, quickly running forward to test Zhang Chen’s breath, and then wailed loudly: "Big brother, what’s wrong? What happened to you?"
At this point, Zhang Tuowei’s small face was pale, tears falling like broken pearls from his eyes: "It’s over! Big brother was angered to death by us two! Big brother was angered to death by us two!"
"Ah... big brother was angered to death by us?" Hearing this, Zhang Fei’s face turned pale, and he immediately started crying, his voice full of panic: "What should we do? What should we do?"
The two children wailed, instantly attracting people around, among whom an elder looked at the two helpless crying children, lowered his head to check Zhang Chen’s body, confirmed that Zhang Chen’s heartbeat had stopped, breathing was gone, and couldn’t help lightly sighing: "No hope!" Then reminded: "Where are your parents? Quickly go and call your parents!"
Zhang Tuowei was a bit older, although panicking, upon hearing the elder’s reminder, he had some ideas: "Big brother just passed, maybe there’s still hope, quickly go and call mother and sister Chengyu, sister Chengyu is a great cultivator, her cultivation is much higher than ours, maybe sister Chengyu has a way to bring big brother back."
Hearing Zhang Tuowei’s instruction, Zhang Fei hurriedly got up and rushed to the cabin in a panic, but after running a few steps, his legs went weak, and he directly fell to the ground, flipping over, his head busted open with blood flowing, his face all messy from the fall, but he couldn’t care about that, stumbling and shouting while crying: "Mother, sister Chengyu, big brother is dead! Big brother is dead! Come quickly! Come quickly!"
Zhang Fei stumbled and ran, while over there, Mrs. Zhang and Chengyu were doing embroidery work. Nowadays, everyone is idle on the ship, so they need to find something to do. Moreover, Chengyu, due to her status, cannot appear in public to avoid being seen by people from Yellow Heaven Dao, so she has always acted low-key.
It was at this moment that Zhang Fei’s crying voice came from afar, and Mrs. Zhang and Chengyu quickly turned their heads to see Zhang Fei running on the deck, covered in blood, shouting ’big brother is dead’.
Hearing Zhang Fei’s shouting, and seeing Zhang Fei’s face covered in blood, Mrs. Zhang and Chengyu felt their heads buzzing, instantly losing all sense.
However, Chengyu is a great cultivator, now at least at the possession stage, she was the first to recover, directly threw down her embroidery, and rushed out quickly, grabbing Zhang Fei’s collar: "Where is Zhang Chen? What happened? Who killed Zhang Chen!!!"
Zhang Fei’s face was pale, pitifully wiping the blood on his forehead, smearing his whole face, sadly saying: "No one killed big brother, it’s me and sister who angered big brother to death! It’s me and sister who angered big brother to death!"
Zhang Fei was terrified at the moment, his speech incoherent.
"Angered him to death by you two?" Chengyu was stunned upon hearing this, had no time to ask more questions, just pushed Zhang Fei: "Quickly lead me to the front! Quickly lead me to the front!"
She only knew now that her junior brother had died! She needed to see her junior brother! Alive or dead, she needed to see his body!
Zhang Fei hurriedly, his limbs weak, led the way stumblingly, at this time Mrs. Zhang regained her senses, also feeling weak, stumbling behind chasing after: "What exactly happened? How could your big brother be dead? Who harmed your big brother?"
Zhang Chen was the pillar of the family, and the family needed to rely on Zhang Chen to live, no matter who had an issue, Zhang Chen could never have the slightest problem. If Zhang Chen died, how could the whole family survive in this chaotic world?
"What exactly happened?" Mrs. Zhang chased up, panicking, losing a shoe while running, feeling dizzy, her head buzzing.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Fei cried more fiercely, but facing Mrs. Zhang’s inquiry, he couldn’t not answer, could only cry and tell the story of how he and his sister angered Zhang Chen to death.
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Zhang was furious, directly slapped Zhang Fei on the back of his head. Zhang Fei was already trembling and weak, and now being slapped by Mrs. Zhang, he staggered and fell to the ground, but Mrs. Zhang and Chengyu didn’t even spare a glance at Zhang Fei, just stepped over him, heading towards the distance.
At this time, there was a crowd on the deck surrounding Zhang Tuowei and Zhang Chen, Zhang Tuowei’s crying was loud, piercing through the crowd.
When Zhang Tuowei and Mrs. Zhang passed through the crowd, they saw Zhang Tuowei lying on Zhang Chen’s chest, crying sadly, with snot and tears flowing.
"Zhang Chen!"
Chengyu rushed to Zhang Chen, placing his fingers on Zhang Chen’s chest, only to find Zhang Chen’s heartbeat had indeed vanished. Checking his breath revealed no reaction, and touching Zhang Chen’s body showed it was already starting to cool!
Feel for Zhang Chen’s soul fluctuations? There are no fluctuations in Zhang Chen’s soul!
"It’s over!" Chengyu dropped to the ground, face pale, eyes filled with disbelief: "How could he have died? How could he just die?"
"How is he?" Mrs. Zhang approached, face white: "Is there any hope for Zhang Chen?"
Seeing Chengyu drop to the ground, Mrs. Zhang was suddenly filled with a sense of foreboding.
"He’s nearly cold! There’s no hope!" Chengyu’s body trembled, eyes filled with disbelief: "How could he have died? Cultivated to his level, how could he die from anger?"
Thinking of this, Chengyu gradually regained his composure, eyes showing a hint of shrewdness: "Something’s wrong! Something’s wrong! It’s completely wrong! How could Zhang Chen die from anger? He must have been killed!"
"Who killed you? Who’s the one secretly dealing a fatal blow? I must find the murderer, and even if I have to go to the ends of the Yellow Springs, I will grind his bones to dust to avenge you!" Chengyu’s tears flowed down as he stared fixedly at Zhang Chen, trying to observe every trace on Zhang Chen to discover his cause of death and track down the killer.
"Is it really hopeless?" Mrs. Zhang still couldn’t believe her family’s pillar had just died, staring fixedly at Zhang Chen’s body with a gaze full of grief.
"There’s no hope!" Chengyu took a deep breath.
At this moment, Zhang Fei also caught up, collapsing to the ground, crying loudly. The two little ones cried until their eyes were red, snot and tears streaming down. Mrs. Zhang, seeing the two little ones weeping bitterly, raised her hand: "It’s all you two miscreants, causing your big brother’s death!"
The hand was raised high but was grasped by Chengyu: "Don’t blame them, I understand Zhang Chen’s abilities. How could he die from anger?"
Chengyu’s words made Mrs. Zhang pause, her blood-red eyes turned to Chengyu, voice filled with darkness: "Are you saying Zhang Chen was killed?"
Before Chengyu could respond, Mrs. Zhang realized: "That’s right! You’re correct! Cultivated to his level, how could he die from anger?"
At this time, Chengyu was gradually regaining composure, recalling Zhang Chen covered in blankets, wearing a cape, then spoke: "Perhaps his cultivation went awry, or he was attacked, falling victim to others’ schemes. Regardless, I must uncover the truth! Unfortunately, his soul is missing. If we could retrieve his soul, perhaps we could understand the truth."
"Soul... Soul... I do have an idea!" Mrs. Zhang, hearing Chengyu’s words, quickly spoke.
Chengyu looked at Mrs. Zhang, who said: "The Zhang Family specializes in the Power of the Soul. If we can seek their assistance in retrieving Zhang Chen’s soul, perhaps he could be revived. At the very least, we could uncover the truth!"
"The Zhang Family? The Zhang Family is far away in Kyoto, how do we find them?" Mrs. Zhang’s eyes dimmed.
"We can’t find the Zhang Family, but we can find the Shen Family. I know the Shen Family has an elixir called the Seven Treasure Heart-lock Pill. Every direct descendant of the Shen Family carries it, a divine medicine that saves lives. If we can ask the Shen Family for this elixir, preserve our big brother’s body, we can buy time for negotiation. Whether it’s finding the Zhang Family or seeking remedies ourselves, there is an opportunity!" Chengyu spoke.
This is the Shen Family’s large ship. There are direct descendants of the Shen Family on board; if we can seek their help, Zhang Chen might be saved.
Nearby, Zhang Tuowei’s eyes lit up upon hearing: "That’s the best! First, preserve big brother’s body, then we find a way to retrieve his soul. If we can recover big brother’s soul, rehouse it in his body before it goes cold, perhaps we can save him and uncover the truth."
Zhang Chen didn’t want to involve the Shen Family, but after all considerations, a connection was formed.
"I’ll ask the Shen Family for help! Zhang Chen’s body carries half the blood of the Shen Family; they cannot ignore their kin in need." Mrs. Zhang wiped her tears, then stood up, pushing away the crowd to head towards the distant steward’s direction.
"We’ll go with you!" Zhang Tuowei climbed up, quickly chasing after Mrs. Zhang. That was her dear big brother; how could she sit still now?
Nearby, Zhang Fei also wiped his snot and tears from his face, got up, and rushed out: "I’ll join you! I’ll go with you!"
Watching Mrs. Zhang’s departing figure, Chengyu didn’t move but stayed to guard Zhang Chen’s body, preventing any mishaps.
"Hopefully, everything goes smoothly." Chengyu sighed softly.