After being reborn, all I want to do is run away.

Chapter 128 Stargazer

"Ah..." Shen Xu pounded his head, which was throbbing with pain.

After some time, Shen Xu recovered from the pain in his head. When he opened his eyes, he found that it was still dark in front of him, but under the moonlight above the alley, he recognized that the place in front of him should be the abandoned Dream Clothes Alley.

"Was it a dream?" Shen Xu tried to recall what had happened before, but the intense pain in his mind made him give up on the idea.

He tried to struggle to his feet, but found that he had almost lost the strength to stand up. Waves of weakness through his body made him lie down on the stone slabs in the alley.

"How did I end up fainting here?" Shen Xu suddenly realized that the chilling atmosphere that had permeated the entire alley had completely disappeared. This was the best news he could have imagined, otherwise he might have frozen to death here.

Feeling his body weakened, Shen Xu took out his treasured fasting pills from his pocket and put them in his mouth. Then, he muttered resentfully, "I'm a dog!"

It's said that when people are starving, even shit tastes good. Shen Xu can now come out and refute that myth: when people are starving, shit still tastes like shit.

After taking a few fasting pills, Shen Xu immediately felt that he had regained some strength, so he sat cross-legged to check the condition of his soul.

He didn't know until he saw it, and what he saw really made his heart skip a beat. The void in his soul had more than doubled in size, dark and empty like a black hole, as if it could even devour his consciousness.

"What did I do? How did things get like this!" Shen Xu sighed deeply. Who could tell him how to repair such a huge void in his soul?

Left with no other choice, he could only temporarily ignore the problems in his soul and begin to examine the problems in his body. "Hiss~, when did a wound appear on my wrist, and I've also lost a lot of my essence and blood!"

"Who the hell is so bored as to bleed me?!" Shen Xu was instantly enraged, but he couldn't think of anyone other than the witch.

"You cheated me out of my money! You bled me! I should never have believed that a witch could have a conscience. The people of the Blood Fiend Palace are all the same!"

"But what would the witch want my blood for? I'm just a Qi Cultivation Realm cultivator." Shen Xu was puzzled.

Since he couldn't figure it out, Shen Xu simply stopped thinking about it. In any case, he would never have anything to do with that witch again. As long as he stayed far away from the witch at all times, he could prevent her from doing whatever she wanted with his blood.

Finally, Shen Xu returned to the alley entrance. He had intended to go straight back, but then he felt a little unwilling, so he returned to Mengyi Alley and flipped over the third cracked stone slab.

There was nothing there!

Shen Xu took a deep breath. He shouldn't have any expectations of the witch. He stomped on the stone slab and crushed it completely before leaving Dreamy Lane.

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"You two have followed me for so long, and you still dragged me into such a low-level illusion? Isn't that a bit impolite? Besides, I'm not in a good mood right now." Shen Xu suddenly said to the empty street on the way back to the inn.

"Your intuition is very sharp; it seems I haven't chosen the wrong person." A soft, feminine voice reached Shen Xu's ears from all directions.

The deserted streets suddenly seemed to peel away as if fading, revealing their original colors. The sounds of the bustling crowds around Shen Xu and the yellow lights on both sides of the street reappeared in his senses.

Shen Xu frowned upon seeing this. "Such a brilliant illusion, but it's still a bit lacking!"

How could there be empty streets at this time? It's probably because the illusionist couldn't control such a large flow of people.

However, judging from the voices, they had come specifically to find him, and he knew without a doubt that it was troublesome. So he didn't intend to pay any attention to them. His situation was already complicated enough, and he didn't have the extra energy to get involved in other events.

Unfortunately, the two men had no intention of letting him go. When he returned to his rented hotel, he found two people waiting for him at his room door. Shen Xu couldn't help but sigh. Although he had already known this would happen, he still really hoped that the two men would let him go.

Shen Xu slowly walked to the two of them, but his eyes narrowed when he saw what one of them was wearing. He then unlocked the door with his key and said, "Come in and let's talk!"

"Isn't it a waste of your talent to live in a room like this?" One of the people dressed in black and white Taoist robes couldn't help but say when he saw the furnishings in Shen Xu's room.

"This is what it's like to be broke. Tell me! What do you want from me?" Shen Xu said helplessly.

“You seem to recognize my robes,” said another young man in a white robe with a nebula pattern embroidered on his chest, smiling.

Shen Xu slowly opened his mouth and said, "Yi Yun, the Star Observer."

"It seems you are very knowledgeable. Since you know about astrologers, I won't keep you in suspense any longer. A year ago, my master observed the celestial phenomena one night and discovered that a great calamity would inevitably occur in the Xingchuan region within ten years. Therefore, he sent my fellow disciples and me down the mountain to prevent this calamity," the young man said earnestly.

Shen Xu said without changing his expression, "If Xingchuan Region is in great trouble, you should go and warn the Seven Luminaries Sect, instead of coming here to find a mere Qi Nourishing Realm cultivator like me!"

"The Seven Luminaries Sect is rotten to the core. They can't save Xingchuan Domain. Xingchuan Domain's lifeline lies with the Four Directions Sword Alliance."

"Then go find the Four Sword Saints!" Shen Xu said impatiently.

"The Four Sword Saints haven't shown their faces for many years; whether he's still around is still a question!"

"Sigh!" Shen Xu sighed deeply. According to the development of his previous life, the current Stargazer should have failed, but the Four Directions Sword Alliance was indeed the last fourth-grade sect to resist in Xingchuan Domain.

"How can I help you?" Although he knew that the stargazer in front of him couldn't do much in the end, he still respected people who were willing to work hard for the Xingchuan region.

He is not averse to helping with things that are within his ability.

“I told you he would believe me!” the white-robed youth said with a smile to the Taoist-robed youth.

The young man in the Taoist robe suddenly said to Shen Xu with some suspicion, "Wait a minute! You just believed his story so easily? You're not one of his shills, are you?"

"I believe a stargazer wouldn't be so bored as to deceive a nobody like me. If Xingchuan Region is truly in trouble, I will naturally do my best to help, since my family is also in Xingchuan Region."

"But if you try to use me to achieve some personal goal, I will fight you to the death!" Shen Xu looked at the white-robed youth with sharp eyes.

The young man in white robes solemnly said, "Please rest assured, although I don't know about other stargazers, my lineage will never tolerate the Xingchuan region becoming a living hell!"

"Tell me your plan!" Shen Xu said.