Lin Xiao also realized he wouldn't get any useful information from Yuan Feifei, so he continued his tour without asking more questions.
As they passed through the courtyard, Lin Xiao suddenly stopped.
There was a well in the courtyard, but it was obvious that the sect now had modern tap water facilities and no longer used this well.
However, Lin Xiao felt that this well was not simple.
He sensed a faint aura from it.
The aura felt a little sinister, yet also like a natural coolness.
He walked over.
"You haven't used this well, have you?" Lin Xiao peered down. The well was dry, likely an old one that hadn't been maintained after falling into disuse.
"We've never used it. It was here when we moved in. There's a reservoir halfway up the mountain, so we were always puzzled by why there was a well here," Yuan Feifei replied.
"Let me see..."
If he remembered correctly, in the method of creating a ghost fetus, one of the ingredients indeed needed to be sourced from something like this.
He leaned against the edge and peered carefully into the well.
However, not much light could penetrate the well, so he couldn't see anything clearly.
He could only see a dark expanse below and dry earth.
The well wasn't very deep, perhaps about four or five meters.
After a moment's thought, Lin Xiao seemed to prepare to jump in.
"Brother Xiao, don't do anything rash!" Ning Fengzhi immediately grabbed Lin Xiao's hand. "I know life is often difficult, but if suicide could solve problems, the world would be too simple. Have you thought about what will happen to Xun'er and Sister-in-law if you kill yourself?"
Lin Xiao turned his head, looking at Ning Fengzhi, who was tightly gripping his hand, and the genuine concern on Ning Fengzhi's face. He said exasperatedly, "You're the one who's being rash!"
"I'm not being rash, I don't want to die, and I won't jump into a well to commit suicide," Ning Fengzhi quickly shook his head. "Brother Xiao, you shouldn't either!"
"Do you really think my cultivation would be in danger if I jumped down?" Lin Xiao retorted, unable to help himself.
"Well... probably not."
Ning Fengzhi slowly let go, looking a bit embarrassed. "Sorry, Brother Xiao, it's a habit. Back in the village, I used to encounter neighbors who were feeling down, and I'd instinctively go to pull them back and persuade them to enjoy life. I almost forgot."
"Hmm... your intentions were good, it just doesn't quite apply to me."
Lin Xiao rolled his eyes, but he glanced not far away and decided against going down immediately. As he spoke, he moved away from the well with the other two. "I sensed something strange in this well just now. Perhaps some ghosts or mountain spirits have appeared here."
"Ghosts and mountain spirits?"
Yuan Feifei's expression was peculiar. After a moment of silence, she asked curiously, "How is that possible? Aren't spirits forbidden to form after the founding of the People's Republic?"
"What if it was from before?"
Lin Xiao said.
Only ancient ghosts and mountain spirits would be useful.
"...Here?"
Yuan Feifei surveyed the place where her sect was located. Could such things really exist here?
"I was just proposing a possibility, not saying it's definite," Lin Xiao shook his head and continued, "Alright, let's not talk about this. We'll keep looking around."
He was waiting for Zhu Guangyu to reply.
With Zhu Guangyu's capabilities, he should have an answer for him before they finished their tour.
After about an hour or so, they finally finished exploring the entire place.
Once Yuan Feifei left, Ning Fengzhi became serious, looked at Lin Xiao, and then transmitted his voice, "Brother Xiao, do you think Tang Qing has a problem?"
"Yes, he has a problem."
Lin Xiao nodded. "During the medical examination just now, I didn't see Tang Qing. I don't know where he went."
Except for the initial time he examined Li Zhiyan and removed the ghost fetus from her body, Tang Qing had been nowhere to be seen.
He hadn't stayed by Li Zhiyan's side.
However, he wasn't sure. Perhaps Tang Qing had gone to do something at Li Zhiyan's request.
"Moreover, for a normal man to maintain his principles and remain solely devoted in this kind of environment... frankly, I wouldn't believe he's not abnormal," Ning Fengzhi stated his opinion decisively.
Although he had no practical experience, as a man, he felt qualified to speak!
Putting him aside, even the doctors who had come for examinations before couldn't endure it in the end and left with various psychological traumas.
He himself had sealed most of his five senses and covered his eyes, relying purely on pulse diagnosis with a thread to endure until the end of the examination.
To think that Tang Qing, also a man, was supposedly unaffected and could still have eyes only for Li Zhiyan.
While he admired it, he was more suspicious of whether this man was a normal man.
Or perhaps... there was another hidden motive.
"While not to that extent, you can say that." After all, Lin Xiao knew himself that he had almost lost control just from the charm techniques of so many female disciples, let alone constant proximity.
If they were to be together day and night, Lin Xiao felt he might do some inappropriate things.
"Is... he a eunuch?" Ning Fengzhi knew it was bad to gossip behind someone's back, but he was now incredibly curious and blurted out this guess.
"What are you thinking? If he were a eunuch, how could he be with Li Zhiyan? Women in their thirties are like wolves, and in their forties, like tigers. Sect Leader Li is currently in her prime, and considering her cultivation techniques and the dual cultivation methods of the Dual Cultivation Sect, how could she find a eunuch?" Lin Xiao felt that Ning Fengzhi's brain had some issues.
"Oh..."
Ning Fengzhi came to his senses and fell silent for a moment, lost in thought. "Then, if it were me later... wouldn't I need to do a lot of preparatory work? What if ordinary dual cultivation isn't enough...?"
They had barely started walking, and Ning Fengzhi was already contemplating the end result.
Lin Xiao shook his head and looked at him with sympathy, then patted his shoulder and said, "I don't think you'll have that kind of worry, because, it's quite possible you won't experience that kind of exhaustion."
"Brother Xiao! You jinx!"