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Chapter 1689 - 128: Undying World

Chapter 1689: Chapter 128: Undying World

Martial arts are greatly prospering; those with ambition and strength are unwilling to stay beneath others.

Xiehe is vast and broad, if this place doesn’t keep me, then I’ll seek another heaven and earth.

In Longzhou, each town ruled by a noble family is like an independent kingdom, enjoying full freedom.

Putting it bluntly, even if you starve all the people under your rule to death, Martial Saint Mountain wouldn’t take a second glance.

However, the situation in Zhongzhou is different; all states must abide by the laws specified by the Divine Court and are subject to the supervision of Dutian Heavenly King’s patrols.

Of course, there are always exceptions, such as the personal territories of some sects, which often disregard the king’s patrols.

Because inhabitants here are either the relatives of the sect’s external disciples or the relatives of the sect’s strong practitioners, and they regard the sect’s rules as the most important code of conduct.

Even if they commit an offense, they are dealt with by the sect’s tribunal, not the Divine Court.

This is why there are many special areas in Zhongzhou.

Below Wushen Mountain for eight hundred miles, a thousand tribes each have their own rituals; they recognize the Divine Court but value the Wushen totems more.

There is also the Eclipse Sect, under whose rule several cities and over a hundred villages all raise the flag of the bright moon, and worship the moon halfway through each month.

There are also scholars and practitioners who nourish themselves and prove their path with the vast energy of the Three Immortals...

Each region has its unique customs and characteristics, creating the diversity that brings brilliance to Zhongzhou.

As Medicine God Sect is a famed sect known throughout the world, it naturally has its own territory spanning an area of three thousand miles.

This region is called the "Undying World" by people from the Outer Continent, rumored to have spirit herbs everywhere and divine medicines on every mountain.

There are ginseng kids that can run and jump in the mountains, precious medicinal treasures in the ground that gain spirit in winter and sight in summer, and even Seven-colored Dragon Mushrooms that revive the dead...

The cities here are very wealthy; no matter what illness you have, you can go to the hospital for help, where doctors see patients for free and you only need to pay for the medicine to be cured.

There are also legends that there are incomparable celestial treasures here, surpassing all in the mortal world, unforgettable once experienced.

In short, there are many legends about the Undying World, all of them wonderful.

However, it’s odd that some patients who truly enter the Undying World and are cured, keep their lips sealed about their medical experiences after leaving.

Whenever someone asks, they earnestly advise: "That place is heaven, but also Purgatory; don’t go unless necessary."

But such advisories are either perceived as selfish or exaggerated warnings, and every year many people go to the Undying World, yet none return.

They just write home every year asking for money to be sent to the Undying World, and the amounts asked for are enormous.

Over time, people have come to understand that the excellent welfare comes at high costs, making life particularly hard in the Undying World.

But as the only outreach and holy site of medicine in Zhongzhou for Medicine God Sect, even wanting to stay low-key is difficult.

Every February, it is the disciple recruitment day of the Medicine God Sect, where about a hundred Inner Sect Disciples descend the mountain, either visiting medical halls and pharmacies in towns or remote villages, searching for those prodigious children.

At the Medicine King Hall on Triangular Peak

Ten disciples drawn to descend the mountain should be standing together waiting for the external elder, but somehow, nine of them huddle in a corner of the hall, leaving only Yiqi Tianlong standing alone in the formation, yawning listlessly and flicking his nails.

When Elder Zhu Huang walked into the hall and saw his sect disciples avoiding their Dao Child like dodging a plague, the blue veins on his forehead couldn’t help but throb.

"Du Zhong! Baibu! As Inner Sect Disciples of Triangular Peak, why are you cowering in the corner when you see Yiqi Dao Child!?"

The two, standing on the outermost part and desperately squeezing into the wall to protect their junior brothers and sisters, had grim faces; if they had a choice, they wouldn’t want to be so disrespectful.

But fearlessness belongs to the foolish. They are all medical students; how could they not know how poisonous their own Dao Child is?

Ordinary Poison Spirit Bodies are just infused with Herbal Spirit Poison, it suffices to use Qi to isolate the external Primary Qi and close the meridian cycle.

But this one is different, it’s unknown what he tinkered with, his poisonous Qi seeps through every pore. Those junior brothers who went to Little Miasma Peak to deliver food, either come back with diarrhea or fever with chills.

The task for the junior brothers and sisters to descend the mountain this time relates to their assessment scores. If they get too close and inhale some poison Qi, they would have to lie in bed for over ten days; wouldn’t that spell disaster?

With his arms crossed in front of his junior brothers and sisters, Du Zhong, plucking up his courage, said: "I have seen Elder Zhu Huang. Du Zhong does not wish to be disrespectful, but Brother Tianlong’s mastery in poisonous techniques is astonishing. Our junior brothers and sisters do not have sufficient cultivation, and if they contract a serious illness, they will find it difficult to complete the tasks assigned by the sect. Hence, we had no choice but to resort to this!"

"Yes, Elder."

Hearing his senior brother speak, Baibu quickly added: "We also asked Brother Tianlong about it, and he said he didn’t mind us doing this."

Upon hearing this, Elder Zhu Huang immediately understood the crux of the issue and looked at Yiqi Tianlong with a tangled expression of complexity, shame, and reluctance.

This entangled and distressed gaze made Yiqi Tianlong’s hair stand on end, and he quickly said respectfully, "It’s not the fault of my junior brothers and sisters, indeed, there’s still a bit of uncontrollable spillage of the Herbal Spirit Poison, so they formed this formation to resist it."

"Is your injury not yet fully healed?"

Zhu Huang’s face full of wrinkles furrowed together, and he said dissatisfiedly: "If it was known to be so dangerous, you shouldn’t have agreed to that poison dragon’s terms."

"Seeking benevolence and achieving it, what is there to complain about?"

Yiqi Tianlong said nonchalantly with a smile: "Being able to eliminate the evildoer and obtain the poison dragon liquid, what does a small price matter?"

"But with your current condition, how can you go down the mountain to take in disciples?"

Zhu Huang said troubledly: "Perhaps we should replace you with another Inner Sect Disciple."

With the Herbal Spirit Poison spilling, Yiqi Tianlong is like a moving source of infection, going into the city under such circumstances would definitely cause an epidemic, and hence cannot fulfill the task of taking in disciples.

"If this Dao Child remembers correctly, changing persons would mean giving up the task. Not only would this year’s sect contribution be reset to zero, but even the score of the mountain peak would decrease, is that right?"

Yiqi Tianlong asked, tilting his head.

"It is indeed so by the rules, but you are a Dao Child of this sect, and you had achieved great merits earlier this year, even if your sect contribution is reset to zero this year, it doesn’t matter much. As for Little Miasma Peak..."

Zhu Huang stopped mid-sentence, but which one of the people present could not understand the deeper meaning behind those words?

In the Medicine God Sect, each peak has its score, among which the most important part is the practice of medicine to save the world. But on Little Miasma Peak, it is all a group of physicians researching plagues and poisons—the times they save people are few, but those they kill are many.

This mountain peak’s score is already among the lowest in the sect, even if it drops a few more points, who would care?

Although he did not say it out loud, by pausing there, he had already made his intention quite evident.

"Elder, I understand what you are trying to say, but just because you think it’s insignificant, doesn’t mean no one cares."

Yiqi Tianlong said coldly, "This old man will not give up on the task, and will secure the top spot in this evaluation, just watch!"