Chapter 1030: Chapter 309: The Outbreak of War! Entering Medicine Master Valley!
It’s over, really over.
I have absolutely no idea how many elixirs I owe. There’s probably no way I can pay back so many elixirs in my lifetime. Ah, ah, ah, born as a Spiritual Painting Avatar, I am truly sorry!
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Over the next three days, Yuchi wandered around this small city a few times. Medicine Pill City had too few people; the number of cultivators was pathetically low, and walking for half an hour, he could only see two or three cultivators with a spirit root. But despite their small numbers and low talent, these cultivators carried themselves with arrogance.
They walked with a brisk and fiery pace, afraid that those beside them wouldn’t know they were cultivators, and thus definitely unable to enter the Ascension Gate.
No disciples were found.
Yin Shuang sat alone inside the painting board with a gloomy face, fishing, as her life had hit a low point.
And early this morning, Yuchi went directly to the Gourd Medicine Workshop and found the male sect leader. When he saw Yuchi walk in, he glanced at the street behind him, ensuring there wasn’t that man with the coffin. He couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, such a person wasn’t directly brought into Medicine Master Valley. The valley wasn’t open to outsiders; it was only by chance that someone was willing to visit. The place had been scared by war, and it would end up chaotic anyway, so it’s better to just lay low.
"Shopkeeper, has the array been activated today?" Yuchi asked kindly.
"Yes, please follow me," the shopkeeper didn’t bother asking about this strange person.
Then, he led Yuchi into the courtyard, opened the lid of an abandoned well in the yard, and smiled, indicating, "Guest, just head down into this abandoned well. The array inside the well has been temporarily removed. Once you reach the bottom, there’ll be a path."
"Follow this path straight ahead. At the end, you’ll find Medicine Master Valley."
Yuchi nodded with slight surprise, wondering how Medicine Master Valley was hidden inside an abandoned well. After bowing to the shopkeeper, he confidently jumped into the well. A barely noticeable ripple appeared, and Yuchi landed at the bottom.
At the bottom, there was a passage resembling a mine tunnel, wide enough for about five people to walk side by side. It seemed rather spacious. Yuchi had barely entered when the lamps at the front of the tunnel started lighting up.
"Motion-sensor lamps are fine, but running lamps?"
Yuchi was stunned, gritting his teeth as he walked in. Wherever he walked, the lamps in front and behind him lit up, leaving him unsure of how far the tunnel went or whether some creepy zombie might jump out and scare him.
Surprisingly, the tunnel wasn’t very deep; as he walked, he soon reached the end. Raising his head, he saw it was another water well, understanding the feeling of "sitting by a well and viewing the sky"—a small, round sky with visible blue sky and white clouds.
Jumping out of the abandoned well, Yuchi posed to immediately be ready to face an enemy.
Instead, his hands slowly lowered. Ahead was a large plain encircled by mountains, with patches of medicinal herb fields where colorful herbs were planted. Shadows of busy people were faintly visible among the fields.
Taking a deep breath, the pleasant scent was no less than the fragrance of rouge on Song Beauty. A cool breeze, the vast sea of herbs, and in the distance, houses piled and intertwined came into view.
The houses weren’t directly on the ground but arranged around a massive alchemy furnace, which stood about a hundred feet high, its entire body a dark metallic color, surrounded by numerous houses at its center. Just looking at it, one seemed to smell the overwhelming medicinal aroma.
"My goodness, how long does it take to preheat such a furnace once? Why is it so big? Is such a large furnace necessary for alchemy? This must be purely decorative."
Yuchi’s train of thought was always on point; with past-life experience, he speculated such a gigantic furnace, if heated, would consume a terrifying amount of energy, so it must either be constantly on or off—it couldn’t be turned on today and off tomorrow.
That’s such a waste.
Yin Shuang couldn’t hold back anymore. Upon arriving at this place, she felt like she had entered paradise.
Ahhhh, herbs everywhere! She wanted to eat these herbs, pushing Yuchi’s hand fiercely, like a dog starving for a thousand days, ready to rush into the herbal fields.
"Ancestor, why are you acting like locusts...? It’s our first time here; don’t cause a scene."
He stuffed Yin Shuang back into the painting board, then looked ahead as someone appeared, none other than the familiar Sun Miaoxing. Sun Miaoxing looked at Yuchi with a somewhat surprised expression.
"Hey, isn’t this the wretched Yuchi?"
"Didn’t expect he actually came to our Medicine Master Valley? So what’s he here for this time?" Sun Miaoxing was quite puzzled.
