kvmb Chapter 70 Medicine King Valley 7
Chapter 70 Medicine King Valley 7
The five major sects are all quite far from the main city, and Medicine King Valley still looks like a green mountain and clear water from a distance.
Upon closer inspection, it became clear that the fields were all planted with crops, and the disciples of Medicine King Valley were moving among them with shovels on their shoulders.
They were all dressed like they were working, and upon closer inspection, you could see their muscles faintly visible.
"These are all outer disciples. They will contract the hills around Medicine King Valley for planting, which is a decent source of income," Liu Shaoyuan explained as he led the three of them.
Liu Shaoyuan led them southeast, and along the way, many disciples from Medicine King Valley greeted him.
"Senior Brother Liu!"
"Senior Brother Liu!"
“Junior Brother Ma! Junior Brother Niu…” Liu Shaoyuan responded to each of them.
Finally, they stopped at the southwest gate of the village with the three of them.
The door appeared to be built with a simple frame, and there were two tall towers on either side of the entrance.
As soon as they entered the valley, the four of them saw a village directly in front of them. It was quiet and deserted, like a ghost village, and it looked very small.
But as Liu Shaoyuan led the four people and one demon, turning left and right, he discovered that the ghost village, which seemed close at hand, was actually far away, and was probably a maze and illusion.
"Entering from here will lead you to Medicine King Valley," Liu Shaoyuan said, pointing to the gate in front of him.
There was no one coming or going at the entrance; only two disciples stood on the towers on either side of the entrance.
Upon seeing the group, the person on the left flew down from the tower and approached. Only then did Cheng Jiu and the others realize that the other party was actually a powerful expert at the Dao Integration Realm.
"Senior Brother!" Liu Shaoyuan waved his hands at the person, "Why is there no one at the South Gate today!"
Rong Qing looked at the group of four people and one demon behind him and asked, "Junior Brother, who are they?"
Rong Qing, adhering to his duty, first inquired about the identities of Cheng Jiu and his group.
"They are disciples of the Guiyuan Sect. They came to Yaochen City this time to find the Iron-Eating Beast Clan."
Look, they found a cub of the Iron-Eating Beast clan.
"Isn't this the Iron-Eating Beast clan that came directly to our Medicine King Valley this time? They waited for a long time in Medicine Dust City but couldn't find them, so I brought them to our Medicine King Valley." Liu Shaoyuan pointed to the short-legged Iron-Eating Beast following behind them.
"Senior Brother, you're so kind, please let me take them in," Liu Shaoyuan pleaded.
“Okay, I’ll talk to your Senior Brother Cheng.” Rong Qing agreed without hesitation. After all, he was a disciple of the Guiyuan Sect brought by his junior brother, so his identity was definitely not a problem.
"Senior Brother, you and Seventh Senior Sister are arguing again!" Liu Shaoyuan gossiped.
"How did you know I was going to be a father!" Rong Qing patted Liu Shaoyuan, beaming. "Your seventh senior sister is pregnant and shouldn't overwork herself, so I've been covering for her shifts lately."
"Senior brother, yours?" Liu Shaoyuan was surprised. These two, one at the Nascent Soul stage and the other at the Dao Integration stage, had only been married for a short time! And they already had a child.
"Junior brother, don't force your senior brother to beat you!" Rong Qing squinted his eyes.
"I meant congratulations, senior brother, may you have a son soon!" Liu Shaoyuan quickly corrected himself, speaking sincerely.
"Don't curse me, I'd much rather have a little darling." Rong Qing said sweetly, "It would be even better if she looked like your seventh senior sister!"
Seeing Rong Qing's slightly serious face soften with such a gentle expression, not only Liu Shaoyuan, who was facing her directly, but even Cheng Jiu and his group who were eavesdropping nearby felt as if they were being supported by something.
They have clearly already achieved the state of abstaining from grains at their cultivation level.
"Alright, then I wish Seventh Senior Sister a healthy and adorable baby!"
"When it's my baby's first birthday party, I, as his uncle, will definitely send a generous gift," Liu Shaoyuan congratulated.
"Then I'll take your kind words!" Rong Qing now looked like a clueless new dad.
"Senior brother, I'll take them inside first." Liu Shaoyuan pointed to Cheng Jiu and his group behind him, as now was not a good time for catching up.
Rong Qing waved to his senior brothers on the other side: "Alright, you can go in now!"
Liu Shaoyuan led Cheng Jiu and his group through the gate.
"Hiss, I think I forgot to tell Junior Brother something. Junior Brother Cheng, do you think I forgot to tell Junior Brother something?" Rong Qing asked his junior brother, who was on duty with him, with some hesitation.
Since morning, Rong Qing has been constantly asking, "Do you know I'm going to be a father?" Cheng Shidi, brainwashed, rolled his eyes: "What could possibly happen while we've been guarding this place all day? hardly anyone has come or gone!"
"Oh, that's right. By the way, Junior Brother Cheng, what do you think my baby will look like when she's born? Will she look more like her mother or me? I think she'll look more like her mother, her mother is pretty..." Rong Qing started rambling again.
Senior Brother Cheng looked utterly devastated. How could it start again so soon after it had just stopped? He could only be thankful that Medicine King Valley was a gate with two towers. If the two of them were in the same tower, he would have wanted to jump down.
It doesn't matter if we don't have these points, whoever wants to guard the gate with Rong Qing can go ahead and do it!
He tried to cover his ears to block out the demonic sound, but then suddenly remembered something and realized, "Senior Brother Rong, I remember that group of people weren't all alchemists, were they?"
"I don't know about the others, but those two brothers definitely aren't. One of them has a fire elemental root, but the fire elemental energy on his body is too violent. The other one clearly has a water elemental root, and the water elemental energy on his body is about to burst out."
Although Rong Qing seemed a bit off his game because he was about to become a father, he was still the eldest disciple of Dan Yuan Zun Jun, so he still had some sense.
"You forgot to tell Junior Brother that your aunt is testing pills in the Medicine Valley, so be careful."
"Isn't guarding this road the shortcut to Medicine Valley?" Senior Brother Cheng said.
"Oh right, how could I forget to mention that!" Rong Qing slapped his forehead.
"Anyway, they're already inside. Now we can only hope that the two alchemists from Guiyuan Sect have some resistance to the poison, and that our junior brother is quick-witted. Otherwise, they're on their own."
Brother Cheng spoke with a hint of schadenfreude, "The medicine that my grandma concocts doesn't poison people, it just makes them look bad!"
"That's all we can do. The person is already inside. I hope Junior Brother can be quick-witted." Rong Qing could only wish his junior brother good luck. As for going in to rescue the person, he had no such idea.
Sometimes death is just a moment, but social death lasts a lifetime. He's about to become a father and needs to maintain a certain image in front of his child.
Anyway, with my great-aunt around, nothing serious will happen.
Meanwhile, Liu Shaoyuan introduced to the group: "This is the interior of Medicine King Valley."
The village outside is actually the protective formation of our Medicine King Valley.
It is said that a long time ago, someone accidentally saw the village outside, but because of the formation, they could not get into it.
The news of this deserted village spread.
The story became increasingly bizarre, with tales of a deserted village, a ghost village, and that anyone who entered would be devoured by ghosts.
Our founder of Medicine King Valley was also attracted by this rumor and stumbled upon this naturally blessed land.
Later, this natural formation was never broken and became the protective formation of our Medicine King Valley.
Over the years, our predecessors have combined this natural formation with many other killing formations, and the gate guarding the outside is actually a way out of the great formation.
Without the gatekeeper's special methods, even if one managed to enter Medicine King Valley through the path of survival, they would at best get lost, and at worst die.
The path I'm leading you on leads to the Medicine Valley, our Medicine King Valley.
That place is naturally a poison refining ground. A strange little creature floats in the air. It feeds on poison and changes its appearance according to the effects of the pills. Therefore, Medicine Valley is also the testing ground for our Medicine King Valley.
Some newly developed elixirs are tested here, and their effects are measured before they are sold.
"Apart from Medicine Valley, nowhere else in the entire cultivation world can you find this wondrous little thing."
As you walk along the path, the surrounding scenery changes constantly, and a vibrant world of color bursts into view.
All around are colorful cliffs and deserts, and only some strange purple plants, resembling starlight in the night sky, grow in the medicine valley, looking both enchanting and eerie.
The four were stunned by this bizarre yet beautiful sight.
Seeing the shocked looks on the four people's faces, Liu Shaoyuan couldn't help but feel smug. After the four people recovered from the sight, he led them to continue walking forward.
“If we leave Medicine Valley, we’ll arrive at Medicine King Square. There’s a teleportation array there that will take us directly to the sect’s reception area.”
As they wandered along the paths of the medicine valley, the four of them also saw the wondrous little thing that Liu Shaoyuan had mentioned.
It was the purple spores emitted by those plants, and these spores were actually alive!
It's important to understand that plant spores can at most be considered seeds; without taking root and sprouting, they cannot be considered living organisms.
"Hehe, junior sister!" Gong Yu suddenly laughed and called out to Cheng Jiu.
"What's wrong, Senior Brother?" Cheng Jiu walked through this fantastical place, admiring the scenery as he went. The contrast between the purple and the vibrant colors gave him the feeling of walking in a fairy tale world.
"Junior sister."
She turned around.
"Watch me!" he said, and began to dance gracefully on the spot with his bow and arrow in hand.
The three people in front also stopped and stood still, the young man dancing casually and gracefully.
As he danced, he drew his bow to its full extent!
"Wow!" Cheng Jiu's eyes widened.
Three arrows flew towards the three of them like a shower of flowers from a celestial maiden.
Miyagi clapped his hands: "Beautiful, beautiful, little brother, I'll accompany you!" Then he began to sing.
Amidst the rain of arrows from Dinghan Palace, the three men, hearing the palace's awful singing, fled in terror.
"How can someone sing so terribly! How can someone dance and then shoot arrows at him indiscriminately!" Liu Shaoyuan dodged the arrows flying towards him with a look of utter despair.
"Senior Brother Gongcheng, Senior Brother Gongyu, what's wrong with you?" Cheng Jiu shouted loudly, trying to bring them back to their senses.
Fortunately, Gong Yu was suddenly tripped while jumping, and the heavy blow sent the Dinghan Bow flying from his hand.
Cheng Jiu felt embarrassed just looking at him: "Senior Brother Gong Yu, are you alright?"
Gong Yu lay on the ground for a long time. Just as Cheng Jiu was about to check on him, he raised his dirty face and began to paddle and roll on the ground like a drowning fish: "I'm a fish out of water, who has water? I'm a fish out of water, who has water... glug glug."
Miyagi stopped singing, found a corner, and squatted down with her hands behind her head.
"Senior Brother Gongcheng." Cheng Jiu nudged him. What happened? He was perfectly fine just now.
“I’m an autistic bird, chirp chirp…” Miyagi moved away from her: “Don’t mind me. Chirp chirp.”
As he spoke, he lowered his head and buried it between his legs, like a timid bird.
"Quack quack!" The little iron-eating beast beside them actually let out a duck-like quack, flapping its cloud mount around like a duck. "Quack quack...whoosh..."
The scene was chaotic for a moment. Senior Sister Ying and Cheng Jiu were anxiously pacing around, one comforting the withdrawn bird and the other saving the fish that was dying of thirst.
Liu Shaoyuan, watching the chaotic scene, laughed gleefully. Suddenly, his laughter changed to "Woof woof!" He touched his throat, trying to open his mouth: "Woof!"
Only two surviving female disciples looked at him with an expression that seemed to say, "Keep laughing, keep laughing."
Liu Shaoyuan... couldn't laugh.
Liu Shaoyuan pointed to the fish (Gong Yu) on the ground that was thirsty, the bird (Gong Cheng) that was withdrawn, and a duck that ate iron. He then pointed to himself to indicate that he should follow.
Senior Sister Ying couldn't hold onto Gong Yu; he was like a slippery fish, impossible to catch.
In the end, it was Cheng Jiu who had to help. She grabbed his hand and tried to drag him. Gong Cheng struggled fiercely, squatting down wherever he could find a spot, but she couldn't budge him no matter what.
"Let me go, chirp... Don't touch me, chirp... You big bad guy, let me go!... I don't want to go out, I don't want to go out. Chirp... Let me go, chirp..."
As he spoke, he kept rolling around, making it impossible to catch him. Cheng Jiu had to not only drag him but also dodge his face, which was being pecked at like a bird. He kept trying to find a way to catch this withdrawn bird.
"Okay, okay, I'm a big bad guy! Senior Brother Gongcheng, ah! Don't move anymore." Cheng Jiu grabbed his hands and comforted him.
"You big bad guy, let me go! Chirp chirp... let go chirp chirp..." she said, trying to bite Cheng Jiu's hand.
Finally, Cheng Jiu grabbed him by the collar, and Gong Cheng immediately calmed down.
Senior Sister Ying glanced at her junior sister, then slowly turned around, her body trembling as she couldn't suppress her laughter: "Haha..."
Cheng Jiu looked at Senior Sister Ying with resentment. How could she have the nerve to do that?
Senior Sister Ying also felt that this was not a good idea, and stopped laughing: "Then I will go and catch the Iron-Eating Beast Duck. I will leave the two junior brothers to you, Junior Sister."
"Woof!" Liu Shaoyuan urged Cheng Jiu to hurry up, otherwise he would be unable to hold on any longer and would become Cheng Jiu's dog.
As for Gong Yu, Cheng Jiu still grabbed him by the collar. He didn't know how the two brothers' clothes were designed, but they were incredibly easy to grab by the collar. Once he got a hold of them, it was as if their lifeline was being held, and they couldn't struggle no matter what.
(Lord Qingyang approves!)
"Help, brother, glug, glug, help, master, glug, glug. The fish has been caught, glug, glug."
Although they couldn't break free, it didn't stop the two brothers from rolling around like drowning fish, while the other would find a place to squat anytime, anywhere.
Cheng Jiu struggled to drag the two of them along, following Liu Shaoyuan step by step.
Fortunately, the destination wasn't far. As soon as they stopped, Miyagi found a place to squat down, and started talking in all sorts of bird language that Miyagi couldn't understand.
Gong Yu was quite well-behaved, but his appearance terrified Cheng Jiu. Lying on the ground, he kept rolling his eyes, his body still motionless.
Liu Shaoyuan pointed to the house in front of him.
The house was a very ordinary stone hut, and judging from the materials, it was probably built with the kind of colorful stones commonly found in this valley.
Next to it grew the tallest purple plant that Cheng Jiu and the others had ever seen.
A huge canopy covered the cottage, highlighting a rich purple beauty.
Liu Shaoyuan made a few hand gestures, indicating that there was a formation here and that they should follow his route.
Cheng Jiu understood and wanted to give up. Dragging these two guys along was already difficult enough for her; she could barely hold them back.
These two guys are as strong as oxen, and they've also trained their bodies. If it weren't for her higher level of physical cultivation, she wouldn't have been able to drag them here at all.
If she continues to follow the route prescribed by Liu Shaoyuan, I'm sorry, she can't do it!
Yingyue also saw her predicament: "Junior sister, Junior Brother Liu and I will go, you stay here and watch over your two senior brothers."
"Don't worry, senior sister, I'm here!" Cheng Jiu nodded.
To ease her senior's burden, she also stayed behind to look after the iron-eating duck.
At first, my senior sister seemed to have an easy time walking, but then she had to keep switching arms between her left and right hands, because the little guy was quite heavy.