Of course, those feelings of ill ease did not include Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie came down from the horse carriage carrying the little black cat. Her dress was highly common and her face was that of a youth after she altered it, looking like she would immediately be completely overlooked, the moment she fell into the crowd.
Mount Fu Yao was named a mountain, and its surface area was highly vast. The vegetation along the mountain streams were said to hold dense levels of spirit energy.
When Jun Wu Xie arrived here in the Middle Realm, she had immediately discovered that the spirit energy in the air here was denser than it was in the Lower Realm. Regardless whether it was the water source or its food, the spirit energy they had held was several times the levels it was in the Lower Realm. People in the Middle Realm grew up and cultivated from a young age under such conditions where spirit energy was so plentiful, hence, their basic foundations far exceeded that of the people in the Lower Realm.
Especially for people like her who possessed plant ring spirits, where they were able to feel the spirit energy surrounding them more distinctly. Although she had already broken through to the Purple Spirit, upon setting foot into the Middle Realm, Jun Wu Xie discovered that even if she did not intentionally cultivate her powers, she was still able to achieve a good amount of increase of her powers.
“Little Xie, we’ll be starting up the mountain in a while. It is said that it’s a long way from the foot of the mountain up to the top. Will it really be alright for you to go up there like this with your hands all empty? Aren’t you going to prepare a few things at least?” Her little companions on this journey had readied themselves and were about to set forth. One of them had noticed that Jun Wu Xie was carrying nothing but just that little black cat with her and could not help but ask a little worriedly.
They only knew that the small sized “boy” before them was called Little Xie and he had only suddenly appeared in their village not long ago. As to where he had come from, none of them knew anything about it.
Jun Wu Xie shook her head.
The young youth scratched his head and was feeling a little helpless on what else he could say. Another one of the youths then pulled on his sleeve and whispered to him: “Why are you being such a busybody? If he doesn’t want to prepare anything, then leave him be. What are you being so worried about?”
Hearing the whisper, several other youths nodded in agreement. They were not ostracising Jun Wu Xie but it was just that Jun Wu Xie had really not spoken much to all of them. Throughout the long journey here, she had not opened her mouth even ten times to speak. Faced with such a cold little companion on their journey, the group of youths really couldn’t make themselves come to like the little youth.
“I was just feeling that he looked rather pitiful that’s all. My mother always told me, we are all born from the same land and it is always good if we can look out for each other.”
“In what way is he pitiful? He obviously can’t even be bothered with us and we should not poke our noses into his affairs.” Several of the other youths started to say and they began dragging the friendly big fella away, leaving Jun Wu Xie to stand there alone to watch the densely packed crowd of people all around.
Jun Wu Xie lifted her head to look at the green mountain before her. Mount Fu Yao was abundant with spirit energy, more plentiful than others places and in her mind, she quickly recalled everything Fei Yan had tutored her in, about things in the Middle Realm.
Fei Yan and her other companions had still been very young when they were in the Middle Realm and everything they knew about the place was only what they had heard from others, never having gone to the places themselves. She had been told that Mount Fu Yao was said to be one of the most famous places in the Middle Realm.
As Mount Fu Yao was filled with an abundant amount of spirit energy, it was a place most suited for cultivation. But as Mount Fu Yao had previously belonged to the Dark Region, only people who had the permission from the Dark Region were allowed to practice cultivation within the mountain.
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Chapter 1470: “The Middle Realm (3)”
And after the Dark Region retreated into reclusion, the land of this place was split up to be under the purview of the Nine Temples and the Twelve Palaces.
Upon Mount Fu Yao, besides it being used to hold the Battle of Deities every ten years, there was also a highly unique academy. That academy was jointly built by the Twelve Palaces and the Nine Temples for the purpose of making it more convenient for them to develop talented members. And to gain entry into this academy, there was only one prerequisite. One only had to receive the invitation from either one of the parties between the Nine Temples or the Twelve Palaces.
As a whole, the academy was seen to be only for the Nine Temples and Twelve Palaces to acquire more gifted individuals, using the Battle of Deities as a source for them to discover more talent.
That was why so many people throughout the Middle Realm would crack their heads so hard just to show their faces at least once in the Battle of Deities Grand Meet.
Jun Wu Xie then retracted her gaze. Back at the Clear Breeze City, when she had battled the Palace of Flame Demons’ Elder, she had then defeated him with ease, but Jun Wu Yao had told her that she was still a way off from the Palace Lords of the Twelve Palaces. Mount Fu Yao was a place that was highly conducive for her to cultivate her powers and if she could, she wouldn’t really mind using this period of time to become even stronger!
The Twelve Palaces and the Nine Temples had highly stringent criteria in accepting members and even if they were winners in the Battle of Deities, they were still required to cultivate for a period on Mount Fu Yao before they would be considered as one of their members.
Jun Wu Xie’s objective in coming here this time was very simple. She had already arranged for Qiao Chu and the rest of the companions to be sent out here to claim a ranking within the Battle of Deities for themselves. With the level of powers they currently possessed, coming out strong within the grand meet would not be too difficult for all of them. And when anyone from the Twelve Palaces actually extended an olive branch to them, they would then accept the offer to infiltrate inside.
And they would then become the Soul Purging Nails that Jun Wu Xie had buried deep inside the Twelve Palaces!
As for herself, Jun Wu Xie really wasn’t against the idea of her having some fun toying with the people from the Twelve Palaces but a pity she possessed rather unique ring spirits and it was not guaranteed that someone from the Twelve Palaces would discover that she possessed plant ring spirits, hence, she decided that she would just temporarily advocate from behind the scenes, where they would first observe the various powers in the Middle Realm before they decide further.
The figure of Jun Wu Xie quietly disappeared into the crowd of people, slipping through the throngs of people, to slip into the forest that was highly difficult to traverse.
Having slipped out of sight from other people, the body of Jun Wu Xie turned into a streak of purple light, weaving speedily up the side of Mount Fu Yao!
If she had depended solely on her legs to go up to the summit, it would have taken her at least one whole day’s time. But Jun Wu Xie had taken merely less than one hour before she reached midway up the side of the mountain.
Compared to the spirit energy at the foot of the mountain, it was much denser here. Jun Wu Xie stopped her steps within a thick clump of trees, to feel the pristine air within the mountain wilderness.
Suddenly, a burning smell came wafting over from not too far away. Jun Wu Xie’s eyes immediately turned, seeking out the place the smell was coming from as she walked towards it.
Within the green mountain, tiny brooks trickled through the dense trees, flowing slowly down the mountainside. At the side of a brook with its running crystalline waters, Jun Wu Xie could faintly spot a little figure seemingly highly flustered and exasperated as he squatted upon the grass, a pile of withered grass that had turned black at his feet.
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“ARRRGGGH! ! Why is it still not working! ?” A exasperated cry could be heard coming from over there, as Jun Wu Xie saw that it was a little old man already past fifty years of age, his back bent, his size rather scrawny. At first glance, he could have been mistaken to be a child of about ten years old but that long scraggly beard and his face that was full of wrinkles gave his age away.
The little old man was holding a walking stick in one hand, as he stared forlornly at a pile of withered grass turned black. He stared at it for a long while before he hung his head and turned around with a long sigh, to pull out a large clump of herbs from a big basket at the side.
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Chapter 1471: “The Little Old Man (1)”
And it was only in that instant when he shifted his body that Jun Wu Xie saw, on the grass beside the brook, was a spotted deer that was barely still breathing.
Both the back legs of that spotted deer looked like it had been wounded by something sharp and red blood was flowing out from the wounds, staining the grass around its feet red. In the area close to where the deer’s wounded legs lay, a mess of medicine was faintly spotted.
The little old man then plodded his way back with his walking stick to once again squat down beside the poor spotted deer, before he began messing around with the herbs he held in his hands.
“Little Spotty, rest assured. I will have you healed up in a while. Grandmother egg’s, if I ever find out who was the one that hurt you like this, I will definitely give those scoundrels a hard time I tell you!” The little old man nagged and grumbled to himself over there as the spotted deer just lay there on the grass, not responding to him at all.
Jun Wu Xie stared at the strange sight before her eyes, and a corner of her eye twitched.
[Who can tell her from where had this dotty old man sprouted out from? Who told him that Blood Clot Grass can be applied directly onto an open wound just by chewing on it with one’s mouth! ?]
Jun Wu Xie really thought she should just walk away and pretend that she did not see anything. But when she saw that the little old man began to pull out some unknown substance and was about to stuff it into the spotted deer’s mouth, she suddenly felt a little….. unable to hold herself back anymore!
As a veterinarian in the past, she really couldn’t force herself to stand back and watch animals being so badly “tortured”.
“If you continue to do that, it wouldn’t be able to live much longer.” A cold and chilling voice suddenly rang out within that quiet and tranquil forest, immediately freezing the little old man who was holding a stick of some unknown substance and was trying to stuff it into the mouth of the spotted deer. He turned his head and stared at the rather good looking youth, and it was not known when he had come walking out from among the trees, his eyes looking highly displeased.
“From where has this wild kid come from? The is only one broad path leading up to the summit of Mount Fu Yao. Have you lost your way and was squatting there behind the trees?”
Jun Wu Xie swept her gaze past the old man, not intending to waste anymore of her breath on him. Towards the entire Middle Realm, she didn’t really have a good impression of it.
The little old man had fully intended to properly interrogate Jun Wu Xie where she had crawled out from when he saw Jun Wu Xie suddenly walking over to the side of the spotted deer, and pulling out a handkerchief to wipe off the “unknown substance” cleanly from the spotted deer’s wounds. He then saw Jun Wu Xie pull out a bottle of medicine, before opening it and slowly pouring the medicinal liquid onto the legs of the spotted deer.
“Kid! What are you doing to my Little Spotty! You cannot just haphazardly just give it any medicine you want!” Upon seeing Jun Wu Xie’s actions, the little old man immediately came hobbling forward in complaint, wanting to stop the youth. But he had barely just taken two steps when he saw the gaping wounds upon the spotted deer’s legs closing up, the blood that had been flowing out from the garish wounds already clotted up.
The little old man’s eyes instantly flared wide, his eyes immediately fixing upon the bottle of medicine held in Jun Wu Xie’s hand.
Jun Wu Xie checked the spotted deer’s condition and after ascertaining that there were no other injuries, she stood up and was all ready to leave.
But then she noticed that the stern little old man was looking at the bottle of medicine she held in her hand with a kind of longing in his eyes.
“Ah, this little brother….. Er….. That….. That bottle of medicine….. Where had that come from?” The little old man asked highly hesitantly with his eyes absolutely shining.
“Is anything the matter?” Jun Wu Xie asked coldly.
The little old man rubbed his hands together and grinned sheepishly. “Erm, I have always been highly interested with things like this. You….. You don’t judge me from my looks like this. I’ll tell you this, I am actually a doctor!”
“Doctor?” Confusion rose in Jun Wu Xie’s mind. She had heard the term doctor many times in the previous world, but never in this alternate world here.
Seeing the reaction Jun Wu Xie was giving, the little old man immediately became more excited. “Little brother, you do not know what a doctor is?”
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Chapter 1472: “The Little Old Man (2)”
Jun Wu Xie shook her head in all honesty.
“A Doctor is one of the ranks for people in pursuit of Medicine. Beginning from the Disciple Healer to a Healer itself, then one moves on to a Doctor and then a Senior Doctor….. As for me, I am a Doctor, and I love to conduct research with herbs and its like.” The little old man said with a chortle.
[Doctor? Him?]
Jun Wu Xie’s cold clear eyes did not show the slightest emotion. Just by the way the little old man had handled the staunching of the deer’s bleeding earlier, she guessed that any first year student she pulled out from medical college would do a much better job than whatever this old man did.
It could be that Jun Wu Xie’s eyes had looked too much at peace which made the little old man think that she did not believe him at all. The little old man then frantically searched through his sleeves to pull out a green badge, a badge that had two wings carved out like a magnificent eagle with its wings spread wide, and within a circle in the middle of that badge, was an imprint of a maple leaf decorated with two five pointed stars below it.
“Nah! I am not pulling your leg you see? This is my Doctor’s Badge.” The little old man said gleefully as he looked at Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie swung her glance to look at him only very briefly, the expression on her face one of high disinterest, not looking like she wanted to continue listening to such nonsense any longer.
Seeing that Jun Wu Xie was going to leave once more, the little old man was suddenly in a panic.
“Ay ay ay! You tell me why are all you young people so impatient and short tempered? Can’t any of you remain for a while to hear an old man say just a few words? Hey! ! Little brother, don’t go! Can’t I offer you something to trade then! ? I give you something in exchange for it!” The little old man said and he shot forward with incredible speed to come stand before Jun Wu Xie.
Although Jun Wu Xie’s face did not show any reaction, her heart was involuntarily startled. The speed her steps were moving at was not slow but she had not detected it in the slightest when that little old man had overtaken her and now stood before her. She realized that this man’s powers far exceeded her own!
She discreetly suppressed the surprise in her heart as she turned to look at the old man who had managed to cling on and said: “What are you giving me in exchange?”
She realized at that moment that the old man was not going to give up. If she did not give up the bottle of medicine she held in her hand, she would surely have a hard time trying to shake off this old man who was definitely more than he seemed to be.
The old man saw that Jun Wu Xie had relented by acknowledging and he immediately felt all over his body for awhile. With a messy clattering, his
arm was quickly filled with a bunch of medicine bottles and he put all of them on the ground with a laugh before sitting himself down upon the ground. “You can choose any one of the medicine here as an exchange for yours.”
Jun Wu Xie had just come to the Middle Realm and she was still not familiar with the kind of medical knowledge they had. Seeing the whole bunch of bottles and flasks upon the ground, she suddenly grew curious. Would the people of the Middle Realm be more skilled in Medicine than those in the Lower Realm?
In the end, when Jun Wu Xie opened the first bottle and a highly pungent odour wafted out from it, her face turned even chillier.
“Who made this medicine?” Jun Wu Xie asked in a cold voice.
The little old man’s eyes flashed with a trace of secret delight as he said in a deliberately mystifying voice: “Isn’t the medicine great? That is actually concocted by using Ever Grass, Cow Horn Leaves and Bitter Oak, specifically targeted for people with frail bodies to use.
Jun Wu Xie asked in a cold tone: “Has anyone taken any of this medicine?”
The old man’s eyebrow arched up. “It’s such a precious medicine. I wouldn’t give it to just anyone to drink?” The expression on his face looking highly arrogant.
“Good that you haven’t.” Jun Wu Xie said.
“Har?” The old man was suddenly rather dizzy.
Jun Wu Xie then told him: “If someone had drunk that, wouldn’t people come demanding for the life of the person who concocted that medicine?”
“Wh….. What….. do you mean?” The old man’s face was one of utter shock.
“Mixing up three kinds of herbs with such strong effects together so carelessly, doesn’t he know the principle when things reached an extreme, the effects would reverse?” Jun Wu Xie said, couldn’t be bothered to even look at the rest of the myriad bottles on the ground.
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