Chapter 597
Why do you look like a fool?
He’s not hooked by something, is he?
The Lord of the Fu family sized up Fu Shen suspiciously and held out his hand in front of him.
“Crap!” Fu Shen woke up with a start and jumped up violently, “No time, I don’t have time to talk to you now, I’m going to find the old ancestor!”
After saying that, he skipped away as fast as a rabbit.
The Fu Family was the only one who was a dual practitioner of Ancient Medicine and Ancient Martial Arts, the Fu Family Master did not have any semblance of Ancient Martial Arts cultivation in his body, so he could only watch as Fu Shen ran away.
The Fu family head was furious, but there was nothing he could do: “Brat, don’t let me catch you.”
Fu Shen ran to the Book Depository with great speed.
Because the movement was too loud, he was kicked out again by Fu Shi.
This time, Fu Shen finally felt how much his butt hurt, he cried and laughed: “Old, old ancestor, I came to give you important news, why are you kicking me again?”
Fu Shi was still flipping through the book, “What news?”
“Old Ancestor, why do you think you are so stupid? Why don’t you just ask the master who her apprentice is and be done with it?” Fu Shen spread her hands, “Anyway, it’s not like the master ancestor is the kind that is hard to get close to, the big deal is to give more money and food.”
Fu Shi turned her head and raised her hand, already having internal energy surging up.
“Old Ancestor, I was wrong.” Fu Shen didn’t dare to be slippery again, “You don’t dare to ask, I asked for you ah, the senior ancestor told me that she also has a disciple called Feng Xiu.”
Fu Shi froze in place, incredulous: “It’s him?”
The number one ancient martial artist, Feng Xiu!
This name would not be unfamiliar to any ancient martial artist.
Many ancient martial families would make offerings to Feng Xiu, like an ancestor, and would go to offer incense during ancestral rituals.
“Right.” Fu Shen said, “Master ancestor still has such a bullish disciple, Old Ancestor, this is something that even if the Xie family pours out, they definitely won’t be able to win, what are you worried about?”
The higher the ancient martial cultivation level, the greater the gap between each year.
An ancient martial artist with two hundred years of cultivation could not even defeat a hundred ancient martial masters all surrounding him.
This was why the Xie Family was arrogant to this day.
The Xie family’s old ancestor had nearly four hundred years of ancient martial cultivation, and ancient martial practitioners with three hundred years of cultivation were no different from ordinary people in front of him, and could be pressed to death with a wave of their hands.
However, Fu Shi was shocked, but his expression remained worried.
“It seems that not only is the origin of ancient medicine related to the master, but the origin of ancient martial arts as well.” Fu Shi pondered for a moment, “Feng Xiu and I are not of the same generation, he is more than two hundred years older than me, and I have never met him.”
“When I was a child, he basically stopped coming out.”
In terms of age, she also had to call Feng Xiu an old ancestor.
Fu Shi had been wondering what kind of person Ying Ziji was to create something so amazing as ancient medicine and ancient martial arts.
Fu Shen nodded, “That’s just right, that proves that his cultivation level is definitely not lower than four hundred years.”
“Not good.” Fu Shi shook her head slightly, “I’ve asked my master, and I’ve felt it first hand, ancient martial artists are not immortal, there is still that limit in place even if the human limit is greater.”
“The lifespan of an ancient martial artist, even if the master himself teaches it, is only five hundred years, and for the rest of the ancient martial artists, the limit of lifespan is floating around three hundred years.”
Fu Shen froze.
Fu Shi faintly: “Let’s not talk about whether we can find Feng Xiu, the most important question is, is he still alive?”
Fu Shen didn’t say anything at this point.
The First Ancient Martial Artist had become a legend to the younger generation of the Ancient Martial World now.
Not many people had seen it at all.
“I don’t know about Feng Xiu’s existence, and Feng Xiu would know even less about my existence.” Fu Shi sighed, “Even if I put out the news that my master is still alive, how do you know that Feng Xiu will come out?”
“Even if he was still alive, he would probably be in seclusion and would not know anything about what is happening in the outside world, the Ancient Martial World is so big, no one’s cultivation level could cross over to him, and he would not be able to find it even if he wanted to.”
Fu Shen fell into silence for a long time before he spoke, “So what should we do now?”
He thought that as long as the First Ancient Martial Artist was there, how could the Xie family still turn over the sky?
“We’ll take a step and see.” Fu Shi put down the book, “At least for now, I can still protect Master for a while.”
**
End of March.
The Ji family.
Ying Ziji returned today, and Wen Fengmian personally cooked a meal.
Because of the destruction of the Ancient Martial Arts original family, the Ji family had completely severed ties with the Ancient Martial Arts community and focused on experimental research.
Ji Yihang was completely unaware that his own brother had become an offering to the Hall of Justice.
After a meal, Ji Yihang and Wen Fengmian went to the laboratory and continued with the experiments they had conducted back then.
“Ying Shen.” In the kitchen, Ji Li was clutching a bowl, a little sad, “If you don’t make a trip back to Di Da, Professor Zuo Li is going to turn the Ji family upside down, I’ve been blocked by him several times, asking me if you’ve been snatched away by some shameless person in O Continent.”
Ying Ziji pressed her head.
Things were so busy that she had forgotten about Zuo Li.
“You tell him that I’m taking a few days off to go back for a trip.”
Ji Li nodded and started washing the dishes.
“Little Li.” Ying Zigui suddenly stopped, her eyes sunken, “The bracelet, take it off, don’t wear it.”
Ji Li froze and lifted her left hand, “Ying Shen, are you talking about this?”
“Yes, take it off.”
Although Ji Li was a little puzzled, she took off the dark green bracelet on her hand and handed it to Ying Zigui.
Ying Zidian cupped it in his hand and tossed it, “Did you buy this, or did someone else give it to you?”
“My mother and I went shopping and bought it from a jewellery shop in Dongdan, my mother often buys jewellery there.” Ji Li hesitated for a moment and said testily, “Ying Shen, this …… is not something written in some novel, that some evil fortune teller used to harm people, right?”
I don’t blame her.
She was originally a college student with red roots, and now she had started to believe in metaphysics.
“No.” Ying Zidian wrinkled her eyebrows, “But the effect is the same, it does harm people, it’s not actually jade, it’s an imitation made from some herbs and ores used in ancient medicine.”
“Imitation?” Ji Li was stunned, “But that jewellery shop is also a domestic luxury brand, my mother and I have bought it a dozen times, there’s no way it’s a fake.”
“Well, it should be a coincidence.” Ying examined the bracelet carefully, “That jewellery shop doesn’t know what it is either, and it’s difficult for machines to identify such imitations.”
“Except that this bracelet is different from ordinary imitations, there are some herbs added to it that are harmful to the body, do you smell a strawberry smell?”
Ji Li nodded: “That’s what the counter sister said, that it’s natural with fragrance and helps with sleep, that’s why my mother bought this bracelet for me.”
“It is able to help you sleep.” Ying Ziji was faint, “If you carry it for a long time, you won’t be able to wake up when you fall asleep, and then you will go to the hospital for testing, and the hospital will say that you are at the end of your life.”
Ji Li broke out in a cold sweat: “So poisonous?”
Ying Zigui didn’t say anything, his eyes deepened.
This wasn’t done by an ancient doctor, it was an evil doctor.
It seemed that, just like the Tea Sage had said, the evil doctors had started to act stupidly again.
Just like Shi Feng Yi back then, his hands had reached into the lives of ordinary people.
This was also a breach of the great taboo of the ancient medical community.
“Don’t take this bracelet with you.” Ying Zidian said, “Take this one with you, and give a warning on second aunt’s side, don’t let her know the inside story.”
Ji Li took the bracelet Ying Zidian handed her, her fingers still trembling: “It’s terrible.”
“Don’t panic, a few days will be fine, it will take three months for it to take effect.” Ying Ziji soothed, “You can see if anyone else in school has bought similar jewellery, give me a heads up when you have.”
After that, she left the kitchen and went outside to call Fu Yunshen.
After Ying gave a short account of what had happened, “Sir, all the jewellery shops in the empire, we need to check the source of the goods.”
Such bracelets were made in bulk, and once they were dispersed into the market, the consequences would be unthinkable.
“Good.” Fu Yunshen’s eyes sank slightly, his voice slowed, “I’ve already sent someone.”
“I’ll go to the ancient medical community.” Ying Ziyi nodded slightly, “It just so happens that the Dan Alliance side has asked me to take the Level 5 examination.”
**
During the Level 5 examination, the examiners were allowed to fight each other.
But the match between Ying Zigui and Meng Qingxue at the Winter Hunt was now unknown to everyone in the ancient medical community.
Even Meng Qingxue had lost, how dare they make a move?
Without any suspense, Ying Zigui pa*sed the Dan League’s Level 5 test with no problem.
Having become a Level 5 member, her status and voice had also been raised to a new level.
However, Ying Ziyi wasn’t too concerned about this. Her only concern was that her share of medicinal materials had increased a lot and she was already on a par with the Elders’ Group.
It was also in these two days that the Ancient Medicine Community’s annual training exercise began.
The Dan Alliance had sent quite a few people from their side, and all three major families of ancient martial arts were also present.
Ying Ziji and Fu Shen were together, walking together up the mountain.
Fu Shen lowered his voice: “Master ancestor, Master gave me the word that it was extremely likely that Old Ancestor Feng Xiu had pa*sed away.”
“Hmm.” Ying Zigui was not surprised and was very calm, “It is great, he should have reached the end of his life span.”
“As long as we are human, we will all get old and die.”
Fu Shi’s lifespan was supposed to be coming to an end too.
She had taught Fu Shih some more ancient martial arts cultivation methods before she hardened and opened up Fu Shih’s body functions again, extending his life span.
But wind cultivation was indeed the limit of all ancient martial artists.
“Ugh.” Fu Shen sighed, “How good it would be if he was still alive, with such a backer, where would the Xie family still dare to be cross.”
The group proceeded to walk up the stairs.
“Miss Ying, wait.”
At this moment, a very faint voice rang out.
The crowd turned around and all stared.
The other members of the Dream Family were also a little surprised.
Below, an escort pushed a wheelchair and escorted Meng Qingxue upwards.
Ying Ziji stopped and gave a polite word: “Something wrong?”
Meng Qingxue lifted her head.
Seeing her appearance, Fu Shen couldn’t help but be startled.
Her face was white and sickly.
Compared to a few months ago, she had lost a lot of weight, and greenish veins could be clearly seen on her skin.
With this appearance, she made the others frown.
Today they were going up to the mountains to collect medicine and to practice.
Although the Ancient Medical World was much safer than the Ancient Martial World, there were inevitably beasts and other dangers on the mountain.
The Ancient Medicine Realm had good feng shui and high air quality.
Even a water snake of that size could appear on a remote mountain in the imperial capital, and these kinds of beasts were even more common in the ancient medicine world.
This is why the Meng family had never allowed Meng Qingxue to take part in this kind of medicine gathering adventure.
Meng Qingxue coughed and turned even whiter as she whispered, “I came to tell you that I won’t live much longer, you should have seen that too.”
Ying Ziji didn’t say anything and turned his head away.
Fu Shen frowned and sized up Meng Qingxue, confirming that this was the truth of what she said.
Ancient doctors knew how to read faces.
When a person’s life expectancy was about to end, her face would change with it.
A deadly pallor.
“I beg you.” Meng Qingxue’s smile was forced and very bitter, “Can you let me live a good life for a few days before I die? Just a few days.”
“What do you mean?” Fu Shen’s voice was cold, “You say that as if Miss Ying is not letting you have a good life, what is she doing to you?”
Meng Qingxue ignored Fu Shen and just looked at the girl, her voice was even softer and trembling: “I am really dying, can’t you …… be understanding?”
The guard could not bear it in his heart: “Miss, go back.”
Meng Qingxue pursed her lips, “No, follow, I have never participated in an adventure, let’s go with everyone this time.”
The others looked at each other, they didn’t know what to say.
If something happened to Meng Qingxue on the mountain, what should they do?
But there was nothing they could do, the Dream Family Master had released Meng Qingxue, what else could they say?
So, apart from the members of the Meng Family and some admirers who were protecting Meng Qingxue were walking. Everyone else was avoiding far away.
The mountain was well uncultivated and isolated, but because it was well preserved, there were many natural medicinal herbs on the mountain, some of which the Tea Sage could not even grow.
Fu Shen followed Ying Zidian around, plucking herbs and learning a lot more at the same time.
He filled a bag with the dug up herbs and trotted up: “Master, let’s-”
Ying Zigui suddenly raised his hand, “Stop.”
Fu Shen froze, alert, “What’s wrong?”
“What’s stopping?” A youth who was protecting Meng Qingxue snorted, “You’re not the leader, listen to you?”
He said, striding straight forward.
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As if to prove what Ying Zigui said wrong, the youth even went to the front of everyone and stomped his foot again.
Nothing happened.
The young man turned his head and looked mocking: “What? Why did you stop, you didn’t see the abundance of medicinal herbs on this mountain and want to take them all for yourself, did you?”
“It’s just that Qingxue is not well enough to compete with you for anything, otherwise-”
Before he could finish his words, the ground moved and a deep pit appeared.
In an instant, a foot stepped into the air.
The youth didn’t even have time to react and fell straight down
He looked terrified and a miserable cry escaped.
Just then, a hand violently grabbed his clothes and lifted him up.
Ying Ziji let go of his hand and his eyes fell on the trap that had suddenly appeared, and he looked slightly puzzled.
This kind of large trap was used to catch animals.
The skins and bones of some animals were also capable of being used in medicine, and there were many such traps in the ancient medical world.
But this was the mountain they had come to practice on, so how could something like this appear.
The youth broke out in a cold sweat of shock, his legs went weak and he planted himself on the ground.
Everyone else was also startled.
Meng Qingxue frowned.
“See, this is the direct difference between you and Miss Ying.” Fu Shen squatted down, coldly sarcastic, “To judge a gentleman with the heart of a villain, have a bigger heart in the future, or you won’t even know how you’ll die.”
The youth opened his mouth and his face turned red, burning with pain and more shame, “Right, sorry.”
He pursed his lips and stood up without going back to Meng Qingxue’s side.
Without looking at him, Ying Zidian turned around, “Everyone, go down the mountain.”
“Miss Ziggy, isn’t it too much of a storm?” An ancient doctor hesitated for a moment and spoke, “It’s just a trap, it’s very common, you can’t be afraid of that when you come out to train.”
Once a year, that was all it took.
The other ancient doctors also hesitated not to move.
At the end of the training, the ancient doctors of the ancestor generation would be awarded according to their results.
They did not want to miss out.
Fu Shen frowned, “Everyone from the Fu family go down the mountain.”
Fu Shen’s words were good.
No matter how lazy he was, he was still the number one person in the younger generation of the Fu Clan, and the geniuses of the Fu Clan were led by him.
Fu Shen followed Ying Zidian, and the others followed him.
An Ling and An Miaomiao looked at each other.
If Ying Zidian could say something like that, he wouldn’t be saying it for nothing.
An Ling thought about it and spoke anyway, “Everyone in the An family, go down the mountain too.”
This time, a large part of them had gone.
The Dan Alliance split into two, and one part followed Ying Zigui down.
The other part remained where they were.
Ying Ziyi had risen through the ranks of the Dan League so quickly that even the head of the Dan League was praising her, and it would be a lie to say that she wasn’t jealous.
An ancient doctor from the Meng Family looked at Meng Qingxue, “Qingxue, should we go down the mountain too?”
“What could be the matter?” Meng Qingxue pursed her lips, somewhat unable to hold back, “Of course, if you guys believe her, then just follow her down, I’ll go up myself.”
Another Meng Qingxue’s admirer spoke up with a bit of disdain, “This trap is already common, it’s just a bit hidden, what can happen? They are timid and afraid, do we in the Meng family have to be afraid?”
“This time, the Fu Family and the An Family didn’t get anything from this adventure, the Meng Family just happened to press them.”
Only then did Meng Qingxue’s face ease up a few points.
She turned her wheelchair herself, bypa*sed that trap and proceeded to walk forward.
The rest of the ancient doctors followed her.
It was at this time that the change took place.
Just as one group descended and one group ascended the mountain, the whole mountain moved.
Ying Zigui’s footsteps suddenly lurched, her expression slightly austere, and she spoke, “Retreat!”
After saying this, she took the lead and pulled An Miaomiao aside and rolled violently to one side.
At the same time as Ying Zidian spoke, Fu Shen also moved, immediately pushing the others to the right.
In the next second, a crack appeared where they had been standing.
An Miao Miao’s face turned pale: “Zi, Miss Ziggy, it seems to be an explosive.”
Dynamite was originally one of the four ancient inventions, and naturally the ancient medical community was using it.
“It’s not just explosives.” Ying Zidian stood up and slowly looked up.
A girl let out a scream.
It was an extremely huge tiger, but obviously not like the kind in the outside zoo.
It was of the same kind as the water snake that Ying Zidian had once decapitated, but it was even stronger than that one.
The aura emanating from its body was already comparable to that of an ancient martial arts master.
Such large beasts would definitely not be bred by ancient doctors, as they simply could not be controlled.
Even in the Ancient Martial World, they would have to be kept in captivity by high cultivation Ancient Martial practitioners.
After all, the juniors in the Ancient Martial World were not of high cultivation, and if they came across such a beast that was comparable to the level of an Ancient Martial Grandmaster, they would end up either dead or crippled.
Evil doctors!
These two words came to the minds of not only Fu Shen, but also An Ling and An Miao Miao and the others.
Evil doctors would experiment on animals before using people for research.
There had been a large beast that had broken into the Dream Family.
If the Dream Family hadn’t had ancient martial artists stationed there, the beast would have been able to slaughter the Dream Family.
Afterwards, it was proven that it was the evil medical practitioners’ crooked ways, as well as some forbidden herbs, that had turned ordinary animals into this.
An Miaomiao’s face turned even whiter: “Oh no …… it’s bad!”
Today this mountain gathered all the geniuses of the younger generation of the ancient medical community, the hope of the future.
It could be said that except for a few individuals who were physically ill or had other matters, not a single one was left out.
If they all died here today, the Ancient Medical Community would be no different from extinction.
Even if it didn’t perish, it would be fractured for decades to come.
This was to wipe out everyone in one go.
The conspiracy that the evil doctors had been planning for decades had finally all exploded today.
Most of the ancient doctors were physically weak, and although they had learned self-defense, how could they fight the beasts?
“Run first!” Ying Ziji’s eyes went down cold, “Those who don’t know ancient martial arts, use silver and gold needles, and block it with trees and stones.”
It might not be easy for her to kill this tiger.
“This mountain, the Dan Alliance and the three great families have all surveyed it!” Fu Shen’s cold voice, “There is absolutely no way there are any traps or large animals!”
There was nothing wrong with it being an adventure, but other dangers had to be ruled out as well.
In other words, there were evil doctors mixed in with the top echelons of the ancient medical community!
“Don’t talk.” Ying Zidian raised his hand and the three golden needles hidden in his sleeves came out.
One of them went into an acupuncture point on Fu Shen’s shoulder.
At once, Fu Shen felt his internal energy majestic, and he ran much faster with the wind at his feet.
The other two, hit the beast’s abdomen.
The beast let out a hiss and not only did it not retreat, it became even more furious.
“Go.” Ying Ziji wiped the ash from his face and his voice was cold, “Keep running and don’t look back.”
**
Afternoon.
Imperial Capital.
Ji family.
Wen Fengmian comes out of the lab, holding two medicine bottles in his hands.
Fu Yunshen turned his head and smiled, “Uncle, it’s already been researched?”
After Wen Fengmian took over the Ji family, he restarted the island experiment from twenty years ago.
Wen Fengmian shook his head slightly, “No, it hasn’t, but I was able to determine that it’s not something from Earth, it might be an extra-terrestrial meteorite, but it doesn’t look like it, none of the elements match up anyway, it’s a wonderful thing.”
Fu Yun Shen’s eyes narrowed slightly, faintly: “Not necessarily, 80% of it might have come from a place similar to the Ancient Martial World.”
Within the ancient martial world, there were still many creatures that were internationally concluded to be extinct.
Like the white-rumped langur.
The last white-rumped langur was declared dead and completely extinct in China last century.
But there is a mountain full of them in the ancient martial world.
There are also quite a few ore elements that are not on the periodic table of chemical elements.
Twenty-odd years ago experiments on the island saw the emergence of death poisonous fog, apparently to stop researchers from researching further.
Last year the death poison fog appeared again in the university city of O Chau, in an attempt to kill the young technological geniuses.
Wen Fengmian put the potion bottle down: “Where is Yao Yao?”
“He and the children have gone on an adventure to collect medicine.” Fu Yunshen nodded, “She is worried that if you restart the experiment this time, it will once again attract the same group of people from the beginning, so she asked me to check on you more.”
“What can happen to me, this child.” Wen Fengmian sighed, “Ever since she was little, she has only known how to think about others.”
The ten years when Ying Ziji’s consciousness and memory hadn’t fully recovered, when she was living in Qing Shui County, she also preferred to save a piece of meat and give it to Wen Huilan.
That was how they had come through all those years.
Wen Fengmian asked again, “When will her calendar end?”
“According to the ancient medical community’s tradition it’s two days and one night.” Fu Yunshen smiled, “But I’m going to go up the mountain tonight, she’s rather picky about her meals.”
“Good.” Wen Fengmian took off his lab coat and washed his hands, “I’ll go up with you during the evening.”
The phone rang at that moment.
Fu Yunshen pressed the answer, “Hello?”
“Young master, something’s happened!” Yunshan’s voice was anxious, “The mountain where Miss Ying and the other ancient medical geniuses went for their training today has just received news that it has collapsed!”