Go Take a Look

Go Take a Look

While all of Central State was in an uproar over the Yao Clan Young Miss running away, the central figure of this entire storm had long since left Central State's territory.

Nonsense. Did they really think she was stupid? Central State was vast and rich in resources, and the Yao Clan Elder would surely assume she would run off to Central State to take a look. If she went to Central State now and ran into her own people, wouldn't that be terribly awkward?

So Yao Wan simply did the opposite. Since the elders thought she would circle around Central State, she would just not go to Central State at all.

After passing through a Space Wormhole far from Central State, wings woven from Dou Qi spread out behind her. Yao Wan sped through the mountains, racing straight toward the setting sun, only stopping when everything before her eyes gradually lost the outline of ridges and peaks.

When even the outline of the Shennong Mountain Range was covered by the vast horizon, Yao Wan subconsciously turned back and glanced at it.

Come to think of it, this was the first time she had gone out since coming to the Battle Through the Heavens world.

Yet she had never expected it to turn out like this.

Thoughts slowly surfaced in her heart, but if Yao Wan were asked to go back now, she would never go back no matter what.

She had already come out. What else did they want?

If you played, don't chicken out; if you chickened out, don't play. Since she had run out on her own, it naturally wasn't for the sake of some momentary "return from the wrong path."

At the very least, she should first take a look at the whole Dou Qi Continent, right?

The moment she thought of this, the lingering homesickness she had felt was immediately tossed to the back of Yao Wan's mind.

Passing through layer upon layer of clouds, in the savage lands far from Central State, legends began to spread of someone wearing a bamboo hat and draped in a cloak.

It was said that there was a fairy who wore a cloak to conceal her attire and whereabouts, wandering across the Dou Qi Continent. As she crossed mountains and rivers, she casually saved some of the local sick and wounded. Sometimes she threw around gold like dirt; sometimes she took not a single coin. It all depended on her mood at the moment.

Those patients whom local alchemists often deemed incurable could, under her hands, almost always recover completely, as if she could revive the dead and regrow flesh on white bones.

Because someone had once happened to hear that person's voice, melodious like the cry of an oriole, those who spread the tale afterward mostly addressed her respectfully as the Medicine Fairy.

And people, once they had some inexplicable title attached to them, would find trouble coming one after another.

As the name of the Medicine Fairy gradually spread, there were always some people deliberately following in her footsteps, searching all the way just to behold the Medicine Fairy's elegance.

They called it admiring her elegance, but to put it bluntly, they were just lustful.

After seeing plenty of women in ordinary times, they would naturally start yearning for that mysterious flower on a high peak. She clearly hadn't come to provoke them, yet they insisted on taking the initiative to sidle over.

All one could say was that people liked asking for trouble.

Yao Wan, worried that this inexplicable reputation would sooner or later draw the clan elders over, naturally could not endure it any longer. She gave those few fellows tailing her a thorough beating, then threw them all into the river.

After that, she could only hurry up and change places to avoid getting covered in that mess.

After coming and going for a long time, Yao Wan actually grew used to this trick of firing one shot and immediately changing locations.

At the very least, she had not gotten tired of it for the time being.

Only, when she once again felt the timing was about right and that she should set off for a new place, she suddenly noticed that on the geomantic maps of the various countries around the local area, her eyes immediately landed on a familiar term.

"...Gama Empire?"

Gama Empire? How many Gama Empires could there be in this world?

If nothing unexpected happened, there was probably only that one Gama Empire on the entire Dou Qi Continent.

Yao Wan did have some impression of this.

So after wandering around and around, had she unknowingly ended up here?

...Then should she go to the Gama Empire and see what the legendary protagonist Xiao Yan actually looked like?

Such a thought naturally popped into Yao Wan's mind.

After all, that was Xiao Yan.

If it were someone surnamed Tang, then forget taking the initiative to go take a look—if she saw him, she might very well take action to rid the people of a scourge.

Since she already had a plan in mind, Yao Wan had no need to delay.

There was nothing interesting here anyway, so she might as well go and take a look.

Thinking this, Yao Wan spread her Dou Qi Wings and sped all the way toward the Northwest Direction.

By sunset, Yao Wan had arrived within the borders of the Gama Empire.

Yao Wan bought another imperial map within the Gama Empire and searched for quite a while before finally finding where Wutan City was located.

"Wutan City... is it here?"

Her slender jade finger lightly traced across the rough map, and her gaze naturally followed, landing on that tiny patch of land locked beneath her fingertip.

"Why! Why!"

Wutan City, Xiao Clan.

In his family's Practice Room, the black-haired Young Man had already forgotten how many times he had tried hard to condense a Dou Qi vortex, only to fall short at the last step once again.

From the initial panic, to later numbness; from the rebound after hitting his limit, to the cruelty of realizing nothing could be changed.

Ever since that night two years ago, when the Dou Qi he had painstakingly cultivated for over ten years vanished into nothing, Xiao Yan's mind had constantly cycled through such a state.

He had, as a matter of course, thought of every possible method to stabilize the Dou Qi vortex within his body, and over these two years, he had done so countless times.

Yet the Dou Qi that seemed incomparably stable under his internal observation would still very quickly disappear without a trace.

Why? His cultivation had clearly never gone wrong in any way, so why couldn't he make the slightest progress?!

Over countless nights during these two years, such questions and thoughts had surged through his mind countless times.

At first, Xiao Yan and Father had only thought that he had contracted some strange illness, which was why the Dou Qi he had painstakingly cultivated had turned into nothing overnight.

But as time stretched on day by day, and as the situation worsened day by day.

It was clearly no longer like Xiao Yan's own guess.

And the fall of a genius brought not only tremendous psychological pressure, but even more, drastic changes in interpersonal relationships.

When Xiao Yan's body first began having problems, everyone in the Xiao Clan came to ask after him with concern. But as time dragged on and his cultivation still showed no progress—indeed, after it even began to regress—the number of people who came grew fewer and fewer.

Some people began looking on coldly, as if they had already witnessed the fall of a genius, who from then on would sink into the masses and fade away without a sound.

Others began mocking him behind his back. After all, when a genius fell from Cloud Top, there would always be pheasants comparing themselves to phoenixes.

In two years, what Xiao Yan lost was not merely his former status as a genius; within the Xiao Clan, he also gradually saw the so-called warmth and coldness of human relationships.

Fortunately, even at such a time, there were still people silently watching and supporting him.