Chaos Has Always Bred Goofballs

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After careful examination, Qin Yi was at least 80% certain that this was the Tarsal Bone Maggots." He remembered this move vividly from when he fought alongside Meng Qingying against Guan Ji, although he didn't know Guan Ji's internal condition at the time, he could roughly guess what it was. This must be a similar move; the only thing he couldn't be sure of was whether it was Meng Qingying who used it.

The Myriad Phenomena Asura Sect is not just Meng Qingying alone.

The so-called "hair strands" weren't actual hair strands, but rather the Dark Shadow Power, which was now binding and severing the person's heart meridian. It was already a miracle he had woken up. He uttered one sentence and then fainted again, appearing to be barely breathing.

Qin Yi felt he couldn't save the person, nor did he have a strong desire to do so. He was investigating the situation only to verify what he had learned, not out of a sense of self-righteousness. After all, he didn't know anything about this person; who knew if he was a great demon?

Just as he was thinking this, he saw the Daoist priest put a pill into the injured man's mouth, Qin Yi was surprised to find that the dark shadow was gradually dissolved by the medicinal power...

This is a very sophisticated Dao of Alchemy. Once the pill is formed, it can directly address this very special kind of injury. The value of this pill alone is immeasurable.

No, no, the key point is that you clearly knew how to save people, so why did you try to trick your friend into doing that?

Not long after, the injured man regained consciousness and thanked the Daoist priest profusely. The Daoist priest didn't even accept payment for the obviously expensive elixir, and said with a kind face, "We study alchemy precisely for this. Thanks are meaningless; there's no such custom. Come, lie over here, and I'll give you acupuncture to restore your Qi and Blood."

Or is he an incredibly philanthropic person? Qin Yi considered himself a good person, and even he himself found it difficult to offer such a valuable elixir to a stranger for free.

The Liusu's voice echoed softly, "Difficult to understand?"

"Yeah, it's inexplicable."

"If you could understand it so easily, it wouldn't be called chaotic and disorderly," Liusu said. "You think that you should charge a consultation fee for treating illnesses and a fee for elixirs, but they may not necessarily accept these rules. Maybe they just want to test whether their elixirs are effective, or maybe they're in a good mood."

Qin Yi: "..."

Just as Cheng Cheng said, you said you'd have to pay for things? I'll just give them to you for free.

Liusu added, "And this may not be the norm. You might see the next patient come in and ask for dozens of times the price. This is disorder; if you try to guess their psychology based on common sense, you'll never figure it out."

"It's really impossible to guess," Qin Yi said. "Why do you think he would lie to someone's friend about something when he clearly has the ability to cure the illness? Is it some kind of perverse sense of humor?"

Liusu said, "I can't stand seeing others have fellow Daoists, so I'm trying to sow discord and ruin friendships."

"But he doesn't seem like such a bad person, does he?"

"There's no good or evil involved. If you save him directly, half of his gratitude goes to his friend who took him to the hospital in time. But if you stir things up before saving him, his gratitude towards his friend fades, and all the gratitude falls on him. You could argue that this maximizes his value, or you could argue that it makes him feel particularly good, which is why he doesn't charge you afterwards."

"Are you sure you guessed right? Their friends will understand when they meet and talk about it later..."

"He's neither a strategist nor a chess master, so why should he be meticulous? Why should he be logical? He just acts on impulse. If you're too particular, you'll lose."

Qin Yi fell completely silent.

The waiter was a mortal, and the shopkeeper was a low-level cultivator. Their attempt to forcibly break away from the rules was too contrived. However, this Daoist priest was a higher-level cultivator, and the chaos began to truly feel like doing whatever he pleased.

Upon closer inspection of the Daoist priest, Qin Yi realized he couldn't discern any trace of his cultivation; it was shrouded in mystery. It wasn't at a level so advanced that even Qin Yi himself was baffled. Either it was a highly sophisticated concealment Technique Method, or it was simply the result of this kind of chaotic cultivation.

Chaos breeds clowns, and you wouldn't know how clown-like they are until you see it for yourself.

It would be a miracle if my chess-obsessed uncle could stay in such a place; the feeling that no one could calculate his moves would absolutely drive him crazy.

But why do you know so much about Liusu?

The two, one with the staff, were communicating in their Sea of Consciousness, a conversation that lasted very short. The innkeeper, seemingly preoccupied with the Daoist's healing duties, hadn't interrupted them for the time being. He then asked Qin Yi, "What kind of pills would you like, sir?"

"Oh..." Qin Yi took out a jade slip, pondered for a moment, and wrote down twenty or thirty kinds of medicinal herbs. Five or six of them were essential ingredients that Cheng Cheng's pills lacked, including the Heavenly Heart Lotus. The other ten or so were various medicinal herbs with different effects that he deliberately added to confuse people and prevent them from realizing that his goal was to save the monster.

The shopkeeper glanced at them and frowned. "Sir, your requirements are quite high; these are all rare items."

Qin Yi laughed and said, "Knowing it's hard to find, I'll just try my luck somewhere."

"Oh?" The Daoist priest, while performing acupuncture, suddenly looked up. "What kind of medicinal herbs are you using? Let me see?"

The shopkeeper handed it over, and the Daoist priest glanced at it, then laughed, "These are all rather rare items; even I don't have them. This isn't for refining a single type of elixir; it seems more like a collection of different medicinal herbs?"

Qin Yi said, "Exactly. It's said that this place evolved from Town Market Rogue Cultivator exchanged goods, so it should be the most suitable place to find things. If it's not even here, where should we look?"

The Daoist scoffed, "What they're offering in exchange is all trash. Who would offer anything truly valuable? Nor would they dare. A single treasure could cause this so-called Thousand Mountains Alliance to crumble. They can only uphold the Iron Law because nothing of value has yet appeared that could shake Iron Law; otherwise, who would uphold those things?"

That makes sense... Qin Yi cautiously asked, "These medicinal herbs shouldn't be worth this much, right?"

"Not at all, just saying." The Daoist's expression suddenly became a little strange. After pondering for a moment, he said, "I do know where to find this Burning Flame Fruit. About a thousand miles to the southeast, there is a Blazing Flame Valley. The valley is perpetually engulfed in flames, and this fruit grows within those flames. If you have the means, you can go and retrieve it."

Qin Yi was slightly taken aback. This Burning Flame Fruit wasn't suitable for Cheng Cheng; he had just given it to her on the spot. Of course, he couldn't show that he didn't want it at all, so he could only cup his hands and thank him, "Then I'll go take a look. Thank you for letting me know."

Seeing Qin Yi leave, the Daoist priest stared at his retreating figure for a long time, then ignored the injured person he was treating with acupuncture and vanished without a trace.

Qin Yi wandered around the city for a while, then casually asked a passerby for directions to Peek Heaven Peak, which was also several hundred miles to the southeast. He figured there was nothing more to see; the people around here were mostly the same. He figured he might as well go directly to Heavenly Heart Lotus Peek Heaven Peak to find Tai Huang Jun. He didn't care how strange the demands were; he'd just try his best to agree.

As they headed southeast from the city, Liusu said, "Be careful when you leave the city. There are so-called Iron Law within the city, but once you leave, it's chaotic and unknown, and there's always the risk of murder and robbery."

"I know." Qin Yi gripped the Wolf Tooth Club tightly. He never treated this trip as a vacation. From the moment he decided to come here, he had already mentally prepared himself for a dangerous situation.

However, looking back on my experiences in the city, nothing really seemed to warrant someone killing me or stealing from me...

"Whoosh!"

Danger struck suddenly. Qin Yi dodged in an instant and was already dozens of feet away. There was already a ball of raging flames shooting into the sky along the path he had been traveling, and its power was extremely terrifying.

"Hmm... Impressive Movement Method." Through the flames, someone said with a smile, "However, this flash also exposed your cultivation, which was concealed by some kind of Technique Method. It turns out you're only at the early stage of Bone Forging. That makes things easier..."

Qin Yi turned around with a pained expression, and there stood the Daoist priest slowly emerging from the flames.

However, the Daoist priest who had previously been healing and saving lives now wore a half-smile, his kind and gentle expression gone. The raging flames behind him added to the harshness of the scene.

Qin Yi couldn't understand why he was causing trouble for him, and frowned, asking, "What does this mean, Daoist Master?"

"I didn't finish what I was saying earlier," the Daoist priest said with a smile. "Those medicinal herbs, individually, wouldn't cause any problems, but together they're quite valuable. Since you've come out to buy them, it means you must have equivalent worth of valuables on you."

Qin Yi gave a thumbs up. "A great logician."

I never imagined that my careful addition of a few extra medicinal herbs would turn into flaunting my wealth. Even more unexpected is that the Alchemist who had so kindly saved lives without expecting anything in return would turn around and kill me to steal my treasure.

There's really no logic to it here.