Southern Guangling Prefecture, Taoling Commandery.
More than a hundred people had already gathered beneath the gate arch of Bright Moon Medicine Hall.
It was noon during the End of Heat, and the weather was scorching. Yet not only had the crowd not diminished, it was steadily growing larger.
Most of the people wore dark, cross-collared robes, short outfits with leg wraps and cloth boots, veiled hats or bamboo conical hats, with medical satchels or gourds of varying sizes slung at their waists. A very few carried somewhat larger medicine cabinets.
About five meters to the right of the gate arch, a young man leaned against a stone lion in the shade to escape the heat. His eyes swept over the ever-growing crowd through his veiled hat, focusing especially on those carrying medicine cabinets.
"Thirteen. Thirteen people carrying Hundred-Treasure Cabinets have already appeared. Seven of them also have Physician Jade Talismans and Poison-Warding Jade Pendants. It seems Clear Mind Hall's recruitment this time has attracted some down-and-out heirs of medical families.
"Fortunately, I haven't spotted any players."
Zhao Xing muttered under his breath.
It was currently the eleventh year of the Great Governance Era in the game, another reign title of the Great Zhou Emperor Jing.
This mysterious game was extraordinarily unusual. The last time Zhao Xing had entered it had been in the twenty-ninth year of the New Splendor Era.
From the point when he had first entered the game, knowing nothing, to successfully changing professions, then becoming a local military officer, he had spent more than five full years in the game.
Yet in reality, only a little over a month had passed.
Unfortunately, during the Southern Barbarian Invasion version, he had died in an assassination by an evil cult.
Death resetting one's level to zero was another feature