Dragon Bone Medicinal Bath (Seeking Investment)

Qinghan Prefecture.

Only after entering the residence did Yang Chan learn where they were. This was an inner compound in Taiyu City, sprawling over a vast area.

It had originally been the residence of nobles and high officials, but it had now become Qingyuan Sect territory, serving as their temporary gathering place.

After getting a good night's rest, Yang Chan and the others rose early the next day and followed the Pharmacists into room after room. Inside were numerous injured and poisoned Qingyuan Sect disciples.

These were the Qingyuan Sect disciples who had been wounded while fighting the Three Great Sects.

Treating these people was one of Yang Chan and the others' duties. They also had to assist in preparing various precious medicinal packets, medicinal meals, and other items. The work was busier than it had been in Qingyuan Sect. Even Xu Gaocen, who liked arriving late and leaving early, had adapted to the schedule here.

Yang Chan and the others generally spent the mornings helping care for injured Qingyuan Sect disciples, the afternoons preparing medicine, and sometimes the nights caring for the wounded as well.

They rotated shifts every day or two. Though the work was heavier, Yang Chan and the others received Qi Replenishing Body Nourishing Soup, Foundation Strengthening and Qi Nourishing Porridge, and Dragon Bone Medicinal Baths every day here. Dragon bone was a skeletal medicinal ingredient found near Taiyu City and the main ingredient of the medicinal bath.

It was called dragon bone, but it was actually the bones of ancient exotic beasts—a highly precious skeletal medicine. Under normal circumstances, it would never have been used on people like Yang Chan and the others. But with the battle at a stalemate, the medicinal bath could speed recovery and quickly heal injuries. It was also beneficial for nurturing jing power and external tempering, with many effects.

Dragon bone was extremely precious elsewhere, but it could be excavated every day from the high mountains around Taiyu City. Moreover, Qingyuan Sect used such large quantities of it that it was nothing to them. This was also one of the hidden benefits of coming to Taiyu City to fight.

After Yang Chan soaked in it once, he saw that his Potential Points had increased by 0.3 after midnight. This directly replaced the Lantian Jade Refining Pills he had exhausted, once again bringing his daily Potential Point gains back above 1.

He had originally been considering what medicine to use in place of the Lantian Jade Refining Pill. Now, there was no need to think about it at all, and the silver he had on hand was enough to last him for some time.

Sect Master Liu Xuan had led Qingyuan Sect's people against the Three Great Sects, but rather than crushing them in one stroke, the two sides had fallen into a stalemate. Even sending teams to launch sneak attacks had produced little effect.

Although the Three Great Sects were no match for Qingyuan Sect individually, they had stabilized the situation by joining forces and taking advantage of the terrain.

Every day, Yang Chan saw wounded people being sent into the Qinghan Prefecture Medical Hall. Their numbers grew by the day, so it was no wonder several Pharmacists had been sent over to assist.

Although Liu Xuan had previously brought Pharmacists with him, there was a limit to how many people they could take in. Any more, and they simply could not manage.

Yang Chan and the others' arrival had eased the pressure considerably, but it still treated the symptoms rather than the root cause. People were sent in every day, and their numbers kept increasing. Eventually, they would reach the limit again.

To solve this problem, they had to start at the source—the three great sects: Lingyu Palace, Taiyu Valley, and Nanhua Sword Sect. Only by completely eliminating the Three Great Sects could they put an end to it.

Everyone in Qingyuan Sect understood this, and they fought with ruthless ferocity, yet they still could not completely resolve the problem of the Three Great Sects.

"Yang Chan, can't you tell February Red from Zhuzhu? You can mess up something this trivial—how did you become an Alchemist Assistant?"

Junior Alchemist Zhao Qiyang pulled out a medicinal packet with a grim expression and berated him.

Zhao Qiyang was one of the Pharmacists who had followed Sect Master Liu Xuan and the others down the mountain. He had previously overseen the treatment of injured disciples, but after Xu Gaocen arrived, he had become an ordinary physician.

The matters he had overseen had also been handed over to Xu Gaocen.

For the ordinary treatment of injured disciples, Zhao Qiyang was responsible for part of it, while Yang Chan and the other Alchemist Assistants took turns helping out as part of their training.

With the workload so heavy, Yang Chan and the other Alchemist Assistants were no longer assigned to assist only one Pharmacist.

That morning, Yang Chan had been helping Junior Alchemist Zhao Qiyang treat injured disciples and prepare medicinal packets with Sun Qi Wu and the others.

Hearing Zhao Qiyang's furious rebuke now, Yang Chan found it somewhat strange. He wondered whether Zhao Qiyang had mistaken him for someone else.

The medicinal ingredients were all stored in a unified manner, so there was basically no way anything could go wrong unless someone had put the ingredients in the wrong places.

But if the medicines had been misplaced, then more than one person would have made mistakes. Besides, his current ability far surpassed that of an ordinary Junior Alchemist. Whenever he prepared medicinal packets, he instinctively checked the properties of the medicines. There was no way he could have made a mistake.

Unless someone had tampered with it.

This reminded Yang Chan of what Li Junhao and Zhao Ziqing had done back in Qingyuan Sect, but this was even more serious. This was a direct substitution of medicine.

"May I ask Pharmacist Zhao, whose medicinal packet has a problem?"

Thoughts flashed through Yang Chan's mind, but he quickly calmed down and asked coolly.

His memory was excellent. No matter where the problem lay, he could retrace it and find the source.

Seeing that Yang Chan was not panicking but instead asking so calmly, Zhao Qiyang frowned slightly. This was different from the scene he had expected.

Whenever a Pharmacist became angry, Alchemist Assistants would first apologize, admit their negligence, and turn a major matter into a minor one, a minor matter into nothing at all.

That had been what he expected as well, before making the matter blow up.

As Zhao Ziqing's biological brother and also a Mole, he naturally intended to use his status as a Pharmacist to cause trouble for Yang Chan while finding an opportunity to send out the latest intelligence.

After Qingyuan Sect's successive attacks had failed to achieve results, they had begun investigating internal problems. Though he had hidden himself well, he was not confident he could remain hidden forever.

Therefore, he wanted to push out several scapegoats to muddy the waters. Yang Chan, Zhao Ziqing's target, was naturally among his chosen candidates.

As long as the framing succeeded, he could continue employing methods afterward to make Yang Chan into the Mole exposed in the open, making himself even safer.

But Yang Chan's reaction was somewhat different from what he had expected, because Yang Chan was being far too calm.

"This is the medicinal packet beside Xu Yuan's bed, the third bed upstairs in Block C Room. It should contain Two Liang of February Red, but it has now become Two Liang of Zhuzhu. If Xu Yuan drinks the decoction made from this medicinal packet, he will surely die."

Zhao Qiyang's expression was stern, and the anger on his face had not faded in the slightest.

The reason he had not waited for Xu Yuan to drink the decocted medicinal packet was to keep the matter within his control. He was no longer in charge of the treatment ward, and if it were thoroughly investigated, it would certainly lead back to him.

As a Pharmacist, he could not be overlooked when something happened, even though Yang Chan and the others were only Alchemist Assistants.

Therefore, he needed to control the situation, nail the matter shut, then find opportunities to continue dealing with Yang Chan and make him keep taking the blame. He had already planned out the entire process over the past few days. Through this, he could also send out the latest intelligence, allowing the Three Great Sects to deal with Qingyuan Sect according to that intelligence.