Giant
"What exactly is the Medicine Ancestor?"
The "answer" Ghost Ancestor had given Xu Xiaoshou left him somewhat bewildered.
It overturned everything he had once understood.
But whether Ghost Ancestor's words were necessarily true was another question entirely.
"Wait, regarding the Medicine Ancestor, there seems to be one more matter..."
Xu Xiaoshou vaguely recalled that half a year ago, while wandering the Dead Sea, he had encountered a "monster" on its sixth level.
It had a Sunflower head and called itself Kong Yuhen. Having lived from ancient times until today, it was old enough to have met several Ancestor Gods.
Each generation had its own Kong Yuhen.
Every Kong Yuhen seemed to have a distinct mission.
Sunflower Kong Yuhen's mission had been to devour the Medicine Ancestor's Flower of Life. Thus, he had gained "eternal life," at the cost of his human face becoming a sunflower face. Fearing the Medicine Ancestor's reckoning, he had imprisoned himself within the Dead Sea, where laws, spirit, and Dao were forbidden.
That had been the first time Xu Xiaoshou learned that the Medicine Ancestor, Shennong Hundred Herbs, was truly still alive.
After hearing Sunflower Kong Yuhen then, he had only found it absurd. Yet there had been no way to verify any of it, and Ai Cangsheng had been watching covetously from behind. In the end, the matter had simply been dropped.
Thinking back now, if the Medicine Ancestor was alive and truly wished to settle accounts with Sunflower Kong Yuhen, could a mere Dead Sea Forbidden Law Barrier stop Him? Medicine and Ghosts' Life and Death.
Jinren had now met another incarnation of Him—Ghost Ancestor.
Would it not be wasting a splendid opportunity if he did not get to the bottom of Shennong Hundred Herbs? Within the gray space, Jinren cursed his original