Hand and Foot Alliance

Li Banfeng stood at the door of the ward, looking at Cui Tike and another person.

Who is this person?

Li Banfeng had never met him before, and it was difficult to identify him given his current condition.

Wan Jinxian's situation is complicated. His body is covered with patches of green blisters, and now he has to face the siege of Cui Tike and Li Banfeng.

This is Cui Tike's hospital, and Wan Jinxian can't even find a way to escape.

Fortunately Cui Tike didn't kill him.

He wanted to kill Wan Jinxian, but at that moment he was interested in something else.

Cui Tike looked at Li Banfeng and said, "This is my senior brother. Although it's our first meeting, we got along very well."

Please go back to your ward and continue taking care of your friend. My senior colleague and I will find another place to chat so we won't disturb you.

Li Banfeng returned to his ward, feeling somewhat worried.

It's true that Cui Tike helped him.

It's true that he and Cui Tike are friends.

However, it is very difficult to gain Li Banfeng's complete trust in Cui Tike.

In Medicine King Gully, Cui Tike almost killed Li Banfeng.

In Blue Poplar Village, Cui Tike also looked for Li Banfeng.

Now his senior brother has arrived.

Li Banfeng overheard the two fighting in the corridor.

This senior brother came for Ma Wu; he must be the one who made Ma Wu sick.

Cui Tike is currently hostile to this senior brother, but given Cui Tike's personality, he may very well become friends with this senior brother in the next second.

With Zuo Wugang and Huo Ling in the ward now, if it really comes down to a fight, they might not necessarily be at a disadvantage.

But Li Banfeng needed to know what they were talking about.

Li Banfeng touched his earrings, the Thread-Pulling Earring tracked the voices of Cui Tike and Wan Jinxian.

Cui Tike invited Wan Jinxian into the emergency room. Wan Jinxian hesitated for a moment, then followed him in.

Cui Tike took off his white coat and hung it on the door.

The Thread-Pulling Earring said to Li Banfeng, "Master, he has Spiritual Object that prevents people from peeping into his cultivation."

"Is it possible to go around it?"

In the past, earrings would not have had such a function, and Zhou Yujuan, who made the earrings, was only a first-level cultivator.

But now the earrings are on a different level; they represent the result of Li Banfeng raising her little by little with the blood and flesh of others.

The pendant on the earring swayed back and forth, and Li Banfeng gradually heard some sounds.

In the emergency room, Cui Tike asked Wan Jinxian, "You just said you killed your master before you became an apprentice, what does that mean?"

Wan Jinxian looked at Cui Tike without saying a word.

Cui Tike reminded him, "I know you're trying your best to eliminate the pathogen in your body, but you can't succeed. Your current situation is very bad."

If you want to live, you must answer all my questions truthfully. I already know the answers to some of them; they might be tests you on purpose. So please don't lie to me.

Wan Jinxian nodded and asked, "You were the one who attacked Jiaqing at the Third Hospital of Yuezhou, weren't you?"

Cui Tike looked at Wan Jinxian and said, "Don't get the order wrong, I'm the one asking you a question."

Wan Jinxian remained silent for a while, then said to Cui Tike, "Orthodox Disease Cultivator have fixed lineages and fixed sects, called the Plague Miasma Gang."

Cui Tike shook his head and said, "I've been in Pro State for a long time and have never heard of such a gang."

"Few people in the world have heard of the Plague Gate, because there is only one person there most of the time."

Cui Tike asked, "How can one person become a gang?"

Wan Jinxian looked at Cui Tike, a cloud of doubt rising in his heart.

This person is a Disease Cultivator, that much is true.

However, this person was completely ignorant of the rules of Disease Cultivator, which made Wan Jinxian unable to understand the source of Cui Tike's cultivation.

Was he really testing me?

"How did you enter the Daoist sect?" Wan Jinxian asked.

Cui Tike laughed and said, "My path to enlightenment was quite unique. If I were to tell you about it, it would probably take a long time. But judging from your current condition, you probably don't have time to listen to my story, so please hurry up and answer my questions."

There was still half a sentence left unsaid by Cui Tike.

Your life is in my hands, what right do you have to ask me questions?

Wan Jinxian, recognizing the reality, didn't ask any further questions, "The Plague Sect doesn't usually accept disciples. Only when Disease Cultivator feels they are at their last gasp will they open their gates and accept three disciples, and only three at a time."

These three disciples will study under their master for a year. After a year, they will fight each other for a month using their newly acquired skills, and only one can survive.

The surviving disciple must sign a contract with his master, agreeing not to take on more disciples in the future, but also to ensure the continuation of the Daoist tradition according to these rules.

"Then you only need to do one more thing: after your master dies, eat his corpse, and you will have successfully entered the sect."

"Master's corpse is the introductory potion?"

Wan Jinxian nodded.

Cui Tike paused for a moment, then asked, "Who set these rules?"

Wan Jinxian shook his head and said, "I don't know, this was the rule when I joined the sect."

"You ate your master?"

"Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to get started."

"I see. So this is what you meant when you said that most of the time, there is only one Disease Cultivator in the world?"

Wan Jinxian nodded and said, "So I don't understand why there is another fellow disciple like you in this world. What I understand even less is that this fellow disciple is actually a foreigner."

Cui Tike smiled and said, "There's something else I'd like to ask you. We Disease Cultivator are all very long-lived because we can cure diseases. Unless we suffer a fatal injury, the only thing that can take us away is the passage of time."

If a Disease Cultivator an exceptionally strong will survives many years after taking on a disciple, will he choose to commit suicide to complete the transmission of the skill, or will he let his disciple continue to wait?

Wan Jinxian scratched the blisters on his body. "I don't know what happened before, but my master's master was a very long-lived person."

He thought he was nearing the end of his life, so he took on a disciple. But my master stayed with him for nearly fifty years before he passed away.

This also resulted in my master only entering the Daoist path at the age of sixty-five, and until the day he died, he was only a second-level cultivator.

Cui Tike laughed and said, "Looks like you're quite lucky; your master didn't live that long."

Wan Jinxian shook his head and said, "My master was also a long-lived person, but he was too old at the time."

"So you killed him?"

Wan Jinxian scratched open another blister and retorted to Cui Tike, "What's the point of you asking so many questions about me and my master?"

Cui Tike shrugged. "Sorry, it seems I've brought up some unpleasant memories. Let's get down to business: why did you attack Ma Junyang?"

Wan Jinxian said, "You should be able to guess this. Ma Wu has a friend Li Qi."

"Are you targeting Li Qi because you want to obtain the Mystic Life Crimson Lotus he possesses?"

Wan Jinxian did not deny it. "You saved Ma Wu, wasn't it for Mystic Life Crimson Lotus?"

Cui Tike shook his head and said, "No, I have no interest in the Mystic Life Crimson Lotus."

Wan Jinxian sneered.

Cui Tike said, "It's okay if you don't believe me, but I'm telling the truth. Li Qi and I are friends, but I really have no interest in Red Lotus."

What really interests me is you, you and the Ling brothers, and some other people—people with status, influence, and power in Pro State —all seem to be taking orders from someone from Outer State, don't they?"

Wan Jinxian did not answer.

Cui Tike then asked, "That Outer State man, his name is He Jiaqing, right?"

Wan Jinxian remained silent.

Cui Tike licked his lips.

The blisters on Wan Jinxian's left hand have subsided considerably.

"Senior brother, do you see? I can cure your herpes, but you can't cure it yourself. Your life is in my hands."

Wan Jinxian sighed and said, "You once laid a hand on He Jiaqing, don't you know the inside story?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wan Jinxian's blisters multiplied again.

Cui Tike frowned slightly and said, "Senior brother, don't ask me any more questions, or you will pay the price. Since He Jiaqing is your leader, does your organization also have any factions?"

"I guess so. Jiaqing gave it the name 'Hand and Foot Alliance,' and we all call each other brothers."

"What is your purpose in establishing this gang? He Jiaqing is the heir to the He Family; he lacks neither money nor status. What exactly does he want?"

Wan Jinxian looked at Cui Tike and slowly said, "He wants to rebuild a different Pro State."

"Different? What's wrong with Pro State? What kind of Pro State does he want?"

Wan Jinxian pondered the appropriate way to phrase it, "I don't mean to ask you a question in return, I just want to know something: have you ever been to Inner State?"

Cui Tike nodded and said, "I've been there. I went with Travel Permit. It's a nasty place."

But the people there treated me very well. In Inner State, they called me a friendly nation, and they treated me even better than people from Outer State.

The people who treated me the worst were the people from Pro State. They always called me a "dead foreign devil," but I'm actually a good foreign devil, and I love Pro State very much.

Wan Jinxian said, "You've been to the Inner State, so you should know some things. You should know how much suffering those cultivators who have passed the Tenth Layer endured in the Inner State."

Cui Tike nodded and said, "I know that."

Wan Jinxian added, "As for the Outer State, needless to say, anyone Guanfang Envoy should know how much the Pro State has been exploited by the Outer State."

Cui Tike nodded. "I know a little about that too."

"Pro State has suffered too much, being ravaged beyond recognition by Inner State and Outer State."

He Jiaqing once told me that he wanted to restore the dignity of Pro State and enable all the people of Pro State to live with dignity.

I trust this young man, so I'm going with him. Have I made myself clear?

Cui Tike nodded. "He's a remarkable person, and I respect him greatly."

Looking at the blisters covering his body, Wan Jinxian said, "Junior brother, I lose to you. I'm convinced. I've seen countless illnesses in my life, but I've never seen such a difficult rash to deal with."

Cui Tike laughed, "Is it harder to treat than the rash you put on He Haiqin?"

Wan Jinxian blinked and smiled helplessly, "You saved He Haiqin too? I'm truly impressed. You're my nemesis."

"Since I've already lost, if you want to kill me, then do it quickly. If you can save my life, then name your terms. Don't leave us hanging like this, making things difficult for both of us."

Cui Tike pondered for a moment, then took a deep breath.

Wan Jinxian's rash disappeared quickly.

"Junior brother, are you just going to let me go like this, without making any demands?"

Cui Tike shook his head and said, "There are definitely conditions. I'm very interested in your Hand and Foot Alliance and would like to hear more about you. Could you tell me more?"

They've already removed the lesions, and you still want to hear what I have to say?

This foreigner really thinks I'm his senior?

Wan Jinxian asked, "What other things would you like to hear?"

"I want to hear about the future."

Wan Jinxian was taken aback. "How can I know about the future?"

Cui Tike laughed and said, "Then tell me when you know."

The words were a bit convoluted, but Wan Jinxian understood them.

He touched his back and felt a clear, translucent herpes.

Cui Tike stood up and said, "Senior brother, there's always one herpes rash on your body that won't go away. I can't say for sure which one it is."

If I ever need to know anything about the Hand and Foot Alliance in the future, you absolutely must tell me.

P. S.: Don't worry about Jiaqing, the Hand and Foot Alliance is huge, and he has many brothers.