Swallowing Spiritual Medicine

"Brother Tong, what is the King of Martial Arts?"

Before Zhao Ping'an could ask, Zhao Xiuyun inquired curiously, clearly hearing about such a powerful being for the first time.

Martial King, I don't know what a Martial King is either. I only heard people mention such powerful beings years ago when I was escorting a caravan to Prefecture City.

It was told by a storyteller I'd never seen before. Above Great Grandmaster is Martial Venerable, and above Martial Venerable is Martial King.

King of Martial Arts! A lifespan of five hundred years, capable of breaking through the void and flying!

It's a pity that the storyteller only said these few words before leaving Prefecture City and disappeared without a trace."

Zheng Hetong said with a reminiscent tone.

"A lifespan of five hundred years?"

Hearing Zheng Hetong's account, Zhao Ping'an and Zhao Xiuyun were extremely shocked.

Especially Zhao Ping'an, this made him involuntarily recall a song from his previous life, Borrow Five Hundred Years from Heaven. Now, he didn't need to borrow; soon, he would definitely be able to reach the Martial King Realm, or even a stronger realm above it.

At that time, his lifespan...

After the three marveled for a while, Zheng Hetong told Zhao Ping'an that his Fourth Senior Disciple Brother Liu Zhe was unwilling to leave the Blazing Blade Sect, while the remaining three agreed to leave with him.

Zhao Ping'an had nothing to say about this; after all, everyone had their own aspirations.

He had already figured out how to arrange for his Master and Senior Brothers and Sisters. That would be the Sun Family Alchemy Workshop in South Ridge City. He would live on Medicine Mountain with his people, while his Master and Senior Brothers and Sisters would be responsible for managing the alchemy workshop.

As for Mistress, Zhao Ping'an had no arrangements. With one-tenth of the Sun family's assets, she had already entered retirement.

Afterward, Mistress Zhao Xiuyun also informed Zhao Ping'an about the Zhao family's punishment for Zhao Huixin. First, the child in her womb from Sun Shize had been forcibly aborted.

Secondly, Zhao Huixin and her mother were both removed from the Zhao family's genealogy and banished to the Zhao family's farmland outside the city, never to return to the Zhao family for the rest of their lives.

Zhao Ping'an just nodded, saying nothing.

Three days later, having arranged everything, Zhao Ping'an left South Ridge City in five carriages, heading for Medicine Mountain, forty li outside the city.

Among these carriages, two were for daily necessities. Of the remaining three, one was filled with top-grade spiritual herbs and spiritual medicine, one contained copies of various cultivation techniques plundered by the Sun family, and the last one held items needed for his cultivation: various heavy sabers, bundles of darts, and the large iron pillar taken down from Feather Mountain.

As for the Sun family's 20% of gold and silver treasures, antiques, and calligraphy and paintings, he had exchanged them all for bank notes, a total of 200,000 taels of silver, which was equivalent to 200 million in cash.

He left 50,000 taels for his Master as operating funds for the alchemy workshop, and he took the rest with him.

Because the load was too heavy, and the road was not good, they set off at a little past eight in the morning. For a mere forty li, by the time Zhao Ping'an arrived at Medicine Mountain, it was already around three in the afternoon.

Medicine Mountain was nameless. It previously belonged to the Sun family, so it was called Sun Family Medicine Mountain. Now it belonged to Zhao Ping'an, and he planned to give it a new name.

"Hmm... let's call it Wu'an Mountain, to protect the peace of Zhao Ping'an with martial arts!"

(Wu'an Lord (Bai Qi): I think you want to kill all the martial artists in the world. Your thinking is very dangerous!)

After confirming the name, Zhao Ping'an flew to a boulder more than three meters high. The treasure saber, which belonged to the Sun Family Supreme Elder and had already reached Human Grade Low Rank, was quickly unsheathed in his hand.

"Swish! Swish! Swish!..."

The saber light, like a silken ribbon, swiftly sliced through the boulder, cutting it into a stone tablet that was three meters high, 1.2 meters wide, and half a meter thick. As for carving words, forget it.

His handwriting was only at a passable level, still a hundred thousand miles away from the realm of calligraphy.

Lifting the stone tablet, he placed it at the fork in the road leading into Wu'an Mountain. Zhao Ping'an instructed a martial artist at the Houtian Third Layer who had accompanied him to ride back to the city quickly and find the best calligraphy master to write the three characters "[Wu'an Mountain]". He also asked for two of the best stone carvers to be brought here to engrave the characters.

This time, a total of five martial artists and thirty warriors accompanied him to Wu'an Mountain. They were all guards hired by the Zhao Family, and they were now under his command.

As for the guards at Medicine Mountain before, they were either dead or had fled long ago. The medicinal farmers, however, were all kept, numbering over a hundred people.

The entire Wu'an Mountain was about five hundred meters high and eight hundred meters in diameter. The mountain slope was at an angle of more than fifty degrees, making it very steep.

The mountainside was divided into terraced fields of varying sizes, planted with various medicinal herbs. Surrounding it were hills hundreds of meters high, forming a vast expanse of green. A river more than two meters wide wound its way around the base of the mountain.

At the summit of Wu'an Mountain, there were two springs, one hot and one cold. Their spring water could accelerate the survival rate and growth speed of most spiritual herbs and spiritual medicines. The closer to the summit, the more suitable the soil was for growing medicinal herbs.

After being discovered by the Sun Family, they immediately occupied this place and established this Medicine Mountain.

Medicine Mountain was surrounded by a three-meter-high fence, and guards patrolled it at all times.

This was to prevent wild beasts and demonic beasts from destroying the medicinal fields, and also to prevent outsiders from entering and stealing medicinal herbs.

Zhao Ping'an's residence was at the foot of Wu'an Mountain, where a small stockade was built to supply food, drink, and necessities for everyone there.

After settling in, Zhao Ping'an summoned all the medicinal farmers, a total of one hundred and thirty-two people, all of whom were skilled workers who had been laboring there for more than five years.

"Hello everyone, from now on, this place belongs to me. You just need to follow my orders. I don't care what you did before. Under me, one, no slacking off; two, no petty theft; three, no causing trouble or deceiving superiors and fooling subordinates!..."

Zhao Ping'an laid down eight rules, which left the medicinal farmers stunned.

"Lastly, everyone's wages will be increased by fifty percent on top of their original amount. Dismissed!"

"Thank you, Master!..."

Upon hearing Zhao Ping'an's last sentence, the medicinal farmers, who had been looking glum, immediately became cheerful and thanked him.

At the very back of the fortress stood a three-story pavilion, which was Zhao Ping'an's residence on Wu'an Mountain.

He had now returned to his residence and was opening a box on the second floor.

Inside, boxes of various sizes were neatly arranged, all containing specially treated spiritual herbs and spiritual medicines.

In this world, spiritual herbs, spiritual medicines, and demonic beasts are classified by rank, from one to nine, and above nine are Saint Medicines and Divine Medicines.

Tier one is mainly useful for Warriors. For Houtian Martial Artists and Innate Martial Masters above them, the effect is greatly reduced, and for Grandmasters, it's completely ineffective.

As for Zhao Ping'an's box, it's all tier three spiritual herbs and spiritual medicines, mainly for Innate Martial Masters to cultivate, but they also have a slight effect on Great Grandmasters.

He wasn't using these things to cultivate, of course. He was preparing to absorb their medicinal power to increase the [Deduction Points] on his panel.

"Ding, detected external energy. Absorption will increase current total Deduction Points by 3%. Absorb? Yes/No?"