At noon on September 21st, Wa Emperor Calendar 3593, Tiger Tuo Town, Wa Emperor City...
Compared to a few years ago, Tiger Tuo Town seemed not to have changed at all. It was still as lively and clamorous as ever, filled everywhere with doctors from all over the Sky-Piercing Realm and strange, bizarre patients. Zhang Tie strolled through the town, looking at the clinics and inns lining both sides of the streets, his heart full of emotion. His experience of receiving treatment here all those years ago felt as though it had happened only yesterday.
People streamed endlessly along the main streets of Tiger Tuo Town. Walking among them, Zhang Tie blended into the crowd and did not stand out too much. Other than the exceptional bearing he could not conceal, which made passersby on either side glance at him twice, he was no different from usual. Those people merely took Zhang Tie for an elegant young master from some wealthy and powerful Sky-Piercing Realm clan.
When such people traveled to Wa Emperor City, many of them would come to Hutuo Mountain for a look around, to experience its strange local flavor. Or perhaps they came hoping to chance upon an opportunity to make the acquaintance of the greatest healer in the Sky-Piercing Realm. Naturally, no one would refuse if Bian Heng were willing to take them as a disciple.
Back when Zhang Tie had been at Hutuo Mountain, he had kept an extremely low profile and was not well known. Even when he finally left Hutuo Mountain, many people had not known that there was an additional "Manager Jin" overseeing the fishery there. Now that Zhang Tie had returned after seven or eight years, no one was even more likely to recognize him.
Crossing the familiar streets of Tiger