Go Take a Look

As Zhongzhou was thrown into an uproar over the Yao Clan's Young Miss running away, the central figure of the entire storm had already left Zhongzhou long ago.

Nonsense. Did they really think she was stupid? Zhongzhou was vast and rich, and the Yao Clan elders would surely assume she had gone to take a look around Zhongzhou. Wouldn't it be awkward if she ran into her own people there at a time like this?

So Yao Wan simply did the opposite. The elders thought she would be wandering around Zhongzhou, so she decided not to go to Zhongzhou at all.

After passing through a Space Wormhole far from Zhongzhou, Yao Wan spread the wings woven from Dou Qi behind her and sped through the mountains. She raced only toward the setting sun until even the outlines of the mountains gradually vanished from her sight, and only then did she stop.

When even the silhouette of the Shennong Mountain Range was swallowed by the vast horizon, Yao Wan subconsciously turned around and looked back.

Come to think of it, this was her first time leaving home since coming to the Battle Through the Heavens World.

She just had not expected things to turn out like this.

Thoughts slowly rose in her heart, but if anyone asked Yao Wan to go back now, she would never agree.

She had already come out. What else did they want?

If you were going to play, don't chicken out. If you were scared, don't play. Since she had run away, she was hardly going to turn back over a momentary urge to return to the right path.

Passing through layer upon layer of clouds, a legend began to spread through the wild lands far from Zhongzhou: a figure wearing a Bamboo Hat and cloak.

At least, she was not tired of having fun yet.

The fall of a genius brought not only tremendous psychological pressure, but also drastic changes in interpersonal relationships.

Now that she had made up her mind, Yao Wan saw no need to delay.

Had she unknowingly wandered all the way here?

...Then should she go to the Jia Ma Empire and see what the legendary protagonist, Xiao Yan, actually looked like?

Then she would only be able to hurry somewhere else, lest she end up covered in filth.

After seeing too many ordinary women, people naturally came to yearn for those mysterious, aloof beauties. They had not even provoked you, yet you insisted on approaching them yourself.

Why? Her cultivation had never gone wrong, so why could she not make even the slightest progress?!

If it were someone surnamed Tang, then forget about going to take a look. If she saw him, she might just act on behalf of the people and get rid of him.

Patients whom local alchemists often deemed incurable would repeatedly recover completely under her hands. She revived the dead and restored flesh to bare bones.

Since that night two years ago, when the Dou Qi he had cultivated with painstaking effort for more than a decade vanished into nothingness, Xiao Yan's mind had been trapped in this cycle.

By sunset, Yao Wan had reached the borders of the Jia Ma Empire.

Yet the Dou Qi that appeared incomparably stable under his inner inspection still quickly vanished.

At the very least, she should see all of the Dou Qi Continent first, shouldn't she?

At that thought, Yao Wan immediately tossed her lingering homesickness to the back of her mind.

But things had clearly ceased to be as Xiao Yan himself had guessed.

When Xiao Yan's body first began having problems, everyone in the Xiao Family came to express concern. But as time dragged on, his cultivation still made no progress and even began to regress, fewer and fewer people came.

The thought naturally arose in Yao Wan's mind.

After all, that was Xiao Yan.

During countless nights over the past two years, such questions and thoughts had surged through his mind again and again.

It was said that a fairy who wore a cloak to conceal her clothing and whereabouts wandered the Dou Qi Continent. As she crossed mountains and rivers, she casually treated local patients—sometimes spending lavishly, sometimes accepting not a single coin—entirely according to her mood.

At first, Xiao Yan and his father only thought he had contracted some strange illness, which was why the Dou Qi he had cultivated so diligently vanished overnight.

Calling it admiration for her grace was, to put it bluntly, simply lust.

"...The Jia Ma Empire?"

From initial panic, to later numbness; from resistance when pushed to the limit, to the cruel reality that nothing could be changed.

"Why?! Why?!"

But as day after day passed and the situation worsened with every passing day—

Yao Wan bought a map of the Jia Ma Empire and searched for quite some time before finding where Wutan City was located.

He had naturally tried every possible method to stabilize the Dou Qi vortex within his body, and over the past two years, he had done so countless times.

As the title of Medicine Fairy gradually spread, there were always people who deliberately followed in her footsteps, searching all the way just to catch a glimpse of Medicine Fairy's grace.

Her slender jade-like fingers lightly traced across the rough map, and her gaze naturally fell upon the tiny spot her fingertip had settled on.

When people acquired some inexplicable title, trouble would inevitably follow one after another.

It could only be said that people loved asking for trouble.

Yao Wan had some impression of this.

In his family's training room, the black-haired youth had forgotten how many times he had tried to gather a Dou Qi vortex, only to fail once again at the final step.

Because someone had once accidentally heard that person's voice, as melodious as a warbler's song, later storytellers respectfully called her the Medicine Fairy.

Worried that this inexplicable title would sooner or later draw the clan elders over, Yao Wan finally lost her patience. She beat up those few people following her, then threw them all into the river.

But when she felt the time was about right and that she should leave for a new place, she suddenly noticed something. On a geographical map of the surrounding nations, her eyes immediately caught a familiar name.

"Wutan City... is it here?"

After moving from place to place for so long, Yao Wan had become used to this routine of making a move and promptly changing locations.

Some people began to watch coldly, as though they had witnessed a genius's fall. From then on, he would fade into the masses and disappear without a trace.

There was nothing interesting here anymore anyway. She might as well go take a look.

Wutan City, Xiao Family.

With that thought, Yao Wan spread her Dou Qi wings and sped toward the northwest.

The Jia Ma Empire? How many Jia Ma Empires could there possibly be in this world?

If nothing unexpected happened, there was probably only one Jia Ma Empire on the entire Dou Qi Continent.

Others began to mock him behind his back. After all, when a genius fell from the clouds, there would always be pheasants comparing themselves to Phoenixes.

Over two years, Xiao Yan had lost not only his former status as a genius, but had also gradually seen the warmth and coldness of human relationships within the Xiao Family.

Fortunately, even at a time like this, there were still people silently watching over and supporting him.