Strange Beasts, Sacrifice, Little Medical Immortal!

"Master has arrived!"

A commotion broke out within the Canal Gang.

Very soon, all the low-level ruffians lined up and stood in formation.

A middle-aged man in a traditional two-piece long robe, folding fan in hand and glasses on his face, arrived there accompanied by several people.

This man was named Gu Changqing. He was the strategist of the Canal Gang, and also one of the seven standing elders of the Canal Gang's Council of Elders.

He was the number two figure in the Canal Gang, second only to Xu Shanyue, the master of the Canal Gang.

This was a big shot among big shots!

No one had expected that he would personally come to Dragon River Pier today!

"Master Gu!"

Li Lei, a squadron captain of the Police Department, took the initiative to step forward and greeted him with a cupped-fist salute.

The Shen City Police Department's power was not even equal to that of the three great gangs. Even their department's brigade captains had to lower their heads before this number two figure of the Canal Gang, let alone a mere squadron captain like him.

So from the start, Li Lei put himself in a very humble position.

"Captain Li, have you discovered that strange beast?"

Gu Changqing spoke up and asked.

"That thing is very cunning. It simply won't expose itself above the water. If we want to kill it underwater, I estimate we'll need a top expert who has achieved great mastery of force."

"There aren't many people like that in all of Shen City, and even if we find one, they might not be willing to make a move."

"Why don't we have the Police Department transfer over several dozen foreign rifles? We'll wait for the strange beast to show its head, then shoot it dead in a hail of bullets?"

Li Lei's eyes turned, a scheme coming to mind, and he voiced the suggestion.

"No good!"

"Compared to a true Xiantian martial arts grandmaster, that strange beast may perhaps be somewhat inferior, but its sinews, bones, skin, and flesh cannot be harmed by ordinary means."

"Those dozens of foreign rifles of yours can't even pierce the flesh of a Dark Force expert, let alone injure this strange beast."

"If you fail to kill it, you'll instead completely provoke the beast's savagery. It might even remember the aura of the person who attacked and come ashore to kill!"

"So without a foolproof plan, we absolutely must not act rashly!"

Gu Changqing directly rejected Li Lei's proposal.

"Then in Master Gu's view, what should we do? We can't just let Dragon River Pier shut down, can we?"

Li Lei asked again.

Dragon River Pier was under his jurisdiction. Now that this sort of thing had happened, it truly left him frantic as if his forehead were scorched and his brow burned.

But unfortunately, the forces behind Dragon River Pier were tangled and complicated.

He could not afford to offend a single one of them. It really gave him a headache!

"Dragon River Pier concerns Shen City's economic lifeline, and recently there is a batch of goods that must be transported urgently. Forget you and me; even your Police Department's commissioner or our gang leader would be unable to make Dragon River Pier stop work for several days."

"Right now, all parties are searching for experts. I believe there will be results very soon."

"As for this period, first use the ancient sacrificial method. Throw living cattle, sheep, and pigs into Dragon River to feed that vile creature full!"

Gu Changqing pondered briefly, then made his suggestion.

On this stretch of land, the mysterious had never gone far away. From ancient times to the present, who knew how many terrifying strange beasts there had been.

In order to prevent these strange beasts from eating people, the ancients would regularly hold sacrifices to feed them full.

Then after several decades, or even a hundred years, they would wait until those strange beasts naturally died of old age.

Some strange beasts had spirituality and tacitly accepted this long-term feeding relationship, keeping to their own well water and not offending the river water of humanity.

There were even some strange beasts that harbored kind thoughts, willingly acting as humanity's guardian gods.

Humans built temples for them, and incense offerings never ceased.

As time went by, they actually became local deities.

But there were also some strange beasts that were born savage.

They were not satisfied with livestock sacrifices.

As their savage nature grew greater and their strength grew stronger...

They would also require living human sacrifices.

Over by Jin Gate, there was a tradition of selecting a bride for the river god every year.

To put it plainly, it was a kind of living human sacrifice.

Humans were the spirit of all things. For these strange beasts, eating people was even more beneficial to the improvement of their strength.

In the end, living human sacrifices would only evolve into strange beasts going mad and hunting humans on a large scale.

Whenever this kind of situation appeared, it would be a disaster for the place where the strange beast was located!

"At this point, I'm afraid this is the only way."

"I just hope those lofty experts can come to Dragon River sooner to subdue demons and purge evil."

"If not, the consequences don't bear thinking about!"

Li Lei sighed with feeling and spoke with some helplessness.

Gu Changqing's idea treated the symptoms, not the root.

And it could easily allow that vile beast's strength to grow.

If that vile beast completed its final metamorphosis and rose another level in strength...

Perhaps all of Dragon River Pier would know no peace.

But for now, this was the only way he could use—carrying firewood to put out a fire!

Jiang Wangzu pricked up his ears and listened to Gu Changqing and Li Lei's conversation, unable to keep the shock from rising in his heart.

Now that his constitution had strengthened, even his hearing had improved quite a bit.

The two of them were by the Dragon River and had cleared the people around them before talking.

But Jiang Wangzu still heard every word clearly.

"The waters of Dragon River Pier are actually this deep? Things like strange beasts exist in this world?"

"Damn it!"

"I can't keep doing this pier patrol job. I'll find a chance to see if I can resign from this errand with Chen Tai."

"But if I don't do this, I'll probably be sent to fight those street toughs and rogues from Blue Society on Xinglong Street."

"Although my current strength can no longer be compared to before, I can't expose my Black Tiger Fist so easily."

"And open spears are easy to dodge, hidden arrows are hard to guard against. That bunch of little punks use every dirty trick there is when they fight."

"If I'm careless and fall into their trap, get my eyes stabbed blind, or take a few knives, I'll suffer a world of pain!"

"In this world, why is it so hard just to stay alive?"

"Forget it. First, I'll get the Black Tiger Powder secret medicine!"

Jiang Wangzu thought to himself.

Gu Changqing and Li Lei soon left the place. The dead man's final identity was never confirmed before the people from the Police Station hauled him off to the Corpse Burner to be burned.

In troubled times, human life was as cheap as grass!

These days, cremation was not popular.

But there were many strange incidents in Dragon River, and many people died unnatural deaths.

The corpses of people touched by such matters were prone to becoming ominous.

So they had to be taken to the Corpse Burner by the Dragon River and burned completely.

Jiang Wangzu saw that Gu Changqing and Li Lei had both left.

So he greeted the brothers patrolling with him, then slipped away at once.

Benevolent World Hall.

One of Shen City's four time-honored pharmacies.

This place was not only a pharmacy; it also had doctors taking consultations. Among them was a young woman of peerless beauty, also one of the attending physicians, known as the Little Medical Immortal.

She came from a family of traditional Chinese medicine. Her grandfather had been an imperial physician of the previous dynasty, and she had studied medicine under him since childhood.

Later, she had even become one of the first students of Shen City College of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

She had also once gone to the West to further study Western medicine.

It could be said that she had a rich résumé and was learned in both Chinese and Western medicine.

And this Benevolent World Hall was his family's ancestral property.

At the same time, Benevolent World Hall was also Shen City's only pharmacy without backing from a financial magnate.

After thinking it over again and again, Jiang Wangzu still felt that he should use the Little Medical Immortal of Benevolent World Hall as his breakthrough point.

There were three reasons.

Benevolent World Hall had no background involving financial magnates, warlords, gangs, or the like, so it was relatively clean.

Benevolent World Hall also had a good reputation among the common people, and its medicine prices were very affordable.

Most importantly, Jiang Wangzu had the Succubus talent. Using the Little Medical Immortal as his breakthrough point, even if he could not win the Little Medical Immortal over, at the very least he could ensure that she would not leak the secret.

As for whether the Little Medical Immortal could prepare Strength Training secret medicine, well...

With her résumé, she should, probably, maybe, not be that useless, right?