Exceptional Talent, Medicine Clan Seeks a Marriage Alliance

Inside the Medicine Clan's main hall.

After the Medicine Canon, the Medicine Clan's elders would ordinarily have chosen to enter seclusion by now.

Yet today, every single elder of the Medicine Clan had gathered here.

There were roughly a hundred people present, but only twenty-seven were Dou Saint experts. The rest were mostly Half-Saint elders, and most of them were only at the initial Half-Saint stage.

This showed that the Medicine Clan had also begun walking down the path of decline.

Still, the Medicine Clan was somewhat better off than the Spirit Clan and Stone Clan. After all, the current clan chiefs of those other two clans were probably only five- or six-star Dou Saints.

"I have summoned everyone here today for only one matter." Yao Dan looked at all the elders present, his aged face filled with gravity.

"Clan Chief, are you planning to form a marriage alliance with the Thunder Clan?" Elder Wanhuo asked.

Yao Dan paused without answering. Instead, he said, "Elders, what do you think of Lei Qi of the Thunder Clan?"

Yao Wangu, another important figure in the Medicine Clan, gave a cold snort and said disdainfully, "Although the talent he has displayed is decent, he is still far inferior to our Medicine Clan. Once he reaches a certain level in the future, he may even find himself unable to advance further. There is no need to pay him any mind."

The Medicine Clan was unquestionably proud when it came to alchemy.

"Clan Chief, do you intend to use a marriage alliance to guide that Lei Qi?" another elder of the same standing as Elder Wanhuo asked.

"Indeed, I have such an idea," Yao Dan admitted. After all, this would be the finest dowry for a marriage alliance.

"But Clan Chief, have you considered what would happen to the Medicine Clan's status if Lei Qi truly masters it?" Elder Wanhuo said.

"This..."

While the Medicine Clan was discussing this important matter, Lei Qi had been invited by the Yao Tian siblings to a small city inhabited by descendants within the Medicine Realm.

Though the bloodline of the people here had nearly faded away, they still belonged to the Medicine Clan.

The people living here were much like those in cities outside: they worked at sunrise and rested at sunset.

The city was not small. After all, these descendants numbered several million.

Most importantly, the girls in the city were almost all delicate and pretty.

Damn it, why are the women of my Thunder Clan the only ones who think muscles are beautiful? Lei Qi wondered inwardly.

"Brother Lei Qi, is there anything you would like to do? I'll cover all expenses today," Yao Tian asked with a smile.

Although he did not know why the clan chief had ordered him and his sister to entertain Lei Qi, since it was the clan chief's personal instruction, Yao Tian did not dare refuse even if he was unwilling.

"How about visiting a pleasure house and listening to some music?" Lei Qi said.

"???"

Yao Tian looked puzzled and glanced at Yao Ling.

Yao Ling's expression remained calm as she merely shook her head.

"May I ask, Brother Lei Qi, what kind of place is this pleasure house?" Yao Tian asked.

"Heh, nothing. Just a joke." Lei Qi found Yao Tian rather amusing.

This fellow clearly had buried himself so deeply in alchemy that he could not pull himself out.

He did not even know about such wondrous places of flesh and pleasure.

As for the cold beauty before him, according to what Mang Tianchi had said, the Medicine Clan was likely keeping them as guests because they wanted a "marriage alliance."

And if nothing unexpected happened, the chosen one should be Yao Ling.

Naturally, a clan's own prodigies were not something they wished to marry off. But nothing was absolute.

Still, Lei Qi was not particularly fond of marriage alliances.

It was not that there was anything wrong with the girl. Rather, what use was a marriage alliance if he could look but not touch?

"Let's just wander around. If Brother Yao Tian does not have anywhere in mind, I do have a few questions I would like to ask," Lei Qi said.

Second-tier pills were simple enough, but he had already attempted third-tier pills nearly three times, and every single attempt had ended in an explosion.

"Oh, then that works out perfectly. Let's go to that tavern." Yao Tian himself could not be bothered to wander about. Upon hearing Lei Qi's words, he led them toward the tavern.

After the three arrived at the tavern, Yao Tian learned of Lei Qi's problem and the corners of his mouth twitched. "Brother Lei Qi, had you truly never studied alchemy before?"

"Never. I was not interested before. If I had not found a competition interesting after watching it, I would not have started refining pills," Lei Qi replied with a shake of his head.

"You are being too impatient. Even in our Medicine Clan, no one can continuously advance their alchemy in such a short time. Once you can refine second-tier pills without exploding the furnace even once, then consider moving on to the next tier. Besides, you do not possess real flame. Failure is only natural." At this moment, Yao Ling, who had not spoken until now, suddenly said.

This cold beauty's voice was exceptionally pleasant as well.

If I conquered her, the sense of accomplishment would be... heh heh.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Seeing Lei Qi stare at her eagerly after listening, Yao Ling became slightly displeased.

"There are no beauties like you in my clan. I was merely a little moved," Lei Qi said.

No matter how cold Yao Ling was, she was still a young girl. Hearing Lei Qi's blunt praise, a faint blush appeared on her icy face.

With that rosy blush on her tender little face, she seemed even more beautiful!

Cough, cough!!

Seeing his sister like this, Yao Tian gave a reminder.

Yao Ling also felt embarrassed. How had she...

Lei Qi found Yao Ling's little change in demeanor quite amusing.

So the iceberg was merely a disguise. Deep down, this little vixen probably wanted to run wild upon the sea as well, didn't she?

Seeing Lei Qi continue staring at his sister, Yao Tian became somewhat displeased.

He really wanted to ask Lei Qi whether all his lessons in manners had been fed to the dogs.

But how could Yao Tian know that before his bloodline had been tested, Lei Qi had essentially been raised without restraint? Moreover, in the Thunder Clan, disputes were generally settled with a fight. Lei Qi's personality was naturally aggressive.

Still, knowing that this was the Medicine Clan, he restrained himself.

Although the Medicine Clan was not as powerful as the Thunder Clan, if two Dou Emperor clans truly fought, even if the Thunder Clan won, it would still pay a grievous price.

After all, compared to the Soul Clan, which could casually exterminate the Medicine, Stone, and Spirit Clans, the Thunder Clan still had a vast gap.

It could be said that even the Ancient Clan, currently the "strongest" clan on the continent, would have to pay no small price to destroy them.

Under such circumstances, Lei Qi naturally had to rein himself in.

Afterward, the three chatted casually for a while before returning to the residence arranged by the Medicine Clan.

By then, Mang Tianchi was already waiting there.

"It seems the Medicine Clan is still undecided. We will leave tomorrow," Mang Tianchi said.

"Mm." Lei Qi did not refuse and immediately agreed.

As he had said, a marriage alliance was of little use at present.

Since that was the case, why was there any need to form one?

Besides, he was extremely interested in the Fallen Heart Flame at Canaan Academy. He also wanted to know whether the black lightning within his body could truly devour Heavenly Flames.