Everyone Practices Demonic Arts, Why Are You Radiating Divine Light?
Chapter 38

Immortal Smoke? It Should Be Destroyed! This Young Hero Will Eradicate It Too! (Please Follow)

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Gu Qingfeng and Huang Qu had stayed long enough for two hours, and could now leave temporarily.

Yellow Smoke Ghost Huang Qu looked impatient, clearly wanting to head next door to "become an immortal."

Gu Qingfeng had no such hobby.

Seeing this, Huang Qu could not help saying, "Brother Gu, neither you nor I have started a household. What do you need so much silver from testing medicine for?"

"If you ask me, you might as well come become an immortal with me. Even dying would be worth it!"

Gu Qingfeng questioned, "Does smoking that really feel so good?"

Huang Qu answered solemnly, "It really feels that good!"

"Before, I would go gamble at the gambling house now and then, or head to Red Alley and have a good time with those stinking women. But ever since I took a liking to these leaves, I've even quit bad habits like whoring and gambling!"

"When all is said and done, Immortal Leaf is still the most comfortable. I'm really not lying to you. Immortal Leaf is called Immortal Leaf because it enlightens wisdom. Plenty of cultivators smoke it. Monks say that after smoking it, they can enter Alaya Consciousness, see the Buddha, and comprehend the true essence of Buddhist scriptures. Daoists say that after smoking it, they can step into the source of the Dao, hear the Dao Venerable expound the Dao, his wonderful words flowing in an endless stream."

"As for me, I simply haven't had that kind of fortune. But Brother Gu, perhaps you might have it?"

Even after hearing him say all that, Gu Qingfeng still was not very interested.

However, he wanted to see how this Immortal Leaf had made Huang Qu so addicted.

Thinking this, Gu Qingfeng said, "I won't smoke it. I'll just come along and take a look!"

Huang Qu laughed heartily. "Take a look, then! Let's go!"

He did not believe Gu Qingfeng could watch without smoking.

Thus, the two medicine testers had only just collected their payment at the Ghost Hand Apothecary when, in the blink of an eye, they carried their silver next door to the Leaf House.

Seeing this, both the physician sitting in consultation and the medicine apprentice laughed.

They truly spent money wherever they earned it, without leaving even a single coin to bring home.

This physician was precisely the one who had crossed blades with Jiang Zhongtang earlier.

If the Ghost Hand Apothecary's business improved, his share would be substantial as well. Then he could acquire more specimens.

Watching Gu Qingfeng and Huang Qu walk away together, the consulting physician could not help sighing. "Huang Qu truly is a good man! He is even the lucky star of our Ghost Hand Apothecary!"

This was not the first time Yellow Smoke Ghost had urged someone to visit the Leaf House with him.

It could be said that perhaps a tenth of the Leaf House's business had been brought in or contributed by Yellow Smoke Ghost.

Huang Qu's liver had still been aching just moments ago, but the instant he stepped into the Leaf House and smelled the sweet, lingering fragrance in the air, his whole body became light and floaty.

"Xiao Qing, bring the leaves! Bring the big leaves!"

"This time, there are two of us, so we get a twenty-percent discount."

"Brother Gu, hurry over here!"

The moment he arrived at the Leaf House, Huang Qu became lively and vigorous, as though he had returned home.

The Leaf House consisted of private rooms partitioned off by wood. Plaques hung outside their doors, giving the place an elegant air.

The woman responsible for bringing the Immortal Leaf to the two of them was called Xiao Qing. She wore an exceptionally form-fitting green dress, swaying as she walked, her water-snake waist especially eye-catching.

If everyone here had not seemed so focused on smoking Immortal Leaf, Gu Qingfeng might have thought other things could be done here as well.

Smoking Immortal Leaf was somewhat different from what Gu Qingfeng had imagined.

He had thought it would be like the leaf tobacco smoked through pipes in television dramas from his previous life, but the pipe here resembled a long-handled spoon.

Huang Qu directly tried to order Immortal Leaf for Gu Qingfeng, but Gu Qingfeng refused, saying he was only looking.

Huang Qu did not mind and simply began smoking himself.

That tael of Immortal Leaf was placed at the front end of the spoon and lit with fire.

"Brother Gu, I'll partake first. Only I can enjoy the wonders within!"

Once the Immortal Leaf was lit, it was unexpectedly not entirely smoke, but something resembling a very faint liquid.

Though it was called smoking Immortal Leaf, it was more like inhaling the juice produced when the leaves burned.

Immortal Leaf was green, but the liquid it burned into carried a faint red tint.

At this point, Huang Qu had already begun inhaling.

Amazingly, after that liquid entered his mouth, it instantly transformed into smoke, making him swallow clouds and exhale mist.

The faintly red Immortal Leaf juice entered his mouth, and Huang Qu's whole body stiffened as he twisted like a water snake.

In Gu Qingfeng's perception, it was as though many hands were hidden in that smoke, massaging him.

This sort of massage was unlike the proper or improper full-body massages from his previous life. Instead, it gave the sensation of reaching from the inside out.

Huang Qu could not help letting out a satisfied sigh. Pale red smoke immediately drifted from his nostrils, carrying a feeling of comfort and complete clarity.

For a time, as Huang Qu crazily smoked Immortal Leaf, the entire private room filled with smoke.

Amid this secondhand smoke, Gu Qingfeng truly had the illusion that he was about to see immortals.

He could not help rubbing his eyes.

This was because he discovered that the mist before him had turned into beautiful women, winding around him.

For a time, this smoke-filled private room truly became like paradise on earth.

Not only that, these "smoke beauties" could surround one and whisper sweet words.

By this point, even the bolster beside Gu Qingfeng was speaking.

"Sir, am I soft? Press closer against me."

Even the bolster had started talking?

At that moment, Gu Qingfeng could not help muttering, "Why does this feel like getting poisoned from eating mushrooms?"

Yes, he had not smoked at all, yet the secondhand smoke alone could produce so many hallucinations.

Just how potent was this Immortal Leaf?

In truth, this was all because Gu Qingfeng was a cultivator himself and was often more sensitive to such perceptions.

This was also why many cultivators became addicted to it: it truly gave people the wonderful illusion that they were about to break through a bottleneck.

Within the swirling smoke, Gu Qingfeng even saw Junior Sister Qi Lingguang, Senior Sister Shen Yun, Zhao San, Wang Wu, and the others.

Even his little junior brother was there.

He had not been eaten by the Golden Core Celestial Venerable!

The group gathered together in harmonious joy, carrying the feeling of a grand reunion.

Suddenly, the clouds and mist churned, and he abruptly appeared in an enormous space.

This space was covered in writing.

Every stroke of those characters was like blades, swords, fists, and kicks, brimming with power.

Without warning, the characters trembled. Like opening a treasure chest and having equipment burst forth, countless divine martial arts manuals and masses of cultivation power emerged from them.

Yes, those glowing books were divine martial arts manuals, while those balls of light were cultivation power.

Gu Qingfeng accepted them all with a smile!

He could not help laughing.

It was done!

I've mastered everything!

For a time, Gu Qingfeng looked around at those words and felt that every gap between the characters was filled with two words—"great hero"!

Gu Qingfeng was immersed in the secondhand smoke and in a good mood.

But he quickly shook his head, clearing his mind somewhat.

Could this be what Yellow Smoke Ghost meant by entering another world if one had the right fortune?

In this world, monks could see the Buddha preaching the scriptures, while Daoists could hear the Dao Patriarch transmitting the Dao?

And why was what he saw chivalry?

Not people, only words?

This damn Immortal Leaf was just making people delirious!

Whatever you most wanted to see or enjoy, it gave you a similar hallucination.

That was what Gu Qingfeng thought.

By this point, Huang Qu's tael of Immortal Leaf was nearly gone.

Gu Qingfeng could not help remarking, "These lousy leaves are practically worth their weight in gold."

The secondhand smoke alone gave people such sensations. No wonder Huang Qu was so deeply addicted.

The feeling this thing brought was probably even harder to escape than poison. Who knew how many people it had killed.

For a time, he felt this thing needed to be destroyed!

Along with this Ghost Hand Apothecary.

Mm, this young hero would eradicate smoke too!

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