Qingshan's Situation

After glancing at the shop's plaque and confirming it, Lin Qing did not linger. He led Lin Qi straight inside.

As they entered the spacious shop, the Moonlight Stones hanging on the walls gave off a white glow. There were quite a few customers inside, and the clerks were all extremely busy, so no one came to greet the newly arrived pair for the moment.

Lin Qing took Lin Qi around the shop but did not find any Blood Lotus Essence. Perhaps it had not come in with the same batch. With that thought, he gave up on trying to hunt for bargains.

Finding a temporarily unoccupied counter, Lin Qing took a bag of roughly a hundred gold coins from his Storage Ring and asked the clerk:

"Let me ask you something. Do you have someone named Little Fairy Doctor here? She should be a physician."

The clerk accepted the bag of coins and counted them. Looking pleased, he said:

"My lord, everyone knows the Myriad Medicine Hall, but there is no one here named Little Fairy Doctor!"

"All right. The bag of coins is yours."

Lin Qing said regretfully.

So she has not come to the Myriad Medicine Hall yet. I can only come back another time.

The two left the Myriad Medicine Hall, and Lin Qi noticed that her brother seemed somewhat downcast.

"Brother, is this Little Fairy Doctor your friend?"

Lin Qi, who had obediently followed at Lin Qing's side all along, asked curiously.

She felt that while her brother claimed they were traveling, he seemed to have a clear goal in mind.

Lin Qing thought for a moment before answering:

"Little Fairy Doctor... she is a very kind person."

"Are you looking for Little Fairy Doctor?"

A voice came from behind them, and Lin Qing turned around.

The speaker was a wild-looking young girl with a tall, sexy figure. Her skin had a seductive bronze hue, and she wore a tight black short leather jacket and a tight black leather skirt. Her waist was slender enough to grasp in one hand, while her legs were long and shapely.

"Yes. Do you know her?"

Lin Qing asked with a gentle smile.

The girl glanced at Lin Qing. Seeing how handsome he was, she felt he probably was not a bad person. After hesitating for a while, she said:

"She used to live in Medicine Village and worked as a physician. She and her mother moved there when she was little. Medicine Village is pretty far from here—it takes several days on foot. But the last time I saw her was half a year ago. My father and the Mercenary Corps were escorting a caravan, and I went along with them. I saw her then. My father said her medical skills were excellent. As for whether she is still there now, I do not know!"

"What about her father?"

"My father said he was a mercenary from the area. Not long after Little Fairy Doctor was born, he was bitten to death by a Magical Beast."

"All right, thank you..."

Before Lin Qing could finish, a voice interrupted him.

"Young Corps Leader! That top-quality beauty I told you about is right here!"

Immediately afterward, more than a dozen people surrounded the three of them. Lin Qing felt rather helpless in the face of this. He had known someone might cause trouble, but the strongest among them was only a six-star Fighter. Were they in that much of a hurry to reincarnate?

Mu Li licked his lips, his expression exceedingly lecherous. His gaze remained fixed on Lin Qi as he smiled. "My apologies for disturbing the three of you. Two beautiful ladies, I am Mu Li, the young corps leader of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group. Would the two of you honor me with your company? I would like to invite you both to dinner."

One of the mercenaries who had just spoken was extremely—

"Kid, our mercenary corps leader is a Dou Master. Hand over the two women beside you obediently! We will leave you an intact corpse. Otherwise, we—"

Bang!

Having no interest in listening to such a person finish, Lin Qing stepped forward, and the aura of a Dou Spirit surged from his body.

Those Fighter weaklings were all crushed by that aura, unable to move. In an instant, an afterimage flashed past, and Mu Li was lifted into the air by Lin Qing's hand around his neck.

"I really do not understand how brainless people like you have survived until now. Forget it, I will not try to understand. Please go die."

With that, Lin Qing squeezed hard. With a crack, Mu Li fell into eternal sleep.

After finding out where the Wolf Head Mercenary Group was located, Lin Qing wiped out every one of them with a single soul technique under their terrified gazes.

After killing the remaining people, Lin Qing was still rather merciful. He had left them all intact corpses. Moreover, he was particularly filial and could not stand seeing others fail to be filial, so he decided to send Mu Li and his father to reunite.

"Xiao Qi, stay here and look after this friend. I will be right back."

With that, he carried Mu Li's body and flew toward the Wolf Head Mercenary Group.

"My heavens! That was a Dou King, right?"

"That was Mu Li, the young corps leader of the Wolf Head Mercenary Group. They have really kicked an iron plate this time!"

The Wolf Head Mercenary Group, which should have been destroyed years later, was sent on its way early today because it had provoked Lin Qing.

A day later, after the other two major mercenary corps learned why the Wolf Head Mercenary Group had been destroyed, they immediately became much more well-behaved.

"Pah! They were too poor. Just some gold coins, a Low Mystic Tier Cultivation Technique and its matching Dou Technique, and only two Storage Rings."

Not long after, Lin Qing flew back while grumbling and cursing.

"Here, this is your reward for taking us to Medicine Village."

With that, he casually handed one of the seized Storage Rings to the girl who had been standing beside Lin Qi.

The girl hurriedly accepted it and expressed her thanks.

"Let's go, Xiao Qi. You carry her. It would not be convenient for me, a man, to do so."

The two spread their wings. Under the girl's dumbfounded gaze, Lin Qi wrapped an arm around her and flew into the sky alongside Lin Qing.

"Damn! So they are two Dou Kings!"

In the sky, Lin Qing asked the girl in Lin Qi's arms:

"Which direction is it?"

The girl looked around, then seriously pointed southwest.

"It is that way!"

Lin Qing and Lin Qi exchanged a glance before turning into two streaks of light and shooting toward the southwest.

Through their conversation, Lin Qing learned that the girl was named Qing Ye. The name seemed somewhat familiar. Lin Qing remembered someone by that name from the original story, but was she not supposed to be extremely cold and aloof? She could not be this chatty girl before him, could she?

Qing Ye's talent was actually not bad. At fifteen, she had reached the Ninth Stage of Dou Qi, then failed while attempting to break through to Fighter. At sixteen, she had dropped to the eighth stage. She would probably need several more attempts. Even if she succeeded, cultivating a Yellow Tier Cultivation Technique and gaining one or two stars a year would already count as fast.

Sure enough, cultivation depended on wealth, techniques, companions, and location.

A person only had ten to twenty years of optimal cultivation time. If they started late, one slow step led to every step being slow, making it increasingly difficult to catch up later. How many geniuses had faded away like this? If Xiao Yan had not had Yao Chen, he might truly have become an emperor as Potato had said, but definitely not so quickly. Or perhaps Hun Tiandi would have killed him halfway through.

After flying for most of the day, the three finally reached the small mountain village Qing Ye had mentioned.

"My lord, Medicine Village is down there!"

Medicine Village was tiny, with only a few dozen households at most. Yet it was completely silent now, without even the faintest trace of cooking smoke.

It was only evening now. Normally, people would have begun preparing dinner at this hour.

The three landed at the village entrance. The entire village was deathly still, making it extremely eerie.

Lin Qi said:

"Brother! Something is wrong!"

Lin Qing had also detected a faint poison in the air. It had no effect on him or Lin Qi, but Qing Ye, who had come with them, was already swaying unsteadily as though she would faint at any moment.