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The Apothecary King felt that he must have gone a little stupid.

Or had too much happened these past few days, leaving his mind in a daze?

But as a Nascent Soul Middle Stage Great Cultivator, surely he had more presence of mind than that?

Besides, the Ageless Spring had nourished him for years. How could anything be wrong with his body?

Yet if nothing was wrong with his body,

how the hell had someone reached him before he noticed?

If he hadn't still had his eyesight,

they could probably have emptied the Ageless Spring without him noticing.

As that thought flashed through his mind, the Apothecary King sensed the auras of the two people before him.

The man was unremarkable, merely at Foundation Establishment Late Stage. The woman in the black dress, meanwhile, showed no cultivation at all. She was a mortal through and through.

But when the Apothecary King tried to probe her with Divine Sense, he found that her aura was as vast as the sea.

This...

What the hell was going on? What the hell did it mean?

It meant the woman was at least a Spirit Transformation Cultivator!

It wasn't as though the Apothecary King had never met a Nascent Soul Late Stage cultivator. He had once shared wine and laughter with One-Sword High Person of the Sword Ruins. Yet even with that old sword immortal, he could sense his strength and aura.

But this woman before him?

Fear seized the Apothecary King almost instantly.

Hua Yaoyue glanced at him, then withdrew her gaze in disdain and waved a hand.

"Move aside. Don't get in the way of my disciple's cultivation."

The Apothecary King's face flushed red. He couldn't decide whether to stand or stay seated.

He stayed seated because it had been centuries since