In Northbank City, Qi Feng had just woken up. After hearing the news through his Message Talisman, he stood silently by the window, staring outside the inn for a long time, his face expressionless.
He had gone to bed rather late last night.
He had spent the whole time wondering how he would get through this crisis if he were Chen Fan.
The moment he woke up, Chen Fan had asked him for help.
He had assumed Chen Fan wanted Medicine King Valley to intervene and negotiate. Instead, Chen Fan asked about medicinal properties. At first, he thought Chen Fan had found some wild medicinal herb on Nameless Mountain.
That was perfectly normal.
It would have been stranger if a mountain that large had no wild medicinal herbs.
But the varieties Chen Fan mentioned kept growing more diverse.
Only then did he belatedly realize something was wrong.
When Chen Fan said he was in the Pill Sect Herb Garden, Qi Feng froze, at a complete loss for words. The worldview he had built over all these years seemed to collapse in that instant.
The Pill Sect Herb Garden?
How had he gotten there?
Had the Pill Sect invited Chen Fan for a tour? Impossible.
That left only one impossible possibility.
Just then—
Elder Xu pushed open the door and said quietly, "Young master, an urgent message arrived from Medicine King Valley. Your Message Talisman was busy, so they couldn't reach you."
"First, the Mortal Sect has officially announced that it is now called the Mortal Domain."
"Second, an Incense Stick ago, the Mortal Domain dispatched an airborne Horse-Drawn Carriage and subjected Pill Sect City to indiscriminate saturation bombardment. The Pill Sect... has been massacred. Barring anything unexpected, there should be no survivors."
"The Image Recording Stone containing the footage is