The world never stopped turning simply because a few people were missing, even when they were masters of the immortal Dao.
On this day, Lady Shuntian came to the Divine Medicine Palace.
With the vast majority of its true medicine gods absent, divine medicines had been in rather short supply these past few years. Walking barefoot through the Divine Medicine Palace, Lady Shuntian felt that the place had grown considerably quieter.
Leading the way ahead of Lady Shuntian was a Star Lord's attendant boy-the same sort of boy whose statue stood beside the Medicine Master Star Lord in his temples.
The two arrived at the medicine repository one behind the other. The boy took a jade bottle from one of the drawers and handed it to Lady Shuntian.
"Lady Shuntian, here is the Fetus-Calming Medicine prepared for you. It can dispel the pernicious influences of wind and fire and soothe the mind. There are thirty-three thousand, three hundred and thirty-three doses in all. Please keep it safe!"
If a pregnant woman suffered a fright or fell ill, her family could pray at the Shuntian Lady Temple. If their sincerity moved the deity, their prayers would receive an answer. This, too, accorded with the natural law of reproduction and the continuation of life.
"Thank you, Spirit Medicine Boy!"
Lady Shuntian carefully accepted the jade bottle. As a deity associated with offspring and worshipped by many in the mortal world, she was a frequent visitor to the Divine Medicine Palace. After all, though she possessed divine power, she could not rely on it for everything. Most other deities with similar needs did the same.
Today, however, Lady Shuntian did not leave immediately. After a moment's hesitation, she spoke.
"May I ask, boy, whether I could request a dose of Yang-Extending Powder?"
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