"Seeing how devoted you are, you can join our party."
"Actually, you needn't worry. It won't matter even if you can't obtain the medicine. I'm a physician specializing in treating curses—I can take a look at her when the time comes," Xu Zimo said.
"You can treat curses?" the young girl, Mu Yang, still found it hard to believe.
Curses were notoriously difficult to cure completely.
They could neither be seen nor touched, yet they truly existed.
It was like one's luck. Under normal circumstances, it could not be seen, but those with bad luck were always running into misfortune.
The kind where even drinking cold water got food stuck between your teeth.
Yet this curse power had little effect on Xu Zimo. Perhaps its power was simply too weak.
Once they reached Death Swamp, Xu Zimo wanted to see what true curse power was like.
"We'll only know about your mother's illness after examining her. Ordinary curses are something I can resolve," Xu Zimo said.
He did not make his claim too absolute. After all, he still had not figured out the strangeness surrounding the young girl.
Why was the young girl still safe and sound despite bearing so many curses?
But there was no need to rush for now. There would be plenty of time to study it slowly. First, they needed to head to the Hidden God Sect.
"Pick up the pace," Xu Zimo urged them.
"My lord, there are powerful demonic beasts in the Dongming Mountain Range where this assessment is being held," Yellow Hair explained from the side.
"And there are many others like us who have come to take the test. Some may harbor ill intentions and attack us.
"The Hidden God Sect has no rules here. One can do whatever one pleases in