Chapter 498: 498: Meeting Again
With the exposure of the Exiled Star, the danger from the space beyond had started to gather and started targeting the world they are in. It was just that no one had noticed it and there were two who were guarding the star from the outside eliminating all intruders. The former Immortal Emperor of the Immortal Sun Empire whose strength hasn’t completely returned yet and his great general who was made from his clone, Taiyang.
Back to the Cultivation Realm
The changes in the Herb Valley had gotten even more obvious when the Holy Witch and the Poison Goddess had started working together. As for the sudden disappearance of the Divine Farmer no one dared to ask questions after the Holy Witch lost her temper once.
Inhumane practices on innocent children were halted as per the request of the Moon Goddess. However, the existence of Medicine humans didn’t completely disappear. Those who were considered children were now freed and left untouched as if pardoned. As for the adult ones, the Holy Witch does not care about them. The Cultivation World is made of cruelty and opportunities after all.
The first ones to notice the changes in the Herb Valley were the guests, especially the young disciples who were used to being scheme by stall owners just so they could sell their immortal herbs at a higher price. Normally, the disciples cannot do anything about it as most of the owners were seniors who are stronger than they are. They are being exploited and cannot do anything about it.
However, after that battle of the goddess that one day, things had suddenly turned for better. Medicine children were being treated and given freedom under the orders of the Holy Witch. Her personality had completely changed but for better. Moreover, rumors about the disappearance of the Divine Farmer were said to have something to do with the Holy Witch. There is also a fact that the oldest senior of the Su Clan had ascended to become a goddess replacing the Divine Doctor as one of the rulers of the Herb Valley.
At the market place...
The three disciples from the Starfield Sect whom Yue Xuexia had bumped into before were looking through the herbs in the area. They had been staying in this place for a while gathering as much herbs which can be used to refine life saving pills. Today is just like the usual day of finding the right herbs they needed.
"Senior Lan, how about this immortal herb? What is this one called again?" Qi Louya asked.
The disciple called Lan Guye looked at the herb his junior sister had pointed at and said, "Shimei, this is just an ordinary herb with healing properties. What we need are immortal herbs for pill refining high grade pills."
Yawns~
"Can’t we eat breakfast first before walking around? Or let’s buy one and I will eat it on the way," said Xin Shiwu. Another senior brother of Qii Louya but from a different tower. He is Lan Guye’s close friend.
Lan Guye said, "Eat Bigu Pill first. We will only eat in the afternoon."
"Eh~ can’t I at least have some street food?" Xin Shiwu said.
Lan Guye sighed, "Buy some then we will continue to walk around."
As soon as he said these, Xin Shiwu and Qi Louya ran to the nearest food stall. One buying meat and the other buying some sweets. Lan Guye couldn’t help but shake his head at this scene. When he suddenly noticed the two cubs he saw before lining up with their junior sister to buy some ice cream.
"Gege, I want strawberries. Xiao ger wanted chocolate, Xiao Jin wanted vanilla!" The sentient snow lotus, Yue Huaxue said.
The sentient water lotus, Yue Huashui said, "Big cones or a cup?"
"Big cone!"
"Fine. Wait at the side with Mom. I will be back soon," said Yue Huashui.
Lan Guye witnessed the scene of these children getting in line and some running back at the side. He followed the ones going at the side and saw the veiled lady from before leading lazily at the big Liger behind her.
He met her silver eyes before Yue Xuexia closed hers to take a nap. Her beasts had woken her up early and dragged her here while she was still half asleep. Now it won’t be surprising for her to fall asleep anytime soon.
Yue Huaxue ignored her master’s sleepiness and asked, "Mommy, what flavor of ice cream do you want?"
"Is there coffee flavor? Get me some~" said the sleepy Moon Goddess.
"Okay~ I will tell gege~" responded Yue Huaxue before running towards the line where Yue Huashui was waiting.
Lan Guye couldn’t help but approach Yue Xuexia. No matter how much he looks at her, he feels that she is familiar but he couldn’t recognize her at all. Moreover, there is also that time when his Shimei was saved by this lady, they haven’t thanked her properly yet and Yuexia’s group had disappeared with her.
He noticed that the adult Liger, the veiled lady is leaning one suddenly opened its eyes and stared at him. He felt danger as this spirit beast is at least Nascent Soul Realm and at a higher realm. Lan Guye immediately gestured that he didn’t come over for a fight. Only then did the adult Liger once again close its eyes.
Meanwhile, Qi Louya and Xin Shiwu returned to his side and noticed that Lan Guye was unexpectedly staring in a certain direction.
"We are back, Shixiong!" Qi Louya said,
Xin Shiwu asked instead, "What are you looking at?" He asked while holding on to the beast bone with large beef chunked attached into it.
Qi Louya was still okay as she remembered the face of her savior. But Xin Shiwu doesn’t remember anything about that day. Maybe because he is not that much interested or he is a bird brain type of man.
"Ah! It’s my savior!" said Qi Louya.
Xin Shiwu said, "Hah? What savior?"
"Can’t you guys finish your food first?" Lan Guye said as he held his forehead.
It was only after they saw that Yue Xuexia had woken up and started eating that they approached their group. It became a group of people eating ice cream, meat and one who doesn’t have anything in his hand.
"Oh... It’s you. Where are the elders who are with you? I’m sure I had treated them well enough. I forgot to ask for treatment fees. That will be 100,000 spirit stones," said Yue Xuexia.
Though Lan Guye and Qi Louya were surprised that they are being asked to pay for the treatment done a long time ago, as the senior brother who failed to protect his junior sister that day made Lan Guye feel in debt towards this lady with veil.
"I will pay. Also, I would like to give you my gratitude for not only saving my Shimei and the two elders of the sect," said Lan Guye as he also made the other two disciples with him bow their heads.
The spirit stones were taken by Yue Huashui and Yue Xuexia received their heartfelt thanks.
"I’ve received the pay. If you have something else to ask, you should return to your duties," said Yue Xuexia. "By the way, you should buy what you need as fast as you can. It seems there will be a little dungeon opening in this valley soon."
"Thank you for the information. I am Lan Guye from the Starfield Sect. A pleasure to meet you."
"I am Qi Louya. Thank you once again for saving my life."
"...Xin Shiwu..."
"Nice to meet you two. You can call me Yue.
While the situation in the Herb Valley has subsided a lot, there are still some places that are not only full of danger but also have some people falling into. The two elders from the Crimson Cloud Auction hall, Elder Yun and Elder Xiao had fallen in the dark region within the Cultivation Realm. They are currently being chased by a demonic beast who wanted to eat them. It was a human faced demonic spider wanting to eat them. As for their disciple, Lin Chiyu, he had long fainted from overuse of qi.
"Dammit! How can we fall to this region of all places!?" Elder Yun complains.
Elder Xiao said, "Keep running. Go to the safe zone. We can only stay there until Xiao Chi wakes up and tries another route. There is also the problem about those Evil Cultivators."
"Tsk! If those bastards didn’t take away a few of our people we should be able to leave without a problem. How come only a few decades had passed and a Millennium year old Demonic Beast was born!?" complaints Elder Yun.
Elder Xiao hit him on the back of his head and said, "Stop shouting you fool!"
In the end, they had to fight against the human face demonic spider chasing them and only when they were killed did they continue their journey to the so-called safe zone in this region.
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As for the situation in the north...
Tan Bingyu and Xue Renxue’s reunion had begun. As soon as Tan Bingyu returned to the north or in the ice mountain ranges where the Snow Clan was staying, she was suddenly hugged by a beautiful man which left her in a daze.
"Bing’er!? You are back. I miss you!" Xue Renxue said as he hugged Tan Bingyu as soon as he saw her.
He had forgotten that Tan Bingyu had never once seen his appearance as a man nor did he know that Tan Bingyu is questioning herself whether to still accept him as he future dao companion that his gender had flipped from being a female to a male.
Some seniors from the Snow Clan were waiting at the side wanting to watch the reaction of the Princess of Tan when their youngest elder hugged her out of nowhere.
"You...!" Tan Bingyu was merciless as she gave the strange man who suddenly hugged her a fierce uppercut while shouting, "Pervert! Who the hell do you think you are hugging!?"
Pfft!
Most of the seniors in the sidelines had laughed when they saw their male god of the Snow Clan being punched without mercy by his supposed future dao companion.
Hahaha~