flstandardbreds Chapter 177 He ran away, he ran away alone.
Chapter 177 He ran away, he ran away alone.
Zhong Lingxin asked Zhong Muyuan, "Where is Brother Muyun now?"
Zhong Muyuan hurriedly said, "His evil aura hasn't been completely cleared away yet in the medicine hut on Lingdan Peak. Sister, do you want to go see him? I'll take you there."
Zhong Lingxin nodded.
The siblings headed straight for the medicine hut at the foot of Lingdan Peak.
As soon as I approached the medicine hut, I heard low groans coming from inside, extremely suppressed and painful.
Judging from the voice, there was more than one person.
The Lingdan Peak disciple on duty at the medicine hut recognized Zhong Muyuan and let the two of them in without any problems.
Zhong Lingxin stepped into the medicine hut and saw more than a dozen Qingyun Sect disciples lying inside. Some of them still had black energy floating around them, while others had bluish-black faces. The two on the far side no longer had any black energy on their faces, and their faces were deathly pale.
One of them was Zhong Muyun.
Zhong Muyuan went straight to one of them and whispered, "Brother!"
When the man turned his head, Zhong Lingxin almost burst into tears.
The person lying in front of him turned his empty eyes when he heard Zhong Muyuan's call. When he saw Zhong Lingxin and her brother, he forced a smile, propped himself up to sit up, and said softly, "You're here. I'm fine."
This was no longer the Muyun Brother she remembered.
Zhong Lingxin rushed forward and helped Zhong Muyun up, saying, "Brother, lie down properly!"
Zhong Muyun stopped trying to hold on, slowly lay down, and said breathlessly, "It's alright, the evil energy is almost gone, I'll feel better soon."
Zhong Lingxin was an alchemist and also understood medicine, so she could naturally see that the murderous aura on Zhong Muyun's body had disappeared. She said softly, "Brother, lie still and don't move. Let me check your dantian again to see if we can remedy the situation."
The peak master of Lingdan Peak said that Zhong Muyun's dantian was destroyed and there was no hope of healing it, but he did not want to disappoint his sister, so he smiled and said, "Alright, sister, you can investigate. Maybe my sister has a way."
Zhong Lingxin covered Zhong Muyun's dantian with her spiritual energy. The dantian looked as if it had been plowed by an iron plow, with furrows all over it. Only a very small amount of spiritual energy floated among these furrows.
Zhong Lingxin frowned, unwilling to give up, and probed again and again...
With each visit, her heart sank a little deeper.
The alchemists at Lingdan Peak were right; Brother Muyun's dantian was indeed destroyed. To repair it, one would need rare and precious materials like Jade Essence or a Grade 9 Repairing Pill.
The ninth-grade Rejuvenating Pill now only has the formula; two kinds of medicinal herbs have become extinct. The Immortal Spirit Continent has not had a ninth-grade Rejuvenating Pill for thousands of years. Countless Mahayana cultivators and Tribulation Transcending Ancestors have perished in despair because of the lack of the Rejuvenating Pill.
Even if such a thing existed, the sect wouldn't give a ninth-grade Restoration Pill to a Qi Refining stage disciple with low spiritual root value and three spiritual roots.
Moreover, the potency of that ninth-grade pill was beyond the capacity of Zhong Muyun, a disciple in the Qi Refining stage.
It seems that only rare and precious materials like the essence of chalcedony can provide such a solution.
Zhong Lingxin sighed inwardly. She had once obtained the essence of jade marrow, but unfortunately, Zhong Chun had consumed a portion of it, and the remaining portion had been used by the Nine-Fold Pagoda. Even she herself hadn't gotten any.
It seems she should acquire more rare and precious herbs in the future; who knows, she might need them someday.
Seeing Zhong Lingxin remain silent, Zhong Muyun smiled and said, "I'm fine, don't worry. It's just that the Zhong family will be in your hands from now on. I... I'm powerless to help."
At this point, Zhong Muyun's voice finally choked up.
His childhood experiences were different from Zhong Lingxin's. His parents followed their clansmen into the mountains to hunt and gather medicinal herbs, and he witnessed the hardships his family faced from a young age.
Now, Zhong Lingxin has brought her family into the cultivation city.
He originally planned that after he reached the Nascent Soul stage, Zhong Lingxin and her brother would develop in the sect, and he would return to his family to take charge, manage the family better, and make the Zhong family no longer suffer, becoming a great family of cultivators.
Now, his ambitions have vanished, and he can no longer contribute to the family.
It's so difficult for a small family to cultivate a cultivator!
He has let his family down!
Zhong Lingxin took out a storage bag and put it in Zhong Muyun's arms: "Brother, things are not hopeless yet. Here are a few bottles of Spirit Replenishing Pills, all of which I refined. You can take them first, one a day. I will refine a few more bottles for you when I get back and send them over."
Upon hearing this, Zhong Muyuan handed the storage bag to Zhong Muyun: "No, I heard that Muyun is also going to the Ancient Battlefield. Give it to Muyun, he can use it. I was chased so hard by the Lingyun Sect that my spiritual energy couldn't keep up and my dantian was tainted by the baleful aura. Muyun must not be like me."
Zhong Lingxin gently pressed down his hand and smiled, "Brother, I've prepared some for him too. Don't worry, I'll make sure he doesn't lack any pills."
After thinking for a moment, Zhong Lingxin asked, "I also gave my brother pills and talismans, plus those from the sect. My brother shouldn't be short of pills, and he can also teleport to escape. How could he be chased like this by the people from Lingyun Sect?"
Zhong Muyun's expression turned unnatural.
Zhong Lingxin stopped asking questions and told him to rest well, and that she and her brother would come to see him again in a couple of days.
After leaving Lingdan Peak, Zhong Lingxin asked Zhong Muyuan, "Who did you distribute the pills to, brother?"
Zhong Muyuan said in a low voice, "My brother is righteous. Not long after they went in, they were hunted down by the Lingyun Sect. My brother used talismans to kill many people from the Lingyun Sect. In addition, when they heard that he was your brother, they hated him to death and hunted him down especially hard. My brother also had to protect a female disciple from Wanfa Peak, so he shared some of the pills and talismans with her..."
Zhong Ling thought to herself: Just as I thought!
She asked softly, "Where is that female disciple?"
Zhong Muyuan remained silent.
Zhong Lingxin stopped and stared intently at Zhong Muyuan.
After a long silence, Zhong Muyuan said in a low voice, "He ran away. He ran away by himself."
Zhong Lingxin took a deep breath and asked, "What's your name?"
Zhong Muyuan glanced at his sister, his eyes pleading, "Her name is Liu Wanqiu. Sister, please don't ask anymore. Actually, it's not entirely Wanqiu's fault. It was brother who wanted to give it to her, not Wanqiu who asked brother for it. Wanqiu is a girl, and those Lingyun Sect disciples' foul language frightened her. Wanqiu..."
Zhong Lingxin looked at Zhong Muyuan with icy eyes, making Zhong Muyuan's heart pound. He stammered, "Sister, please don't look at me like that, I'm scared..."
Zhong Lingxin sneered: "Zhong Muyuan, how old are you this year?"
Zhong Muyuan didn't understand why his sister suddenly asked about his age, so he carefully replied, "Sister, I'm twenty-eight this year, as you know, sister..."
Zhong Lingxin sneered again: "You're twenty-eight! I thought you were only eight. No, I thought you were only eighteen, the age when gentlemen admire young women, your mind is full of young and beautiful female cultivators, and you don't think before you speak or act."
Zhong Muyuan lowered his head. He disagreed with his sister's words. Liu Wanqiu was indeed a good person. If his sister had met her, she wouldn't have said that.