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The next moment, she took a bite of the chicken, refused, and then said with difficulty and excitement:

"I'll do this job!!!"

The loud noise drew the attention of the surrounding diners—Little Pillow blushed and lowered her head in embarrassment.

Meanwhile, Gui Naifen was gnawing on a roasted chicken wing of a Shataen moa, trying to pretend to be invisible—in her mind chanting, "Can't see me, can't see me!"

There was nothing he could do; even with Xiao Guizi's fearless nature, he couldn't sit still during this meal.

It's so numb, look at what these two are saying!

The chief alchemist of the Dan Ding Division, one of the Six Departments, is the leader of the remnants of the Medicine King.

There are traitors within the Cloud Cavalry, and even within the Shence Prefecture. Is this something a lowly commoner like me should be hearing?!

There was no other way. Although I was very close to Changchang, this was clearly a matter of life and death!

As Xiao Guizi dressed up as an ostrich, the girl's elusive voice rang in his ears:

"If we get involved, we might become famous overnight and make a name for ourselves in Luofu... That way, even if our family members have any criminal records, we can atone for them and get them pardoned, right?"

"Hmm, I did a divination... This trip might allow me to have a showdown with the people under the Ancestor of Extinction, but it seems a bit dangerous... Never mind."

Before anyone knew it, the orange-haired girl had run up to 'Blue Sparrow' and was holding her hands.

"—Please be sure to take me with you!"

Chapter 188 The Medicine King's Compassionate Heart, the Jianmu Tree Sprouts Anew. Those who cultivate together are of one mind, ascending to ultimate bliss.

Gui Naifen was once the youngest daughter of the Duke of Camelot. She lived a life of luxury from a young age. Even her seemingly stern father would deliberately present a kind father image that was completely different from his stern demeanor whenever he saw her. She lived a happy and fulfilling life, oblivious to the affairs of the world—until the arrival of the legion destroyed this beautiful past.

Her father died in the battle against the antimatter legion, and her mother also died when the capital fell. Only Gui Naifen and her siblings were able to escape their hometown under their mother's arrangement—Camelot was thus officially declared destroyed.

After wandering the stars and going through many twists and turns, they ended up on Humboldt-σ, a resource planet of a corporation. Her three older brothers and her parents' confidants, along with an old knight named Uncle Stonewall, made a living as miners there. However, the nature of the corporation was beyond question; its name was filled with countless blood and tears. Under the corporation's harsh exploitation, Uncle Stonewall soon died from overwork.

Without a source of income, or perhaps out of anger towards the company, the brothers chose to become space pirates to protect their younger siblings, leading a dangerous but relatively affluent life.

Until one day, they were captured by the company after hijacking a merchant ship of the Immortal Boat Alliance—and were handed over to the Immortal Boat Alliance.

Seeing their pitiful state, Xianzhou spared the death penalty for the elder brother Lang Shile and settled his family on Xianzhou Luofu, allowing them to make a living. Gui Naifen was also able to enter the Xianzhou Academy to study. After growing up, she became a street performer, earning a living by performing on the streets.

Although Gui Naifen's cheerful personality wouldn't make her dwell on the fact that the Ancestor of Ember had caused her family's destruction, after all, living was already very difficult. Humboldt-σ's experience taught this former 'little princess' how to live better.

But how can such a blood feud be easily let go?

If given the chance, Gui Naifen would not mind using her own strength to take revenge on those bastards in the legion—but her strength was really weak, and because of her identity, family and many other issues, she could only make a living on the Immortal Ship by working as a circus performer, a profession with less stringent regulations.

As for her brothers, there's no need to say more—no matter how much the Immortal Ship pities Lang Shile and the others for their experiences, as space pirates who hijacked the Immortal Ship's merchant ships, even Gui Naifen, who was not involved as a family member, was implicated, let alone them—now Lang Shile and the others can only make a living by doing manual labor, just like Gui Naifen, doing low-level odd jobs.

"By the way, how did you know?"

The orange-haired girl walking beside 'Qingque' stared at this regular 'customer' with rather complicated feelings—with her intelligence, it was impossible for her not to realize that 'Qingque's' words were clearly aimed at her weakness. You see, because her past was too painful to recall, she hadn't even confided much about her past to her best friend, Shangshang. Apart from the Earth Balance Division that was investigating them and her family members, probably no one else on this celestial ship knew about her past.

"Have you forgotten who I am? I am a diviner from the Grand Diviner's Office."

"The diviner..."

Gui Naifen was skeptical of this answer. The academy's education did mention that the diviners of the Grand Diviner were incredibly powerful, but she really didn't know just how powerful they were—after all, she rarely came into contact with them on a daily basis.

The 'Bluebird' beside her is probably the one she knows best.

"Alright, we've arrived!"

A childlike voice rang out from ahead, and Bai Lu, who had stopped in her tracks, said this—what came into view was an extremely grand and bustling market.

Unlike the floating Changletian and Taibusi, Dandingsi chose to build its headquarters in the place closest to Jianmu because of the abundance and prosperity of Luofu in ancient times. Also, because the bottom of Luofu is the ancient sea water drawn from the ancient star of the Chiming clan, this is also the main residence of the Chiming clan.

The [Medical Market] is the area opened to the outside world by the Dan Ding Division. In ancient times, only authorized medicine seekers could enter this place to obtain spiritual medicines. Now, times have changed, and this place has also become one of Luo Fu's windows to the outside world. Medicine seekers from all over the universe come here to search for special medicinal materials that can only be found on the Immortal Ship.

"I never imagined that the Dan Ding Si, where I've lived for so long, is actually the headquarters of the Medicine King's secret teachings."

Bai Lu's childish voice carried a hint of surprise, but more likely, dissatisfaction—after all, she was considered one of the most upright physicians, yet her own base was actually a den of iniquity and corruption for the plague-ridden patriarch, which was hard to accept.

—Without a doubt, the 'Dragon Girl with Medicine' was also part of the team. How could Bai Lu, with her childlike heart, refuse such an interesting thing as raiding the 'Hometown of the Medicine King's Secret Teachings'? Besides, as a proper doctor, she couldn't stand these bad guys who were harming the people under the guise of medicine. This time, she was determined to prove the way of medicine and rid the people of this scourge.

The addition of Bai Lu, a physician under the Dan Ding Division, was of great help to the small team.

After all, even though the Chiming clan kept a very strict watch on her, they couldn't stop Bailu from wandering around the Dan Ding Si, which was near the Chiming headquarters—she was a legitimate, licensed physician, okay?

It can be said that—aside from the secret teachings of the Medicine King and the places deliberately concealed by the Vidyadhara Clan—she knew this place like the back of her hand, and entering it was no different from returning home.

'Qingque' walked at the head, surveying the surging ancient sea and the ancient, weathered buildings of Dan Ding Si, casually remarking:

"This is not surprising. The Dan Ding Si is the origin of the pharmacist belief. In ancient times, alchemists were very famous because of this. Countless people from all over the universe were willing to give up their wealth just to obtain the elixir of immortality."

"After the Emperor Bow became popular, the pursuit of immortality was listed as the first of the ten evils, and the once-prosperous Dan Ding Si also declined as a result. The rise and fall, the opening and closing, this kind of feeling and change of circumstances is naturally hard for those pharmacists to understand."

As the Emperor Yuan Jade Tablet was played with in his hand, it was tossed high into the air, its radiance causing the figures of the crowd to vanish without a trace.

"Eh—have we become invisible?" Su Chang, a martial artist, noticed the change and was somewhat surprised, while the girl in green said nonchalantly, "Just a little trick."

The application of imaginary energy, which can refract light to a certain extent to achieve visual shielding—since Miss Wendy of the Lower City of Arillow can do it, it would be even easier for the more adept at 'playing tricks' to do it as well.

Their destination was the Dan Ding Division—the secret experimental site of the Medicine King's teachings. Jiang Qiao remembered that it was full of experiments that were not to be seen by others and were strictly prohibited on the Immortal Ship.

By using a small force to overthrow them, and then mobilizing the official power of the Immortal Ship, we can first give those secret disciples of the Medicine King a "beating in the grass to scare the snake"—in this way, we can both deliver a painful blow to the secret disciples of the Medicine King and prevent them from lying low.

Of course, one of the more important objectives was to seize the stockpile of the Medicine King's secret 'Six Dusts Smoke'.

In the battle of Jianmu's rebirth, the greatest damage to the Yunqi Army came from the 'Six Dusts Smoke' stored up by the Medicine King's secret tradition. Once the people of the Immortal Ship touched it, they would immediately fall into demonic possession, resulting in heavy losses for the Yunqi Army. In fact, in the battle of Taizhen Dan Chamber, it forced the Yunqi Army led by Fu Xuan to be unable to advance an inch. The fact that it could be used in this way is enough to show that the Medicine King's secret tradition had been storing this thing for a long time.

Furthermore, the secret experiments passed down by the Medicine King must also be eradicated—the abundant evil creatures that the Pill Refining Division later encountered were actually created by these guys conducting experiments in secret.

First, they dealt with the deadly Six Dust Smoke, then disposed of those biological weapons. Even if the Medicine King's secret techniques remained scattered, they would not be a threat to the Cloud Cavalry.

Led by Bailu, they arrived at the key location of the Dan Ding Si – the Qihuang Department.

"...Does this really contain the Six Dusts Smoke and the secret experimental site we're looking for?" Looking at the bustling crowds and the numerous tall buildings that seemed normal, Little Pillow had some doubts.

"It must be this place. The Qihuang Department is where the doctors of the Dan Ding Division gather and study the art of Qihuang. It covers a huge area. Since the Dan Ding Division is the headquarters of those scoundrel doctors who bring plague to the ancestors, they must be conducting their shady research here. I have been here out of curiosity when I sneaked out at night before and saw sneaky people more than once. Now that I think about it, they are probably the bad guys who are the secret disciples of the Medicine King."

Bai Lu nodded quite affirmatively, pouting as she said:

"Moreover, if those scoundrels really want to create the Six Dust Smoke recorded in the annals, this is definitely the best place."

"See that tree in the central courtyard? It's one of the main root systems of the Jianmu tree. I happened to see it when I was looking through medical books at Guanyi Terrace. One of the raw materials for Six Dust Smoke is the branch of the Jianmu tree's mysterious root. If they want to mass-produce Six Dust Smoke and don't plan to look for other root systems, this is the only one that can meet their needs."

—Clearly, the only option for the Medicine King's secret teachings is the Qihuang Division. Of course, the Taizhen Pill Chamber could also meet their needs, but that place is simply not suitable as a raw material base.

Because of the past of the Tai Zhen Dan Chamber, that place was a key garrison area of ​​the Luo Fu Yun Cavalry. The Shence Prefecture was on guard against anyone trying to use the ancient 'alchemy furnace' left over from the Tai Zhen Dan Chamber for some bad purpose.

Moreover, the nature of the Dan Ding Division dictates that a certain number of Cloud Cavalry troops are stationed throughout the entire division. To prevent problems, they are rotated periodically. Within the Dan Ding Division, if a production and research site for Six Dust Smoke is not established in the Qi Huang Department, then one can probably only work in the medical market.

And the medical market...

If the Medicine King's secret manual could actually do that, it either means they're out of their minds, or it means the Cloud Cavalry is full of their traitors!

“I remember there was a warehouse near Qihuang Division that I heard was abandoned. If they wanted to hide something, that’s probably where they would have gone.” Bai Lu was quite certain of this – the nature of Dan Ding Division meant that the Immortal Ship would scrutinize it extremely strictly. Even the medicines stored by Dan Ding Division would be investigated by the Shence Mansion and listed in the register.

For this reason, no one on Luofu could have imagined that the seemingly impeccably supervised Dan Ding Si was actually the hideout of the largest criminal gang on the Luofu Immortal Ship, and that the Medicine King's secret manual even stored the 'Six Dust Smoke,' a deadly weapon specifically designed to attack the people of the Immortal Ship.

"This is the warehouse!"

Bai Lu, who led the three to the abandoned warehouse, pointed at the door and called out. There was an old-fashioned lock hanging on it. With Jiang Qiao's eyesight, she could tell at a glance how old the lock was. If it was really an abandoned warehouse as Dan Ding Si claimed, then what was the reason for the newness of the lock?

"Alright, watch me cleave it in two with one sword!" Su Chang immediately drew her Xuanyuan Sword from her waist, wanting to smash the lock open with one blow—but was met with an annoyed glance from 'Qingque'.

The little pillow is great in every way, except... it's a bit too much for my head.

"Hey, don't be so violent, Changchang, let me do it, let me do it~" Gui Naifen volunteered, supporting the little pillow that was drawing the sword, then rubbed her hands together, grinned and leaned over, taking out the hairpin from her hair and fiddling with the clasp.

The next second, with a 'click', the lock opened.

"Hehe, I learned a skill from a sister when I was making a living a few years ago. I never thought it would come in handy today."

"...Your sister wouldn't happen to be someone who climbs onto the roof beam, would she?"

“Uh… how could that be? They sell ‘this’.” In response to Jiang’s question, Gui Naifen raised her hand and gestured—accompanied by a ‘bang’ sound effect.

Well, now things are even more chaotic.

Fortunately, 'Qingque' didn't intend to delve into the reasons, and pushed open the door to enter—

"Hey—isn't this empty?"

"Could it be that we've come to the wrong place?" Su Chang, who had followed us in, looked at the empty and desolate warehouse with a puzzled expression.

"Down below—"

'Qingque' didn't pay any attention, just pointed down and casually said, "It's just a smokescreen."

The thrown mahjong tile landed on the ground and then emitted a burst of light.

Then, inside the empty warehouse, a tree sculpture appeared. The girl walked to the tree, touched it a couple of times, and gently tapped it. After a "click" sound, a section of the ground sank in—and then a downward tunnel appeared.

"Wow, this is really well hidden."

The little pillow following behind 'Blue Sparrow' sighed in amazement.

Soon—the end was reached.