Chapter 265 – Cousin, Run! (1/2)

Medicine King’s Valley was a special Sect, with a heritage that stretched back thousands of years It was a Sect full of Master Alche Alchehtly better than some second-class Sects, but far less than any first-class Sect

However, its influence was far greater than any other force in existence

As long as one was a cultivator, during their cultivation journey, they would always need to take some form of pill, and these pills could only come from the hands of an Alchemist

For the Alche’s Valley held the status of being their holy land

Any Alche’s Valley, would speak with great respect and admiration Many who strove to be Alche’s Valley, and gaze upon the Pill Saint’s legacy, as a lifeti’s Valley’s first patriarch, had long ago passed away, but the passage of time had not diminished his sacred position in the hearts of this world’s Alchemists Rumor had it that the Alche Medicine King’s Valley as a center, distributed it to every corner of the world, so that when cultivators became injured, they would be able to take pills in order to resume their practice

Before the Pill Saint created the Alchemic Method, the world’s cultivators only kne to find herbs and directly ingest them, which was simply a waste of resources!

Of course, this was just a legend, and any legend would always have points that were exaggerated, so one could not siend did have some truth to it The Pill Saint really had existed! His portrait hung in Medicine King’s Valley Forbidden Area Even after thousands of years, it had never fallen, nor did it reveal any signs of weathering This in itself was quite ’s Valley was called so, its foundation was not actually built in a valley

Instead, it spanned a dozen mountain peaks, each one ed in a circular pattern and covered a radius of hundreds of kiloed to the Medicine King’s Valley

Each of the peaks was hoh-rank Alchemists, some of idely received disciples in order to pass down their inheritance Others preferred to live in solitary penance and spent their tie Their ardens, which were planted with all kinds of spirit grasses

Throughout the entire Medicine King’s Valley, there were countless alchemy materials

In the centre of all the peaks lay a valley-like existence, which was quite different fro mountains This valley was open all year round, and every day it was bustling and crowded Cultivators cah a river

The reason was simple: This valley here a small toas built in order to allow the outside world to co’s Valley’s Alchemists

If one wanted soather enough materials, then co’s Valley Medicine King’s Valley’s disciple didn’t accept gold or silver as payment, they would only accept one-third of the successfully refined pills

It didn’t ’s Valley to have refined, whether it was Co failed, there was nothing one could say, and in the cases where the pills were refined successfully, if ten pills were produced, three would be given to the Alchemist as his or her reward

Thisshort of blatant robbery Even a single Heaven Grade pill was extremely valuable After one worked extremely hard to collect the required materials, not only would they have to bear the risk of failure, possibly ending up with nothing in the end, they would also have to surrender thirty percent of the profits

But even so, this did not diminish the enthusiasm and deter’s Valley’s Alchemy services

The main reason for this was because here, the chance that an Alchemist would fail to refine a pill was quite low, and once the pill was successfully refined, the quality was also norher than if one had used an outside Alchemist

So even if there were such harsh conditions, cultivators were still very willing to come here to request an Alchemist to refine pills for the so them accidentally destroy all of one’s precious ’s Valley was so well known, it not only to attracted cultivators fro countries would often co’s Valley Elders to refine pills for the’s Valley Elders did not often accept requests Any time someone asked them to refine a pill, it would at least have to be Heaven Grade, or even Mysterious Grade, and the coreater than nor’s Valley had ten Great Elders, each one occupying one of the ten highest peaks Each of them was extremely skilled and possessed supre’s Valley disciples would rarely see these old monsters, these Elder were all over sixty years old and were often in perennial retreat to research alchemy Only if some particularly rare and expensive materials were offered as a reould they come out and accept alchemy requests

In the small valley town, there were shops everywhere, but ’s Valley, as over 90 of the world’s great Sects and Forces would set up a branch here

Here, after all, was the center of this world’s Alchemist, so these forces would set up shops here in order to sell herbs, collect ence, so on and so forth

However, Medicine King’s Valley itself remained neutral and never sided with any particular force, deliberately showing no favour to any Sect or country, for thousands of yearsan aloof and transcendent position

In the valley town, fighting was strictly prohibited, and even though an endless stream of cultivators came here, inside this city no one dared disobey this rule

Once anyone started fighting in the city, the people of Medicine King’s Valley wouldn’t even need to lift a finger Others would be uilty parties

But once they left this valley, no ’s Valley would not intervene

So the inside thousand-kilometer radius and the outside were two different worlds

In the mountains and the centre valley, it was lively and peaceful, but for a stretch of tens of kilometers outside the valley, one could see countless battles and deaths These people had all had some kind of dispute inside the valley, but did not dare start a fight there and then, so instead caes