Sects 2

Favourably Xiao Fan had already come accustomed to Cao Cao talking weirdly enough, so the ¨Disciples" saying everything as ¨We¨ wasn't too hard to be a natural thing to be hearing.

And if not for them hating the Rising Fox Sect for only existing the men seemed pretty hospitable to him.

It would seem knowledge was always well received, especially so when one used it against their own enemies voluntarily.

The biggest thing Xiao Fan got from them, however, was how all of them said to be in the Body Strengthening realm, and that they had followed their master here to seek out new disciples or so they were told.

Xiao Fan began understanding that they were from a small but elite group of cultivators.

That although were named a sect were much more of the nature of wanderers and mercenaries.

Also, they did pray to this sun statue that they carried with them, they even were for a moment trying to get Xiao Fan to convert to doing the same.

This effort ended in Xiao Fan dodging this question together with trying not to anger them in doing so.

Luckily after they saw that Xiao Fan didn't want to pray to their deity, they did also stop pushing it onto him and were starting to talk about other topics.

But were stopped doing so.

Since the women from the Rising Fox sect had made their pick for the bet.

And so now they were eagerly calling for Xiao Fan to come and embarrass himself while also paying them the 10 000 gold coins.

The woman from before called Xiao Fan to come and take a look at their pick, already acting as if they had already won this round.

They were very confident.

It was for no reason either because one of their sisters had a little bit of knowledge about a plant that was described in this book only by one single vague sentence.

The sentence went somewhat along the lines of a universal healing compound that could be used to treat any physical injury done to the skin or bones.

There was no other description of the item, so one could say that there would be no way to know such a herb, seeing as nothing close to this was known to anyone.

Xiao Fan clocked his head for a second before realising that wasn't this thing pretty darn familiar to him as he was even now carrying this flower they were talking about to him.

But because the answer was Greenflake flower Xiao Fan came into a complication in all of this, as if Xiao Fan told them about this flower would the main and sole ingredient to Greenheart be exposed.

Cao Cao thank him however as there was only a description about this flower that should be a cure to all injuries.

For if there was a picture of it, someone would have already cracked his formula.

Reading this also passed a notion about why was Greenflake and its uses are known in here?

Greenheart was being sold to every corner of Ohin continent, and the few islands nearby were also becoming interested in buying it, so why was it also known in this book?

The only reason for this what Xiao Fan could think of was that someone had at some point also come up with the formula of Greenheart somehow.

Yet as the world was vast and changing so it could have emerged and somehow been forgotten in the annals of time.

This would also explain why it was growing everywhere as at some point in the life of this world everyone had been using Greenheart and doing so they would also be carrying the seeds with them letting the flower to flourish everywhere.

The Rising Fox Sect disciples were looking at Xiao Fan, who had his eyes squinting while skin rolled into waves on his forehead, he seemed as if he had no idea what the women had shown him.

They could already taste the victory.

Yet Xiao Fan had to disappoint them by saying what the thing they had picked was, so he turned to around facing the group of women.

Xiao Fan looked at them if he was deeply sorrowed when he started speaking ¨I have to admit that this time you have chosen a real challenge¨

At this point, the disciples hearing this could already feel money running into their pockets, but Xiao Fan continued.

¨However, I who have always been interested in alchemy and had some success in that field have always been feeling deeply inferior when thinking about this plant¨

¨I made the Greenheart mix that you must have heard about already¨

Everyone in the room had already given all their attention to this bet but now listening to him to talk about inventing the Greenheart were all shocked.

They knew from listening to their masters that the person who had invented the incredible mix was from here, yet now they were seeing him, such a figure like him admitting defeat in his own field no less?

Now while everyone was trying to widen their ears to hear what Xiao Fan was talking he himself was continuing his talk.

¨But the Greenheart mix... is nothing compared to this plant that you have chosen¨ His voice carried a deep regret in it.

The most shocked were at the moment were, of course, the Rising Fox Sect disciples, who had gone against such a monster of alchemy.

¨But again back to the challenge if you had chosen any other medical plant that was in this book and had a comparable difficulty to this plant I would have lost¨

They lost. The Rising Fox Sect disciples after hearing this knew they had lost.

¨The Greenheart mix might be an inferior product compared to what one could make using this plant called the Greenflake flower that in honour of I have named the Greenheart mix¨ He began to lie.

¨I only know of this flower so much, and now after I have now made the Greenheart I have been thinking about starting to full-heartedly focussing on uncovering this flower and how to develop the ultimate medical treatment!¨ He proclaimed.

Everyone in the room could now be hearing how their times most influential youth in the medical field was talking so humbly about an endeavour that still seemed that he had no knowledge would he be successful in completing.

Xiao Fan's lies, proclaiming, and suffering to come terms with something was hitting everyone deeply as they thought what he was saying.

Even the Rising Fox Sect disciples couldn't but hear the suffering of Xiao Fan, who was thought as a great inventor was saying he was powerless in front of something and feel his pains.

When everyone was thinking about their words, one person who was from another sect got up and asked him a question.

¨Inventor Fan it sounds like you are stuck with something, can you tell us what are you stuck with?¨ The man was a disciple of Mao Li, and like his master, he was also one to follow the path of knowledge.

Xiao Fan still acting as if he was telling the biggest pain of his life looked at this man questioning him ¨The problem with this plant is that after running through the Ohin Continent for years¨

He took a pause while faking to be even more hurt.

¨Running through the Ohin Continent for this young life of mine I have only seen one Greenflake flower on those travels, so finding material to work on has been keeping me down¨ At the end he stretched his arms out as if not knowing what to do.

The man who had questioned Xiao Fan could now quickly think why Xiao Fan was in so much conflict inside of him.

The man believed that he could be successful in his endeavour, yet the world was keeping him from fulfilling it.

Man's worst fear he thought!

During all of this, no one was no more interested in the bet and much more interested in what Xiao Fan had to say about his research as it was important news.

For if Xiao Fan was successful in creating something even more potent than the Greenheart mix... Well, no one could know what would happen at that point.

Xiao Fan also showed that he had no interest in the money prize anymore which to the Rising Fox Sect disciples seemed thankful for, as their group couldn't gather so much money in years.

Especially the one who had persuaded everyone else to follow her plan had been staring at her toes before this, knowing that she had been the one who messed up the whole thing.

But soon the situation was defused by a person, who was one of these people, yet hadn't been already hanging here came running into the shop from the street.

¨Venerable master Guo Jie has put up a bounty for that beast nest everyone has been talking about!¨ The man exclaimed to everyone inside the room, not bothered by why was everyone acting all so emotional all of a sudden.

Hadn't all these people been dying of boredom here a day ago?

Why were all of them now acting as if some major drama had befallen here?

Hearing the first one to talk was the White Sun Sect disciple ¨Xiao Fan well make you feel better! Come join us in slaying some beast!¨ The man immediately proposed.

However, everyone after comprehending what the man was doing also started inviting Xiao Fan to join their party to hunt the beasts even though Xiao Fan was much below the cultivation of everyone else.

Xiao Fan, on the other hand, was a little against this, as he didn't really have any reason to go with them.

Moreover, he had Du Lan and Qian Wei here, and there was a clear need to spend time with them.

Yet his thinking wasn't taken to the consideration a lot when a few people from the White Sun Sect were dragging him off to war with them.

Xiao Fan didn't even get to voice anything before in all do reality was kidnapped to be a slave warrior for them during the coming battle.

Meanwhile, it would seem that him going there had gotten a lot of people to come.

Of course, most of them were coming just to get some items and experience, yet some disciples were genuinely only coming here to talk with him.

And Xiao Fan after realising his fate would now play the cards he had been given and show his best around here especially as these groups seemed to have members of the two dynasties coming with them.

These forces were the ambassadors own retinues or guards but had been quickly sent here to watch over Xiao Fan that he would face no troubles on this journey.

The last thing everyone wanted here was the death of Xiao Fan.

As if there would be people from the demonic side then they would surely want to kill him fast as possible, but now all of the people gathered here would make that almost impossible.

The two Dynasties groups weren't the only one here to protect him, either.

The White Sun Sect and Guo Jie's own band of righteous men like him and even including other people were here to watch over him.

So there would be little for him to do in this campaign.

As one could think, the only thing Xiao Fan got to see during the fight was mostly the backs of his guards and some people flying up in the air.

He himself didn't get even to participate; the only thing he got to do was watch the fight literally surrounded by guards.

And as one would have had thought the campaign to slaughter some minor mutant infestation that Zou Zexi had been bothered by for years was crushed under these juniors swords in a day.

The one-sidedness of this fight wasn't even comparable to the one Xiao Fan had orchestrated when leading the Monkey tribe in their small skirmished.

There was nothing same when comparing how these people were working in small teams, cutting into the mutants tides like speartips that were competing to slay down as many mutants they could to his army of monkeys.

Xiao Fan on the backline couldn't but imagine how cool it would look when commanding such troops like these into battles.

Every person taking part in this battle was already higher than him in cultivation, and even the Body Shattering realm mutant that had been leading this horde was quickly slain in the opening fight overcome by hundreds of lower-level cultivators competing to slay it.

The giant with a head of a minotaur had been dispatched and its meat quickly distributed to the people based on their contribution. For the people who hadn't come here to look after him or watch it out of their boredom had come here for this.

They had a huge need for meat as when one broke through into higher realms one would start needing more and more energy to cultivate to any meaningful effect and unlike the locals here who mostly didn't know about eating meat it would seem that everyone here knew.

In the end, this trip for Xiao Fan was a publicity stunt and a glorified trip to the corner store where he got some premium meat to bring back to his loving women.

Getting back on the carriage he couldn't but wait to show his finds from the corner store to Du Lan, who would make something amazing out of it.