I Have Medicine

Chapter 530 - Taking Possession of the Stone Cave

This thin and weak person appeared to be shrouded in a layer of dense fog. No one could see his face clearly. They could only catch glimpses of his pair of bright eyes, which seemed to contain an incomparably terrifying power.

All of a sudden, he opened his mouth. It was obvious that no sound came out, but it was as though an invisible force burst forth, causing the entire world to shake!

The heavenly vault shattered like porcelain.

Even more corpses fell out of those cracks. Their orifices bleeding, their souls gone!

This mighty power didn’t abate for a single moment. That thin and weak man revealed a smiling expression.

After that, his figure also vanished.

At the same time, the entire world was reduced to ruins. Without exception, all of the corpses that fell from the sky crumbled to smoke and dust…

Gu Zuo only felt an appalling horror in his heart before abruptly regaining consciousness! Immediately following which, he sensed a sharp sting in his mind. Those various scenes that occurred just a moment ago were already engraved deep within his consciousness like a branding mark.

At this time, he suddenly received the inheritance of this runic picture.

The Spiritual Embodiment Heaven-Shaking Seal was a cultivation method along the path of spirituality. In total, there were three chapters, and one could only practice them after reaching the Nurturing Psyche Realm.

First Chapter: Absorbing Souls

Second Chapter: Creating Spirits

Third Chapter: Shaking Heavens

Just looking at the names of the three chapters were dazzling to the eyes. It would feel as though a vast and boundless imposing aura was crashing into one’s face. That kind of suppressive might would practically leave someone trembling from the bottom of their heart!

Gu Zuo recalled that the technique he practiced was called the Spirit Refining Seal. It was also quite brilliant, capable of giving pharmacists a certain amount of attack power. Originally, he cultivated to the Spirit Transforming Chapter. Later on, because he advanced to the Nurturing Psyche Realm, he switched to the Spirit Assembling Chapter.

However, perhaps because the former owner of the Divine Medicine Great Palace had a pure and kindhearted nature, this technique was only capable of protecting oneself before forming a spiritual embodiment. Once the Spirit Psyche Realm was reached, much of the previous chapters were rendered useless. When all was said and done, those so-called Forging Spirit and Transforming Spirit techniques only purified one’s psychic power. This made the practitioner’s psychic power purer when refining medicine, enabling them to better refine medicinal pills and nothing more. Those attack methods were incapable of threatening martial artists whose realms were equivalent to the Spirit Psyche Realm or had reached the Cosmic Realm and above.

A pharmacist’s attack power was much weaker than that of martial artists of the same realm. Originally, this was the common understanding.

The Spirit Refining Seal could make pharmacists a little stronger, but this strength had its limits. Gu Zuo had long prepared…

However, when the Spiritual Embodiment Heaven-Shaking Seal appeared today, Gu Zuo realized that he was too narrow-minded. This technique was aligned with the Spirit Assembling Chapter, allowing the pharmacist at the Nurturing Psyche Realm to further transform their own psychic power. This would let them obtain abilities that were in no way inferior to that of martial artists, and even more powerful than most martial artists!

Gu Zuo couldn’t help but feel his heart surge with excitement.

He thought of the person in the picture just a moment ago. That figure used pure psychic power, but the strength of his spiritual path could actually shatter the heavenly vault and collapse the earth. What powerful force!

Must practice! He certainly needed to practice this technique!

In this way, Gu Zuo had the Spirit Refining Seal to lay his foundations, and the Spiritual Embodiment Heaven-Shaking Seal to integrate and strengthen it. His power would definitely make another leap forward!

Though, what was his inner self… What did his spirit body look like?

The present Gu Zuo still hadn’t figured out what he wanted to transform into.

Stimulated by the inheritance just now, the psychic core within his Tianfu Acupoint had grown in size again. Now, it reached one-fifth of the size of the Tianfu Acupoint. The Divine Medicine Great Palace, the Void-Breaking Shuttle, and the black cloak floating below the psychic core also slowly moved downwards and somewhat retreated.

The spirit body in the psychic core was still filled with vitality. It gave Gu Zuo a close and familiar feeling. With that type of mental connection, Gu Zuo couldn’t help but anticipate it even more. He looked forward to the moment it broke through its shell to be born.

Slowly withdrawing his psychic power, Gu Zuo’s attention fell on the first chapter of the Spiritual Embodiment Heaven-Shaking Seal.

Absorbing Souls.

This chapter was a technique that laid the foundations for pharmacists at the Nurturing Psyche Realm. And if he could practice this chapter to a high level, he would have the power to escape even when faced with Royal Realm martial artists.

Merely, when practicing this technique, the required power would be taken from the psychic core. If it was used too often, it would negatively affect the spirit body’s hatching. Therefore, it could only be used as a trump card.

Of course, this method also wasn’t simple to utilize.

If he could refine some objects as intermediaries, then with regards to martial artists with equivalent or slightly higher realms, or pharmacists whose psychic powers weren’t as good as his own, there wouldn’t use up too much energy — In other words, that bit of consumption could be quickly replenished. There was no need for a bothered heart.

As for these objects, they weren’t easy to find…

Gu Zuo gathered his thoughts and silently contemplated.

At this time, Gongyi Tianheng had just recovered his thoughts from a runic picture and was right in the middle of thinking about the marvels within it. All of a sudden, Gu Zuo’s expression fell into his eyes.

He asked: “Ah Zuo, what has you so troubled?”

Gu Zuo hurriedly looked over, and spoke to Tianheng: “Big brother, I got the inheritance from this picture, and the method in it can help he a lot.”

He explained the content and benefits of this technique: “However, while practicing it, it would be best to find some divine eyes that have psychic power special abilities, and smelt them into my own eyes. In this way, with the help of those divine eyes, the consumption of my psychic power will be much smaller, and the power I can exert will be much stronger.”

Tianheng understood in a flash.

Divine eyes…

Unless a member of the human race had a special bloodline or remarkable physique, it was impossible to have divine eyes. The so-called divine eyes mostly appeared among the ancestor races or the descendant races of some ancestor races.

However, racial groups with divine eyes with special abilities were no small matter. Even if it was a descendant race, so long as their divine eyes were awakened, they be assimilated into the ancestor races. It was almost impossible to become a servile race and be captured by humanity. It was only natural that it would be difficult to obtain them. Although, Ten Ultimates Sect possessed all kinds of channels, and there were many institutions on the continent related to finding unusual treasures. If one wanted to get their hands on divine eyes, it wasn’t like there was no way at all.

Thinking of this point, Tianheng said: “After we go back, I’ll go find master and ask about it. I’ll make some discreet inquiries in the sect, too. If there are any, with our accumulated savings, it probably won’t be hard to make exchange.”

Gu Zuo thought about it, and felt this made sense.

Tianheng smiled and said: “It’s a pity that there are no servile races in Ten Ultimates Sect that have the possibility of awakening their divine eyes. Otherwise, we would only need to find the leader of that racial group and exchange for things left behind by their ancestors.”

Gu Zuo nodded his head.

If someone wanted to acquire divine eyes, it would certainly be a bloody affair. Even though many of the primordial ancestor races were enemies of humanity, it wasn’t good to dig out another person’s eyes and use them for oneself. Directly digging out the eyes of a servile race wasn’t good either.

As a result, it was best to find a way to exchange for it. If the things being exchanged were spiritual objects left behind by fallen non-human races, then it would be even better.

Having made a decision, Gu Zuo Gu Zuo first recorded the method, and slowly practiced it.

As for how to use it, he would wait until the divine eyes were in his hands before and smelted them.

It took Gu Zuo a long time to accept the inheritance. At this moment, he looked at the runic picture again, but expectedly found that…many small cracks seemed to have appeared on the runic picture.

In an instant, he couldn’t help feeling alarmed: “Big brother, what’s going on?”

Tianheng also looked over. His brows faintly furrowed: “Ah Zuo, if you study it again, will your consciousness still be able to enter the runic picture?”

Gu Zuo did as instructed, but in the end… Sure enough, it didn’t work.

Having heard what was said, Tianheng walked in front of the runic picture that Gu Qi visited before and carefully observed. He saw that there were also some small cracks on this runic picture, but the lines were extremely fine and densely packed at the edges, so no one had noticed it.

He went back to the stone wall on the right. Judging from the first runic diagram, it was just as he had guessed. Cracks had appeared on the edges of every single rune. And in comparison, these cracks were somewhat larger than the degree of damage seen in the previous two pictures — Practically all of the diagrams were on the verge of shattering.

After pondering for a while, Tianheng said: “I’m afraid that the number of times these runic pictures can be passed down is limited. Currently, Ah Zuo and the two uncles have received complete inheritances. If my guess is correct, the runic pictures on the left stone wall can only be passed down three times. As for that rune master who left his legacy on the right stone wall, he only allowed one person to receive his inheritance.

“Uncle Zhao has already obtained it, so the stone wall is on the brink of falling apart. Even if someone else comes to observe it, the runes on the stone wall are incapable of bearing it and will thoroughly collapse.”

Gu Zuo followed Tianheng’s way of thinking. After a bit of pondering, he felt that this was indeed the case.

However, Tianheng added: “But if what’s received isn’t a complete inheritance and it’s just a period of observation and study, it won’t damage the runic pictures.”

As he spoke, Tianheng led Gu Zuo to the couple of pictures he had looked at. As expected, those runic pictures were exactly the same as before.

Gu Zuo puzzlingly asked: “Big brother didn’t get the inheritances?”

Tianheng nodded his head: “Although I have some comprehensions, there’s a measure of power clashing among them. I understand that if I want to obtain complete inheritances, I will certainly have to either abandon the way of six paths or integrate the inheritances into one of the paths… Merely, as far as I’m concerned, the six paths can bring together the strengths of many schools of thought, but I don’t want to replace them with the paths of other people. Otherwise, it won’t be the path I desire.”

Gu Zuo understood his dear big brother’s thoughts and nodded: “What big brother says is reasonable. If you don’t need it, don’t use it.” After considering something, he asked, “In that case, did big brother get any inspiration from them?”

Tianheng nodded again: “Observing these pictures also has many benefits for me. Although I haven’t obtained the inheritances, I have comprehended several schools of useable martial skills and ultimate knowledge from them.

“In my opinion, these martial skills and ultimate knowledge can be comprehended separately. In all likelihood, those ancient seniors had long anticipated that if there were younger generations who weren’t lucky or qualified enough, they wouldn’t be able to obtain the inheritances, but could learn the martial disciplines within them and benefit from it.”

When Gu Zuo heard this, his heart was filled with admiration.

Those seniors who could plan so thoughtfully deserved to be outstanding personages of that era.

Because of this, he couldn’t help but have a good impression of that “Supporting the Heavens Alliance.”

Gu Zuo decided to browse through more ancient materials in the future. He would try to seek the historical traces left behind by the Supporting the Heavens Alliance — He wanted to know why the seniors who gave them this fortuitous encounter and so many gifts had the intentions to die, and what happened to those seniors later…

Tianheng found out about Gu Zuo’s thoughts, and approved: “What Ah Zuo says is right.”

Afterwards, Tianheng continued to observe and study. Meanwhile, Gu Zuo sat cross-legged and upright, quietly comprehending the technique of absorbing souls.

Gu Qi had been practicing for a long time. When Gu Zuo and Tianheng were conversing, he didn’t deliberately come over to inquire about anything. He merely glanced from afar and saw that they were fine.

As for Zhao Ji, he immersed himself in constant calculations. Countless runes flashed across his eyes. In front of him, a small ball of light appeared. A short while passed, and this light ball slowly grew bigger. A mote of light flew out from within, which slowly enlarged as well… After several hours, the ball of light had split into four. At the same time, Zhao Ji suddenly closed his eyes. When he opened them again, the spirited light was still clear and limpid, but those tiny runes had retreated into his pupils.

Zhao Ji suddenly opened his mouth: “The runic brand is done!”

Gu Zuo, Tianheng, and Gu Qi all reacted. Each of them flashed over, arriving in front of Zhao Ji.

Four balls of light were floating in front of Zhao Ji. Within each light ball was a minuscule, stamp-like object: “This is a runic brand. I have sealed the runes inside. After they enter everyone’s Tianfu Acupoints, they will combine with your consciousness, sealing away today’s events.”

Gu Zuo carefully looked at these runic brands. He was somewhat curious: “Can it be sealed so meticulously?”

Zhao Ji shook his head: “It can only blur today’s memory, and those things I mentioned before are a little more distinct. It’s just that my level of achievement is limited right now, so I can only do this much. Once I make further progress on the path of runes in the future, I can refine it again. At that time, I can gradually reach that degree I talked about previously.”

Gu Zuo suddenly understood: “Sealing one day’s worth of memories is good enough for the time being. But father, what if we’re all captured before you reach that level of cultivation? If the runic brand explodes, won’t we forget about this place, too?”

Zhao Ji said: “I will refine access tokens, and you guys can let those tokens recognize owners. Although the tokens with recognized owners will be forgotten after the runic brand blows up, when all is said and done, it will still exist in your body. After discovering it, there will be a sense of familiarity. Once activated, you can be teleported inside. Naturally, you’ll slowly remember.”

Gu Zuo listened up to here, and felt relieved: “Father is very thoughtful.”

In this way, basically nothing would go wrong.

Zhao Ji continued: “Now, we need to refine the tokens. I’m short of some materials here.”

Gu Zuo understood. He looked at Tianheng and said: “My big brother and I have some things stockpiled in our possession, but we don’t know if they’ll be useful…”

Without any delay, Zhao Ji immediately reported the names of the materials: “Ardent Fire Grass, Thousand Layer Mushroom, General Pear Seed, Origin Beast Bones…”

Gu Zuo’s expression gradually became happy as he listened. Moreover, every time Zhao Ji mentioned something, he would take it out right away. Indeed, his movements were extremely swift.

At this time, one could see the benefits of hoarding medicinal ingredients. There were so many materials in the world. Among them, not only were they medicinal ingredients, they were also exceptionally good materials for drawing runes.

All of the things Zhao Ji announced were unexpectedly in Gu Zuo’s possession! In addition, up until Zhao Ji revealed all of the raw materials, Gu Zuo’s hand never faltered.

Zhao Ji looked at the pile of materials on the ground, and his heart was filled with satisfaction: “With this, it just needs refining.”

Tianheng’s gaze fell onto one of the materials: “How long can the tokens last using only the bones of an origin-level flood dragon?”

Zhao Ji slightly pondered: “They can be used at least ten times. Once they’re used up, I’ll just refine them again.”

Tianheng paused for a moment: “Would it be possible if better bones are substituted?”

Zhao Ji was somewhat surprised: “What bones?”

Gu Zuo understood clearly in his heart.

Tianheng flipped his palm, and handed over a length of snow-white bone that contained ancient qi emissions and intense suppressive might: “The bones of a taotie.”

This time around, Zhao Ji and Gu Qi were astounded: “You guys actually got a hold of a taotie’s bones?!”

On the other hand, Gu Zuo hurriedly told them what happened to Tianheng. At the same time, he took out two boxes and handed them over, respectively: “Speaking of which, this time, big brother and I are here to bring you guys inner armor and weapons. We didn’t expect to hear that someone was plotting something as soon as we arrived…”

Gu Qi and Zhao Ji hadn’t asked questions the entire time. It was only now they knew why there was such a coincidence. Gu Zuo and Tianheng had come to rescue them.

After that, the two of them didn’t stand on ceremony. First, they used drops of blood for the inner armors to recognize them as owners. As for the weapons, they still chose a narrow saber and broadsword. Gu Zuo and Tianheng didn’t know whether they were certain about the weapons, so they simply refined a few more for them to select. The remaining ones could be used as rewards for their subordinates in the future.

As it turned out, Gu Qi and Zhao Ji had made their selections. After recognizing owners, they sensed the weight within the weapons and their moods were very comfortable.

Zhao Ji said: “Later on, I will ‘double major’ in runes and broadswords. They can complement each other and increase my attack power.”

Gu Qi looked at the narrow saber in his hand. He was too fond of it to put it down.

Seeing that the two of them liked the weapons so much, Gu Zuo felt even happier.

Following this, Zhao Ji used his formidable willpower to put away the broadsword. Then, he picked up the pace to create the tokens.

It was just that he still didn’t accept the bones of the taotie… With his current strength, it wouldn’t be that easy to carve runes into the taotie’s bones. He would first refine a few tokens to cope. As for the taotie bones, he would do more research and strive to obtain tokens that would be handed down from generation to generation.

To this point, Tianheng and Gu Zuo naturally didn’t have any objections.

After another four hours of this, Zhao Ji finished the tokens.

The tokens were still quite rough, but it was already the best Zhao Ji could do with his current capabilities.

Tianheng and Gu Zuo each took one, and made the tokens recognize them as owners. After that, they sensed a mysterious connection with the cave. As one could well imagine, even if the cave was hidden, they could successfully obtain it in the future.

Afterwards, the group of four left the cave.

The stone men outside had recovered again. Now, Gu Zuo understood that the reason why they were like this was due to the magical runes inscribed within their bodies.

Subsequently, Gu Zuo and the others watched Zhao Ji stand before the cave. His hands were constantly drawing something in front of him, forming line after line of profound markings, which rushed towards the cave and stone men.

The bodies of the stone men suddenly underwent huge changes. In a split second, they became ten times smaller, but their qi emissions became incredibly powerful.

Gu Zuo was startled: “—Royal Realm?”

There was a slender rivulet of sweat on Zhao Ji’s forehead, but he still explained: “When the runes in these stone men are stimulated to the greatest extent, they can take on strengths comparable to the Royal Realm. Merely, if they’re shattered by someone in this state, the runes will be destroyed. The stone men won’t be able to gather together and be reborn again.”

Now that the cave belonged to them, it was only natural that they needed to use the greatest capabilities to protect it.

Shortly thereafter, when those stone men shrank to just the size of a palm, they suddenly scattered in many directions to surround the cave with a few motions from Zhao Ji.

The next moment, the stone men and the cave slowly sank into the ground…

Gu Zuo couldn’t help releasing his own psychic power, following along to investigate.

Perhaps because Gu Zuo had the token in hand, the cave didn’t reject Gu Zuo’s probing. He discovered that the cave had sank 300 meters, 900 meters, 2.4 kilometers… 3 kilometers!

After 3 kilometers, the subterranean pressure grew larger and larger, but the cave still continued to sink down.

At last, when it reached a depth of 30 kilometers, the cave came to a halt.

Gu Zuo struggled to withdraw his psychic power and slowly exhaled: “Ah, 30 kilometers underground… How amazing!”

In this way, even if there were capable experts outside who collapsed the heavens and split the earth, this cave wouldn’t necessarily show itself under such conditions!

This secret was hidden firmly…

Once everything was settled, Zhao Ji’s mind eased. His face was as white as paper.

Gu Qi had long been paying attention to Zhao Ji’s state, and promptly supported him. As for Gu Zuo, he hurriedly took out medicinal pills. One, two, three pills — Everything that could be used was stuffed into his father’s mouth.

Under Gu Zuo’s medicinal pill offensive, Zhao Ji quickly recovered to his peak state: “It looks like I need to raise my realm as quickly as possible. Otherwise, even if I can engrave runes, I won’t be able to sustain them.”

Gu Zuo thought the same way: “I will provide father with enough medicinal pills.”

Tianheng also said: “If you need other precious materials, you only need to send the word, and a battle slave will deliver it to you.”

In this respect, Zhao Ji didn’t stand on ceremony with his son and half-son. Even if he wanted to gain experience, he needed to improve his strength. It was true that he was improving with the help of external forces, but it was also because his runes would have greater value after his advancement. This was classified as the other party’s early investment. He wouldn’t be so pretentious that he would take things slowly on his own.

As for his loved one, Ah Qi… For now, he could just enjoy their son’s filial piety. If Ah Qi was too embarrassed to ask their son for anything he lacked, Zhao Ji could also use his rune ability to exchange things for him. And when his ability improved in the future, they would be able have a nice walk across this Central Continent together!

The whole group was very happy to have such a fortuitous encounter.

After that, they returned to the Sect Offering Academy.

Gu Qi said: “Son, your father and I will still study in the academy from now on, so there’s no need to worry about us.”

Gu Zuo showed a great, big smile to him: “Dad, father. Best of luck to both of you!”

After bidding farewell to the two of them, Gu Zuo and Tianheng headed towards Ten Ultimates Sect.

Gu Zuo’s face was blank. He said: “The Yu Family sure has a lot of guts. That Yu Er can’t be let off so easily. When we go back, let’s call over Yu Cheng and ask for an explanation from the Yu Family.”

Tianheng’s gaze softened: “Okay.”

He understood how much lingering fear resided in Ah Zuo’s heart.

Gu Zuo furiously added: “In addition, there’s that Ghost Division. Once they accept a mission, they will take action three times. Currently, they’ve just done it once, and there are two more to go. We have to go over and negotiate with them to cancel the mission quickly!”

Tianheng softly responded: “As you wish.”

T/N: Thanks for the corrections, Charysa.

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