Chapter 27: A Perilous Place (Monday's Vote Rush!)

  Jiang Nan's gaze swept towards Shang Tianming, Shang Tianyu and Yue Feng, and the crowd's hearts trembled, their eyes dodging, not daring to meet his gaze.

  "This country bumpkin is really too arrogant, too overbearing and too domineering. Even the people from Lu Hou's mansion and Mu Wang's mansion say that they would fight him if he wants to fight, and they would slap him right in the face. He's really detestable."

  Yue Feng's calf was trembling slightly, and he secretly thought: "He looks like a weak scholar, but his actions are simply vicious. He is so cruel, so evil, and his moves are so ruthless. How could Ling'er be friends with such a person?"

  Whether it was Mu Qin Nan or Lu Zhong Xiang, they were both guests of the Medicine King's Manor. Jiang Nan beat them up badly, and when the Lu and Mu Manors investigated, he would be unable to shirk his responsibility and would definitely receive punishment from the Medicine King's Manor.

  "This time I came to join in the fun, but it turns out I was wrong. How did I end up running into this fearless and lawless troublemaker? He hits someone and then just walks away with a slap on the wrist, while I'm stuck here and can only admit my fault..."

  Yue Feng secretly cursed his bad luck and hastily bid farewell to the Fourth Prince and others in Jiangnan, thinking: "He is a guest invited by Ling'er's sister, it's better to let Ling'er's sister handle this matter, I'd better leave as soon as possible."

  Shang Tianming and Shang Tianyu, the two brothers, felt that staying here was also boring, so they went forward to bid farewell.

  "Kokawa, you're not hurt, are you?"

  Yue Ling'er hastily rushed over, stomping her foot and pouting: "I just heard that Mu Qin'nan and others came to find you trouble, so I immediately hurried over. That Mu Qin'nan is really hateful, yesterday was already too much, today he actually dares to come and cause more trouble! When I turn back, I will definitely report this to the Mu Wang Fu!"

  Su Huan smiled and said: "County Master, you're late. Just now, Jiang brother showed off his divine might and beat up Mu brother until he was defeated."

  Yue Ling'er was both astonished and perplexed in her heart. Obviously, Jiang Nan had been defeated by Mu Qin'nan with one move yesterday, so how could Jiang Nan possibly defeat Mu Qin'nan this time?

  Su Huan smiled and recounted what had just happened, Yue Ling'er secretly cursed under her breath, then slightly furrowed her brow: "Zi Chuan, you humiliated Mu Qin'nan and Lu Zhongxiang so severely, I'm afraid those two won't let the matter drop, you'll have trouble in the future."

  A fierce glint flashed in Jiang Nan's eyes, and he said in a low voice: "Things won't go beyond three times. They've provoked me twice, and I've already reached the limit of my patience. If they come to bother me again, then I'll have no choice but to strike mercilessly."

  Su Huai's heart skipped a beat, and at this moment, Jiangnan seemed like a ferocious beast that had been waiting for its prey, ready to devour anyone who dared to provoke it with one swift bite.

  "What a pure and refined martial arts will! How can someone have such an aura? What kind of experiences has this Jiang brother gone through to cultivate such a refined martial arts will?"

  Yue Ling'er felt a surge of intangible aura emanating from Jiang Nan's body at this moment, the temperature seemingly plummeting crazily, icy and bone-chilling, causing her to shiver involuntarily.

  This aura was the killing intent emanating from Jiangnan, and it flashed by in an instant. Yue Ling'er's expression was dazed for a moment, and she only felt that the temperature had returned to normal again.

  "Zi Chuan, you just said that things won't go beyond three chances. You wouldn't really want to beat up Mo Gongzi, would you? You must be joking, just saying it to vent your anger, right?" Yue Ling'er blinked her eyes and asked suspiciously.

  "The princess is as sharp as an autumn hair." Jiang Nan smiled and said.

  Yue Ling'er let out a sigh of relief and smiled: "I knew you were joking, come on, I'll take you to see the alchemy room in my Medicine King's Manor."

  Su Huai saw it and couldn't help but shake his head secretly: "This girl is too simple. If Mu Qin Nan provokes this Jiang brother again, he will definitely be killed by him, and there won't be any mercy! In his heart, killing Mu Qin Nan is probably no different from slaughtering a demon beast."

  The alchemy room of the Medicine King's Mansion is a key place in the mansion, covering a vast area, with pavilions and buildings everywhere, and hundreds of alchemists are refining spiritual pills here, filling the air with medicinal fragrance, it's really bustling.

  There were countless young medicine boys running back and forth, fanning the flames, serving tea to the alchemists, and presenting various medicinal materials at any time, being the busiest.

  "Zi River, alchemy masters are also divided into three six nine grades. These outer circles are all low-level alchemy masters and can only use charcoal fire to refine spiritual pills. It's not easy to just burn and refine the furnace fire to a pure green stage."

  Yue Ling'er led Jiang Nan and Su Huan to the depths of the alchemy room, smiling: "Both of you are honored guests of my Medicine King's Manor, naturally you can't be with these alchemists. Only a high-grade alchemy room is worthy of your status."

  Su Huan was obviously very familiar with this place, and smiled warmly: "Brother Jiang doesn't know that the Medicine King City was originally a volcano. After I founded the country of Jianwu, we used the power of the entire nation to flatten the volcano and build this Medicine King City. The high-level alchemy room in the palace is located at the mouth of the volcano, drawing on the earth's fire and using the heat of the volcano to refine the medicinal properties of the herbs and concoct spiritual elixirs!"

  The south of the Yangtze River is not allowed to move, a volcano was razed and the City of Medicine King was built, using the earth fire to refine the elixir. This grand gesture can only be achieved with the power of a great nation!

  Su Huaiyao said, "I built Jianwu State with military power, cultivating countless martial arts masters. The Medicine King's Mansion has made great contributions to this achievement. Therefore, building the Medicine King's Mansion may seem like a waste of money and harm to the people, but it actually laid the foundation for the fate of my Jianwu State."

  Jiang Nan deeply agrees, if there was no Medicine King's Manor, Jianwu Country's martial arts might have fallen by a level. Relying solely on consuming spiritual pills and medicines is not the proper way to cultivate, it's impossible to create true strong practitioners this way, but it's an indispensable auxiliary method for martial arts cultivation!

  With the help of spiritual medicine, some unnecessary cultivation can be avoided, internal impurities can be eliminated, and vitality can be enhanced to help practitioners break through bottlenecks!

  The founding emperor of Jianwu State spent a huge amount of money building the Medicine King City, which was indeed very far-sighted.

  Three people walked into a grand hall, Jiang Nan looked around and saw that this place was even more exquisite than the alchemy rooms outside, but the temperature was also much hotter, as if entering a large steamer!

  The alchemy room has white jade as the steps, brass as the pillars, and every two or three zhang there is a elegant house. In the elegant house, there is a purple sand copper furnace. Looking through the window from Jiangnan, one can only see that under the copper furnace is a hollow hole, next to which is a chain pulley connected to the mechanism in the hole. By turning the pulley, the size of the hole can change, and thus control the temperature of the furnace fire.

  The size of the dan furnace here is different, the smallest is only the size of a palm, and the largest has a diameter of over ten feet and a height of seven or eight feet. I don't know what kind of person would use it to refine elixirs.

  At this moment, there were more than 20 alchemists still in the dan rooms, each with a medicine boy serving them. The clothes of these alchemists were much more luxurious than those outside, and their status was obviously higher.

  Boom!

  Suddenly, an explosion sounded from a dan room, the door was blown off by the air wave, and a white-haired alchemist and two medicine boys were also blown out, crashing into the wall opposite.

  The old man jumped up, his spirit shaken, but the two medicine boys were knocked unconscious and bleeding profusely. Immediately, attendants rushed over to drag away the two unconscious medicine boys, and two small medicine boys with pale faces and fearful expressions came over to listen for orders.

  "Master Wei Chi has blown his top again! How many times is this today?"

  Another door of Dan Fang's house opened, and a messy head poked out, sneering: "Master Wei Chi, when can your divine elixir be refined?"

  That "Wei Chi Old Master" face turned red, muttered a few words, and then retreated back into the Dan room.

  "Unexpectedly, alchemy also has its dangers. If it were an ordinary person, they would likely be severely injured from the explosion during the firing process."

  "This Wei Chi old master is not a pill-refining master of my Medicine King Courtyard."

  Yue Ling'er suppressed her smile and explained, "Other royal families also cultivate alchemists and often send their alchemists to borrow the Medicine King's palace's dan room to refine medicine. However, the success rate is not very high. Zicong, compared to that old man Wei, the Fourth Prince is a true master of alchemy. Most of the alchemists in our royal family are far inferior to him. You might as well learn from him."

  Jiang Nan's heart moved, and he looked at Su Huan. Su Huan humbly said: "Xiao Wang is also a long-suffering doctor, so I have studied the art of alchemy deeply. If Brother Jiang wants to learn, it's not bad to study with Xiao Wang together."

  "I'm afraid I'll have to trouble Your Highness then." Jiang Nan said with a smile.

  Su Huan had his own exclusive elixir formula, and the three of them entered it. Su Huan took out the prepared medicinal materials, turned the millstone himself, preheated the elixir furnace, and smiled: "Brother Jiang, later you'll still need to help Xiao Wang with his work."

  Jiang Nan smiled and said, "This is natural."

  Yuexing'er was lively and restless, couldn't sit still for long, and soon bid farewell and left.

  "Brother Jiang, the martial arts you used just now are fierce and overbearing, similar to the Dragon-Tiger Elephant Fist of the Qi Wang Fu. Could it be that you have some connection with the Qi Wang Fu?"

  Su Huai threw down the medicinal materials, and his true energy surged out of his hands, transforming into a spiritual seal that stirred up the medicinal properties within the alchemy furnace, causing the various medicinal materials to blend together. He said with a tone that was both intentional and unintentional: "In my opinion, Brother Jiang, your martial arts skills are in no way inferior to those of the Dragon-Tiger Elephant Seal of the Qi Wang Fu. Although the moves are different and the paths of true energy circulation are different, the realm is exactly the same. This is the first time I've seen two types of martial arts with the same realm."

  In the south, he was indeed using his own created Dragon-Tiger Elephant Fist technique, but he thought that it was different from the Dragon-Tiger Elephant Fist technique of the Qi Wang Fu, and the path of the heart method was also very different, so he dared to use it recklessly, but unexpectedly, Su Huan still saw through the mystery with one glance.

  "I defeated Mu Qin Nan with just half a move, the half-style of the Dragon and Tiger Elephant Fist's 'Dragon Emerging from the Abyss', I didn't expect Su Huan to actually see through it, this kind of eyesight is truly astonishing!"

  These two dragon and tiger fist techniques can be said to have originated from the same source, although their mental methods are different, their moves are different, but their connotations are exactly the same. Mu Qin Nan and others did not see anything wrong, but Su Huan was able to see it, which shows how deep his martial arts skills are!

  "I've also heard that the Qi Wang Fu has a unique skill called the Dragon-Tiger-Elephant Fist, which is similar to our family's martial arts. Unfortunately, I have no chance to see it."

  Jiang Nan's eyes sparkled as he changed the subject, laughing: "Fourth Prince, I've heard that your true energy flows like a great banner fluttering in the wind, and your blood flows like a mighty river rushing forth. Clearly, you have reached an extremely high level of cultivation, not inferior to those powerful external cultivators. Why do you still say that you are weak and sickly?"

  Su Huan sighed and said in a low voice, "Xiao Wang's physical weakness and frequent illnesses are just an excuse. He didn't want to participate in the struggle for the throne among his many brothers, so he voluntarily came to the Medicine King's mansion."

  Jiang Nan's eyes flashed with surprise and he exclaimed: "I didn't expect the Fourth Prince to be so...unfathomable..."

  "It's not a trivial matter, but my ambition is greater than theirs!" Su Huai's eyes suddenly burst forth with infinite radiance as he laughed loudly.