The Strongest Prodigy Doctor

"Master, if this matter was really done by that tribe from the far west, they should have removed the barrier directly. Perhaps it was just a few among them who couldn't stand their way of life and wanted to cause some trouble here on this continent. Shouldn't we inform them about this situation?" Ye Tianfan said.

"You're oversimplifying it. Their numbers are small, and their customs are still undeveloped, quite barbaric actually. They're very lenient with their own people. As long as one has children before thirty, educates them for ten years, and defends the city walls by forty, they don't care what you do the rest of the time. As long as you pass a strength test every five years, you can do whatever you want. However, if they are bullied, they will retaliate." Tian Chu Zhenren said with a headache at the mention of them.

Ye Tianfan hadn't thought the tribe would be so domineering.

"Even if we informed them, they might just say, 'We have been guarding against the evil qi invasion for thousands of years, what's the harm in letting some of it go your way? Without us, your side would be full of it.' Tian Chu Zhenren shook his head and said.

"Then why don't we secretly eliminate them?" Ye Tianfan suggested.

We can't just leave them to continue harming the whole continent as if it were a game.

"We can't do that. They have life plates there. Due to their small numbers, they make a life plate for everyone at birth. When a life plate bearer dies, the plate shows everything they saw within an hour before death, in a loop. And they don't care who kills them. If one of us does it, they will make the barrier guarding against evil qi disappear for a day. Kill two people and it disappears for ten days; three people, and it's a hundred days. Each additional death increases the obliteration duration with another zero." Tian Chu Zhenren explained.

Hearing this, Ye Tianfan felt that despite their merits, those tribespeople were unreasonable and overwhelmingly tyrannical.

Faced with such a tribe, Ye Tianfan couldn't think of a way to deal with them for a while.

At this time, Tian Chu Zhenren continued, "Long ago, they sent someone to this continent to stir up trouble, but that person was killed. Then the tribe made a statement and really did make the barrier disappear for a day."

"And then?" Ye Tianfan asked curiously, thinking that the disappearance of the barrier for a day shouldn't have much impact, considering the extreme western lands are so far away, and judging by the slow spread of the evil qi in Copper Gong Town.

"At that time, the lives of half the continent vanished as the evil qi invaded half the continent, only slowing down later. After the tribespeople reestablished the barrier, the spread of the evil qi stopped." Tian Chu Zhenren sighed, recounting the secret history. "The tribe hadn't foreseen that the evil qi pent up for thousands of years would be so fierce. They sent several people to manage it, and through collaboration with our sects, they took over three hundred years to clear it, but the half-continent became barren, devoid of life."

After dealing with the evil qi, the tribespeople threw out a few harsh words and went back to the extreme west. We then began the task of restoring the continent, taking five hundred years to make that barren half vibrant again. Then came the Nine-Headed Demon Dragon incident."

After hearing this, Ye Tianfan sighed for the continent, feeling it was a continuous cycle of disasters, one after another.

"So, if these people are indeed from that tribe, killing them would mean the entire continent is doomed." Ye Tianfan whispered. "If the evil qi pent up for a thousand years was that powerful, the evil qi accumulated over several thousand years would engulf the continent instantly."

Tian Chu Zhenren nodded, confirming that the tribe from the far west was not to be provoked.

"Then why don't we replace them?" Ye Tianfan asked. "If we master the immortal technique to guard the far western lands, we wouldn't need to rely on that tribe anymore!"

"It's not that we haven't thought of it, but they practice a type we've never encountered, a Magic, not an Immortal Technique. There's no written record of it; it's passed down orally and never reaches outsiders. They call it the Evil Technique, a magic that draws energy from the evil qi for cultivation." Tian Chu Zhenren explained.

"Drawing from the evil qi?" Ye Tianfan was bewildered upon hearing this, as evil qi was supposed to be non-cultivatable. Once tainted, it could erode the mind, causing chaos.

"They have a cultivation technique allowing them to draw only the energy from the evil qi, separating all negative emotions and effects, a miraculous technique." Tian Chu Zhenren said. "They guard this secret with their lives, knowing that exposure would mean death for them. Despite their merits, after the half-continent catastrophe, they bear immense karmic debt, constantly offsetting it with their merits, though whether the balance is settled is uncertain."

"I see!" Ye Tianfan nodded.

"Rest assured, it's not necessarily them, although their likelihood is higher," Tian Chu Zhenren commented, seeing the serious expression on Ye Tianfan's face. Despite numerous clues pointing to them, there are still many indications that these people may not be from the western tribe.

Moreover, they weren't without precautions against the tribe from the far west. A secret outpost was set up at the only passage leading from there to the continent's interior. If tribespeople from the west were to come through, the outpost would certainly notify all sects, including those of the demonic path.

However, they hadn't received any notifications thus far. Plus, Tian Chu Zhenren had contacted the outpost immediately, and none of the tribespeople had killed or bypassed it.

So, they remained cautious and retained reservations about whether those people were really from the western tribe.