Peerless Divine Doctor

Having run out of the residential building, Lin Xiaoyan was about to leave when she suddenly encountered a group of thuggish figures. These men were all members of the Wolf Gang, dispatched earlier by Fang Rushan to search for Lin Tianhai; they had been waiting here without leaving.

"Yo, what a pretty chick!"

The members of the Wolf Gang looked at Lin Xiaoyan, such a beautiful woman, their eyes immediately twinkling with lecherous light.

"What... what do you want?" Seeing the group, Lin Xiaoyan’s eyes revealed a hint of panic.

"Boss, isn’t this woman the daughter of the person that the Family Head asked us to find?" At that moment, one of the Wolf Gang members suddenly spoke up, looking at Lin Xiaoyan.

"Seems like it!"

The others stared at Lin Xiaoyan for a few seconds and couldn’t help but say, having earlier been given a photograph of Lin Tianhai and his family by Fang Rushan, which included the pretty girl now before them.

"So it’s that guy’s chick. Well then, let’s have some fun with her before handing her over to the Family Head."

The group laughed wickedly, advancing to take Lin Xiaoyan away.

"Let go of me, let go of me!" Lin Xiaoyan said with utmost fear showing on her face.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Just then, a series of sharp, cold glints suddenly appeared, and Lin Xiaoyan saw the group of men stop in their tracks. The next second, their bodies thudded to the ground one after the other. Seeing this, Lin Xiaoyan stepped back in shock, her face pale.

"Are you the daughter of Lin Tianhai and Du Huixian?"

A cold and detached heavenly voice rang out, like a melody from the divine, reaching deep into one’s soul, prompting Lin Xiaoyan’s gaze to shift.

Bathed in the bright moonlight, a woman approached slowly. She wore a white palace dress, her flowing hair cascading down, and in her hand, she held a longsword, her entire being emitting a holy aura.

Under the moon’s embrace, she seemed like Chang’e, a goddess descending from the heavens. Her beauty was beyond description, an absolute fairy in form, with a celestial air that seemed to lift her above the dusty world.

"Are you... a fairy?"

Staring at the woman who seemed to be from heaven, Lin Xiaoyan said in astonishment.

The woman in white approached Lin Xiaoyan, her expression indifferent, her eyes cold, void of any emotion—as if devoid of any feelings.

The woman in white then glanced at a room on the sixth floor of the residential building, the home of Lin Tianhai.

"Fairy sister, do you know my parents?" Having regained her senses, Lin Xiaoyan quickly asked.

"If you don’t want to die, follow me," the woman in white said in a detached tone before turning to leave. Lin Xiaoyan hesitated for a moment but ultimately decided to follow.

A few seconds after they had left, a figure jumped down from the balcony of Lin Xiaoyan’s home; it was Lin Tianhai, covered in blood, disappearing from sight, closely followed by Lei Ting.

"Huh?" However, Lei Ting, arriving at the place where the woman in white had just been, narrowed his eyes, his gaze sweeping across the surroundings with a trace of surprise.

Meanwhile, deep within the bamboo forest of the Zixuan Clubhouse in Zhonghai, within a small cottage, a woman dressed in a flowing purple gown, equally fairy-like in appearance, slightly opened her eyes, revealing a flash of purple light.

"What’s wrong with the Saintess?"

Suddenly, several stunningly beautiful women appeared in the room, each wearing clothes of different colors, and all exuding an air of aloof elegance. Their eyes fixed on the purple-clad woman with utmost respect.

"I just sensed the presence of Ruthless Valley." The woman in purple said calmly, her voice as melodious and pleasing as that of an oriole.

"People from Ruthless Valley!"

At the words of the woman in purple, the countenances of the several women tightened, a hint of coldness flashing in their eyes.

"Saintess, how could someone from Ruthless Valley appear here? Could they have discovered our existence?"

"They shouldn’t have." The woman in purple shook her head.

"Saintess, Ruthless Valley was involved in the attack on Purple Cloud Palace. Now that someone from Ruthless Valley is here, should we take action?" A woman in a red dress said, a hint of murderous intent in her voice.

The woman in purple replied indifferently, "No, it’s not yet time for us to reveal ourselves. Ask someone to investigate and see what the people from Ruthless Valley are doing in Zhonghai."

"Yes." The women nodded one after another.

"It seems it’s also time for me to find an opportunity to meet him." A complex expression flickered through the clear and starry eyes of the woman in purple.

"Saintess, could it be that you really want to meet him..." The eyes of the women shimmered, gazing at the woman in purple.

"For the sake of Purple Cloud Palace and Master, everything can be sacrificed."

A determined look passed through the eyes of the woman in purple.

The next day, outside a large antique building in the Capital City, numerous cars and people gathered – this was the headquarters of the Rejuvenation Pavilion founded by the Mu Family.

Here converged the great masters of medical expertise from across Huaxia Country, a place that all medical students aspired to, and a symbol of glory for the Huaxia medical community.

Today, personalities from various sectors of Capital City gathered here, joined by over a hundred journalists from domestic and international media outlets.

The reason everyone was gathered at the Rejuvenation Pavilion was that a master of Korean medicine from Goryeo Kingdom, Empty Valley, had come with his disciples to engage in an exchange and learning session with the younger generation of Huaxia’s medical community, between Korean and Chinese medicine.

Of course, everyone knew that although the official reason was for an exchange and learning between Korean and Chinese medicine, the reality was a competition between the two medical traditions.

Especially the elders, who clearly remembered that thirty years ago, Empty Valley arrogantly challenged the entire Huaxia medical community, resulting in many Huaxia medical practitioners being defeated by him, only to finally be beaten by the old master of the Mu Family, the National Doctor Mu Qingsong.

This time, his return and choice to issue a challenge at the Mu Family’s Rejuvenation Pavilion was obviously an attempt to avenge his past humiliation.

The principles and treatment methodologies of Korean and Chinese medicine had always been similar, sparking debates over which was the orthodox tradition – a matter that also concerned whether either country’s medical expertise could apply for recognition as an intangible cultural heritage of the world. Therefore, such a challenge naturally attracted great attention.

Especially since Che Taiming had utilized the power of Che Corporation to publicize this exchange challenge extensively, even inviting dozens of media outlets and hundreds of journalists, including foreign press, to the scene.

The idea was to massively amplify the impact of the challenge between Chinese and Korean medicine, so that if Chinese medicine were to lose in this encounter, it would undoubtedly trigger a huge storm.

Such a defeat would be a severe blow to the reputation of Huaxia’s medical community, which was precisely Empty Valley’s strategy – to severely damage the reputation of Huaxia’s medicine. Of course, he had the backing of the Goryeo government.