Chapter 166 - Inheritance of the Medicine Valley
Inside Bai Qingxian’s personal quarters on White Lotus Peak, she let out a long breath as she opened her eyes.
She was completely calm and steady. Within her dantian, the flawless Sacred Spirit Life Golden Core rotated smoothly, its jade-gold luster radiating pure life energy that circulated through her meridians. Ever since her body absorbed the mysterious Breath of Creation, her Sacred Spirit Veins had expanded significantly.
With her former cultivation base restored and her Sacred Spirit Veins evolving, she was more powerful than ever.
Raising her slender hand, she snapped her fingers.
A soft hum resonated across the chamber. Subtle silver array lines lit up along the floor and the ceiling, blocking out all spiritual energy and sound.
Satisfied with the isolation barrier, Bai Qingxian folded her hands across her chest. Her fingers wove a rapid series of ancient hand seals.
A faint glow gathered at the center of her chest. With a soft sound, the Nine Heavens Spirit Locking Seal unfolded into thin air as the Ancestral Physician Tablet appeared before her.
It was a square jade tablet, its withered surface covered with ancient dao markings. Yet despite its appearance, a dense wave of mysterious intent radiated from it, filling the entire room with a faint light.
It was the foundation of the Bai Clan and the core inheritance of the Medicine Valley.
Generations ago in the Spirit Jade World, the founding ancestors of the Bai Clan discovered this stone in an ancient ruin. By contemplating the mysterious laws etched into its surface, they created their foundational medical techniques.
The Heaven’s Vessel Mapping, which was able to map out the spiritual meridian system of any living being, and the Nine-Pulse Life Reversal Art, which was said to have the ability to reverse death and restore life.
Generation after generation, the founding ancestors of the Bai Clan studied those arts and established the Medicine Valley, which eventually rose to prominence and stood at the pinnacle of the medical world.
Even the Bai Clan’s bloodline trait was the product of this tablet. Through generations of research and study, the ancestors of the Bai Clan slowly internalized the ancient tablet’s laws, passing down a rare talent called the Sacred Spirit Veins.
Yet the greatest fortune of their family eventually became their greatest curse.
After gaining influence generation after generation, they amassed prestige like no one else. At the peak of their height, the amount of prestige they held would have surpassed even the four overlord sects of this world combined.
Powerful cultivators from different realms would visit Medicine Valley seeking medical help.
However, such influence also brought danger.
Emperors and rulers offered rains of treasures, mountains of gold and spiritual stones, powerful artifacts, and even territory in exchange for forming alliances. But the secrets of Medicine Valley were too precious to reveal to anyone.
Unable to gain these powers by normal means, they slowly began coveting their secrets.
Medicine Valley was not only the Bai family. There were other vassal families and smaller clans that served the Bai Clan, were also part of Medicine Valley, and they were not virtuous enough to resist the temptation.
After all, the profound secrets of the Medicine Valley were never going to be theirs even if they remained loyal to the Bai family.
A conflict eventually broke out, and then the unfortunate incident happened.
A devastating war swept through her homeland, reducing the grand halls of Medicine Valley to ruins. Her father fell in battle to buy them time, while the surviving elders activated a forbidden spatial tear. Elder Bai Zhen, who had been her protector since she was a child, was sent away alongside her through the void.
Before the spatial tear swallowed her, her mother and elders had sealed the ancestral tablet within her. It was a move to ensure the safety of the last hope of their clan.
Back in the Spirit Jade World before the calamity struck, she had been the Saintess of Medicine Valley. A flawless, composed, and cold successor of both the Bai clan and the Medicine Valley.
She stood on an unreachable pedestal, revered by thousands and burdened with a glorious purpose.
Young princes, holy sons, and even elders of powerful sects would bow before her. Young successors of prestigious clans and great empires constantly sought to court her, with many young figures making fools out of themselves just to gain favor and win her heart.
But she knew. The thing, the person, the prestige they wanted was not her. She was well aware of her beauty, but there were plenty of beautiful women in the world.
What they really wanted was the Saintess and the legacy of the Medicine Valley.
She grew up with such politics, surrounded by flattering smiles and hidden daggers.
In a single night, she lost everything. Her parents, her sect, her homeland, and her identity. When she fell through the chaotic spatial rift, she believed her life had ended.
Yet as fate would have it, a young man was there in the collapsing Thunder Fire Secret Realm, who saved not only her but her uncle as well.
Since then, she had been living a life completely different from her life at Medicine Valley. No doubt, the path of medicine still found her through the Medicine Hall. But there she was just another young senior physician.
She had recently even taken someone under her wing. It was something she never would have imagined back in Medicine Valley.
Life on White Lotus Peak was quiet and mostly uneventful, yet looking back over the past year, a faint, soft warmth touched her eyes.
She remembered waking up to the smell of medicine in the Medicine Hall. Apparently, the person who rescued her turned out to be a young peak master of the White Lotus Peak of the Heavenly Cloud Sect.
She remembered meeting Su Ming. He was a strange man.
She did not even trust Su Ming at first. She did not know what kind of plan the young peak master was brewing behind that calm smile of his. Still, he had saved her life, so she had decided to trust him.