Chapter 2909 — The Legend of Two People (Part 1)

"Understood." Hearing his uncle say this, the Earth Tyrant did not press further, but changed the subject: "Uncle, there is one more important matter I must report to you!"

"Oh? What else is there?" Tu Qingsong asked.

"The earth-attribute essence liquid that Wei Zhao demanded first—it is not meant for an earth-attribute cultivator who has suffered qi deviation, but for... an earth-attribute legacy inheritor!" As he spoke, the Earth Tyrant recounted to Tu Qingsong everything he had previously discussed with Wei Zhao.

"An earth-attribute legacy inheritor?" Tu Qingsong's pupils contracted sharply, and his breathing turned rapid! The Earth Tyrant had no idea what it meant for an earth-attribute legacy inheritor to be at Wei Zhao's side, but Tu Qingsong immediately thought back to the events of that year!

That earth-attribute legacy inheritor was very likely his own daughter, Tu Ranran, who had been taken away by those two men back then! And Wei Zhao was the grandson of Lin Dongfang, one of those two. So if his daughter was with him, as a friend, it all made sense!

In that year, Tu Ranran had been born by special means, because the bloodline of the Yellow Earth High Sect never produced daughters—a special method was required. Yet although Tu Ranran was born safely, from childhood she was frail and sickly. The sect's mental cultivation formulas and oral instructions were all designed for male cultivators; female inheritors could only begin cultivating after receiving the legacy. So to cultivate at all, Tu Ranran had to endure until the minimum age at which she could receive the legacy of insight, and then, after the legacy, break through to the Heaven Rank before the age of twenty in order to survive unharmed!

Once the legacy was successfully received, there would be no level barriers to advancement, and breaking through to the Heaven Rank would not be too difficult. But the crux was that Tu Ranran could no longer hold on! She would not last until the age for receiving the legacy of insight!

Tu Qingsong and his father, Tu Wanghai, had sought physicians everywhere for this matter, all to no avail!

Just as they were nearing despair, a traveling merchant who plied the routes between the Central Plains, the Western Regions, and the Miao lands brought the Yellow Earth High Sect good news! In the Miao lands there was a divine physician named Lin Dongfang, whose medical skill was unfathomably profound. Tu Wanghai could go and try!

Tu Wanghai was overjoyed and at once set out with Tu Ranran, traveling with the traveling merchant to the Miao lands.

But this divine physician Lin Dongfang had no fixed abode, and the traveling merchant did not know his exact residence either; they could only try their luck at the market.

From time to time, Lin Dongfang would go to the market to hold consultations and treat patients from the surrounding villages, so Tu Wanghai did indeed manage to find him!

Lin Dongfang held consultations at the market and naturally received all manner of patients. Although he saw that Tu Wanghai was no ordinary man, he still followed the rules and examined Tu Ranran's condition. After the examination, however, Lin Dongfang gave a puzzled "Hm?"

Seeing Lin Dongfang's expression, Tu Wanghai hastily asked, "Doctor, tell me—can my granddaughter be saved?"

"Her body is abnormally weak, devoid of vitality. As for the specific problem, I cannot tell either, but if she stays with me, there is no problem in keeping her alive until she is fifteen," Lin Dongfang said after a moment's deliberation.

"Stay with you?" Tu Wanghai was slightly taken aback, then understood Lin Dongfang's meaning: "Doctor, you mean my granddaughter must live at your side for you to treat her?"

"Precisely. Her body cannot be nursed back to health overnight. Her problem is very serious, and I must prescribe medicine according to the symptoms. The medication for one period differs from that of another, and must be tailored to her physical condition," Lin Dongfang said with a nod.

"Then, Doctor, could you come and live at our home? Rest assured, I will pay you many times the consultation fee. You need only devote yourself to treating my granddaughter in the years to come, and I will also compensate you in full for the losses from your other medical work, paying your consultation fee every day. What do you say?" Tu Wanghai said at once.

"I cannot go," Lin Dongfang said indifferently. "If you want treatment, stay here. If you do not, then you may leave!"

"Do you know whom you are talking to?" Before Tu Wanghai could answer, one of his attendants grew angry. He stepped forward, about to kick over Lin Dongfang's medicine stall with one foot. They came from an ancient sect and were treated with deference wherever they went; that a mere itinerant quack like Lin Dongfang should be so cocky naturally displeased this attendant!

"Tu Qingshui, stand down!" Tu Wanghai well knew that Lin Dongfang must not be offended at this moment—his attendant was simply too hot-tempered! But his shout of restraint came too late. The attendant was a skilled fighter of the mid Heaven Rank, and being close at hand, even without using martial techniques, the speed of his kick was faster than Tu Wanghai's words!

Just as the kick was about to send Lin Dongfang's medicine stall flying, his foot was caught effortlessly by a hand!

"Walking one's dog outdoors is naturally all well and good, but sometimes a mad dog tends to ruin things!" Lin Dongfang glanced at Tu Wanghai and said calmly, "This dog—I will throw it out for you!"

With that, Lin Dongfang gave a light flick of his hand, and Tu Qingshui flew out, landing heavily in a rubbish heap far away.

Tu Wanghai was somewhat aghast! He stared at Lin Dongfang before him in astonishment!

He had misjudged him earlier! This man before him was in fact a skilled fighter! Moreover, very likely an external-school expert of high rank—otherwise he could not have thrown Tu Qingshui out so easily. Even if Tu Qingshui had not used martial techniques, it should not have been so easy for him to be thrown out.

"Doctor, my apologies. This subordinate of mine was a little rash; please forgive him!" Tu Wanghai hastily made amends. "You are right to chastise him. When I return, I will punish him!"

Meanwhile, Tu Qingshui, having landed in the rubbish heap, had come back to his senses, and only then realized he had been wrong! His opponent was very likely a skilled fighter as well!

He had not used martial techniques, and his opponent had not used martial techniques either! But when he was seized by the other, he had immediately used true qi to try to break free—and still the other had thrown him flying without using true qi!

So there were only two possibilities: his opponent was an internal-school expert of high rank, higher than his own! Or his opponent was an external-school expert of high rank who, without drawing on the heaven-and-earth spiritual energy around him, could rely solely on the brute force of his own physique to ignore his true qi and throw him out!

But whichever possibility it was, his opponent was a skilled fighter beyond his match, and at once cold sweat broke out on Tu Qingshui's back! RS