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Chapter 478 Power
“Since someone wants to talk, I don’t mind listening.” Lu Qing put the brass pendant back into his pocket and patted the wooden box on the table. “I’m leaving all of these to you. How you deal with them is up to you.”

"Junior brother is really something!" Yan Daoxin beamed with joy at the sight of those rare medicinal herbs, and patted Lu Qing on the back with great seriousness. "Your senior brother will definitely not treat you unfairly in the future!"
I'll prepare some medicine for you later, and I guarantee you'll have a daughter if you want one, or a son if you want one!

"What kind of things are you, a cultivator, thinking about?" Lu Qing looked Yan Daoxin up and down with a look of disdain. "Your master gave you the wrong name."

Yan Daoxin had long since lost all reaction to such remarks. He just grinned and glanced at Zhu Yu beside him, only to find that the other party involved had also not reacted to his earlier teasing. Instead, he was frowning slightly and resting his chin on his hand, lost in thought.

"It seems your wife doesn't want to have children with you. Look how worried she is after hearing this..." Yan Daoxin said to Lu Qing in a serious tone, while quickly dodging Lu Qing's punch before he finished speaking.

"You don't hit someone in the face! You've gone too far! You were using my face to get by in Xiaoshanlou just a while ago, and now you're kicking me while I'm down?!" Yan Daoxin jerked his chair back a bit from the table, then asked Zhu Yu, "Zhu Yu, what are you thinking? If you really can't stand this guy, how about I ask my master to help you?"

Zhu Yu's attention was drawn to the two of them after his commotion. After so long, she had become accustomed to the way Lu Qing and Yan Daoxin verbally insulted each other but were actually very close friends, and didn't take it too seriously.

"How much did you know about the Brahma Land before? Were the people here naturally dark-skinned and thin, or did they become like this recently for some reason?" She wasn't in the mood for jokes at the moment, so she didn't respond to Yan Daoxin's words and asked instead.

“I have never been to the Vatican before, and I don’t know much about what the people of the Vatican look like.” Yan Daoxin was taken aback for a moment. Seeing that Zhu Yu asked the question in a serious manner, he was too embarrassed to make a fuss and quickly answered her question in a serious manner. “My master has never liked the witch doctors in the Vatican. He thinks that they are neither witch doctors nor doctors. They either pretend to be gods and ghosts and delay people’s illnesses, or they use some kind of evil medicine to make prescriptions.”

Therefore, my master forbade me to come to the Brahmaland, and even more so, forbade me to learn how to use the Brahmaland's witchcraft and potions.

After saying that, he quickly pointed to the items on the table: "Except for these! These are all genuinely useful things that can cure diseases and save lives, it just so happens that they come from the land of Brahma!"

Zhu Yu nodded and then turned his gaze to Lu Qing, who was standing to the side.

“I have never set foot in the Brahma Land before, my master forbade it.” Lu Qing shook his head. “This is my first time as well.”

However, I had heard about the appearance of the people of Brahma before. It is said that this is because the weather here is unbearably hot all year round. The winter is just as hot as the summer in other places, and the summer is like living in a fire pit.

Therefore, many crops are difficult to grow here, and the people here are generally quite thin and small, supposedly because this makes them more resistant to the intense heat.

And it is precisely because of their small stature that they are at a disadvantage in both long-range and close combat. That is why, over the past few centuries, they have gradually relied on witch doctors, witchcraft, and various poisons and insects to increase their chances of winning, so as to avoid being at a disadvantage when dealing with other vassal states.

Why do you have this question?

"I overheard the owner of that witchcraft shop saying today that the high priest in Brahma is handsome, tall, and knowledgeable in astronomy and geography. He's not only skilled in witchcraft and medicine, but his strategies and formations are also on par with his senior brother who was expelled from the sect. So I'm a bit suspicious. After all, since we entered Brahma, it seems that anyone who's tall and strong is from the Brahma Palace, while the ordinary people outside are all thin and sallow-skinned."

So I couldn't help but wonder why this high priest looked so different from everyone else.

The shopkeeper said that now, because the High Priest strictly followed his master's orders, no one in the Brahmaland was allowed to search for the Jade Snowbird. Not to mention bird blood, no one was allowed to even mention bird feathers.

From this perspective, it can be seen that this high priest seems to have considerable prestige in the Brahma realm. As a high priest, his orders can actually be obeyed by everyone in the Brahma kingdom, which must be due to the support and intervention of the Brahma King, giving this high priest considerable power.

Secondly... if it's really as the shopkeeper said, that the Jade Snowbird has become a taboo in the Brahma Land, then what about what we encountered when we dealt with Jia Hui's death in the Shuo Land?

Thirdly, what kind of person would need to go into seclusion for over a year? Even a bear wouldn't need that long to hibernate, let alone a human. Is this seclusion or cultivating immortality?

Yan Daoxin was listening attentively to Zhu Yu's explanation of her views, but when she suddenly heard her mention bears, she couldn't help but burst out laughing. Zhu Yu glared at her, and she quickly suppressed her laughter: "You're right!"

“This high priest is indeed quite interesting.” Lu Qing nodded. When the owner of the witch doctor’s shop talked about these things today, he paid special attention to the past of the high priest’s sect. “Leaving aside other things for now, just his senior brother alone spent a lot of money to find someone to capture the Jade Snow Bird, and later even participated in the struggle for the throne in Jin Kingdom... We have to meet this high priest no matter what.”

However, since he is a high priest whom even Brahma highly values, let alone seclusion and avoiding guests, even if he were not in seclusion, he is not someone that we, a few wandering doctors, can meet at will.

So for now, we need to be patient and wait for Brahma to take the initiative and fall into Yan Daoxin's "straight hook." Once we can get into the palace and see Brahma, everything else will be easier, and we can adapt to the situation.

"Alright, it's settled then!" Yan Daoxin nodded, stood up and waved to them, "You must be tired after a whole day of work, right? Go back and rest!"
I've dealt with so many people seeking medical help today, and I'm exhausted. I need to rest now, so you should all go back to sleep too!
I'll be busy early tomorrow morning!

Lu Qing nodded, then pulled Zhu Yu up and left.

Zhu Yu didn't suspect anything. Not only had they run around for a long time today, but Yan Daoxin had also been quite tired.

However, after the group left the room, they heard rustling sounds coming from inside as they moved around the wooden boxes.

Zhu Yu looked at Lu Qing with amusement, and Lu Qing returned her a smile with a hint of helplessness.

With Yan Daoxin, a medical fanatic, guarding so many rare medicinal herbs, it's no wonder he'd be reluctant to go to bed early!