Scourge Messenger

Chapter 204: A Fifth-Rank Entrance is Overestimating One's Abilities; A Fourth-Rank Entrance is Victory in Hand

Thieves of...thieves of...family...thieves' family...

The pharmacist's muddled mind was constantly trying to contact the Thieves' House, but she couldn't even form a coherent thought. All her tokens were sealed, her muscles were completely powerless, and her spiritual power was stagnant.

All acts of 'resistance' were abruptly eliminated from the planning stage. Only after giving up resistance and accepting the status quo did she barely regain some of her ability to think.

I'm not dead yet.

The Medicine Master's memory was still stuck on the moment she activated the secret technique, rapidly retreating to deceive Prajna, and then her memory was interrupted. It seemed that Prajna had still managed to hit her. She had long been aware of this. Prajna in the downpour was already infinitely close to the Foundation Establishment level, and no one present could resist her. She couldn't possibly expect Blood Element to sacrifice itself to trigger Prajna's downpour... So it could only be her, only her.

With two lives and the power to control destiny, she is the only one capable of deceiving Prajna.

Even the slightest movement of her back caused her whole body to spasm with pain, and she felt as if her spine was about to break. The pharmacist had mentally prepared herself to be completely shattered, but when she examined her entire body, she found that there were no missing or disabled parts, not even any ruptured internal organs.

The life-saving pill has been activated, she thought.

After taking the life-saving pill, the pharmacist always had a vague feeling. If she had to describe it, it was like when she was a child, riding a horse with her father. She knew that no matter how much fun she had on horseback, her father would definitely come to her rescue if she encountered any danger... Now that feeling was gone.

No one will bail her out anymore, and she won't have a second life; she must face this cruel world.

Once her vision returned, the pharmacist's first sight was of the bunny girl lying next to her.

"Little sister..." she instinctively thought, but the golden lock had drained all her strength, and she could only slowly wriggle over, her hair disheveled and utterly wretched. "Little rabbit, little rabbit..."

Bunny Girl was also tightly bound by golden locks. She lay on the ground, her small body looking as if she had been viciously bitten by a wild beast. A large part of her right chest had vanished into thin air, leaving only a horrifying bloody hole, revealing purplish-red internal organs, murky blood, and pale bone spurs. Blood kept gushing from her mouth, and her face was as thin as paper.

If it weren't for the vigorous energy of a third-tier messenger, she would have already fallen into a coma and died. But even so, every breath she takes now is a tug-of-war with death.

She slowly turned her head, a pale smile appearing on her lips: "Sister, you're alright."

"I'm coming to save you, I'm coming to save you!" The pharmacist moved next to the bunny girl and tried to break free from the golden lock to take out the blood-replenishing pill, but no matter how much force she used, the golden lock would absorb it all.

Her eyes were bloodshot as she fiercely challenged Jin Suo, ignoring the pain that nearly broke her spine. Before she knew it, her eyes were blurred with tears. At that moment, she felt a soft touch on her face; it was Bunny Girl touching her cheek... She often asked her sister to touch her cheek after taking a bath, but her sister always avoided it with disgust.

Before coming to Mount Shu, Yaoshi Yuan had long anticipated the perilous journey, and she was prepared for the three of them—her master and servants—to perish there. To revive the Ba River Pharmacists and to achieve Foundation Establishment, she was willing to pay any price, even if it meant dying on the way… But the appearance of the Bunny Girl changed everything. Yaoshi Yuan never imagined she would have family again… This was the only price she could not afford!
Break free! Break free now! Even if it means losing your hand, break free!

The pharmacist let out a beast-like roar, so shrill it seemed he was about to vomit his soul, like a desperate lone wolf or a girl wailing.

"Stop arguing, none of you will die. The Immortal Binding Rope is healing you. Stay still and don't move."

what?
The pharmacist blinked several times to dry her tears, then turned to look and saw a white-haired girl with blood-red antlers standing in the open space of the mountain stronghold. She wore bright red eyeshadow, a white robe over a red bodice, revealing her snow-white skin without any hesitation. She wore white shorts and wooden clogs, and her toenails were painted red, making her look like a young lady enjoying flowers in her courtyard.

Blood-red antlers, a white-haired girl?

A distant memory surfaced in the pharmacist's mind.

From about four to six years old, she would be sent to a Taoist temple in the mountains for three or four months every year to live with other little kids. Children are actually quite similar to wild animals; there always has to be a king or queen in a group, and the only common logic is violence. Therefore, Yakushi was determined to beat all the young children from a young age and was the little tyrant of the temple every year.

When she was six, provoked by other kids, she found an opportunity to run into a room in the Taoist temple that adults weren't allowed to enter. Finding a wine bottle and feeling thirsty, she gulped it down. Her memories after that became hazy; she only vaguely remembered seeing a woman with antlers, shouting, "What a huge deer! Watch me shoot it with my bow!" When the Medicine Master woke up the next day, she was already back in Chang'an, her bottom cracked from being spanked.

She never went to the Taoist temple in the mountains again. When she asked her father, he only told her that she had offended someone. Many years later, Yaoshi Yuan learned who she had met at the temple.

"The Dragon-Locking Bodhisattva?" Too shocked to speak properly, Yaoshi Yuan forgot to use honorifics: "How did you get here!?" The ancestor of the Yaoshi family, the niece of Emperor Taizu of Zhou, the pillar of the Yaoshi royal family, the Foundation Establishment messenger revered by the Yaoshi family as the Dragon-Locking Bodhisattva, Yaoshi Yue!
“I remember you, you snotty little girl,” Master Suolong said calmly. “After all these years, you’re still so rude. You deserve a beating.”

With a flick of her left hand, a golden lock lashed out and struck Yaoshiyuan's buttocks hard, producing a crisp sound.

The pharmacist was in pain and ashamed, but she couldn't care less. She turned to carefully examine the bunny girl's injuries and saw that the bleeding had stopped and the flesh was regenerating at a visible speed. Overjoyed, she wept, choking back tears, "Thank you, Bodhisattva, for your great mercy! Thank you, thank you!"

The bunny girl's lips twitched, and she said in a weak voice, "We're still tied up by her, why should we thank her?"

The pharmacist shook her head, unable to utter a word, only large tears falling onto the bunny girl's face. She wasn't unaware of her situation, but living was more important than anything else; as long as she lived, she had a long life ahead of her to make amends.

“Don’t thank me in time,” said Master Suolong. “I only said she wouldn’t die, but I didn’t say I would save her.”

"But what if I want to kill?"

Standing atop a pine tree at the edge of the cliff, Master Dongshou's expression was chilling. The withered wooden bow in his hand began to transform as he spoke, eventually growing into a massive black wooden bow as tall as a person: "Now that I have come to the Shu Road Mountains, I cannot return empty-handed. They are my prey. Yaoshi Yue, do you intend to snatch them away with just a word? If Yaoshi Changqiu were still alive, I might still have some consideration for the Yaoshi family, but Yaoshi Changqiu is dead, and the Yaoshi family has no right to continue commanding the Pillar of the State!"

"You dare to treat someone from my family, the Pharmacist, as prey?" Many golden chains emerged from the sleeves of Master Suolong: "That fellow, Pharmacist Changqiu, is dead, but to teach a junior like you a lesson, there's no need for two Foundation Establishment cultivators. I, your aunt, am more than enough."

"You're not qualified to act like an old man in front of me!"

In an instant, Master Dongshou drew the Blackwood Longbow to its limit, and three large arrows appeared in his hand. The arrowheads were made of black steel that gleamed with black light. This was steel that could only be produced in the Foundation Establishment Secret Realm. One of the black steel arrows was mounted on the Divine Arm Crossbow and could penetrate a ten-foot-thick city wall. In front of it, the defensive barrier below the Foundation Establishment level was no different from paper!
He didn't use that weapon to attack the bunny girl because he feared that an arrow would destroy the token, leaving him with no spoils. But now that Yaoshi Yue had captured both of them, Dongshou Zhenren had no more scruples; even if he couldn't have it, he couldn't let the Yaoshi family take it!

But Yaoshi Yue's attack was faster. Nine golden locks surged forward like a swarm of snakes, shooting towards Dongshou Zhenren from nine directions! However, Dongshou Zhenren remained calm. He stepped in the air, forming an invisible barrier that blocked all the golden locks below!
Draw a dungeon, step on the moon!

His innate supernatural power is not good at offense and has a weak effect in attack, but it has a unique advantage in trapping and blocking people. When it is added to the Taiyin Huagai Formation, even the Foundation Establishment stage is difficult to break the formation. When it is added to the Stepping Moon Step, he can draw a prison on the ground with every step and block all attacks under his feet!

call out!call out!call out!
With three twangs, Master Dongshou fired nine arrows from different directions in a few breaths. Only three of them were aimed at Yaoshiyue, while the other six arrows struck Rabbit Girl and Yaoshiyuan. Each arrow was imbued with the power of 'annihilation', capable of piercing even the Shu Road!

Given the destructive power of the Annihilation Arrow, it would be impossible for Yaoshi Yue to withstand it easily. She would have difficulty even protecting herself, let alone protecting the young ladies.

It might be difficult to determine a winner between Foundation Establishment cultivators, but if a Foundation Establishment cultivator wants to kill a mortal, no other Foundation Establishment cultivator can stop them! Even a third-level messenger is nothing more than an ant that a Foundation Establishment cultivator can destroy with a flick of their finger. In this world, only Foundation Establishment cultivators truly have the qualifications to be human!
"Is that all, little brother Helan Shou?"

As Yakushi Yue's teasing voice rang out, Touku Jinshi's pupils constricted sharply.

A huge circle made of golden locks blocked the way for Medicine Master Yue and the two girls. The nine Annihilation Arrows shot by Winter Hunting Master were all frozen in the center of the circle, as if there was an invisible layer of foam inside the circle that solidified the Annihilation Arrows!
"Back to you!"

As Yaoshi Yue swung the golden chain, the Annihilation Arrow instantly changed direction and returned from stillness to reality, transforming into nine black beams that shot towards Dongshou Zhenren!

boom!
An airburst occurred above Mount Shudao, the violent airflow engulfing the mountain stronghold like a tsunami. The annihilating wind overturned and flattened fences and trees, even blowing away the collapsed Demon-Slaying Hall. The entire stronghold resembled the apocalypse! Bei You was blown aside, his defensive barriers gradually shattering. His flesh was torn apart by the gale, leaving gruesome bloody marks, almost turning him into a mangled chicken. If he hadn't clung tightly to the ground, he would have been thrown off the cliff.

If it weren't for the protection of Pharmacist Yue and Rabbit Girl, this sudden gust of wind alone would have been enough to seriously injure them!
Even the aftershocks of a Foundation Establishment battle are a catastrophe that mortals can hardly withstand!
Master Dongshou landed on another boulder, his expression one of surprise and uncertainty: "Second Divine Ability? You've already reached the fifth level!?"

Fifth job advancement!

The pharmacist was greatly encouraged upon hearing this news. The gap between mortals was so vast at each stage of cultivation; it must be even greater above Foundation Establishment. Since True Immortal Locked Dragon had already reached the fifth stage, True Immortal Winter Hunt would surely realize his inferiority and retreat voluntarily.

"You've reached the fifth stage of cultivation, yet you dare to oppose me, a fourth-stage cultivator at the peak of cultivation?" Master Dongshou roared to the sky, "You truly overestimate yourself!"

(End of this chapter)