Chapter 621: Xu Qing's Forgetting Artistic Conception

Inside the highest hall of the Reverse Moon Palace, the Captain's voice was filled with confusion, carrying a sense of urgency, and even more so, a very obvious anxiety.

"How could this happen? Our past-life bodies are already incomplete. Little Ah Qing, do you know how important a kidney is to a man?"

"My kidney! Am I no longer a complete person now?"

"The most important thing is that the one I lost was something I spent great effort and care to refine in my past life; it's precious, more precious than anything!" On the gate, the small totem transformed by the Captain wore an expression of grief and indignation, gnashing his teeth as if he had lost his beloved.

"There must be some filthy guy who coveted my precious kidney, installed it on himself, and then went on a killing spree. How hateful, how hateful, how hateful!"

"If this matter cannot be resolved, it might just affect me, but it will affect our grand cause! My past-life body cannot lack any part!" The Captain was clearly anxious.

Hearing this, Xu Qing's expression became somewhat strange; his mind instantly thought of the mud fox he had encountered in the western canyon back then.

At that time, the mud fox had mentioned having a kidney and even showed it to him... Thinking of this, Xu Qing hesitated for a moment, and to be certain, he spoke in a low voice.

"Senior Brother, how many kidneys does your past-life body have?"

"How many? I am of the human race, and my past-life body is also of the human race. Don't all humans have two? Or did you grow four?" The Captain sized Xu Qing up.

Xu Qing ignored the Captain's gaze and patiently asked another question.

"The other one, can you sense it?"

"I can! The other kidney is in a divine fruit cave in the east. Although it has become fertilizer, I can clearly sense it." After speaking, the Captain realized something, a strong light appearing in his eyes as he looked at Xu Qing with both nervousness and anticipation.

"Little Ah Qing, you asked me that—have you seen my kidney?" Xu Qing didn't speak, carefully recalling the day the mud fox took out that kidney, and his pondering made the Captain increasingly nervous.

"Senior Brother, is the kidney you lost golden, crescent-shaped, and marked with some talisman imprints?" Xu Qing looked at the Captain, and the Captain was so excited that the totem he had transformed into trembled and exclaimed.

"That's right, that's right... it is golden. Little Ah Qing, have you seen it?" Xu Qing thought for a moment and told the Captain about meeting the mud fox.

After listening, the Captain's heart fluctuated more and more, and finally, he gasped.

"You mean that mud fox wanted you to eat my kidney to nourish your body!"

"I didn't eat it!" Xu Qing said calmly.

"You should have just eaten it; that way I could have retrieved it. What do we do now!" The Captain sighed, his heart feeling messy and complicated.

"And Little Ah Qing, this mud fox is not simple. The fact that she could make me unable to sense the kidney in her possession already shows that she is very extraordinary."

"There is no such existence in my past-life memories. According to your description, she sits in a shrine; this is the stature of a god." Xu Qing's gaze sharpened; he had sensed the mystery of the mud fox back then.

"Furthermore, she could take out so many things and even said the kidney was a gift from someone else. If that is true, it further confirms that this fox is by no means ordinary," the Captain said.

"If things go wrong, this... this is a god! Sigh!" The Captain showed grief and indignation again. "If she really is a god, where did she come from, and why did she take my kidney? Sigh, this is all my fault. I refined the kidney too well back then, actually attracting the covetous gaze of a god!" The Captain's heart was filled with mixed feelings—helplessness, indignation, and even a bit of pride—and finally, he looked at Xu Qing with pleading eyes.

"Little Ah Qing, how about... really..." Before the Captain could finish his sentence, Xu Qing immediately interrupted him.

"Senior Brother, if it's missing, it's missing. Don't you still have one? In my heart, you are still the complete Senior Brother." As he spoke, Xu Qing prepared to leave; he knew what the Captain was about to do.

"Wait a moment, Little Junior Brother!" The Captain was even more anxious and hurriedly called out.

"Little Junior Brother, this concerns our grand cause. Why don't you sacrifice a little? If that mud fox really is a god, I don't think you'd be at a loss!" Xu Qing ignored him and walked toward the spirit platform, intending to leave.

"Little Ah Qing, this concerns all living beings in the Moon-Sacrificing Domain!"

"Most importantly, this concerns my future! Having one of my kidneys in the hands of someone of unknown origin is a huge hidden danger. Besides, without this kidney, I am incomplete and cannot finally summon my body to return to its place." The Captain was anxious, his voice hurried; such grief and indignation rarely appeared in him.

Xu Qing knew that the Senior Brother was truly panicked, so his footsteps hesitated, and he recalled the scene with the mud fox earlier.

He had a faint feeling that the other party seemed to have intentionally taken out that kidney to let him see it.

"Little Ah Qing, that mud fox likely let you know on purpose, but she had no ill intent toward you at the time. I suppose she is waiting for you to go find her again... Forget it. If you really don't want to, then let me, your Senior Brother, bear all this suffering. It's just that the promise I made to accompany you in this life might not be possible to keep." The Captain sighed, his expression filled with desolation.

Xu Qing nodded upon hearing this.

"En~ Thank you, Senior Brother." As he spoke, he stepped onto the spirit platform. The Captain was stunned, then hurriedly gave a dry laugh and continued.

"Little Junior Brother, actually, that's not what I meant. I think I can still be saved." Xu Qing, who had walked to the spirit platform, looked at the Captain helplessly.

"I'll go try."

"Little Junior Brother, good brother!" The Captain was excited; he felt much more at ease regarding Xu Qing's agreement, believing that as long as Xu Qing was willing to help, he would definitely be able to get the kidney back for him.

Xu Qing sighed and returned to reality. When he appeared in the back room of the medicine shop, just as he was about to ponder how to handle the matter regarding the mud fox...

A flash of confusion suddenly appeared in Xu Qing's eyes, and he frowned, rubbing the space between his brows.

"This forgetting artistic conception, how exactly should it be triggered?" Xu Qing closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then sank into his dantian again, seeing that his Nascent Soul and the god's finger were no longer touching, but were separated by a distance.

Xu Qing pondered for a while and decided to try again, so he controlled his Nascent Soul to continue walking toward the finger, and after touching it, his expression became confused once more.

Thus, time passed. Xu Qing continued to study the forgetting memory; every time the Nascent Soul touched the finger, bad luck and misfortune intertwined.

Xu Qing would be dazed until the two separated after a period of time, and only then would Xu Qing's confusion recover. Meanwhile, everyone in the medicine shop appeared as usual.

Only the Heir's expression was stranger by the day. At this moment, he was sitting there holding a teacup, looking at You Jing.

Xiang Ningyan was mopping the floor, Ling'er was calculating accounts, Wu Wu Jianwu at the door was shouting, Li Youfei was holding his sword and staring at everyone coming and going, and You Jing was there, but Xiang Ningyan was also mopping the floor and boiling water every day just like before.

"Seven or eight times would be enough, but today he has already mopped more than fifty times, and he himself doesn't seem to have noticed." Ling'er's accounting was also the same side-account, and she had already calculated it over and over again.

Wu Wu Jianwu's poetry had several lines that had been repeated many times, and Li Youfei, because he was standing still, couldn't tell anything.

But he was completely unaware of all these anomalies. As for You Jing, she was very confused because she discovered that the water was always boiled, and the teacup by the Heir was mostly full, so she didn't need to do anything.

However, unlike the others, after she noticed something was wrong, a struggle appeared in her eyes. The next moment, her whole body shook, and she looked at the people around her with rapid breathing.

What is going on! You Jing's expression became grave, and she looked at the Heir, finally letting her gaze fall on the place where Xu Qing was cultivating in the back room.

"A strange power is coming from the place where that kid is, which can make me lose my memory." This made You Jing's heart shake.

"This is your ninety-fifth awakening in these days; the further it goes, the slower the time to wake up becomes." The Heir spoke indifferently. As for the others, they hadn't woken up even once, but that girl Ling'er was unusual; she had woken up fifteen times. You Jing gasped; such a bizarre matter made even her feel alarmed, and the others, hearing these words, were also stunned and paused for a moment.

Xiang Ningyan's eyes widened as he looked at the floor and then at the rag in his hand.

"I've mopped the floor several times in these past few days?" Wu Wu Jianwu was also dumbfounded, feeling it was incredible that he had been repeating poetry.

Ling'er's heart shook! Li Youfei was confused! You Jing couldn't help but speak in a low voice.

"Senior, is this caused by Xu Qing's cultivation?"

"That's right, this is the initial manifestation of the forgetting artistic conception. He has already embarked on this path. Every time he studies, everything around him will be affected and will experience memory loss just like him." The Heir drank the water in his teacup.

"And your current memories—in a while, when that kid Xu Qing finishes this cultivation session, he will forget his research, and you will also forget all of this." Everyone gasped, and Li Youfei, who was trembling at this moment, suddenly spoke.

"Senior... I... I often have things missing from my body. Is it because my Young Master has been refining elixirs recently?" The Heir looked at Li Youfei and nodded. He had forgotten that he thought it was the first time, but in reality, he had already refined things from him hundreds of times.

Upon hearing this, Li Youfei's body went limp, and extreme panic rose in his heart. The Heir's gaze fell outside the gate, and he spoke indifferently.

"A guest has arrived." Wu Wu Jianwu at the door instinctively braced himself and looked toward the street. A voice drifted in; the visitor was an old man. This old man's expression was grave, and he looked extremely serious and pedantic.

After appearing, he arrived outside the Tiannan Medicine Shop in a few steps, his expression respectful as he bowed deeply toward the inside as if on a pilgrimage.

"Tiannanzi of the Reverse Moon Palace requests an audience with His Highness the Heir!" This Tiannanzi was none other than the Fourth Palace Master! This was his first time coming here to pay a visit since arriving at the Kusheng Mountain Range. Originally, he had wanted to come and pay his respects to the Heir sooner, but in these seven or eight days, besides his subordinates setting up camp, he had suddenly had more things to do.

The reason for this stemmed from Master Dan Jiu of the Reverse Moon Palace. It started seven days ago when he went to the Moon Palace and requested an audience outside the temple, finally seeing the divine statue of Master Dan Jiu. He then politely and sincerely invited the other party to sell him more Disaster-Reducing Pills and left behind the Reverse Moon Palace's sound-transmission method.

Master Dan Jiu agreed, and every day after that, Master Dan Jiu transmitted sound to him many times, asking him to come and collect the medicine—seven or eight times a day, and dozens of times when it was frequent.

Although he didn't understand why there were so many times, every time he received the elixirs, it made him extremely invigorated. Many of his subordinates with heavy curses had resolved many crises because of this, and through his own personal efforts, he had stabilized their injuries.

Because of this... time was delayed, and only today was he finally free to come and pay his respects.