Chapter 686

【I am like Mr. Dan Heng, a wanderer in a foreign land.】

【Now returning to gaze upon the scenery of old, one cannot help but feel a touch of emotion.】

Lingsha shook her head and let out a soft sigh.

【If not for the Ambrosial Arbor, the scenery here would surely be far better.】

Yanqing said, looking at the distant view.

【Is that so? I, on the other hand, think the Ambrosial Arbor adorning the spot is rather magnificent.】

Lingsha gazed into the distance at the Ambrosial Arbor and offered a different view.

Yanqing: "The Ambrosial Arbor may indeed be magnificent, but regrettably, it is ultimately not a harmless tree."

Yanqing: "In Yanqing's view, the less of this sort of magnificence, the better."

Furina: "If Luo Fu had no Ambrosial Arbor, would it be many times more stable?"

Diviner Fu Xuan: "Naturally."

Diviner Fu Xuan: "Speaking of which, the Ambrosial Arbor is like a time bomb buried deep within Luo Fu."

Diviner Fu Xuan: "If it never acts up, all is well; but should it stir at all, for Luo Fu it would be a calamity of the greatest magnitude."

Hu Tao: "Then is there no way to eradicate it completely?"

Paimon: "Right, why not just dig the whole thing out, roots and soil and all?"

Boothill: "Hahaha, damn it—if it were that easy to deal with this thing, I reckon the Xianzhoulian Alliance would've dug it out long ago. Would it still be here till now?"

Diviner Fu Xuan: "This is a genuine Abundance's Scourge, a power bestowed by Abundance herself."

Diviner Fu Xuan: "We mortals simply lack the ability to eradicate it."

Diviner Fu Xuan: "And the reason the Ambrosial Arbor fell into deathly stillness before was that the Hunt took action and severed it."

Diviner Fu Xuan: "Unfortunately, after Phantylia's scheming, the Ambrosial Arbor has revived once more."

Diviner Fu Xuan: "For Luo Fu, this is no good thing."

Lumine: "To think it took the Hunt's Aeon to act in person just to cut it down."

Lumine: "And even after being cut down, it could still revive..."

Lumine: "Truly worthy of an Aeon's handiwork—truly a tough one to deal with!"

The video continues.

【No matter how magnificent, it is still an Abundance's Scourge.】

【The Luofu Xianzhou has battled the Abominations for thousands of years; seeing the Ambrosial Arbor's burden rise again, unease inevitably stirs in every heart.】

Yanqing looked at the Ambrosial Arbor, worry surfacing in his eyes.

【Once a seed is buried, no matter how its growth is delayed, the moment will come when it sprouts and bears fruit.】

【In this humble one's humble opinion, the Ambrosial Arbor's rebirth is like the reappearance of the Medicine Master's secret lore—inevitable.】

【This seed was buried the moment the ancestors of the Luofu Xianzhou sought longevity.】

Lingsha suddenly uttered words of rather profound implication.

【Why suddenly bring up such a serious topic?】

【One must not speak carelessly, Miss Lingsha.】

【Weren't we talking about tea? Where's the tea?】

Seeing that Lingsha seemed about to say something alarming,

Stelle quickly forced a laugh and cut her off.

【This one was rash. Brother Dan Heng and Guard Yanqing were firsthand witnesses of this Ambrosial Arbor calamity, so there are matters I wished to discuss with the two of you.】

Lingsha explained to the crowd.

【What does Miss Lingsha wish to ask?】

Yanqing nodded.

【This one has been honored with a commission from the Alliance to sweep away the accumulated dust within the Alchemy Commission.】

【However, Luo Fu's Alchemy Commission is riddled with holes, long past the point of no return.】

【I wish to prescribe a remedy, but I wonder what insights the two of you might offer?】

Paimon: "Accumulated dust??"

Paimon: "Is Miss Lingsha here to do a big cleaning of the Alchemy Commission?"

Lumine: "..."

Lumine: "Paimon, you're so dumb you could die."

Lumine: "It's obviously referring to those corrupt people within the Alchemy Commission, right?"

March 7th: "The corrupt people within the Alchemy Commission..."

March 7th: "You mean the hidden Medicine Master's secret lore?"

Dan Heng: "Correct, and also some Vidyadhara who have long since defected in secret."

Stelle: "What's so hard about that?"

Stelle: "Just drag them all out—kill the ones who deserve killing, butcher the ones who deserve butchering!"

Stelle: "Kill off these parasites, and the Alchemy Commission will be clean."

Guinaifen: "Oh my rolling heads!"

Guinaifen: "That scene must be terrifying."

Lingsha: "Hehe, that is indeed a simple and crude method."

Lingsha: "But in practice, it's not nearly that simple."

Lingsha: "The hardest part, beyond everything else, is the very step of catching them."

Hearing Yanqing: "Those remnants of the Medicine King's Secret Transmission must be hiding extremely deep — they won't easily reveal themselves."

Hearing Yanqing: "To catch them all would be quite difficult..."

Hearing Yanqing: "In Yanqing's humble opinion, this still needs to be planned out carefully."

The video continues.

【Although I am a member of the Vidyadhara clan, like the two companions beside me, I too am an outsider.】

【Brother Dan Heng has no say in the medical prescription Miss Lingsha wants.】

【But... there is one piece of advice I hope Miss Lingsha will hear.】

【For a long time now, the Vidyadhara of Luo Fu and the Alchemy Commission have had countless threads of cooperation between them. If Miss Lingsha cannot stand apart from this, changing the situation within the Alchemy Commission will likely be very difficult.】

Brother Dan Heng gave his own opinion.

【Yanqing doesn't know much about governance — he only knows that the Medicine King's Secret Transmission has been operating within the Alchemy Commission for many years.】

【If Miss Lingsha wishes to root out its influence, she may discuss countermeasures with the General.】