Chapter 39

One after another, the sound of sharply drawing in cold breaths rose and fell throughout the crowd.

As a member of Wu Lin, who didn't know the great name of Yunzhou Shaolin's Great Return Pill!

One could say this.

Even across the entire Nine Provinces continent.

The Yunzhou Shaolin Great Return Pill was a divine medicine dreamed of by countless rogue cultivator experts!

Not to mention that taking it could increase one's cultivation by fifty years.

Just the fact that it could heal all internal and external injuries, and even keep a dying person clinging to their last breath.

Was enough to make countless people drool over it!

After all.

Those who roamed the jianghu lived lives of licking blood off the edge of a blade.

Who didn't have a few enemies?

If one possessed the Yunzhou Shaolin Great Return Pill, it was equivalent to having a second life.

Who could resist such a temptation?

Compared to this.

The earlier century-old spiritual medicines and dark iron stones and the like instantly seemed somewhat dimmed.

"To congratulate Zhang Zhenren, the Master of Wuzheng Shanzhuang has come with his disciples to attend the ceremony, presenting a congratulatory gift: one two-hundred-year spiritual medicine!"

"To congratulate Zhang Zhenren, the Master of Divine Sword Shanzhuang has come with his disciples to attend the ceremony, presenting a congratulatory gift: one famous sword!"

"To congratulate Zhang Zhenren, the Master of Xue Family Manor has come with his disciples to attend the ceremony, presenting a congratulatory gift: one two-hundred-year spiritual medicine!"

"To congratulate Zhang Zhenren, the Sect Leader of the Great Song Quanzhen Sect has come with his disciples to attend the ceremony, presenting a congratulatory gift: one two-hundred-year spiritual medicine!"

"Liushan Sect comes to congratulate, presenting a congratulatory gift..."

"Embroidered Uniform Guard comes to congratulate, presenting a congratulatory gift..."

"..."

Numb!

Utterly numb!

At this very moment.

The gathered rogue cultivators had been so stunned by these extravagant congratulatory gifts that they didn't know what to say.

If the earlier ones could still be considered small-scale skirmishes.

Then the current congratulatory gifts were each no worse than the Yunzhou Shaolin Great Return Pill, or even stronger!

One must know.

The current Nine Provinces was not like the era of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Century-old spiritual medicines were already considered precious and rare treasures of heaven and earth in the jianghu and Wu Lin!

Once they appeared, they were enough to stir up a bloody storm!

And spiritual medicines over a century old were even rarer still!

Apart from the various nations and the major top-tier powers.

To give one as a congratulatory gift.

Even high-level powers would feel the pain acutely!

From this, one could see.

Just how exaggerated the value of these congratulatory gifts truly was!

Just as he was thinking.

Suddenly!

Another light, airy voice came floating over.

"To congratulate Zhang Zhenren, Zhuge Shenhou of the Dragon-Protecting Shanzhuang, Zhu Tie Dan, has come with the Four Secret Spies to attend the ceremony, presenting a congratulatory gift: one five-hundred-year spiritual medicine!"

???

A five-hundred-year spiritual medicine?!!

The crowd instantly exploded!

The rogue cultivators were dumbfounded!

Zhang Da stood with his mouth agape, his entire person frozen in place.

His face was full of an expression of utter disbelief!

Not only them.

Even the gathered Yizhongzhang Sect leaders who had come to attend the ceremony were all stunned!

This was a five-hundred-year spiritual medicine!

Something that even the Chaoyebu Society of the Eight Great Imperial Dynasties would not ignore!!

And it was just given away as a congratulatory gift like this??

Squandering wealth!

Truly squandering wealth to the extreme!!

For a moment.

The many sect leaders couldn't help but furiously slander him in their hearts.

Deep within their pupils, a fiery gleam flashed past.

Within the crowd.

A youth holding a folding fan, who had originally been watching with a smiling grin.

Hearing this voice.

His face instantly darkened.

His eyes brimmed with endless coldness and a sinister air!

Beside him.

An old man who coughed from time to time had an equally unpleasant expression.

But upon recalling the congratulatory gift they had discussed earlier.

The two exchanged a glance, then smiled again.

"Yo~ I was wondering who could be so generous! Turns out it's the Divine Marquis! My respects, my respects!"

Just as the crowd was still immersed in the grand gesture of a five-hundred-year spiritual herb and hadn't come back to their senses.

A soft, sharp voice suddenly rang out across the field.

In the tone.

Brimming with undisguised mockery.

The crowd was stunned, and in unison turned their gazes over.

PS: Let me explain in advance — since this is a comprehensive martial arts world, some characters' cultivation and ages will differ from the originals. For example, Zhang Wuji is still a child right now, but Zhao Min and Zhou Zhiruo have already grown up. Get what I mean? (sideways glance smile)

029 — A Thousand-Year Spiritual Herb, Zhang Sanfeng Slaps the Ming Emperor! (Begging for flowers, begging for tips)

The crowd parted.

The speaker was seen wearing a eunuch's attire.

Under everyone's gaze, he walked over unhurriedly.

A faint smile still hung on his face.

But the smile looked a bit fake, giving people an inexplicable chill.

Behind him followed several dozen little eunuchs.

The one at the head held a tray in both hands.

A red cloth covered the tray, inevitably stirring curiosity.

"What business is it of yours how this marquis acts?!"

"Rather, Eunuch Cao — shouldn't you be interrogating criminals at the Eastern Depot? What leisure brings you to Mount Wudang instead?"

Zhu Wushi snorted heavily with a cold face.

The words had barely fallen.

The expressions of everyone present changed.

Their gazes toward Cao Zhengchun were filled with ill intent.