Mortal To Immortal (Book 1)
MTI 177 - King of the Amulets
Snow Fox City had indeed had a great time after the news of Physician Yao whom they knew turned out to be a disciple of the most influential person in the entire Green Forest Country even the Blue Moon Continent. However, the furor was not too long before it became an enthusiastic feeling that made more and more people come to Yao Han's medicinal home.
Yao Han himself did not know whether to be happy or not to get many visitors for treatment. Just by looking at the large number of visitors, it had already overwhelmed Yao Han.
Some of these visitors were prospective new patients, while others were people Yao Han had already treated. He did not know that the purpose of those who came again was not to seek treatment, but to give proper greetings and gifts after knowing his true identity.
Yao Han tried to shake off the awkwardness while maintaining his friendly smile as best he could. While the Dimensional Pagoda residents who saw it just laughed.
In a short period of time, the number of visitors to Yao Han's medicinal house was more than what the Snow Fox City branch Treasure Shop and Nagarasa Restaurant had ever obtained.
Zhao Yi who knew of this became speechless as he pondered after hearing the report from Zhao Er.
"Manager Zhao, I'm pleased with the arrival of Senior disciple East Wind, but our shop is experiencing a decline in daily sales as most of the customers come to his medicinal home."
"Hm..." Zhao Yi stroked his chin, "We might lose, but it wasn't much and it was just for a moment. News of its existence was soon heard until the neighboring towns. When that comes, we'll get more profit than ever."
Zhao Er immediately understood the intent of this remark of her superior.
"How long do you think he's survived in this town?"
"Let's know, I wish he could stay longer, but he has an important travel agenda. He would probably go straight to Spring City to get a rare magic plant sold there. In addition, the news of the war also made it will not linger in this city."
"Manager, I think we should send someone to watch over Brother Yao, give him protection to stay safe while in this city."
"You have a point, but he may not be happy. So we do it secretly. Send us four members and call the mayor to do the same."
"Okay, Manager."
There were a total of eight people watching and protecting Yao Han from a distance. However, Yao Han was able to figure it out due to Bing Lizi's report of overseeing the surrounding area using the Heavenly Senses. Yao Han just acted unaware of it.
The crowd outside Yao Han's medicinal home was numerous, but neatly formed an unsolicited queue. After paying attention for a while, Yao Han stopped the treatment process and walked out of his house. The crowd that had been whispering became speechless looking at Yao Han.
"Tabib Yao, is there something bothering you?" One of the visitors asked a little worried.
"There, I see a lot of you overheating. I want to do something to make sure you guys stay comfortable while you wait in the queue."
All those visitors felt touched by Yao Han's small attention. They felt the heat was not a big thing as long as they could get Yao Han's treatment.
Yao Han asked his prospective patients to step aside a dozen meters and be followed straight away. With a single leg stomp, Yao Han made the surrounding ground tremble and his medicinal home slowly disappeared into the ground. These visitors could only remain stunned and curious.
Yao Han kept a longer distance from the people. Taking one deep breath, Yao Han's two hands enveloped in green light formed a simple hand seal.
People were then surprised by the appearance of ten large, multi-branched, and very leafy trees. It reaches ten meters high.
These ten trees were divided into two parts, on the right and left side of the boundary of the land that belonged to the Jade Treasure Shop branch of Snow Fox City. The dense foliage of five 'pairs' of trees lined with each other regularly blocks sunlight and forms a soothing shadow area.
Still beset by the action of Yao Han creating giant trees that they thought was impossible, people again saw Yao Han making his home of medicine with the same size and shape as before.
"next patient! Please enter!"
Yao Han exclaimed rather loudly as the distance with the visitor was quite far. This rush of visitors forms a new queue in a more comfortable atmosphere.
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As Zhao Yi expected, after almost everyone in Snow Fox City visited Yao Han's medicinal home, came visitors from other cities.
If previously Yao Han only got visitors of free cultivators and ordinary humans, visitors who came from this other city were members of small and medium-sized sects.
Over the course of several days, Yao Han continued to gain many visitors and received many rewards instead of being paid for his medicinal services.
The Snow Fox Branch Treasure Shop and Nagarasa Restaurant also benefited as most of these visitors became their customers.
Yao Han did not count the length of time he had been in Snow Fox City and had thought of delaying the trip even longer. Nor does it count the number of visitors who come for treatment and 'gifts' given.
However one thing that was certain was that Yao Han managed to create his good reputation for himself and raise his teacher's big name to an even higher level.
The thing that made him mysterious was that Yao Han realized this man was a cultivator, but did not manage to read his level of practice. This was strange because Yao Han had the ability to read a higher level of practice than him without exception.
Despite this, Yao Han did not feel this old man had any ill intentions towards him.
"I've long heard the news about Senior disciple East Wind. I can't believe my image of his disciple isn't the same when I look at you. Yet you have the same aura as her."
Yao Han was quite surprised, as this old man's remark signified that he knew his teacher quite closely. The same was felt by the Dimensional Pagoda's inhabitants especially Bing Lizi.
"Senior, my name is Yao Han. May I know your name? You know my teacher."
The man laughed amusedly due to Yao Han's attitude towards him, "Don't be too shy, young man. My name is Tang An, just call Grandpa Tang. I've only met your teacher once. However, your magic reminds me of Senior Southern Dragon, I also met him once, but they don't know my identity."
"Alright, Grandpa Tang. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Hm, that..." Tang An hung up his words. Inadvertently his eyes glanced towards Yao Han's talisman-made papers. "Where did you get these amulets?"
"I made it myself."
"Oh, really?" Tang An's narrowed eyes widened and without Yao Han's permission, his hands took out each one sheet of talisman paper from three different types of talismans.
"It's not strange that you mastered alchemy and medicine, but you also mastered the method of making talismans. Interesting, very interesting." Tang An's eyes seemed to light up, "And I feel familiar with this pattern of scratches in your talisman ink."
Yao Han then recounted the experience of meeting with the two White Lotus Sect disciples and obtaining the knowledge of how to make talismans from them.
"So so. The White Lotus Sect could be said to be one of the sects that preserved the method of making talismans that had started to be rare. Roughly one-third of their members were Talisman User Cultivators and the strongest one was Mahaguru Wu Bai's third disciple, Wu San's Concealed Ape."
"I heard there is the best Talisman User Cultivator that the Blue Moon Continent has and is nicknamed the King of Amulets. I wish I could meet him one day."
Tang An let out a laugh and then he said, "Your hope is granted the heavens, young man. You're dealing with the King of the Fetish."
"What?!"
Tang An let out another laugh with Yao Han's reaction. It was extremely satisfied that he saw Yao Han being shocked to the point of being speechless. Tang An was not long at Yao Han's medicinal home because his original purpose was just to get acquainted and have a chat.
Before leaving, Tang An handed him a book of considerable size, containing notes on the method of making the various types of talismans he had once made. Yao Han could not resist, as Tang An forced to accept it.
Tang An advised Yao Han to give some knowledge of the Talisman Dao from him to the members of the White Lotus Sect and keep the book of his gift well.
There were two reasons Tang An had gifted the book. First, because of Yao Zhan's background. The second most important, Tang An realized Yao Han had a high talent in the Dao of Talismans when he had only studied it for a few months and Tang An had not found the right person as the heir to his knowledge.
Afterwards, Tang An left while carrying away some of Yao Han's talisman-made paper and a Blue Lotus Flower.
Two days after that, a small portion of the population of Snow Fox City was startled by the arrival of a small group of four women. From her stature consisted of two young women and two adult women wearing masks. One of the women was wearing different clothes.
Just then Yao Han was relaxing on the terrace of the medicinal home and within two seconds of observation, he was immediately able to recognize these four people who were approaching towards him.
There were two things that quite caught Yao Han's attention. First, one of the young women who was in a sling looked weak helpless. Secondly, another young woman wearing different clothes was a familiar figure in Yao Han's memories. Bing Xueyu, the eldest daughter of Ice King Bing Houyi.
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Author Note:
Three chapters at once after not updating for a few days. Oh, yeah. Wuhu.
After these three chapters, Author will take another day off because it wants to settle real-world affairs (Yaelah, busy-ass pretentious).
During the "holiday" period, the Author will take the time to create a savings chapter. Well just a leak, some chapters next, MC does not appear. There will be other discussions that may be rather long. So let it be delicious, later the author will immediately love crazy up (when it is not, hohoho).
Do not protest, please wait for those who want to wait.
Warm cold greetings,
Author, Masway.