Chu Qianfeng and several other male disciples stumbled, coughing lightly to hide their embarrassment.
Qi Linger and several female disciples blushed.
Although they couldn't understand what the dialogue inside the room meant, they vaguely knew it was about relations between men and women. After all, many scantily clad women stood on both sides of the alley.
From the surrounding houses, tender, passionate sounds drifted out from time to time.
In his mind, Jiang Ye couldn't help but gasp.
Holy crap, "cooking white porridge" in broad daylight?
An open-world game, but is it really this open?
Damn developers! When I played the game before, this map was clearly full of bleeps and censored words!
So all nine of my previous playthroughs were the censored version?!
Under Jiang Ye's navigation, the group twisted and turned through the alleys before finally stopping in front of a dilapidated medical clinic.
Outside the clinic, a long queue had formed, consisting entirely of haggard-looking men with deeply sunken eyes.
A lot of chatter could be heard:
“Old Liu, does getting poked with a needle really work that well?”
“Absolutely! After I got poked, I took on three of them last night!!”
“He's simply a divine doctor!”
...
A highly eye-catching, massive wooden sign stood at the entrance of the clinic:
“Miraculous Hands Bring Back Spring, Restoring Your Masculine Prowess.”
Even a fool could tell that this thing, located deep in a brothel alley, was absolutely not a legitimate medical clinic.
In her mind, Jiang Ye's voice rang out once more:
“Go in and find the doctor inside.”
“Oh...”
Bai Zhirou obediently replied. Then, she honestly walked to the very end of the queue and stood in line.
Jiang Ye: “...”
Xiao Bai really is a model citizen.
Just as Jiang Ye was about to log on and kick the door open himself, “Niulaiwa” Zhao Ran rubbed his hands with extreme familiarity and stepped out from the crowd.
He walked to the front of the queue. No one knew what he whispered to the men in line, but he casually slipped them a few heavy silver ingots.
The men in line glanced back at the Sword Peak group. Seeing that they all had extraordinary bearings and were not to be trifled with, they took the silver and scattered like startled beasts with grins on their faces.
In the blink of an eye, the queue of over a dozen people was cleared.
Gu Changqing and the others stared at Zhao Ran with bizarre expressions.
Zhao Ran scratched the back of his head and smiled sheepishly:
“Heheh, this kind of thing... I'm familiar with it.”
Creak—
The wooden door of the clinic pushed open, and a dark-skinned man walked out, looking refreshed and high-spirited.
Immediately after, an impatient, low voice drifted out from inside:
“Next.”
The Sword Peak crowd swarmed inside.
In the dim inner room, a thin man with a sallow face was sitting on a grand armchair, slowly wiping a row of long, thin silver needles with strong liquor.
Seeing a large crowd suddenly barge in, the man frowned deeply and slammed down his cloth:
“Where did you greenhorns come from? Do you know the rules?”
“If you want the 'Golden Spear Unyielding Needle,' only one person can come in at a time! Get out! Line up!”
From the crowd, Bai Zhirou stepped forward and walked straight up to the man.
Just then, Jiang Ye's urging voice rang out in her mind:
“Don't waste words with her. Just do exactly as I say!”
Bai Zhirou could only force her expression to remain stiff. Taking a deep breath, she followed Jiang Ye's script and recited the classic line with perfect pronunciation:
“Sister Luo Chi'er.”
“You... don't want to lose this job of yours either, right?”
The moment those words were spoken, the pupils of Luo Chi'er, who was disguised as a man, instantly shrank to the size of pinpricks!
Her hand, hidden behind her back, suddenly saw a slit rip open at the elbow, and several Gu insects were about to fly out.
Boom!
Bai Zhirou's terrifying pressure of the late Foundation Establishment stage poured out without reservation, pinning Luo Chi'er firmly onto the grand armchair!
Luo Chi'er's movements froze.
In the next second, this "divine doctor" who had been full of impatience just a moment ago suddenly collapsed onto the chair like a deflated balloon, covering her face as she broke down in tears:
“Why...”
“I've already hidden in this backwater place of the Eastern Continent, so why won't the Gu Clan just let me go?! Do they really have to drive me to a dead end? Sob, sob, sob...”
Watching the "man" before her crying with snot and tears, Bai Zhirou felt her scalp tingle.
She could only brace herself and continue to read the next line in a flat, robotic tone:
“Rest assured, we are not assassins sent by the Gu Clan. We're looking for you only because we want you to do us a small favor.”
The crying stopped abruptly.
Luo Chi'er, who had been slumped in the chair like a puddle of mud, suddenly stood up straight as if struck by lightning.
The tears on her face dried up in a single second. She smoothly switched to a professional, spring-breeze-like smile and bowed ninety degrees:
“I am happy to be of service, My Lord. Come, please step inside.”
The Sword Peak crowd: “?”
Is this fucking Sichuan face-changing?!
...
Half a ke later.
After Bai Zhirou briefly described the two giant wolves she was looking for, Luo Chi'er nodded and rolled up her right sleeve.
A tiny green Gu insect, no larger than a gnat, actually flew out of her smooth arm out of thin air!
It was a Rank One Gu insect specifically used to track demon beasts—the Demon-Seeking Gu!
In his mind, Jiang Ye looked at Luo Chi'er's arm, a nostalgic smile playing at the corners of his lips.
A bloody slit would rip open on her seemingly undamaged arm, but the others just couldn't see it.
That was precisely the key to becoming a Gu cultivator—the Aperture.
A Rank One Gu Master corresponded to Qi Condensation, Rank Two to Foundation Establishment, Rank Three to Golden Core... and so on.
As for Luo Chi'er in front of them, at most, she was only a Rank One Mid Stage Gu cultivator. How could she possibly know anything about saving the world with medicine?
As for her clinic's signature service that kept it in business, the "Golden Spear Unyielding Needle"...
...it actually didn't involve acupuncture at all.
Instead, she would release her own raised "Golden Spear Gu" to give the customer a quick bite every time.
Under the stimulation of the toxin, they would naturally stay rock-hard for most of the night.
Looking at the Demon-Seeking Gu that flew out, Jiang Ye couldn't help but sigh with admiration in his heart.
Back when I played as a Gu cultivator, I was incredibly underhanded.
Faced with cultivators of the same realm, I'd unleash all kinds of unavoidable poison Gu and curses, easily finding eighteen different ways to toy the opponent to death.
Unfortunately, one could not practice different paths together; the Gu cultivation system and the orthodox cultivation system were incompatible.
If not for Bai Zhirou's body awakening such a heaven-defying sword cultivator talent, he might have actually gone down the path of Gu cultivation.
After all, the methods of Gu cultivators were just too damn underhanded.
Besides, with the predecessors' "Rascal Cicada" as a brilliant example before him, the Gu of a grand Gu cultivator was by no means lacking!
In the room, the young disciples of Sword Peak watched with curiosity as the tiny Gu insect flew out of the window and disappeared into the air.
Having lived in the Eastern Continent all year round, they had rarely seen such bizarre Gu cultivation methods from the Southern Border, and their eyes were thoroughly opened.
Luo Chi'er closed her eyes tightly, her fingers constantly twitching as she focused entirely on sensing it.
Half a shichen later.
She suddenly snapped her eyes open, a hint of shock flashing deep within them, and quickly reported:
“I found them!”
“I smelled an extremely powerful and violent aura of demon beasts! It's on a hidden hilltop fifty li due east of Luopo Village!”
“There is a concealment formation barrier around them. My Gu insect's rank is too low, so I didn't dare to rashly approach.”
In his mind, Jiang Ye's eyes flashed with murderous intent as he sneered:
“I've finally found you... you rats in the sewer!”
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