Urban Romantic Divine Doctor

Chapter 288: Chapter 287, Blessing in Disguise, Tremendous Good Fortune

Yue Qian Mountain, this name was a forbidden existence among The Outer Eight Sects. Only a few knew this name, even though Xu Wendong had gone to Pawnshop Number Eight to see his own disciple.

Yet Elder Qin’s mind remained unsettled for a long time, because even Mo Yuan, his own disciple, was unaware of this name.

Xu Wendong spoke about Elder Fang’s situation.

Elder Qin sighed with relief, ”Elder Fang was a renowned war hero, with illustrious achievements. The Wa Country hatched a grudge against him. Even in defeat, they wouldn’t let him go.”

After a pause, he asked, ”Did you kill the Gu worm Yue Qian Mountain left in Elder Fang?”

Elder Qin found Xu Wendong’s skills increasingly hard to fathom.

After all, dispelling Gu was extremely troublesome. Not just the average martial expert, even the other seven factions within The Outer Eight Sects would be helpless against a Gu worm.

Especially Yue Qian Mountain, who was known as the most prodigious disciple in the history of the Gu Sect. His ability to plant Gu, and the Gu worms he nurtured, were difficult even for the experts of the Gu Sect to unravel.

”Alas!” Xu Wendong sighed, ”I did want to eliminate that Gu worm, but... it drilled into my left eye.”

Elder Qin inhaled sharply, ”Let me see.”

Xu Wendong leaned in and pulled his eyelid open.

Elder Qin carefully examined Xu Wendong’s eye. In the white of his eye, he vaguely saw the outline of a worm. He couldn’t help asking, ”Can you see anything with this eye?”

Xu Wendong replied, ”Other than being a bit blurry, there’s no major abnormality.”

Elder Qin nodded slightly, then added, ”You’re... probably not an ordinary person, are you?”

”Right, I’m a cultivator.” Xu Wendong did not hide his identity as a cultivator since Elder Qin had saved his life. If not for the Wandox Poison Elder Qin had given him, Xu Wendong would have long been poisoned to death by people from the Life-Seeking Sect.

Elder Qin suddenly laughed, ”I didn’t expect, truly didn’t expect, that you, this guy, were also a cultivator. No wonder. If you weren’t a cultivator, you wouldn’t have avoided the assassination of the Life-Seeking Sect.”

His tone shifted, and Elder Qin’s voice suddenly became serious, ”However, even for a cultivator, it’s very difficult to kill the Gu worm in your eye.”

”From what I know, the Gu worms nurtured by Yue Qian Mountain are very special. They not only absorb the essence blood of the host but also transform according to the host’s strength.”

Xu Wendong’s heart trembled violently, and he quickly asked, ”Elder, my strength has reached a bottleneck. Technically, I should have broken through, but I don’t feel any signs of breaking through. Could this be related to the Gu worm in my eye?”

Elder Qin shook his head, ”I’m not a cultivator either. I don’t know what’s happening in your case, but we can’t rule out the possibility that the Gu worm is causing trouble inside you.”

”Do you know how to kill the Gu worm nurtured by Yue Qian Mountain?” Xu Wendong’s face was sallow, harboring a foreboding feeling. He didn’t wish for a Gu worm to ruin his future.

Elder Qin mumbled, ”Besides Yue Qian Mountain, I’m afraid no one knows how to kill the Gu worm he nurtured.”

This answer was like a heavy blow to Xu Wendong.

But he quickly pulled himself up, raised a glass of wine, drank it in one go, and laughed, ”It’s no big deal. The worst outcome is just to dig out the left eye.”

”No!”

Elder Qin said, ”You mustn’t ruin yourself, and you definitely shouldn’t destroy that Gu worm either!”

”That Gu worm was in Elder Fang’s body for many years; it shouldn’t be an ordinary Gu worm by now, right?”

”That’s true,” Xu Wendong said, ”That Gu worm contains a trace of national fortune within it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have fallen for it and let it burrow into my eye!”

Elder Qin laughed, ”Perhaps we don’t know how to eliminate this Gu worm, but we can address the problem at its root. As long as you kill Yue Qian Mountain, his Gu worm will instantly die.”

”By then, the national fortune contained within the Gu worm will be yours to take advantage of!”

”The national fortune is something that can’t be seen or touched, yet it’s the most mystical presence between heaven and earth.”

”Although I’m not a cultivator,”

”I have read in ancient texts that cultivators focus on the struggle of luck.”

”Whose luck is stronger, they are qualified to be the prodigy of their time.”

”Even though national fortune and luck differ by only one word, there is a world of difference. As the name suggests, national fortune is a country’s future luck, related to the rise and fall of the common people.”

”Even though the Gu worm in your eye contains only a small part of the national fortune, when that small portion of national fortune falls on you alone, it will transform into powerful luck.”

”This is a blessing in disguise for you!”

”This is your fortuitous fate!”

Xu Wendong’s eyes lit up. He hadn’t expected such a perspective.

If things were truly as Elder Qin described, this would definitely be a great blessing in disguise.

”But... we don’t know where Yue Qian Mountain is.” Thinking of Yue Qian Mountain, Xu Wendong sighed again. He had heard from Elder Fang that after the Wa Country lost the war, Yue Qian Mountain followed them to Wa Country.

”Not a big problem.” Elder Qin laughed, ”Even if you don’t seek out Yue Qian Mountain, he will come looking for you personally to take back the Gu worm inside you.”

”After all, he invested so much effort to leave a Gu worm that could absorb national fortune in Elder Fang’s body. How could he possibly let you take advantage of it?”

”But this is nothing you need to worry about. If Yue Qian Mountain truly shows up, the Gu worm in your eye will sense his arrival, and by then, there will be a chain reaction.”

Xu Wendong murmured a response.

He wasn’t too worried about the so-called Yue Qian Mountain. Even though Yue Qian Mountain was proficient in Gu Art, to him it was merely a side path, nothing more.

As he slurped his noodle, he spoke, ”I told your disciple to gather your old troops. Once they’re gathered, head to the Life-Claiming Door Headquarter in Luoyang.”

”Some rituals must be observed.”

Although he had obtained the token of the Sect Leader of the Life-Seeking Sect, he hadn’t held an ascension ceremony.

Elder Qin asked, ”You plan to use this move to lure out the traitors who betrayed the Life-Seeking Sect?”

”Indeed!” Xu Wendong grinned, ”Even though the Life-Seeking Sect’s headquarters moved to Jingdu, for the disciples of the Life-Seeking Sect, the roots of the Life-Seeking Sect are in Luoyang.”

”If I ascend at the old site of the Life-Seeking Sect in Luoyang, it will undoubtedly be legitimate, and I’ll be the rightful Sect Leader.”

”If that happens, someone will surely try to stop me in secret.”

”They might even try to assassinate me.”

”I can take this opportunity to catch them all in one net and clean house for the Life-Seeking Sect.”

Elder Qin looked at him with a gratified gaze, ”You, this guy, not only are you strong, but you also have almost demonic intelligence. I believe you can certainly purge the Life-Seeking Sect of its improper practices and clear out those remnants.”

”If that time comes, then my old dream can finally be realized!”

Xu Wendong asked curiously, ”What exactly is your old dream?”