Enlightenment: Beginning as a Disposable Warrior

Chapter 242 - 167: Alien Kings, Dharma Gates of the World!

"You, you are the Pharmacist?"

Su Mu’s cold, fierce eyes contracted, revealing a look of disbelief on his face. How long had it been since he was unconscious? The Pharmacist, once capable of rivaling Yuan Qing, had fallen to such a state, utterly different from before.

"What, young friend, you don’t recognize me?" The Pharmacist suddenly coughed violently, as if he was about to cough up blood.

"That’s right, I don’t recognize you. If you were the Pharmacist, why didn’t you take Xiaoyue back?"

Su Mu’s tone shifted, staring directly at Lin Jingqiu, with anger and disappointment surging in the depths of his eyes.

"It’s not that I didn’t want to, but that I couldn’t..." The Pharmacist Lin Jingqiu took everything in and stood at the door for a long time before letting out a long sigh. He took trembling steps into the room.

"Please look, young friend."

Lin Jingqiu pointed to his brow, and amidst a full-body tremble, a blood-red ancient character slowly appeared on his brow: Huo.

"Huo?"

"This is the Huo Family Soul Seal. If you act against the Huo family, just by the thought of any Huo family member, my divine soul would be instantly obliterated."

"Both Yuan Qing and I have this soul seal in our bodies, and Yuan Qing possesses a treasure of the Huo family. If I had acted that night, both he and I would be dead."

Cough, cough!

Lin Jingqiu covered his mouth with his hand, coughing up a large mouthful of black blood. In that black blood, Su Mu sensed a familiar cold aura—it was clearly the aura of the Gu Insect under his chest. Su Mu’s eyes flashed, and he vaguely guessed the Pharmacist’s dire situation.

"My death is a small matter, but if Yuan Qing were to die in Cyan Cloud, the next time the Huo family sends someone, it wouldn’t just be one person; it could be an entire army. Young friend would certainly be doomed. And if I acted that night, I couldn’t have cared for you, young friend. The only way to break the deadlock was to let Yuan Qing take Xiaoyue away."

Su Mu’s eyes narrowed slightly upon hearing this, and the coldness in his heart dissipated somewhat. "You’ve been away for months just because of Yuan Qing?"

"That’s right, I took Xiaoyue’s blood to mislead Yuan Qing away from Cyan Cloud, but things didn’t go as planned. This matter has a bit to do with you, young friend. Perhaps everything is destiny."

"Related to me?"

The Pharmacist’s gaze fell on a wooden shelf inside the room, and Su Mu looked over to see the Red Flame Spear.

"Red Flame Spear? You mean the anomaly created by forging the Red Flame Spear attracted Yuan Qing?"

Seeing the Pharmacist’s slight nod, Su Mu trembled all over and stayed silent for a while. The Inference Talent quietly activated, linking everything he knew with what the Pharmacist had said earlier.

Soon, everything connected.

Months ago, the Pharmacist took Xiaoyue’s blood and left Cyan Cloud to lure Yuan Qing away, but due to an unforeseen accident, the phenomenon created by his forging of the Red Flame Spear attracted Yuan Qing to Cyan Cloud instead.

That night when Yuan Qing arrived, the Pharmacist most likely stayed hidden in the shadows, watching everything. The one who gave him a warning was clearly the Pharmacist.

It seems Xiaoyue’s identity is not simple. If that night Yuan Qing had died outside Qingyun City, the Huo family would probably send someone again, or even mobilize an army, and then both he and the Pharmacist would be doomed.

"Now that I look at it, the most perfect breaking point was actually for me to turn a blind eye..."

Su Mu’s mind raced, quickly deducing another possibility: that night, the Pharmacist must have known he left Qingyun City, but since the Pharmacist gave no warning, it spoke volumes.

The Pharmacist did not want him to rush back to Qingyun City. In this way, that night Yuan Qing would successfully take Xiaoyue away, and the Pharmacist would not need to intervene, and neither Yuan Qing nor the Huo family would know of Su Mu’s existence.

This also explained the contradictory entrustment the Pharmacist left before. The Pharmacist asked him to take care of the Little Doctor in the future, also advising him to quickly leave Cyan Cloud with the Little Doctor, but also left a conflicting note to reveal everything when he returned.

From the start, the Pharmacist had no definite plan. Perhaps, later on, he made up his mind to handle everything before revealing the truth to Su Mu, making everything seem reasonable.

The entrustment was likely to have him grow stronger first before retrieving the Little Doctor.

"My return to Qingyun City that night was a variable, disrupting the Pharmacist’s original plan...but ultimately, the Pharmacist still warned me, making it a test."

Su Mu’s eyes flashed. If he had remained indifferent, the Pharmacist, together with everything that happened that night, might have disappeared completely, never to return to Qingyun, as Su Mu would not prove to be someone worthy of trust.

Su Mu now understood all that had happened afterward. The Pharmacist waited in the shadows for the right opportunity to act, leading everything back to his design of having Yuan Qing take Xiaoyue away.

To Yuan Qing’s eyes, he was probably already dead. Even if not dead, he had become a cripple. Moreover, Yuan Qing had lost an arm to him, which was hardly an honorable affair. Upon returning, Yuan Qing certainly wouldn’t brag about it. Besides Yuan Qing, no one knew him, nor would anyone pay attention to such a minor figure.

Thinking of this, the anger in Su Mu’s heart dissipated, but the annoyance did not clear. He first asked a question.

"What will happen to Xiaoyue after being taken back to the Huo family?"

"Xiaoyue is a member of the Huo family, temporarily safe from any danger. But I, Lin Jingqiu, was entrusted by Xiaoyue’s mother, Lady Li, who does not wish for Xiaoyue to return to the Huo family. Returning to the Huo family would be a misfortune, not a blessing. She only wanted Xiaoyue to live a peaceful, ordinary life." Lin Jingqiu sighed and paused in speech.

"Young friend, if you have any questions, feel free to ask. I will answer everything to the best of my knowledge."

"Is the Huo family the same Huo family that served under the Grand Ancestor of Great Yan, led by the National Guardian General, Huo Wei?"

"Indeed, they are the ones who followed the Grand Ancestor of Great Yan in founding the Dynasty, the National Guardian General, and the Prince Zhenbei of the Huo family... Xiaoyue is just a childhood name. The young lady’s surname is Huo, named Qingyue, representing purity like a clear spring, brilliance like the moon."

"Prince Zhenbei, Huo Qingyue."

Su Mu murmured these words softly, sensing an invisible and heavy pressure—truly the family of the founding Grand General, and not only that, but also the Prince Zhenbei of Great Yan, an Alien King of the feudal Dynasty, revealing their heavyweight status.