A Mortal’s Journey to Immortality: Wang Yu’s Rebirth as the Reincarnation Dao Ancestor - Chapter 16

Chapter 16 Searching for Yu Zitong’s Storage Bag

In the initial draft of his book, the four pill formulas were acquired by Doctor Mo many years ago.

At that time,

Doctor Mo established the Jingjiao Society, was betrayed by his enemies, and was poisoned by a rare and deadly poison.

Unwilling to wait for death, he had to search for a cure.

He was fortunate enough to find a reclusive family of physicians.

Although they couldn’t completely eradicate the poison and his hidden ailment, they saved his life and strength.

As for how Mo Juren later obtained the pill formulas,

that goes without saying.

Originally, the Yellow Dragon Pill and the Golden Marrow Pill were created by the family’s mortal physicians for their own use to strengthen their constitution and improve their physical condition. After passing through Doctor Mo’s hands, they ended up in the hands of the original protagonist, Han Li, who was studying medicine in the book. Then, thanks to the convenience provided by the small bottle, Han Li, with his four pseudo-spiritual root aptitude, managed to use the pills to rapidly increase his cultivation to the eleventh level of Qi Refining.

It was truly unbelievable.

After all, who would have thought that a mortal pharmacist could research elixirs suitable even for cultivators in the mid-to-late stages of Qi Refining?

Who would have thought that such a valuable formula originated from the hands of a mortal physician?

“And Mo Juren is truly remarkable; he collected the seedlings of the four types of herbs related to these elixirs several years ago.” While watering the seedlings, Han Li was also deeply moved.

It was just a pity that these herbs weren’t old enough.

Without the small bottle of green liquid to accelerate their ripening, they couldn’t be used to prepare the four types of elixirs.

…

The large house where Doctor Mo lived.

The door creaked open from the outside.

A figure stepped in; it was Han Li.

He would enter the house every now and then to help Doctor Mo clean the room. This was one of the reasons why Doctor Mo liked him so much.

“Let’s look again, paying special attention to some inconspicuous places. Although I haven’t found it in the past ten or so times, this time… maybe?” He

then began to rummage through the drawers and cabinets,

starting with the medical books.

It’s no exaggeration to say that he had read through all the dozens of medical books on the shelves over the past three years, many of them nearly worn out. Combined with the keen senses, broad knowledge, and thirst for knowledge inherent in cultivators, he had absorbed most of them.

It was here that he found the formulas for four kinds of elixirs, including the Yellow Dragon Pill and the Golden Marrow Pill.

Unfortunately, these were almost entirely pharmacological texts, lacking any cultivation methods.

“The ‘Longevity Scripture’ isn’t here.”

The black-covered book that Doctor Mo always carried and studied was most likely taken with him.

“Where is Yu Zitong’s storage bag?”

As a disciple of a certain cultivation family in Yue Kingdom sent to the mortal realm for training, Yu Zitong probably carried many valuable items. At the very least, he certainly possessed some collections related to the cultivation world.

“I’ve searched this room at least ten times, I’ve looked every nook and cranny where I could hide something…”

“Where did Doctor Mo hide that storage bag?”

“Shouldn’t he be carrying it on his person?”

Doctor Mo, being a mortal without magical power, couldn’t use a storage bag himself. For a mortal to wander the world carrying a storage bag—a minor magical artifact used by cultivators—was practically asking for trouble.

If Yu Zitong didn’t want to die a violent death alongside Doctor Mo, she definitely wouldn’t try to trick him on this point.

That was certain.

Therefore,

Yu Zitong’s storage bag was most likely still hidden somewhere within the Seven Mysteries Sect. The fact

that Doctor Mo hadn’t taken out any “Blood Spirit Grass” from beginning to end indirectly proved this.

“Perhaps, Doctor Mo has some secret little treasure trove within the Seven Mysteries Sect that I don’t know about, specifically used to hide things…”

“That’s right, the cave in the book where the corpse puppet Zhang Tie was hidden…!”

Suddenly, Han Li realized something

. In the book, Zhang Tie disappeared for two years. During those two years, he was actually secretly murdered by Mo Juren and turned into a corpse puppet. He was placed in an extremely secluded cave at the foot of the mountain, hidden by Doctor Mo for two years.

It wasn’t until two years later that Mo Juren brought him up the mountain and into Divine Hand Valley.

“Were all the things placed in that cave by Mo Juren?”

“This is troublesome…”

In his previous life, he was indeed the author, and he set up all the plot points in the book.

But his descriptions of details weren’t so detailed that he was omniscient.

For example, he had absolutely no clue about the cave in the book where Mo Juren hid the corpse puppet Zhang Tie.

“I thought I could find Yu Zitong’s storage bag, then use my magic to open it and see if there was anything useful inside.” Like getting a magical artifact.

Even a low-grade magical artifact would be better than any divine weapon from the mortal world.

With a magical artifact capable of cutting through iron like mud in hand, he could easily launch a surprise attack on Mo Juren if he was caught off guard.

Or, for example,

finding that Blood Spirit Grass.

He used the Blood Spirit Grass to concoct a spiritual liquid to help improve his cultivation.

That aged Blood Spirit Grass was best suited for use in the late Qi Refining stage. Concocting it into a Blood Spirit Pill for cultivators to consume and refine would significantly boost their cultivation.

Come to think of it, wasn’t it precisely to protect that centuries-old Blood Spirit Grass that Yu Zitong fought a bloody battle with a cultivator of higher cultivation, leading to his current miserable state? A

spiritual grass that could make the worldly-loving Yu Zitong abandon his ways and fight to the death couldn’t be ordinary.

Yu Zitong possessed the formula for the Blood Spirit Pill.

He also had the recipe for concocting a special spiritual liquid using the Blood Spirit Grass, even writing it down in a book in this study.

Alas.

The Blood Spirit Grass was either in Doctor Mo’s hands, taken away, or in Yu Zitong’s storage bag.

“What a pity, what a pity…”

Han Li shook his head, suppressing his complex emotions, and left the study, finally returning to his small wooden hut.

However, he always felt a connection to that Blood Spirit Grass.

This feeling was inexplicable.

…

Spring turned to autumn, and more than a year passed.

Divine Hand Valley remained the same.

The herbs in the medicinal fields grew vigorously.

However,

Doctor Mo hadn’t returned to the mountain for a year and a half, causing some concern among the higher-ups of the Seven Mysteries Sect.

Sect Master Wang, along with several vice-sect masters and elders, came to Divine Hand Valley to inquire about Han Li and Zhang Tie.

Finding nothing, they all left with their own worries.

Before leaving, each of them would instruct Han Li and Zhang Tie:

“After your master returns, immediately inform the disciples of the Flying Bird Hall…”

“Disciples understand.”

The two certainly had no objections.

Even if they didn’t need to inform them, since the Seven Mysteries Sect’s mountain-guarding disciples should have relayed the message before them, why would they need to say anything more?

But they had to listen to the higher-ups and show a dutiful and obedient attitude.

Furthermore,

it’s worth mentioning…

Before leaving, Sect Leader Wang specifically reassured the two young men: “Since you two are Brother Mo’s personal disciples and are from my Seven Mysteries Sect, I naturally won’t mistreat you. You can continue practicing your skills and cultivating herbs in Divine Hand Valley as usual. I will have the money and rewards that Doctor Mo gives you continue to be distributed on time. Everything will remain the same…”

Clearly, he didn’t mind forming a good relationship with the two young men.

The two were very grateful for Sect Leader Wang’s kindness: “Thank you, Sect Leader.”

“Go back to the valley, no need to see us off.”

“Respectfully seeing off the Sect Leader.”

Doctor Mo might not have a high profile among the disciples in the valley, because he wouldn’t treat ordinary young people at all. But he had a very high profile among the higher-ups, after all, his medical skills far surpassed those of the other physicians on the mountain, and he was the personal physician for the sect’s higher-ups.

His sudden disappearance for more than a year wasn’t because the higher-ups were concerned about Doctor Mo’s safety, but because they were worried about their own health.

Previously, with Doctor Mo around, even if they were seriously injured by internal martial arts masters while traveling, they could be quickly and effectively saved.

But now,

Doctor Mo is gone.

They have no one to treat their difficult illnesses or serious injuries.

The few doctors on the mountain can handle minor injuries and illnesses, but they can only prolong life when dealing with serious illnesses and injuries. This is vastly different from when Doctor Mo was still alive.

Of course,

Han Li didn’t care about the lives of the Seven Mysteries Sect’s higher-ups.

Those people were very resilient and wouldn’t die so easily.

Even though the Seven Mysteries Sect’s recent friction with the Wild Wolf Gang, a bandit group, was escalating, he knew that the Wild Wolf Gang’s use of the imperial court’s military crossbows to attack the Seven Mysteries Sect, and even their request for Jin Guang Shangren’s assistance, were things that would happen three or four years later—when

he was eighteen.

It was still early.

“I wonder what Mo Juren’s situation is now?”

He was already prepared on their side.

If Zhang Tie didn’t make a breakthrough soon, he would fake his death to escape.

That’s right.

He planned to run away.

(End of this chapter)