AST 2003 - Half A Year Later, Imperial Cuisine Hall, Great Benevolence and Righteousness (1/2)

Before Yu Xixuan left, Qing Shui gave her quite a lot of spices. Their agreement for the cooperation was considered to have been established. However, their real cooperation should only start in the future when they had arrived in the True Nine Continents World.

The next day, news of the Imperial Cuisine Hall's Qing Shui wiping out the Sacred Medicine Palace quickly spread throughout the Great Shang City. The news said that it was due to the abduction of Qing Ci and Little Mo and also because they had laid their hands on Qing Shui's medical skills.

It was only then, did the people from the Imperial Cuisine Hall find out about what had happened, especially those young men. Earlier on, they only knew that Qing Shui was very powerful, but they hadn't expected him to be this strong. Lan Lingfeng, the Barbarian Emperor, and the others were also astonished for quite a while. Only upon recalling the scene of Qing Shui and Qing Ci coming back that they knew what Qing Shui had gone to do.

Furthermore, the Imperial Cuisine Hall's reputation had grown even greater. This time around, it was due to the Sacred Medicine Palace. What kind of existence was the Sacred Medicine Palace? To think that they would set their eyes on the Imperial Cuisine Hall's medical skills. This meant that the Imperial Cuisine Hall was even stronger than the Sacred Medicine Palace. Thinking of the rumors which had said that the Imperial Cuisine Hall was very strong, they now understood that it was the truth.

Two days later, Zhang Miaoyun came by. His expression still seemed to be very calm, wearing a happy smile. After the acupuncture session today, his treatment would be considered over.

”You really don't show off your real capabilities. This Sacred Medicine Palace is really greedy.” Zhang Miaoyun said happily.

”Why do you say that?” Qing Shui asked curiously.

”The Sacred Medicine Palace actually has quite a good reputation around here. After all, they are a sect with many alchemists. Everyone in the area would have to show them some respect. As time passed, their characters changed and now after they saw the threat that the Imperial Cuisine Hall poses, they couldn't sit still. I just didn't expect that these people would do something like abducting people.”

”They didn't just abduct. They've also done a lot of bad deeds in the back.” Qing Shui smiled and said.

”Everyone knows, but no one said anything. Such things aren't uncommon in great clans and powers. When their influence grows greater, no matter how strict they were back then, they would still indulge in certain situations. This is very common. Many people would unknowingly lose themselves that way.” Zhang Miaoyun shook his head and said.

”Sir, I see that you've been really close with the Jade Fragrant Restaurant recently. I have to congratulate you.” Zhang Miaoyun didn't seem interested to continue too much on the previous topic and changed to talk about the Jade Fragrant Restaurant.

”Oh, Brother Zhang knows about the Jade Fragrant Restaurant?” Qing Shui was very curious. He also wanted to know about the Jade Fragrant Restaurant's background. Why was such a charming lady here? He didn't believe that it was for the purpose of setting up a top notch restaurant in the area.

”I don't know much either. I only know that her identity is very mysterious and the force backing her up seems to be very big as well. They are people from the True Nine Continents World. The reason why she's here is also very mysterious, it seems like she is taking a break from something. However, she has been here for over ten years and it's really strange.” Zhang Miaoyun shook his head and said.

Zhang Miaoyun's meridian channels had been healed by Qing Shui. However, he wouldn't be able to use his Origin Qi temporarily and couldn't cultivate either. Despite that, Zhang Miaoyun was already very excited. For the past few years, he didn’t have any cultivation at all. He had thought of killing himself on multiple occasions. However, at the sight of his parents' worried gazes and also at the thought of his wife, he could only choose to bear with it. Even if he was a cripple, he would still have to live on bravely.

‘Every cloud has a silver lining’. He was an absolute genius from the Zhang Clan and now that he was given a chance to recover, the Zhang Clan would arrange many experts to protect Zhang Miaoyun. It was because he wouldn't be able to use his Origin Qi for some time and they were afraid that there would be people with bad intentions who would try to harm him.

For Zhang Miaoyun's sake, Qing Shui had also given him a treasure that he had forged himself. Although it could only be used to fend off people who were at the Martial Emperor or lower, experts tended to be too prideful and wouldn't do such things themselves. Therefore, even if anything was to happen, it would be done by small fries. It would be fine as long as Zhang Miaoyun didn't use his Origin Qi.

The rest of the world wasn't aware that Zhang Miaoyun wasn't able to use his Origin Qi, but it was better to be safe than sorry.

Zhang Miaoyun was almost fully recovered. He would be able to recover completely after resting at home for a month.