Chapter 826: Rising Star (1/2)
GDK 826: Rising Star
Although Han Jin possessed Goldstone Enterprise, as the wealthiest of the Five Elite Zombies, Han Jin was not particularly great in strength. Goldstone Enterprise, as an energy crystal trading company, also did not possess a particularly powerful military unit. On the last trip to Ethereal City, Han Jin had carried many rare and precious rocks from another Dominion.
The information about their journey was somehow leaked. While his caravan was crossing the outskirts of the Fringe, they were attacked by a group of raiders. Not only that Han Jin had lost all the precious rocks he carried, but all of the shop workers that traveled with him were also killed.
If it wasn’t for the fact that there was a mountainous region nearby and his shop workers sacrificed their lives to hold back the raiders for him to escape, Han Jin might have perished.
Using his magical innate power, Han Jin paved a tunnel through the mountains and lost himself from the raiders. He then managed to return to Ethereal City by himself. The rare minerals which he gathered from other Dominions were gone. He was the only survivor of the attack.
After the gold-nugget like pelleted medicine entered Han Jin’s stomach, a miraculous yuan energy gently spread around his body. Strands of yuan energies filled his limbs and bones, slowly healing his damaged organs and veins…
While traveling to Ethereal City, Han Shuo had been collecting all kinds of rare, magical medicinal ingredients and used them to refine certain medicines useful for the Five Elite Zombies to replenish the yuan energies they exhausted.
While the yuan energy was dissolving in Han Jin’s body and slowly nourishing his body, Han Shuo, using his demonic yuan, carefully nursed his injuries. Han Jin’s pale white face finally had a shade of redness.
Half an hour into the treatment, Han Jin started coughing violently and puked out a puddle of filthy, foul-smelling blood. He suddenly seemed to have gotten much better. Then, he forced a smile and said to the worried Han Shuo, “Don’t worry, Father. I’m alright now!”
Han Shuo did not reply but continued to probe Han Jin’s body condition using his consciousness. Then, after a long while, Han Shuo heaved a light breath and seemed a little tired as he said, “Your injuries are severe. Luckily I have been carrying medicines of the five elemental yuans and some rejuvenation pills. Otherwise, the injuries will surely leave a permanent effect!”
“Hehe, I knew that Father will be here, therefore I rushed to the City at all costs,” said Han Jin weakly in a smile. He took a lot of effort to sit up against the wall and refused Han Shuo’s assistance.
“Do you know who did it?” asked Han Shuo as his eyes suddenly turned chillingly cold.
“I remember their faces and I can recognize them when I see them. But I’m not familiar with the Fringe and I do not know their identities,” said Han Jin. He then closed his eyes to recall the battle and described the faces of every attacker to Han Shuo.
Like Han Jin, Han Shuo did not have much understanding about characters living in the Fringe and he also could not identify the attackers. “Here is a hundred Metal Yuan Revitalizing Pills. Take five of it every day without interruption until you have finished the whole bottle. Focus on healing your injuries, we will talk after you have recovered,” Han Shuo instructed Metal Elite Zombie after he took out a large bottle of golden and shiny pelleted medicines.
“Thank you, Father. I knew I would be alright,” replied Han Jin smilingly as he kept away the bottle of medicine.
Han Shuo then went forward to carry Han Jin and said, “Come to Celestial Pearl Pharmacy with me, it’s safer there. Also, you should meet Little Earth and Little Fire.”
“Wait, I need to leave some instructions,” said Han Jin before he called for Myles who had been waiting right outside the door. He gave Myles a bunch of instructions, including not to let other branches know that he was injured and to pay some attention to the situation over in the Fringe to see if, by any chance, that any of his workers survived.
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In a remote valley near the northwest of the Fringe, a boorish and burly looking man was fiercely conquering a coquettish woman on top of a tree trunk. There was a group of godhunters sitting near them but they turned a blind eye to the activity as though nothing was happening. They were either concentrated on cultivating, studying scrolls in their hands, or wiping clean their divine weapons.
Then, moments after a rapid increase in the rhythm’s amplitude and frequency, the burly chap let out a long, loud howl of great satisfaction. He then casually pushed the half-conscious woman aside, wrapped his lower body in a piece of hide, and lied comfortably on an enormous stone chair. He gazed at the quiet and cool moon hanging at the zenith with his sleepy, half-open eyes as though he was waiting for something.