CHAPTER 384: CHAPTER 246: STRIKING AT THE HEART

Last time, the Green Bat suffered major injuries due to poor defense and attack capabilities.

Yun Sheng thought long and hard until she observed the Giant Winged Bat flying.

She was reminded of modern fighter jets.

If a weapon with great destructive power could be equipped on the Giant Winged Bat, then after some training during transportation, even a powerless Green Bat could instantly annihilate a large number of enemies when danger arises.

Yun Sheng shared her thoughts with Zong Ren, who after pondering, suggested that a Magic Artifact could be mounted on the Summoned Beast.

It turns out that in Penglai Country, some Summoners also install corresponding Magic Artifacts on their Summoned Beasts.

These Magic Artifacts can help the Summoned Beasts play an unexpected role when the Summoner is in peril.

Although Yun Sheng is a Summoner, due to being in Great Zhou, a country where Summoners are exceedingly rare, her understanding of Summoners is quite limited.

However, Zong Ren, hailing from Penglai, had seen and heard much more than Yun Sheng.

When Zong Ren heard that Yun Sheng was unaware that Summoned Beasts could carry Magic Artifacts, he found it a bit odd. Could it be that the Summoning Emperor never told Yun Sheng about these?

Still, Zong Ren dared not ask too much, he simply explained in detail.

Yun Sheng, being extremely intelligent, quickly understood.

Then, she spent a few days looking through a compendium of Magic Artifacts and finally found one called Sky Bomb.

Its principle was like a modern timed bomb, sealing wild Thunder Magic inside specific Magic Materials, and then activating the Magic Array on it when needed.

Yun Sheng did not understand Thunder Magic, but her Thunder Explosion Vortex was much more powerful than Thunder Magic.

After several experiments, Yun Sheng successfully refined the Sky Bomb.

She then handed it to Zong Ren, who carefully trained the Giant Winged Bat, and managed to refine this batch of Magic Artifacts before the Medicinal Herbs matured, installing them on the Giant Winged Bats. Thus, the earlier scene was set.

After developing all these, a few days before the Medicinal Herbs matured, Zong Ren arrived in Zhou Chu Village and had the villagers collect the Medicinal Herbs early.

Then, he had the villagers secretly evacuate from a small path behind the village to the base of the mountain that night.

The villagers, hearing that they could take revenge, cooperated fully.

They pretended to turn off the lights and sleep, yet in reality, they hurriedly descended the mountain overnight.

Shortly after reaching the foot of the mountain, the village chief and the villagers heard a tremendous rumbling from above, with rolling fire and smoke shooting into the sky.

They understood that Zong Ren had killed all the Hunter Soldiers.

This group of traditionally compliant villagers felt a surge of satisfaction at that moment.

The village chief and his wife embraced, whispering, "Xiao Hua, you can rest in peace now, Divine Doctor Yun has avenged you and everyone."

At the moment that blaze soared into the sky, another operation was quietly starting.

If the fire at Zhou Chu Village was a sweeping wildfire, the situation facing the several hundred pharmacies of Medicine Emperor Pavilion within the territory of Dazhou was more like a spark.

Medicine Emperor Pavilion, as the most authoritative medical center on the continent, besides an unending supply of medical talent, relied on another critical resource for survival: their supply of Medicinal Herbs.

Their pharmacies were all established on the most fertile soils of various nations, where professional Medicinal Farmers helped plant and manage the Medicinal Herbs.

June and December each year were the peak harvest seasons for Medicine Emperor Pavilion’s Medicinal Herbs.

That night, the Medicinal Farmers at the largest pharmacy of Medicine Emperor Pavilion had just gone to bed.

That pharmacy cultivated the most precious Holy-grade Loulan Red Ginseng of Medicine Emperor Pavilion, along with a significant amount of other Treasured Medicinal Herbs.

With only a little over half a month left until the harvest season in June.

Looking at the growth of the medicinal herbs in the field, it is also evident that this year will be another bumper year of harvest.

Because every harvest season, there would be some fearless individuals sneaking into the pharmacy to steal medicinal herbs, thus around the medicine fields, several mages have set up magic arrays specifically.

As soon as someone enters the area, the magic array will issue an alert.

This night, everything was very quiet.

The next morning, the medicinal farmers got up, ready to till the soil while the dew was still fresh, one of the groggy farmers walked to his designated field of Loulan red ginseng.

As he noticed the condition in the medicine field, he was so frightened that his soul scattered, and he sat down on the ridge of the field, "It’s bad! The medicine field, the field has been ’ruined’ by ’someone’."

At the same moment, over half of the medicine fields in Medicine Emperor Pavilion experienced similar incidents.

The medicinal herbs in the fields were in complete disarray, leaves and fruits all gnawed away.

The scene was as if a locust plague had struck.

Yet the most baffling thing was that the nearby magic arrays were all intact, showing no signs of intrusion by humans or demon beasts.

But the medicine fields were truly destroyed, and thoroughly at that.

All the medicinal herbs, over the course of one night, lost their medicinal value and became worthless weeds.

Inside the Medicine Emperor Pavilion, Qi Fangfei was still anxiously waiting for news from Zhou Chu Village.

Cheng Sihai had been gone for a day and a night, and judging by the hours, they should have already returned.

"Qi Medicine Man," a doctor from the Medicine Emperor Pavilion ran over with a face full of panic.

"What’s all the shouting about so early in the morning," Qi Fangfei said impatiently.

"The medicine field, the medicine field..." the doctor was out of breath.

"Is it done?" Upon hearing about the medicine field, a hint of joy appeared on Qi Fangfei’s face.

Qi Fangfei already knew that Yun Sheng had returned to Yujing.

Three months passed, and that little girl still showed no signs of action.

It seems she knew that she couldn’t compete with Medicine Emperor Pavilion.

Taking advantage of her weakness, to claim her life, Qi Fangfei wanted to use this event of purging Zhou Chu Village to completely bring down Yun Sheng.

"Gone, all gone, our major pharmacies across the country and other countries, a large batch of treasure medicinal herbs and a batch of nearly mature holy herbs, overnight, all gone." The pharmacist was almost crying.

Since Medicine Emperor Pavilion was established, it had never experienced such a major loss.

"The pharmacies?" Qi Fangfei was stupefied.

She grabbed the doctor who brought the news, "How many pharmacies did you say?"

If one pharmacy had an incident, it still could be explained; but dozens of major pharmacies across the continent, all destroyed in one night.

Even hiring hunter soldiers, it wouldn’t be possible to destroy so many pharmacies in such a short period of time.

All the medicinal herbs were destroyed, but no clue about the invaders was found.

All of these were the main sources of medicinal herbs for Medicine Emperor Pavilion for the next six months.

"Who did this? Who exactly did this? Is there really no clue at all?" Qi Fangfei’s first thought was of Little Ci’en Hall.