"These three Spiritual Medicines... aren't they special medicinal ingredients from the game?"

Wang Mu looked and observed for a long time before he finally recalled.

In the early stages of the game, the protagonist would Travel around and meet another female protagonist, Mo Xilan. Mo Xilan was born into a Medicine Sect family, proficient in various pharmacologies, and later joined Medicine King Valley in Jianghu, earning the moniker of Medical Valley's Divine Doctor at a tender age with some renown in the Jianghu. She played the role of a healer in the game, and many early battles were impossible without her.

Upon their first encounter, Mo Xilan was searching for three legendary Divine Medicines. After triggering the Travel event, the protagonist had the choice to help or not help her find these three medicinal ingredients. If one chose not to help, there would be no subsequent Travel events, meaning it would be impossible to develop a relationship with her later on. Only after choosing to help, would a series of Travel events follow.

But these three types of medicinal ingredients were impossible to find in the early stages. Generally, only close to the grand finale would it be possible to find them all. Upon finding them, and only when Mo Xilan's affection level reached its highest, could a unique ending CG be triggered.

During the intermediate Travel events, Mo Xilan would occasionally ask the protagonist if he had found them, and console him with various Elixirs. Some of these Elixirs could enhance the protagonist's Attributes, while others would impose some temporary negative BUFFs. For example, physical weakness, debilitation… requiring the expenditure of Action points and one or two months of rest.

At first, the protagonist thought Mo Xilan was being kind, but in reality, because she couldn't find suitable Drug Testers, she filtered out some decent ones to give to the protagonist for testing. Since it was not certain that every Elixir would be beneficial, occasionally some bad ones arose. There were more than ten kinds of Elixirs to be tested, eight of which were good and boosted Attributes, while four were bad. In total, four Action points would be wasted, equivalent to a month's time, in exchange for the increase of eight Attributes – it was still a very worthwhile trade-off.

And those three legendary Divine Medicines... "Tears of the Heartless, Goodness of the Utterly Wicked, Buddha Root of an Evil Ghost." Three kinds of ingredients that sound utterly non-existent.

How can one who is heartless, who has become desensitized to the world's harsh realities and has eradicated emotions, shed tears? A thoroughly wicked person possessing kindness is already rare, let alone a wicked person of eternal damnation – how could such a person possess any kindness? Evil Ghosts are mostly impure in all six senses, full of resentment and spite, lacking not only a Buddha root but even humanity.

Finding these three mystically elusive medicinal ingredients in the early stages was hardly possible. Only after going through three incredibly complex side quests in the later stages could these three special ingredients be collected. For these reasons, Mo Xilan, this female protagonist, was very difficult to conquer in the game. Her events were numerous, the side quests intricate, and they spanned the entire game until the end when these three medicines were collected, helping her concoct a Divine Medicine named 'Immortal Sorrow,' thus completing the ending. In short, she was a bundle of trouble.

But her abilities had a tremendous impact on the game's main character. Because of the Spiritual Medicine provided early on, which added a lot of Attributes, in the Mid Stage she gave the protagonist Medicine King Valley's Divine Skill Secret Manual, which greatly enhanced the protagonist's various qualifications, significantly easing the difficulty of battle once joined. After concocting Immortal Sorrow in the later stages, there were hidden choices and endings.

This Immortal Sorrow was the very Spiritual Medicine that even gods in heaven would worry over. It could cause the mighty to die instantly without form; it could also allow the weak to rejuvenate flesh from bones in the blink of an eye, rob a mythical master of all Power in an instant, or grant a beggar with ruined meridians an Extreme Bone... In summary, it was very mystical. One shouldn't ask why; it was just a game setting.

In that game, it was a unique Divine Medicine. At that point, there would be an option. Mo Xilan would let the protagonist choose whether to poison the final antagonist boss during battle. If poisoned, the final boss would lose all Power, and the protagonist alone could easily finish the fight even without learning potent Divine Skills, massively reducing the difficulty of the final battle. This was one of the hidden resolutions. But once this option was chosen, Mo Xilan's ending CG could not be triggered because Mo Xilan never told the protagonist how important this Elixir was for her, nor that she needed it to sustain her life.

"These three Spiritual Medicines, aren't they exactly corresponding to those three types of drugs?" Wang Mu slightly furrowed his brow.

The three Spiritual Medicines in the game weren't actually medicines, but special mission items with peculiar medicinal properties. Described as mystical, only after completing the side quests would one know that these items were three special objects. They weren't simply medicinal ingredients. So if one were just to look everywhere with the mindset of finding medicinal materials, they would not find them.

"Heartless Tear Lotus, Good and Evil Spirit Flower, Ghost Buddha Heart Root... These are indeed three pure Spiritual Medicines. But why do their names bear such a close relation to the three mission items in the game?" Wang Mu wore a puzzled expression.

He hadn't realized it immediately, which was why he was momentarily unable to grasp the connection. In the game, those were truly unique items, from which only one Immortal Sorrow could be concocted. And now, they were being directly cultivated in batches as Spiritual Medicines.

If Yan Qingwu and the others are still alive... then it's not impossible for Mo Xilan to be alive as well. Could this Dan King Sect actually be her...?

Wang Mu's heart skipped a beat.

Damn.

With these three Spiritual Medicines, Wang Mu subtly connected the dots.

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