Medicine Saint continued:

"Back then, aside from the Blood Blade Sect's ancestor, Blood Fiend, the crazed devil Ning Bufan, escaping, the rest in the lair were strangled on the spot. The operation to exterminate the Blood Blade Sect continued for an entire year, sweeping clean all their branch locations, causing the Blood Blade Sect to never recover.

Latter on, Long Dingtian vanished without a trace, and without a leader recognized by all major sects and noble clans, the encirclement effort eventually fizzled out."

At this point, Medicine Saint let out a sigh: "This also gave the Blood Blade Sect a chance to catch their breath. After that, they moved into the shadows, only leaving a Blood Blade organization in the open, called the external branch of the Blood Blade Sect by those in the martial artist circle.

People from this external branch of the Blood Blade Sect tread carefully around Flame Dragon, no longer provoking the major sects and noble clans. They only target smaller sects, noble families, and loose cultivators like me, and they don't usually harm common folks.

As a result, nobody targeted the Blood Blade Sect anymore, because eliminating a mere external branch was hardly meaningful."

"The current Blood Blade organization is just the external branch of the Blood Blade Sect?!" Jiang Chen asked in astonishment.

Medicine Saint smiled faintly: "What did you think? The world of martial artists isn't as simple as you think. Young Jiang, you'd better focus on improving your strength quickly. I've received news that Ling'er's family has discovered that she is alive and are currently hunting her. Young Jiang, I will do my best to help you gather medicinal herbs, and I hope you can keep your promise to take good care of Ling'er."

"Don't worry, Senior Medicine Saint, Ling'er is like a sister to me, Jiang Chen. I will absolutely not let anyone harm her!" Jiang Chen spoke with a solemn tone.

Medicine Saint nodded and then reminded: "Right, some of the people I called couldn't make it because of other obligations. After I summarized the time, the latest they can return is in five months, so I asked them to come together in five months. Whether you can win them over by then is up to you!"

"Alright." Jiang Chen nodded firmly, then his eyes swept around, he said in a deep voice: "Senior Medicine Saint, what about... leaving these external branch members of the Blood Blade Sect here?"

"Just the two of us won't be able to keep them here," Medicine Saint replied, shaking his head lightly.

Jiang Chen smirked slightly: "Just the two of us can't, but don't forget, I'm currently the chief instructor of Long Ya and am training a bunch of fellows."

"You young man, are you thinking of using Long Ya to deal with them?" Medicine Saint asked, looking at Jiang Chen in surprise.

Jiang Chen grinned wickedly: "It's also a very good training method! Where else can you find such good sparring partners? However..."

Pausing for a moment, Jiang Chen glanced in the direction where Shen Xiangtian and the others had left: "I am already prepared to conduct a training session that is critical to the cultivation technique I have prepared for them. If it is interrupted now, it will be fine for a short time, but if it drags on, I'm afraid they won't be able to achieve anything before the big competition."

"No problem, leave it to me. As long as those people know I'm here, they'll definitely not give up easily. I can't promise much, but delaying them for a month is definitely doable," Medicine Saint stated confidently.

Jiang Chen's eyes lit up: "That's great, a month is enough. Once their training is over, I'll take them to play 'catching turtles in a jar'!"

"Good, I'll show my face, lest those guys get away," Medicine Saint agreed enthusiastically.

Since the Blood Blade Sect's external branch members had already set their sights on him, Medicine Saint didn't mind wiping all of them out!

"Alright, please take care, Senior Medicine Saint, and avoid putting yourself in any danger. If it's not feasible, abandon the mission. I need to watch over those guys' training and can't go with you, which also prevents them from discovering my strength and thinking they can't handle us and then running away!" Jiang Chen cautioned.

Medicine Saint nodded lightly: "Don't worry, this old man cherishes his life quite a bit."

Smiling gently, Jiang Chen turned and ran after Shen Xiangtian and the others.

Medicine Saint smiled as he watched Jiang Chen leave, then turned his gaze towards the valley. A cold gleam flickered in his eyes as he sprang towards the valley.

At the mouth of the valley, Medicine Saint slowly walked in, looking at the four wooden huts in the valley.

A tinge of sorrow appeared in Medicine Saint's eyes. Having lived here for more than a decade, he had developed deep feelings for this place. He knew that once Jiang Chen's plan succeeded, this place would become a battlefield of gunpowder and smoke, and Jiang Chen wouldn't let the Long Ya members engage in close combat with these martial arts masters.

"Alas! Heaven Spirit Fruit, my Heaven Spirit Fruit, I have guarded you for more than a decade, when will you mature?"

Medicine Saint muttered to himself at the mouth of the valley: "It's almost time. One month, at most one more month until maturity. Once it matures, this old man will be able to change my granddaughter's aptitude and make her the number one cultivation prodigy in the world!"

After his monologue, Medicine Saint did not enter the valley but turned and left instead.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

After a while, ensuring that Medicine Saint had really left, Li Wucheng and the others walked out of their hiding spot.

"Heaven Spirit Fruit?! There's actually a Heaven Spirit Fruit here?! No wonder, no wonder the Medicine Saint has been living in seclusion here for more than a decade!" Elder Chen spoke in astonishment.

A look of extreme greed appeared in Li Wucheng's eyes: "Heaven Spirit Fruit, the number one Spirit Fruit for changing one's aptitude. I didn't expect to find it here. Hahaha, heaven is truly helping me!"

"Since that's the case, let's stay here for a month!"

"Yes."

…

In the following days, Shen Xiangtian and the others nearly went mad.

They had originally thought that this training was merely for survival in the wild. Of course, in reality, it was indeed about wilderness survival, but it turned out completely different from what they had imagined.

What kind of wilderness survival includes getting knocked out with a club in the middle of the night and then being thrown back to the starting point? And what's more, damn it, several times in a row, being sent back now and then?

What kind of wilderness survival has traps that can move? What was once a safe route, on the second attempt, turned out to be fraught with danger?

What kind of wilderness survival has supply points that can be taken by the organizers? What kind of wilderness survival demands to be on edge 24 hours a day, where a moment of carelessness leads to being hit by rocks flying out of nowhere, leaving one bruised and battered?

Most importantly, what kind of wilderness survival includes an Innate Grandmaster lurking in the shadows, constantly tripping them up?

For a whole month, Shen Xiangtian and the others didn't even cover a third of the route. And when they reached a third of the way, they suddenly realized that the next supply point was actually their own base!

"Not bad, you've done very well this month, supporting each other, encouraging each other, and helping each other. You've even managed to keep ninety-one of you! Good job!" Jiang Chen smiled as he looked at the ninety-one people in front of him.

Shen Xiangtian and the others looked at Jiang Chen with forlorn eyes, wishing they could rush up and beat him, but fearing they couldn't beat him!

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