The Nine Skies Swordsman

Episodes 217. Mysterious Illness

When it was time to return to the Inn, Gofan decided to go somewhere.

He darted fiercely at the Violet Sky, heading towards the Mud Burial God had once been.

*Wuuuss*

**

“Should have been, his body was here.” Gofan murmured as he entered a Cultivation Cave.

The Cave guard formation was easily parsed by Gofan, as if he already knew how to control the protective formation.

When Gofan arrived, he saw Gu Bai's body sitting rigidly on a pedestal. That cave was Gu Bai's cultivation cave. Since Gofan had swallowed his soul form, Gofan knew all about Gu Bai and included various things about the Demons that Gu Bai knew.

“Devil Kaum has the technique to control the Sky Beasts. This technique comes from their bloodline.” Gofan murmured, as a blue-colored flame lit up in his right hand.

After securing Gu Bai's various Divine Treasures, Gofan burned his body. Gofan formed a hand seal, controlled the Art of the Three Strange Flames and made the blue flames that burned Gu Bai's body separate between Gu Bai's blood and flesh.

With his Alchemical ability, Gofan made Gu Bai's body as a furnace to process his blood into several grains of Blood Essence Pills. A pill that would contain the bloodline of the Devils.

“With the Blood Essence Pill, I will be able to use that controlling technique!.” Gofan murmured.

Gu Bai himself was the Demon King's Combat Master, his bloodline was noble among all the Devils. That strong! It would have been a waste if Gofan hadn't taken advantage of it.

“If he is not trapped in the Sea of my consciousness, I am not sure I can defeat this person.” Gofan's face towards Gu Bai's body is so hard, it is very difficult to purify.

Time continued to turn, while Gofan was still trying to purify Gu Bai's body. Just as the day changed, 12 Blood Essence Pills of three colors - Red, Black, White - appeared hovering among the pile of ashes, the rest of Gu Bai's body.

“Finally done too.” Gofan wiped the sweat on his face and stored the 12 Blood Essence Pills.

**

The third day of the auction, the last day of Akbar Auction.

Gofan returned in time, nothing special happened, other than the Golden Fossil Auction of the Dragon Bone. With Gofan's many offerings of Golden Bone Dragon Fossils, it sold for the price of billions of Crystals of the Universe.

“Young Master Fan. As you have seen. We sell the Golden Fossil of Dragon Bone into 24 parts, and each part sells for more than 500 million Universe Crystals.”

Tian Duoduo was talking four eyes to Gofan in his study.

“All payments are inside this Heavenly Ring.” Tian Duoduo added, while giving a ring with two stars that appear to glow inside the ring arch.

“It... Starry Ring?.” asked Gofan, remembering that Vasudev had explained the ring to him.

“In this Realm, it is named after the Heavenly Ring... The more stars there are, the wider the space inside, right now, the Ring only has two stars, but as you go up the cultivation stage, the stars in the ring will also increase, too, up to six stars, like six Soul Stars you can have.”

*Tok* *Tok* *Tok* door knocking sound!

Xia Ling and the two old men from the Medicine God Union approached Gofan and Tian Duoduo, “Fan'er. Fan. Can we talk for a moment.” call Xia Ling from outside Tian Duoduo's study.

Gofan turned his head towards the door, before clenching his hands towards Tian Duoduo, “Thank you Mr. Tower. For the next business, be it Pills or Soul Core, I will contact through this voice token.” Gofan handed over a colored stone with the engraving of the word 'Medicine', it was a special token that the members of the Medicinal Gods Union used to communicate with third parties.

Tian Duoduo nodded, and the two of them came out toward the three old men.

“Teacher. Uncle. Aunties. What was? Is there anything urgent that we should do?.” asked Gofan.

“Fan. That girl named Jiang Mulan, asked us to come with her entourage to the Jiang Clan Branch. Some people are suffering from mysterious diseases and he wants us to check him immediately..” Xia Ling said, “After all, I owe him one request, and you know why not?.”

Gofan nodded a few times, “Where are they?.”

“Master Tower. I'm retreating. See you later.” respectfully Gofan politely, before he turns into a flash of light and disappears. The other three did the same.

***

The Jiang Clan Branch.

“Xionan completely forgot me? Or was he indeed Jiang Mulan and not Xionan?.” Along the way to the Jiang Clan Branch, Gofan could not help but wonder. Xionan's attitude towards her was like a stranger. Even the occasional Xionan would look disdainfully at him. It made him think about the rumors Xia Ling had said before. About the pills that made them lose their memory.

But even though his mind was filled with many questions about Xionan's changing attitude. Gofan remained extremely excited when he was invited to the Jiang Clan Branch... The Heavenly Peach Fruit was in this place.

Tian Duoduo had told him once, that the Heavenly Peach Fruit was not for sale, not even the tree seedlings, could grow carelessly. Only the Holy Clan had a way to grow that tree.

Moreover, all of his fruits were also only distributed among the three Holy Clans and their Branches. Outside of that, nothing. Monopolies occurred between them and it was all to maintain their strength as the three strongest Clans that formed the Seasonal Profound Alliance.

Such things are also done by Clans, Families, or other organizations. They also have special resources that will only be used between them. Like for example, the Medicinal God Union, they had the Thousand Herbs Hill. Some rare Herbs, would not be found other than on that hill, that was what made the Union still able to survive to this day.

“Nona Mulan. Can you tell the sick of your friends? How are they doing?.” Xia Ling asked as the party walked down a courtyard towards a large room behind the courtyard.

“Master Ling's. I can't explain it, but he's like..” Jiang Mulan's remark was held back for a moment before she unlocked a room, “Like this... They did not live nor did they die.” pointed Jiang Mulan towards the few people who stood lowered their heads without the slightest movement in the room he opened. It seemed that those people had been standing around for a long time.

Gofan and the three Alchemy Masters were clearly shocked, Jiang Mulan's sick friend, was in such a state of sculpting. There were 24 people among them and all of them silently looked down like statues.

“When this happens?” ask Yun Lao.

“Half month ago. We already used the help of the Alchemy Master Alliance, but they could not find a cure to this mysterious disease.” Xionan cleared out some of his friends' slightly dusty faces. The scene, was like someone was cleaning some statues.

Gofan approached one of the sick people. His hand tries to check the pulse flow, check the breath, and check some of the person's acupoints. Gofan also opens the person's eyelids and mouth. He examined it for a few breaths. The same thing happened with three other parents.

“Two Lao. Do you know what this is?.” asked Yun Bei with a serious look, he did not know what happened. After he checked one of the people, he found nothing wrong. They are like sleeping standing up.

Yun Lao sighed and shook his head, a sign he also did not understand what was happening.

The two looked towards Xia Ling, “Tua Ling. Did you find anything?.” asked the two.

“I've read about a disease like this... In the past, before the war of the Gods occurred, diseases like this had once struck several places in the Great Realm... But all records about it are kept secret. Coincidentally, the Medicine God once told me this and gave me one of the copies of that notebook.” Xia Ling said when a scroll appeared in her palm.

Gofan, Yun Lao, and Yun Bei read the contents of the scroll.

“It... According to this record, there was no medicine that could be used to cure them yet! And within a period of one month they will definitely die?!.” Yun Bei said.

“True. It was just a note about the symptoms and the process of the disease.” Xia Ling said.

“Then, does this mean you guys can't heal them either?.” joked Jiang Mulan with a face almost paled.

Meanwhile, Gofan watched closely the note written on the scroll, before a bright light shone in both of his eyeballs.

Seeing the good changes on Gofan's face, Yun Lao immediately asked, “Fan'er. Do you know anything about this disease?.”

“This is not a disease, this is a Divine Ability... The technique is called Soul Eater Strand.” Gofan stepped a few steps with both hands folded behind his back, “This is an ability possessed by the Demons of the Demon Universe.”

Jiang Mulan and the other three displayed faces full of question marks.

Divine abilities of the Devils? Demon Universe? Is there another realm besides the Great Realm and the Little Realm as well as one rift of the Realm called the Realm of the Dead. Is there another world out there?

Seriate...