The Extraordinary Urban God of Medicine

Chapter 526: Chapter 526: Poison Oath
 

After annihilating the fake ghost emissary and a majority of the fierce ghosts in the valley, only some weaker lone ghosts were left wandering around along with a portion of henchmen that the fake ghost emissary had brought.

Huang Xiaolong directly released a large number of fierce ghosts from the Soul Cylinder to clean up the remaining threats. He exterminated the ghosts and punished the people.

The surviving villagers of Long Village were indeed completely rescued.

On the hill, villagers near the ancestor’s temple narrowly escaped death and turned their gazes towards Huang Xiaolong. They knew that it was this young man standing before them who had saved the entire Long Village.

In a single moment, hundreds of villagers knelt and paid homage to Huang Xiaolong.

The scene was truly shocking.

Emotions surged inexplicably in the hearts of Ji Yianxue, Xia Jian, and Ouyang Lingling. They couldn’t help but look at Huang Xiaolong with increased admiration.

“Haha~~ Don’t look at me like that, Miss Ji. Hurry up and go recognize your kin,” Huang Xiaolong laughed. He thought that after Ji Yianxue had recognized her birth mother, he could consider his task accomplished and retreat. Adding 30 billion to his pockets felt justifiably earned.

“Mm~!” Ji Yianxue took a deep breath. Her pretty face was filled with an expression of uncontrollable excitement, and tears were glistening in her eyes. After calming her emotions, she headed towards the ancestral temple on the hill.

At that moment, a girl in a floral shirt ran out of the ancestral temple and called out to Ji Yianxue at the bottom of the hill. “Miss, please wait.”

“Eh…” Ji Yianxue was stunned, then she shouted. “I want to see Lady Long Lan.”

The girl in the floral shirt shook her head. “I’m sorry, Aunt Long Lan knows you want to see her. That’s why she asked me to tell you… She doesn’t want to see you. Please leave.”

Upon hearing this, Ji Yianxue’s body shook abruptly, as if she had been struck by lightning. Her pale face was filled with disbelief.

She needed to understand that she had gone through countless hardships, survived assassination attempts, and barely escaped death to find Long Lan. Yet now, Long Lan was avoiding her!

What was the meaning of this?

Xia Jian and Ouyang Lingling were also anxious.

“Tsk~~ We risked our lives for this, and now she won’t even meet Miss Ji. Isn’t that just heartless?” Ouyang Lingling grumbled.

“This… this… Lady Long Lan seems to… seems to know Miss Ji’s identity…” Xia Jian stuttered.

“Yes, she must know. After all, blood is thicker than water,” Huang Xiaolong said as if it was expected. “I guess Miss Ji’s mother, Long Lan, has resentment. After all, it was Miss Ji’s father, the so-called God of Gamblers, who took advantage of her, left her pregnant, then took off with the baby girl he had with her. Anyone would hold a grudge for being treated like that.”

Huang Xiaolong’s words were crude but reasonable, which made Ouyang Lingling and Xia Jian speechless.

“No!!!!!!!” Ji Yianxue raised her stubborn face, her tears streaming down without wiping them off. “My name is Ji Yianxue! My dad is Ji Zongyuan! You… You must be my birth mother! Why won’t you even see me once?”

When the villagers on the hill heard this, they began whispering to each other—

“Ah! So, she is the baby girl that heartless man took away back then!”

“No wonder, I found them somewhat similar… Yes, yes, yes, this girl resembles Long Lan!”

“Back then, that stranger really hurt Long Lan badly.”

…

From within the temple, the passionate voice of a woman rang out, tinged with unexpected anger. “Since you’ve left, don’t come back! I won’t see you! I won’t meet with you! I made a deadly vow never to see you again! Otherwise, I will suffer unbearable torment!”

At this time, many villagers rushed into the temple, seemingly to persuade Long Lan, but all left with disappointed expressions, making dismissive gestures towards Ji Yianxue.

Ji Yianxue’s stubborn temper seemed to flare up, and without a second word, she started towards the hill.

A villager rushed to hold her back. “Don’t! Girl, calm down. Long Lan has just said, if you force your way in… she will commit suicide!”

“This!” Ji Yianxue halted, a mix of injustice and worry washing over her. Tears flowed down her face as she said, “Why so heartless? Why? Why would you treat me like this? Even if dad hurt you in the past, that has nothing to do with me! I’ve been ridiculed since childhood for not having a mother…I often dreamed of being with my mom, her teasing me, holding me, making me happy…But then, upon waking up, I realized it was just a dream… I…I have no mother…Not until recently, when dad told me about you…Can you understand my excitement? I wish I could fly to you and call you…mom!”

Ji Yianxue, tragic and aggrieved, was heartbroken.

The villagers on the mountain couldn’t help but wipe away their tears.

Even Ouyang Lingling had begun sobbing, pleading to Huang Xiaolong. “You have to help the young miss, please help her~~~”

Huang Xiaolong had a loss for words. “How can I help? Dealing with family affairs is a difficult task.”

Ji Yianxue continued sobbing. “The reason dad left in the past…was because…you…you didn’t want to be with him. You said, you would never leave the village of Long…Dad, being the heir to a large family…had his own dilemmas, he had no choice. Besides, now dad is blind and disabled, he told me…this is his retribution…What he missed most are those peaceful and happy days in the village of Long…Dad truly loved you!”

Turns out Ji Yianxue’s father had his own unspeakable reasons for leaving Long village. He seemed to have desired to take Long Lan far away with him, but Long Lan insisted on staying.

An ambitious gambler could indeed not be expected to hide away in such a remote village his whole life.

“What? Zong Yuan…your…your father…he…he has been disabled? Who did this?” Long Lan’s voice suddenly became cold, fury and murderous intent reverberating throughout, causing the temperature of the entire mountain to drop significantly.

It was obvious that she still had feelings for Ji Yianxue’s father, deep feelings. Otherwise upon hearing such distressing news, she wouldn’t have been so uncontrollably furious.

“Mom!” Ji Yianxue took this opportunity to call out.

The temple fell into silence.

“Now…our enemy still wants to kill me. Dad asked me to come find you so that…that you could protect me…” Ji Yianxue continued.

“But…I…I swore a deadly oath never to leave Long village in my lifetime. Ah~~~ If I were willing to leave Long Village, I would’ve gone with him that year.” Long Lan sighed sadly, “Unless…unless someone can make me fall under a spell…But…that’s impossible…”

“Mother! You—you said if someone could successfully cast a spell on you, then you could break your vow, and leave with me, right?” Ji Yianxue seemed to see a ray of hope.

“Yes. But…in this world, it’s impossible for anyone to make me fall under a spell, I…I am the strongest Gu Master.” Long Lan’s words, far from boasting, were immensely desolate and melancholic.

Seemingly, being the “strongest Gu Master” was a heavy shackle for her, a mountain weighing on her shoulders!

Almost instinctively, Ji Yianxue turned her pleading eyes to Huang Xiaolong.

“Hehehe~~~” Huang Xiaolong chuckled, waving at Ji Yianxue. “Come here, Miss Ji, we can still negotiate this.”