The Healer Demands Payment!

Chapter 78-79

Meng Qi seemed to be in a trance. The voice, even with a trace of anger, was pleasant and familiar. Even if she died thousands of times, she wouldn't fail to recognize the owner of this voice. Meng Qi was sure that she was not hallucinating. Both the last time outside Huajiang Manor or this time, the man's voice she heard was not her own imagination, but truly existed.

"...Yes." She replied in a daze.

The black-robed man gave her a slight glance. "What 'Yes'?" A mockery flashed across his face. "Are you going to admit defeat?"

"Never!" Meng Qi said with a grim determination. A flame suddenly ignited in her heart. So what if this man was more powerful than her? She was not afraid of him!

"So you won't cry unless you see your own coffin?" The black-robed man sneered. He bent over and took a thin green branch from one of the white ghost puppets he summoned.

"Don't say I bully you." He threw a bamboo slip to Meng Qi. "The nine medicinal ingredients needed are recorded in it. I want you to fully admit your defeat."

The bamboo slip was long and thin, but its color was dark blue, unlike the yellow bamboo slips commonly used in Three Thousand Worlds. On the back of the unfamiliar bamboo slip was a row of characters inscribed in archaic script. Meng Qi touched it with her fingers and read: "Ji Wujiong."

"Huh?" The black-robed man turned his head in reflex and looked at Meng Qi subconsciously.

It turned out that his name was Ji Wujiong.

Meng Qi quickly recalled her memory. She indeed had never heard this name. If such a powerful cultivator went in and out with Lu Qingran in the previous life, she surely would have heard the rumor about him, so this person probably only appeared later and met Lu Qingran after her death.

Ji Wujiong's cold gaze swept across Meng Qi. He didn't seem to care that she knew his name, and said mockingly as always: "Still standing there stupidly? Are you that eager to call me 'My Lord'?"

Meng Qi: "..."

She lowered her head and quickly memorized all the nine medicinal plants she needed.

"Don't worry." The man's voice rang again in Meng Qi's mind, but it was even colder than before, "Just do it like the last time."

Meng Qi lowered her hands and relaxed her mind and body. The long hair tied behind her back suddenly swayed, her blue robe flew, and her figure flashed quickly like the wind. In her hand, the silver medical knife danced across the ground with a 'swish, swish' sound, and yellowed grass flew around. In no time, a complete array began to take form on the ground.

"Look clearly." The man's voice was still cold. "The name of this array is Thousand Cranes. The one he used is just Hundred Ghosts And Hundred Charms Array. Merely a Hundred Ghosts, why should you feel wary?"

"I see." Meng Qi responded in a whisper. The corner of her eye swept across Ji Wujiong, who clearly couldn't hear the man's voice. Ji Wujiong still stood in a leisure manner and glanced at Meng Qi lazily from time to time; his jaw was slightly raised in arrogance.

"You still look at him!" The man's voice was dark with a trace of anger that became more obvious. "Do you want to lose?"

Meng Qi pursed her lips and returned her gaze on the ground seriously. She could memorize arrays much faster and easier than memorizing a sword or cultivation technique. When the last stroke from the medical knife fell on the center of the array, Meng Qi already memorized the complete Thousand Cranes array.

"Spirit stone." The man said in a deep voice: "Eighth-grade."

Meng Qi quickly took out twelve eighth-grade spirit stones from her storage space item and held them in her hand. She then tossed them on the array, and in an instant, the array shone in blue light, illuminating her delicate face.