Chapter 4105 — The Heaven Elder's Physician
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The Zhongdao Alchemy Hall, one of the most supreme sect powers on Zhongdao, stood out as a top-tier existence in both status and influence—a fact evident from its geographical location alone.
Zhongding Mountain occupied the very heart of Zhongdao. It was not only the highest peak among the mountains of Zhongdao, but its uniquely favored position and environment had also nurtured a great many legendary masters.
According to records, the earliest cultivators of Yunjie Island settled and took root on Zhongding Mountain. Through thousands upon thousands of years of inheritance, generation after generation, the cultivation world of Yunjie Island had flourished into its present prosperity. Zhongding Mountain's exalted standing on Yunjie Island was beyond doubt.
To establish oneself on Zhongding Mountain meant not only seizing cultivation resources that all coveted, but more crucially, it represented an unparalleled transcendent status on Zhongdao.
Even those powerful sects able to gain a foothold on Zhongdao, the Snow Sword Sect included, had always regarded the core region of Zhongding Mountain as something beyond their reach.
Across all of Yunjie Island, no more than five transcendent powers had ever been able to take residence on Zhongding Mountain, and the Zhongdao Alchemy Hall was one of them.
Following Cai Zhongxuan through the great gates of the Zhongdao Alchemy Hall, Wei Zhao beheld a breathtaking fairyland within—simple and elegant, secluded and serene, as though a paradise apart from the world. Then he glanced back at the bustling scene outside, and a single gate divided two such sharply contrasting realms. Even Wei Zhao could not help clicking his tongue in admiration.
This sense of stillness amid clamor reminded Wei Zhao of a saying from the mortal world—that only true personages could live in a courtyard house in the core district of Yanjing. The wondrous sight before him was surely much the same.
The layout of the Zhongdao Alchemy Hall resembled a superbly structured, top-tier mountain estate. Apart from a few main gates, nearly every corner was linked by secluded, elegant pavilions and waterside terraces, each interlocking with the next in exquisite beauty.
They passed unimpeded through one great gate after another, yet no sign of guards appeared anywhere around them—the very opposite of the heavily guarded scene Wei Zhao had expected. Unable to hold back, he asked in a low voice, "Elder Cai, is the Zhongdao Alchemy Hall always like this? How is there not even a single guard?"
A place like an alchemy hall—whether finished pills or spiritual herb ingredients—held treasures enough to set any heart racing. However renowned the Zhongdao Alchemy Hall might be, where profit beckoned, there would always be those willing to risk everything. Such was human nature; it could not be stopped.
Cai Zhongxuan laughed at the question. "Young Hero Lin, there is much you do not know. You may not have seen a single guard along our way, but this place is loose on the outside and tight within—those guards are merely hidden in the shadows, kept from outsiders' eyes. The guard force of our Alchemy Hall ranks foremost even among all five great islands of the heavenly tier. The reason they did not come to question you is simply that this old man made special arrangements in advance."
"So that is how it is." Wei Zhao understood at last. If the guard force truly were as lax as it appeared on the surface, then in a Yunjie Island where the weak were prey to the strong, the Zhongdao Alchemy Hall could never have attained its transcendent standing today.
Moments later, Wei Zhao followed Cai Zhongxuan to a small estate deep in the core. Compared with the outside, the environment here was even finer, and the place was sparsely peopled—hardly even an ordinary Alchemy Hall disciple could be seen passing by.