Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor-Chapter 940: Killing the Chicken to Scare the Monkey

After parting with Liu Qingqing and Liu Liehu at the foot of the mountain, Fang Bai returned to his residence, took a seated position, and patiently waited for the Elixir Hall to deliver his share of cultivation resources.

The mountain area inhabited by disciples of the Inner Court was rich and abundant with Heaven and Earth Origin Energy merged with the Essence Energy released by numerous Spiritual Medicines, making it a precious land for cultivation. Martial Artists benefited greatly by residing and cultivating here. ƒrēenovelkiss.com

About an hour later, several menial servant disciples, driving a few Swiftwind Horses laden with Essence Stones and Elixirs, delivered the cultivation resources allocated to Fang Bai to his courtyard and then hurriedly left, continuing to the next Inner Court disciple’s residence.

Although the cultivation resources distributed monthly by the Bitao Martial Academy were hardly sufficient for Fang Bai, having them was still better than nothing.

After the menial servant disciples had gone far, Fang Bai closed the courtyard gate, casually stored the pile of cultivation resources in his Spatial Ring, and then took out the Five Elements Origin Qi Cauldron to study it carefully.

At night, Fang Bai once again concealed his aura to pick Spiritual Medicines and returned to continue refining Elixirs with them.

For two consecutive nights, Fang Bai had stealthily picked over a thousand Spiritual Medicines, all of which were of older medicinal age. Fortunately, as Spiritual Medicines were abundant here, no one noticed anything unusual.

The next day, Fang Bai went to the living area of the External Courtyard disciples and menial servants, found Liu Qingqing and Liu Liehu, and shared with them some of the Elixirs he had refined over the past two nights.

The Elixirs refined by Fang Bai, although of the same grade as those distributed by the Bitao Martial Academy, were much more effective.

"Brother Fang, where did you get these Elixirs from?"

Liu Liehu, fiddling with the Elixir Fang Bai had given him, clearly felt that the Heaven and Earth Origin Energy contained in this Elixir was better than what the Bitao Martial Academy had provided and asked excitedly.

Fang Bai said, "I’ll tell you later. Knowing now isn’t good for you! Also, you must keep the matter of me giving you Elixirs a secret. Don’t let others know."

Seeing his serious tone, Liu Liehu and Liu Qingqing both nodded unanimously.

After waving goodbye to Liu Liehu and Liu Qingqing, Fang Bai, on his way back to his own courtyard, overheard some Inner Court disciples discussing Hou Ziping. It seemed that Hou Ziping had gotten into a conflict with a fellow sect disciple last night, suffered severe injuries, and was now recuperating in hiding at his residence.

Fang Bai had a fairly good understanding of Hou Ziping’s character. Knowing that he was cautious and aware that his strength ranked low among the Inner Court disciples, Hou Ziping was always polite and kept a smiling face in front of everyone in the Inner Court.

In the years since entering the Inner Court, Hou Ziping had never provoked trouble. Even if others ridiculed or bullied him, he endured the humiliation and submitted without conflict with any fellow disciples.

Yet now, this very person had been severely injured. Fang Bai furrowed his brows, thinking there must be something fishy about this.

Why was Hou Ziping not beaten earlier or later but precisely after he and Yang Lin had set a date for their challenge fight?

Did this incident involve Gao Shuxian or Yang Lin?

Could it be because after his entry into the Inner Court, Hou Ziping had grown closer to him, and they wanted to kill the chicken to scare the monkey, showing him a lesson? Or could it be intended to disturb his state of mind before the scheduled fight?

With these questions, Fang Bai turned his steps toward Hou Ziping’s residence.

Regardless, Hou Ziping was the first fellow disciple he had met after entering the Inner Court and had been quite warm towards him. Additionally, the incident of Hou Ziping being beaten might have arisen because of him. By both emotion and reason, he ought to go see him.

When Fang Bai arrived at Hou Ziping’s residence, he found the place eerily quiet.

With his minimal strength ranking at the bottom among the Inner Court disciples and little prospect in the Martial Dao, few fellow disciples were willing to associate with him. Although the news of his severe injury had spread throughout the Inner Court, not a single fellow disciple had come to visit him.

Although Hou Ziping was also a disciple of the Inner Court, due to his low aptitude and weak strength, he was almost abandoned by the upper echelons of the Martial Academy, which made his treatment among the Inner Court disciples among the worst.

Hou Ziping’s residence was just a small stone house, neither as exquisite as Fang Bai’s house nor surrounded by a small courtyard. It stood lonely on a hilltop, looking quite rudimentary.

Fang Bai saw Hou Ziping’s small stone house from a distance and sensed Hou Ziping’s presence as well.

Hou Ziping’s presence was very weak, which indicated that his injuries were severe, far beyond Fang Bai’s expectations.

A hint of coldness appeared in Fang Bai’s eyes, and he became more certain that this matter was related to Yang Lin and Gao Shuxian.

Normally, when disciples of the Bitao Martial Academy sparred with each other, it was enough to defeat the opponent. They would never inflict such severe injuries. Hou Ziping’s condition clearly indicated that his opponent had done it intentionally.

Inside the stone house, intermittent low moans of pain could be heard, coming from Hou Ziping, who was obviously enduring great agony.

The door of the stone house was open, and Fang Bai walked in slowly. The first thing he saw was Hou Ziping lying on the stone bed.

Hou Ziping lay on the bed, his presence faint, his complexion pale, and his Inner Court disciple uniform was in tatters.

He was covered with injuries, his hair was in disarray, and many parts of his body were torn and bleeding profusely, soaking his clothes, making him look extremely miserable.

The visible injuries were not the worst of it. Fang Bai’s divine sense revealed that several of Hou Ziping’s bones were broken, and the breaks were in critical areas,

and if treated with ordinary methods, it would take two or three months for a complete recovery.

"Senior Brother Hou!"

Fang Bai walked to the stone bed, sat down beside Hou Ziping, and said softly, "I came to see you!"

Hou Ziping had been staring at the ceiling, but upon hearing Fang Bai’s voice, he slowly turned his head, his previously listless eyes now showing a bit of vitality.

"Fang... Junior Brother Fang, you came?"

Hou Ziping tried to smile, but his face quickly contorted with pain again.

"Who injured you?"

Fang Bai did not waste words and asked sternly.

Hou Ziping hesitated for a moment, a look of indignation flashed in his eyes, and he answered, "It was Yang Wei. He is Yang Lin’s cousin and also an Inner Court disciple. He ranks eighteenth on the combat strength list of the Inner Court disciples."

Fang Bai’s eyes narrowed slightly, thinking this matter was almost as he had suspected. It indeed involved Yang Lin, and behind Yang Lin was Gao Shuxian. This incident was their doing, to injure Hou Ziping was merely to intimidate him.

That meant Hou Ziping’s injury was a result of being involved with him.

"Senior Brother Hou, it’s my fault you were involved! Rest assured, this matter will not end like this. We must seek justice!"

Fang Bai said solemnly.