But this rope itself can't withstand a single blow from a Crimson Palace cultivator, so be sure to use it only after suppressing them."

Song Yan took it with one swift motion and repeatedly expressed his gratitude, then respectfully said, "Time is of the essence, I shall depart at once."

The Infant Crying Master waved their hand and said, "Remember to report your progress to me, don't go missing again."

"Understood." Song Yan replied, then saluted and headed swiftly northward.

The Infant Crying Master watched his back, squinted slightly, scratched their chin with a fox paw, and then shook their head.

Whether Song Yan is a Ghost Cultivator or not, they didn't know, but he is definitely not in the Purple Mansion.

Someone who could reach the Early Stage of the Purple Mansion could only possibly be Zhang Han.

After thinking it over, they once again focused on eating.

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Two years later...

Autumn.

Chu Imperial City.

The luxurious debauchery, the riverside with its dazzling lights and bustling nightlife.

The young ladies draped in neon garments, with a fragrance of rouge, lifted their gentle hands to beckon the passersby whom they fancied, calling and waving, "Young Master, come along, have some fun, it's delightful."

The Red Fragrance Tower's renown in the Imperial City was significant, and as evening approached, the autumn scenery, though desolate, marked the beginning of the bustling activities of the pleasure quarters.

A small pharmacy diagonally opposite Red Fragrance Tower also finally began to welcome customers at this time.

Sobriety potions, strength-enhancing elixirs, contraceptive medicines, these types were the best sellers.

Of course, this little pharmacy named "Changchun Hall" didn't only stock these, but as a new store with little reputation, naturally, there were no regular customers to support its business.

Moreover, the owner of Changchun Hall was an unremarkable-looking young man, making it even less likely for people to visit.

As some of the older folks put it, a person without the hair on their mouth isn't capable of doing a reliable job.

The young owner was naturally anxious. He tried lowering prices, made extravagant boasts, but after botching the treatment of a few patients—causing them to take lots of medication and have their conditions neither worsen nor improve—few people came by.

Just a few days ago, the third madam of the Qin Family in the Imperial Capital ruthlessly threw a packet of medicine he prescribed at the shop's entrance, cursing "damn quack," and Changchun Hall became even more deserted.

Fortunately, this young owner still had some cunning methods, beginning to offer special concoctions targeting the Red Fragrance Tower, thus barely keeping the pharmacy operational.

The young owner was already feeling disheartened, and had thus hired a simple lad with some medical skill to man the counter and sell medicine for him, while he himself no longer even consulted patients, as if resigning in despair.

Fortunately, this young owner was still quite popular.

Because he was young, and despite his ordinary appearance, being young and having the title of a doctor was enough to be fancied by the young ladies from the neighboring Celestial Fragrance Tower.

At this moment, the young owner once again sighed deeply as he walked out of Changchun Hall, with the lad in the store calling after him: "Doctor Li, business was good today, we sold six potions just as Celestial Fragrance Tower opened!"

Song Yan slapped his forehead, his eyes filled with a look of remorse, muttering to himself: "If only I knew to study for a few more years, now my money is all tied here, what am I going to do, this is really worrying me to death."

As a master of hiding, Song Yan naturally understood the "Way of the Hidden".

Being mediocre, having small flaws, enduring some unattainable desires—these are the best ways to blend into the masses.

Being a Divine Doctor wouldn't work; setting high prices and advertising as "treating only three people a day" doesn't either; being ordinary still won't work, because ordinary means he'd be busy.

If busy, how can he still find Tang Fan?

The Qi Observation Pearl can only lock onto an area, not precisely locate a target, so he could only come here to search.

Fortunately, Tang Fan clearly also didn't know there existed such a treasure as the "Qi Observation Pearl", so he should be hiding with the idea of "the great hermit hides in plain sight, or amidst the court", in this most prosperous Great Chu Imperial Capital.

And there are still some small differences between Great Chu and the Three Kingdoms.

The Profound Veins of the Three Kingdoms may lie deep in the mountains or within lakes, but in Great Chu, the Profound Veins are beneath the Imperial Capital.

This made it even more troublesome.

Because there were not only many people here, but also Sects, the scale of which is roughly the same as Nanwu Sword Sect, but not as large as Puppet Sect.

If he intended to wipe out an entire sect, it wouldn't be so troublesome.

The Purple Mansion Realm isn't something the lower-level cultivators could exhaust to death.

If he really decided to act, he could basically kill an Elder with a single thought, as effortlessly as slaughtering chickens.

However, to stir up a storm with much thunder but no rain without achieving anything wasn't his way.

He patiently waited, observed.

Purchasing supplies, going into the mountains, giving up on himself, finding chaotic methods to save Changchun Hall could allow him to take many steps as possible.

The name of a Quack also granted him enough time.

Being a doctor allows him access to many places.

And if he encounters Red Cloud City, he can even follow to take a look, after all... there are only about a dozen or so Crimson Palace cultivators in the whole Great Chu Imperial City, among them a fox and a wolf sent by the Fox and Wolf Races.

This fox and wolf, like when they originally captured him, were feverishly infiltrating the Great Chu Imperial City, but... because there were Sects here and the upper management was pushing hard, the Fox and Wolf Races were restrained and didn't randomly eat people in the streets like Granny Fox, Red Grandma, and General Gu once did.

However, he knows where the fox and wolf are, but they don't know about him.

The fox and wolf only know that a powerhouse from the Purple Mansion was sent from their race, but they don't know where the powerhouse is.

At this time, Song Yan also understood why the Infant Crying Master didn't come personally.

It's truly too far, just hurrying on the road takes a year, and that's from Jin Kingdom to Great Chu.

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