Battle Through the Heavens: I Am the Righteous Path

Xiao Yan was still standing outside the thatched hut, quietly looking at the stunning girl who was concentrating on practicing not far away.

Although only a few minutes had passed in Xiao Yan's eyes, it was obvious that several years had passed judging by the girl's appearance. She had grown a lot taller, and her already pleasing appearance had become even more beautiful as she grew older. Her face had gradually become closer to the one Xiao Yan was familiar with. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the girl's profile, like a painting of a beauty painted by God, which was fascinating.

However, compared to the silver-white color we know, the girl's hair is still jet black, with beads of sweat dripping from her forehead, showing the girl's strong heart.

At this time, the wooden door of the thatched hut opened. Xiao Yan glanced to the side and saw the beautiful woman slowly walking out leaning against the door frame.

After a few years, the weakness on that face had obviously lessened a little.

After the beautiful woman walked out of the thatched hut, she looked at her daughter who was practicing with her eyes closed. She did not go forward to disturb her, but just leaned quietly against the door frame, staring at the girl's pretty face. She could not help but be absent-minded, with a hint of sadness in her eyes.

Three years ago, after learning of her husband's death, the beautiful woman once wanted to follow him, but she finally held on and persisted until now.

The beautiful woman knew very well that even though she was a pure burden to the girl now, she was also her only spiritual sustenance. She could not die before the girl could truly grow up to be able to stand on her own.

After an unknown amount of time, the girl's training finally ended. She slowly opened her eyes, her ruby ​​eyes revealing a heroic vitality. She then noticed the beautiful woman leaning against the door in her field of vision. Her expression changed slightly, and she quickly jumped up and walked quickly to the beautiful woman's side to support her, with a reproachful tone in her voice.

"Mom, I've told you so many times, try not to get out of bed and get some rest."

"Hehe. You can't lie in bed every day even if you need to rest. Otherwise, what will become of your mother?"

The beautiful woman chuckled and asked back, causing the girl's mouth to twitch slightly, but she said nothing. Then she took a deep breath and looked at the beautiful woman seriously.

"Mom, the tribe's medicine meeting is coming soon. If I can win the championship this time, I can take you to move into the tribe's land, and I can also get a lot of medicinal herbs to help you practice."

The girl said this with certainty. When she was little, she was ignorant and just thought that her mother was born weak. But after she really came into contact with alchemy in the past few years, she gradually understood that the source of her mother's weakness was not illness at all, but because she was born unable to practice, which resulted in her body being unable to withstand the tremendous energy that filled the medicine clan.

The girl thought about taking her mother away from the Medicine Clan, but after hesitating for a long time, she finally gave up.

Although the mother and daughter had always been looked down upon because they were born in a side branch and had no achievements, they were still members of the Yao clan after all, and the clan would never go too far. Moreover, Yao Chen was given the opportunity to practice and learn to refine medicine, which were treatments that were not available outside the Yao clan.

But it is not certain if she leaves the Medicine Clan. Regardless of whether she can obtain the resources for cultivation and medicine refining, with her strength, she will not be able to guarantee her mother's safety if she leaves the Medicine Clan. After careful consideration, she came to the conclusion that she cannot leave the Medicine Clan.

Since we can't leave the Medicine Clan, we can only solve the beautiful woman's situation from another direction.

Refining medicine.

In the past few years, the girl has been studying alchemy painstakingly. One of the main purposes is to solve the physical condition of the beautiful woman. For this reason, the girl is the most focused one among her peers in the medicine clan. In addition, she has a good talent for alchemy and soon became the most outstanding student of this generation of alchemy.

During this period, the girl also successfully developed a medicine that could solve her mother's condition, called Foundation Building Spirit Liquid.

However, this medicine is different from ordinary medicines and is not for drinking. With his mother's current strength, she cannot withstand the violent energy of the medicinal materials. The real function of this foundation-building spiritual liquid is to dissolve in water. The user soaks in the water to warm the meridians in a very gentle way. This is also the reason why the beautiful woman's weakness has been reduced a lot compared to before.

As long as the special medicinal materials can be used to warm the beautiful woman's meridians, she who was originally unable to practice will gradually be able to practice successfully. As her strength increases, her physical condition will surely improve slowly.

But gradually, the girl found that this was far from enough.

The beautiful woman has been weak for too long. She must improve her strength as soon as possible to completely solve her problem, otherwise it will only delay the problem.

For this reason, she must win the championship of the Medicine Association. As long as she can win the championship, she will be valued by the medicine clan and she will have more authority to obtain more medicinal materials to cure her mother.

Even for this medicine meeting, the girl used her father's pension, which she had been trying to spend as little as possible over the past few years, to purchase the medicinal materials for the sixth-grade elixir, the Seven-Core Pill. Although she had never refined it before, the girl had already simulated it countless times in her mind. This time, she would definitely be able to win the Alchemy Meeting championship with the Seven-Core Pill!

Looking at the girl's bright eyes, the beautiful woman smiled gently, her eyes full of pride in her daughter, and nodded gently.

"Well, mother believes you."

Xiao Yan leaned outside the thatched hut, quietly looking at the mother and daughter looking at each other. Although their conversation was so full of hope, Xiao Yan's face was already covered with a dark haze.

Having listened to Han Feng's story, he naturally knew what would happen next.

The next moment, the warm scene in front of him changed, gloomy dark clouds covered the sky, and heavy rain poured down on the valley.

And in Xiao Yan's sight, the girl in the distance was walking towards the thatched hut step by step in a daze, with despair and confusion written all over her face, and she kept muttering.

"How could it be? There was no problem with the steps or the heat. Why did it fail? It shouldn't have failed."

The girl who was full of vigor not long ago formed a sharp contrast with her desperate look at this moment. The girl still couldn't understand why she failed.

But there is one thing the girl can confirm.

That is what she is like now, too ashamed to see her mother.

The girl stood at the door of the thatched hut, letting the heavy rain blow on her delicate body. Her shoulders were trembling slightly due to the cold air, which made people feel particularly distressed. But at this moment the girl didn't care at all. She slightly raised her head, looked at the heavy rain, and murmured softly.

"I wonder if my mother's body can hold on."

It was just a failure, the girl herself didn't care. She could accept failure. Even if she had spent all her father's pension to buy the herbs this time and had to save up for a long time to buy them again, it didn't matter to her. She could just take it slow.

But she knew very well that given her mother's physical condition, she would not be able to wait for her to come.

"Why don't we steal some?" The girl suddenly blurted out this question, which startled Xiao Yan. "There are so many medicinal herbs in the clan land anyway, so if there are fewer, no one should be able to catch them."

Hearing the girl's words, Xiao Yan's heart suddenly fell to the bottom.

Could it be that the truth is really consistent with Yao Wangui's initial accusation?
But then, the girl seemed to come to her senses, shook her head violently, and raised her hand to pat her beautiful face.

"No, no! What am I thinking? If I get caught, there will really be no one to take care of Mom!"

The girl knew very well the consequences of stealing within the tribe. Once caught, she would be expelled from the tribe even if she didn't die.

It doesn't matter if I'm expelled, but if I leave the Medicine Clan, my mother will surely die.

These words gradually made Xiao Yan's nervous expression disappear, and then the girl cheered herself up and encouraged herself.

"It doesn't matter. This failure can be considered a lesson. There will be another medicine meeting in half a year. Mother's health is much better than before. As long as I work hard to help her recover, she will definitely make it through."

The girl nodded vigorously as if to confirm her own words, and glanced through the window, finding that the beautiful woman was still sleeping soundly on the bed. Then she put on a pretended relaxed smile and was about to push the door open when three figures suddenly appeared behind her.

Xiao Yan had seen the man in the lead before. Although he was younger, Xiao Yan still recognized him. He was Yao Wangui, the envoy representative sent by the Medicine Clan for the first time. As for the two people behind him, they were wearing uniform clothes and should be the law enforcement officers of the Medicine Clan.

The girl also noticed the arrival of several people and turned to look at Yao Wangui in confusion.

"Elder Yao Wangui, what can I do for you?" Apart from his father's comrades who came to give him pension when he died in battle, no outsiders had ever come to his house. This was the first time for Yao Wangui to come.

At this time, Yao Wangui's face was gloomy. He stared at the girl and spoke coldly.

"Yao Chen, a member of the clan, trespassed into the forbidden land of the Yao clan and stole the medicinal herb Starry Sky Grass. I am now arresting you as the punishment elder of the Yao clan."

Star grass? Stealing medicinal herbs?

Yao Chen was stunned, a look of disbelief appeared on his face, and he immediately started to defend himself.

"I didn't! I have never been to the forbidden area of ​​the Medicine Clan, let alone stolen any medicinal materials!"

"Then answer me, where did you get your Star Grass?"

"I bought it with my father's pension."

"Ridiculous!" Yao Wangui shouted angrily, interrupting Yao Chen's explanation, "Your father's pension is only a mere 50,000 yuan, and the Starry Sky Grass is a high-grade medicinal material required for a sixth-grade elixir, which starts at at least 100,000 yuan. I have already checked, and your income in the past few years can only barely support the lives of you and your daughter. It is impossible for you to afford the Starry Sky Grass!"

Slander! Absolute slander!

Yao Chen's face showed panic and anger, but he still argued without giving up.

"I asked a classmate to buy it for me. He said that he got the Star Grass by chance. He sold it to me at a low price because he knew I needed this herb and they were good friends."

"Huh? Your classmate?" Yao Wangui raised his head slightly and asked, "What's his name?"

"His name is Yao Lin, and he just transferred to our school not long ago. You can go find him as a witness!"

Yao Chen made such a righteous request, but Yao Wangui stared at her and said coldly.

"No need to look for him. There is no such person as Yao Lin in the entire Yao Clan."

As soon as these words came out, Yao Chen hadn't reacted yet, his eyes were full of anger.

"You didn't even go to check, so how can you say there is no such person?"

"If I say no, then it means no." Yao Wangui said this, lowering his voice slightly, with a sinister tone, "Little girl, it's not a good thing to reveal your talent too quickly."

Hearing Yao Wangui's words, Yao Chen's face turned pale. He instantly guessed something and glared at Yao Wangui with anger in his eyes.

"Could it be that my failure in refining medicine at this pharmacy meeting was all because of you?"

"Heh~ You didn't even know that the Starry Sky Grass had been replaced, yet you still dreamed of winning the championship. How ridiculous!" Yao Wangui looked down at Yao Chen with an extremely cold tone, "I had no intention of targeting you, but you insisted on climbing up to get in my way, so don't blame me for using tricks."

The privileges that the champion of the Medicine Association can enjoy are quite great, which is why everyone in the Medicine Clan, including Yao Chen, is scrambling to win the championship.

If it were someone else, Yao Wangui might not dare to do it so blatantly.

But fortunately, Yao Chen was just an orphan and a widow, so even if everyone saw that she was framing her, no one would support her.

"take away!"

Yao Wangui raised his hand and shouted coldly. Yao Chen suddenly reacted and the first thing he thought of was not to clear his grievances.

Yao Chen understood in his heart that since Yao Wangui dared to do this, he must have made sufficient preparations. He, a side branch with no backing, had no qualifications to overturn the verdict.

The person who wronged you knows how wronged you are better than you do.

Therefore, what Yao Chen was concerned about at this time was not his own injustice, but another matter.

"Wait! My mother is seriously ill in bed. If I leave, she..."

"That has nothing to do with me."

Yao Wangui interrupted Yao Chen again. The law enforcement officers behind him stepped forward and controlled Yao Chen. They ignored Yao Chen's repeated explanations and took him away.

The other law enforcement officer glanced at the thatched hut, narrowed his eyes slightly, and whispered to Yao Wangui.

"Elder Yao Wangui, what should we do with Yao Chen's mother?"

Yao Wangui glanced at the thatched hut and sensed the beautiful woman who was still sleeping inside. As a top alchemist, he immediately analyzed the woman's physical condition.

Her body was extremely weak, or it was a miracle that she was still alive. It must be that Yao Chen had been forcibly prolonging her life. This time, Yao Chen was determined to refine the sixth-grade elixir, the Seven-Core Pill, at the pharmacy conference for this purpose.

Then Yao Wangui snorted coldly, his eyes filled with coldness and ruthlessness.

"Don't worry about her. Without this little girl, her mother won't live long."

After saying this, Yao Wangui walked away, and the law enforcement officer followed him quietly.

In a place where they could not see, Xiao Yan was still leaning against the thatched hut, watching the whole process quietly. His eyes were filled with murderous intent as he stared at Yao Wangui's back.

Then the scene changed, and the sun was exceptionally bright. Under this bright sunshine, Yao Chen, with shackles on his hands and feet, returned to the thatched hut under the escort of two law enforcement officers. When he saw his home several times on the way, Yao Chen instinctively wanted to rush forward, but was firmly held by the law enforcement officers next to him and had to give up.

Finally, the two law enforcement officers sent Yao Chen to the thatched hut, then they let go of his hands and spoke coldly to Yao Chen.

"Go, bring your mother with you, and we will expel the Medicine Clan together."

Since stealing medicinal materials has been confirmed, being expelled is the best outcome for Yao Chen.

Yao Chen knew that he could no longer defend himself, so he compromised and said that he hoped to be expelled together with his mother.

Yao Wangui naturally had no objection to this. Although he knew it was impossible, he still agreed.

Yao Chen slowly pushed open the door, and stood there in a daze for a long time.

Then his knees suddenly became weak, his body collapsed to the ground, and tears silently fell from the corners of his eyes.

What was even more shocking was that the long black hair instantly turned silver-white in front of Xiao Yan's eyes. (End of this chapter)