Immortals of the Mortal World Gather at the Inn!

The old doctor stared at the chessboard, his brow furrowed.

The old doctor looked at Li Daoxuan and said something cryptic: "Do you know a man surnamed Qin and a woman surnamed Lin?"

Li Daoxuan looked at the old doctor with some doubt, but still replied, "Senior, I've forgotten everything that happened before Little Fish Village. As for the man surnamed Qin and the woman surnamed Lin, you should probably know them!"

The old doctor persisted, asking, "When you finally ran out of spiritual power and forcibly condensed the chess pieces, did you remember anything?"

Li Daoxuan thought of the fragments of memory in his mind and honestly said, "Yes, just now when I felt I was about to die, countless memories that were unfamiliar to me but seemed very familiar surfaced in my mind. However, they were all fragmented. When I tried to examine them, I could only see a little bit of each one, and the next piece would be a different memory."

The old doctor thought about it and finally gave up. Although he could forcibly break the taboo himself, he knew that this was a test for Li Daoxuan.

The old doctor gave up and left after saying one sentence to Li Daoxuan!

"Come find me whenever you remember anything!"

Li Daoxuan pondered the old doctor's last words, and after realizing they didn't mean anything else, he prepared to leave.

Before leaving, Li Daoxuan subconsciously glanced at the chess pieces he had made out of control earlier.

It was this unintentional sway that caused the fragments of memory in Li Daoxuan's mind to begin piecing together, and Li Daoxuan also fainted!

On the chessboard, each piece had a name and a portrait. If Li Daoxuan hadn't used his spiritual power to look at it, he wouldn't have been able to see anything. However, Li Daoxuan had depleted his spiritual power from playing chess and was currently recovering it.

Li Daoxuan's foundation was deep and solid, even surpassing others. So when Li Daoxuan absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around him, the spiritual energy covered a ten-meter radius around him, allowing him to see the scene presented by the chess pieces on the chessboard.

When Li Daoxuan saw the portraits of Qin Xiao and Lin Wanru, the scattered fragments of memory in his mind began to piece together and slowly recover.

Meanwhile, in the Red Dust Inn, Mr. Zhang looked at the chessboard in front of him, smiled, and muttered to himself, "Kid, this is all I can do to help you."

The old doctor who had left was stunned. Then, as if remembering something, he hurriedly rushed back. In an instant, the old doctor arrived at the place where Li Daoxuan had fainted.

The old doctor stepped forward to examine him and found that Li Daoxuan's breathing was disordered and his soul was trembling, as if he was going through something.

An old doctor is called a physician because he has achieved mastery through his medical skills.

The old doctor's eyes changed, transforming from his original black and white pupils into golden holy eyes.

In an instant, Li Daoxuan's condition became clear to the old doctor.

After a while, the old doctor's pupils returned to their original black and white color. He sighed and said, "Luckily, it was just a memory recovery. You old geezer not only tricked me, but also scared me. I'm so old, I almost passed out."

Then Mr. Zhang's phantom appeared in the air and said to the old doctor, "According to age, I am a hundred years older than you."

The old doctor ignored Li Daoxuan and casually put him on the bed. Then he said to Mr. Zhang, "You really can't tell. Look at me, white hair and beard, and a face full of wrinkles. And look at you, I won't say anything, but you're definitely not as handsome as me."

"Uh! Hahaha!" Mr. Zhang laughed loudly, saying, "You're both at the Quasi-Saint level, and you're still comparing yourselves like this!"

The old doctor said disdainfully, "What I despise most are those arrogant saints who act like they're the only ones who can do whatever they want and that you should listen to their every whim."

Mr. Zhang smiled and asked curiously, "Am I included?"

The old doctor thought for a moment and said, "For the sake of our longtime friendship, I'll let it slide for you!"

Mr. Zhang laughed loudly: "Then should I thank you?"

The old doctor said, "If you want to thank me, just send my daughter off the chessboard!"

Mr. Zhang narrowed his eyes and said, "That won't do. You were the one who put that girl, Xiaoyu, on the chessboard. How can you go back on your word? Just like you always say, 'Once a move is made, there's no going back!'"

When the old doctor saw Mr. Zhang using something he had said before to mock him, he had no choice but to ask Mr. Zhang, "By helping him like this, you're actually harming him!"

Mr. Zhang looked at Li Daoxuan through the wooden house and said, "Actually, he has already gained the approval of the Treasure Pagoda. Moreover, with the development of the Mountain and River Secret Realm imminent, he can no longer stay here!"

The old doctor was startled upon hearing "Secret Realm of Mountains and Rivers." He said to Mr. Zhang, "You mean the Secret Realm of Mountains and Rivers that possesses the Map of Mountains and Rivers!"

Mr. Zhang nodded.

The old doctor frowned and said, "Do you think that kid will gain the approval of the Mountain and River Map?"

Mr. Zhang laughed and said, "Maybe!"

The old physician shook his head and said, "The Map of Mountains and Rivers is far superior to the Treasure Pagoda. The Treasure Pagoda is only a semi-sacred artifact, while the Map of Mountains and Rivers is a sacred artifact. In the tens of millions of years since it appeared in the Mountain and River Secret Realm, countless geniuses and prodigies from the lower realms, the immortal realm, the demon realm, and the monster realm have gone there, and all of them have failed!"

Looking into the distance, Mr. Zhang said, "The great trend is about to unfold. Several sages have begun to make their moves, some with one move, some with several. When the time comes, some sages will surely fall, and some quasi-sages will gain opportunities to ascend to the sagehood. The world is beginning to be reshuffled!"

Mr. Zhang looked at the old doctor again and asked, "This time, it's time for you to ascend to the throne."

The old doctor fell silent for a moment.

Mr. Zhang said again, "Old Yu, some things can't be truly escaped by running away."

The old doctor fell silent again.

Mr. Zhang didn't say anything. After taking one last look at the old doctor, the illusory figure disappeared.

"Saints are beings revered by countless cultivators, but how many people know that saints, like ordinary cultivators, also have selfish desires and a greedy side!"

The old doctor chuckled self-deprecatingly and left.

At this moment, Li Daoxuan looked at the flowing memories in front of him and completely recovered his memories. His cultivation also broke through to the half-step Integration stage, only half a step away from the true Integration stage.

Inside the wooden house, Li Daoxuan opened his eyes after processing everything that had happened in Xiaoyu Village.

"It seems I'll have to go see my senior."

After saying this to himself, Li Daoxuan disappeared into the small wooden house and reappeared at the village entrance.

Then, when Li Daoxuan tried to leave, he found that no matter which way he went, as soon as he left the village gate, he would return to the same place.

"Don't bother trying. This village exists in a small world inside the Treasure Pagoda. You're not from here, and since you're not from here, you can't get out!"

The old doctor walked in from outside the village, leaning on his cane.