Medicine King's Valley

A special Sect, with a heritage that stretched back thousands of years. It was a Sect full of Master Alchemists, and most of its disciples were also outstanding Alchemists. Its combat strength was not strong, only slightly better than some second-class Sects, but far less than any first-class Sect. However, its influence was far greater than any other force in existence. Always neutral and never sided with any particular force, deliberately showing no favor to any Sect or country, for thousands of years maintaining an aloof and transcendent position.

The Holy Land of Alchemists!

It not only attracts cultivators from the Great Han Dynasty, even masters from the surrounding countries would often come here to request the Medicine King’s Valley Elders to refine pills for them.

Medicine King’s Valley had ten Great Elders (Four-Leaf flower/Mysterious Grade Alchemists), each one occupying one of the ten highest peaks.

## **Notable Members**

* Pill Saint (First Patriarch)
* Xiao Fu Shen (Grandmaster)
* Dong Qing Han (Xiao Fu Shen's Disciple)
* Qin Ze (Steward?)

## **Geography**

Although Medicine King’s Valley was called so, its foundation was not actually built in a valley. Instead, it spanned a dozen mountain peaks, each one more than a thousand meters tall. These mountains were arranged in a circular pattern and covered a radius of hundreds of kilometers. These few hundred kilometers all belonged to the Medicine King’s Valley.

Each of the peaks was home to many high-rank Alchemists, some of whom widely received disciples in order to pass down their inheritance. Others preferred to live in solitary penance and spent their time in the pursuit of greater alchemic knowledge. Their mountain residences contained several acres of herb gardens, which were planted with all kinds of spirit grasses. Throughout the entire Medicine King’s Valley, there were countless alchemy materials.

In the center of all the peaks lay a valley-like existence, which was quite different from the tranquil surrounding mountains. This valley was open all year round, and every day it was bustling and crowded. This valley was where a small town was built in order to allow the outside world to communicate with Medicine King’s Valley’s Alchemists.

## **Locations**

### **Small Valley Town**

Open all year round, and every day it was bustling and crowded. Has shops everywhere, but most of these shops did not belong to Medicine King’s Valley, as over 90% of the world’s great Sects and Forces would set up a branch here. These forces have established stores to sell herbs, collect materials, ask about foreign intelligence, and so on.

Fighting is strictly prohibited, and even though an endless stream of cultivators came here, inside this city no one dared disobey this rule. In the mountains and the center valley, it is lively and peaceful, but for a stretch of tens of kilometers outside the valley, one could see countless battles and deaths.

### **Hidden Cloud Peak**

Located in the middle of all the Elders' peaks. Just two hills away from the Myriad Drug Pond. There are only Xiao Fu Shen and his two dedicated maidservants, and not a single other person lived there.

### **Pill Saint's Peak**

#### **Myriad Drug Pond**

A forbidden area located at the top of the Pill Saint’s Peak. Place where the unchanging Pill Saint’s portrait is (his statue). Only the Valley Lord and Elders were eligible to gaze upon the Pill Saint’s portrait and study the profound alchemic mysteries he had left behind.

The opening is quite expensive, because one must use hundreds of pills as offerings to the Pill Saint's Statue. After that, the individual exposed to the Statue will have the chance to find its profound mysteries, be enlightened and/or find the answers to what he had doubts.