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However, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that those with severe injuries are simply unable to gain entry into the main altar of the alchemy world.

Whenever we were about to reach the mountain gate, someone with a minor injury would always push up from behind, grab us, and throw us back behind.

Some people rushed forward desperately, even trampling on those who fell, as if afraid that if they were even a fraction slower, their share of the medicine would be snatched away by others.

Those who fall are mostly seriously injured or exhausted. At first, they can still groan a few times, but after many people have stepped over them, they quickly fall silent.

It's strange that no disciples from the alchemy world have stepped forward to stop this chaotic situation.

Li Chen scanned the area and finally spotted a few disciples of the alchemy world, surrounded by people, in some corners.

Those disciples from the alchemy world were cornered, and someone handed them spiritual herbs, seemingly wanting them to refine them into medicine on the spot.

Li Chen frowned, pointing to where another person had fallen. He was about to ask Shen Zhengyuan to send some disciples from the cultivation world to help when he suddenly heard a loud shout: "Don't grab it! Don't grab it! Those aren't for you! Those are medicines from other cultivation worlds!"

Li Chen looked in the direction of the sound.

Dozens of people, each carrying a small wooden box, rushed out of a large hall.

While those people ran ahead, some disciples from the alchemy world chased after them, trying to retrieve the small wooden boxes.

Seeing that their belongings were about to be taken away, the men immediately shouted at the top of their lungs, "We're all about to die! You have medicine, why don't you give it to us first?!"

"That's right! Aren't people in the alchemy world supposed to be benevolent healers? How can you be so cold-blooded?! You just watch us die without giving us any medicine?!"

"You were the ones who said that anyone poisoned by the demon could come to the Alchemy Realm to be cured and healed. How come you're denying it now that we've arrived?!"

"Everyone, come quick and get the medicine! If those alchemists won't save us, we'll save ourselves!!"

Those who were initially observing immediately rushed forward upon hearing what the people grabbing the medicine said, lifting the wooden crates and snatching the neatly arranged medicine bottles inside.

Some alchemy practitioners tried to stop them, but they were pinned to the ground and punched several times, as if those alchemy practitioners were all despicable and heinous criminals.

In the cultivation world, there is a rule that cultivators are not allowed to use spiritual power to harm others. Therefore, even if those disciples of the alchemy cultivation world are beaten to the ground, they cannot use their spiritual power.

But not using spiritual power doesn't mean you can't fight back.

The disciple from the alchemy world, who had been pinned to the ground, suddenly exerted his strength and flipped the person on top of him over. He then pounced on the person and punched him in the face!

The disciples of the alchemy world may appear to be indifferent to worldly affairs, but their physical strength is no less than that of the disciples of the body cultivation world.

After all, disciples in the alchemy world not only have to climb up and down various mountain peaks every day to plant spiritual herbs, but also have to clean the medicine cauldron from time to time.

Moreover, a few disciples from the alchemy world can carry a medicine cauldron weighing several hundred kilograms and run all over the mountains and fields.

Therefore, given the physical capabilities of disciples in the alchemy world, it was commonplace for one person to carry two large wooden boxes filled with spiritual herbs back and forth between various cultivation worlds to deliver medicine.

Therefore, in order to survive in the world of alchemy, one must not only be proficient in pharmacology, but also have excellent physical strength; otherwise, one will be exhausted to death within a few days.

But those in the cultivation world knew this, while the common people who had come from all over did not. They only felt that the disciples of the alchemy cultivation world seemed to have some kind of innate superhuman strength, able to punch a dent in the floor tiles.

A punch like that, if it hits someone in the face, losing a few teeth is considered mild.

The person who had initially been in control was suddenly beaten so badly that he was screaming and howling. Seeing that they couldn't be stopped, the bystanders began shouting, "Disciples of the Alchemy Cultivation World are beating people! Disciples of the Alchemy Cultivation World are beating people!!"

"The alchemy practitioners have gone mad! The alchemy practitioners have all gone insane!!"

Seeing that the person being pinned down by the disciple from the alchemy world was already covered in blood and barely breathing, and would be beaten to death with a few more punches, the disciple's fist suddenly stopped in mid-air.

The disciple was taken aback at first, then he exerted force, trying to shake off the hand that was holding him.

But after struggling a few times, he found that the hand was like an iron clamp, still firmly gripping his arm.

He turned his head and saw a woman wearing a light blue dress standing behind him.

Seeing that he had stopped, the woman tilted her head slightly, her gaze passing over him and landing on the man on the ground, whose face was blurred and who was barely alive. She said, "If you keep hitting him, someone will die."

The man shook his arm again, but seeing that he couldn't shake her hand off, he could only ask, "Who are you?"

The woman smiled slightly, “A disciple of the Zen meditation world, Li Chenjin.”

The man was taken aback, and so were the people around him. It seemed that no one had expected that someone from the Zen meditation community would come.

But soon, someone shouted, "I know you! You're Master Mingcun's disciple! You be the judge! Those alchemists in the world have medicine but won't let us use it. They just watch so many people be tortured to death by demonic poison. Isn't that their fault?!"

Before Li Chen could speak, a disciple from the Alchemy Cultivation Realm retorted angrily, "Nonsense! After the incidents of demonic beasts injuring people occurred in various realms, the Alchemy Cultivation Realm distributed most of its spiritual herbs to those realms. There aren't many spiritual herbs left in the Alchemy Cultivation Realm to begin with! If we had any, why wouldn't we give them to you?!"

"You're talking nonsense! We saw it in your warehouse, there was clearly still a lot of medicine. You just wouldn't give it away for free, you wanted to make money off us!!"

No sooner had that person finished speaking than another disciple from the alchemy world chimed in, "Nonsense! If these spiritual herbs were sold outside, each one would fetch at least tens of taels of silver. Can you afford that?! Since you came to the alchemy world, we have been giving you these spiritual herbs for free. When have we ever charged you a single penny?!"

"Then why did you hide the medicine?! Are people from other places considered human, but we're not?! We're already here, can't you just give us the medicine first?!"

The disciples of the alchemy world said, "You are going too far! Those medicines were ordered from us by the sword cultivators long ago! Those sword cultivators all have to face demonic beasts head-on, and their injuries are far more severe than yours. Why can't we give them to them first?!"

"Moreover, we don't know if there will be any more demonic beasts causing trouble. If there are, won't those sword cultivators be the ones rushing to the front to protect you? Shouldn't the medicine be left for them?!"

After the disciple finished speaking, someone retorted, "Anyway, you all have your reasons! We just want to live, what's wrong with that? If you don't have the ability, don't boast that anyone poisoned by demonic energy can come to the alchemy world! We've come all this way with great difficulty, and countless people have died on the way, only to arrive here and you say there's no medicine left? Aren't you just playing me?!"

The disciples of the alchemy world said, "Ask yourselves honestly, what have we alchemy cultivators done to wrong you? We alchemy cultivators also have many disciples afflicted by demonic poison! Those disciples endured the corrosive effects of the poison, saving their own medicine for you, and yet you turn around and blame us! Are you even human?!"

"So what do you expect us to do now? Wait to die?! If you don't have the ability, don't make those boastful claims! Our injuries have become so severe because we were trying to get to your alchemy world! Look, the flesh on my chest is almost rotting away, are you just going to let me die here?!"

"It's all because of you! If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have come all this way! If we hadn't come, we might have found another way long ago. Why would we be here to die?!"

"Take the medicine out! Take it out!!"

"I beg you... please save my child... she's really dying! Please, you said she could be saved once we reached the Alchemy Realm... I rushed here with my child, you can't let her die here like this..."

The disciples of the alchemy world in front of him were trembling with anger and speechless for a moment. Just as Li Chen was about to speak, a deep and aged voice suddenly came, "Give them all the medicine!"

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound and saw an old man dressed in the robes of a sect leader slowly walking out of the hall.

Although the sect leader was already white-haired, his steps were very steady and his voice was full of energy. He repeated, "Give them all the remaining medicine. If anyone from the sword cultivator world comes asking, I will speak to them!"

"But Sect Leader..."

"No need to say more." The leader of the alchemy world raised his hand to interrupt, "Our alchemy world has always taken saving people as our mission, and we often go down the mountain to treat people's illnesses and injuries, without ever taking a single penny from the people. But we never expected that we would suffer such a calamity and be insulted like this today."

The sect leader spoke, his voice trembling with a hint of tears, "The spiritual medicines have all been used up. If the people from the sword cultivation world come, they will at most take my life."

"You need not worry. When the sword cultivators come to us, I will atone with my life and ensure your safety. After you have properly buried your fellow disciples who died from injuries inflicted by the demonic beasts, you should leave the alchemy world, live in seclusion, and never concern yourself with worldly affairs again..."

"Sect Leader, please calm down." Li Chen bowed to the sect leader of the Pill Cultivation World and said, "These people are indeed at fault, but they are only trying to survive. The Pill Cultivation World is naturally not at fault either. The disciples of the Pill Cultivation World are willing to give their medicine to the people, which is a righteous act."

The leader of the alchemy sect glanced in her direction and said indifferently, "I recognize you. You are the disciple of Zen Master Mingcun and the Daoist partner of Sect Leader Shen. What brings you here? If you are here to ask for medicine for the Zen sect, the alchemy sect truly has no spiritual medicine to offer right now."

Li Chen smiled and said, "Sect Leader, you misunderstand. I came to the alchemy world at the request of my master to help you with your troubles."

All eyes immediately turned to her, and even the sect leader's eyes flashed with a hint of inquiry, "How can you relieve her worries?"

Li Chenjin slowly said, "There is a shortage of spiritual herbs in the alchemy world. If we wait for new spiritual herbs to grow, it will take at least forty or fifty years. During this time, even if Zen Master Mingcun came in person, it would be difficult to cook without rice. I suppose the sect leader knows that there is no solution to this problem, which is why he wants his disciples to live in seclusion."