Strongest Medical Saint
Chapter 440: Bonds
Jia Shouhong and the others, upon seeing Shen Feng's odd behavior, couldn't help but close their mouths, silently waiting for Shen Feng to speak on his own.
Shen Feng noticed the Ice Lotus Mark on his right arm flashing faster and faster. Besides the pain, he felt waves of numbness in his entire right arm, which trembled uncontrollably.
The mark on his arm was the Seven-colored Ice Lotus Seal.
The Seven-colored Ice Lotus Seal, one Yin and one Yang, was a type of Twin Seal of the Heavenly Clan in the Immortal Realm.
Over his many years in the Immortal Realm, Shen Feng had taken three stunningly beautiful female disciples, and the Seven-colored Ice Lotus Seal was something he had obtained with his eldest disciple, Lan Binghan.
He ignored the pain in his arm and kept his gaze fixed on the flickering Seven-colored Ice Lotus Seal.
The mark on his arm was the Yang Seal, while naturally, the one on Lan Binghan's arm was the Yin Seal.
It was on his second centennial in the Immortal Realm when he met Lan Binghan, who was filthy as if she had just escaped from somewhere.
Back then, Shen Feng possessed some self-defense capabilities in the Immortal Realm.
And Lan Binghan was just a sixteen-year-old girl.
Their meeting was quite melodramatic. Even though Lan Binghan was covered in dirt at that time, it couldn't hide her purely beautiful face.
What was most important was that Lan Binghan had a special constitution, which was highly suited as a Demonic Cultivator's Unparalleled Cultivation Partner.
There happened to be a Demonic Cultivator who took an interest in Lan Binghan, wanting to cultivate her into an Unparalleled Cultivation Partner for his own practice.
Fortunately, she was rescued by Shen Feng, and from then on, Lan Binghan, like a little tail, followed behind Shen Feng.
Initially, she followed behind Shen Feng without saying a word, silently accompanying him.
As Shen Feng climbed an extraordinarily treacherous mountain, Lan Binghan followed step by step, even as her palms cracked from the climb and her shoes wore through.
At that moment, as she reached the mountaintop and lost her footing, plunging down the mountain,
Shen Feng caught her in his arms in time, and she finally spoke her first words to him, "You are a good person. Can I follow you from now on?"
When she said that, the sixteen-year-old Lan Binghan had a determination on her face that her peers lacked, yet Shen Feng still saw in her eyes the same unease that he had felt when he first came to the Immortal Realm.
Perhaps it was because he saw his own past self in this girl, and her cultivation aptitude was excellent too, that Shen Feng took Lan Binghan as his disciple, his first legitimate disciple in the Immortal Realm.
From that moment on,
Lan Binghan always addressed Shen Feng as "Master, Master" when she was with him, while she remained cold-faced towards everyone else.
Through their slow companionship,
Shen Feng came to know of Lan Binghan's origins; it turned out she was of the Heavenly Clan.
The Heavenly Clan used to be a very powerful race in the Immortal Realm but later declined for unknown reasons.
Lan Binghan's father had been a contender for the leadership of the Heavenly Clan but perished to his rival in the succession battle.
At that time, Lan Binghan was still in her mother's womb; her pregnant mother was imprisoned in the Heavenly Clan's Heavenly Prison. Lan Binghan was born there, growing up inside the prison like a neglected weed.
Finally, her mother passed away from illness in the Heavenly Prison when Lan Binghan was fourteen, prompting her to begin planning her escape.
When she met Shen Feng, it was shortly after she had fled the Heavenly Clan.
Under Shen Feng's guidance, Lan Binghan smoothly embarked on the path of cultivation, with the two maintaining a subtle master-disciple relationship.
In Shen Feng's eight hundredth year in the Immortal Realm,
he returned to the land of the Heavenly Clan with Lan Binghan, decimated the current leader of the Heavenly Clan, killed all of his relatives and confidants, and aided Lan Binghan in becoming the new leader of the Heavenly Clan.
Together, he and Lan Binghan entered the Heavenly Clan's Holy Land and, through a fortuitous turn of events, both received the Seven-colored Ice Lotus Seal.
The Seven-colored Ice Lotus Seal contained many mysteries; apart from accelerating cultivation speed, those who possessed the Yin and Yang Seals would share an unbreakable connection, an inseparable bond.
Lan Binghan had tested the waters many times, attempting to become Shen Feng's woman. But in the end, Shen Feng ambiguously dodged every attempt, as he was solely preoccupied with his cultivation at the time.
Shen Feng still remembered Lan Binghan saying, "Master, now that we have the Twin Seal, you won't be able to get rid of me for your entire life."
"Do you know? In my life, I only have two wishes. One was to avenge my parents, which I've already accomplished."
"The other is to always be by your side! Can you help me fulfill this wish?"
At that time, Shen Feng simply patted the girl on the head and scolded her.
Members of the Heavenly Clan possess the Lotus Heart, and all their hearts are shaped like a lotus. It is said that their hearts can be refined into many treasures.
And once the heart of a member of the Heavenly Clan is removed, their body instantly turns into a stone statue.
Stone statues are eternal.
After acquiring the Seven-Colored Ice Lotus Seal, Lan Binghan jokingly said that once the Seven-Colored Ice Lotus Seal on Shen Feng's arm turned dark gray, it would signify that her Lotus Heart had been taken out and her body had become an immortal stone statue.
Various memories flashed through Shen Feng's mind, and he clenched his teeth instantly. He saw that the Seven-Colored Ice Lotus Seal on his right arm no longer sparkled, the seven colors had vanished, and it had slowly turned a gray-white color.
"Bing Han."
Shen Feng couldn't help but murmur, and uncontrollable rage erupted wildly from within him.
Had the Ice Lotus Mark turning gray-white implied that Lan Binghan had become a stone statue?
What exactly had happened in the Immortal Realm?
He was very clear about Lan Binghan's strength, especially after she became the leader of the Heavenly Clan, his eldest disciple who had even more life-saving means at her disposal. Even if she couldn't defeat an opponent, she should have been able to escape safely.
Yet what was going on with the Ice Lotus Mark on his arm now?
What on earth was going on?
One could say that in the Immortal Realm, Lan Binghan had been the one to accompany him the longest, and they shared a bond that could never be severed.
Back when Shen Feng had not fully matured, he was once chased by several Sects and eventually took Lan Binghan to hide in the perilous Sky Demonic Mountain Range, filled with all sorts of fierce beasts and cultivators undergoing trials.
Severely injured at the time, Shen Feng passed out shortly after entering the Sky Demonic Mountain Range and had no chance of waking up soon.
Lan Binghan had only recently awakened her Heavenly Clan bloodline, and she was no match for the various fierce beasts in the range.
Yet she carried Shen Feng on her back alone, struggling to survive in the Sky Demonic Mountain Range.
So as not to attract the attention of cultivators who came to train because of her looks, she cut her own face, simply not wishing to cause trouble. She just wanted to keep her master alive.
Fortunately, there's always a way out for those in dire straits.
Lan Binghan encountered a training team from a Righteous Sect in the Sky Demonic Mountain Range.
Even when she was in the Heavenly Clan's prison, where she couldn't eat or sleep well and had to endure ruthless beatings, Lan Binghan had never knelt or shed tears.
But for Shen Feng, she knelt for the first time, bending her knees to others, and with tears in her eyes, she pleaded with the leader of the Righteous Sect team.
The leader happened to be a kind-hearted middle-aged woman who, seeing Lan Binghan's pitiful state, took pity and temporarily let them join the team.
These events were what Shen Feng learned after waking up, as told by the people of the Sect.
Over the many years in the Immortal Realm, although Shen Feng had indeed helped Lan Binghan exact her revenge, she too had silently made many sacrifices for him.
Shen Feng might not have said it aloud, but Lan Binghan, his disciple, also held a very important place in his heart.
Clenching his hands tightly into fists, Shen Feng's piercing gaze stared into the heavens, the malevolent energy spreading endlessly from his body, he murmured to himself, "No matter who it is, if you dare to harm a single hair on Bing Han's head, the day I return to the Immortal Realm, I swear, I will exterminate your entire clan!"
As his words fell.
Shen Feng sat cross-legged on the ground, he aimed to calculate with all his might, relying on the Twin Seal between him and Lan Binghan for his calculations.
Even though this place was extremely far from the Immortal Realm.
Even though this calculation would exact a huge toll on Shen Feng.
Even though it might be impossible to figure anything out.
But he couldn't care less about any of that now, he had to know Lan Binghan's current situation right away.
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