17. Shi Feng

The Myriad Worlds have many minor continents with its own culture and customs. In the far east, there is the Continent focused on taming Demonic Beasts; in the West, there is a Dragon King ruling over all creatures and if one heads further west, there is a continent where the soul is the focus of cultivation.

On that continent was a pair of Father and Daughter traveling the continent. They wish to cross Seven Mountains and Four Cities in order to reach their destination.

They were once from the Center Continent but were drove away from their Clan.

The Father who was around 1.9-meter-tall and had broad shoulders and a bushy black beard on his face was named Shi Feng. On his back was a medicine pack that he uses to carry

This man held the hand of his daughter whose face's left side had a burn scar.

Her eyes could not see well, and only hazy images enter her vision. She wore a simplistic black Robe with her feet shielded from the rough earth with sandals. Her eyes showed no light and he expressions remained unchanged as she walked.

This girl's name was Yuan Xiurong. She seemed to be around the ages seven or nine, but the innate curiosity of a child is not present in her eyes.

They were walking in a leisurely pace not too fast nor too slow.

Shi Feng looked at his daughter who was walking in her sandals and smiled. But that smile soon disappeared as he noticed something was amiss.

He stopped and so did his daughter. She just looked forward as Shi Feng crouch down to inspect her right foot.

"Ais, you are bleeding my dear daughter. Why didn't you say anything?"

A cut on his daughter's foot was now present. He brought out an ointment from his medicine pack and took out an ointment and began applying it to his daughter's wound.

"There should be a stinging pain, but make sure to hold on, okay?" Shi Feng released a lifeless laugh as he mended her wounds, "There, all done, my princess. Come to Papa, I shall carry you down the mountain pass."

He waited for Yuan Xiurong to move, to him. She was merely a few inches away from him, but she did not move. But Shi Feng did not mind for he already knew such a thing would happen.

"Oh you, why are you acting so shy around your father. Is it because you are already a big girl? Haha, do not worry for you are still my little princess no matter how big you get."

Stretching his hands forward, he was the one who went to carry Yuan Xiurong and began walking with his daughter on his arms.

"We need to move quickly, I heard there is a bandit group in this mountain, we have to avoid the bad guys okay? Speaking of bad guys, you have to avoid any bad men when you choose a man to get married okay…? Who am I kidding? I'll chase any man who goes after my Rong'er with a spear, muahahaha! No man can take you so easily!"

His laughter echoed around the mountains and as a few days came to past, Shi Feng reached a small town where he conducted business.

He was a medicine peddler and in little towns such as this, where business is harsh because of the Demonic Beast that lives in the mountains he can make an absolute killing.

"You there with the head that is as bald as a monkey's ass, do you wish to grow a hair that is as glorious as a Dragon's Whiskers? Then come here and I shall give you medicine even Immortals would wish to have!

"You have diarrhea? Do not worry, this Cat Whisker Grass is something that can cure such a thing with ease. Just make it into tea and drink it for the night, and just like that, your diarrhea is no more.

"Do I have medicine to make one virile? My name, come here. Ehem, this is a trade secret, but this Tiger Goat Penis can make one as strong as you were young. Hey, hey, don't give me that look, you know what they say, to gain a stiff weapon, one must eat THE weapon…of a Tiger Goat. Of course, I'm serious, I don't mean to brag but, I also use it when I go the establishments of the night."

Shi Feng was making a killing, he may look like a scammer and sound like a scammer, but his medicines are the real deal.

His business was going well, the people gather around him and his stall waiting for their turn to buy his medicines. He showed them a broad smile attracting more and more people towards him.

That is until he heard laughter coming from the side, at first, he ignored it, but a pebble rolled to his side and with the first pebble followed a lot more.

Shi Feng looked to the side and saw children around the age of eight were throwing rocks at his daughter, laughing and cursing at the silent child.

"Freak! Get out of here you freak!"

Shi Feng's face immediately changed from a broad smile to an angered scowl. He had Yuan Xiurong move away from his side for the time being in order to not get her swamped by the customers, resulting in this scenario.

"You brats! What are you doing to my daughter?"

"Ah, damn it's the freak's father!"

"Run! He's going to eat us!"

The children saw the angered Shi Feng and as he scurried over to his daughter's side, he inspected and saw blood flowing out of the cut on her forehead.

Wanting to go after the children who hurt his child, Shi Feng was ready to run after them when one of the townsfolk spoke up.

"Hey, medicine peddler, don't get to angry, they're just kids why don't you leave them be? Besides, it's not like they're wrong anyway! Isn't she a retarded freak you use to attract customers by using the pity of others?"

The one who spoke was a middle-aged woman whose body was as fat as cows. She was looking at Shi Feng with an impatient attitude as she held a face cream Shi Feng was selling earlier.

And upon seeing the cow lady talk shit about his daughter, Shi Feng just had about had it!

"Look here Cow Lady, I don't fucking know who you are but don't call my daughter a freak! Do you think I won't hit you because you're a lady? Huh!? Stay there I'm going to transform your face to a proper pig-face!"

"What did you just say to me!? The lady was understandably angered by Shi Feng. She walked over to him.

"Oh, you're approaching me? Instead of running away, you're coming right to me?"

"I can't teach you not to disrespect women without approaching you." The cow

Shi Feng was surprised but it was a welcomed one, he readied his fists and a crooked smile on his face. "Come here you fucking cow! I'll beat the shit out of you!"

Shi Feng was not going to back down and got ready to smack her on the face. No, not only will he smack her, he intends to hang her overhead and lash her over and over again.

Fuck her, does she thinks being a woman excuse her idiocy? Fuck no, Shi Feng was ready to prove this point.

The cow lady actually did not decide to evade this fight, she stood tall before Shi Feng. She was a tiny bit smaller but that doesn't matter. She was wider than him so that's a win.

"This should teach you to disrespect a woman!"

With a full force wind up, she just went ahead and swung her hand.

Tap!

However, her eyes widened as Shi Feng moved his right hand and stopped her hands with a single finger.

He mockingly smiled at her and didn't try acting like a smartass and just like her, he went for a full swing. Everyone who saw him attempting to slap the fat woman was astounded, but no one tried to stop him as they did not want to be involved.

Swoosh!

But no slap hit her, rather, Shi Feng's hand passed the lady's face. A powerful gust of wind went pass the fat lady as Shi Feng missed his mark.

The cow lady could tell that if that hand hit her face, looking like a pig-face would be least of her problems.

As her knees could no longer support her overweight body, she fell down and wet herself.

Shi Feng looked at the cow lady he snorted.

He did not miss intentionally; someone made him miss as he was pulled back.

He was ready to beat the shit out of this lady, but then, he felt a hand stopping him from walking forward. It was Yuan Xiurong whose eyes still showed no light.

"But my daughter, she badmouthed you."

She neither let go or look away at the far distance.

Disgruntled and unable to control his emotions, Shi Feng clenched his fist and threw the rock away and decided he had enough of the town!

"That's it, we're going to leave! This fucking town, sucks, ass, hey cow lady! This ends now! But remember this, the one who spared you was my daughter!"

Shi Feng packed his things as picked his daughter up and carried her in his arms. He was just about to leave when three men stopped him from walking farther, they were just about to say something when Shi Feng suddenly raised his foot and kicked them on the face, knocking them out cold.

He spat on the ground and looked at the terrified townsfolk before snorting at them and left the town.

As he was just about to leave for the second time, he was stopped at the town's gate by an old man whose back was already hunched. He was frail-looking, a proof that vitality was leaving his body.

"You're going to become a problem for me too, old man? I am warning you; I also kick old people on the face."

Shu Feng walked past him with a stern expression on his face.

"There are bandits on the mountain pass, the sun is already about to set, and aren't you hurt, it is not safe to venture there at this time of day. Why don't you rest at my place, I feel bad how the others have treated you?"

Shi Feng looked back to the old man an began thinking. He then chortled as he placed Yuan Xiurong down and rummaged through his pack.

While the old man was wondering what he was doing, Shi Feng casually tossed a bottle at him. The old man frantically caught the tiny bottle and looked at.

Inside the bottle was a green liquid and in the middle of the bottle was brown seedling around the size of a nail bobbing up and down.

"This…?" The old man was confused.

"You've been poisoned before, haven't you?" Shi Feng casually remarked.

"How did you?!"

Shi Feng ignored his shock and simply continued his words.

"Your Lungs is deteriorating because of that poison. Boil water and put a droplet of that thing in the water and drink it every morning while basking in the sun. If you do that, the poison will be pushed out of your system as pitch-black stool and it will regain your lost vitality and even strengthen your body, at the very least you'll be able to stay alive for another three years."

With that said, Shi Feng already finished packing and carried his daughter in his arms once again before beginning to walk towards the mountain once more.

He then felt something vibrating on his chest. He pulled out a jade pendant and sighed.

"You're hungry again? Damn you are getting greedier by the second, if this goes on, my daughter's share will all come to you."

Shi Feng jokingly said as he shook his head and then continued on his way, "Well, the old man said you guys will be able to eat later so wait for a little more."

As Shi Feng's figure gradually became tinier, the old man got on his knees as he kissed the floor.

"Oh dear lord, that man was an Immortal wasn't he?"

The old man was scared half to death as he realized what Shi Feng could have been. And as he realized this, he did not immediately run-up to the townsfolk preaching his findings.

Instead, he first tested the medicine and that's where it all began.

It was said that after a month when the Immortal Medicine Peddler spared the town and found the medicine, he sold was working wonders, the realized their mistake and punished all the children.

The cow lady who was spared by Shi Feng received a lashing and as they did so, a month later, it became known that the bandits who used to resides in the mountain and ambushes the caravans and passing people mysteriously died.

Their fear and awe towards the Immortal Medicine Peddler increased and their reverence for his magnanimity became legendary.

Thus, a year after the Medicine Peddle passed through their village, they erected a statue of him with his daughter on his embrace.

And a year later, the Medicine Peddler in question was still traveling as his destination has yet to be met.