Lin Feng thanked the three people for the practice methods of the Nine Yin True scripture.

"Im so happy to see you again, friends from jianghu. First of all, thank you for participating in this great endeavor. Secondly, since I can't determine which of you is telling the truth, or maybe even none of you is, I've also decided to also give each one of you a taste of your own medicine. Each of you will also get a possible prescription of the antidote for the poison you swallowed yesterday. But wait, there's more! You have at least a week before the poison's hidden danger would explode abruptly, give or take a few days. Pain is a given, but it might also take your life or cripple your cultivation. Now isn't that exciting?! I'd love to watch the drama regarding how you great heroes find a way to solve this problem, but I'm rather short for time, so I regret to say that we must part ways. My best wishes to each of you, and may you live in interesting times!"

"AAAAHHHHHHHH!"

"Hateful! You do not speak martial arts!"

"You Devil!"

"Since fellow daoist say I am devil, then there's no problem in acting like one. Don't cut the ropes, leave them that way."

"Hahahahaha!"

"Good luck!"

"Heavenspeed!"

"Sorry, may you burn a whole incense stick in heaven, before King Yama knows your dead!"

The group easily turned their faces with the hostages as they left them tied up in the wilderness, the three prescriptions lying not far from the hapless people. Meanwhile, the group can be seen returning to Garkash's direction. Halfway upon returning to the city, they met a first grade scholar accompanied by some beggars looking for something. They hailed the group, wanting to check the carriage.

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"Halt!"

"Who goes there?"

"It is I, Kang, son of Honglie, from the clan of Wanyan, prince of the Jins, defeater of the Songs, noble of the Jurchens."

"Pull the other ones."

"I am. And these people are from the beggar clan. We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of my master who will join me in my father's army at this time's expedition. I must speak with your lord and master."

"What, ridden on a donkey?"

"Yes!"

"You're using coconuts!"

"What?"

"You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together."

"So? We have been searching the whole morning from when she was missing since night has covered this land, through this wilderness, through--"

"Where'd you get the coconuts?"

"We found them."

"Found them? In Xiangjin? The coconut's tropical!"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, this is a temperate zone."

"The eastern Taifun may fly west with the sun or the western Shamo may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not strangers to our land."

"Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?"

"Not at all, they could be found perchance."

"What -- a wind carrying a coconut?"

"It could blow it by the husks."

"It's not a question of where the wind blows it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! Air in gaseous state could not carry a one pound coconut."

"Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Wanyan Kang from Eastern Jin is here."

"Listen, in order to find something which is not easily found, a man needs to pray 43 times at the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, right?"

"Please!"

"Am I right?"

"I'm not interested!"

"It could be found by a European emperor!"

"Oh, yeah, a European emperor maybe, but not an African chieftain. That's my point."

"Oh, yeah, I agree with that."

"Will you ask your master if we can search his carriage?"

"But then of course, uh, European emperors can easily procure coconuts from Nanhai.

"Oh, yeah."

"So, African Chieftains from this place couldn't afford coconuts anyway."

The beggars and the 1st class scholar soon left in order to continue searching for his master. They ignored the group and their carriage after seeing these people look rather daft.