Free Web NovelIn the room, Li Mo finished packing his luggage, stood up, stretched, and opened the window.
The river wind blew, and opposite was Qingyuan Mountain, shrouded in clouds and mist. Its scattered buildings were faintly visible, like a silent giant, overlooking the city below.
“The view from up there will probably be even better,” Li Mo murmured.
Having Transmigrated, how could he be content with being an ordinary person?
But given his current situation, he might not even get as far as Wang Hu in the Entrance Ceremony.
Tiger and Leopard Physique, excellent root bone.
Among those accompanying him, he was considered to have the best talent.
New Disciples were divided into Outer Sect Disciples and even True Disciples based on their talent, with a last-place elimination system.
Clearly, having a good starting point meant encountering people with stronger destinies, and thus higher investment returns.
Putting everything else aside, if he was assigned to the Outer Sect, he definitely wouldn't see Ying Bing.
“Oh, right, Father said there’s a familiar physician in Fu City, whose medical skills are quite good.”
Li Mo turned around and said softly, “How about we go see him today?”
By the tea table.
“No need.” Ying Bing sipped her hot tea and shook her head.
Li Mo said helplessly, “It’s good to go, even if it just alleviates the symptoms.”
Ying Bing remained silent, lifting her gaze from her teacup. The swirling steam couldn't conceal her profound and luminous eyes.
She looked at Li Mo, as if trying to discern something unusual from his Face.
“Since Father gave me the money, I have to report back to him,” Li Mo said, deliberately frowning. “Sanyang Medical Hall isn’t far, just two streets away.”
Sanyang Medical Hall?
Ying Bing took a light sip of tea, seemingly pondering these words.
After a moment of contemplation, she finally nodded: “Alright.”
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In the evening.
Ziyang Prefecture Fu City was brightly lit, with flower boats and lanterns near the river. On the wide streets, people dressed in brocade robes came and went, along with obvious outsiders.
Qingyuan Sect’s triennial recruitment of Disciples made the city even livelier than before.
Among them, the busiest was Jin Huan ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) Street, where everything sold, including medicinal herbs, weapons, and horses, was for Martial Gods.
Sanyang Medical Hall.
“Please inform him.” Li Mo took out his father’s handwritten letter from his sleeve.
The medicine boy’s expression straightened when he saw the recipient’s name on it.
“Please wait a moment, both of you. Our Hall Master went out for a consultation and should be back in a while.”
“Thank you for your trouble.” Li Mo and Ying Bing sat in the hall, waiting.
A moment later.
Footsteps echoed in the hall.
A middle-aged man walked in, travel-worn, his hemp robe full of patches.
His features were thin, a long beard hung down to his chest, and his eyes were especially spirited.
“Hall Master!” The medicine boy held out the unopened letter and handed it over.
The middle-aged man quickly read through it, and a smile appeared on his Face: “That boy Dalong, he still remembers this old man.”
Ying Bing’s eyebrows twitched almost imperceptibly.
Li Mo heard that something was off.
This person looked to be about the same age as his father, so why did he speak so anciently?
The medicine boy next to him said proudly, “My Master is ninety-six this year.”
“Ninety-six?” Li Mo’s mouth fell open.
They say studying medicine makes one age easily, but how could someone get younger the more they studied?
Did he practice some technique, or learn a method of preserving health?
This world truly couldn’t be judged by common sense.
“It’s just a minor Dao, nothing to speak of.”
“Your father said the patient is this young lady. Please step forward.” The hemp-robed middle-aged man beckoned.
When Ying Bing sat opposite him, he flicked out a golden thread, wrapping it around her fair, slender finger. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
Li Mo watched with interest.
Seeing his concern, the medicine boy added, “Don’t worry, throughout the world, there are very, very few illnesses my Master cannot cure.”
The hemp-robed middle-aged man’s lips curved slightly upon hearing this, clearly pleased with the remark.
But.
The next second, he let out a soft “hmm” and his brows furrowed.
Buzz—
The golden thread trembled slightly.
A hint of frost appeared, spreading rapidly from Ying Bing’s fingertip along the golden thread.
Crack—
The hemp-robed middle-aged man, as if electrocuted, actively snapped the golden thread.
He let out a breath, still feeling lingering fear: “How overbearing!”
“How is it?” Li Mo took a deep breath and asked.
The hemp-robed middle-aged man’s brows were almost twisted into a single character.
He pondered for a while, then shook his head and said, “Incredible, incredible. Logically, you shouldn’t have lived until today.”
He had practiced medicine for eighty years; what difficult and complicated diseases hadn't he seen?
But the yin coldness on a person’s body could be so overbearing—it was simply unheard of!
“Young lady, you must have been diagnosed with a blocked meridian, right?”
“Yes.” Ying Bing nodded.
The hemp-robed middle-aged man mused for a moment, then slowly spoke again: “I’m just guessing, but this might not be a blocked meridian, but rather a special Physique. As for what exactly it is, I’ll need to consult ancient texts.”
“If it’s not an illness, there’s no way to cure it. I can only prescribe some medicine to alleviate the pain.”
Ying Bing was surprised for a moment, then returned to her calm state.
To be able to see this layer, the other party’s medical skills were among the best in Ziyang Prefecture.
Including herself, she only found the answer later when she went to the Central Divine Continent, from a secret place of a hidden sect with a long Legacy.
The Taiyin Moon Phoenix Body.
In that ancient text, ten peerless Physiques were recorded, which the author named the Ten Absolute Physiques.
Including the Taiyin Moon Phoenix Body, nine of the ten Absolute Physiques had vanished, existing only in legends and conjectures.
The only one that could be specifically verified was the Great Yu Martial Emperor’s True Dragon Body, capable of suppressing the nation and bearing the destiny of the myriad regions.
“This is the Pure Yang Pill I refined. It should be effective. Two hundred taels of silver.” The hemp-robed middle-aged man took out a porcelain bottle.
“That’s not expensive then.” Li Mo nodded, preparing to pay.
However, the hemp-robed middle-aged man slowly held up a finger: “Per pill.”
Li Mo: “.....”
Can you not pause so dramatically when you speak?
The medicine boy wiped his drool and said repeatedly, “It’s already a rock-bottom price. If Master hadn’t felt he lost Face today, he wouldn’t have.....”
“Hmm?” The hemp-robed middle-aged man glared, and the medicine boy sheepishly shut his mouth.
“Not expensive, not expensive!”
“I’ll take a hundred pills, thank you.” Li Mo, as if by magic, slapped a stack of silver notes and even a few gold ingots onto the table.
Medicine boy: “!”
Hemp-robed middle-aged man: “?”
Ying Bing raised her delicate eyebrows.
The medical hall instantly became silent enough to hear a pin drop.
The thick stack of silver notes looked to be over ten thousand taels, and the few gold ingots were even more valuable. Gold, though less circulated in the market, still had a market price.
If exchanged for silver, it would be far above the market price!
In any case, it added up to at least twenty thousand taels.
Even in the prime real estate of Ziyang Prefecture Fu City, it would be enough to buy a grand mansion.
“I have some private savings.” Li Mo smiled shyly: “Should be enough, right?”
“A hundred pills? Are you here to stock up, or are you going to eat them like food?”
“Just one bottle, twelve pills.” The hemp-robed middle-aged man’s mouth twitched slightly, pushing the bottle forward.
“That works too, I guess.” Li Mo reluctantly nodded.
He cupped his hands in a salute and left with Ying Bing.
Watching the two disappear into the night, the hemp-robed middle-aged man stroked his chin, full of doubt:
“Didn’t they say these two youngsters had a very strained relationship? Why does he seem afraid of spending too little money?”
He picked up the frosted golden thread from the ground, his expression thoughtful.
If it really was some kind of Physique...
This child’s talent was probably unimaginable!
“Master, a message came from the sect.” The medicine boy returned, holding a hawk. He removed the bamboo tube it held in its beak and fed it dried meat.
The letter clearly read:
【To Elder Xue Jing, personally.】
After reading the letter, he smacked his lips and glanced at the backyard: “Let’s return to the sect. Bring the Pill Furnace.”
“Yes.” The delicate medicine boy nodded, ran to the backyard, and with a grunt of effort, lifted the two-person-tall Dragon and Tiger Bronze Pill Furnace, spinning it as he hoisted it onto his small shoulder.
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On the other side.
The bustling night market was dying down, and pedestrians were few, with only the unburnt streetlights still flickering.
As the lively atmosphere of the market faded, the starry sky above finally began to twinkle.
“What a pity.”
“I heard there are many snacks in Ziyang Prefecture’s night market. Next time, we should come earlier.”
Holding two skewers of Ziyang Prefecture’s specialty willow-leaf grilled fish, he took a bite. It was delicious and fragrant, without any fishy smell, and even the bones were crispy.
“Want to try some?” Li Mo turned back, offering the fish.
Ying Bing looked straight ahead, at the young man whose mouth still had oil stains, and a question arose in her heart.
Having been Reborn, she had thought everything would unfold as expected.
But he seemed to have become an exception.
“Why?” Ying Bing asked proactively for the first time.
Li Mo was in a good mood and grinned: “If the hard way doesn’t work, I can only try the soft way, right?”
“What if you’re like a donkey that likes to be stroked, and you’ll be so touched that you’ll throw yourself into my arms?”
As his words fell, the atmosphere became a bit awkward.
Ying Bing, who hadn’t heard a satisfactory answer, looked calm, clearly disregarding his joke.
As expected, one couldn’t expect an Ice Cube to have any sense of humor...
“Alright, alright.”
“You suffered a lot of grievances from me before. Consider this compensation, or an investment.”
“It’s only a little over two thousand taels of silver. Once I enter Qingyuan Sect, it’ll be pocket change.”
Li Mo waved his hand, acting like a wealthy person.
Whether he was strong or not was another matter; he definitely wouldn’t be poor in the future.
Ying Bing’s delicate brows furrowed slightly.
Where did he get such confidence?
In the previous life, Li Mo had only barely made it into the Outer Sect, and even then, it was a struggle.
His root bone could be said to be quite ordinary.
Yet the young man seemed oblivious to this, seemingly fantasizing about shining brightly in a few days...
“Whoosh—”
The night wind blew, and the flickering streetlights made the young man’s spirited Face alternate between bright and dim.
Ying Bing suddenly froze. freewebnσvel.cøm
In her dusty memories, a distant and unfamiliar figure flashed.
That was her, in the past, amidst countless eyes watching like a play, bowing to a Qingyuan Sect Elder and vowing to open her meridians within half a year.
Where did her confidence come from back then?
“I accept this favor.” The pleasant voice had just fallen.
【Investment successful. Investment: Twelve Three-Pattern Pure Yang Pills.】
【Investment successful. Your words have caused a change in the target's state of mind.】
【This investment has successfully altered the target's life trajectory. Feedback rewards will receive a critical boost.】
【Congratulations, Host, you have received a special feedback!】
“Change in state of mind?” Li Mo was puzzled; he hadn’t said anything particularly special.
A Child of Destiny was indeed a Child of Destiny, to be able to gain insight from this.
Special feedback... critical reward...
It looked like a sign of a big reward coming!
“Want some grilled fish? It’s really fragrant.”
“No.”
“Oh, little flying fish coming your way?”
