Chapter 52 (Part 3)

As he drank medicine three times every day, he discovered that the cold qi in his body was decreasing. It was not that his yin meridians had been cured, but the yin qi inside his yin meridians had decreased.

Little Martial Granduncle was indeed powerful. He had not felt any pain, yet with only a few doses of medicine, the yin qi inside his body had lessened.

“Looks like the effect is pretty good. Keep drinking it. After another three months, you’ll be able to soak in medicinal baths.”

After Yu Yu returned from cultivation, he checked Jingxin’s body and found that he was much better than when he had first arrived.

Together with the suppression from the jade pendant, as long as Jingxin’s yin qi did not erupt, his current body was already about the same as an ordinary person’s.

“Many thanks, Martial Granduncle.”

Jingxin knelt and kowtowed. He currently had nothing to his name and had no way to repay Martial Granduncle, so he could only kowtow first.

“Aiya, why are you kowtowing again, child? Didn’t I already say you don’t need to kowtow? I’m your Martial Granduncle. If I don’t treat you, who would I treat?”

Yu Yu hurriedly helped him up and healed the wound on his forehead.

This child was truly honest. Every time he kowtowed, he did it for real. With only his first-level Qi Refining cultivation, it was practically the same as having none. Just a couple of kowtows were enough to break the skin.

“Hehe, many thanks, Little Martial Granduncle.”

Jingxin smiled foolishly. Ever since his body began improving, he had also become more cheerful.

Perhaps this was his true nature. The silent, taciturn person with poor health from before was merely what he had been forced to show.

After all, if a person was ostracized all day and their body was in so much pain, it would be strange if they could smile.

“Come on. I’m in a good mood today, so I’ll personally cook for you.”

Yu Yu rolled up his sleeves and walked toward the kitchen.

Yuanyuan and the Azure Spirit Bird followed behind him. The moment Jingxin heard this, he hurriedly followed to help.

Jingxin still could not eat food containing spiritual energy, so Yu Yu could only make ordinary food for him.

As for him and his master, plus Yuanyuan and the Azure Spirit Bird, of course they would eat spiritual food! After it was done, he first had the Azure Spirit Bird act as a food-delivery worker before it was their turn to eat.

Everyone joyfully ate a delicious meal. After that, of course, it was time to continue cultivating!

Ten days later, Lingji came out of seclusion.

“Eldest Senior Brother, welcome out of seclusion.”

Yu Yu held Yuanyuan in his arms, the Azure Spirit Bird perched on his shoulder, as he welcomed Lingji out of seclusion.

“I’m out of seclusion, Little Junior Brother.”

Lingji picked Yu Yu up in one motion. As for Yuanyuan in his arms and the Azure Spirit Bird on his shoulder, this bit of weight had no effect on him at all.

“Master is already waiting for Eldest Senior Brother in my Bamboo Courtyard. I also made a feast. We’re only missing you, Eldest Senior Brother.”

Yu Yu’s eyes narrowed, and the smile at the corners of his mouth never fell.

Eldest Senior Brother had become a Tribulation-stage Daoist Lord. This greatly increased the prestige of the Taizhen Immortal Sect.

If not for Eldest Martial Uncle saying that the outside world could not know for now, Senior Brother Lingbao would long since have sent out invitations everywhere and held a grand ceremony for Eldest Senior Brother’s advancement to Daoist Lord.

When Yu Yu told Lingji about this, Lingji nodded in understanding.

“That’s fine. I don’t like making a spectacle of things either.”

Lingji did not object. In truth, he very much disliked these kinds of events. Although they could display the might of the Taizhen Immortal Sect, making him interact with a large group of people would also annoy him.

Every single one of them was either flattering him or trying to get some benefit from him.

In any case, every one of them was someone he did not like.

“Eldest Martial Uncle said our sect shouldn’t stick its neck out. Fortunately, Eldest Senior Brother underwent your tribulation inside the sect, so even if the outside world suspects something, they won’t know it was you.”

Yu Yu could not help feeling proud when he mentioned this. His Eldest Senior Brother was not the eldest disciple of the Ling generation, yet he was the first Ling-generation disciple to become a Daoist Lord. Even their master had been smiling every day recently and occasionally went to discuss Dao with his senior and junior brothers.

In fact, Lingbao’s talent was not lacking. It was just that he had been burdened by his identity as sect master. He usually had to handle many sect affairs and could not spare too much time for cultivation.

This could be considered both an advantage and a disadvantage!

If one wanted to be sect master, the first thing one had to endure was the pain of being surpassed by one’s fellow disciples. Yu Yu heard that Wuchen had been receiving Senior Brother Lingbao’s soul-soothing pep talks these past few days.

Lingbao told him that after he became sect master, he must not do anything irreversible just because his cultivation speed lagged behind.

Being sect master was not an unpaid job. Once they stepped down, their cultivation would rise as quickly as if they were riding a flying sword.

Because these years of experience had not obstructed their cultivation. It was merely another method of tempering themselves.

Moreover, once their state of mind had reached the necessary level, afterward they only needed to absorb enough spiritual energy to break through. Their speed would not be much slower than others.

It had to be said that Lingbao’s way of feeding people motivational soup was still rather effective. Wuchen had not had much of a burden to begin with, and after drinking the soup, he became even more open-minded.

Back when he decided to become sect master, he had already thought of this situation.

He had watched Lingbao’s work since he was young, so he naturally knew that after becoming sect master, there would be many affairs to handle and he would not be able to spare much time for cultivation. Therefore, he did not become psychologically unbalanced over Lingji advancing to Tribulation-stage Daoist Lord, much less become jealous.

After becoming sect master and gaining power, if he still wanted to rapidly improve his cultivation, that would be far too greedy.

Wuchen had been raised well by Lingbao. He was not that kind of person.

If Wuchen were such a person, the position of sect master successor would never have fallen to him in the first place.

Lingji carried Yu Yu as he walked, listening to him talk about the sect and gaining a basic understanding of what had happened after he entered seclusion.

When he heard that Yu Yu had saved many people with his medical skills, he lifted Yu Yu up.

“My junior brother is truly amazing.”

“Wah!”

Yu Yu had originally been held in Lingji’s arms, and when he was suddenly lifted up, he was badly startled.

“Eldest Senior Brother!”

Hearing Eldest Senior Brother praise him, he immediately became happy again.

“What are you two doing outside instead of coming in?”

Qingyang’s voice came from inside the Bamboo Courtyard.

The two senior and junior brothers exchanged a look and hurried inside, lest Qingyang come out and beat his disciples.

“Master, we’re back!”

The Bamboo Courtyard immediately became lively. A bear ran and a bird flew. From time to time, the sound of fighting accompanied them. Even Baiyun and Qingfeng could not help stopping to watch the excitement when they passed by.

What a joyful little courtyard.

…

Thirty years later, at the medical clinic at the foot of the Taizhen Immortal Sect’s mountain.

This place had originally been a large shed. As Yu Yu treated more and more patients, Lingbao arranged for Wuchen to replace the shed with a two-story building.

Not only did it occupy half again as much land as before, it also had an additional floor, so it could accommodate even more patients.

Yu Yu went down the mountain to treat people as usual today. He now went down the mountain twice a month. The first and fifteenth days were his consultation days.

As for why he did not go down the mountain to see patients every day, did he not need to cultivate? Yu Yu looked at the person who asked this question with mocking eyes.

He was only a medical cultivator, not a saint. His own cultivation was also very important, all right?

Ordinary patients would not be treated by him, and those with terminal illnesses would not have something happen in such a short time either. So why couldn’t he only hold consultations on the first and fifteenth?

Don’t even think about using morality to criticize him. If they angered him, he would stop seeing patients altogether.

Perhaps Yu Yu’s attitude was too firm, because those who had originally wanted to morally blackmail him soon quieted down.

Today was the same as usual. There was always one person at Yu Yu’s side specifically protecting him, and this time it was the turn of a Ling-generation Soul Transformation cultivator.

He was also Yu Yu’s senior brother. Because he was now already at perfect completion of Soul Transformation, he stayed in the sect and waited for his breakthrough.

When disciples of the sect had a choice, none of them would choose to break through outside. After all, undergoing tribulation outside was still very dangerous.

Of course, when they said they would break through within the sect, it actually meant that when undergoing tribulation, they would casually find an uninhabited mountain peak near the sect and undergo tribulation there. They did not want to have their cave residences struck out of existence like Lingji, nor did they need to worry about outsiders snatching away the spiritual rain.

“Little Junior Brother, there’s one more person after this. Once you see them, we can go back.”

Linghuo glanced outside and said this to him.

“All right. Thank you, Senior Brother.”

Because Yu Yu went down the mountain every month to hold consultations, he knew even more senior brothers and senior sisters than he had while on Holy Sun Mountain.

Everyone usually took very good care of him. Even though several decades had passed and Yu Yu had reached Golden Core, everyone still treated him like a child and doted on him.

How could they not dote on him? Their fair, tender, adorable, well-behaved little junior brother made each of his senior brothers and senior sisters wish they could transform into his real father and real mother, just so they could hold him in their palms and cherish him.

“Little Divine Doctor, it’s finally my turn.”

The last person to come in was a middle-aged woman with a gloomy face. An eerie smile hung on her face.

“Not good. Senior Brother, dodge!”

Yu Yu’s expression changed, and he shoved Linghuo. Then he was enveloped inside an array. At some unknown point, a teleportation array had been set up in front of Yu Yu’s consultation desk.

“What are you trying to do?”

After being pushed away, Linghuo immediately grabbed the middle-aged woman who wanted to escape. Unexpectedly, she directly toppled toward him. Linghuo jumped backward and dodged the human bomb.

“Bang!”

A section of the medical clinic was blasted apart, drawing the disciples guarding outside to rush in.

“Martial Granduncle!”

Jingxin brought a dozen or so disciples inside and saw Yu Yu covered by the array, while Linghuo tried to go in and save him, only to be repelled by the array.

“Everyone, don’t come over. There’s something strange about this array.”

Yu Yu was trapped inside and could not get out at all.

“What array is this? Hurry and invite Martial Uncle Qinghe!”

Linghuo desperately attacked the array with spells, but the array did not move in the slightest. There was no way to rescue Yu Yu.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Yu Yu had no time to think about who wanted to deal with him. He wanted to take out the sword talisman his master had given him to break the array, but at that moment, his body gradually became illusory.

“This is a teleportation array. No, Little Martial Granduncle!”

Jingxin threw himself forward, but he only lunged at empty air, and his entire body fell to the ground.

The array that had been there moments ago disappeared together with Yu Yu from the ruined medical clinic.

“Little Junior Brother.”

Linghuo slammed a fist into the empty ground. He could only watch helplessly as Yu Yu disappeared.

Everything had happened too quickly. The whole process had not even lasted half a minute. Yu Yu was sent away just like that, and he had not even had time to take out the sword talisman to break the array.

When Qingyang and the others received the news and rushed over, they only saw the damaged medical clinic, Yu Yu gone from it, and a group of disciples standing stupidly inside.

“This is spiritual power residue left behind by a teleportation array.”

Daoist Lord Qinghe discovered the problem with just one glance after arriving.

“The other party used a patient, then used a teleportation array to send Little Martial Nephew away. It seems they planned this for a long time. Otherwise, it would not have gone so smoothly.”

The chill on Qingsheng’s face was no less than that of his junior brother Qingyang. This was a conspiracy targeting their Taizhen Immortal Sect.

“There must be a traitor inside the sect. Otherwise, why would the other party not target people like us? To the outside world, we have always only publicized Little Yu’er’s medical skills and concealed everything else. Now that my little disciple has been targeted, his special ability must have been exposed.”

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