That night, Yang Xiying and Bo Li Lingmeng appeared at the Zanghua Grass Shed as promised, just as Chen Zhiji finished seeing the villagers who had come for treatment.
This pleased Cheng Yanhua, who was there to meet them, because the other side had kept their promise. So she led the two of them to the small pavilion by the river.
Chen Zhiji was already waiting there, but Cheng Yanhua did not go with him because the gentleman had said he wanted to speak with the two of them alone.
“Okay,” Yang Xiying and Bo Li Lingmeng boldly stepped forward, and then the former directly asked Chen Zhiji, who was looking at the scenery by the river.
"May I ask what business you have with us, senior?" Since they were the ones who invited us, there was no need to think of any opening lines.
"I noticed that you are people from the martial arts world, and I also noticed that the young girl next to you has been staring at Uncle Shui for a long time, so I felt that you had discovered something."
"—So I wanted to talk to you guys."
“Uncle Shui San is not sick, but poisoned by Yin Cold. That’s what we discovered,” Reimu Hakurei said bluntly.
—But they also concealed some things.
“It’s quite impressive that the young lady has such keen eyesight. Now things will be much easier,” Chen Zhiji nodded, then changed the subject.
"—Do you know where this chilling poison comes from?"
"Please explain, senior," Yang Xiying replied directly, thinking it was better to watch the other side's performance at this time.
"That's a poison that only appears when you come into contact with the Heavenly Water Poison Toad, and the Heavenly Water Poison Toad is something that Uncle Shui San can't come into contact with."
"—So I suspect that someone deliberately poisoned Uncle Shui."
"Who?" Yang Xiying pressed.
“My junior brother is cunning and jealous, and enjoys poisoning people. As he is from the same school as me, it would be easy for him to come into contact with the Tianshui Poison Toad.”
Chen Zhiji responded directly.
"So I have something I'd like to ask for your help with. Although it's just a favor, it would also be of great benefit to you as well."
"Oh? What benefits... cough, what's the matter?" Reimu Hakurei perked up at the mention of benefits, but quickly changed her mind.
"...You should have been able to hear my method of treating Uncle Shui before, so I need to gather herbs, and I need to do it myself."
Chen Zhiji remained silent for a moment before responding.
"But now that I know it was my junior brother who did this, I can't leave Uncle Shui, so I'd like to ask you for help with the collection."
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The incident involving the NO.117+118 flower shed has come to a temporary end.
"Then what medicinal herbs do you need us to collect, senior?" Yang Xiying asked, and then heard what the other party wanted.
"I need one portion each of pink jade flower, green vine, and red heart fruit, five portions of goat blood, and three portions of tiger bone."
"The goat's blood and tiger bone are not hard to find, but the pink jade flower, green vine, and red heart fruit need to be found in the cave in the back mountain."
"Of course, the benefits I just promised will come."
As he spoke, Chen Zhiji changed the subject, took out a medicine bottle from his robe, opened the lid, and took out two pills.
"These are the pills I refined. They have the effects of invigorating the meridians, promoting smooth blood and qi circulation, nourishing the bones and muscles, and increasing strength."
"For you martial arts practitioners, this is undoubtedly the most helpful thing. You will see the effect immediately after consuming it."
"...A pill that can help us martial arts practitioners?" Yang Xiying and Hakurei Reimu looked at the pill and listened to the explanation from the other side, their eyes narrowing slightly.
"But why does this pill look like poison, sir?" Their tone turned unfriendly, because the smell of the pill was enough to tell them it was poison.
—That old Deng has ill intentions!
"Hehe, it seems that you two have indeed seen through something after following my junior brother for a while," Chen Zhiji chuckled, but without any emotion.
"You followed your junior brother for a while?" Yang Xiying was momentarily stunned by the words on the other end, and was met with an extremely cold response.
"Stop pretending. You have my junior brother's poisonous scent on you. Even if it's faint, I can smell it."
"So you must have been in contact with my junior brother before, and you don't look like patients like Uncle Shui."
"So you think we're in cahoots with your junior brother?" Yang Xiying suddenly understood something; what this person said made a lot of sense.
"Hmph! If martial arts practitioners can get away with anything from my junior brother, it just means you're all in cahoots with him."
"I have sworn never to harbor murderous thoughts again, but to cut out your tongues and blind you... huh?!"
Chen Zhiji's momentum began to grow, and he was already thinking about making a move, but at that moment a fist appeared in his field of vision!
"Drink up—!!!" It turned out that Reimu Hakurei suddenly stepped forward and punched Chen Zhiji in the face.
"Pfft—!"
Chen Zhiji had no chance to react; his face instantly collapsed, and he was then thrown onto the river by the impact!
Like a stone thrown into the river, he skipped across the water a few times before finally sinking to the bottom. Reimu Hakurei watched this scene with disgust on her face.
"—Saying that I'm no different from that ugly freak, Old Deng, are you tired of living?!"
“He’s sunk to the bottom, so there’s no point in cursing him now,” Yang Xiying replied, but her expression was somewhat subtle.
“Isn’t it a good thing that Old Deng sank to the bottom? That way, only we can save Uncle Shui San,” Reimu Hakurei said with a strange expression.
Since the old man had started breathing, she wouldn't be polite, but Yang Xiying didn't seem very willing.
"And this old man is so rude without any tone of voice, you can't stand it either," she thought. In her memory, Yang Xiying didn't have a good temper either.
—If you offend this guy, he'll find a way to get back at you.
“That makes sense,” Yang Xiying replied directly. He had disliked Chen Zhiji when he played “The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel” before.
After all, even if you choose the polite option when talking to this mourner, he still acts incredibly arrogant, so Yang Xiying hopes he will reveal his health bar.
—After the result was revealed, it turned out that this thing was just putting on a show.
"But how are you going to explain the rescue to Madam Cheng and Uncle Shui? It would be easier if Chen Zhiji acted as guarantor."
Yang Xiying changed the subject, saying she had no objection to giving Chen Zhiji a beating, after all, only in this way could he be made to behave.
—But sinking to the bottom of the river now would be a bit too docile.
"Uh, it seems so," Reimu Hakurei realized after hearing Yang Xiying say that Uncle Shui was being helped by Chen Zhiji.
If Chen Zhiji hadn't introduced her, communicating with him would have been more difficult, since one was an old man and the other a young girl.
—In medicine, the older person is definitely more experienced.
"Let me pull him out first."
Yang Xiying used the Huanbo Hunyuan Palm to manipulate the water flow and scooped Chen Zhiji, who had swallowed a bellyful of water, out of the water.
He stomped on Chen Zhiji's stomach repeatedly to expel the water, then gathered his internal energy in his legs and injected it into Chen Zhiji's body!
His external injuries were visibly healing, which was the result of Yang Xiying's practice of those medical manuals.
—Using internal energy to treat external injuries.
"Pfft, cough cough—" Not long after, Chen Zhiji regained consciousness, but was still kicked aside.
"You...you guys? You're not going to kill me?" Chen Zhiji said, looking down at Yang Xiying and Hakurei Reimu.
—After all, he had almost been beaten to death by this girl just now.
“We just want you to calm down,” Yang Xiying said calmly. “Isn’t it a bit presumptuous to draw conclusions based solely on the fact that we’ve been exposed to their scent?”
"..." Chen Zhiji remained silent. He was basically at Yang Xiying's mercy, which made Yang Xiying click her tongue in displeasure.
"The reason we have your junior brother's poisonous aura is because we took care of him not long ago."
Then he snapped his fingers, and a head appeared out of thin air, which caused Chen Zhiji's expression to fluctuate somewhat; he couldn't believe it.
—Because it was the head of his junior brother, Shi Hongtu.
"you……?!"
“We are martial artists who travel around. We will take action whenever we encounter something unpleasant, and your junior brother Shi Hongtu is one of them.”
"They poisoned people for amusement, turning them into irreversible zombies. Many people have suffered from this, and they deserve to be executed."
"—And since the government has no jurisdiction over this, we took care of him."
"...Is that so? This day has finally come, my junior brother..." Although he was his junior brother, Chen Zhiji showed no anger.
As the saying goes, "No one can walk by the river without getting their shoes wet," and the same applies to his junior brother. He will eventually face retribution for his many evil deeds.
"So you came here to tell me about this?" Chen Zhiji realized something at that moment.
"After all, we found out that Shi Hongtu has a senior brother, so we also want to see what this beast's senior brother is like."
Yang Xiying's expression was mocking.
"If it weren't for the fact that you genuinely use your skills to help people, there would still be people waiting for your treatment."
"I won't pull you back from the brink of death."
"..." Chen Zhiji fell silent. It seemed that his own kindness had saved his life. So...
"Then thank you both for your mercy. I was born with an arrogant nature, so some people think I am not suitable to study medicine."
"In short, I apologize for offending you all because of my arbitrary decisions. I will not take the poison pills again this time."
Since Yang Xiying had gone this far, Chen Zhiji naturally couldn't muster any courage and immediately began to apologize.
—And besides these two, there are other people who need him to live.
"You should keep the pills for yourself," Yang Xiying replied directly. He only takes the pills he refines himself now.
"—And if you're going to send something, I want something else."
"...What do you want?" Chen Zhiji remained silent, hesitant to speak for a moment, because the person on the other end was someone he had met with his junior brother.
Then you'll naturally hear some news about what you have, so that might be the other side's goal, but should you really give it to them?
He was worried that this would fall into the hands of a villain like his junior brother, but with his current strength, he had the option to refuse.
"Don't worry, I'm not interested in your 'Medicine King's Divine Scripture'," after all, I've already collected the heavenly book that's called that.
"I want the Five Spirits Heart Sutra and the Poison Hand Medicine King Chapter that you have on you." Right now, the only two heavenly books that Chen Zhiji has of value to him are these two books.
He saw what the guy was carrying.
"?!" Although the other side said they didn't want anything I needed to hide, they also said something even more significant.
After all, those were two mysterious books he had found, containing even more profound knowledge of medicine and toxicology.
—It is something even more valuable than the "Medicine King's Divine Manual".
"Chen Zhiji, I know a lot about you, so I also know what belongs to you and what doesn't."
Yang Xiying responded directly.
Even if the "Five Spirits Heart Sutra" isn't a celestial book, it couldn't possibly belong to Chen Zhiji, since he'd only ever heard of it in "The Legend of Sword and Cloud".
As for "The Poisonous Hand Medicine King Chapter," although I don't have much of an impression of it, I should take back the Heavenly Book.
"The two books you are holding now belong to me."
"I see..." Chen Zhiji seemed to be thinking for a moment, then took out two books from his robe and handed them to Yang Xiying.
“In that case, these two books are yours,” he said, having no reason to refuse.
Yang Xiying obtained the "Five Spirits Heart Sutra" and the "Poison Hand Medicine King Chapter," one of which is a superior internal skill that combines cultivation with poison.
After learning this skill, one will not be afraid of any poisonous creatures and will be able to create unique Gu poisons. The other book is a more advanced medical text.
“Hmm,” Yang Xiying nodded. This way, she didn’t have to spar to get it back herself, which saved her a lot of energy and effort.
Of course, directly sparring with it would save effort, but...
"Then please lead the way. We have an easier way to save Uncle Shui." With Chen Zhiji as guarantor, saving Uncle Shui will be much easier.
"...?"
"Sir, you say these two have a simple way to cure Uncle Shui?" "Really? You can save my father (husband)?"
Back at Chen Zhiji's residence, Chen Zhiji explained that Yang Xiying and Bo Li Lingmeng were able to save people, which amazed Cheng Yanhua and Uncle Shui's family.
"These two chivalrous heroes only intervened because they knew about Uncle Shui's serious illness; they are also healers who are more skilled than themselves."
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