After hesitating for a moment, Li Dong still walked in. He took off his wet shoes and went to the table in the room to put down the takeaway box. He took out the intact food from inside.
The woman in the room was a rather mature woman. She was probably 50 years old. She was thin and her face was a little haggard. She asked,"Um…can I ask you for a favor? I heard that the people in your industry are elites from all walks of life. Can you help me repair the exhaust fan of the air conditioner? I can give you extra money."
Following the direction of the female owner's finger, Li Dong saw that the air conditioning vent on the ceiling had stopped blowing. There was a bucket placed under the vent, and water droplets would drip down from the vent from time to time.
Li Dong naturally wouldn't let go of the opportunity to earn extra money. Moreover, he didn't know when he would be able to get his next order.
After finding a high stand, Li Dong took out a few screws and skillfully removed the exhaust vent. With a flip of his hand, a small flashlight appeared in his palm. He looked inside and quickly understood the cause of the malfunction.
"Do you have a spare filter? It's the kind that uses a range hood." Li Dong looked at her and asked.
"Yes, yes." The hostess quickly replied and soon brought a round net from the kitchen.
Li Dong explained as he installed,""The person who installed the air-conditioner for you is too convenient. He didn't install a filter or a water shield. Although it's not a big problem, it's inevitable that there will be a strange smell after using it for a long time. Moreover, in such weather, once the rainwater flows in, the circuit board of the air-conditioner will easily short-circuit.”
After spending two minutes, Li Dong managed to fix the problem and the air conditioner was successfully restored to normal.
At this moment, there was a ding and a voice came from the phone."Congratulations on getting a new order.”
The order snatching software just happened to get a new order. After Li Dong received 80 Chinese dollars from the hostess, he rushed to the next location without stopping.
When they arrived at the food store, there were few customers in the store, but the kitchen was bustling with activity. There were already a few takeout knights in yellow and blue uniforms standing in front of the cashier. This was a prosperous store. Even on a typhoon day, it was still full of orders.
However, due to the bad weather, there were only three to five chefs in the kitchen, but they had to deal with hundreds of orders.
Li Dong waited for a full half an hour, but no one came. He asked impatiently,"Can you rush the kitchen? If this continued, there wouldn't be enough time to deliver the food.”
"What are you rushing me for? It's not like you don't know that we don't have enough manpower. The head chef isn't even here. If you're anxious, you can do it yourself.”The cashier pointed at the kitchen and said," If you can do it, then do it."
Upon hearing this, the colleagues beside Li Dong who were also waiting lost their patience. They looked at each other and smiled before barging into the kitchen.
The few of them changed into their chef's clothes and shared their orders. Soon, the stoves in the kitchen were occupied by them. Li Dong was quite confident in his knife skills and began to cut the ingredients according to their orders. One of them was in charge of cooking the main course, one was seasoning, and another was making the side dishes. The rest of them were doing their own jobs...
"Start cooking!" The head chef shouted, and the lunch box was already prepared. As the last dish was packed into the box, everyone quickly changed into their uniforms and set off at the same time.
They didn't even bid farewell to each other before leaving. When Li Dong delivered the food to their destination, there was still 15 minutes left.
And the same story was still happening tonight…
At midnight, Li Dong stopped working and returned home with some Chinese herbs. The girl lay quietly on the bed, her chest heaving slightly, proving that she was still alive.
At this moment, the young man's heart was full of worries. After work, he took the ancient prescription and asked all the Chinese medicine shops that were not closed. Other than the medicinal herbs for the initial course of treatment, most of the medicinal herbs in the ancient prescription were not recognized. He could not even find a similar one.
The herbs needed for the initial stage of the treatment were also extremely rare. Those that were slightly older could easily cost more than ten thousand Chinese dollars.
"There were three courses in the beginning, but this one course alone cost me a whole 250,000 RMB. This isn't treatment, this is robbery…" He had spent most of his savings in one go. Moreover, what troubled Li Dong the most was that he had to quit his job during the day to take care of this little girl. He couldn't stay out too late at night either…
'Looks like I have to find a job that pays quickly,' Li Dong thought.
According to the ancient recipe, he mashed the herbs into a medicinal soup and then boiled the medicinal soup into a semi-mushy medicinal liquid. However, Li Dong had underestimated the girl's condition and could not even swallow half a mouthful of the medicinal soup. His body instinctively spat it out.
"This won't do. I can't even drink medicine, let alone other food.”
Hence, Li Dong put a raincoat on the girl and brought her out.
Along the way, Li Dong took a remote path. Coupled with the cover of the heavy rain, although there were many people with ill intentions hiding in some places that were sheltered from the wind and rain, these people could not hide from Li Dong's eyes. He had learned all kinds of counter-reconnaissance methods from professionals.
It was just that the way he carried the young girl was too eye-catching, and it was inevitable that he spent more time avoiding those people who were watching him. Li Dong successfully arrived at the riverside and looked at the rapid river in front of him. He could not help but curse,"Setting up the entrance in such a place, that fellow really has a bad taste.”
Just as Li Dong was about to shout, the surroundings suddenly blurred. Immediately after, the atmosphere of the space changed. A gloomy bamboo forest appeared in front of him. It was still that paradise with birds chirping and flowers blooming.
Li Dong kicked open the door of the Greenwood Residence and casually walked in as if it was his own home. He asked,""The Chinese medicine can't be poured in. Old Master, do you have any other way?”
"You little brat, do you really think this old man is a charity hall?”The old master lay on the chair and shouted coldly with displeasure.
Li Dong pursed his lips and retorted softly,""You only said that you didn't want to see me yesterday, but you didn't say that you didn't want to see me in the future…"
The old man looked at him with disdain, but he still stood up reluctantly and went to the patient.
"You can't even remember the qi meridian method?”The old teacher stared at Li Dong and asked.
"What?"
Looking at the young man's confused expression, the old man shook his head and sighed helplessly. He then asked,"Do you want to study medicine?"
"Yes, yes!" The young man nodded excitedly, his eyes filled with enthusiasm.
"Then watch carefully. This old man will only demonstrate it once!”The old man opened his hands, and a roll of acupuncture tape was laid out in front of him. There were hundreds of silver needles of various sizes on it.
However, Li Dong could tell at a glance that there were only nine different types of silver needles.
" I know. The Fuxi Nine Needles uses Qi to control the needles. Qi follows the heart. The needle is inserted into the pulse gate. One needle causes one disease. Each needle can be used in nine different places. It cannot be shared…" Speaking of this, the old man personally demonstrated. He moved his left hand forward, and twelve needles slowly flew out and landed on the twelve acupoints on the girl's face.
"The acupuncture needle is the first needle, and it is also used to treat head diseases. It cannot be used on other acupuncture points that have nothing to do with it.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the twelve silver needles emitted a faint white steam. A few minutes later, when the steam disappeared, the old man waved his left hand again and the twelve silver needles were retracted.
Then, he inserted the big and long needles into the Taiyin and Yangming meridians of the left and right feet, the sharp and sharp needles into the Shaoyang and Shaoyin meridians of the hands, the round needles into the seventeen points of the Taiyang Meridian in the lower abdomen, the sharp and Pi needles into the two waists, and finally the thirty-six filiform needles into the Ren and Du meridians and three extra points on the back.
The Old Master explained," Although the Nine Fuxi Needles are not as miraculous as the rumors say, they are enough to treat most of the known incurable diseases in the world. However, the poison that the girl suffered from is also particularly strange. Pathologically, it should be a Miaojiang voodoo poison. This kind of voodoo poison is very difficult to cure. Moreover, the natural poison that protected the girl has disappeared, and the sequela caused by losing her special constitution will also occur. If you want to completely cure her, it will take three to five years.”
"Watch carefully. Next is the qi meridian implementation, kid.”The old teacher glanced at Li Dong, who was engrossed in the scene, and reminded him.
The Old Master's Qi circulated around his body. He tapped, rubbed, patted, pushed, and pinched the major acupoints on the girl's back. Then, he turned his palm into a palm and pressed it on her head. Following that, a white mist visible to the naked eye rose from the girl's head.
"Do you understand?" After the fog dispersed, the old man withdrew the silver needle from the girl's back and asked indifferently.
" Not at all…" Li Dong said weakly.
"Hmph, you're becoming more and more like a good-for-nothing.”The old man mocked disdainfully,
"Do you think I'm some kind of heaven's favored son? Moreover, this isn't a massage technique at all. This is qigong, right? This is definitely qigong…"
"Hehe, I haven't seen you for a few years, and your IQ hasn't improved. You've learned the words of trash quite well.”
Ignoring the furious teenager, the old man casually threw three books into the teenager's arms." There's no need for me to introduce the Daoist Internal Cultivation Technique and the Qimen Dunjia. Anyone from China would know about them. As for this Tao Te Ching, the Chapter of Supreme Virtue Like Water, it's the supreme mental cultivation technique of Taoism. However, don't be happy too early. This mental cultivation technique is not used for cultivation. It's just an auxiliary mental cultivation technique for self-cultivation.”
"…" Li Dong, who was about to get excited, was instantly doused with a bucket of cold water. He muttered softly,""The older you get, the more stingy you get."
"Little brat, this old master heard everything you said.”The old teacher knocked Li Dong on the head with an unhappy expression and continued," As long as you learn this mental cultivation technique, you'll be able to enter the Azure Wood Immortal Realm as you wish in the future. This will also save me the trouble of opening the door for you every time. Also, there's the array formation. If a noob like you doesn't understand array formations, you might not even know how you died when you meet people from the cultivation world in the future.”
Endure, endure! For the sake of the girl, he had to endure it. This was not the first time Li Dong had wanted to flip the table and fall out with her. However, he still had a favor to ask of her, so he could not fall out with her just like that.
As if he had seen through the young man's thoughts, the old man sneered coldly,""If you want to fight, come at me. With your current strength, this old man can press you to the ground with just one finger. Do you believe it?”
Furious! Li Dong's anger was about to explode, but he knew that this fellow was deliberately provoking him. He could not let this fellow succeed.
"The medicinal herbs for the initial stage of the treatment in the ancient prescription you gave are ridiculously expensive. Moreover, the medicinal herbs for the middle and late stages can't be found at all. Even the old Chinese medicine practitioner has never heard of these medicinal herbs.”Li Dong tried his best to remain calm.
" If you wish for this girl to die of old age at twenty, then I have no objections. I'll immediately give you a prescription that will make her life a little easier, and then slowly wait for her death…" The old man's nonchalant expression made Li Dong gnash his teeth in hatred, but there was nothing he could do about it.
"Actually, you don't have to worry about the medicinal herbs. I have all the medicinal herbs for the middle stage of the treatment in my medicine garden. You can write an IOU and pay me back double in the future. As for the 200 kinds of medicinal herbs and the most important ones in the later stage of the treatment, I'll teach you how to obtain them in a while. Your top priority now is to learn how to control your own strength. Only then can you protect the people you want to protect.”
The old man's sudden earnest tone made Li Dong somewhat confused, but he did not think too much about it.
It was already noon when the youth left with the girl. However, no matter how heavy the rain was outside, the sky in the Green Wood Fairyland was still clear and cloudless. The breeze blew through the bamboo forest, making rustling sounds. The emerald green bamboo leaves fluttered with the wind, covering the soft soil with a thin layer of green carpet. It was a lively scene.
In front of the wooden house with the roof of the green tree, the old man squinted his eyes and enjoyed the quiet afternoon sunbath. Suddenly, his eyes opened, and his temperament changed drastically. He was like a saint with a sage-like aura. His body exploded with a shocking aura. The wind, insects, birds, and all the sounds in the immortal realm stopped abruptly as if they had disappeared. It was so quiet that it was strange.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew over. The old man's aura instantly retracted, as if nothing had happened.
"Old Master, why do you have to be angry with me? You and I both know Dong 'er's fate. This can't be avoided no matter what.”
A middle-aged man in a simple green and white robe appeared out of thin air. He had sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes, a classic and dignified face with distinct edges and corners, shoulder-length short hair, and a small scar at the corner of his eye that accentuated the sharpness of his eyes. His temperament and clothes were undoubtedly that of a famous swordsman, and his strength was extraordinary.
"Humph, Han Que, Sect Master Han, it's been a full ten years. This old man thought that you had forgotten that you still had a personal disciple.”The old man's words revealed his undisguised anger.
"How could I forget? How could he forget! Although Dong 'er is only my direct disciple, I've always treated him like my own child.”Han Que stood with his hands behind his back, but his words revealed two tones. One was as heavy as a mountain, and the other was as deep as the sea.
The old man stared into his eyes as if he wanted to see through his heart." We haven't talked for ten years. How do you plan to face him now?"”
“……”
There was no expression on Han Que's face. After a moment of silence, he said softly,""He is my disciple."
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After bringing the girl back to their residence, Li Dong helped her into the bathroom. The Fuxi Nine Needles and Qi Meridian Promotion Technique that the old man used could concentrate a portion of the toxins and blood clots in the girl's body in the intestines and finally expel them through excrement.
Although the girl was unconscious, her body's instincts were still there.
After the detoxification, Li Dong began to clean the bathroom. The pungent smell in the air was poisonous, but it did not seem to affect Li Dong.
"Clam, are you there?"
The mirage dragon was speechless.
It seemed to have fallen silent. Li Dong had many questions he wanted to ask it, but since that was the case, he could only think about it himself.
Li Dong first took out the Tao Te Ching, Shangshan Ruoshui Chapter. The opening was: "The highest kindness is like water. Water is good at benefiting all things, but it does not compete with others. It is hated by all people, so it is close to the Tao. Living in a good place, the heart is good, the heart is good. As long as you don't fight, you don't blame…"
There were a total of seven chapters in the entire chapter, all of which introduced the way of the Water Virtue Gentleman. Just as the old teacher had said, this mental cultivation method cultivated virtue and nurtured the heart.
" If the water is virtuous, it will be calm and dignified. It will be blessed. If the water is not virtuous, it will be vicious and violent. It will poison thousands of miles…" Just the first chapter of the proverb had made Li Dong understand. This was the introductory chant of the heart technique.
His impetuous heart calmed down in an instant. All these years, although he appeared calm and composed on the surface, in reality, in order to cope with the high-paced social life, the Qi in his body had never been able to calm down. This 'Tao Te Ching: The Chapter of Supreme Kindness Like Water' mental cultivation method was just an introductory chant, yet it was able to calm Li Dong down. It could not be said that it was miraculous.
Following that, Li Dong flipped through the Daoist Internal Cultivation Technique. The content was roughly the same as the ones circulating on the market, except that there was an additional introduction to the body's Qi and meridians.
The human body was mainly divided into seven chakras, namely the Top Chakra, the Mid-brow Chakra, the Throat Chakra, the Heart Chakra, the Umbilicus Chakra, the Reproduction Chakra, and the Sea Chakra. The twelve regular meridians and the eight extraordinary meridians were connected to each other like the magnetic lines on a magnetic field, forming energy fields of various sizes that drove human beings to move normally.
The five internal organs in the body contained the five elements, which corresponded to the fire in the heart, the wood in the liver, the earth in the spleen, the metal in the lungs, and the water in the kidneys.
The Original Qi of Heaven and Earth did not have any attribute. It was like a person's breath. There was no change in breathing. It was a very common thing. However, cultivators gathered the Original Qi of Heaven and Earth into their Dantian and combined it with their own Qi to refine it into Real Essence Dharma Power that they could activate. Real Essence Dharma Power itself did not have any attribute. Therefore, Dharma Power had to travel through the meridians in the body from the Dantian. When it left the Dantian, it would become Fire Qi. When it went through the liver palace, it would be Wood Qi. When it went through the spleen palace, it would be Earth Qi. The lung palace was gold qi, and the kidney palace was water qi. This was the origin of the five elements spiritual roots…
However, there were differences between people's bodies. Some people had strong heart qi and weak kidney qi, while others had weak liver qi and strong lung qi. Therefore, although most cultivators knew the five elements spells, they basically specialized in their strongest innate spiritual root!
Of course, there were some proud sons of heaven in the world of self-cultivation. In addition to having a purer and more abundant innate Qi than ordinary self-cultivators, their internal organs could also withstand the impact of different elemental Qi. This meant that they could cultivate higher-level spells based on the five elements, which was the Yin-Yang Righteous Technique above the five elements!
The spiritual roots they possessed were naturally different from ordinary cultivators, so they were called abnormal spiritual roots!
Ignoring the illusory mutant spiritual roots that only existed in myths and legends, there were currently five types of mutant spiritual roots that were clearly in the world:
Flame Spirit Root-Rare Spirit Root, with the Qi of the heart palace as the master of the Eastern Palace, ruling over the other four palaces. The Qi body is divided into two forms of Yin and Yang. The flames that reach the limit of these two forms are the legendary Nine Netherworld Fire and Pure Yang Flame. The Qi of the heart guided the Qi of the lungs and kidneys, and the Qi of the three rose into a dark green or dark black color. The flames were sinister, evil, cold, and bone-piercing, and there was a wind of hell, so it was called the Yin Flame. It was called the Nine Netherworld Fire. The Qi of the heart guided the Qi of the liver, spleen, earth, and wood. The three Qi rose and appeared golden-red. The flame was pure, fierce, and had the power of Zhengyang, so it was called Yang Flame. It was called Pure Yang Flame.
Living Spirit Root-a more common variant spirit root. It used the Qi of the liver palace to enter the Eastern Palace and control the heart and kidney palaces. The Qi body could be divided into two forms, the Thousand Leaves Wind and the Endless Life. The Qi of the liver palace guided the Qi of the heart and kidney, and the rising state of the Qi was mostly green. Since the Qi had not changed, it was difficult to determine the difference between the Wood Spiritual Root and the Life Spiritual Root. However, the cultivation of cultivators with the Life Spiritual Root was very different. The liver palace did not control the Qi of the other two palaces, but repeatedly refined the Qi of the liver palace. The Qi returned to the internal organs and meridians until it rose to a beige color. The color of the Qi was the vast vitality.
The Mountain Spirit Root was based on the Qi of the spleen palace and governed the liver and lung palaces. The Qi body appeared in two forms of earth and stone, namely the Gen character and the Kun character. Because the two were classified into a unified system, and the Qi body appeared in similar shapes, it was the most common and practical spirit root.
The Ice Spirit Root mainly used the Qi of the kidney palace and did not need to control the four palaces. The Qi body only showed a form called the Ice Soul. It could nurture a thousand-year-old Ice Soul and was almost as rare as the Flame Spirit Root.
The Thunder Spirit Root was the rarest, most special, and most powerful spirit root. It transformed all the innate Qi in the five palaces into Thunder Qi. The Qi was divided into two forms of Yin and Yang, namely Gui Water Thunder and Jiang Palace Thunder. The Yin Thunder Gui Water Thunder used the water thunder of the kidney palace to control the lungs and spleen, and the Qi was black and sticky like a swamp. The Yang Thunder Crimson Palace Thunder used the fire and thunder in the heart to control the liver and spleen thunder. Its Qi was pure white, majestic, holy, and aboveboard!
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