Ultimate Village Doctor

Chapter Two Hundred and Sixty-Eight

In his hand were five Blood Yuan Pills, round and plump, their vibrant red color akin to fresh blood, the elixir pills exuded faint traces of exotic fragrance.

Upon assessing their quality,

all five Blood Yuan Pills were of superior grade.

They were clearly a level above the elixir pills he had previously concocted in a large pot.

"Not bad, it wasn't a waste to have spent the entire afternoon refining them,"

Long Xiaoshan didn't know whether his progress was considered fast.

But the fact that he had succeeded made him very happy; refining elixir pills for an entire afternoon was exhausting, not so much physically, but the intense concentration required to control the flame was the greatest drain on his mental strength.

Had it not been for the resilience of his Divine Body, he couldn't have endured for so long.

Packing away the Pill Furnace and the elixir pills, he walked into Wang Chao's room. Wang Chao seemed to be very vigilant, immediately opening his eyes at the sound.

Long Xiaoshan said, "This place is safe, you don't need to be so tense. Have a good sleep."

Wang Chao replied indifferently, "It's a habit, I can't change it."

A simple sentence, yet it concealed so much. Long Xiaoshan had been the same way back in prison, where danger lurked at every corner, and the slightest noise would instantly wake him; he'd hardly ever slept deeply.

That changed only after he began to practice "The Art of Immortality."

He could tell, Wang Chao must have been living in dangerous environments all this time, or else he wouldn't have such abnormal vigilance.

One could tell just by looking at the scars on his body.

Long Xiaoshan took out a Blood Yuan Pill, walked over to Wang Chao, and said, "Eat this pill."

Wang Chao didn't hesitate, opened his mouth, and swallowed the Blood Yuan Pill.

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Long Xiaoshan examined his body; with the help of Bone-Regeneration Powder, the broken bones inside Wang Chao's body began to reassemble. Blood Yuan Pill was an elixir for healing internal injuries, its potent effects quickly began to mend his internal organs.

"Your injuries are recovering nicely. You should be able to get up within a week," Long Xiaoshan said.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

Wang Chao's eyes briefly lit up as he said, "Thank you."

He was a man of few words, almost never initiating conversation since Long Xiaoshan had saved him.

Long Xiaoshan paused, then asked, "Why did you fight so desperately in the ring that day? I know fighters in Black Fist are fierce, but that day was different. You could have saved your life by just jumping out of the ring, yet you went for Yu Cheng's throat. Even if you had managed to bite him, with Yu Cheng's strength, he could have killed you with his dying counterattack. Isn't Black Fist all about the money? What good is it if you're dead?"

Wang Chao's eyes narrowed slightly.

After a long silence, Long Xiaoshan saw that he didn't respond and did not ask further, turning around to walk out.

"I've seen Yu Cheng before!"

A voice came through.

Long Xiaoshan stopped in his tracks, turned his head, and looked at Wang Chao, knowing that if Wang Chao spoke, he would continue.

"My family used to be farmers in Bei Qiao Mountain. My father was a Barefoot Doctor from the mountains who sometimes also gathered herbs to sell. He once found a hundred-year-old Yellow Ginseng in the mountains and kept it hidden at home as a family treasure. Later, when my mother fell severely ill and we were out of money, he went to the county to inquire about the price of the century-old medicinal material. He hurried back, looking panicked, without mentioning the sale of the ginseng.

That night, two men came to our home, killed my entire family, and took the Yellow Ginseng. I was stabbed too, but my heart is naturally off to the left, so I survived, later rescued by villagers. I only remember that one of those men was called Yu Cheng, and he addressed the other as uncle master.

From then on, I swore to take revenge. I left home alone, went southward, and later stowed away to Siberia, where I joined a Black Fist training camp. I went through life-and-death situations there but managed to survive. Finally, after earning enough money to return home, I fought in Black Fist matches in Zhonghai because that is where information proliferated most. I was always inquiring about Yu Cheng, and this time, when I heard that someone in Hechuan City was targeting someone named Yu Cheng, I accepted the invitation to participate in the martial arts tournament. As soon as I saw Yu Cheng, I knew he was the one who killed my family; I had to kill him."

When Wang Chao spoke, he was very calm, even when he talked about his entire family being slaughtered, there was no fluctuation in his voice.

But Long Xiaoshan knew that it wasn't that he wasn't angry.

It was that Wang Chao had trained himself to be like a machine, that kind of hatred had been planted deep into his bones.

"Survive well, I killed Yu Cheng, but there's another person who killed your family."

Long Xiaoshan patted his shoulder,

without spouting any nonsense about giving up on hatred.

Such an exterminating hatred, it must be washed away with blood.

"I will survive," Wang Chao said coldly.

Long Xiaoshan left the room.

It had gotten dark outside. He had a meal with his parents at the farm, then stuffed a bunch of things into his Space Ring and walked out the door. Before long, he arrived at Jin Lian's house at the entrance to the village. Long Xiaoshan saw that no one was around, took out more than a dozen bags from his ring, knocked on the door, and after Jin Lian opened it, a flash of surprise and panic crossed her face, "Why have you come?"

Jin Lian peeked outside, worried about being seen by others.

"I came to see Shiyu," Long Xiaoshan said as he entered, carrying a large and small bags.

"Come in quickly." Jin Lian, seeing no one outside, hurriedly pulled him into the house and called out, "Shiyu, look who's here."

Long Shiyu looked down from the second floor and quickly called out cheerfully, "Big Brother Xiaoshan."

Dressed in a T-shirt and pajamas, Long Shiyu bounced down from upstairs. Long Xiaoshan felt his nose getting warm, as if something was about to flow out. This girl's figure was nearly catching up with her mother's. Could it be that she was truly going to outshine the older generation? What's troublesome was that the girl still had a loli face, looking about twelve or thirteen at her sixteen years of age.

"Big Brother Xiaoshan," Long Shiyu threw herself into Long Xiaoshan's arms, hugging his waist tightly, nuzzling her little head against his chest like a Pikachu.

Ever since she was awoken by Long Xiaoshan with alcohol,

Long Shiyu's attachment to Long Xiaoshan had been very strong.

At the beginning, she even called him daddy. Later, even though her spiritual wisdom had returned to normal and she no longer called him daddy, that affection didn't disappear.

The girl obviously wasn't wearing any underwear. Long Xiaoshan bit his teeth, a vein throbbed on his forehead, and with great willpower, he slowly pushed the little loli away.

He couldn't hold back any longer, if he didn't push her away, he would embarrass himself.

"Shiyu, look what I brought for you?" Long Xiaoshan put the large and small bags on the sofa.

"What is it?"

Still full of childlike innocence, Long Shiyu hurriedly rushed over and opened the packages.

Cellphone, tablet, watch, clothes, shoes, jewelry — besides personal underwear, Long Xiaoshan had bought almost everything a girl could need.

"Wow, such beautiful clothes, such a pretty bracelet..."

Long Shiyu kept exclaiming, "Big Brother Xiaoshan, are all these for me?"

"Of course they're for our little princess," Long Xiaoshan said affectionately as he stroked Shiyu's little head.

"Xiaoshan, why did you buy her so many things? Don't spoil this naughty girl. Now, when I scold her, she talks back at me, saying she wants to go live with you," Jin Lian complained.

"I'm going to spoil her," Long Xiaoshan said wilfully and domineeringly.