by Feng Yise
Ye Yuan talked as if he already had a well-thought-out plan. But most importantly, everything he said was reasonable and well-founded. As long as the person understood medicine, there would be no way to refute his words at all.
Lu-er looked at the Young Master and felt that he was simply too handsome today.
"Mas-Master Qian, i-is it true what he just said?" the brawny man asked hesitatingly.
Qian Miao took one look at the brawny man, shook his head with a bitter smile and said, "Honestly, even I'm not so sure now. But looking at the poisonous blood you spat out just now, what you are inflicted with, indeed, doesn't look like a Seven Evils Flowing Cloud Python's poison."
"Bu-But will the method he said work? What if I die from his treatment?"
It was not that the brawny man did not have faith in the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion. It was just Ye Yuan's former reputation was too rotten. This prejudice left him unable to trust Ye Yuan at all.
His body's poison as diagnosed by Ye Yuan was only the latter's claim. Nobody could determine whether it's real or bogus. How could he be confident?
Qian Miao forced a smile and said, "I don't know either. But I feel that his method is worth a shot. What do you think?"
"What are you still standing there for? Quickly grab the materials! Do you want the patient to die from the poison?"
At this moment, a thunderous voice roared in everyone's ears. The crowd looked toward the door and saw a rough-looking man walked in swiftly.
"Understood, Family Head." The attendant standing beside Qian Miao saw who it was and immediately responded and left.
That man was Ye Hang.
"Father."
"Family Head."
Ye Yuan and Qian Miao greeted Ye Hang at the same time.
Ye Hang stopped in front of Ye Yuan and nodded his head lightly. With approval and relief being apparent in his eyes, Ye Hang said, "Looks like your personality changed for real this time. To have finished reading all those books I left you during this period, you really did diligently studied the Dao of Alchemy. Not bad."
Without waiting for Ye Yuan's reply, he turned and said to the brawny man, "Little Brother, my son is right. You are truly inflicted with a Seven-Colored Flowing Cloud Python's poison and not a Seven Evils Flowing Cloud Python's poison. This type of demonic beast is extremely uncommon which led to Old Qian being unable to identify it. I apologize for that. However, the prescription my son issued isn't wrong either; just drink it and see. If something happened, my Fragrant Medicine Pavilion would take full responsibility. What do you think?"
Ye Hang had a very distinguished identity in the entire State of Qin. Usually, it was impossible to see him here; let alone request for him to treat you. Today, he personally guaranteed it. What reason was there left for the brawny man to hesitate?
Looks like even though the Ye Family's Young Master might be incompetent, it was in no way as exaggerated as the rumors outside. At least he had some real capabilities.
Chapter 7 - Bleeding from the Seven Orifices
In a courtyard at the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion.
Ye Hang was currently glaring at Ye Yuan.
"Stinky brat, tell me honestly, how did you identify it?"
Ye Yuan looked helplessly at his father and replied, "A wild guess."
"Hmph! I was nearly hoodwinked by you yesterday. Looks like you really are different than in the past. What Seven-Colored Flowing Cloud Python. I've never heard of it before this too. Just now, even if I personally diagnosed him, I'm afraid the results would be the same as with Old Qian."
Thinking of it now, Ye Hang was a little fearful after that episode. If it was not for his son's stroke of genius, the golden signboard of the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion would be ruined today.
That brawny-looking man already drank the medicine, and he got better. He was eternally grateful to the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion and Ye Yuan. What was supposed to be a disaster, became a good thing because of the anomaly, Ye Yuan.
In fact, what could be foreseen after today was that the prestige of the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion would soar even higher among the demonic beast hunters. The benefits involved would be immense.
"What? Even Lord Father doesn't know about this? I thought that with your attainments in the Alchemy Dao, treating this sort of poison would be a piece of cake." Ye Yuan pretended to be surprised.
"A piece of cake? Hehehe. Naturally, within this tiny State of Qin, I have some status. But outside of the State of Qin, I, your father, am nothing. What Alchemy Grandmaster? It's merely just crossing the threshold of the great path of Alchemy. The State of Qin is a well, and I am a frog in that well. It's just that I am a slightly larger frog. There are too many things I don't understand."
Ye Hang suddenly started to mock himself, looking a little desolate, which made Ye Yuan somewhat surprised. In his predecessor's memory, his father, Ye Hang, was a man of indomitable spirit, as if nothing could bring him down. He had never seen his father reveal such an expression before.
Ye Yuan could feel that Ye Hang displayed this side of him because he felt that his son had grown up and was more sensible now. So he felt like a heavy load had lifted off his shoulders, which was why his tightly wound nerves finally relaxed.
Ye Yuan felt touched in his heart. His father most likely had his heart crushed over these years for his son. It was just that he never showed it in front of his son.
Ye Yuan once again thought of his past life's father, Zhengyang Zi, and felt a multitude of feelings surge up. He could not bear to mock Ye Hang anymore, so he opened his mouth and said, "Father, I know what you want to ask. Actually, I also don't know what's going on. This time around when I got poisoned and was on the verge of death, I met an expert in a dream. He imparted to me both martial and alchemy techniques which were exceedingly profound. Initially, I thought it was just a dream, but after waking up, I discovered that I remembered clearly what happened in the dream. Furthermore, I could completely do it in reality. If it wasn't for that expert, with Father's means, you probably wouldn't see me again."
Ye Yuan could not possibly tell Ye Hang that his son's body had already been occupied by another soul. So he had no choice but to fabricate a white lie which was close to the truth.
Hearing Ye Yuan's words, Ye Hang could not help but become ecstatic. To think an expert took fancy of his son and imparted profound techniques in his dreams. This was a completely inconceivable thought for him. With such an expert for a master, the massive boulder that had been pressing on Ye Hang's heart was finally lifted.
"T-That expert, did he say who he was? He saved my son's life. As a father, I've got to at least thank him."
But Ye Yuan shook his head and said, "That expert didn't reveal his name, neither did he say why he saved me. He just said to properly comprehend the skills he imparted to me. When the time comes, he will naturally look for me again."
"So that's the case . . . Then the next time you see him, you must definitely give thanks to him on Father's behalf," Ye Hang said with regret.
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Of course. Father, I still have some matters on hand, so I will take my leave first."
A moment later, Ye Yuan arrived at the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion once more and said to the shopkeeper, "In a while, if someone looks for me, let him come to the manor at the east of the city. Additionally, here is a prescription. Help me prepare the medicines."
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Presently, Liu An was quite pleased with himself, while also feeling a little dejected.
He was pleased because Ye Yuan that brat was indeed a fool. To actually give a high-grade Heart Protecting Pill to someone with both hands. That Heart Protecting Pill's effects seemed to be exceptionally good. Currently, not only were his injuries healed, there was even a faint sign of breaking through after his injuries recovered.
He had already been stuck at the Eighth Level Essence Qi Realm for many years, and yet he could never seem to touch the threshold of the Ninth Level. Liu An was
prepared to first temporarily put aside his duties for the Drunken Star Manor so that he could attempt to impact through the Ninth Level Essence Qi Realm with full force.
What made him dejected was that Drunken Star Manor's scheme to redirect the troubled waters had failed. And it actually failed due to a silkpants.
No matter how Liu An thought of the incident, he just could not figure out how a silkpants was able to identify and treat a poison which even the Manor Lord of the Drunken Star Manor, Wan Donghai, could not handle.
This Wan Donghai was an existence on the same level as Ye Hang. His attainments in the Alchemy Dao even faintly surpassed Ye Hang. How could the ignorant and incompetent son of Ye Hang possibly have survived through that situation?
And yet, the situation happened like that right under his eyes. Currently, Liu An had a headache thinking about how he should account to the Manor Lord.
Therefore, Liu An did not even believe that the brawny-looking man was treated by Ye Yuan, but instead, it was Ye Hang who took action behind the scene. Ye Yuan was just a chess piece which Ye Hang pushed out into the open.
' Looks like this Ye Hang is very shrewd. When I return, I have to warn the Manor Lord to be on guard. '
While Liu An was thinking as he walked, he suddenly discovered something wrong. The area underneath his nostrils was a little wet. Reaching out to touch it, he jumped in fright when he saw that his hands were covered in fresh blood.
Overly heaty? What kind of joke was this? He was an Eighth Level Essence Qi Realm martial artist. How could he possibly have a nosebleed because his body was heaty?
Somehow, he suddenly recalled Ye Yuan's sincere smiling face, and he shuddered uncontrollably.
Immediately, he shook his head and rejected that thought. He, Liu An, was not some rookie. Even though he was not at a high level like Qian Miao, he was still capable of identifying between a fake and a genuine medicine. That medicinal pill was absolutely a Heart Protecting Pill; furthermore, it was a high-grade Heart Protecting Pill.
Definitely too heaty.
Liu An consoled himself in this manner, but he quickly discovered that he was too naive.
Not long after, blood then flowed from his two eyes, followed by his ears, and finally, he directly coughed up a large mouthful of blood. His internal organs felt like it caught fire, and his viscera was ablaze right now.
At this moment, he could confirm that he was indeed poisoned.
Liu An could also be considered someone who frequently walked along the borders of life and death. But the more so, the more he was terrified of dying. Right now, his entire person felt a chill as if frozen. He had never experienced the despair he was feeling right now even back when he faced powerful demonic beasts.
At this moment, Liu An only had one thought, which was to survive. He sprinted desperately towards the Fragrant Medicine Pavilion. There was not much time left for him.
. . . . . .
The Fragrant Medicine Pavilion's shopkeeper was shocked by this person bleeding from his seven orifices. He did not care about anything and just grabbed onto his sleeve after entering, requesting to meet Young Master Ye.
The shopkeeper was taken aback and did not react in time. Suddenly, he recalled what the young master instructed before leaving, so he told the address to this blood-covered person in front of him.
After that person left, the shopkeeper was a little puzzled. "This person is really weird. Already like that, and yet he didn't look for Master Qian, but Young Master instead. For what? Unless Young Master knows how to treat diseases?"
Everyone, including initially Liu An, thought that the brawny-looking man being saved today could not possibly have anything to do with Ye Yuan.
Chapter 8 - Courting Death
In the alchemy room at the east side of Ye Hang's manor.
Lu-er stared wide-eyed, amazed at the smooth black medicinal pill in Ye Yuan's hands.
"Wah! Young Master, when did you become so amazing?"
Ye Yuan smiled and pinched Lu-er's delicate pink nose. He then grumpily replied, "Since when your young master isn't amazing?"
Originally intended as a joke, who knew Lu-er actually seriously pondered awhile before nodding. "Oh, in the past, people always talked bad about Young Master. I don't know why, but I've always thought of Young Master as a good person. It's just that now Young Master is even more impressive. Right, what does this pill do?"
One day after transmigrating, Lu-er already became the closest person to Ye Yuan. Without hiding anything, Ye Yuan explained, "It's poison, a very potent one."
Lu-er seemingly frightened by this and asked, "Ah? Why did Young Master refine something like this?"
Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Naturally for a person to eat."
Lu-er mused over this explanation, before replying with a straight face, "I understand. Young Master definitely refined this poison for bad guys to eat."
Ye Yuan laughed out loud and said, "Let's go. The bad guy is almost here. We will wait for him in the parlor."
The two just stepped into the parlor, and a servant came to report that a person with a bloodied face was at the front entrance of the manor seeking for an audience. Ye Yuan commanded him to bring that person over.
Momentarily, the servant brought a pitiful looking Liu An to the parlor.
Upon seeing Ye Yuan, Liu An sprinted over. Hugging Ye Yuan's leg and crying, he said, "Young Master Ye, I beg you to be magnanimous and save me, please. We don't have any grudges between us. Why do you want to put me to death?!"
Ye Yuan gave a look of disdain and then sent Liu An flying with a kick before squatting down and said, "Don't have any grudges? Do you really take me for a fool? No matter how many Heart Protecting Pills my Ye Family has, we wouldn't take it out to feed dogs. Make your choice now. Do you want to confess in exchange for the antidote or die due to the poison?"
Even after being sent flying with a kick, Liu An did not have any complaints and nearly tripped over himself while crawling back. Only this time he did not dare to hug Ye Yuan's legs again. However, Ye Yuan was just at the First Level Essence Qi Realm; even if the kick was packed with true essence, it was unable to cause any substantial harm to Liu An.
As to the risk for Liu An retaliating like a desperate dog leaping over a wall, Ye Yuan was not concerned at all. That was because Liu An's true essence scattered all over in his body, and he was unable to gather them together.
"Young Master Ye, I truly don't know what you meant by that! I only came to Fragrant Medicine Pavilion to get treated. Even if I'd offended you, it isn't deserving of death. I am only a small figure. I beg of you, Young Master Ye. Just treat me like a fart and let me go," Liu An said as he cried without even trying to maintain his dignity.
Ye Yuan did not speak and only looked at Liu An's alarmed face until the latter became fl.u.s.tered.
At this point, Liu An still held onto one last trace of possibility that Ye Yuan's wastrel disease struck and that this was a practical joke. He hoped that by letting go of his dignity, he could coax Ye Yuan into giving him the antidote. If people found out about his shady identity, he would be hunted down by demonic beast hunters.
However, after Ye Yuan stared at him for a long time with that same gaze, Liu An's heart hit rock bottom.
Ye Yuan looked at Liu An and suddenly smiled. A smile which made his heart went cold.
"Yo-Young Master Ye."
"Hahaha. It's fine if you don't want to talk, I have plenty of time, but you don't. Right now, do you feel your organs burning up, and your entire body as if it's about to ablaze? This is merely the beginning. After a while, your skin wouldn't be able to withstand it and start to crack open, bit by bit. Eventually, your entire body will go pah! And explode like a watermelon."
As Ye Yuan spoke, he even made an explosion gesture with his hands. Liu An's entire body quaked as if following Ye Yuan's hand movements and exploded.
At this point, Liu An knew he was out of luck. Ye Yuan definitely saw through something.
Analyzing everything up to this point, Liu An's heart swiftly calmed down. This was an ability developed through countless years of hunting demonic beasts; he became an extraordinarily sinister and cunning person. His mind calculated everything, and a scheme developed.
It was already impossible to return to the past with the situation that was happening right now. Liu An decided to go all out. As long as he managed to swindle the antidote from Ye Yuan's hands, he would immediately kill Ye Yuan and this little girl before leaving for a distant place.
Liu An was a decisive man. Now that the scheme was in place, there was no need to delay things any longer. Naturally, he would not reveal his inner thoughts. Instead, he continued to maintain a pitiful and helpless appearance in order to deceive Ye Yuan.
Liu An repeatedly kowtowed and babbled nonstop, "Young Master Ye, I was wrong. I truly know I was wrong. I can't hide anything from your keen sight. I'm willing to tell Young Master Ye everything. I only beg Young Master Ye to spare my worthless life."
Ye Yuan looked as if he was delighted with Liu An's performance. He smiled and said, "That will depend on whether the information you are going to reveal is valuable or not. If it is, this Young Master naturally will not make things difficult for a small fry like you."
Liu An became thrilled upon hearing this. He thought to himself, this punk is indeed a pampered child, baited with just a little bit of honey. Liu An no longer hesitated and spilled everything out.
The truth did not deviate much from Ye Yuan's conjecture. That brawny man initially went to several medicinal pill stores. Occasionally, there would be physicians who could recognize the Seven Evils Flowing Cloud Python's poison. But they were helpless against it.
Do not look down on Qian Miao just because he was nothing in front of Ye Yuan. When put in the entire Qin Country, he was a top-ranked individual. He could identify and treat the Seven Evils Flowing Cloud Python's poison, but this does not mean that others could do the same. Luckily they could not handle it; otherwise, the brawny man would have long succ.u.mbed to the poison.
