Chapter 173: The Undying Ghost Doctor
"As you wish!"
Xiao Yi shrugged his shoulders and then walked into the physician's room.
The poison from Manggu Zhuha was exceedingly terrifying; once it entered the human body, it would completely merge with the blood.
Even the hunchbacked old man who had been raising the Manggu Zhuha all his life had not found a second method to detoxify it, and he simply did not believe that Xiao Yi, a youth under twenty years old, could have a way to solve the poison of the Manggu Zhuha.
However...
The hunchbacked elder did not know that Xiao Yi had received the inheritance of the ancestor of Qingtian Realm's alchemy, the Wind Thunder Holy Body, mastering all of the alchemy techniques and experience of Wind Thunder.
Wind Thunder had traveled all over the world, tasting every herb.
He also conducted thorough research on Manggu Zhuha.
"Poria, Golden Lotus, Hundred-Year Frost Ginseng..."
Xiao Yi found more than twenty types of herbs and returned to the outside of the physician's room.
The area was already surrounded by the Azure Dragon guards and the four brothers from the Shi Family, who encircled the hunchbacked elder with a watchful demeanor.
The hunchbacked elder leaned on his cane, full of self-confidence, calm and collected, gently stroking his beard, smiling at the sight of Xiao Yi reappearing before him, "Young man, if you're not confident, don't force yourself. If this guy's poison is not resolved, it will seep into the marrow, and by then even I won't be able to turn things around!"
Xiao Yi glanced at him and said indifferently, "Watch carefully, this is the first method!"
Swish!
Xiao Yi reached out into the air, and his surging Yuan Qi roared forth.
Under Yu Huaxian's body, a layer of Yuan Qi cushion formed, gently straightening Yu Huaxian's body.
The intense poison of Manggu Zhuha on his body meant that even if an outsider touched his skin with their palm, they would be infected by the toxin. Xiao Yi had not yet cultivated the Wind Thunder Holy Body and was also not immune to these toxins.
With the support of Yuan Qi.
Yu Huaxian stood upright, his skin dark and purplish, his aura becoming increasingly faint.
Xiao Yi took out the Golden Lotus, Poria, and several other herbs, grinding them into stems and leaves in the palm of his hand, then pointed his sword finger forward.
Pfft!
A silver Sword Qi streaked past.
It effortlessly cut open Yu Huaxian's wrist, and Xiao Yi pressed the liquid from the herbs into the wound. Yu Huaxian's body trembled violently. The wound on his wrist, anointed with the green herbal juice, began to emit plumes of black smoke and as the smoke rose continuously, the dark color on Yu Huaxian's body rapidly faded away.
"This, this is impossible..."
The hunchbacked elder stood up straight, disbelieving the scene before him.
He was well aware of the tyrannical nature of the Manggu Zhuha's poison.
How could it be resolved so easily?
But the reality before his eyes left him no choice but to believe.
After ten breaths.
Yu Huaxian's complexion had returned to normal, and his breath had stabilized, his eyes weakly opened, and he saw Xiao Yi standing before him.
Although he had been poisoned into unconsciousness earlier, he was still clear-headed.
He was well aware that it was Xiao Yi who had saved him!
Yu Huaxian cracked a smile, expressing his gratitude, "Thank you so much, Xiao... "
"It's all right now!"
Xiao Yi looked at the hunchbacked elder and said indifferently, "You lose!"
"No, I haven't lost..."
The hunchbacked elder grasped his cane with both hands, clenching his teeth, his eyes shining brightly, "You said there were many methods to offset the poison, right? This is just one of them..."
Xiao Yi said, "Still not convinced? Then let your Manggu Zhuha bite him again!"
Yu Huaxian shuddered, "..."
To be bitten again?
Having been poisoned by the Manggu Zhuha, his blood felt as if it was being scorched by blazing flames, an unbearably painful experience!
He certainly did not want to endure that torment a second time.
But the hunchbacked elder was quicker than him. From his sleeve, a yellow figure sprang out and bit Yu Huaxian's arm. Yu Huaxian cried out, his figure stiffening, and from the bite, a ring of blackness spread across his entire body, turning him once more into a charred, dark-purple figure.
Xiao Yi, from a distance, lifted Yu Huaxian, made a small cut on his heel, and applied a second entirely different medicinal mixture.
Hissss!
Black blood gushed out like a fountain.
Yu Huaxian regained consciousness once again, teetering on the brink.
Xiao Yi looked at the hunchbacked old man, "The second method!"
"This, this..."
The hunched elder sized up Yu Huaxian, pried open his lips to check his teeth, lifted his clothes to peek underneath, and pulled at his pants... until Yu Huaxian desperately shielded himself, looking toward Xiao Yi with tears in his eyes and pleading, "Save, save me... Xiao save me..."
Xiao Yi said indifferently, "Are you convinced, or not?"
The hunchbacked elder's face turned shades of green and white, clenching his teeth, and angrily said, "If you can produce a third method, I'll admit you're better!"
"No, don't..."
Yu Huaxian stumbled and fell to the ground, crawling and rolling toward the side.
But the Manggu Zhuha was even faster!
Croak!
It bit him right on his buttock.
"Ow..."
Yu Huaxian lay on the ground, his buttock swelled up high, and he extended his right hand toward Shi Yaodu in front of him, begging, "Save, save me..."
Shi Yaodu instinctively wanted to reach out and help.
Croak!
The Manggu Zhuha directly jumped onto Yu Huaxian's head, eyeing him with a predatory gaze.
Shi Yaodu quickly withdrew his hand, unable to help, and said sympathetically, "Brother, hang in there, huh!"
Yu Huaxian's eyes rolled back: "..."
Fortunately, Xiao Yi didn't let him down. Moments later, the poison in Yu Huaxian's body was completely cured.
Xiao Yi used yet another entirely different method and looked at the hunchbacked elder, "A bet's a bet, you agree?"
"I..."
Just as the hunchbacked elder opened his mouth to speak.
Yu Huaxian had already flipped over, clung tightly to his thigh, and burst into sobs, "Senior, Big Boss, Ancestor, oh... Can you maybe try it on someone else? I, I really can't take it anymore..."
His indistinct voice laced with resentment and grievance was genuinely creepy!
The hunchbacked elder shuddered, looking at Yu Huaxian's pitiful appearance. His face, wrinkled like old tree bark, twitched slightly, and, with a wry smile, he looked at Xiao Yi, "I concede, I concede! I, Xue Bufan, have wandered the worlds for many years and seen countless geniuses, but someone like you, I have never encountered before. Losing to you feels no injustice!"
"Xue Bufan?"
"You are the Undying Ghost Doctor Xue Bufan?"
"My heavens, it's actually you?"
Shock and surprise were etched on the faces of all the spectators around.
The Undying Ghost Doctor Xue Bufan!
Legend has it...
He is from the Great Qian Dynasty's number one alchemical family, the Xue Family, yet because he peeked at the Xue Family's secret manual meant only for the head of the family, he was expelled from the Xue Family.
Since then, he wandered Jianghu, traveling between various nations.
His medical and alchemy skills were both notoriously famous, to the extent that even the King of the Great Jin Kingdom once offered a tremendous price to invite him to become the Chief Imperial Physician of the Great Jin Kingdom.
No one expected that this disheveled, hunchbacked old man in front of them was actually the renowned Undying Ghost Doctor!
"This old servant Xue Bufan, greets master!"
Xue Bufan bent his knee, about to kneel down to Xiao Yi. Experience more on empire
But Xiao Yi prevented him from doing so, lifting him upright and said with a smile, "I, the junior, had no idea that the senior was Xue Bufan. I cannot accept such a grand gesture."
Although Xue Bufan's methods were a bit bizarre, earning him the title of 'Ghost Doctor, he had never been reputed to harm anyone. Poisoning Yu Huaxian earlier was only because Yu Huaxian made the first move and there was no real intent to kill him.
Xue Bufan shook his head and said, "Master Xiao, I, Xue Bufan, am a man of my word. There was a bet, and I willingly accept the loss. From now on, I shall be an old servant before you, and I ask for Master Xiao's instructions and care!"
Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows slightly.
Not only did this Xue Bufan possess profound medical and alchemical skills, but he was also a master of the Sixth Layer of the Tao Tribulation Realm.
Having such a master to watch over the Tianqing Kingdom could only be beneficial.
With this thought in mind.
Xiao Yi said with a smile, "In that case, I shall ask for Elder Xue's advice and guidance in the future!"