Chapter 337: Cancer Cells

"Immortal Masters, please rest assured. I have already dispatched an envoy to Luolong County to offer terms of surrender. The conditions offered are very generous; Meng Yifan should not refuse," said Tan Qingyang.

"Good. Once Meng Yifan arrives, we shall join forces, head out of the city, and have a great battle with the Demon Race. Damn it, hiding in the city every day listening to those turtle bastards jeering—I've been holding in a belly full of fire for a long time. This time, I must smash the head of that Great Strength Demon Ape; he's the one shouting the loudest."

Zhao Jingang clapped his hands in approval. His temper was like a raging fire, ready to explode at the slightest provocation. He couldn't stand being stifled and shouted every day about going out of the city to fight, but Yin Jiuji and the others would not agree.

Although Zhao Jingang was very hot-tempered, he was no fool. Going out alone to fight a group of Level 5 Demon Beasts would be like lighting a lantern in a latrine—courting death.

Upon hearing of Meng Yifan's glorious battle record, Zhao Jingang immediately realized that Meng Yifan was also a fierce man who fought back whenever he was provoked and never backed down. This was a kindred spirit.

Although Zhao Jingang had yet to meet Meng Yifan, he already regarded him as a soulmate. When the time came, the two of them could join forces and accomplish many things.

"Keep your voice down, am I deaf?" Yin Jiuji glanced at Zhao Jingang with some annoyance. Just now, when Zhao Jingang got excited, his volume rose again, shaking the room like Thunder, making everyone's ears ring.

"Haha, sorry, I didn't notice just now." Zhao Jingang hurriedly lowered his voice to apologize, though he felt even more stifled inside.

Yin Jiuji possessed great strength, but his methods were insidious and his personality was gloomy. Even when the Demon Beasts blocked the city gates every day to jeer, Yin Jiuji could act as if he heard nothing, drinking tea and listening to operas every day, carefree and at ease—not manly at all.

This made Zhao Jingang dislike Yin Jiuji, but since his strength was inferior, he could only bury his dissatisfaction in his heart.

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Inside Luolong County, the great battle had ended, but the common people had become even busier.

The corpses of seventy or eighty thousand Demon Beasts needed to be processed into sausages and Monster Cured Meat in time. This required all the common people in the city to work together for four or five days, and they had to work overtime; otherwise, the Monster Beast Meat would rot, which would be a great waste of food.

In these years of famine, a large number of people starved to death every day. Food was life, and wasting food at such a time would invite a strike by Heaven's five thunders.

For these past few days, all the common people in the city had been eating meat to their hearts' content, their mouths oily every day. Being able to eat their fill made everyone feel very happy. Even though they had to work intensely for twelve hours a day in two shifts, they still worked joyfully and never complained of fatigue.

Moreover, after eating the Monster Beast Meat, the physical strength of the common people increased greatly. Even those refugees who were originally skin and bones became ruddy-faced and grew muscles after eating a few meals of energy-rich Monster Beast Meat.

The soldiers of the Salvation Army and the Imperial Guard Company did not participate in making sausages and Monster Cured Meat. They gathered at the Grand Drill Ground, where Meng Yifan taught them the Tiangang Big Dipper Array.

This Array was a combined attack formation that gathered the energy of seven people into one person, erupting instantly with tremendous power.

By utilizing the Tiangang Big Dipper Array, it was possible to achieve combat across levels; such an array was very suitable for soldiers to learn.

To master the Tiangang Big Dipper Array, the most important thing was to step on the seven stars and connect their Qi as one. It required the seven people forming the array to cooperate tacitly, and no one could make a mistake.

As long as one person made a mistake, the Array would collapse on its own, unable to gather the energy of the seven into one, which placed high demands on the mutual cooperation of the seven people.

Meng Yifan had people chisel the diagram of the Tiangang Big Dipper Array onto the concrete road surface. The soldiers would circulate their internal cultivation methods and step on the footprints on the ground to practice the Array.

Once the soldiers could accurately step on the seven stars and connect their Qi as one without looking at the footprints on the ground, achieving the transfer of energy within the Array, the Tiangang Big Dipper Array would be considered mastered.

Just as Meng Yifan was teaching the soldiers to practice the Array, a hospital apprentice wearing a white coat ran over hurriedly and said to Meng Yifan, "Lord Meng, Dean Liu wants you to come over."

Meng Yifan was stunned. Why was Liu Zhongyong calling him? Could it be that he had figured out how to treat cancer?

When Meng Yifan traveled back to the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty, he had brought some cancer cells from terminal lung cancer patients from Earth, along with some modern medical equipment, and handed them to Liu Zhongyong for research.

Liu Zhongyong was no longer the man he once was. He was not only proficient in the medical arts of the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty but had also learned modern Western medicine, merging the two different systems of medicine into one, and his medical skills had advanced by leaps and bounds.

Some time ago, there was a seriously wounded person with a palm-sized piece of shrapnel stuck in their heart. By the time they were carried to the hospital, the wounded person was already on the verge of death.

Liu Zhongyong performed the surgery himself, conducting an open-heart surgery to extract the shrapnel from the patient's heart. He also used needle and thread to suture the wounded person's damaged right heart and then sutured the opened chest cavity.

Liu Zhongyong applied a black ointment to the wounds on the wounded person's heart and chest.

It was said that this ointment could act as an anti-inflammatory and sterilizing agent, accelerating wound healing.

Whether it was because the vitality of the people of the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty was stronger than those on Earth, or because Liu Zhongyong's medical skills were truly already very formidable, the wounded person survived and was now able to get out of bed and walk.

When Meng Yifan arrived at the hospital, Liu Zhongyong was staring at the Microscope with intense concentration, muttering to himself, "Cancer cells are so magical. They can divide and proliferate infinitely—one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight. The further it goes, the faster the cancer cells divide."

"They are like bandits, destroying other normal cell tissues, invading surrounding normal tissues, and can even metastasize to other parts of the body through the circulatory system or lymphatic system. They are truly overbearing."

"Eh! If other cells could also undergo infinite fission and constantly renew themselves, wouldn't one be able to live forever? This is a research direction; I must write it down. Perhaps I can research an Elixir of Immortality in the future."

Liu Zhongyong talked to himself for a while before noticing Meng Yifan had arrived. He said excitedly, "Lord Meng, I have found a way to inhibit the infinite fission of cancer cells."

Meng Yifan's eyes lit up upon hearing Liu Zhongyong's words. One must know that cancer was still an incurable disease on Earth to this day. If Liu Zhongyong could really treat cancer, then he would make a fortune.

In the future, when Meng Yifan traveled back to Earth, he wouldn't need to sell any local specialties from the Great Wu Heavenly Dynasty. Just by relying on the ability to treat cancer and curing those big tycoons, Meng Yifan could earn a mountain of wealth, basically achieving financial freedom and buying whatever he wanted.

Not to mention anything else, Dayiwan still had a Mushroom Bomb; as long as he could cure his cancer, he would be willing to give that Mushroom Bomb to Meng Yifan.