Chapter 144

For the past few days, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu has been running to the Bao'an Hall every afternoon.

She practices sword in the morning, and after breakfast goes to the Pear Garden to teach sword techniques to Ziying and the girls who are willing to learn from her.

Her own "lessons" haven't stopped either.

Reading, practicing the zither, dancing, poetry... She has figured it out now; she doesn't want to be an "ancient high-level illiterate" with modern thinking.

As long as it's something she can learn, she will study it a little.

No need to be proficient, just knowing a little is enough.

After lunch, she returns to the Xiaojing Pavilion to change into the clothes of a medicine boy, ties her hair into a bun fixed with a wooden hairpin, and changes her embroidered shoes into white hemp straw sandals.

She dresses like a delicate and pretty little Daoist boy.

Divine Physician Min didn't teach her medicine; like the other medicine boys, she first identifies medicinal materials, processes them, and dries them; this belongs to the basics.

Next is the fine processing of the prepared medicinal materials, weighing the materials, and preparing medicine packets according to prescriptions.

Then comes medicine refining.

It's not just boiling medicinal soup; there are pills, powders, external plasters, and extracting "spiritual juice" from medicinal materials...

After tossing and turning in the Bao'an Hall for two days, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu had to admit that even if Divine Physician Min's medical skills were divine, he was still a traditional ancient physician.

Treating disciples, let alone the one-on-one teaching, as close as father and son or brothers, seen in classical immortal hero novels.

It's not even as good as the teachers in primary and secondary schools in the indifferent modern society.

The medicine boys in the Bao'an Hall don't look like apprentices, but more like free child laborers.

Divine Physician Min basically doesn't hold classes or public teaching.

New little medicine boys are taught by older big medicine boys, and the big medicine boys mainly read medical books to build a foundation.

Only after reading the medical books designated as mandatory by Divine Physician Min, and proving in tests that they have seriously read and thoroughly understood them, does Divine Physician Min take them by his side to sit in the hall and diagnose patients.

The apprentice diagnoses first, and he then uses his fingers to press the pulse three times.

If the apprentice is correct, he will nod slightly; if the apprentice has errors or omissions, he remains silent, but when writing the prescription, he will correct it, and after the patient leaves, he will give the apprentice a few pointers.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu can understand Divine Physician Min's approach.

He is an attending physician sitting in the hall, not a teacher in a medical school.

Treating patients is Divine Physician Min's main responsibility; bringing apprentices is secondary.

There is not enough time and energy to conduct one-on-one teaching for apprentices.

Even for Seeing Xiao Yu Yu, it's the same as the other medicine boys.

For the past few days, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu has been working as a child laborer, cleaning and drying medicinal materials for Divine Physician Min for free.

This is the work with the lowest technical content but a very high workload.

Divine Physician Min still considered her special situation and didn't intend to exploit this little female worker.

He gave her the Shennong Hundred Herbs Classic, telling her to memorize it and read it thoroughly before coming to the medical hall to find him, which was to let her skip the "primary child laborer" stage of processing medicinal materials.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu understood his intention; she herself disliked the repetitive labor of processing medicinal materials, which was complicated but lacked learning efficiency.

But she came the first day, continued to come the second day, and even made it a habit.

Because she has the Heart Sea Secret Art, she can steal the skills of the entire Bao'an Hall.

For example, now, she is squatting by the ear gate, where a few old peasant women from outside the city are pushing wheelbarrows, wanting to sell dandelions, ancient oil, and "old garlic" dug from the mountains during the slack season to the Bao'an Hall.

Another medicine boy is responsible for weighing, and Seeing Xiao Yu Yu is responsible for bookkeeping and paying.

She looks like she is working seriously, and in fact, she is indeed very serious.

She has extremely strong mental arithmetic ability, doesn't need an abacus, and never makes mistakes.

But at the same time, she enters the Heart Sea Secret Art state, listening to Senior Brother Zhang teaching the junior brothers the "Thirty-Six Methods of Heavenly Gang" by the furnace fire in the back courtyard—the thirty-six secrets of boiling medicinal soup.

Also in the back courtyard's pill room, the forty-year-old Cai "medicine boy" is teaching the junior brothers how to roll pills by hand.

In the medicine room on the left side of the main hall, there are a thousand neat medicine cabinets, four or five wooden ladders, and seven or eight medicine boys climbing up and down, nimble-handed and nimble-footed, preparing medicine for patients according to prescriptions.

In the corner of the medicine room, there is also a Senior Brother Li, explaining the "Divine Physician Min's Pulse-Cutting Song" to three junior brothers.

Well, Divine Physician Min has compiled the basic medical principles of pulse-cutting into songs and taught them to the "advanced apprentices."

"The Eastern Imperial Envoy personally conferred twenty-eight prostitutes as gods. Do you think he is very happy, very glad, very glorious?"

"Or, did Young Master Gongsun, who hosted Xiang Xiaoyu that day, simply want to inquire about the Investiture of the Gods?"

"The regret in his heart is probably only less than Wenlong's."

"Whose background can be lower than a barbarian in the Northern Wilderness?"

"Whose experience can be more tragic than falling into the dust in youth?"

"With such a life, Xiang Xiaoyu still adheres to great righteousness and respects heaven and earth. Shouldn't others be even more—"

"Report~~~"

Before the Jade Emperor finished speaking, a report suddenly came from the Tongming Hall outside.

Immediately afterward, an immortal boy hurried in, knelt down at the steps, and reported, "Your Majesty, there is a Talisman Envoy, Zhang Tianyang, who has come to report on the matter of Xiang Xiaoyu."

Li Changgeng's face changed slightly.

The Duty-Officer Zhang Tianyang was the Talisman Envoy he had arranged to monitor Xiang Xiaoyu.

The Jade Emperor laughed, "One day in heaven, one year on earth. In the time it took for me and the Beloved Official to say a few words, several days have passed in the human world, and the Talisman Envoy has returned."

After laughing, he said to the immortal boy, "Bring the Talisman Envoy in."

Not long after, a disheveled Talisman Envoy walked into the Lingxiao Precious Hall with staggering steps and shouted, "Your Majesty, Xiang Xiaoyu is rebellious and arrogant, not only insulting you, but also wanting to kill your humble servant!"

Li Changgeng said sternly, "You are a Talisman Envoy, you only need to describe what you saw in detail. As for how to decide, it is up to His Majesty!"

The Jade Emperor frowned, "Zhang Tianyang, why are you injured? And why do you say Xiang Xiaoyu is rebellious and arrogant?"

The Talisman Envoy shouted with a crying voice, "Xiang Xiaoyu is cruel and ruthless, killing people in the street, and wanting to kill them all, shouting 'I have decided to kill, even God cannot keep them' and so on."

"I reasoned with her, and she slashed me with a sword, telling me not to meddle in other people's business."

Li Changgeng said deeply, "I told you to describe the ins and outs in detail, not to be a victim and complain about the villain!"

"Your humble servant does not dare to complain about the villain. After your humble servant went to the lower world, I first went to Tianmen Town in Western Shu, and then went to the Taiyi Orthodox Palace in the Central Plains to find Daoist Priest Qingsong..."

One day in heaven, one year on earth.

Before Li Changgeng reported the deeds of "Xiang Xiaoyu, Righteous and Loyal," the Talisman Envoy had already gone to the lower world and toured the entire Western Sand Domain.

Not only the Shu Kingdom, but he also went to the current Western Lu Jin Yang and met Duan Yuhan and his son.

Then he turned and went to the South South China.

First, he went to Mount Tai, the head of the Five Sacred Mountains, to find Huang Feihu, the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak.

A mere Talisman Envoy, even a Heavenly Palace Talisman Envoy, could not see the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak himself.

Besides the Great Emperor of the Eastern Peak, the Underworld of Mount Tai also had ten underworld generals under his command, known as the "Ten Great Tai Bao of the Eastern Peak."

"Daoist Priest Qingsong is in Fengdu. Talisman Envoy, please wait a moment, let this one summon the Lingguan of the Taiyi Orthodox Palace, and let the Lingguan lead you to see Daoist Priest Qingsong." The Li Tai Bao of the Hall of Administration received the Talisman Envoy and arranged for ghost envoys to notify the Taiyi Orthodox Palace.

The Taiyi Orthodox Palace received the news, but did not send a Lingguan to see the Talisman Envoy immediately, but instead let the Lingguan go to Fengdu Hell first.

"Qingsong, there is a Heavenly Court Talisman Envoy who wants to see you, you must change places immediately."

The one who went to Fengdu to find Daoist Priest Qingsong was Xiang Xiaoyu's acquaintance, the Divine Mace Tai Bao, Zhang Songzhi.

When the Divine Mace Tai Bao found Daoist Priest Qingsong, Qingsong was wearing white clothes and white pants, his face was pale, his lips were dark blue, his hair was disheveled, and he was sitting cross-legged in a fairly spacious hall, meditating with his five hearts toward the sky.

Around him, there were dozens of dead ghosts dressed the same way.

"What does the Heavenly Court Talisman Envoy want with me?" Qingsong asked suspiciously.

"Looking for you to ask about Xiang Xiaoyu, just say whatever you know, it's not a big deal."

Time was very tight, the Divine Mace Tai Bao didn't explain in detail, and immediately called a White Impermanence.

Under the instruction of the Divine Mace Tai Bao, the White Impermanence quickly tied Qingsong into a rice dumpling with chains and dragged him quickly to float outside.

Passing through the gloomy, dark, yet quiet and peaceful "city area," entering the back of the ghost city, and arriving at the purgatory area where blood evil qi condensed into thick clouds in the sky, they directly threw Qingsong into a boiling oil pot to fry.

That oil pot was even bigger than Xianyang City, like an oil sea, the oil was boiling, like wind and waves on the sea surface, and there were countless miserable wailing ghosts in every wave.

One could see that many of the ghosts in it were not in human form.

"Aowu~~~" Being thrown into the oil pot, Qingsong screamed miserably.

Like a loach wrapped in fried chicken powder, he struggled desperately in the oil pot, wailing miserably, his body gradually becoming crispy and gradually fried thoroughly.

"Hold on, it'll be over soon!" Min Shenyi Mace Tai Bao exhorted, and ran away quickly.

Not long after, the Divine Mace Tai Bao came back, followed by the Heavenly Court Talisman Envoy.

"The Heavenly Court Divine Envoy has arrived, little ghosts, immediately bring the evil Daoist Qingsong, who has monstrous sins, over, the Heavenly Court Divine Envoy wants to question him!" Min Shenyi Mace Tai Bao's expression was solemn, his voice was majestic, and he had an upright and unyielding aura.

The White Impermanence who had thrown Qingsong into the oil pot just now also seemed to have just seen the Divine Mace Tai Bao, with a look of suspicion on his pale cheeks, and only after confirming again and again did he greet his companions to use a huge fork to reach into the oil pot.

Like poking a fried white fish, he pierced through Qingsong's half-cooked body.

The sharp iron fork emerged from his chest.

Like a dinner fork forking vegetables, he forked Qingsong out, but kept the posture of piercing through his chest, without pulling the fork out.

The reason it was half-cooked was that every time the ghost was fried thoroughly, it would immediately return to its original state, repeating the process of frying.

Min Shenyi Mace Tai Bao was very fast, but it would eventually take some time to go to Mount Tai to bring the Talisman Envoy over.

In less than half an hour, Qingsong had been fried thoroughly at least a hundred times.

"Qingsong, I ask you, what did you and Xiang Xiaoyu say on the day you were assassinated by the Western immortal?" The Talisman Envoy shouted.

With the reminder from the Divine Mace Tai Bao, Qingsong didn't ask much, and just said everything he knew.

"Hmm, not bad, truly righteous and loyal, with the legacy of the ancient sages."

The Talisman Envoy nodded with admiration and sighed, "Although she gave up the City God god position, there are reasons for yearning for the Immortal Dao and not wanting to become a ghost god, but she didn't sell the god position to the noble people of the upper state in exchange for divine pills, spiritual medicine, or opportunities to cultivate immortals."

After speaking, he bowed to the Divine Mace Tai Bao and disappeared in an instant.

"Your humble servant has offended you just now, Daoist Priest, please don't blame me!"

As soon as the Talisman Envoy left, the White Impermanence floated over to bow and salute, while several other impermanences quickly untied the chains on Qingsong and slowly helped him down from the fork.

Qingsong waved his hand to drive away the impermanences and asked, "What does 'righteous and loyal, legacy of the ancient sages' mean?"

Min Shenyi Mace Tai Bao laughed, "Although you haven't awakened your previous life's memories, you are still a Daoist with hundreds of years of cultivation in this life. Don't you understand the rules of the Heavenly Court?"

"Xiang Xiaoyu's act of giving the god position to Duan Yuhan has spread, causing a sensation in the West."

"Li Changgeng not only sent a Talisman Envoy to the lower world to monitor, but also specifically reported this matter to the Jade Emperor during the morning court in the Lingxiao Precious Hall today!"

Qingsong's pale, almost transparent cheeks showed a look of realization, "The Heavenly Court is going to record underworld merit for Xiang Xiaoyu."

"It's not just underworld merit, the Jade Emperor promised that as long as she accumulates three hundred good deeds, she will immediately ascend to the Heavenly Court to be a virtuous female immortal." Min Shenyi Mace Tai Bao said.

Still the same sentence, one day in heaven, one year on earth.

In the Lingxiao Precious Hall, the Jade Emperor had just given the favor, the mandate of heaven had appeared, and all the gods knew.

And in the few days that passed on the ground, the Dao Palace, which had many connections in the Heavenly Court, received the news for the first time.

"This is immortal blessing~~~"

Qingsong sighed and laughed again, "I'm afraid she won't be able to grasp this splashing immortal blessing."

Min Shenyi Mace Tai Bao thought so too.

Relying purely on cultivating merit to become an immortal is too difficult.

It is not something that a true sage or a person of great perseverance can do.

"Even if she can't reach the sky in one step or become a female immortal in one life, at least she can accumulate a little immortal blessing, leave it for the next life, or leave it for her descendants." Min Shenyi Mace Tai Bao said.

Aren't immortal blessings, immortal roots, and immortal fate derived from this?

In this world that emphasizes "good and evil have rewards, cause and effect circulate," no blessing appears out of thin air.

The price must either be paid in advance or paid in the future.

Of course, one can also let others pay—relying on the merit and blessings of the grandfather's generation.