Chapter 158: Introduction to Medical Dao

"Master, you are truly amazing! Just by looking at the Dog Treasure once, you could clearly deduce the three realms."

Xiao Qiang listened with surging blood, its dog eyes full of sincere admiration, with thick anticipation hidden within the admiration.

"But I don't understand cultivation; can Master help me deduce a Demon Immortal cultivation method while you're at it?"

"Can't you absorb the essence of the sun and moon? Slowly accumulate power; when the power is sufficient, the realm will naturally follow," Xiao Yu said.

Xiao Qiang sighed, "Humans have Immortal Martial cultivation methods, demons have demon arts and demon methods. Immortal Martial methods have levels, and demon methods must also be graded."

"I currently absorb the essence of the sun and moon like eating and drinking water; it stems from instinct, without any special method."

"Accumulating power slowly like this, the efficiency is certainly far inferior to great demons who cultivate high-level demon methods."

"Hoh, quite ambitious, wanting to become a great demon; do you want to learn from great demons and swallow a city of people in one gulp?" Xiao Yu said.

Xiao Qiang cried out in grievance, "I'm a vegetarian! Even if I become a great demon, at most I'll swallow the hot poop of a city of people in one gulp."

Xiao Yu was thoroughly disgusted and waved her hand, "Don't mention 'poop' in front of me again! As for demon methods, let's talk about it in a few days."

"Deducing demon methods takes a lot of time and energy."

"I still have a 'Heavenly Tribulation' to cross, I can't be distracted."

If she could deduce demon methods today, she might be able to deduce immortal methods tomorrow.

The dog volunteered to be a white mouse, why wouldn't she be happy to do it?

It was just that the timing wasn't right.

Xiao Qiang was a bit disappointed, but understood Xiao Yu's current situation and didn't force it.

"Master, why could you recognize the Demon Script 'Mountain' at a glance?" it asked curiously.

Xiao Yu pondered, "I am a person born with innate wisdom; do you know what 'innate wisdom' means? One who knows upon birth!"

She was, of course, not someone born with innate wisdom.

But she did indeed recognize the Demon Script at a glance, not only able to read it but also clearly and plainly understand its meaning.

The reason had nothing to do with the Purple Mansion, nor with innate wisdom.

It only had to do with the "Comprehension Divine Ability" she awakened during the Kunpeng Transformation.

She even developed a hallucination: she didn't just recognize the Demon Script, but rather she had once created the Demon Script!

Every stroke and every line of the Demon Script "Mountain," and why it was written that way, she understood completely, and there was a strange sense of familiarity.

Simply recognizing the Demon Script and being as familiar with it as if she had created it herself were very different.

Recognizing the Demon Script did not equal understanding the Dao represented by the Demon Script.

For example, Xiao Qiang could actually recognize that the Demon Script on the Dog Treasure had to do with mountains and rocks.

But it only thought the Dog Treasure was a "small mountain," not understanding that the meaning of "Mountain" was actually "gravity like a mountain."

If one could create a Demon Script containing all the mysteries of the Demon Race's bloodline divine abilities, then the "Demon Master" who created the Demon Script must have thoroughly understood all the mysteries of the divine abilities represented by the Demon Script.

Xiao Yu saw the "Mountain" on the Dog Treasure, and she quickly mastered "Demon Art: Gravity Like a Mountain."

She couldn't cast it, only because she lacked the medium for casting—demon power and a Demon Core.

But she could try to convert "Demon Art: Gravity Like a Mountain" into "Immortal Art: Gravity Like a Mountain."

Without immortal power, she could also delete and modify it into a "Beggar Version: Immortal Martial: Gravity Like a Mountain."

This "talent" was very terrifying, and it also made Xiao Yu feel terrified.

Because she knew very well that the Demon Script was not created by her.

The true creator of the Demon Script was the Demon Master Kunpeng.

And she, unfortunately, had once transformed into Kunpeng, experiencing the Kunpeng Transformation...

Even thinking with her butt, she could understand that she must have some mysterious connection with the Demon Master Kunpeng.

Xiao Yu even vaguely developed an epiphany: her transmigration, her birth in the Primordial World, had to do with the Demon Master Kunpeng!

"The Demon Master Kunpeng is playing a big game, and I am just a chess piece on the board, just like the Heavenly Court and Buddhism playing a big game in 'Journey to the West,' and Wukong is a chess piece... but I am not Wukong, I am unwilling, and I definitely will not become a 'Fighting Victorious Buddha'."

Xiao Yu's expression changed several times, the fear and suspicion in her heart all turned into firmness.

Firmness in pursuing power.

She turned to Xiao Qiang, who was looking at her with worship, and said, "I am now giving you a task: let me see that 'Kunpeng' Demon Script in your soul as soon as possible."

Seeing "Mountain," she directly comprehended the Demon Art: Gravity Like a Mountain.

If she could see "Kunpeng," her Kunpeng Transformation might complete a sublimation.

She didn't know how strong the Demon Master Kunpeng was—that guy mastered all the divine abilities of the Demon Race, he must be very strong.

But she was certain that Kunpeng must fly very fast, faster than Wukong, and swim very fast underwater, faster than a dragon.

As long as she ran fast enough, let alone Tianmen Town, the Guan Chenghuang, or the Shu Kingdom, they would no longer be able to bind her; she would directly give the Jade Emperor the middle finger, what could he do to her?

As for the danger of the Demon Master... let's cross the current difficulty first, then consider others!

"Master, I can't do it!" the dog cried.

Xiao Yu said, "You can't do it now, I know. But you can strive hard, for example, engraving 'Kunpeng' on the Dog Treasure, for example, trying to control the heaven and earth souls, letting your consciousness drive the heaven and earth souls to communicate with my soul."

The dog said excitedly, "Master, even if I don't understand demon arts, I understand that the Demon Script must never be engraved on the Dog Treasure randomly. The Demon Script on the Dog Treasure can only be born naturally."

Xiao Yu sneered, "You know nothing! Not to mention anything else, just take your Dog Treasure."

"The 'Mountain' on the Dog Treasure only represents the force of heavy pressure."

"But gravity, besides increasing, can also decrease."

"If you reduce your own gravity to zero, you can float; if you reduce gravity to negative, you can accelerate and fly into the sky, rushing straight into the clouds."

"In the future, if you can become a Demon Immortal, the fourth stage of cultivation will definitely be engraving the 'Feather's Lightness'—which is the opposite of 'Mountain's Weight'—on the Dog Treasure... it doesn't necessarily have to be 'Feather,' but that is the meaning."

"Combining Mountain's Weight and Feather's Lightness is the complete Gravity Demon Art."

Xiao Qiang hesitated, "Perhaps 'Feather's Lightness' can appear naturally just like Mountain's Weight."

Xiao Yu said indifferently, "With your lack of progress and lack of a brave and advancing heart, only wanting to eat off your bloodline's laurels, what kind of Demon Immortal method are you cultivating?"

Xiao Qiang felt this made a lot of sense; it was completely convinced.

So, while Xiao Yu was resting, it tried to engrave characters on the Dog Treasure.

"Awoo, awoo~~~~"

In a hazy state, Xiao Yu seemed to hear a weak, miserable cry from a puppy.

She opened her eyes; the daylight was already bright, and the dog's miserable cry in her ears was even clearer.

It wasn't a dream; there really was a dog whimpering weakly.

"Xiao Qiang?"

She called out, but there was no response.

The dog was barking outside the house.

She was suspicious in her heart and quickly put on her clothes and shoes.

After pushing the door and walking out, she indeed saw Xiao Qiang rolling and wailing in the courtyard, the wailing sound painful and weak.

"Xiao Qiang, Qiangzi, what's wrong with you?" Xiao Yu exclaimed.

She saw the dog's teeth tightly clenched, and blood-stained foam dripping from the corners of its mouth.

Old Lu walked in from the outer courtyard and said in surprise, "Miss Yu, this big yellow dog must have eaten rat poison."

"Why would it eat rat poison for no reason?"

"It definitely wasn't on purpose; it ate a rat that had eaten rat poison," Old Lu said with a very experienced look, affirming, "Howling Shanzhuang stores a lot of grain, and also puts out a lot of rat poison."

"As the saying goes, a dog catching a rat is meddling in other people's business."

"Dogs love to chase and eat rats."

"The rat ate the rat poison, and it just happened to be seen by the big yellow dog, who swallowed it in one gulp, and it became like this."

Xiao Yu knew Xiao Qiang definitely hadn't eaten rat poison.

She didn't want to discuss this topic with Old Lu anymore and asked, "Old Lu, are you preparing to go back? Have you eaten breakfast?"

Old Lu scratched the back of his head, a bit embarrassed, and said, "I went to the kitchen to ask, there is no breakfast here, only two meals at noon and night... I can buy two sesame cakes on the street in a while, it's just hard on you, Miss."

"What about the two guards in the outer courtyard?" Xiao Yu asked.

Howling Shanzhuang was named a "Shanzhuang," so naturally, it wouldn't be too small.

It was a four-courtyard large mansion with over a hundred rooms.

The vast majority of the rooms were warehouses, rented to merchants in Tianmen Town to store supplies.

Howling Shanzhuang backed onto a "Bay," where the wind was strong and the waves were rough, not suitable for people to live in long-term, but the geographical location was quite good.

Outside the villa was the main road leading directly to the "Flying Vehicle Platform."

Xiao Yu lived in the innermost courtyard, while the old cook auntie and the two experts disguised as guards all lived in the outermost part, very far from her.

She could guess the reason: just like the duty officer at the Guan Chenghuang Temple, they were afraid of being implicated by "Heavenly Punishment"!

"Those are two lazy ghosts; they neither patrol nor come to pay respects to you, drinking in the pavilion outside early in the morning," Old Lu said angrily.

"Don't worry about them, I'm not the owner of the villa, just staying for a few days," Xiao Yu said.

Old Lu looked at the dog again and said, "Miss Yu, do you want me to call a veterinarian for it on my way back? It's still struggling, maybe it can survive."

Xiao Yu laughed, "I picked it up on the road; if it's really poisoned to death, just throw it into the canyon behind the mountain, why spend money in vain to hire a veterinarian?"

"That's true."

Old Lu nodded and took his leave.

As soon as he left, Xiao Qiang whimpered with difficulty, "Master, please have mercy, hire a veterinarian to take a look at me~~~"

"Did you really eat a poisoned rat?" Xiao Yu asked in surprise.

"No, I don't eat rats, I only eat po—"

"Alright, stop talking." Xiao Yu raised her hand to interrupt it and asked, "What's going on with you?"

"I followed your instruction that cultivation must be brave and advancing, so I tried to engrave the Demon Script on the Dog Treasure."

"As a result, the Dog Treasure cracked, the origin energy went wild, and my internal organs all split open!" Xiao Qiang wailed.

Xiao Yu was speechless, "Even if you want to be brave and advancing, you can't just engrave the Demon Script on the Dog Treasure!"

"The so-called engraving of the Demon Script is just a way of saying it, meaning to imprint your comprehension into the Dog Treasure."

"The Dog Treasure is equivalent to the prototype of an internal core; the internal core is the fusion of spirit and origin energy."

"So, the Dog Treasure can theoretically accept spiritual infusion."

"Isn't comprehension a kind of spiritual power?"

"Ah, Master, why didn't you make it clear," Xiao Qiang screamed, then began to beg again, "Things have come to this, it's useless to say more, you'd better find me a veterinarian, I'm really so uncomfortable."

"This kind of demon illness caused by deviation, a veterinarian has never encountered in their life, how to treat it? Maybe using the wrong medicine will make it even more crippled."

Xiao Yu's heart stirred, and she smiled, "But you don't have to worry, your master happens to be the 'Little Medical Immortal of Tianmen Town,' taking a pulse three times, curing illness with just one dose."

Although she had been busy with various things these past few days, she hadn't stopped studying the Medical Dao breathing method she "stole" from Min Shenyi Min for a moment.

Medical Dao belonged to the unorthodox paths; even if it wasn't as good as the Immortal Dao, it was certainly more difficult than the Immortal Martial path.

In fact, to cultivate the Medical Dao breathing method was harder than an ordinary person cultivating the "Jade Pendant Golden Dang Taiji Golden Book."

Not to mention achieving success in a few days, without sufficient opportunity and talent, one wouldn't even think about entering the door after a lifetime of tossing and turning.

However, the key difficulty of the Medical Dao breathing method lay in capturing the two qi of life and death within the human body.

The two qi of life and death was a general term; the qi that makes a patient recover is "Life Qi," and the qi unfavorable to the human body is "Death Qi"... in fact, the two qi of life and death is an abbreviation for "the qi of the human body's Yin-Yang and Five Elements."

First perceive the two qi of life and death, then circulate the two qi of life and death within one's own body, and finally regulate and strengthen one's own two qi of life and death through breathing and exhaling.

This is the introduction to the Medical Dao breathing technique.

Xiao Yu, assisted by the Heart Xin Hai Jue, had perceived the patient's "illness qi" and the "Life Qi" within Min Shenyi Min's body in advance.

Which is to say, she had long since passed the hardest hurdle of cultivating Medical Dao.

This was also one of the reasons why Min Shenyi Min would rather break his oath than let her "steal the skill."

If Xiao Yu couldn't perceive the "illness qi," even if he exposed the breathing rhythm of the Medical Dao breathing technique, Xiao Yu wouldn't notice anything unusual, let alone learn it.

That night when he returned to his room, his snoring rhythm changed; between each breath, the Yin-Yang and Five Elements qi in his body also changed.

If one couldn't even perceive the Yin-Yang and Five Elements qi of the human body, how could one steal the skill?

"Master, you aren't fooling me, are you? Although I am a village dog with no knowledge, I have heard of Min Shenyi Min's great name."

"Taking a pulse three times, curing illness with just one dose, that's what they say about him."

"As for this 'Little Medical Immortal of Tianmen Town,' I have never heard of it," Xiao Qiang said suspiciously.

"Don't you know, I am Min Shenyi Min's disciple!"

Xiao Yu touched its dog head, entered the Heart Xin Hai Jue state, and while perceiving the "illness qi" in its body, said confidently, "In terms of treating your internal injuries, I am in any case stronger than the veterinarian at the head of the village who only knows how to induce labor and deliver babies."

Just as Xiao Yu was using Xiao Qiang to verify the pulse-taking method of Medical Dao, from above the nine heavens, several divine generals in golden armor and golden helmets descended.

"Luo Kai, have you locked onto Yu Fengxian's location?" Killing Killing Ge Qing asked in a deep voice.

Luo Kai nodded and said, "I searched around Tianmen Town and confirmed she is hiding in 'Howling Shanzhuang' outside the East City Gate, in the backyard of the villa."

Killing Killing Ge Qing frowned and asked, "I haven't heard of Howling Shanzhuang; how many people are there?"

Luo Kai said, "It's over forty miles from Tianmen Town, south of Bay Village."

"The location is indeed a bit remote."

"And the villa only has two old servants guarding the gate, one cook auntie, and Yu Fengxian lives in the inner courtyard."

"She chose to leave the city quietly by herself in the middle of the night to go to the suburbs."

"I almost didn't find her."

"Thanks to the fact that there are also Heavenly Palace Talisman Envoys patrolling Tianmen Town, after I inquired, I found Howling Shanzhuang."

Zhu Tong sneered, "She knows she caused trouble and wants to find a remote place to hide; very smart, but too naive."

"Qing Ge, let's descend as gods, directly descending to Howling Shanzhuang to give her a big surprise," Old Seven said excitedly. ===== CHAPTER 159 =====