Chapter 621: The Remnant Pulse of the Guo Family

"You can treat it?" Seeing Pei Ye was slightly surprised. He had entered the mind-spirit realm of the old man in front of him and had never thought that the possibility of combing it clearly existed there.

"Spiritual arts and medical arts are not the same path." Qu Xin lowered her eyes and flipped through her box, as if she knew what he was thinking, "We physicians have our own methods."

"In the storybooks I read before, this kind of patient is often one that the divine doctor of the rivers and lakes shakes his head and sighs at." Seeing Pei Ye pondered, "It turns out that those who write storybooks only do it for their own convenience, and actually belittle your medical path."

"This kind of strange disease like soul-separation is indeed the most difficult to start with. In ninety-nine percent of medical classics, the description of this disease is vague, or it is passed down by hearsay, or it is written in a muddled way. There is no prescription that can be trusted. In this regard, this is indeed a thick fog on the medical path." Qu Xin opened a pack of extremely fine needles and threads, "However, the Taishan Medicine Hut will not avoid any disease. We will analyze every problem that appears on a person's body clearly and thoroughly, and we will spare no cost to do so."

Seeing Pei Ye respected her and asked humbly: "Then how should this be treated?"

Qu Xin turned her head and looked at him earnestly: "My suggestion is for you to call the gold mask over. I'll confirm the consultation fee with her first."

"..." Seeing Pei Ye rolled his eyes and stood up, "You can't speak properly, and you're still learning what suggestion is."

"Is that so? Cui Zhaoye and the others said I speak too directly and don't attract your liking, so I learned to express myself tactfully."

Seeing Pei Ye gave her a thumbs up with no expression, turned around, and walked out of the hall.

A moment later, he followed Li Xizhou in. The woman was holding a thick letter, and in her other hand, she was holding a candlestick, which she placed on the table and said: "The side hall is cold and dark. If the Divine Physician Qu feels it's inconvenient, you can move to the main hall."

"I appreciate Your Highness's concern, but there's no need." Qu Xin handed the medical list she had just written to her and said calmly, "The patient is fifty-two years old, in the Body-Taming realm. The lesion is in the skull, and the disease is determined to be soul-separation. I plan to use the 'Spirit Pivot Knocking Heart' technique. The consultation fee for today is one hundred and twenty-three taels. The details are here. Please look over it, Your Highness."

Li Xizhou took it and scanned it: "I have long heard of the secret technique of 'Spirit Pivot Knocking Heart,' but I didn't expect the Little Medicine Monarch Qu to be willing to display it in my humble place. As for the consultation fee, there is no need to mention it again. Every time you practice medicine in the Zhu Jingdian, I will offer three hundred taels as a reward. If there is more, it will be supplemented; if there is less, it will be returned. Please do not mention it again."

Qu Xin shook her plain, cold face: "The price of needles and medicine is fixed. The Taishan physicians do not accept high salaries. Just one hundred and twenty-three taels is fine."

Seeing Pei Ye widened his eyes.

"Then the rest will be donated to the Taishan Medical Building." Li Xizhou didn't say much, and placed the thick letter in her hand on the case beside her, "The background of the patient's life requested by the Divine Physician this morning, I hope it can assist in the medical treatment."

Seeing Pei Ye was slightly stunned and looked over: "This is Guo You's?"

Li Xizhou sat down in front of the case and lifted her skirt: "Yes, the night you found him, Xu Chuo requested it from the Immortal Platform. This is the information retrieved in one day and night."

This case was placed neither far nor near, just enough not to interfere with the medical treatment, and clear enough to see. Li Xizhou sat with her chin in her hand and watched.

There were only a few people in the Zhu Jingdian, and they were all here at this time. Li Xianfang brought hot water to wash the old man's head clean. Qu Xin first took a thin blade and shaved off the gray hair covering the skull with a rustling sound.

Qu Xin fed him a pill, and this old head gradually calmed down, no longer looking around from time to time, only staring at the young girl in front of him.

Seeing Pei Ye actually saw some youthful elegance and gentleness in these clean features.

"The patient has been checked by me, there are no other injuries or illnesses, and his cultivation is still there." Qu Xin took out the needle set, "Seeing Pei Ye, come and help me."

Seeing Pei Ye walked up: "What to do?"

"This set of needles needs to be covered with warm and cool true Qi to cover the skull and brain, but the palace forbids the channeling of true Qi. My true Qi cannot enter the needles, so I will use your flame as a substitute." Qu Xin threaded the needle, threading an unknown material of fine silk into the needle. Only then did Seeing Pei Ye realize that the needle was actually soft, "Then use this flame of yours to guide his own true Qi for our use."

"What kind of temperature is 'warm and cool'?"

Qu Xin stretched out an index finger toward him: "Burn me lightly."

Seeing Pei Ye flicked a small flame, which hung under the girl's fingertip, and soon the fingertip became reddish.

"Now slowly lower the temperature until I say 'can' and then stop." Qu Xin closed her eyes and felt it quietly.

Seeing Pei Ye followed her instructions and adjusted the temperature down, about five breaths passed.

"Can."

Seeing Pei Ye stopped, feeling quite magical looking at that flame flower, actually accurately feeling that kind of "warm and cool" feeling.

Qu Xin held her slightly red fingertip in her mouth: "This feeling is commonly used in medical practice. Many medicine apprentices can't find it accurately for ten or twenty years, so the medical path is difficult to advance further."

She lined up the needle set in front of her: "Every time I use a needle, you use the flame to follow the fine thread and cover the needle body."

Seeing Pei Ye nodded earnestly: "But I still don't know exactly what you are going to do."

Qu Xin placed one hand on Guo You's thin, withered wrist, and flicked the other hand lightly. A fine needle flew into Guo You's Heavenly Spirit, like a butterfly touching water, so light that it felt like nothing. The Chi fire chased after the thread, like water ripples lagging behind on a trace.

"The so-called soul-separation disease is often caused by severe stimulation, resulting in the separation of body and mind. The body is in reality, and the heart is in another realm; understood in another way, it is that the heart is separated from the outside world by a thick obstacle, so there is no response to calling." Qu Xin said while applying the needles, "Mind-spirit techniques seem to reach the lesion directly, but in fact, it is difficult to heal this disease. Outsiders can indeed use it to enter the deepest inner heart of the patient, but guiding the repair is actually a task that is almost impossible to complete."

"Why?"

"Because you have neither experienced his growth nor can you empathize with his emotions and thoughts. What you see after entering the mind-spirit realm is just a piece of chaotic and dilapidated ruins." Qu Xin said, "You don't know how it walked step by step to this point, and it is difficult to help him rebuild everything with the strength of one person—or even if it is rebuilt, is that the original him, or the him in your heart?"

"... So that's how it is."

"Therefore, the Medicine Hut believes that when facing this kind of patient, one must still treat from the outside, walk slowly, so that one can repair the old as the old."

"Can it work?"

"Of course, the Medicine Hut believes that every patient's inner heart contains the power to repair itself." Qu Xin said, "The *Spirit Pivot Knocking Heart Record* written from this path is not a mind-spirit method at all, but a complete medical classic. Any physician who has opened the pulse tree has the possibility of learning it."

Before Seeing Pei Ye could speak, Li Xizhou nodded: "Not every physician in the world can learn mind-spirit techniques."

"Your Highness's high style, allowing more and deeper medical arts to be learned by more ordinary and rough physicians, is also the industry of the Taishan Medicine Hut."

"The *Spirit Pivot Knocking Heart Record* I heard of can make people know everything and say everything. In the rumors, it is a secret technique close to the demon path." Li Xizhou said.

"To knock on the heart door, one must first melt the obstacles in his heart. Once the obstacles are removed, the true heart is exposed. This is the time for medical treatment, and naturally, it is also the time when one will answer any questions." Qu Xin said, "Healing the mind-spirit is not a matter of a moment. What I want to achieve today is exactly this step."

She glanced at Seeing Pei Ye: "Young Hero Pei wants to investigate the case, and I think he must be exactly like this."

Seeing Pei Ye said earnestly: "Nothing could be better."

"The healing I planned has three stages. The first is to melt his obstacles, the second is to expose his trauma, and the third is to guide his repair. Each of the three steps takes longer, but before nightfall today, there is enough time to complete the first stage."

Silver needles flew through the air like butterflies. Some went straight in, some drifted, and some turned a perfect arc and pierced in from behind the head. Only after a while, the thirty-two soft needles in front of her had all popped out.

Qu Xin twisted the thirty-two fine threads and shook them gently. The thirty-two needles popped out at the same time. Guo You shivered, but there was no look of pain on his face, only looking at the young girl with a dazed expression.

Even if there was no manifestation of true Qi, Seeing Pei Ye clearly felt them flowing upward in this body, and finally covered his skull according to the girl's design.

"Is this okay?" Seeing Pei Ye watched.

"Wait for an hour to let him gradually calm down." Qu Xin stood up and walked to the medicine jar to light the fire, "Don't make noise, don't show any hostility. The basic requirement for melting heart defense is to build an absolutely comfortable and safe environment for him."

"Then can we chat?"

"Yes." Qu Xin said, "The background of the patient's life just taken by Your Highness, can you tell me simply?"

"I'll read it just now. This Guo You is really not an ordinary background." Li Xizhou flipped through the letters on the case, thoughtful, "The records when he took office in the Imperial Guard say that he was a refugee, initially recruited as a palace gate guard, and later did he become the Long History of the Divine Martial Army when the Saint ascended the throne. But adding messages like *Luochuan Seeking the Crossing*, one can trace it back further. This person was actually born into a long-standing clan before becoming a refugee—the Guo family of the Luo River."

"Oh?" Seeing Pei Ye also stood up and came to Li Xizhou's case.

"The Immortal Platform said that this is a true hidden clan, growing between mountains and waters. Even when they didn't perish back then, they rarely showed their traces in the rivers and lakes and the imperial court." Li Xizhou said, "Legend has it that they are the descendants of Guo Pu, inheriting the wishes of their ancestors, and have always been obsessed with finding fairylands that are detached from the world."

Qu Xin was pounding medicine: "So that's it. People who grow up in drifting, the easier it is for their spirit to have no real anchor."

Li Xizhou said: "About fifty or sixty years ago, this clan seemed to have perished in the turmoil. People didn't know them in the first place, and not many people paid attention to this broken wave again. Since then, I haven't heard of any bloodline... until this person Guo You showed some talent in the palace court of the current dynasty, and then left many records of strange knowledge and arts, which attracted some attention."

Seeing Pei Ye said from the side at this time: "That, who is Guo Pu?"

Li Xizhou's gold mask turned over, and her eyes glanced at him: "'Strange age exceeds five dragons, a thousand years is just an infant. Yan Zhao has no spiritual energy, Han Wu is not an immortal talent.' A person who traveled to immortality in the Jin Dynasty, his poems were recorded in the *Selections of Refined Literature*."

"... Oh."

"The Immortal Platform basically confirmed that he came from this clan. Tracing it down, I found that he entered the palace at the age of thirteen or fourteen. At that time, he was already a beggar in tattered clothes. It can be inferred that he survived after the family perished. He entered the palace probably because his appearance and physique were upright and he had some cultivation, so he was prepared as a guard. The things behind can be guessed roughly." Li Xizhou glanced at Seeing Pei Ye, "Combined with the old letter you found in his residence. It was about three or four years later, when the Saint and the late Empress returned to the Divine Capital, and Wei Qingju stepped into the Taiji Palace for the first time, that she encountered this guard named Guo You."

Seeing Pei Ye didn't speak. This also coincided with his own speculation, but at this time, what he wanted to know was not his youth, but more than ten years later, when the dragon throne changed hands and the Taiji Palace became the Great Ming Palace, how Guo You constructed the 【Mercury Flower Floating Raft】 he reported to Wei Qingju. If there was one person who knew how to break it, besides Yu Sicheng himself, it might only be this crazy old man in front of him.

The hall was silent for a while. Only the girl's "thud-thud" steady pounding of medicine and the woman's occasional flipping of pages. Seeing Pei Ye leaned on the pillar and watched the old man who was staring with his eyes open but gradually calmed down like he was asleep. However, he felt a gaze fall on him. He was in a daze for a while, but the gaze still didn't move away, so he turned his head and looked at the woman.

That was another idle person in the hall. Li Xianfang was gently fanning the fire under the medicine jar, her eyes always looking at him.

Seeing Pei Ye raised his hand to say hello, walked toward her side, and changed to another pillar to lean on.

"Sorry, I'm Seeing Pei Ye, I didn't scare you that day, did I?"

Li Xianfang shook her head: "Pei Young Hero's life-saving grace, Xianfang is deeply grateful."

Seeing Pei Ye laughed: "I could only throw you and Yu Ziliang on the bed together. You would probably be scared when you opened your eyes."

"It's alright, it's just..." Li Xianfang was a bit hesitant.

"Hm?"

"That, I cut him after I woke up, and pretended it was you who did it." Li Xianfang pursed her lips and looked at him with her hands clasped.

"..."

"Because, I thought you wouldn't come back if you left." Li Xianfang explained quickly, "I didn't expect Pei Young Hero to be in the palace."

"... It's fine." Seeing Pei Ye looked at this bright and atmospheric face. Although she was trying her best to lower her eyebrows and look up at him, it still made him feel some chill. He smiled politely and turned back to his pillar.

It was about this time that Qu Xin finally finished making the medicine, turned it into a bowl of decoction, and slowly fed it into the old man's mouth.

The thirty-two soft needles all rose with faint mist. Just as Qu Xin said, Guo You's face was calm and peaceful, and those hard obstacles seemed to be melting.

"Is this okay?" Seeing Pei Ye watched.