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"Let's begin. Today, I'm dispelling the effects of the medicine, so no one can see me. You two will both stay outside the bedroom. You can watch when the treatment officially begins," Lin Yao said to Major Cheng and Situ Hao, then asked Elder Xia with a smile, "Is that alright with you?"
"Hmm." Boss Xia nodded with a stern face and rushed into the bedroom first. He felt that if he stayed any longer, he would lose his temper and beat the kid.
Lin Yao gave the two of them an apologetic smile, then entered the bedroom and closed the door. He hesitated before saying to Old Master Xia, "Would you rather you knock yourself out, or should I do it?" His expression was like that of a shy student.
"Come on then." Old Xia lay down on the bed angrily, closed his eyes, and stopped talking. Was he kidding? He'd knocked himself out; was he supposed to go and bang his head against the wall?
"Oh," Lin Yao took off his shoes and knelt down next to Elder Xia. "Relax, don't be nervous, just relax."
After saying that, he quickly made a move, pressing a palm to Elder Xia's forehead. At the same time, Xiaocao released the paralyzing medicinal energy, which mixed with the true energy and rushed into Elder Xia's head, instantly knocking him unconscious.
As expected, the unconscious Elder Xia couldn't control the true energy within his body; even the instinctive counterattack of the true energy had disappeared. Lin Yao suddenly thought that perhaps controlling true energy manually uses the sympathetic nervous system, while controlling it manually uses the parasympathetic nervous system. However, he couldn't verify any of this, so he decided to leave it at that and focus on absorbing the medicinal energy from Elder Xia's body.
Like a cat smelling fish, the grass released more than a dozen tentacles, which entered Xia Lao's body through Lin Yao's palm, which was pressed against Xia Lao's body, and quickly absorbed the medicinal energy in his body.
Suddenly, Lin Yao felt that the neutral medicinal energy released by Xiao Cao in his chest was increasing and the speed was getting faster. He quickly ordered Xiao Cao to stop merging with the medicinal energy in Elder Xia's body and absorb and store it first, so as not to be forced to cultivate again. This was not a good time to cultivate.
In the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the little grass completely absorbed the medicinal energy remaining in Elder Xia's body. Lin Yao felt that there were many small beads hanging around the core of the little grass, which were obviously the medicinal energy left by the precious medicinal materials that Elder Xia had eaten.
After finishing work, he patted Old Xia's forehead to wake him up. "I'm leaving now. I need to go and process the medicinal herbs immediately. You need to be treated as soon as possible after the effects of the medicine are removed from your body. Time is of the essence, so you don't need to see me off. You can continue to rest."
After saying that, Lin Yao put on his shoes and walked out. He had to rush home to cultivate immediately. The medicinal energy released by Xiao Cao earlier was too much, making his chest uncomfortable. "Situ Hao, let's go."
Situ Hao didn't mind Lin Yao calling him by his name at this moment. Although he didn't understand the situation, he immediately picked up a large bag of medicinal herbs and followed Lin Yao out. Major Cheng rushed to the bedroom to check on Xia Lao's condition. Apart from his complexion not being as rosy, he was in good spirits. It seemed that Doctor Gu was really capable.
As they left the Xinhua Hotel, the two of them simultaneously wiped away their sweat and let out a sigh of relief.
"Brother Situ, please don't introduce people like this in the future. It's too much pressure. It makes us feel like we owe them something. I'm worried they might retaliate," Lin Yao said with lingering fear. He tugged at his back, feeling that it was sweaty and his clothes were sticking to his skin uncomfortably.
“Yeah, yeah, I won’t introduce them anymore. Who knew they were so arrogant? I felt a lot of pressure, so nervous I didn’t even dare to breathe loudly.” Situ Hao nodded while pulling at his clothes, apparently he was also soaked in sweat. “It’s better to find business people. They have money and are afraid of death, so it’s easier to deal with them.”
“That’s true,” Lin Yao nodded. “Brother Situ, didn’t you say this family was very rich? How come the old man acted like he was going to eat me alive when I only offered eight million?”
“They are rich. I heard Chengde say that they are in the hotel industry and own several five-star hotels. Eight million is nothing to them.” Situ Hao frowned and said as he thought, “I guess Old Xia felt that he was losing face. I don’t know what level he is, but just one look in his eyes made me feel uneasy.”
"Me too, that old man's gaze was too sharp, like a knife." Lin Yao was a little embarrassed. "Brother Situ, I'm sorry to have troubled you. How about I give you 10% in the future? Look at how many medicinal herbs you've produced."
“Brother Lin, don’t mention this. Bringing this up is an insult to me, Situ Hao.” Situ Hao said seriously, “I’m not short of money. Even if I were, I wouldn’t take these commissions. You’re using the money to save people. I have great respect for you and your whole family.”
“If I took this money, I wouldn’t be a decent person.” Situ Hao stared seriously into Lin Yao’s eyes. “Brother, my abilities are limited, and this is the only way I can help. Although I can still come up with some funds, it’s not much. Just ask for it and I’ll give it to you. I know you’re asking for such an exorbitant amount for the disaster victims. You’re even willing to ruin your own reputation. If I still want a cut, then I’m really not human.”
Lin Yao looked at Situ Hao seriously and nodded, "Well, then I won't be coy. Our family does need money. Not only do we need money for disaster relief, but we also need money after the disaster. In short, our family didn't use this money for ourselves, and we have a clear conscience."
After a pause, he immediately added, "Brother Situ, I have to rush back right away. It's really urgent. I estimate they'll have prepared two catties of cordyceps today. Call me after you get it, and someone else will answer the phone. He'll come to your place to pick it up. I can't bring my phone with me because I have something to do right now."
Lin Yao needed to go home to cultivate immediately. The explosive feeling in his chest was getting stronger and stronger. Xiao Cao couldn't help but start absorbing and fusing the medicinal energy. Although he controlled the speed slightly, Lin Yao didn't have time to delay.
"Alright, then you go first. I won't hold you back." When Situ Hao saw that Lin Yao's expression had changed, he assumed it was a side effect of helping Elder Xia expel the medicine from his body. He immediately waved for Lin Yao to call a taxi and watched him leave.
Lin Yao began cultivating in the taxi. The neutral medicinal energy released from the small grass in his chest was increasing. Without cultivation, he would only be waiting to die. After finally arriving at the Wang Chao Mansion, Lin Yao threw down a hundred-yuan bill and rushed to his house. After entering, he tossed his phone to Ge Yong and said, "Brother, if someone named Situ Hao calls, go and get the medicine for me. You two can arrange the details. I have urgent business, so don't bother me."
After saying that, Lin Yao rushed to the bedroom, locked the door from the inside, leaving a group of people dumbfounded staring at the closed door.
"Lili, be good. Daddy has something urgent to do. We can't bother him." Ruan Lingling was the first to react and quickly comforted little Guli, who was about to burst into tears.
"Yes, Lili is the best girl. She won't bother Daddy. Daddy will praise Lili later." Little Guli nodded with tears in her eyes, the grievance of being ignored by her father earlier disappearing.
"Nannan is good too, she didn't bother Uncle Yao." Nannan chimed in, also taking credit.
"Alina, take the children to play in the neighborhood for a while. I'll stay here and watch over them." Ge Yong made the decision immediately. He didn't know what urgent matter Lin Yao had, but he could sense that it was related to practicing martial arts. Having witnessed Lin Yao's methods of healing, he had already judged that Lin Yao was practicing martial arts.
At this moment, Lin Yao sat upright on the bedroom floor, with a package of precious medicinal herbs beside him. His body was churning, and the herb was absorbing the medicinal energy faster and faster. He had no mind to think about anything else and could only try his best to guide the neutral medicinal energy in his chest into his meridians.
Forced to practice, the effects were extraordinary. The first meridian of the three Yang meridians of the hand, the "Hand Yangming Large Intestine Meridian," was quickly opened up, and the medical true qi flowing in his body became more abundant. Although the degree of condensation of true qi did not change, the total amount almost doubled. Lin Yao sighed in his heart that the rich were indeed extravagant in taking medicine. The residual medicinal qi absorbed from Elder Xia alone doubled his true qi. This did not even take into account the absorption by Xiao Cao. He had only picked up Xiao Cao's leftovers and it had such an effect.
Lin Yao breathed a sigh of relief; the threat was finally gone, and he could finally focus on checking on Xiao Cao's condition.
The changes in the grass became more obvious. The fine lines clustered at its chest became denser, and its volume shrank. If it was the size of a ball of yarn before, it was now only the size of an egg. Lin Yao noticed that its state was somewhat unstable, vibrating violently, and its egg-sized volume was also unstable, sometimes expanding outwards and sometimes condensing.
"Little grass, little grass," Lin Yao called out in his heart. The little grass did not respond by extending a tendril as before, but only increased its vibration frequency, which made Lin Yao very worried.
Could it be due to too much medicinal energy? Or too little? Lin Yao understood the reason for this change, so it could only be due to the medicinal energy. Thinking of this, he immediately took out a wild white Ganoderma lucidum from Changbai Mountain from the package next to him.
Without Lin Yao's prompting, the little grass seemed to have smelled the medicinal aroma. Instantly, it extended two tendrils that shot out from the Shaoshang acupoint on Lin Yao's thumb and directly entered the white Ganoderma lucidum to absorb the medicinal aroma. It didn't even need the protective true energy anymore, which greatly surprised Lin Yao.
As expected, it was due to insufficient medicinal energy. Lin Yao came to this conclusion. Although he didn't know why Xiao Cao needed such a large amount of medicinal energy at this moment, he had been very worried about Xiao Cao's condition recently. Now that Xiao Cao was able to get excited and absorb the medicinal energy, it seemed that this medicinal energy was the key to solving the problem.
Immediately after thinking about it, Lin Yao used his other hand to open the package and placed all the medicinal herbs inside on the floor. He picked up another type of herb and actively used his true energy to wrap it up so that the little grass could absorb it. Sure enough, the little grass immediately split off two tendrils onto the herb.
In this way, Lin Yao kept changing the medicinal herbs, and Xiao Cao kept absorbing them. In addition to absorbing them, Lin Yao also specifically instructed Xiao Cao to save the part that would be used to treat Elder Xia's illness the next day. With a lot of medicinal energy, Xiao Cao also obediently let some of the medicinal energy condense into beads around the thin thread ball.
Lin Yao had an extra task: he had to keep taking and dispensing medicine, and also desperately absorb the "metabolic products" of the grass—neutral medicinal energy—which allowed him to open up the second meridian of the three Yang meridians of the hand, the "Shaoyang Sanjiao Meridian of the Hand," and to impact the third meridian, the "Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian of the Hand."
When the main meridian of the Hand-Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian reaches the Jianzhongshu acupoint, a branch meridian reaches the Tinggong acupoint, and another branch reaches the Jingming acupoint, it encounters a great obstacle, as if a tough membrane is blocking the flow of the meridian. Lin Yao knows that these are the last three acupoints to be completely opened in the Hand-Taiyang Small Intestine Meridian, but they are also the most difficult to open. Once these three acupoints are opened, it will mean that he has reached the sixth level of Qi cultivation.
According to the introduction of the Luo family's martial arts, the sixth level of Qi is a watershed moment. True Qi can leave the body freely and be used to treat diseases by extracting the medicinal properties from medicinal herbs. This is also the starting point for truly starting to treat diseases using the Luo family's martial arts. Although it is not as abnormal as Xiaocao's ability, it is similar in some aspects.
Before advancing to the sixth level of Qi rank, one needs an extremely large capacity and degree of condensation of true Qi. Lin Yao has not yet met either of these conditions. Therefore, the neutral medicinal Qi that the little grass continuously releases is absorbed into the meridians and used to strengthen the total amount of true Qi in the meridians and slowly condense. At this moment, for the first time, Lin Yao's absorption speed of medicinal Qi exceeds the release speed of the little grass. He no longer feels oppressed in his chest and can spare his attention to observe the little grass.
The fine threads of the grass grew denser and denser, its size gradually decreasing from the size of an egg to the size of a peach pit, and it continued to shrink. When Lin Yao picked up the last wild ginseng that was over three hundred years old, the grass finally stopped actively absorbing, retracting all its tentacles and gathering them together into a small ball. Suddenly, a dense layer of gas emerged from the ball, unlike the medicinal gas it usually released.
Lin Yao anxiously sensed the little grass, but he was completely powerless at this moment and could only pray that nothing would happen to it. Time passed by, and after an unknown amount of time, the air layer surrounding the little grass suddenly trembled, then abruptly contracted and disappeared without a trace.
Lin Yao carefully sensed and observed, and found that the shape of the grass had changed dramatically. The fine lines had disappeared, and there was no longer any tuft of fine lines at the chest. In its place was a spindle-shaped kernel about the size of an almond. It was very dense and no longer had the feeling of being gathered together by fine lines. The outer shell of the kernel was a whole, with a small tail at one end, just like the roots that grow when a mung bean just sprouts.
This…this looks like a seed! Lin Yao made the judgment instantly; the grass resembled a seed, the kind that had just sprouted its main root. Could this be the seed of that plant? Was it going to take root and sprout inside my body? Lin Yao felt a surge of tension at this thought, but then relaxed. The existence of the grass was already quite mysterious; he hadn't been able to detect it using X-rays or CT scans. He figured that even if it did take root and sprout, it wouldn't have any adverse effects on him.