I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 29 Panacea

Xu Qing gained a lot from this job. Needless to say, he earned a lot of money, including scattered silver and gold leaf envelopes, from presiding over funerals.

But the greatest gain was the information and rewards obtained after the old doctor was liberated.

This doctor, who was recognized as godfather by Mr. Li Si after his death, was no ordinary person.

His original name was Yang Chunfu. He came from a wealthy family and had been fond of Taoist books and medical classics since childhood. He made up his mind at the age of thirteen and bid farewell to his parents at the age of fifteen to go to Henglu Mountain to study and learn the Tao.

There is a Songyun Temple on Henglu Mountain. The abbot, Ge Hongwen, is very knowledgeable. He can use magic to make the dead branches on the mountain turn green in the cold winter, and can make the mountain streams flow continuously and the wells at the foot of the mountain have water in years of severe drought.

After hearing about the deeds of Master Ge in the village at the foot of the mountain, Yang Chunfu decided to become his disciple.

However, when he happened to meet the temple master Ge Hongwen on the mountain road, the other party said that they had no way out and advised him to go back and not waste his best years on the illusory immortal path.

Because there are no so-called masters in this world, nor are there any magical powers or magic that people talk about.

Ge Hongwen said this at the time, but when he turned around, he was like a cloud crane in the breeze, floating across the mountain stream that was more than ten feet wide, and flew straight to the Taoist temple on the mountainside.

Yang Chunfu was dumbfounded at the time. If this wasn’t some magical technique, what the hell was it?
He has always been fascinated by these things, and now that the mysterious path is within his reach, how could he give up easily!

Faced with Yang Chunfu's insistence, Taoist Ge let him do as he pleased, allowing him to build a hut at the foot of the mountain and ignoring his daily visits to the mountain.

Three years passed like this, and Taoist Ge saw that he was indeed stubborn and unyielding, so he called him into the temple and taught him the basics of cultivation.

Yang Chunfu was overjoyed, but after three years of hard practice, he felt extremely sad.

After three years of practice, he was unable to touch a single ray of the true rhythm of the mysterious sect.

It turns out that he really has no fate to cultivate immortality!

It wasn't that Taoist Ge deliberately lied to him.

Seeing that the stubborn stone had finally come to his senses, Ge Hongwen smiled with relief. Before leaving, he passed him a medical book and some methods of curing diseases and saving lives, and asked him to go down the mountain as soon as possible and not waste his years.

Yang Chunfu returned home and took care of his parents until their death. He then gave away his family fortune and traveled around as a medical practitioner to help the poor.

During this period, he encountered many strange stories, but more often he encountered natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Among them, man-made disasters are even greater than natural disasters.

He went to the northwest, just when there was a mutiny in Beizhao Prefecture. Corpses with nowhere to go piled up like mountains, and the plague raged, taking the lives of more than 100,000 people.

When passing through Yaozhou, a landslide occurred. The embankment filled with rice straw could not hold back the torrential flood. In just a few days, the tide flooded five counties and thirty-six prefectures.
Afterwards, he traveled to Quyang, Hejing, Jiangning, and other places, where he found many people with ulterior motives who established religious sects and spread false propaganda to incite the people.
Yang Chunfu practiced medicine for more than 60 years to save lives, but in the end, despite all his efforts, he was unable to save the people who died of hunger, disasters and diseases.

He only learned medical skills, but did not learn the magic method to make people full and content.

This year, Yang Chunfu was eighty-nine years old. Taoist Ge had told him that he would not live past the age of nine.

Until one day, when the villains of the Jinmen Gang said that he could not cure diseases and save lives, he suddenly realized that studying medicine in troubled times could not save the world.

"If I had known this earlier, I would have gone to study and take the imperial examination."

Yang Chunfu's life touched Xu Qing more than the people he had saved before.

He rediscovered the world from the other person's perspective.

Apart from the fleeting glimpse of the immortal magic appearing, there are more disputes everywhere.

The old doctor probably never understood the truth behind the Jinmen Gang's disturbance until his death.

Endless wars; corrupt officials who covet the herdsmen and make money; evil sects that erode people's hearts and have evil intentions.

It seems that it doesn’t matter whether the murderer is from the Jinmen Gang or the Tianxin Sect.

The information collected this time only made Xu Qing realize one thing, that if he wanted to lie dead peacefully in troubled times, he had to practice Taoism like Master Ge!

If it still doesn't work, then it can only be that his cultivation is not deep enough!
Although both Liu Yuanwai and Yang Chunfu were guided by Youdao Zhenxiu, their lives were completely different, yet they ended up in the same place. The former was selfish and scheming all his life, but ended up with a miserable end.

The latter gave his all but failed to achieve his long-cherished wish.

But this did not prevent Xu Qing from admiring Yang Chunfu.

This is also the reason why he was willing to take care of her funeral arrangements.

Yang Chunfu spent his whole life saving lives. It would be too sad if no one he had treated came to see him off after his death.

Fortunately, Mr. Li Si did not let him down.

After this incident, when Xu Qing counted the rewards for saving the old doctor, he found that most of the skills and items he obtained were related to medicine.

A top-grade copy of "Bai Cao Shi Yi" with the character "人" in the middle-grade version, a copy of "Jia Yi Xing Zhen Fa" with the character "人" in the middle-grade version, and three pills of the low-grade "Di" with the character "地" in the middle-grade version.

Among them, Baicao Shiyi can identify most of the common herbs in the world.

In ancient times, Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs to identify their properties and clarify their pharmacology. Today, there is a collection of herbs that can help future generations cure diseases and strengthen their bodies.

Xu Qing thought about it and finally put aside this skill that was suitable for opening a pharmacy.

He had no plans to change his career to become a pharmacist. Compared to collecting and selling herbs, he preferred to stay with the dead.

The Jiayi acupuncture method is also a magical skill of doctors to cure diseases and save lives. Many diseases that do not require medicine can be cured by this acupuncture method.

Of course, patients who need medical treatment can also use this acupuncture method for auxiliary healing.

Xu Qing looked at his own coroner's shop. The person lying dead here didn't seem to need this set of acupuncture techniques.

As for the last three panaceas, he was very interested in them.

These three pills are different from the common pills with a single purpose. Each pill of the Panacea Pill can be used in different scenarios.

For example, if you put it in a bowl of arsenic mixed with water, it can neutralize the arsenic poison.

If you feed it to a person who is about to die of old age or illness, it can extend the life of the other person by ten years or cure a serious illness!
Even if it was the prefect who had a secret, one pill would allow him to regain his strength, and he could fight in the brothels of Changdeng Street for three days and three nights without any problem.

However, there are only three pills of this panacea. After thinking about it, Xu Qing decided to seal them properly. Such unreasonable pills will often be more effective if taken out at a critical moment.

The next morning, Xu Qing, who had absorbed the moonlight and Yin energy all night, took down the door panel and left the shop.

The old doctor's matter has been settled, and today he is going to the dental clinic to inquire about the purchase of a house.

After crossing several streets and alleys and arriving at the door of the pawnshop, Xu Qing saw a disturbing figure before he even went in.

It’s not that enemies don’t get together.

Zhao Zhonghe, who was talking to Mr. Huang Sanye, seemed to sense something and turned his head to see Xu Qing's disgusted look.

"Huang San, let's talk about your business later. I'll do mine first!"

After saying that, Zhao Zhonghe took a step forward with his sword in hand and blocked someone's way.

"How dare you steal my things!"

Xu Qing frowned and asked, "What do you mean, Captain? What did I steal from you?"

Zhao Zhonghe reached out his hand to his waist, and the place where he used to wear the dog-beating stick was now empty.

"Don't try to fool me, or you will steal my stick!"

Xu Qing took a step sideways, creating some distance, and said impatiently, "I don't have the stick you're looking for. If you really want a stick, why are you looking for me? I don't have that kind of fetish. If you want one, go to the Xianggong Mansion. There are plenty of sticks there."

(End of this chapter)