Under One Person: Feng Shui Master, I Will Protect the Mountains and Rivers with My Own Body

The twenty-third day after the annihilation of the Medicine Immortal Society.

At this moment, a special "teaching" session is underway in the special care ward of the bunker.

"Chen Duo, look at the screen and read after me."

The female researcher in charge of teaching, surnamed Li, was in her thirties and a very patient woman. She held a pointer in her hand, pointing to a picture of a yellow car on the projection screen, trying her best to make her voice sound gentle yet instructive.

"taxi."

Chen Duo sat in a specially made chair, wearing a loose hospital gown that made her body appear even thinner. Her bright green eyes were fixed on the screen, and a dry, grinding sound came from her throat.

"Rough...rough...pig..."

The sound was strange, like rusty gears being forced to turn.

This is understandable. During her years at the Medicine Immortal Society, she was a "Gu Child," a vessel for containing "Primal Gu." Once she became a vessel, she did not need to speak.

Although her vocal cords were not damaged, the muscles that controlled her voice had begun to degenerate.

Chen Duo strained, her facial features scrunched up slightly, trying to imitate the pronunciation.

"Sigh..." Researcher Li sighed softly, put down his pointer, and rubbed his temples.

too difficult.

Teaching a newborn child to speak is a joy for parents, but teaching a "thing" that is four or five years old physically but whose psychological age is a wasteland to speak is simply torture.

Just as Researcher Li sighed, Chen Duo subtly raised an eyebrow. This extremely subtle movement was noticed by Liao Zhong, who was intently watching the monitor screen from behind the one-way glass.

Liao Zhong suddenly slapped his thigh.

"Expression! Xiaoyan! Did you see that?! She made an expression!"

Liao Zhong pointed at the screen, spitting excitedly as his face, full of fat, radiated a kind of ecstatic joy that could be described as "old fatherly joy."

"When Researcher Li sighed just now, Chen Duo raised an eyebrow! It wasn't like when she mimics speaking with her facial features all over the place! That was an eyebrow raise, right? It was definitely an eyebrow raise!"

Liao Zhong grabbed Yan Sen's shoulder and shook him so hard that Yan Sen almost spilled the cola in his hand.

"Hahaha! She's definitely getting impatient! She's been trying for ages and still can't learn it, and that old woman is even sighing. Our Duo'er's getting emotional! It's good that she's emotional; that's what makes her human!"

Yan Sen felt dizzy from being shaken and irritably pushed Liao Zhong's large hand away: "Uncle Liao, calm down. Your filter is thicker than a beauty camera."

"What filter? This is the truth!" Liao Zhong was still excited. "Her impatience shows she's developed basic emotions! That's a good thing! Quickly, stop it inside, don't push the child too far!"

Yan Sen took a sip of his cola, but his eyes never left the monitor screen. Although his [All-Encompassing Qi] couldn't be activated through the screen, his eyes, which had seen countless people, noticed something else.

"Uncle Liao, don't jump to conclusions so easily."

Yan Sen's voice was very calm, like a bucket of cold water poured on Liao Zhong's head.

"Expressing emotions through facial expressions is a human instinct, even newborn babies can do it. They cry when they are hungry and laugh when they are comfortable. This doesn't need to be taught, but this logic doesn't apply to Chen Duo."

Yan Sen pointed to the girl on the screen who still had no expression.

"In a place like the Medicine Immortal Gathering, any superfluous emotion like 'impatience' means death. Do you think a 'Gu King' who survives there would dare to show impatience to a Gu Master who issues commands?"

Liao Zhong was stunned for a moment, his smile freezing on his face: "Then... what happened?"

"Just watch," Yan Sen said softly.

Teaching continues in the hospital ward.

Researcher Li didn't give up because of Chen Duo's slow reaction. She composed herself and pointed at the screen again: "Come on, Chen Duo, let's try one more time. Press your tongue against the roof of your mouth and exhale... Taxi."

Chen Duo watched Researcher Li's lip movements and tried again.

"Rough...pig..."

Suddenly, Chen Duo's body trembled slightly.

A streak of bright red blood trickled down the corner of her mouth and dripped onto her pristine white hospital gown, like a red plum blossom blooming in the snow.

"Oh dear! Why is there blood!" Researcher Li was startled. He quickly dropped his pointer, grabbed a tissue to wipe his mouth, and exclaimed, "Did you bite your tongue? Open your mouth so I can see!"

Chen Duo obediently opened her mouth.

The side of her tongue was chipped open by her teeth, and blood was still oozing out.

That was caused by using too much force when pronouncing the sound, resulting in a misalignment of the teeth.

What is the first reaction of a normal person when they bite their tongue? It's to cry out in pain, to frown, to instinctively cover their mouth or inhale.

But Chen Duo did not.

She just stood there with her mouth open, letting Researcher Li wipe the blood away for her. Her bright green eyes remained calm and unwavering, and the "slightly raised eyebrow" expression on her face didn't even change, as if the bleeding tongue belonged to someone else, and the pain receptors belonged to someone else.

Behind the one-way glass, Liao Zhong watched with trepidation, nearly crushing the walkie-talkie in his hand.

"Why...why isn't the child crying out in pain?" Liao Zhong's voice trembled slightly. "Is the Primal Gu acting up again? Or is something pressing on his nerves?"

"No." Yan Sen shook his head, his eyes growing even deeper. "Maybe she felt there was no need to shout."

The morning language class was forced to be canceled because of a tongue injury.

Researcher Li was heartbroken and packed his things to leave.

Chen Duo was then arranged to go back to bed to rest.

However, with Yan Sen around, it's impossible for her to rest indefinitely.

At 2 p.m. sharp, Yan Sen opened the pressure door to the ward.

"Chen Duo, how are you feeling?"

Yan Sen pulled over that familiar little stool and sat down opposite Chen Duo with an air of authority.

Chen Duo looked at him without saying anything, but subconsciously placed her hands on her knees, adopting a standard "listening to instructions" posture.

Yan Sen sighed inwardly as he looked at her like this.

Since discovering that his liver wood qi could nourish the primordial gu, Yan Sen began to ponder the idea that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.

If Chen Duo relies solely on herself to nourish her Qi, she will never be able to live without herself. She needs to learn to generate "vitality" on her own.

It is impossible to pass on the "Shaking Dragon Classic," as it is the foundation of the Yan family's reputation. Even the spouses of the geomancers throughout history are not qualified to learn it; the ancestral rules cannot be broken.

But this didn't stump Yan Sen.

As a "once-in-two-hundred-years genius" in Yan Que's words, he spent two days dismantling and simplifying the part of "refining dirt" in the "Shaking Dragon Classic", removing all the profound methods of feng shui and geomancy and using power to kill, and only retaining the most basic "refining method".

To put it simply, it teaches Chen Duo how to transform the innate Qi in her body into a single "Liver Wood Qi".

This is like giving her a toy gun without bullets and teaching her how to pull the trigger. Although it can't kill without bullets, the act of "firing" is enough for Chen Duo to nourish her internal organs and soothe the primordial Gu.

"Sit still," Yan Sen ordered.

Chen Duo immediately sat cross-legged, with her palms facing the sky, her movements as precise as a young female Taoist who had practiced martial arts since childhood.

Yan Sen stood up, walked to her, and gently placed his right hand on the top of her head.

"Same old rules as always." Yan Sen's voice turned serious. "Close your eyes and introspect. Feel the flow of my Qi in your meridians. Remember this warm feeling, and then try to mobilize your own Qi to imitate it, to chase it."

"Did you understand?"

Chen Duo neither nodded nor shook her head; she simply closed her eyes.

Yan Sen took a deep breath, and a thought flashed through his mind.

A warm and mellow stream of cyan-gold Qi flowed slowly from his palm into Chen Duo's Baihui acupoint.

This Qi was like a gentle little snake, flowing along Chen Duo's Ren and Du meridians, passing through the Tanzhong point, reaching the liver, and then flowing to the lower dantian where the primordial Gu was located.

This is a very safe and gentle circadian rhythm.

Chen Duo's body relaxed slightly; clearly, she had gotten used to the comfort of being "fed."

But just as Yan Sen was about to guide her Qi to follow him, a sudden change occurred!

In Yan Sen's [All Things Connected by Qi] vision, the originally calm innate Qi in Chen Duo's body suddenly changed course without any warning!

Instead of following the "liver wood generating energy" route guided by Yan Sen, she skillfully, even instinctively, suddenly redirected her Qi to another meridian!

That's... the Qi circulation route used by the Medicine Immortals to refine Gu!

That was a route filled with deathly silence and self-destruction!

Once this energy rushes through, it will instantly activate the dormant primordial Gu, triggering a violent backlash!

"What are you doing?!"

Yan Sen was so frightened that his scalp tingled, and almost instinctively, his palm trembled violently.

A powerful surge of "Spleen Earth Qi" erupted instantly, like a mountain, forcefully cutting off the chaotic flow of Qi within Chen Duo's body and pressing it back into her dantian.

"call……"

Yan Sen withdrew his hand, and a layer of cold sweat instantly seeped out from his forehead.

so close!

If it had been just half a second later, this girl would have either had her meridians ruptured or been bedridden for two or three months.

"Chen Duo! What's wrong?"

Yan Sen was getting angry. He stared at Chen Duo, his tone stern: "I've taught you for three days, you've walked this road hundreds of times, how could you still go wrong? That's a dead end! Do you want to die?"

Chen Duo slowly opened her eyes.

She looked at the furious boy in front of her, at the beads of sweat on his forehead, and at his eyes wide with anger.

Then, she made her first expression since being taken away from the Medicine Fairy Society.

Her eyebrows furrowed slightly once again.

This time, it was even more obvious than the one in the morning.

In those emerald green eyes, there was no fear, no remorse, only a deep, pure...doubt.

"Clang!"

The air pressure door to the ward was suddenly pushed open.

Liao Zhong rushed in like a whirlwind. He had been watching the monitor and saw Yan Sen suddenly stop and look nervous, so he thought there had been some kind of medical accident.

But when he rushed in and saw the vivid expression on Chen Duo's face, he stopped abruptly.

"This...this is..."

Liao Zhong's eyes lit up; it was a glimmer of hope he saw in his despair.

"Suspicious! This is definitely suspicious!"

Liao Zhong's voice trembled with excitement. He rushed over and grabbed Yan Sen's shoulder, as if to give this great hero a bear hug.

"Xiaoyan! You're amazing! How did you do that? The child is finally reacting! She's wondering! She's thinking!"

Liao Zhong looked at Chen Duo with a tender gaze, as if he were looking at his own daughter.

"She must be wondering why she made a mistake? This shows she's starting to think, she's starting to have self-awareness! That's a huge step forward!"

Yan Sen was a little breathless from Liao Zhong's embrace, but he did not struggle.

He just stood there quietly, looking at Chen Duo's face, which still held a puzzled expression, and couldn't feel happy at all.

"Uncle Liao..."

Yan Sen's voice was very low, so deep it seemed to be squeezed out from the depths of his throat.

"What's wrong? Are you so happy you've gone crazy?" Liao Zhong was still laughing.

Stop laughing.

Yan Sen raised his head, his clear black and white eyes devoid of any smile, instead carrying a sense of desolation born from seeing through some cruel truth.

She wasn't wondering why something went wrong.

Yan Sen pointed at Chen Duo, his finger trembling slightly.

"She bit her tongue and bled this morning, but she didn't cry out in pain. Just now, she deliberately altered her Qi pathways, almost crippling herself, but she wasn't scared."

"She's testing me."

"Testing?" Liao Zhong was stunned, his smile freezing on his face. "Testing what?"

Yan Sen took a deep breath and said, word by word:

"She's testing how disobedient I have to be... before I get a beating."

Liao Zhong's pupils suddenly contracted, and he stood frozen in place as if struck by lightning.

Yan Sen looked into Chen Duo's pure, childlike eyes and slowly said:

"In her previous world, doing wrong meant being punished. Biting your tongue and affecting your speech was punishable; making mistakes during practice and wasting time was punishable."

"But today, she bit her tongue. Aunt Li wiped the blood off her and told her to rest. She messed up her qi circulation while practicing, and I only yelled at her a couple of times, I didn't hit her."

"This was beyond her comprehension."

"So she's wondering."

Yan Sen turned his head and looked at Liao Zhong, whose face was already deathly pale, his voice so soft it was like a sigh:

She was wondering... why hadn't the punishment come yet?

"Why...why didn't anyone hit her?"

The ward was deathly silent.

Only the hum of the exhaust fan could be heard, like some kind of mocking whisper.

Liao Zhong looked at the girl sitting on the bed, tilting her head and looking puzzled, and felt as if his heart had been crushed by an invisible hand.