A four-year-old medical prodigy descended to the mortal realm, and the entire capital sought her tre

Zhao Jinzhong gripped Zhou Ruo's two calves, which were hanging down in front of his chest, tightly with both hands and held his breath.

Lu Qingchen was the first to realize something was wrong; the voice sounded off.

He walked up to the boys and asked, "Just now, which of you made the sound?"

At first, none of the boys who were awake made a sound.

The child, whose body was adorned with a talisman by Zhou Ruoan, vaguely felt that the sneezing sound just now resembled Zhou Ruoan's.

Because Zhou Ruo said a lot of things when she was drawing talismans on him in the afternoon.

He could probably remember Zhou Ruo's voice.

The sneeze I just heard was clearly a girl's voice—crisp and sweet.

The boy raised his hand and waved it above his head, saying, "That was me who sneezed."

Lu Qingchen looked at the boy slyly, a mischievous smile playing on her lips. "Did you sneeze? Sneeze again so I can hear it."

The boy hadn't expected Lü Qingchen to make him sneeze out of nowhere. Damn it, he couldn't give himself away.

The boy had no choice but to suppress his voice, cover his nose slightly with his hand, and imitate the sneezing sound from before, and he sneezed as well.

Lu Qingchen raised an eyebrow. "It really is you?"

"You're quite bold to admit it, like a real man, but that voice is a bit effeminate. I wonder if your yang energy is pure?"

Lu Qingchen turned and walked back to Duke Ling's side, and the boy thought that he had given up.

Unexpectedly, Lü Qingchen, who had just walked to the Duke of Ling's side, suddenly turned back and said, "When it's time to refine it, you go first."

The boy's world has collapsed; he really shouldn't have been in the spotlight like this! It's too late for regrets now.

Not long after, Lü Qingchen began to refine the Longevity Water.

He did indeed start with the boy from before.

Lu Qingchen began fiddling with a large iron bucket filled with rootless yang water.

He used formations, incantations, and talismans, waving them around wildly at the iron bucket in turn.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Ruo saw the yang energy on the boy's body slowly enter his formation and then mix into the yang water.

When Lü Qingchen finished the first phase, the boy fainted.

Installed.

Because the hall master had told him that once he arrived at the destination and entered the refining process, he could find an opportunity to pretend to faint.

This is also Zhou Ruo's idea.

"Huh?" Lu Qingchen was surprised. He didn't expect that a child with a pure yang body would wilted after absorbing just a little bit of yang energy.

"As expected, sissy children are useless! Take them away and throw them into Yunxu Temple!"

The boy was thus liberated.

After seeing through Lü Qingchen's actions, Zhou Ruo had a new idea.

She told Zhao Jinzhong about her new idea, which amused him.

Zhao Jinzhong led Zhou Ruo and An Chang back outside the courtyard to discuss the next steps.

Zhao Jinzhong's idea was to send An Chang back to the capital and ask the Empress Dowager to intervene.

He went to the Emperor to file a complaint against Duke Ling regarding the loss of a child at Baoyoutang.

Then, with the Emperor's consent, troops were sent to this place to capture Duke Ling and Lü Qingchen in one fell swoop.

If the Emperor does not agree to send troops, the Dowager Consort can ask Prince An to lead troops to arrest him.

Since the children were all here, Duke Ling had no way to defend himself.

As for Zhou Ruo, she had important plans to keep behind, and Zhao Jinzhong stayed with her.

An Chang felt that he could handle running errands and relaying messages without any problem.

After assigning tasks, he mounted a fine horse and galloped back to the capital.

Meanwhile, Zhou Ruo and Zhao Jinzhong continued to stealthily enter Lü Qingchen's courtyard and arrived at his alchemy room.

At this moment, Lü Qingchen had already begun absorbing the yang energy of the second boy.

Zhou Ruo quickly drew three talismans on Lü Qingchen's formation—a separation talisman, a pure yin talisman, and a reversal talisman.

With the barrier talisman working together, Lü Qingchen was no longer able to absorb the yang energy from the child.

The effect of the Pure Yin Talisman is the opposite of that of the Pure Yang Talisman. Lü Qingchen absorbed all the Yin energy into the Yang water through the array.

The Reverse Symbol is the most ingenious symbol in Zhou Ruo's plan.

This talisman will have a backlash effect on the person who set it up, and at the same time, it will reverse the effects of the longevity water, returning them to the creator.

Therefore, during the second absorption of yang energy, Lü Qingchen felt the atmosphere around him getting colder and colder.

Gradually, I started to feel cold myself.

Even more strangely, he began to experience discomfort in his throat.

At first, Lü Qingchen felt discomfort in his throat, probably because he had been working too hard in practicing the Longevity Technique and had developed a sore throat.

But what was with the cold and damp feeling? He had no idea for a moment.

After the second refining process, Lü Qingchen shivered and had to stop, running back to her room to change into thicker clothes.

After the third refining process, Lü Qingchen ran back to her room and put on another piece of clothing.

Seeing Lü Qingchen's uncharacteristic behavior, Duke Ling couldn't help but feel nervous.

"Master Lü, are you alright?"

Lu Qingchen considered himself superior and completely ignored the Duke of Ling.

What a joke! This is his original method of achieving immortality. What could possibly go wrong?

These are nothing more than some setbacks that may occur during practice; once you get through them, your skills will improve to a higher level.

Zhou Ruo and Zhao Jinzhong sat to the side watching him "work hard and improve".

Seeing this made Zhou Ruo hungry, so she picked up some fruit from the table and started eating.

These fruits and snacks were prepared for Duke Ling. Sometimes, when Lü Qingchen got hungry while refining the Elixir of Immortality, he would also eat some.

Replenish energy.

When the third refining process was completed, Lü Qingchen suddenly felt weak from hunger.

He stepped down from the forging platform and went to Duke Ling's side, wanting to have some snacks and rest for a while, as he was really too cold.

But when I got to the table, I found that the apples in the fruit plate were just cores, and the oranges were just broken pieces of peel.

He was furious, and coupled with hunger, his temper began to flare.

"Your Excellency, are you unaware that you suffer from honeydew syndrome?"

Duke Ling was completely bewildered; Lü Qingchen's seemingly random question had stumped him.

"Master Lü, what makes you say that? I came to you for treatment of urinary tract infection, so why are you asking if I know about it?"

Lu Qingchen lost his patience and roared at Duke Ling:

"You know you have this disease, so why do you still eat so much fruit?!"

After hearing Lü Qingchen's words, Duke Ling turned his head to look at the fruit plate on the table, only to find that the fruit was gone.

Duke Ling sprang to his feet. "What...what happened? How come all the fruit is gone?"

Lu Qingchen laughed in exasperation, "Lord Duke, what time is it and you're still pretending to be ignorant!"

"Your honeydew syndrome has never been cured, I think it's because you haven't been able to control your diet!"

Duke Ling was also angered by Lü Qingchen's unreasonable and irrational behavior. "Master Lü, what do you mean?"

"I've been abstaining from certain foods for over a decade. Would I harm my health for a few pieces of fruit?"

Lu Qingchen was so hungry that he didn't care about anything else. "Lord Duke, stop pretending. Is it so hard to admit that you ate a few fruits?"

"You're sitting here all alone. Who else would eat the fruit on this plate besides you?"

After saying that, Lü Qingchen still looked disdainful.

This completely enraged the Duke of Ling.

"Lu Qingchen! If you continue to slander me, I'll make sure all your efforts are wasted and you suffer a terrible death!"

Lu Qingchen's voice was already a little hoarse, and he shouted at the Duke of Ling to exchange insults.

The voice gradually became shrill and unpleasant, and it was filled with hostility.

As a result, the two ended up fighting on the ground because a plate of fruit had disappeared out of thin air.

Zhou Ruo pulled Zhao Jinzhong out of the alchemy room and sighed:

"Hey... those two old people are so childish. Brother's gone, there's nothing to see here!"