A small interlude in the morning didn’t affect today’s schedule.
Fang Kui and Fang Jin, the two fellow disciples, arrived promptly and brought enough materials to begin building the backyard.
Fortunately, work in the backyard wasn’t delayed, and the workers didn’t say much about the sudden appearance of the sickly beauty in the courtyard.
Evidently, learning to keep silent was a survival skill for the poor in this era.
Seeing but pretending not to see the domestic affairs of wealthy families was one of their means of survival.
At this moment, Xu Ping’an was in the courtyard, his eyes closed, his fingers on Li Yu’er’s pulse.
“Hmm… the toxins have been completely expelled. Miss Yu’er can eat normally today.”
“This… Sir, does my young mistress need to follow any dietary restrictions?”
“No need.”
Xu Ping’an waved his hand dismissively, while Xiao Jing looked at Xu Ping’an with some incredulity.
“But Sir, the doctors my young mistress saw before all said she needed to follow dietary restrictions and such…”
“Dietary restrictions? That’s for people who can recover. For those who can’t, no amount of restriction will help. Eat and drink as you please; I guarantee your young mistress will be fine here.”
“Oh…”
Xiao Jing nodded somewhat blankly, but then saw Li Yu’er smiling brightly:
“Alright, Xiao Jing, if Sir says no, then it’s no. Later, ask Uncle Zhao to buy some meat from the county town. We are staying at Sir’s house, so we can’t let Sir pay for everything. We still need to buy what’s necessary.”
“Yes, Young Mistress.”
Li Yu’er turned to look at Xu Ping’an.
“Sir, when will my treatment begin?”
“Today, but not now. Wait until evening. During the day, if possible, sit and sunbathe.”
“Sir, what does that mean?”
“The sun is Yang, and the moon is Yin. Your young mistress’s illness, the Nine Yin Severed Veins, has a major characteristic: the body cannot self-circulate Yang energy. The sun is one source of Yang energy.”
In a world without immortal spiritual energy, sunbathing to replenish Yang energy is because sunlight allows the body to produce calcium and other substances.
But in this world, there truly are spiritual and immortal energies.
So, when the sun rises in the east, it is genuinely raising Yang.
Moreover, the demon race in this world also emphasizes absorbing the essence of the sun and moon.
Therefore, the morning sun indeed helps increase Yang energy in people.
Of course, that’s for ordinary people. For those with the Nine Yin Severed Veins, the body can barely absorb Yang energy from outside.
But don’t forget who he is.
With him here, would he still worry about Yang energy not entering the body?
“This… Didn’t Sir say my body couldn’t absorb external Yang?”
Li Yu’er looked at Xu Ping’an with a hint of curiosity.
Xu Ping’an turned and walked to the east wing, returning a moment later with a medicine box, which he placed on the wooden table.
“This is a Nine Yang Qi Replenishing Pill. It can transform Yin into Yang and also help you absorb Yang energy.”
“Sir? Didn’t you say… there was no cure?”
Xiao Jing stood nearby, looking puzzled, but Xu Ping’an smiled and said:
“There is no cure, after all, medicine can’t heal the dead. Your young mistress’s body was destined to die. Any medicine can only alleviate, not cure.”
“Even if I directly intervene, your current body would recover very slowly without the aid of medicine. So for now, let your body gradually begin to absorb Yang energy. Tonight, I will first create a Yang Dan in your dantian to stabilize your vitality, and then the treatment can begin.”
“This… what is a Yang Dan?”
Xiao Jing, standing by, seemed to suddenly become Li Yu’er’s voice, asking before Li Yu’er even had a chance.
“A Yang Dan is a demon core.”
“Demon… demon core!?”
Xiao Jing was instantly flustered.
“Yes, a demon core. It’s the inner core of a tiger demon. A tiger is a pure Yang body, and its inner demon core will naturally be a Yang Dan. Your young mistress’s body is naturally doomed, and to treat it, we cannot follow normal paths.”
Xu Ping’an looked at Li Yu’er.
“Tonight, I will embed this Yang Dan into your Qi Sea Dantian. Although it cannot restore your health completely, the Yang energy it contains will gradually restore a portion of your vitality.”
Li Yu’er nodded upon hearing this.
Before coming here, she had already made countless psychological preparations.
After all, her illness, according to Mr. Xu, was an existence abhorred by heaven and earth, destined for an early death from birth.
To treat such an illness was no different from those immortal cultivators, going against the heavens, and would inevitably require extraordinary means.
Therefore, no matter what happened, Li Yu’er was mentally prepared.
She just never expected that Xu Ping’an, who seemed to be an ordinary mortal, would possess a demon core!
What kind of treasure was that?
It was something countless cultivators dreamed of.
A single demon core, not to mention being refined into a pill that could enhance cultivation, even if it was refined into a weapon, it would be incredibly sought after among immortal cultivators.
Although the Great Qi imperial family did not allow cultivation, this did not mean she had no contact with those people.
Often, a mature demon core would even tempt some reclusive powerful figures to fight for it.
It was hard to imagine how this young man, barely twenty-five years old, obtained such a heavenly treasure?
“I never thought, Sir, that you would possess such unfathomable abilities, even having a demon core that cultivators would fight to the death for. It truly astonishes me.”
Li Yu’er looked at Xu Ping’an, and for some reason, the more she looked at him, the lighter her mood became.
She even felt like teasing him.
“Sir, could you be some hidden powerful figure, merely feigning ignorance in front of me?”
Xu Ping’an saw the teasing in Li Yu’er’s peach blossom eyes and gave a wry smile.
“Miss Yu’er, please stop teasing. Didn’t you already investigate my background thoroughly before coming for this consultation? What kind of person I am, I’m afraid Miss Yu’er already knows?”
“This demon core was also obtained by sheer luck, and it’s the only one. If Miss Yu’er continues to tease me, I might have to use this demon core for something else.”
Listening to Xu Ping’an’s feigned threat, Li Yu’er covered her mouth and chuckled softly.
“Heh~ I never thought, Sir, you could be so humorous.”
“There’s no humor, just some jokes.”
Just as Xu Ping’an and Li Yu’er were chatting in the small fenced courtyard at the foot of the mountain.
In the county town, at the Liu family mansion.
As the eldest daughter of the Liu family, Liu Yingying, who was also hailed as a prodigy with unparalleled talent in a hundred years, naturally received the attention of countless people throughout the Liu family.
Early in the morning, she secretly left home, believing she hadn’t been discovered, but in reality, quite a few people were following her.
Not only did her father, the current head of the Liu family, Liu Chengdong, send his personal guards to follow her, but even some elders of the family followed, fearing that something might happen to her.
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