The Proper Way of Pharmacy

"Who are you calling an old woman? I'll kill you!" the little girl in the white coat said angrily.

"I apologize, I was prejudiced. Could it be that you're about the same age as my master?"

"Your master is Yan Jinghong..." The girl in the white coat thought for a moment, then nodded with a smile, "I'm only a little older than him."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Zhengtai, who had just gotten up from the ground, chuckled and said, "Yeah, only about a hundred years older."

"Shut up, nobody's going to think you're mute!" the girl in the white coat snapped angrily.

Jiang Zhengtai scoffed, "Old people should act like old people, why pretend to be young?"

"Does an old woman need to pretend to be young? I want to grow up, but unfortunately I can't develop. I'm also very troubled. With this kind of body, my words and statements lack persuasiveness."

"Isn't it great to have a youthful appearance? Isn't eternal youth every woman's wish?"

Is being young the same as being a child?

"If he develops a little more, and grows to be five or six years older, it'll be a different story."

"I didn't choose to look like this because I liked it. Back then, I refined a Rejuvenation Pill aging, but something went wrong, and it actually made me 'younger,' permanently. Tsk, every time I take a shower and touch my chest, it's smooth and I can't feel anything, and I get inexplicably sad..."

Just as Jiang Zhengtai was about to speak, the girl in the white coat threw a handful of needles, accompanied by a roar, "Who are you saying was slippery and unchanged all along? I'll kill you!"

"... I haven't said anything yet."

Jiang Zhengtai had no time to dodge and was hit by a needle, collapsing with his whole body paralyzed.

Si Ming glanced sideways at Yu Shuying, wondering if this was the reason she was accepted as a disciple.

Chapter 538 The Righteous Path of Pharmacy

Yu Shuying's master, surnamed Wu, given name Xiu, is known in the martial arts world as "The God-Burying Coffin," and codenamed Snake in the Heaven's Will Palace. He is an old senior who has lived for over a hundred years and still has the appearance of a loli.

"So, why are you here?"

Si Ming asked Jiang Zhengtai.

"Because I could no longer suppress my longing for you, I crossed mountains and rivers to try and hold onto the unfinished bond between us."

"I'll kill you!" Si Ming couldn't help but use his verbal tic.

"Alright, because I'm this old monster's... senior's research assistant." Jiang Zhengtai noticed the fierce look Wu Xiu was giving him and quickly changed his tune.

What are you helping with the research?

"I used to research it," Wu Xiu snorted, "I wanted to see if I could cure homosexuality with medical means. Later, it was confirmed that homosexuality is a genetic disease, unrelated to human hormones. The most effective way is still to cultivate the Nation of Valor 'Transformation Canon'."

Jiang Zhengtai protested. "Homosexuality and gender dysphoria are two different things. The latter is that although one has a male body, one believes oneself to be a woman. I admit that helping them undergo gender reassignment surgery is truly healing and saving lives, and they are happy to accept such treatment. But the former is that one likes men but identifies as a man and cannot accept becoming a woman. Forcing this is tantamount to turning homosexuality into gender dysphoria. The approach taken by the Military School is completely heretical!"

Si Ming pondered that, in a sense, gay men are the real straight men, firmly upholding their male stance.

Wu Xiu sneered, "Don't worry, the 'Transformation Canon' not only changes a person's gender, but also alters the cultivator's self-perception, eliminating the problem of gender identity disorder."

Jiang Zhengtai snorted, "To drastically change someone's temperament and alter their personality, it's an outright evil technique. In the past, practitioners of this technique would definitely be considered demonic and hated by everyone. Now, it's openly become a legitimate Cultivation Method. There's definitely something wrong with this world."

"When evil arts clash with evil people, it's the perfect countermeasure—fight fire with fire."

"Why do you call us evil people?"

"Going against the biological instinct for reproduction and survival is nothing short of Evil Dao, unless you invent same-sex reproduction technology or achieve universal immortality."

"What right does a virgin who's been a virgin for a hundred years have to accuse others of violating their biological instincts for reproduction and survival? If you're so capable, why don't you find a man and have a child first!"

Seeing that the two sides were about to hurt each other and their verbal battle was about to escalate into a physical fight, Si Ming quickly interjected and asked Jiang Zhengtai, "Then why do you show no signs of having received any treatment? On the contrary, it seems to be getting worse."

Wu Xiu said, "A person's mental cognition can be changed through material factors. For example, if you throw a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder into the wilderness and come back to see him a month later, his obsession with cleanliness will be gone. Therefore, I planned to use physiological impulses to overcome mental rejection by transplanting testicular tissue from a normal male to him. Who would have thought that this kid would actually run away?"

"Are you suggesting I stay and wait to die instead of running away? Do you think I don't know about something called the human immune rejection response? What do you think I studied medicine for?"

Wu Xiu clicked her tongue blatantly, her indignation suggesting the other person should be a hotline against being scammed instead of a chef. "Now that I've found a way to solve the immune rejection reaction, you'd better cooperate with my research."

"No need. I was young and ignorant back then, but I've come to terms with it now. There are so many people born with disabilities, and hereditary diseases are everywhere, yet none of them seem to want to kill themselves. I have hands and feet, and I can live a perfectly good life. Why torture myself? The important thing in life is to be happy. I haven't bothered anyone else, and in fact, my contribution to society is above average."

Wu Xiu scoffed, "You found a lesbian wife, which certainly doesn't bother anyone else, but it's a different story for other homosexuals."

"Then go and do the research yourselves. You have so many experimental materials; why are you making things difficult for me?"

Seeing that the two were drifting further and further away from the topic, Si Ming quickly steered the conversation back on track, saying, "Senior, do you have any other Inspiration Pill here?"

"I do have it, but what do you need it for? Have you hit a bottleneck in your martial arts?"

Si Ming didn't reveal Liu Qingqing's situation. What if this guy became interested in Liu Qingqing and wanted to capture her for research? From the conversation just now, it was clear that this Senior Wu had no concept of respecting human rights. In her estimation, people would only be divided into three categories: those with background or power who couldn't be captured as experimental subjects, those who could be captured as experimental subjects, and the last category of trash with no experimental value.

Despite her loli-like appearance, she's unlike many legal lolis in other works who are portrayed as tsundere or cute. She's definitely not a kind person, and Si Ming certainly wouldn't dare to mess with her.

The only saving grace is that she didn't conduct those heinous human experiments, because her main research focus was on herbal medicine and alchemy, which didn't require a large number of living people to verify the medicinal properties. She wasn't very interested in biomedicine; otherwise, she wouldn't have been recognized as a member of the Heaven's Will Palace.

On the way here, Yu Shuying had reminded her that after hearing about Liu Qingqing's situation, her master had indeed become interested in understanding why the medicine's effects had changed. However, she was delayed by Wei Chunxi's matter and forgot about it after being busy for a while.

Si Ming had no intention of making the other party recall the past, so he nodded and said, "This junior has recently acquired a new Internal Cultivation method, which is very difficult to practice, so I wish to seek external assistance."

Without hesitation, Wu Xiu replied, "Giving you one is fine, but you have to agree to one condition."

What are the conditions?

Si Ming had assumed the other party would propose studying his body, since Yu Shuying had mentioned that the other party was interested in his Mercury Alloy Body. If it was limited to drawing blood, he could easily agree.

Unexpectedly, Wu Xiu said, "I heard that you have mastered the Heaven and Earth Transposition Array, which allows you to travel freely to the Barbarian Continent. You can send me there. Different lands nurture different vegetation, and there must be many plants that cannot be found in the Sea Continent."