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Hu Zhongxuan also told you that the moment Bai Chen was captured, he immediately ratted you out.

Bai Chen wailed, saying your medical skills were better than his, claiming you were comparable to Hua Tuo reborn, even though he didn't know who Hua Tuo was.

Bai Chen told the army to arrest you and not him.

Bai Chen even said he knew nothing, confessing that he had killed people in the past while trying to heal them, slinging all sorts of mud at himself, but it was all useless.

The army even brought in veterinarians, so they clearly weren't intimidated by Bai Chen's track record.

The next day, Bai Chen was indeed dragged to the military medical department.

When Bai Chen saw you, it was like seeing a long-lost relative.

He passionately recounted his longing for you over the past two years.

Bai Chen said that when he was captured, he would rather die than reveal your name, but he never expected you to have been conscripted long ago.

You asked him, "How come I heard someone say I was comparable to Hua Tuo reborn?"

Bai Chen's expression stiffened: "Senior Brother, who has such discerning eyes?"

You kicked him directly: "Get to work."

Bai Chen was assigned to work under you.

Bai Chen's talent for alchemy was actually quite good.

Even though he was always carefree and constantly running off to brothels, he could still produce six pills per batch with second-grade pills, reaching a small degree of proficiency.

Although he couldn't yet be called a second-grade alchemist, he was close.

As the intensity of the war increased, the workload of the military medical department grew larger and larger.

Sometimes you even needed to treat wounded soldiers from the Golden Yue Kingdom.

After healing them, high-ranking officials like Hu Zhongxuan would interrogate them.

You discovered that during their interrogations, they would feed the prisoners a third-grade pill called the Bewilderment Pill.

The Bewilderment Pill could make the user lose their senses.

When combined with specific martial techniques for guidance, it could make the user reveal information.

However, the effect wasn't very stable.

You asked Hu Zhongxuan for the Bewilderment Pill's recipe

and began researching it.

After half a year of research, you improved the Bewilderment Pill.

The improved Bewilderment Pill's effect stabilized.

Moreover, it no longer required specific martial techniques to work.

Just feed them the new version of the Bewilderment Pill, and the person being interrogated would answer whatever they were asked.

The effect was very powerful.

You named the new version of the Bewilderment Pill the Inquiry Pill.

The Inquiry Pill's grade was no longer third-grade, but had risen to fourth-grade.

You were inspired during the process of improving the Bewilderment Pill.

You immediately took out the materials for the Inner Divinity Pill, lit the fire, and started refining.

An hour later, the furnace was opened.

Eight finished Inner Divinity Pills shone brightly.

You officially became a glorious fourth-grade alchemist.

You handed the Inquiry Pill to Hu Zhongxuan.

[Hu Zhongxuan was very happy after verifying it]

[He ran over excitedly, praising you repeatedly]

[He said your Inquiry Pill had been promoted throughout the army]

[He took you to see General Ding Hanfei]

[Ding Hanfei is an Apex Grandmaster, commanding all the troops at Yajiang Pass]

[Ding Hanfei was also very happy]

[Ding Hanfei patted you on the shoulder: "Zhao Tiezhu, right? Very good, very good."]

[Then, Ding Hanfei turned to Hu Zhongxuan and smiled: "Your Danxia Sect really produces talent!"]

[You were taken aback and hesitated: "Commander Hu is also a member of the Danxia Sect?"]

[Ding Hanfei turned to look at you, somewhat surprised: "Tiezhu, you didn't know?"]

[You really wanted to say you didn't know shit, Hu Zhongxuan never told you]

["Tiezhu, I am indeed a member of the Danxia Sect," Hu Zhongxuan said]

[You still wanted to ask for clarification, but Ding Hanfei interrupted you]

["Tiezhu, if you shishu and zhizhi have any questions, you can discuss them later. You've improved the Bewilderment Pill, so tell me, what kind of reward do you want?"]

[You thought for a moment: "Cultivation methods, are they okay?"]

["Okay!"]

["What about martial skills?"]

["Also okay!"]

["Is it okay if I go straight back to the Danxia Sect?"]

["That's not okay."]

[You were speechless, what was the point of even asking]

[In the end, you asked Ding Hanfei for a lot of materials for refining the Inner Divinity Pill]

[All the Inner Divinity Pills refined from these materials belong to you]

[Then you and Hu Zhongxuan returned to the military medical office]

[The two of you sat facing each other in the room]

[You asked: "Commander Hu, are you really my shishu?"]

[Hu Zhongxuan nodded: "Yes."]

[You suddenly pieced together the previous events]

[No wonder you felt that Hu Zhongxuan had been taking good care of you before]

[Providing you with Inner Divinity Pill materials]

[And allowing you to concentrate on refining pills]

[So there was this relationship]

[You asked: "Shishu, what exactly is going on? How are you in the army?"]

[Hu Zhongxuan hesitated for a moment and said: "The thing is this..."]

[It turned out that Hu Zhongxuan and Xie Huide were shixiong]

[Both of them were in the Danxia Sect when they were young]

[They also had a little shimei]

[Unsurprisingly, both of them fell in love with this little shimei]

[Unsurprisingly, the little shimei loved them both]

[Soon, something unexpected happened. The three of them encountered an expert while out training]

[The expert injured all three of them]

[The three of them desperately escaped]

[But the shimei was seriously injured and never woke up again]

[But not the kind of never waking up where she died]

[She was alive, but her body couldn't move]

[Like Snow White after eating the poisoned apple]

[Although Hu and Xie eventually achieved great success in martial arts and killed their enemy]

[The shimei could never wake up again]

[They tried all kinds of pills and medical skills, but it was no use]

[Even the previous head of the Danxia Sect couldn't do anything about it]

[Gradually, Xie Huide and Hu Zhongxuan developed disagreements.]

[Hu Zhongxuan felt that medical skills couldn't save China... uh... couldn't save his junior sister.]

[So, Hu Zhongxuan resolutely left the Danxia Sect.]

[Single-mindedly pursuing the martial path, he vowed to stand at the very pinnacle of martial arts.]

[He would use the most powerful martial force to awaken his junior sister.]

[But Xie Huide still firmly believed that he could use medical skills and pills to cure his junior sister.]

[So he stayed in the Danxia Sect, frantically researching various theories.]

[He researched all kinds of human anatomy, especially the female body structure, and so on.]

[You then remembered that time Xie Huide was caught coming out of a brothel.]

[You sighed, "I misunderstood Master. He really was going to the brothel for academic research, to enhance his alchemy!"]

["I'm also going to enhance my alchemy," Bai Chen said.]

[You turned to look at Bai Chen, "When the hell did you get here?"]

["I came in at 'They both fell in love with this little junior sister'," Bai Chen recalled.]

[You nodded, "Then I don't need to explain it to you again."]

[Hu Zhongxuan: "Could you guys show me some respect?"]

[Bai Chen asked Hu Zhongxuan, "By the way, Uncle-Master, what did you say you were going to do to wake up your junior sister?"]

[You answered, "Uncle-Master is determined to stand at the pinnacle of martial arts! To surpass the Apex Grandmaster! To touch that unknown realm that no one has ever touched. Uncle-Master believes that there must be a power there that can reverse life and death!!"]

[After listening to your impassioned speech, Bai Chen turned to Hu Zhongxuan and asked, "Uncle-Master, have you succeeded?"]

[The veins on Hu Zhongxuan's forehead bulged.]

[He was only a Grandmaster now, not even an Apex Grandmaster, how could he have succeeded?]

[Seeing that Hu Zhongxuan's condition was not right, you quickly slapped Bai Chen on the back of the head, "You've even learned to flame people to their face!"]

[Bai Chen shut his mouth sullenly.]

[You smiled and comforted Hu Zhongxuan, "Uncle-Master, Bai Chen is just a forty-year-old kid who likes to go to brothels, he doesn't know how to talk, don't take it to heart."]

[Hu Zhongxuan waved his hand, not caring.]

[Only then did you ask Hu Zhongxuan the key question, "Uncle-Master, how is my Aunt-Master doing now?"]

[Hu Zhongxuan was a little speechless and was about to speak when—]

[Boom—]

[A huge roar came from outside the military medical camp.]

[Immediately, shouts and screams rang out.]

["Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!"]

["Assemble! Meet the enemy!!"]

[Hu Zhongxuan stood up and rushed out instantly.]

[You also immediately used your movement technique and teleported out to check the situation.]