Yu Kang Town.
After half a month of fussing about, Aaron's "Half-Leisure Hall" finally opened for business.
Though Second Madam Li only half believed Aaron, she still helped him find a street-front shop. The location was fairly good, and more importantly, there was a little courtyard attached behind it, complete with bedrooms, a kitchen, and a small vegetable patch.
Aaron had liked it at first sight and planned to level the vegetable patch and plant flowers, medicinal herbs, and the like.
On opening day, Second Madam Li even specially brought people over to offer congratulations, helping Aaron get acquainted with the neighbors.
And after that...
Half-Leisure Hall's business was indeed very "leisurely"—there were practically no customers at all.
But Aaron was in no hurry.
Broken bones were acute injuries, and in all of Yu Kang Town, aside from him, there was only one medicine hall. The resident physician there was already nearly blind with age.
Anyone in town who could go to the city to buy medicine would never visit that place.
Aaron was simply waiting for the day someone was carried in with broken arms or legs, so he could work a miracle and make his name known.
That night.
Aaron swept Half-Leisure Hall from top to bottom, then lay in a bamboo chair, enjoying the gentle evening breeze as though digesting his meal.
Suddenly, a faint glimmer flashed in his hand. It was the artifact pouch he had obtained from Shen Xuexing.
After so many days of being scoured and refined by his true qi, even the magical imprint left by a Baleful Intent cultivator—like a tree without roots or water without a source—had finally dissipated.
As though nothing had happened, Aaron continued lying there.
Only once the night had deepened and all was quiet did he return