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Night gradually deepened, and Gu Qingfeng lay down on the bed, intending to get a good night's sleep.

Only with proper sleep would he have the energy to deal with what came next.

The bed in this room was one long communal sleeping platform, though Gu Qingfeng was the only one sleeping on it now.

A jumble of herbal smells still lingered in the bedding. Who knew how many medicine testers had slept here before?

What sort of people had those medicine testers been?

Gu Qingfeng guessed that most were like him: poor, pitiable, or driven into a corner with nowhere left to turn.

Of course, there were also people like the Yellow-Haired Smoke Ghost, gambling addicts, and brothel patrons.

People like that tended to burn through the most money—and be the most desperate for it.

What had become of them all?

Their endings probably hadn't been very good.

The room had presumably been fitted with a communal sleeping platform because there had been plenty of medicine testers back then, forcing them to squeeze in together.

Now, however, it was quiet and deserted. Clearly, plenty had gone wrong with the medicine trials, ruining their reputation and leaving fewer people willing to participate.

"Heh. How could things possibly not go wrong?" Gu Qingfeng mocked inwardly.

If he hadn't possessed the ability of reversal of cost, his liver would already have been deteriorating. A few more doses, and it would have crumbled to dust.

This Ghost Hand Apothecary was truly rotten!

For a moment, the densely packed corpses beneath the trees in the Golden Core Immortal Sect, the cuckold who had twitched after taking his medicine during the day yet still wanted to work as a laborer, and the hateful face on the spine sword that had wanted to bite someone all kept circling through Gu Qingfeng's mind.

Since transmigrating here, he had witnessed and encountered far too many evils. Only Qi Lingguang and those few others had given him any warmth.

Now they had been separated from him, their fates unknown.

When all was said and done, there were simply too many evil people in this world. That was why good people like him suffered so much.

But now he was here!

He possessed world-shaking wisdom and the power of reversal of cost precisely so he could stop such evil from continuing!

Without even realizing it, Gu Qingfeng developed a sense of mission.

A mission to cleanse the filth, bring retribution upon the wicked, and let good people live decent lives!

Because he was just such a good person.

As these thoughts drifted through his mind, Gu Qingfeng fell asleep.

He slept soundly.

People always needed proper rest, and those with world-shaking wisdom were no exception.

Only then would they have the strength to accomplish great things!

In the morning, Gu Qingfeng woke to the rich aroma of congee.

He stepped out of his room and found the Ghost Hand Apothecary's assistants and medicine attendants eating breakfast.

Their breakfast was quite good: meat congee.

The meat was half lean and half fat, and the congee also contained medicinal ingredients such as Chinese yam, cinnamon, and fox nuts.

The fresh herbal fragrance mingled with the rich aroma of meat, each enhancing the other.

Gu Qingfeng hadn't eaten much of anything yesterday, and this made him even hungrier.

He found some water, gave himself a quick wash, then walked over and said, "I'll have a bowl too."

It was the same medicine attendant who had demanded silver before letting him sleep last night. She gave him a contemptuous look and said, "Get lost!"

Gu Qingfeng challenged her. "I paid a tael of silver for one night, and breakfast isn't even included?"

An assistant beside her snorted. "Where did this country bumpkin crawl out from? Go away. Don't spoil our meal."

Very good. Overpriced lodging with no breakfast included. You've already chosen the road to your own deaths!

With that thought, Gu Qingfeng left the Ghost Hand Apothecary.

Honestly, he still found the contrast jarring.

The woman in purple would let them slap her backside at will while attending to their medicine trials, yet the assistants and medicine attendants were so cold and nasty. They were practically opposite extremes.

Didn't the people at the bottom follow the example of those above them?

In truth, this was because Gu Qingfeng hadn't seen through things at all.

He hadn't seen through the rules of survival inside the Ghost Hand Apothecary.

Whether it was charging silver for lodging, excluding breakfast from the room price, or letting them slap the woman's backside while she fed them medicine, these were all rules of "Ghosthand's Eighteenth Apothecary."

Assistants, medicine attendants, and even the seemingly higher-ranking woman all had to act within those rules.

When all was said and done, the one who truly called the shots here was Sun Sheng!

Everyone else was merely a tool or a human tool.

That was what made Sun Sheng frightening. He rarely came here, yet no one dared break his rules.

Even when many of his rules were unreasonable or hurt business.

Still, no one dared question them in the slightest.

Someone had questioned them once, supposedly with the apothecary's future in mind. This amiable-looking fat shopkeeper had even cheerfully "reflected" on the matter. Afterward, however, that person's flesh disappeared.

Quite simply, his flesh disappeared.

All that remained was a stark white skeleton, without a scrap of flesh on it.

Sun Sheng said a flesh-eating hungry ghost had eaten him, but only a ghost would believe that!

After breakfast, Gu Qingfeng returned to the Ghost Hand Apothecary.

By then, more people had arrived.

After all, there had been nearly ten medicine testers yesterday alone.

Naturally, none of them had followed Gu Qingfeng's example and paid the exorbitant price to stay here, but they had all returned by now.

Gu Qingfeng went back to the testing room and waited to be fed his medicine.

He sat there with impeccable obedience, like a little child sitting in a row waiting for fruit.

The scrawny husband and the Yellow-Haired Smoke Ghost arrived one after the other.

The first person to catch Gu Qingfeng's attention wasn't the yellow-haired man reeking of Immortal Leaf, but the scrawny husband.

His body, which had still been shriveled yesterday, had visibly gained quite a bit of muscle, shifting with his movements.

And he was positively keyed up, brimming with energy!

Upon seeing Gu Qingfeng and the other man, the scrawny husband exclaimed excitedly, "This really is a miraculous medicine! Yesterday afternoon, I worked four hours as a laborer, then scrubbed over a hundred chamber pots at the Fang family compound that night. Before dawn, I hauled manure for another two hours, and I'm not tired at all!"

"I'm planning to work as a laborer during the day, then help haul manure and farm afterward. Ideally, I can pick up a job moving goods too. At night, I'll scrub chamber pots and wash clothes. Once I'm done scrubbing, I can even make some breakfast food to sell. After selling it, I'll come back to test medicine, then go work as a laborer again..."

At this point, a happy, excited smile appeared on the scrawny man's face.

Gu Qingfeng and the yellow-haired man looked at him and felt they were staring at a complete dumbass.

A genuine dumbass!

This was truly their first time seeing someone addicted to backbreaking labor.

Just then, the woman in purple returned to feed them their medicine herself.

This time, she took out six pills.

"The medicine seemed to work well yesterday. Today, you'll each take two," the woman in purple said.

The Yellow-Haired Smoke Ghost was the first to object. "Two this time? Won't that be too strong?"

The woman in purple sneered. "Smoke Ghost, is this already more than you can handle?"

The Yellow Smoke Ghost's gaze sharpened. "Is there anyone here who can handle more than I can? They don't understand, but I do. If you're doubling the medicine, you need to pay us more silver too."

"Don't worry. You'll get every bit you're owed."

The scrawny man already thought the medicine worked exceptionally well and had no intention of refusing. Learning that he would receive more silver made him even happier.

And so, Gu Qingfeng and the other two were each fed two pills.

Gu Qingfeng had his throat prodded again.

The woman in purple continued to observe everything, but she wasn't as composed as she had been yesterday.

It wasn't because the dosage had suddenly increased and she feared they would die. Rather, it was because of the room next door...

The neighboring room was pitch-black and appeared empty.

Yet in a shadowy corner, an eye was secretly watching everything through a crack in the wall.

The owner of that eye looked pale, plump, and amiable.

He huddled there like a fat grub.

Today, Sun Sheng wanted to personally watch how these three medicine testers reacted.

Especially that young country bumpkin!

At that moment, the country bumpkin Gu Qingfeng was in a wondrous state.

He could feel his liver throbbing and growing stronger.

At the same time, wisps of energy emerged from his liver and darted into his meridians.

Was this liver-killing aura?