Seeking a physician and treatment: inspection, listening, inquiry, and pulse-taking (5K words, asking for

Chapter 297: Seeking a physician and treatment: inspection, listening, inquiry, and pulse-taking (5K words, asking for votes at the start of the month~)

Western Kham.

Two streaks of light left Shu and headed toward Western Kham.

"Nanlin, is this Master Huaipu you mentioned really that miraculous? This fire baleful poison in my body is something I've had since the womb. My master tried plenty of ways to get rid of it, but none worked. Can an obscure Rogue Person like him really do it?"

The speaker looked like a young man in his early twenties. He was somewhat thin, with large, bright black eyes and fairly handsome features, but he had been born with a black face, as though someone had smeared plant ash over it. On his back, he carried a large purple-skinned gourd a full two feet tall.

"Hmph!"

His companion answered his doubts with a cold snort.

She was a girl of sixteen, dressed in red, with a valiant bearing and an artfully placed dot of cinnabar between her brows. Hearing the black-faced young man's words, a trace of annoyance appeared on her face.

"What do you mean, obscure? You're just poorly informed. Haven't you even heard of Guanxuan Monastery on Kanli Mountain? Master Huaipu is a peerless physician, especially skilled at restorative care and treating deficiencies. He's cured so many hidden injuries and lingering ailments these past few years that his name is known throughout Western Kham.

"Don't I know what the physicians in our Shu Central Region are like? Their specialties are treating the primordial spirit and stabilizing souls, or else reattaching arms and legs. What do they know about restorative care?

"The master used to travel Western Kham gathering herbs, his whereabouts impossible to pin down. He only returned to his mountain and settled