The two of them landed on a flat ground on the mountainside. Qin Tiexin stepped on the iron bar and bent his knees slightly when landing, losing the last bit of inertia.
Two months of traveling have allowed him to understand the essentials of flying with the stick. The body is not as heavy as the stick, and the power of Qi and Blood is not as gentle as the spiritual power, so it requires more output and control than the stick to be stable. Now that he jumps off the stick, he no longer needs to slow down before landing, he can just step on the ground directly.
In front of them was a simple medical center built on the mountain.
Three wooden houses are embedded in the gentle slope of the mountainside in a zigzag shape. The roofs are covered with blue-gray tiles, and a few strings of dried medicinal herbs are hung under the eaves. The several acres of spiritual fields in front of the door are neatly divided into small borders, and more than a dozen different kinds of spirit medicine are planted. The spacing of the medicinal seedlings is as even as measured, and there are no weeds. The soil on the field ridges still has a moist sheen that has just been watered.
Chen Xi stopped a dozen steps away from the entrance of the medical center.
He stretched out his hand and wiped it on his face, taking off the disguise of traveling businessman "Li Shan". The beard disappeared, the cheekbones returned to their original positions, and the height returned to its original size, returning to its original ordinary appearance.
Then he groped on his face for a while and took out a talisman from behind his ear. Qin Tiexin was standing next to him, not even seeing where the talisman was hidden.
As the talisman was removed, Chen Xi's face changed again. This time it was different from all the previous disguises. In front of him was a face of twenty-five or six years old, with delicate eyebrows, thin lips, and clean jawline. He stood in the sunset. There is even a bit of bookishness in it, and it is very close to the "real face" that Qin Tiexin saw for the first time in the Flowing Cloud Sect. It is only two points away. The "true face" is more amazing, and the face in front of him is slightly more ordinary.
Normally, Chen Xi would never appear in front of anyone with such a face. He would either change to a rough face or use disguise to make himself ordinary. According to his own words, this face is easy to remember and insecure. An extra layer of disguise will save one life.
What happened today?
Qin Tiexin didn't ask, and Chen Xi didn't mean to explain. He just stretched out his hand to straighten his clothes, smoothed his collar, and patted the dust on his cuffs.
Chen Xi pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, followed by Qin Tiexin.
The wooden door of the main hall of the medical center is half open, and a bitter smell of herbs wafts out from inside. The decoration in the hall is very simple, with a consulting table by the window, a medicine cabinet against the wall, and a round bamboo stool at the door.
A girl who looked to be only twelve or thirteen years old, Qi Refining Late Stage, was sorting medicinal materials with her back to the door. Her light green pharmacist's robe was a bit long, and her sleeves were rolled up twice to reveal her thin wrists. She was tiptoeing to put a bundle of dried medicinal materials on the top of the medicine cabinet when she heard footsteps and turned her head.
The moment she saw Chen Xi, she picked up the medicine pestle on the clinic table and smashed it over.
The stone medicine pestle was wrapped in a layer of light green spiritual power, spinning in the air and heading straight for the door in front of Chen Xi. Chen Xi tilted his head, raised his hand and caught the medicine pestle steadily.
"Bad guy! How dare you come?!"
The girl grabbed the pulse pillow on the consulting table and started to smash it.
"Bai Shao." Chen Xi had a flattering smile on his face and raised his hands in front of his chest in a gesture of surrender, "Don't smash it, that thing is not cheap."
Bai Shao didn't listen to him and smashed the pulse pillow, then a medical book, and then a medicine scale. He stopped after smashing everything he could touch. Chen Xi caught them one by one and placed them one by one on the consultation table.
"You still have the nerve to come back!" Bai Shao pointed at Chen Xi's nose. His voice was higher than before, but the end of his voice had begun to tremble. "Three years ago, you were almost dead from your injuries. It took my master three months to bring you back from hell. The result? You just disappeared without leaving a word! Master sat in the clinic all night that day and I saw it with my own eyes!"
She spoke faster and faster, tears rolled in her eyes several times and finally couldn't hold them in anymore, and fell to the ground.
"Master was talking about you before going to the capital. He said that you were so seriously injured, and I don't know if you took good care of yourself, if there were any injuries, and if anyone could treat you elsewhere." Bai Shao rubbed his eyes hard with the back of his hand and wet his sleeves, "You are not worthy of Master at all!!!"
Chen Xi opened his mouth for a moment, but did not refute. The flattering smile on his face slowly went away. He lowered his head and allowed Bai Shao to finish the curse.
Qin Tiexin stood against the wall at the door, looking past the quarrel between the two, and landed on the medicine cabinet in the corner of the lobby. The cabinet was made of old elm wood, with a tight grain, and the handles were polished to shine. Each drawer was labeled with neat and elegant handwriting.
What a nice cabinet, he thought to himself.
After a quarter of an hour, Chen Xi kept talking, Bai Shao finally stopped scolding and crying, and Chen Xi finally told the serious story.
"Where is your master?"
Bai Shao raised her hand to wipe her tears with the back of her hand, sniffed, and said in a strong voice, "I'm going out. I left two months ago for the capital. I accepted a request from a big shot, and she said she wouldn't be able to come back in a short time. She asked me to stay at home to look after the medicine garden and collect medicinal materials from nearby farmers." She pulled out a handkerchief from her sleeve and blew her nose, then raised her head and looked at Chen Xi.
"I... I don't know when she will come back."
"Whose commission did she accept?"
"I don't know. She didn't tell me, so she just asked me to guard the house." Bai Shao glanced at him, his eyes still red, and took out a light cyan jade talisman from his waist, held it in his hand, and threw it into Chen Xi's arms.
"Huh! Master was still thinking about you before he left. He said that if you come back, he will let you use this to contact her."
Chen Xi took the jade talisman into his arms and took a step back, not daring to say anything more. He glanced at the pile of things on the examination table that were messed up by Bai Shao, and reached out to help clean them up, but Bai Shao slapped his hand away.
"Let's go, let's go." Bai Shao turned around and continued to sort out the medicinal materials, with his back to them, and whispered, "Bring Master back soon."
Chen Xi stood at the door and looked at her back, then turned and walked out of the hospital.
The two of them went down the mountain. As they walked, Chen Xi wiped his face back to the appearance of "Li Shan". He had a goatee, a flat nose, and was half an inch shorter. His movements were faster than when he came.
He walked away in silence for a moment before he spoke.
"It's okay not to mention a past event." His tone was as calm as usual, as if he was talking about someone else's business, "She... is a Third Realm medical practitioner, at least three years ago. There should be no problem in reattaching your arm. After all, even my injury was..."
"Senior brother... is it because of me..." Qin Tiexin could feel that Chen Xi was feeling a lot lower.
"It has nothing to do with you, it's my problem." Chen Xi calmed down a little and returned to his original self, "Let's go to the capital. Her entrustment in the capital is probably not a good thing, otherwise she wouldn't leave Bai Shao alone in the mountains to look after the medicine garden."
Qin Tiexin nodded. He did not ask what exactly happened between Chen Xi and Master Bai Shao. From Bai Shao's words, he had already heard the general outline. Three years ago, Chen Xi was injured and on the verge of death. He was repaired by this female doctor, recovered from his injuries, and then ran away.
He wouldn't guess the rest, nor should he guess.
The flying swords and flying sticks shot through the air one after another, changed direction, and drove towards the Myriad Stars Dynasty's capital city [Ten Thousand Stars City] at full speed.