This Young Master Needs to See a Doctor Every Day

"Hey, who's that? Why's he cutting in line?"

"I've been queuing since before daybreak!"

As soon as Lu Yuan entered the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, a stubbled mercenary in the queue at the entrance, one arm bound in coarse cloth, shouted, hoping the others would back him up.

An older mercenary beside him quickly tugged at him and lowered his voice. "Do you have a death wish? You dare stop even him?"

"What? Is he going to eat me or something?" the rugged mercenary retorted. "That pretty boy looks sickly. I'd say a gust of wind could knock him over. Don't tell me he's an expert?"

The older mercenary spoke with reverence. "He's no expert himself, that's true, but he has status and someone backing him."

"He's a steward of the Lu Merchant Guild, and he has a guard at his side who's a genuine Dou Shi expert!"

"A Dou Shi?" The rugged mercenary's face instantly went pale, and his voice dropped considerably. "Really?"

Dou Shi experts were as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns in Qingshan Town.

"Would I lie to you about something like that?" the older mercenary said. "If you don't believe me, ask anyone you know."

"Six days ago, right outside the Myriad Medicine Pavilion, Young Master Lu was waiting patiently in line. But some blind Dou Zhe from the Wolf Head Mercenary Group relied on his strength and backing and insisted that Young Master Lu give him his place. Guess what happened?"

"What happened?" The rugged mercenary was already starting to feel afraid.

"Young Master Lu didn't say a word. An old man suddenly appeared with Dou Qi Gauze Armor covering his body. With one effortless palm strike, he crippled one of that guard's hands and sent him flying three zhang."

"The people from the Wolf Head Mercenary Group came quickly enough, but not to help the mercenary. They came to apologize, and their leader, Mu She himself, was the one who came!"

The stubbled mercenary listened openmouthed, his bull-like eyes wide and round. It took him a long moment to squeeze out a response. "Something like that really happened?"

He had been venturing deep in the Magical Beast Mountain Range lately and had only returned to town that morning. He knew nothing of the shifting winds and clouds in Qingshan Town over the past few days.

Now that he had heard the older mercenary's story, cold sweat belatedly broke out across his back. He privately thanked his luck that he hadn't charged forward just now.

"Senior, let me treat you to meat and wine later!"

The rugged mercenary felt as though he had narrowly escaped with his life. He threw an arm around the older mercenary's shoulders and said with lingering fear, "You've saved my life!"

Someone with a Dou Shi expert as a guard was a fierce dragon crossing the river in a place like Qingshan Town. Anyone who saw him would have to take a detour.

How could Qingshan Town allow someone so damn impressive to exist?

Yet today, he had seen one.

Lu Yuan paid no attention to any of this. An attendant led him to a wooden stool across from Xiao Yi Xian's consultation table, where he sat down, closed his folding fan, and set it on the corner of the table.

Hearing the sound, Xiao Yi Xian looked up. She was just about to ask the visitor what was troubling him when she saw the handsome face she saw once every day.

A trace of helplessness appeared on her cool, refined face, and she sighed softly. "Young Master Lu, I've told you before. There's nothing I can do about your condition."

Lu Yuan met her gaze for a moment, then unhurriedly placed his wrist on the table and rolled up his sleeve, exposing his wrist bone.

"Really?"

I don't believe it.

The corner of Xiao Yi Xian's mouth twitched. She felt as helpless as if a rogue had latched onto her and she had no way to drive him off.

"Please, Miss Xiao Yi Xian." Lu Yuan gestured for her to take his pulse. "At least ten breaths. Any less, and I'm not leaving."

Xiao Yi Xian wanted to ask if he was taking advantage of her.

But she was only touching him with a few fingers to take his pulse, which hardly counted.

Aside from having her take his pulse every day, Young Master Lu had never done anything improper to her.

Forget it. Once I'm ready, I'll leave Qingshan Town.

Until then, I'll just treat it as playing a game with Young Master Lu.

"Then I'll take another look." Xiao Yi Xian placed her fingers on Lu Yuan's pulse.

Lu Yuan immediately focused his attention on the "Fortune Catalog" in his mind.

[Xiao Yi Xian]

[Woeful Poison Body (awakened) / four-star Dou Zhe / Seven-Colored Poison Scripture]

[Elementary replication/plunder (progress 9/10)]

Once the Fortune Catalog had been activated, it could immediately record anyone with sufficient fortune upon contact.

But replication and plunder still required a certain degree of contact.

Fortunately, he could now see the progress and proceed accordingly.

After ten breaths, Lu Yuan saw the information in the catalog change.

[Elementary replication/plunder (progress 10/10)]

[Activate elementary replication or plunder?]

[Note: When replicating a person of fortune for the first time, the replicated attribute can be specified.]

"Good!" Lu Yuan's heart beat a little faster.

Had he known that even such ordinary physical contact could speed things up so much, he should have had Qing Lin warm her bed in winter and act as a cooling melon for him in summer over the past two years.

But it wasn't too late to find out now. Today, he would rely on Xiao Yi Xian to turn his poisoning into a blessing.

Activate replication.

As Lu Yuan made his decision, the Fortune Catalog buzzed and trembled. An invisible wave enveloped Xiao Yi Xian, transformed into a special origin, and flowed back into Lu Yuan's body.

Lu Yuan felt a power appear out of nowhere inside him and plunge straight into the depths of his dantian. Like a seed falling into soil, it began to grow wildly, blossoming into a strange flower.

Immediately afterward, the mass of gray-black poison that had long occupied his dantian suddenly stirred and was forcibly devoured and absorbed by the "flower."

The gray-black poison that had occupied his body for two years and caused him to fall from Ninth Stage Dou Qi back to Sixth-Stage Dou Qi became pure nourishment.

In the space of a breath, a tiny colored dot appeared on the surface of the dantian in his lower abdomen, filled with eerie poison-attribute energy.

This energy entered his dantian, merged with his Dou Qi, and began to flow through his meridians.

The poison remaining in his meridians was instantly absorbed, becoming pure energy that nourished them instead.

The Dou Qi in his meridians grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

If anyone had used soul power to look inside Lu Yuan's dantian at that moment, they would surely have seen his Dou Qi surging wildly like the rising waters of a spring tide. The poison that had once damaged his dantian and meridians became the purest power, catalyzing his Dou Qi.

Seventh stage, eighth stage, ninth stage...

In the blink of an eye, Lu Yuan had returned to the Ninth Stage Dou Qi he had possessed at his peak.

The poison that had caused him to fall and become a good-for-nothing had now become the first piece of kindling for his rebirth from the cocoon.

When the Dou Qi in his dantian accumulated to a critical point, it began to compress and spin, finally forming a solid cyclone.

That was the mark of a Dou Zhe.

Lu Yuan had successfully broken through to the Dou Zhe level.

Dou Qi flowed through his meridians, carrying a strange power.

Lu Yuan's breathing suddenly grew heavy. Xiao Yi Xian's fingertips trembled slightly, and she immediately sensed that something was wrong.

The poison had vanished without a trace.

His meridians had grown strong and vigorous in the space of a breath.

And his cultivation-his Dou Qi had transformed into Dou Qi, reaching the Dou Zhe level.

"You..." Xiao Yi Xian's beautiful eyes widened. She could not understand the bizarre situation before her.

Lu Yuan broke into a smile. "I told you I didn't believe it."

"You're the medicine I need."

Xiao Yi Xian: "..."