“You old thing! When did you come here! ?” The little old man immediately blustered and glared, his beard bristling upon seeing the elderly man, his face showing utter contempt.
The elderly man was however still good naturedly showing a steady smile upon his face towards the little old man’s discourteous reaction.
“Haven’t seen you for so long and this is how you welcome an old friend?”
The little old man curled the edges of his mouth and said huffily: “Don’t come act so friendly here. I am not on such familiar terms with you! Go back to where you come from! Do you believe that I will get someone to throw you out now! ?”
The elderly man could not help but laugh as he shook his head, not taking to heart the little old man’s words in the slightest.
“Of course I will believe that. But do you really think it appropriate to make things difficult for the juniors like this? They have to listen to you and they also wouldn’t dare to chase me out. Is there a need?”
“If you don’t want them to be caught in a difficult position then you can just get out of here on your own! No one’s asking you to stay.” The little old man said rudely.
Jun Wu Xie stood quietly by the side as she watched the two highly different old men happily squabbling. All the hair on both their heads had already turned white and grey but they were still fighting furiously like two little kids. Jun Wu Xie was just speechless.
Towards the little old man’s repeated orders for him to leave, the elderly man had very naturally chosen to ignore. But his gaze then quickly turned upon Jun Wu Xie, his eyes tinged with puzzlement and smiles.
“This little kid brother has a highly unfamiliar face. I haven’t seen you around before.”
The little old man immediately came to stand before Jun Wu, blocking him off from the elderly man as he waved his arms to say: “Go go go! Don’t start having any ideas on this little kid! He is Little Ya’s disciple. If you come to offend this little kid, Little Ya will then come deal with you!”
Surprise showed on the elderly man’s face. He did not bother himself with the little old man’s incessant pestering but continued to look at Jun Wu Xie as he asked: “Are you really Su Ya’s disciple?”
Jun Wu Xie nodded slightly.
The surprise did not leave the elderly man’s eyes.
“I really wouldn’t have thought that Little Ya will accept another disciple. I had thought that after that incident back then, she would no longer accept another disciple again.”
“That depends on who it is! This little kid possesses exceptional talent, and he has a honest and considerate personality. A very rare and remarkable talent. Little Ya wouldn’t give up on such an outstanding disciple.” The little old man snorted disdainfully.
Jun Wu Xie rubbed at her nose secretly. She would admit to possessing exceptional talent, but as for having an honest and considerate personality….. she felt that she had no connection with these words at all in this life and she did not know from where the little old man had gotten his confidence from to be able to praise her like she was some kind of deity.
Volume 17
Chapter 1628: “Mischievous Old Man (3)”
Being praised to the skies with such impudicity, Jun Wu Xie really wasn’t too used to it.
But the little old man really wasn’t bothered whether Jun Wu Xie was used to it or not, looking like he was unwilling to let the elderly man take another glance at Jun Wu by standing right before the kid to block the elderly man. But as he was born short and cursed with his little stature, even when he stood before the tiny Jun Wu, his head merely reached the tip of Jun Wu’s nose…..
Jun Wu Xie’s line of sight remained completely unhindered.
“Why are you being so agitated for? Don’t tell me you are afraid that I will snatch Little Ya’s disciple?” The elderly old man laughed rather helplessly against the little old man’s nervousness.
The little old man said: “If you dare to snatch him, Little Ya will surely pull your beard off. See if you still dare to do it.”
Jun Wu Xie was speechless as she looked up into the sky. The two old men looked to be of rather similar age but why did the feeling they each gave people differed so much? Compared to the elderly old man, the little old man was acting highly wilfully like a child.
“Alright, I don’t want to squabble with you anymore. It’s been so many years and you’re temperament still has not changed at all. If you continue being like this, whether Little Ya pulls my beard off or not, I wouldn’t know, but what I can be sure of it she will definitely not forgive you. I am thinking that you are here now because Little Ya is not here at the moment? Otherwise, with the way she feels towards you, she would have already blasted you out of this place.” The elderly old man said with a sigh.
The little old man wanted to retort, but with his conscience feeling rather guilty, he just pouted his mouth and was unable to say anything.
[Su Ya was not around?]
When Jun Wu Xie heard the elderly old man’s words, she was slightly surprised. She had thought that Su Ya would have been in the wine cellar resting but the elderly old man’s words had awoken her to this fact.
Although she had seen with her own eyes Su Ya going into the underground cellar, but that did not mean that there wasn’t any secret passage in the underground cellar, and she could not be certain that Su Ya had not left the place while she had gone up to the third floor. The few times that the little old man had come, he had been rather noisy but Su Ya had not appear. With the powers Su Ya possessed, it was impossible that she was unable to detect the little old man’s arrival. Reassessing the situation anew, Su Ya might really not be in the Spirit Mastery faculty at all.
But if Su Ya was not in the Spirit Mastery faculty, then where could she have gone?
“I came to find you because I have something serious to talk to you about. You should restrain your fiery temper a little.” The elderly old man said.
The little old man was still looking highly infuriated but he still seemed to have accepted the elderly old man’s suggestion as he dawdled slowly to put the bottle of medicine carefully into his robes.
“You still have not given up? I’ve already said that you are not suited to pursue Medicine.” The elderly old man said as his sharp eyes spotted the medicine bottle in the little old man’s hand.
The little old man immediately exploded in fury.
“What do you mean by not suited! ? These words of yours are not pleasing to hear at all! The problem with that does not lie with me at all! The problem stems from all of you! It’s because all of you do not know how to teach and instruct properly! This bottle of medicine came out perfect! Look at it if you don’t believe me.” What the little old man was unable to tolerate the most, was when someone doubted his “ability” in Medicine!
Upon saying that, the little old man then shoved the bottle of medicine he held in his hand over to the elderly old man.
The elderly old man took it and had absolutely no intention of opening it at all. But when he saw how stubborn the little old man was being, he had no choice but to open the bottle to casually glance at it.
And that one single quick glance was enough to shock the elderly old man.
The medicine was actually perfectly normal!
With the little old man’s aptitude in Medicine, not turning a tonic into poison was already a miracle by itself and this bottle of medicine was even not too badly concocted! Although not exactly considered perfect, but it was at least done without any mistakes, which was just completely impossible for the little old man to achieve.
The shock upon the elderly old man’s face greatly delighted the little old man, the glee that had just faded away immediately rising once more onto his face.
Volume 17
Chapter 1629: “Mischievous Old Man (4)”
“How is it? Not bad right? I did that with my own hands and Little Tian can be my witness.” The little old man said proudly with his chin tilted up, an expression
of “I’m the absolute best” on his face.
The elderly old man stared at the medicine and then turned to look at the old man, his face twisted up in disbelief.
“Whatever you say, Little Tian would naturally not dare contradict.”
The little old man was then infuriated once again. “Nonsense! This medicine was concocted by me! If you do not believe me, I can concoct it once more to show you!” As he spoke, the little old man started scrambling to dig for something within his robes. After a while, he carefully took out a brocade bag, and then gingerly pulled out two crumpled pieces of paper from it.
If Jun Wu Xie’s eyes had not seen it wrongly, those two scraps of paper should be what she had used to get rid of the little old man, but….. they had now become so crumpled that they were no different from toilet paper.
“See here! This is the prescription! This here details the method to concoct it! See how detailed people have recorded it!” The little old man exclaimed as he triumphantly waved the two pieces of crumpled parchment before the elderly old man.
The elderly old man quickly swept his eyes over them and he did not see anything exceptional at first. But when he realized that they were filled with highly detailed steps to concoct the medicine, his face immediately contorted with pure astoundment!
“Where did this thing come from! ?” The elderly old man shouted in surprise as he snatched the pieces of parchment with written full with the steps to be taken to concoct the medicine.
The little old man pointed with his thumb right behind him and said: “Little Ya’s disciple gave it to me. What? You are unable to produce such work right? This here is the little fella’s most prized heirloom of their tribe! It’s not something that outsiders are able to see. If it wasn’t to show you how stupid you are, I wouldn’t have wanted to show it to you!”
Jun Wu Xie stood silently in her spot. Fortunately, that had been something she had casually compiled easily. If it had truly been some prized treasure, having the little old man revealing it to people for such a hilarious reason would really make her want to cry.
The elderly man’s eyes then looked more strange.
His eyes made Jun Wu Xie start to recall whether she might have made a mistake when she compiled it.
In actual fact, that had been written out in a hurry and as Jun Wu Xie only wanted to be rid of the little old man, she had not wanted to spend too much time to put it together. Moreover, that medicine was not something that extraordinary and she had not paid it much mind.
But if it was carefully analysed, there were some parts in it that would not really make sense. The little old man did not know all that much about medicine and hence, would not discover anything wrong with it. But if it was someone who was well versed in medicine concoction, they might be able to detect what was so strange about it with just one glance.
Having to write down the steps in such great detail, it would be an extremely draining task to a regular person, and the kind of drain that called for, had been employed upon a prescription that was not considered to be highly prized. That brought about a gaping and obvious lapse of sense in the whole thing. Moreover, though the kind of detail that was provided by those steps were rare to see, but for that unbelievable amount of work to be used upon a medicine that was not that precious, comparing these two points together, the value of just the details in those steps portrayed was much higher.
All of these factors had not been considered by Jun Wu Xie at that time but merely that the only kind of medicine she had revealed before the little old man was just that one type. If she had changed it to another kind, she would surely be pestered endlessly. Only seeking to rid herself of the little old man quickly, she had naturally not thought too deeply into it.
This could very well be the first time since Jun Wu Xie’s rebirth, when she had executed a plan without thinking deeply into it.
As a result…..
That moment of laziness, had brought her this little “trouble”.
The little old man stared at Jun Wu Xie for a long while and Jun Wu Xie showed complete calm on the surface, rendering the elderly old man to be unable to find anything amiss in the slightest. But it was the little old man who was instead displeased.
“What are you even staring at! ? I’ve already said that this is Little Ya’s disciple and you had better not have any stray thoughts! Give my things back to me!” The little old man snapped, snatching the pieces of parchment back.
Volume 17
Chapter 1630: “Bai Xu (1)”
The elderly old man ignored the little old man but continued to look at Jun Wu Xie to suddenly ask: “Little brother, that thing might not really have been a prized heirloom of your tribe, is it?”
The elderly old man’s question made Jun Wu Xie pause for a moment in her heart.
The little old man was similarly frozen.
Jun Wu Xie looked at the elderly old man and did not say a word. She knew that the elderly old man must have sensed something was not right to have asked such a question.
“Little brother, there’s no need to be nervous. I hold no ill intentions against you. You are Little Ya’s disciple and I will naturally not make things difficult for you. I merely want to ask you if you know who wrote this thing here.” The elderly old man said, trying to make his voice become more gentle. Jun Wu Xie looked to be of a young age and she was also petite in size. He really did not want to scare her.
“What do you want to do?” Jun Wu Xie’s words had seemingly admitted to the elderly old man’s suspicions.
The little old man’s eyes flared wide.
[This really wasn’t the tribe’s priceless heirloom as Jun Wu had claimed?]
The elderly old man’s smile became warmer. “I merely seek to meet the one who possesses such a gift. Truth to be told, I am similarly just a little skilled in the field of Medicine and am capable of concocting medicines as well. But if I am asked to write down the steps required in such great detail, it would be entirely impossible for me. Concocting medicines is mostly based on how familiar the Medical Cultivator is with the process, their control of the fire and their grasp on the required timing, a kind of habit that is extremely hard to put down in words. Hence, even if we are able to concoct medicines perfectly, we are all unable to fully replicate the method upon another person. But the person who compiled this was able to. He was able to clearly and accurately reflect and depict the details of the habits hidden within his awareness, which clearly shows that the concoction process to him, is not longer just a habit, but carried out with highly precise confidence.”
The quantities of herbs could be controlled, the timing could also be controlled, and even the fire’s intensity was the same. But with the exception of the quantities of the herbs that were to be used, when you combine the timing with the intensity of fire to be controlled at the same time, it brought about many other variables into the entire process. Even for someone who frequently concocted medicines, it would be impossible for him to repeat the process within a static pattern, as nobody would be able to ensure that there would be no deviations within the process. But depicted in those steps, were recorded clearly all possible deviations that could occur in detail, and they were conducted based on specific and precise stages of progress.
It was data compiled in such minute detail, that it was just terrifying.
It was like, the things that could be perceived by a whole group of people, had been clearly compiled by this one person, things that others could only see hazily, could be perceived in great detail by him, without missing a single thing.
The kind of capability the little old man possessed in Medicine could not be any clearer to the elderly old man. If the kind of aptitude the little old man had could also use the step by step guide to concoct medicine perfectly like this, that was enough to tell him just how accurate the prescription really was.
Jun Wu Xie listened to the elderly old man’s words silently. For the elderly old man to be able to detect that something did n
ot fully make sense in the detailed steps depicted within her prescription, he could not just merely be someone like he claimed, a person who had just a little skill in Medicine.
The little old man saw that the situation did not feel right and though he had squabbled with the elderly old man for so long, at that moment, he still opened his mouth to help by saying: “Little one, do not judge this old fellow here just because he does not look like a good person, but he possesses quite great abilities in Medicine. He is the Middle Realm’s one and only Medical Saint, Bai Xu. If you know anything, then just tell him. I guarantee that he will not do anything inappropriate. He is just an idiot who is crazy about all things Medicine.
Medical Saint Bai Yu?
Jun Wu Xie was surprised. This was the second time she had heard this name. The little old man had mentioned Bai Xu when he saw the step by step guide.
Volume 17
Chapter 1631: “Bai Xu (2)”
The Medical Saint Bai Xu. The first time that the little old man had mentioned him, Jun Wu Xie had asked Ye Sha and Ye Gu about him, though….. she had not harboured much hope when she asked, as Ye Sha and Ye Gu had not come back to the Middle Realm for a thousand years already.
But she was surprised to find out that Ye Sha and Ye Gu had actually heard of Bai Xu before.
Before the time that they had left the Middle Realm, Bai Xu was already widely known.
Bai Xu did not belong to any one power and maintained absolute independence. His skills in Medicine was perceived to be the most prodigious throughout the entire Middle Realm and even though he did not submit himself to anyone, no one dared to offend him as no matter how powerful a man was, one would eventually not be able to escape the torment and agony of illness. No one could be absolutely certain that they themselves would not require the helping hand of the Medical Saint one day.
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