It was getting late, and Su Chen returned to Yaowang Villa.

In the following days, he faintly felt that something was wrong, and found that Zhang Tieniu and Yang Caizhi, several brothers and sisters, were trying their best to curry favor with Pharmacist Li Kui in private.

Once, Su Chen saw Butcher Zhang come to Yaowang Villa to visit Zhang Tieniu, and brought Zhang Tieniu a large bag of bacon, sausages and native products, but he didn't see Zhang Tieniu take them to eat, they were all hidden under the bed, and all these things disappeared the next day.

A few days later, Su Chen was helping with chores in Pharmacist Li Kui's private kitchen, and accidentally saw these very familiar bacon and local products. This is obviously Zhang Tieniu secretly sent to the master without telling other senior brothers.

Even a foolish head like Zhang Tieniu knows how to give gifts, let alone a shrewd person like Yang Caizhi, he must have already sent a lot of good gifts to the master behind his back on his back.

Su Chen couldn't help but wake up suddenly.

In the past few months, the semi-annual elimination of the outer disciples that he has gradually forgotten has once again surfaced in his heart. Obviously, Yang Caizhi and Zhang Tieniu have never forgotten this important matter.

Months have passed.

As soon as the half-year period arrived, Pharmacist Li Kui would select one of the five outer disciples to be eliminated and demoted to work in the miscellaneous service hall. There is no specific way to eliminate whom, it is entirely up to the master to have the final say.

Su Chen woke up in shock, and couldn't help but carefully calculate, the advantages and disadvantages of the senior brothers, who was most likely to be the first to be eliminated.

The five of their outer disciples, who have learned some introductory medicinal arts and introductory martial arts in the past few months, are all at a very low level, so naturally they can't talk about who has learned better.

It's hard to distinguish between strength and strength, and I'm afraid it has to be better than other aspects.

Yang Caizhi is shrewd and sweet-mouthed, always quietly patting the sycophants beside Pharmacist Li Kui, wanting to be in front of the master in everything, he is very praised by the master, and it is difficult for the other brothers to stand out.

Zhang Tieniu has a lot of strength, and he rushes to do the rough work and strength work of carrying water, chopping wood, and carrying in the yard, and others can't compete with him.

In the eyes of the master, there is no merit, at least there is a hard work.

Qin Huihui and Kong Xinqiao, the two girls, are delicate, although they are not as good as the two senior brothers, they are well-behaved on weekdays, and they are also quite praised by Pharmacist Li Kui.

I was the only one, and I never thought that I could please the master by going on weekdays... If you think about it carefully, there is nothing in me that is worthy of Master's liking.

When Su Chen thought of this, he was a little depressed.

In the past, in Zhouzhuang Water Town, he was used to being loose and wild since he was a child, climbing trees to catch birds, going into the water to fish, just want to be happy by himself, where do you need to bother to please others.

In the past few months, in front of Pharmacist Li Kui, he has only been cautious in his words and deeds, immersed himself in studying medicine and martial arts, hoping to be praised by his master.

But Pharmacist Li Kui's eyes have always been cold when he looks at him, and he has never praised him for his hard work.

His relationship with the master is very indifferent.

In this way, he has almost no advantage in the master's heart, and he is afraid that he will be the first disciple to be eliminated.

Thinking of this, Su Chen couldn't help but feel anxious.

"No! There are still three months left, I have to hurry up and do something! Once I am eliminated by the master, I will no longer be an apprentice, but demoted to the lowest level of the Medicine King Gang's miscellaneous disciple. ”

In the Medicine King Gang, the apprentice disciples who studied with the pharmacist were treated completely differently from the miscellaneous disciples of the Miscellaneous Service Hall after being eliminated by the master.

Apprentices have many preferential treatments, such as free food, clothing and housing, and free reading in a library of Yaowang Villa.

However, when you are eliminated and become a handyman, you automatically lose these benefits.

From now on, the miscellaneous disciples had to earn their own money to support themselves, not only for food, but also for reading books in the library pavilion.

"But it's too late to please the master now, no matter how sweet the mouth is, it doesn't weigh as much as a few catties of bacon. I am penniless, and I can't compare to Yang Caizhi and Zhang Tieniu, and my family is willing to give money and goods to please Master. ”

Su Chen thought hard for a long time.

Since it is very likely that he will be eliminated by the master, then he has to take advantage of these last few months to seize the time to do the most important things.

Soon, Su Chen thought of an important matter related to his life.

His original idea of entering Yaowang Villa was of course to mix a bite of food in the Yaowang Gang, so as not to starve to death on the streets of the county.

But there is another purpose, that is, I want to learn medicine and cure my "bluestone tears" strange disease.

He has now become a disciple of the Medicine King Gang, so naturally he doesn't have to worry about food and clothing.

But his own "bluestone tears" strange disease, if it can't be cured all the time, it will threaten his life at any time.

Originally, Su Chen was not in a hurry, thinking about taking his time, waiting to learn more medicinal skills from Pharmacist Li Kui, and then thinking about his strange disease.

But now it seems that he is likely to be the first to be eliminated by his master, and he doesn't have much time to learn more skills from Pharmacist Li Kui.

Taking advantage of the fact that he is still an apprentice disciple, he can read medicine books for free in the library for three months to see if there is a prescription for his strange disease.

...

In the thirteen counties of Wu County, the Medicine King Gang is one of the five most powerful gangs in the rivers and lakes. Help the disciples to study medicine, and naturally have a large collection of medicine books in the library for the disciples to refer to.

The Library Pavilion is located in the heart of Yakuo Villa.

For any big gang, all kinds of books are the core, and every effort is made to collect and treasure them. Those Jianghu sects that do not have the accumulation of strong secrets are all small gangs and small factions, and they cannot become the climate.

In the past 1,200 years, the successive leaders of the Medicine King have worked hard to accumulate strength, collected tens of thousands of books of various secrets from the rivers and lakes, and placed them in the library for the disciples in the gang to refer to.

With hundreds of years of strong accumulation, the Yaowang Gang has a thriving momentum of the Jianghu Gang.

Yes, it can be said that the library is no less important than the gang's treasury.

With such a heavy place, it is natural that there are disciples of the Sword Holding Hall, one of the five major halls of the Medicine King Gang, on duty here.

In the Sword Holding Hall, only the core disciples who can endure loneliness and are the most trusted are qualified to sit here and be called the Pavilion Keeper.

Once the Pavilion Keeper chooses to sit in the Library, he must retreat here for ten years and must not leave without permission.

Of course, the Pavilion Keeper enjoys many privileges, he can read all the books in the collection without any restrictions, and he can receive a high amount of money every month for cultivation.

After the end of the ten-year period, once the pavilion keeper is out of the customs, he is often the top first-class master who is born out of thin air in the Medicine King Gang.

There are a total of five floors of pavilions, and the books inside are piled up, and there are three main categories: medicine books, martial arts books, and miscellaneous books. Each layer requires a different identity permission before it is allowed to enter.

Needless to say, the use of medicinal books and martial arts books.

Miscellaneous books include various travelogues, legends, idle stories, or biographies, geography, history books, etc., which can broaden the horizons of disciples and understand the big world outside Gusu County, lest the disciples of the Medicine King Gang become a group of ignorant birds.

According to the grade and price of the books, they are placed on different floors.

In the attic on the first floor at the bottom, apprentices can go in and read them for free, all of which are very ordinary books. But if you are eliminated by the master and become a disciple of the Miscellaneous Service Hall, you have to spend money to go in and see it.

The second floor requires the identities of inner disciples, pharmacists, and deacons at the entrance of each hall to be eligible to enter, and to read books for free. If other disciples want to borrow and buy books here, they need to spend silver.

The third floor is only allowed to go up if you have the status of a noble pharmacist or above.

The fourth and fifth floors contain high-level classics, which can only be viewed by the upper echelons.

An outer disciple like Su Chen, who was still studying with the pharmacist, was only allowed to read books for free in the attic on the first floor. But you can't take it away, you can only look at it in the library.

Su Chen has been an apprentice for three months, and he has already completed literacy and hyphenation, and can read most of the herbal classics.

Every morning in the pharmacist courtyard, he tempered his fists and feet against the hardwood stakes, and tempered the lower dantian. In the afternoon, together with other fellow apprentices, they followed Pharmacist Li Kui to identify herbs in the pharmacy.

In the evening, after he had finished dinner, he did not return to his small courtyard to rest like other disciples, but hurried to the library and took advantage of the only free time in the evening to look through the medicine books.

On the first floor of the library cabinet, there are rows of hundreds of bookshelves, which are densely packed with tens of thousands of books.

There were even some old and tattered books piled up in the corners of the walls, piled up higher than a few people, and covered with dust.

Su Chen specializes in looking for medicine books for strange and incurable diseases, and wants to find a case about the strange disease of "Qingshi tears".

But it won't be easy.

You must know that although there are countless ordinary medicine books, the medicine books for strange and incurable diseases are very rare.

There are thousands or tens of thousands of volumes of medicine books in the library cabinet, and at most dozens of volumes are dedicated to strange and incurable diseases.

After all, the ordinary people in Gusu City all rely on treating people to support their families, and the diseases of the common people are ordinary typhoid fever, colds, pains, etc., and some common diseases are of course recorded in the medicine book.

Strange and intractable diseases are often not seen in a year, or even several years, and if you specialize in studying strange and incurable diseases, even the most clever Lang Zhong will starve to death.

Because of this, Father Su and Aunt Su took Su Chen to look for medicine and cure in the huge county town of Gusu, but none of the pharmacists and doctors in the pharmacy could tell what kind of disease Su Chen had.

In the end, it was in the Hanshan Taoist Temple, the first foreign master of Wu County, Hanshan Zhenren, who diagnosed the cause of Su Chen.

Su Chen spent a few nights finding all the medicine books on the first floor of the Library Pavilion, a total of forty or fifty books, and looked through them one by one.

But I haven't found such a strange disease as "bluestone tears" in any medicine books for strange and miscellaneous diseases.

"How could it not be, is there no one but me who has had this strange disease?... It's not right, if the medicine doctor has seen this strange disease, then how can the real people of Hanshan say that I am hated by God and have the disease of hatred of God?"

Su Chen was distressed.

After thinking for a long time, he suddenly thought of a question, Hanshan Zhenren is a profound Taoist, not a pharmacist, and what he learned is not medicine, but Taoism.

Maybe in the Taoist classics, you can find something.

Su Chen couldn't help but get excited when he thought of this, and immediately looked for all kinds of Taoist books in the miscellaneous book pile in the library pavilion.

Finally, among the dozens of Taoist books with old pages and thick dust, Su Chen was surprised to find some sentences and descriptions that were similar to his illness.

"Everyone has a primordial spirit, which is placed in the 'Mud Pill Palace', and the warrior is commonly known as Shangdantian. Taoists call the mud pill palace the Purple Mansion, also known as the Lingshan. ”

"The spirit of the mountain, the heart also. ”

"Eyes to heart. If the spirit mountain is cracked, the vitality will be discharged. Vitality is discharged, overflowing from the eyes. ”

The vague description of a few sentences shocked Su Chen, his eyes widened, and he was pleasantly surprised.

Master Li Kui never taught him what 'Yuan Shen and Lingshan' were, but simply mentioned that the upper dantian could refine the gods.

Su Chen didn't understand what it meant to refine gods.

But 'eyes are clear. If the spirit mountain is cracked, the vitality will be discharged. Vitality is discharged, overflowing from the eyes. But he understood these words.

This is clearly very similar to his symptoms.

"This baby may have a heavenly hatred disease, and her body is leaking vitality. As soon as the baby cried, the vitality leaked out of her eyes and became sick. The method of using ginseng medicine to replenish vitality and continue life may be saved. But it can only be saved for a while, but it can't cure the root of the disease. This is a disease of early death, and there is no cure!"

In the past, my father and mother also said that Hanshan Zhenren said such things when he diagnosed him, and then combined them with the descriptions in these Taoist books.

Nine times out of ten, it was somewhere in his body that was leaking his vitality. These energies flowed out along with the tears, causing the body to become extremely weak.

As for the vitality that leaked out, after turning into tears falling from the eye sockets, why did it condense into small bluestones?

This is an even stranger phenomenon, Su Chen rummaged through dozens of Taoist classics, but he didn't find the slightest clue at all.

Even Gao Mingru Hanshan Zhenren didn't say what it was, only vaguely said that it might be the Heavenly Hate Stone, which was bad for God's jealousy.

Ignore that for now.

When Su Chen thought of this, his spirits were greatly lifted.

"The spirit mountain is cracked, and the vitality is discharged!"

This sentence alone is a very important clue, pointing directly to "Lingshan", maybe this is the root of his illness.

He had to think of finding the so-called Spirit Mountain in order to see it with his own eyes and confirm that "the Spirit Mountain is cracked, and the vitality is discharged". Then, find a cure.

"Everyone has a primordial spirit, which is placed in the 'Mud Pill Palace', and the warrior is commonly known as Shangdantian. Taoists call the Mud Pill Palace the Purple Mansion, also known as the Spirit Mountain. ”

This sentence shows that Lingshan is in the mud pill palace in Shangdantian.

However, how can a person enter the Mud Pill Palace and see his own spiritual mountain?

Su Chen looked through various Dao books hungrily and continued to look for clues. These clues in front of him are far from enough, and he still lacks specific means to find Lingshan.