My Wife Is The Leader Of A Demonic Cult

Chapter 41: Chapter 41: A Peerless Rare Fruit in Sight

An Jing retracted his fingers and slowly said, “This is a case of imbalance between Yin Yang Qi.”

“Doctor, do you have a way to treat this?” Cao Madam’s eyes lit up involuntarily when she saw this.

You should know that the doctors who had just come by had looked her over for quite some time and still had no clue about the condition, but this young doctor named An Jing was able to diagnose the problem in just a moment, which suggested he indeed had some real ability.

Li Fuzhou also looked at An Jing with great interest.

“Allow me to first use silver needles to probe,” An Jing said.

An Jing took out silver needles from his medicine box and gently inserted them into Cao Ling’er’s acupoints.

“Shh!”

The traces of Yin Energy began to flow out along the meridians but were instantly consumed by the Yang Energy released from the Bodhi Bead.

As Cao Ling’er’s body released the Yin Energy, her expression gradually became calmer, and her pain began to fade away.

Seeing this, Cao Madam heaved a sigh of relief; this young Doctor An truly had some skills.

Cao Madam was a Fifth Grade Cultivation, and she might not have clearly seen what had just happened, but Li Fuzhou saw it distinctly— he noticed that strand of Yin Energy being drawn out and then immediately extinguished.

“This An Jing, he seems to have some tricks up his sleeve,” Li Fuzhou thought to himself with quiet astonishment.

Let alone the skillfulness of guiding out Yin Energy, the feat of neutralizing it was not something ordinary people could achieve.

Yin Energy itself was an extremely complex Qi Mechanism, somewhat softer compared to malicious Qi, but equally tenacious, and once attached it was incredibly difficult to expel. Furthermore, Yin Energy was more common than malicious Qi; although it was less harmful, it was far more troublesome.

If An Jing was a person of profound Inner Strength, Li Fuzhou would have found it quite ordinary, but An Jing was a doctor with no Inner Strength at all, without the strength to even truss up a chicken.

“This is just a temporary relief for the pain inside her body,” An Jing said as he withdrew the silver needles and spoke slowly, “Yin and Yang are the ways of Heaven and Earth, the path of transformation and creation. All beings are governed by Yin and embrace Yang, harnessing Qi to achieve harmony. If this balance of Yin Yang Qi is broken, it naturally causes significant harm to the human body, so it is necessary to replenish Yang.”

For traditional Chinese medicine, it is all about the harmony of Yin and Yang; based on this foundation, one explores the source. What one sees and achieves then becomes much more effective.

An Jing’s ability to set up a dispensary in a prime location of Yu State City and provide consultations was certainly not without merit; he still possessed many genuine abilities.

In layman’s terms, Yin represents blood, body fluids, water, skin, bones, flesh, internal organs, etc., while Yang represents Qi, heat energy, and other forms of energy. Both are interrelated and coexist symbiotically.

All of his medical skills came from the compilation of ancient traditional Chinese medicine, and he naturally had an easy time treating these types of Qi.

Upon hearing this, the other doctors felt a jolt in their hearts, and the way they looked at An Jing began to change; they all abandoned their earlier disdain and pricked up their ears to listen attentively.

“All beings are governed by Yin and embrace Yang, harnessing Qi to achieve harmony,” Li Fuzhou muttered to himself.

These words seemed common, but they contained the vastness of the world’s phenomena, causing those with deeper understanding of the Dao to be irresistibly drawn in, unable to extricate themselves.

The ultimate principle of Yin and Yang encompasses the way of the world, and medical skill is just one aspect of it.

“Doctor An, how do you propose to replenish Yang?” Cao Madam asked hastily, her thoughts naturally focused on her beloved granddaughter.

An Jing did not keep them in suspense but answered directly, “It requires extremely valuable medicinal herbs refined with Essence, then brewed into a strong decoction, combined with Inner Strength circulating through six major Yang acupoints, and afterward neutralizing the Yin Energy within her body.”

If it were just him alone, he could use the Bodhi Bead and his own Inner Strength to purge the Yin Energy, but both were assets he could not reveal. As Cao Ling’er had no ties to him, there was no need to risk exposure.

“Hurry, go to the treasury and bring all the valuable medicinal herbs,” Cao Madam ordered the housekeeper.

“Yes, I will go now.”

The housekeeper responded and quickly made his way towards the door.

“Cao Madam, we will also need two skilled experts, ideally with a Cultivation above Fourth Grade,” An Jing added from the side.

“Alright, I’ll go and ask someone right away.”

Before long, the Cao family steward arrived with several servants, carrying boxes into the room.

These were the herbal medicines collected by the Cao family, which were in a strict sense already considered Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures.

“Doctor An, take a look and see which ones can be used,” instructed the steward, as everyone opened the boxes in front of An Jing.

“This Polygonum multiflorum, it couldn’t be a hundred years old, could it!?”

“Blood Ginseng, it’s actually Blood Ginseng!”

“Could this be the hundred-year-old Red Rhodiola!”

……

When the herbs were presented, several doctors in the room were all astonished.

It was known that these extremely precious herbs could only be seen in medical books, but now they were vividly appearing in front of them.

An Jing was also secretly amazed in his heart, the aggregation of these precious herbs was truly worthy of being part of the foundation of one of the four great families of Jiangnan Dao.

Any single herb here was worth tens of thousands of silver pieces.

“Hint: An orange opportunity is near the host.”

The Earth Book suddenly emanated an orange glow, which caught An Jing’s attention, and he quickly turned to look at the medicine boxes.

Suddenly, his gaze fell on one particular box.

Inside the box was a red fruit that seemed ordinary and didn’t appear to have anything special about it.

Bodhi Bead!

This was a Bodhi Bead!

“The people of the Cao family actually gathered this Bodhi Bead inside the box!”

Seeing this, An Jing’s thoughts began to stir, “Clearly, they have not recognized the Bodhi Bead.”

The Bodhi Bead was a rare fruit born in deep mountains and great marshes, smooth and round with a lustrous red color. Its medicinal power was exceptionally strong. Eating it could strengthen one’s body; for those practicing martial arts, it could immediately increase one’s cultivation by twelve years.

Although saying it increased cultivation by twelve years was a bit of an exaggeration, it was indeed an exceedingly rare treasure.

The Bodhi Bead was extremely scarce, and it looked no different from ordinary fruits. Although the people of the Cao family knew that this red fruit was extraordinary, they never guessed its true nature, which is why it was placed in this box.

If they knew what it was, it would have long been swallowed by the head of the Cao family.

“I will take this Bodhi Bead as my consultation fee,” thought An Jing with great excitement.

Li Fuzhou also saw the Bodhi Bead and inwardly lamented how the Cao family squandered such a treasure by simply storing it in a box.

“With this Bodhi Bead, my injuries should be able to recover quite substantially,” he thought.

He maintained a calm and serene expression without any hint of change, yet in his heart, he had already marked the Bodhi Bead as his, treating it as if it were already in his possession.

Both men had glanced at the box containing the Bodhi Bead, and in their hearts, they had already considered the Bodhi Bead theirs.

Just then, the old Mistress Cao returned with two of the Cao family’s experts and asked, “Doctor An, do you have need of these herbs?”

The two experts of the Cao family were Guest Elders, Jinghong Saber Guo Qing, and Scholar of Ten Directions Bai Qiushui.