Cat call voice?

Chen Ji fell into contemplation. Originally, Wu Yun’s words were inaudible to others. It wasn’t that Wu Yun could speak human language, but that he could understand cat language!

He changed the topic and said, “Liu senior brother, why are you still awake at midnight?”

Liu Qu Xing looked at the medical book left open on the counter and said helplessly, “You’re reviewing your coursework so diligently, it’s hard for me to sleep.”

Chen Ji silently closed the medical book. “…” He was reviewing his coursework not to become an imperial physician, but to hide his identity. However, Liu Qu Xing didn’t think that way.

At this moment, Liu Qu Xing approached and lowered his voice, “Today, someone from my Liu family came to invite Master to diagnose an illness and incidentally asked if Master currently has a direct disciple.”

“What did Master say?”

“Master said he will decide who the direct disciple is recently,” Liu Qu Xing said.

Chen Ji used a bamboo stick to adjust the lamp wick, making the light a little brighter. “Senior brother, what do you mean by that?”

Liu Qu Xing adjusted the robe draped over his shoulder, carefully choosing his words. “Chen Ji, although imperial physicians are leisurely, they are still part of the official bureaucracy. It’s not easy to navigate the official world. One careless mistake can lead to the execution of the entire family.”

Chen Ji was puzzled. “Liu senior brother, what exactly do you want to say?”

Liu Qu Xing was rarely so sincere. “You and She Deng Ke are actually both not suited for the official world. Your knowledge, your social skills, your connections, everything is predetermined. Even if you enter the official world, you won’t have a future. Just right, your family is also unwilling to pay your tuition anymore. I’ll give you a sum of money, and you can leave the medical hall to do a small business. From now on, you won’t need to rely on your family’s support. How about it?”

Chen Ji didn’t comment.

Liu Qu Xing finally said, “Chen Ji, after you came to the medical hall, you learned characters even slower than She Deng Ke, and your pulse-taking is also inaccurate. You don’t have the talent for Master’s mantle. Give up.”

Chen Ji replied with a smile, “Senior brother has considered it very thoughtfully for me, but can you allow me to consider it a bit?”

“Okay,” Liu Qu Xing nodded. “Then you consider it carefully.”

After speaking, he turned and returned to the back courtyard.

Chen Ji saw a dark shadow under the counter chase Liu Qu Xing out with a whoosh. Fortunately, he was quick-witted and grabbed Wu Yun by the neck, pulling him back. “What are you doing?”

Wu Yun, angry in mid-air, bared his teeth and claws. “He looks down on you!”

Chen Ji couldn’t help but laugh. “You’re also very impolite to me.”

Wu Yun said, “That’s different!”

“Alright, alright, I can understand him,” Chen Ji sighed and said. “In this era, everyone who wants to make a living has it tough. When you encounter an opportunity, you must seize it…”

Before he finished speaking, Chen Ji’s face suddenly changed. His expression was ugly for a quarter of an hour, and the ice flow arrived as promised, like ice sand flowing in blood. This time, the ice flow came more fiercely than ever before. It seemed to have a ten thousand-year grudge with the melt flow; they were inherently incompatible.

The ice flow seeped into his body bit by bit, like an ice tree growing inside him, constantly branching and leafing out. Chen Ji even exhaled white frost gas. In just a short breath, the ice flow didn’t even give him a chance to assume the posture of carrying a heavy stone on his back. Then, he gradually became ice-sealed like a sculpture.

What should he do? Chen Ji stiffly and slowly turned his head to look towards the medicine cabinet. He wanted to struggle to get the ginseng, but he discovered that his legs had lost sensation at some point and were frozen in place!

Wu Yun looked at Chen Ji exhaling frost gas, stunned in place. “You… how?”

Chen Ji wanted to open his mouth and ask Wu Yun to help him find the ginseng, but he discovered that his lips were already stuck together. He could only watch himself gradually lose vitality…

Not right, there’s still a chance! At this moment, Wu Yun saw Chen Ji’s miserable state and was already anxiously losing composure, circling around him. It wanted to save Chen Ji, but it didn’t know how to save him at all. “Say something, how should I do it?”

The next moment, Wu Yun realized that Chen Ji was staring fixedly in one direction… It followed Chen Ji’s gaze and suddenly saw the medical hall’s medicine cabinet.

Wu Yun leaped onto the medicine cabinet and used its claws to pull open the drawers one by one. It didn’t know what was inside the drawers, but since Chen Ji was staring here, there must be a reason! The medicine cabinet was packed, and it didn’t know which one to bite, so it simply quickly pulled open all the drawers and bit the medicine inside one by one to try!

Dang Gui, not right. Chen Pi, not right. Shu Di Huang, also not right. Wu Yun failed repeatedly, anxious to go mad. Turning its head again, it discovered that the spirit in Chen Ji’s eyes was already gone.

…

…

Chen Ji seemed to return to that long black night again. The sound of the wind, the sound of the rain, and the sound of oars rowing on the water. Someone used a leaf boat to carry him through the sea of black clouds. In this black night, he heard a sound, the sound of shouting and killing he often heard in his dreams when he was young! The sound seemed to rumble loudly on an ancient battlefield. The sea water hung upside down, the mountains collapsed, and even the sky was cracked in several places.

In the boundless void, there was a grand sound like a great bell ringing, questioning:

“Who stole my divine path?”

“Who stole my sword seed?”

“Who stole my green mountain!”

Chen Ji didn’t answer and didn’t know how to answer. Who was opposite? What did the divine path, sword seed, and green mountain refer to? He didn’t know any of it. After a long silence, that grand sound finally opened its mouth again: “Forget it, I can just use your body to come to the world again!”

Chen Ji had a premonition that when he was completely ice-sealed, it would be the time for the unknown existence opposite to borrow his body to revive! Could it be that Li Qing Niao sent him to this world just to help this unknown existence wake up?

Going to die? But he had just just acquired a cat. Chen Ji’s thoughts were random, already at the moment of death. However, just at this time, Wu Yun ran back with a piece of broken ginseng in its mouth and put the ginseng to Chen Ji’s mouth!

The moment the old ginseng came into contact with Chen Ji, it suddenly sucked away a large portion of the ice flow like a whale, turning into six crystal-clear beads that fell onto the counter and rolled towards the edge of the counter.

Saved! Before he was completely ice-sealed, Chen Ji used his last strength to turn his eyes, hoping Wu Yun could understand his meaning. And Wu Yun, in despair, really grasped this lifeline for him.

The next moment, Wu Yun chased the beads rolling one by one on the counter and swallowed them one by one into its mouth. The vast melt flow was fed back by Wu Yun’s body, drilling into Chen Ji’s eyebrow, pushing all the remaining ice flow back into his dantian, rushing through his body, and pulling Chen Ji out of the darkness!

After recovering consciousness and mobility, he immediately closed his eyes tightly, sank his knees, and resisted the ice flow with the technique of carrying a heavy stone on his back. When he assumed the posture of carrying a heavy stone on his back, the melt flow suddenly surged up, full of vigor! Just like an army that was once without a commander, and now has a general. The general rides an armored war horse and holds the king’s banner!

Chen Ji wondered why the simple technique of carrying a heavy stone on his back that Yao old head casually taught him was actually so suitable for him.

Wait! After the melt flow was pushed back into the dantian, it was attracted by the Tian Shu acupoint on the left side of the dantian, like a vortex, swallowing nearly all the melt flow! In an instant, a prosperous furnace fire lit up inside the Tian Shu acupoint. The stock of ice flow in the dantian shrank a little further towards the deep place, seeming to be somewhat afraid of this furnace fire.

“With this furnace fire from the Tian Shu acupoint guarding, can I thoroughly suppress this ice flow? Not right, one acupoint is still not enough.” In the twelve main meridians, there are a total of four ‘dantian doors’, namely the left and right Tian Shu acupoints and the left and right Da Ju acupoints. Lighting up only one Tian Shu acupoint is not enough to seal the ice flow. It’s a pity that after lighting up the left Tian Shu acupoint, there was very little melt flow left…

Just as he was thinking, Wu Yun gently lifted its paw and touched the tip of Chen Ji’s index finger with its furry claw.

Boom!

Along with the melt flow inside Wu Yun’s body, it all surged into Chen Ji’s body, and rushed straight to the right Tian Shu acupoint, lighting up the second furnace fire! Two furnace fires continuously moistened Chen Ji’s body. His body was filled with surging power, all feelings of fatigue were swept away, and his strength also increased a bit! He suddenly recalled what Yao old head said: Heaven has three treasures, the sun, moon, and stars; people have three treasures, essence! Qi! Spirit! Essence is sufficient without thinking of lust, qi is sufficient without thinking of food, spirit is sufficient without thinking of sleep. This is the feeling of full qi and sufficient spirit!

Chen Ji opened his eyes. His pupils were bright, and the bottom of his eyes was like a burning flame. Originally, this was cultivation! He smiled and looked at Wu Yun, reached out and softly touched its head, saying, “Thank you.”

“Actually, it wasn’t much effort,” Wu Yun raised its head and said, as if it had just done a small thing casually.

“Mm, thank you anyway. Without you, I would have died… Wu Yun, you are the most powerful cat in this world!”

“Alright,” Wu Yun raised its head even higher. “This is just… where to where!”

The oil lamp on the counter had been burning for a long time, and the flame gradually dimmed. Chen Ji stood in the main hall, his gaze like fire surveying the new world before him. But this fire was soon extinguished by a basin of cold water: the ginseng was gone!

Chen Ji: “It’s over!”

Wu Yun wondered, “What’s over?”

“I’m over.”

Chen Ji turned over and took out the medical hall accounts to look for it. “Let me see how much that stock of ginseng is worth… What the heck, thirty taels of silver?!” One bun costs two wen, carrying a jar of water costs two wen. Now about nine hundred wen can be exchanged for one tael of silver, and this fifty-year-old ginseng wants thirty taels of silver. Is this ginseng made of gold? Even if Chen Ji were sold, it wouldn’t be enough!

He originally had two hundred forty wen for tuition, and owed three hundred twenty wen for medicine from the Zhou residence. Now add thirty taels of silver, which is like adding frost to snow for his already not-rich family!

“So poor, how can I be so poor? If I don’t make up for this root of ginseng, will Yao old head kill me?”

Wu Yun listened to Chen Ji muttering for a long time, and was silent for a long time. Finally, after a long struggle, it seemed to have made a sad decision: “Or you can take me to Heaven Street to perform. I can backflip!”

Chen Ji solemnly replied, “…That’s a really big sacrifice.”

Just as he said that, there was a knocking sound from outside the medical hall.

Dong dong dong.

Dong dong dong.

The person knocking didn’t rush or slow down, continuously knocking twice. The muffled sound seemed especially abrupt in the middle of the night, as if knocking directly on the heart. Chen Ji signaled Wu Yun with his eyes to flip back to the Jing Wang residence from the back courtyard, then slowly approached, vigilant, and said, “Who is it?”

The person knocking chuckled lightly and replied, “Cloud Sheep.”

This time, Chen Ji had no master by his side.