Ultimate Village Doctor

"You all need to come up with a plan, we can\'t let Long Xiaoshan stir up trouble anymore." Inside a room in a three-story building at the entrance of the village.

Long Fakui and his cronies, including Ergouzi and a few others, were standing there, conspiring.

Because they felt threatened.

"Village Chief, just tell us what to do, I, Ergouzi will go through fire and water for you, I\'ll follow your commands to the letter," Ergouzi pledged his loyalty.

Long Fakui, with a grim face and taking a puff of smoke, said, "The only reason that kid can be so arrogant is because of the investment from the Lily Hotel. We just need to make him lose money. Once he\'s at a loss, the Lily Hotel will definitely stop investing in him, and he\'ll be nothing."

"But how can we make him lose money, Uncle?" a young man asked.

Long Fakui, stubbing out his cigarette with force, said, "Put something in his pond."

Ergouzi and the others jumped, saying, "Village Chief, are you talking about poisoning, killing all his fish and shrimp?"

A sound of a basin hitting the ground came from outside.

"Who?" Long Fakui immediately stood up and asked.

Ergouzi and the others quickly opened the door to see Jin Lian picking up a basin in a fluster.

Long Fakui walked over, looked outside, then yanked Jin Lian into the room, barking, "What are you doing?"

"Nothing, I just went to get some water to wash little Yu\'s face," Jin Lian said hastily.

"Humph, did you hear anything just now?" Long Fakui was staring at Jin Lian, who was trying to avoid eye contact, and he shouted, "Speak!"

Jin Lian said worriedly, "Fakui, we are all fellow villagers, Xiaoshan hasn\'t really done anything to you. If you poison his fish, you\'ll reap what you sow..."

Slap!

Long Fakui slapped Jin Lian to the ground.

"You useless thing, you don\'t know shit."

Long Fakui kicked her a few times more, then from the doorway, a crying sound came. A sixteen- or seventeen-year-old girl stood at the door, crying bitterly. Long Fakui yelled, "What are you crying for?"

Ergouzi and the others knew that Long Fakui had only one daughter, little Yu, who was simple-minded.

In the village, she was secretly called the simple girl.

After that, there were no more children, and Long Fakui moved to the county, where it was said he kept a second wife and had sons.

"Get out, if I hear any words leak out, I\'ll kill you," Long Fakui roared at Jin Lian fiercely.

Jin Lian, without a word, got up, covered her face, and walked to the door, pulling her daughter out with her.

Long Fakui shut the door and looked at Ergouzi and the others, saying, "Who will go? Do it well, and I\'ll give you ten thousand yuan."

Hearing there was ten thousand yuan to be made, Ergouzi and the others\' eyes lit up...

Long Xiaoshan was sleeping on the farm at night; after all, the farm was vast, growing so many fruits and vegetables, and raising fish, it needed someone to watch over it. The countryside may be simple, but there was always a temptation to take small advantages; and Long Xiaoshan was still not entirely at ease.

Underneath Shieyan Rock, which resembled a large goose, there was a newly built makeshift house that could accommodate people. Long Xiaoshan had laid out a room inside, complete with bedding on the floor.

After work, having eaten something, Long Xiaoshan took a long walk around the farm, returned to the makeshift house, and began to practice. In recent days, eating the fruits and vegetables cultivated with Spiritual Liquid, as well as the large shrimp, he felt an increasingly robust heat within him.

Originally, in prison, the food was poor, and after years of cultivation, the heat had stagnated and couldn\'t be improved upon.

Now, eating every day, he felt that the flow of energy during practice was becoming thicker and more obvious, and his abdomen was more and more distended, as if stuffed with iron blocks. During practice, those streams of energy would continuously surge, making his abdomen swell like a ball.

Long Xiaoshan thought he might have something growing in his stomach, but when he used his Spirit Eye to look inside, his abdomen was clearly empty; there was nothing.

It was only by using the heat from cultivation to continuously strike inside that he felt some relief.

So today, after checking the farm and feeling very uncomfortable in his stomach, Long Xiaoshan immediately went back to practice, circulating the flow of energy around and around in his body according to the cultivation technique of Longevity Art.

Striking at the blocked and uncomfortable places in his abdomen.

He didn\'t know how much time had passed.

Suddenly, there was a loud boom.

A surge of warmth finally broke through the obstruction in his abdomen, and when the blockage was cleared, a feeling of extreme pleasure immediately filled his entire body. Then, Long Xiaoshan distinctly felt something greasy oozing out of him.

When he touched it with his hand, he found that it was black and quite foul-smelling.

He was startled.

Could it be that he was undergoing the Sinew-Transforming Marrow-Washing? In the past, in prison, he had heard Elder Chang say that if your body excretes such black and foul substances, it indicates a breakthrough, and a transformation of the body.

As the greasy black substances gushed out in large amounts, Long Xiaoshan felt as if he was connected to the outside world more distinctly, as if strands of Spiritual Energy were streaming in from the void, entering his body.

Then, they followed the warm flow within his body, entering his lower abdomen.

Long Xiaoshan examined himself with his Spirit Eye.

He noticed that there was a space the size of a fist in his lower abdomen that hadn\'t been there before. The Spiritual Energy that was rushing in was being stored in this fist-sized space.

Was this Inner Strength from martial arts?

Long Xiaoshan was quite astonished as he watched the rotating flow of energy within his Dantian.

Little did he know, this was not ordinary Inner Strength, but True Qi, which only Cultivators and Innate Martial Artists possessed—far more formidable than Inner Strength.

He had always thought that Elder Chang was teaching him martial arts.

About a minute later, the black oily substance finished flowing out of his body. Long Xiaoshan smelled a stench and quickly jumped out of bed because the smell was unbearable. Glancing outside, he saw that it was pitch black, with crickets chirping. He hurriedly stripped off his clothes and dashed out.

By Shieyan Rock, there was a clear little stream.

As he began to run, the flow of energy in his Dantian spontaneously surged outwards, flowing towards his feet, whoosh! It was almost as if he could fly.

His body felt several times lighter.

As he ran, he became a blurred shadow in the darkness.

He nearly shouted out.

Because he was moving too fast.

He felt almost out of control, and in just a few breaths, he covered the several dozen meters to the riverbank.

He leaped into the river.

A wave of coldness washed over him, extremely comfortable. In July or August, soaking in the river was invigorating. This small stream was a popular spot for the villagers to bathe, as the village was too poor for proper bathing facilities. However, now it was night.

It was at least eight o\'clock, and there was no one in the river.

He stripped completely.

With a dive, he plunged into the river and swam forward.

When the air in his lungs was depleted, the energy in his abdomen surged forth, and Long Xiaoshan unexpectedly felt no need to hold his breath. He was as free as he was on land. His eyes lit up with realization that this "Inner Strength" even allowed him to breathe underwater.

He swam freely in the water, and being young, the childlike joy in him surged. He swam around nonstop, like a fish, for over ten minutes, until he felt that the breath he had been holding was almost used up.

As he was about to swim back to the surface, he suddenly heard the voices of two people talking.

In the stillness of the night, his ears were sensitive, and he heard them clearly.

"Tao, what\'s going on between you and little Xiaoshan? Tell sis." The voice was none other than Zhang Widow.

"What do you mean what\'s going on? There\'s nothing between little Xiaoshan and me," Chun Tao replied.

"Still claiming there\'s nothing? You\'ve caused quite a scene. Are you daft? Was it worth trying to hang yourself? Even if you ended up with little Xiaoshan, so what? Xiaoshan is capable and good-looking. I\'m even envious of you. That\'s far better than giving yourself away cheaply to that old bastard Long Fakui," Zhang Widow chided.

"Sis, what are you saying? I really didn\'t do anything with Xiaoshan. Plus, I\'m a woman of ill omen; I can\'t bring misfortune on Xiaoshan," Chun Tao said in a disheartened tone.

"What ill omen? The feng shui of this village is just bad, taking the lives of men, it has nothing to do with you. By that logic, since my man died early too, I must also bring bad luck to my husband," Zhang Widow scoffed with a cold laugh.