Chapter 41: The rare fruit before your eyes

Chapter 41: Peerless Treasure Fruit Right Before His Eyes

An Jing retracted his finger and slowly said, "This is an imbalance of Yin and Yang Qi."

"Doctor, do you have a solution?" Old Madam Cao's eyes lit up.

One must know that the several doctors who came earlier had looked for a long time without understanding the cause, but this Little Doctor An Jing could discern the illness after a brief glance, which indicated he had some skill.

Li Fuzhou also looked at An Jing with interest.

"Let me first test it with silver needles."

An Jing took out silver needles from his medicine box, then gently pricked Cao Ling'er's Acupoints with them.

"Hiss!"

A wisp of cold Yin Qi began to flow out along the Acupoints, but it was instantly consumed by the Yang Qi released by the bodhi pearl.

As the cold Yin Qi within Cao Ling'er was released, her expression gradually softened, and her pain slowly disappeared.

Old Madam Cao breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this; this Little Doctor An Jing truly had some skill.

Old Madam Cao was a fourth-grade cultivator, so she might not have clearly seen what just happened, but Li Fuzhou saw it clearly. He distinctly noticed that a wisp of Yin Qi was guided out and then instantly annihilated.

"This An Jing seems to have some tricks up his sleeve," Li Fuzhou marveled inwardly.

Not to mention how ingenious the method of guiding Yin Qi was, dissolving that Yin Qi was something not just anyone could do.

Yin Qi itself is an extremely complex Qi, somewhat gentler than Evil Qi, but still very troublesome. Once contaminated, it's extremely difficult to remove. Moreover, Yin Qi is more common than Evil Qi; although its harm is less than Evil Qi, it's even more difficult to deal with.

If An Jing were someone with extremely profound Internal Energy, Li Fuzhou would find it quite ordinary, but An Jing was a doctor without Internal Energy, a person with no power to even truss a chicken.

"This only temporarily alleviates the pain within her body."

An Jing withdrew the silver needles and slowly said, "Yin and Yang are the Dao of Heaven and Earth. At the same time, Yin and Yang are the Dao of change and generation. All things carry Yin and embrace Yang, achieving harmony through the blending of Qi. If these two Qi, Yin and Yang, lose their balance, it naturally causes great harm to the human body, so naturally, Yang must be supplemented."

For Traditional Chinese Medicine, everything is about the harmony of Yin and Yang. Taking this as the root and exploring the source, what one can see and do naturally achieves twice the result with half the effort.

An Jing being able to open a clinic in a prime location in Yu Prefecture was certainly not an undeserved reputation; he still possessed many genuine skills.

In simple terms, Yin represents blood, bodily fluids, water, skin, bones, flesh, and internal organs. Yang represents Qi, heat energy, and other forms of energy. The two are interconnected and co-dependent.

All of his medical skills came from the compiled ancient Chinese medicine texts, so treating these types of Qi was naturally effortless for him.

Upon hearing this, several doctors were immediately shocked, and their gazes toward An Jing changed. They all shed their condescending attitudes and pricked up their ears to listen.

"All things carry Yin and embrace Yang, achieving harmony through the blending of Qi," Li Fuzhou also murmured to himself.

These words seemed ordinary, but they contained myriad phenomena, making one deeply engrossed. The more profound a person's Dao, the more they found themselves unable to extricate themselves.

The profound principles of Yin and Yang encompass all the Dao in the world, and medical skill is merely one part of it.

"How will Dr. An supplement it?" Old Madam Cao quickly asked, her thoughts naturally on her precious granddaughter.

An Jing did not keep them in suspense and directly said, "It requires extremely precious herbs and essences, then boiled into a thick soup, combined with Internal Energy circulating through the six major Yang Acupoints, to then dissolve the Yin Qi within her body."

If it were just him, he could remove this Yin Qi using the bodhi pearl and his own Internal Energy, but both of these were things that couldn't be exposed. Cao Ling'er had no ties to him, so there was naturally no need to take that risk.

"Quick, go to the treasure vault and bring all the precious herbs," Old Madam Cao instructed the Steward.

"Yes, I'll go now."

Upon hearing this, the Steward hurried out the door.

"Old Madam Cao, two experts are also needed, preferably cultivators above the fourth-grade," An Jing added.

"Good, I'll go invite them now."

Before long, Steward Cao, accompanied by several servants, came in first, carrying boxes.

These were all herbs collected by the Cao Family, which, strictly speaking, could already be considered Heaven And Earth Treasures.

"Little Doctor An Jing, please see which ones can be used," Steward Cao instructed everyone to open the boxes, displaying them before An Jing.

"This fleeceflower root, it couldn't be a hundred-year-old one, could it?!"

"Blood ginseng, it's actually blood ginseng!"

"Could this one plant be a hundred-year-old Rhodiola rosea!"

When the herbs were presented, the several doctors present all looked surprised.

One must know that these extremely precious herbs they had only ever seen in medical texts, but now they appeared vividly before them.

An Jing also secretly clicked his tongue in amazement. These precious herbs gathered together truly showed the foundation of one of the Four Great Families of Jiangnan Province.

Any single herb was worth tens of thousands of silver taels.

"Prompt: There is an orange Opportunity near the host."

The Earth Book suddenly displayed an orange glow, which made An Jing's heart stir, and he quickly looked towards the medicine boxes.

Suddenly, his gaze fell upon a box.

Inside the box was a red fruit, which looked ordinary and unremarkable.

Vermillion Fruit!

This was a Vermillion Fruit!

"The Cao Family actually collected this Vermillion Fruit in a box!"

Seeing this, An Jing's mind became active. "Clearly, they didn't recognize this Vermillion Fruit at all."

The Vermillion Fruit is a rare fruit that grows in deep mountains and vast marshes, with a round and vibrant red color. Its medicinal efficacy is extremely powerful; eating it can strengthen the body, and martial artists who eat it can immediately increase their Internal Energy by sixty years.

Although increasing Internal Energy by sixty years might be an exaggeration, it was absolutely a rare treasure.

Vermillion Fruits are very rare, and they look no different from ordinary fruits. Although the Cao Family members knew this red fruit was extraordinary, they definitely didn't guess it was a Vermillion Fruit, which is why it was placed in this box.

If they had known what it was, the Cao Family Head would have already consumed it.

This Vermillion Fruit will serve as the consultation fee for this visit, An Jing thought with a surge of emotion.

Li Fuzhou also noticed the Vermillion Fruit and sighed inwardly at how the Cao Family members were squandering a treasure by keeping it in a box.

"If I had this Vermillion Fruit, my injuries should also recover by seventy to eighty percent."

His expression was calm and composed, without the slightest change, but in his heart, he had already marked the Vermillion Fruit as his own, considering it within his grasp.

Both of them glanced at the Vermillion Fruit's box, and in their hearts, they had already claimed the Vermillion Fruit as their own.

Just then, Old Madam Cao returned with two Cao Family experts and asked, "Dr. An, do any of these herbs meet your needs?"

These two Cao Family experts were both Cao Family Guest Elders: Guo Qing, the Startling Blade, and Bai Qiushui, the Ten Directions Scholar.

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