Chapter 508 - 506: First Encounter with the Medical Dao Path

Chapter 508: Chapter 506: First Encounter with the Medical Dao Path

The medicine was the real deal.

If the man buying the medicine hadn’t seen Su Qing’s fluid, graceful process of gathering the herbs, he would have sworn Su Qing was being careless with his prescription.

But it couldn’t be helped.

Su Qing’s herb-gathering process was just too silky smooth.

"Physician, how should I address you?"

"Just call me Doctor Su."

Su Qing said with a smile, then sat back down in his wicker chair.

"Alright, Doctor Su, I’ll be coming to you from now on when I need a doctor," the man said with a laugh.

He gave a wave and left Su Qing’s clinic.

To be honest, the hemostatic medicine here was really effective, and most importantly, it was cheaper than the pharmacies in the city.

Effective and cheap—that was all that mattered.

As for the mother and son who had come for treatment earlier, Su Qing hadn’t mentioned the price at all.

In reality, Su Qing just charged the normal price for common folk.

He didn’t need to make a profit.

He just needed a cover.

So his prices were basically normal.

As for where these medicinal herbs came from?

Inside Su Qing’s Dao Artifact, which controlled the years, there were vast quantities of such herbs.

He didn’t even need to go out and gather them.

He could grab a huge pile of them at will.

Furthermore, they were all wild, Upper Grade medicinal herbs.

He was essentially just exchanging years for medicine.

’This kind of leisurely time is really quite nice.’

Su Qing thought to himself as he lay on the wicker chair.

He really wanted to return to the world of his past life.

But Blue Star was nowhere to be found in the Star Sea.

Su Qing had looked through the Star Sea Map, but found no trace of anything like the Galaxy.

But without it, Su Qing couldn’t go back.

What he feared most now was returning only to find that time had passed and everyone he cared about was already gone.

If that were the case, what would be the point of Su Qing going back?

He himself had already lived for several hundred years.

Not to mention what Blue Star might look like when he returned.

Unless he could truly master the Power of Time.

And reverse spacetime.

Only then would it be possible for Su Qing to return to the Blue Star he once knew.

’What would I even do if I went back?’

’Take care of my parents?’

’Wait for them to pass away naturally, then leave Blue Star myself?’

Su Qing pondered. He had been constantly thinking about what he could do if he went back.

Should he give his parents Longevity, or just care for them as they entered old age?

Su Qing didn’t know.

His thoughts began to drift.

"There’s actually a clinic here?"

A fellow with a thuggish air appeared at Su Qing’s doorway. He wasn’t tall, wore hemp clothes, and had a patch on his shoulder.

He even stepped on the threshold as he entered.

He glanced around.

His demeanor was arrogant and domineering.

"Where’s the guy in charge of this clinic?"

"How dare you open up a shop in our territory without getting permission from our Black Wolf Gang?"

He kicked out towards Su Qing’s wicker chair.

A guy with no Cultivation whatsoever, who hadn’t even stepped onto a Dao Path.

Su Qing glanced over, then shot out a hand.

He grabbed the man’s ankle joint and yanked.

The leg dislocated instantly.

"AHH—"

The man screamed in terror, because he couldn’t feel his lower leg at all.

Losing his balance, he fell to his knees on the ground.

Su Qing stood up as well.

"I don’t give a damn about your Black Wolf Gang."

"If you dare cause trouble here, your life is forfeit." Su Qing patted the face of the man kneeling on the ground, grabbed him by the shoulder with one hand, and tossed him out of the clinic.

The man, having been thrown out, clutched his shoulder with one hand and limped away towards the Inner City.

Su Qing then lay back down on his wicker chair.

He was just a common thug.

Even though Su Qing’s current body was very ordinary, the skills he had learned over several hundred years were not for nothing.

Even with his current strength, which was that of a normal person, he would have no problem taking on ten hooligans like that one.

With a weapon, as long as he didn’t run out of stamina, he could easily kill thirty or forty people.

Black Wolf Gang, Wind Wolf Chapter.

Inside the hall, a man knelt on the ground, his face bitter, crying out his grievances to a burly man seated on a high chair in the center of the room.

"Hall Lord, a new clinic opened up in the East City Suburb. I went to collect protection money, and he beat me up, busted my leg, and threw me out."

"He also said he looks down on our Black Wolf Gang."

When the burly man on the high seat heard this, the knife scar on his face seemed to furrow along with his brow.

"One person?"

"Yeah, just one person."

"Set up a clinic in the East City Suburb?"

"Yes, Hall Lord."

"..."

"Leave this matter alone. And don’t go looking for trouble with him either."

"Recently, a lot of powerful and unusual individuals have been appearing in the city. You, and all of you."

"You all better keep a low profile."

This Hall Lord was quite astute. Having been in a high position for a long time, he naturally thought differently.

What normal physician would choose to open a clinic in such a remote place?

Therefore, there was probably something unusual about that clinic.

"Such a remote place, and there’s actually a clinic here."

A man walked in.

The man had a very gentle appearance, like a well-read scholar, and possessed a scholarly air.

He was decent-looking, about 1.75 meters tall.

However, he was dressed in brocade clothes.

Su Qing narrowed his eyes at him.

What the Synthesizer showed Su Qing was the Medical Dao Path.

This kind of Dao Path was basically impossible to find in the Star Sea.

It wasn’t a common Dao Path.

It could only be achieved through one’s own will.

It was very similar to those who were labeled as Fantasists back in the Spirit Realm.

"You don’t seem to be ill, customer. I wonder what brings you here?"

Su Qing remained lying on his wicker chair. After achieving a Dao Path, as long as one didn’t court death, one could basically live a long, healthy life until dying of old age.

"Are you the Doctor at this clinic?"

"That’s right," Su Qing nodded.

"I wish to make a living here. I’m also a Doctor. I wonder if that would be possible?"

"Oh?"

Su Qing was puzzled. How could a fellow dressed in brocade possibly be short on money?

Especially with the appearance of the Medical Dao Path.

This man was definitely a top-tier physician in this world.

’This guy’s motives aren’t pure.’

"No," Su Qing said, shaking his head.

Su Qing was afraid of trouble.

Speaking of trouble, Su Qing had just offended the Black Wolf Gang.

He wondered if they would bring people to retaliate.

If they did bring people, Su Qing would have no choice but to take action.

"Doctor, I’m completely penniless right now. You have a physician’s benevolent heart, won’t you help me?"

"No. You... I can’t help you, because I can’t even help myself."

"I have no desire to help others. Go on, shoo."

Su Qing verbally shooed him away, but his body didn’t move from the wicker chair at all.

"It seems your heart isn’t so good either, Doctor."

"If every physician has a ’good heart,’ it can only mean he hasn’t seen enough of the world."

"If he has seen a lot and still has a benevolent heart, it means the person has the heart of a newborn."

"Obviously, I am not such a person."

Su Qing was never a pure physician to begin with.

He was merely using the identity of a doctor to make himself seem a bit more normal.

His original body was still in Cultivation.

"Very well, then."

The man left.

And Su Qing was happy for the peace and quiet.

「The next day.」

That guy had actually converted the small courtyard across from him into a clinic.

’Is he trying to steal my business?’

Su Qing glanced over, grumbling inwardly. If he really made his living by treating others, this would undoubtedly be snatching the rice bowl from his mouth.

Too bad.

Su Qing wasn’t.

And neither was the other guy.

He couldn’t be bothered to pay them any mind.

Around high noon.

The man who had bought medicine here yesterday came to Su Qing’s clinic again.

"Doctor Su, I’ll take ten more portions of the anti-inflammatory medicine."

"Ten portions? That’ll be 300 copper coins."

Su Qing didn’t bat an eye.

He got up to prepare the herbs.

"Alright."

A transaction of money for medicine.

No trouble at all.

But the man made an odd comment, "Two clinics have opened in such a remote place. It’s very strange."

After saying his piece, he left.

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