It all happened in a flash.
Lin Tang's hand darted into Li Weihai's chest cavity, seizing his lifeless heart.
BOOM!
Vast True Qi flooded the cavity, suppressing the gush of blood and forcing the heart to beat once more.
Lin Tang's other hand was not idle. His five fingers spread, and True Qi condensed at his fingertips, forming ethereal needles that he plunged into Li Weihai's key acupuncture points.
This series of operations left Ge Shijian utterly srized.
"Master has reached the supre realm where his technique surpasses the need for any physical needle! This is no longer within the scope of dicine. It's…"
"What is it?" Lee Encai asked anxiously.
"It's a Spell! An Immortal Technique!" Ge Shijian exclaid with feverish devotion.
Lee Encai was speechless.
The mbers of the Li Family were dumbfounded. What nonsense about spells and Immortal Techniques? What era are we in? Is he trying to fool us with feudal superstitions? Why doesn't he just say he's performing a séance? They were convinced that Lin Tang was just ssing around.
"The patriarch has passed. Let him rest in peace. His body must not be desecrated any further!"
"How dare you trifle with our Li Family? n, tear this punk to pieces!"
Instantly, a group of subordinates stord into the ergency room, preparing to attack Lin Tang.
"You people…" Ge Shijian stomped his foot in frustration. Aren't these fools just making things worse? With their interference, a patient who could have been saved is now sure to die.
At this critical mont, Lin Tang unleashed his power. Using True Qi, he animated Li Weihai's corpse, which suddenly sat up and began punching and kicking the subordinates.
"My god!"
"Is this… reanimation?"
"Is it really an Immortal Law?"
"It feels more like sorcery to !"
The Li Family mbers were completely stunned and dared not make a move.
In the end, Lin Tang had forcefully pulled Li Weihai back from the gates of hell.
Watching Li Weihai's vital signs return, the doctors and nurses stared in disbelief, their entire worldview overturned. To save soone without surgery or equipnt, with just bare hands and a series of seemingly crude actions? It was a miracle!
The Li Family mbers were equally shocked, their astonishnt quickly turning into elation. The patriarch was fine! He was alive!
"We were blind to not recognize a master! Please forgive us, Divine Doctor!" they apologized profusely, their attitudes now filled with awe.
Lee Encai cried tears of joy and hurriedly woke her mother, Pei Huixian, to share the good news. Afterward, feeling deeply embarrassed, she also apologized to Lin Tang.
Lin Tang couldn't be bothered with her. He turned to the doctors and said, "What are you standing around for? Suture the patient's wound!"
"Oh! Yes, of course, right away!" The doctors scrambled to obey, their deanor entirely submissive.
Lin Tang then directed Ge Shijian, "The patient has lost a lot of blood and needs nourishnt. I'll give you a prescription. Go and brew the dicine."
After he recited the ingredients, Ge Shijian's eyes bulged. "Could this be the long-lost Chaoyuan Buqi Soup?"
"Yes, that's the na," Lin Tang replied nonchalantly.
"Master, the recipe for Chaoyuan Buqi Soup is worth at least a hundred million! And you've shared it with so freely…" Ge Shijian was so moved that his eyes welled with tears and his body trembled. He was ecstatic. If his peers in the world of traditional Chinese dicine learned that this formula had resurfaced, they would go insane.
"This junk is worth over a hundred million?" Lin Tang was rather surprised. This was one of the most insignificant recipes in his mory. He could easily recite a long list of far better ones.
Lee Encai listened in a daze. This Divine Doctor Lin's ability to make money is just incredible. A single recipe is worth a hundred million. My plan to pay him a fifty-million-yuan consultation fee now seems insultingly cheap…
When Li Weihai drank a bowl of the Chaoyuan Buqi Soup, the effect was imdiate. His complexion improved at a visible rate, and his entire deanor was revitalized. Upon waking fully, he thanked Lin Tang repeatedly. He even got so excited that he declared, "There is no way to repay you for saving my life. How about I betroth my daughter to you? I am willing to offer half of my personal shares as her dowry. I hope the Divine Doctor will not refuse."
"Huh??" Lee Encai was baffled. ? I'm going to… marry him? This is all so sudden.
Lin Tang glanced at her fair, supermodel-long legs but shook his head in refusal.
Lee Encai, who had been conflicted and wanted her father to retract his offer, now felt a strange sense of indignation. "Do you think I'm not good enough for you? Am I ugly?"
"You look fine, but I'm already married. My wife is more beautiful than you, and I don't plan on replacing her," Lin Tang stated flatly.
"Pfft. I've hardly t anyone in Jiangbei more beautiful than . Who's your wife? Don't tell it's Shen Youling," Lee Encai scoffed.
"Yes, that's her. You know her?" Lin Tang raised an eyebrow, realizing Shen Youling's fa was quite widespread.
"It's really her?!" Lee Encai's mouth fell open. Her first thought was that he was unworthy of Shen Youling, but then she rembered his miraculous dical skills. Well… I guess one could say they're a fitting couple.
"That is truly a sha," Li Weihai said, his face falling.
Pei Huixian's eyes had lit up at the prospect. She had started examining Lin Tang with the classic look of a mother-in-law sizing up a potential son-in-law, liking what she saw more and more. Hearing this news, she was just as disappointed. Damn it! Such a perfect match, and the Shen Family got to him first…
"Shen Youling? From Shen Qiushi's Shen Family?" Suddenly, one of the Li family mbers held up a smartphone displaying a local news story. "The Shen Family has publicly announced that Lin Tang is definitely not their son-in-law and has no connection with them… Divine Doctor Lin, this Lin Tang in the news couldn't be you, could it?"
"This Dong Mingfeng in the article also says her daughter has caught the eye of the Mo family's young master, Mo Zhongyuan, and they are getting to know each other…"
"Is that true?"
"Let see! It is!"
"So…"
The Li Family mbers huddled together, buzzing with gossip. Their gazes toward Lin Tang turned peculiar.
After reading the article, Lin Tang's expression betrayed neither joy nor anger.
"HAHAHA—" Li Weihai suddenly erupted in hearty laughter, then waved his hand dismissively. "My apologies, Divine Doctor Lin. I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing at the Shen Family's shortsightedness. They don't know how to appreciate what they have, giving up an outstanding son-in-law like you."
Pei Huixian struck while the iron was hot. "Since the Shen Family has declared the engagent void, why don't you forget about them and marry my daughter? I feel that you two are destined to be together."
"Mom, what are you saying!" Lee Encai's face flushed red, a mix of embarrassnt and shyness.
"Thank you both for your kind intentions, but I need to go to the Shen Family to ask about this. I'll be taking my leave," Lin Tang said, shaking his head and turning to walk away. He didn't forget to add a final instruction to Lee Encai, "I don't have a bank account right now. Call to pay the consultation fee after I get a new card."
"Wait… I don't have your number! Hey, where'd you go?" Lee Encai chased him down the stairs, only to find that Lin Tang had already vanished.
Just as she was about to turn back, a roaring sound echoed from the sky. She looked up to see a helicopter descending, its rotors whipping leaves and dust into a frenzy.
The next mont, a burly figure leaped from the helicopter!
With a deafening BANG, the ground cracked, and a large crater ford where he landed.
"???" Lee Encai's jaw dropped, thinking the man had just attempted suicide. But on closer inspection, the man was completely unhard. He calmly stepped out of the crater, a sword as wide as a door panel strapped to his back.
This man was none other than Mo Zhongyuan's senior brother—Hou Baoshu!
"Mo Zhongyuan, I have arrived. Co out and receive at once!" his arrogant voice bood like thunder on a clear day. Even from a distance, Lee Encai's ears rang from the force of it. Is that a sound a human can even make? she thought, horrified.
The rest of the Li Family was also startled and rushed to the balcony.
"Who is that?"
"What an entrance!"
Besides the Li Family, others in the hospital poked their heads out of windows to see what the commotion was about.
A mont later, a group of injured thugs pushed Mo Zhongyuan, who was in a wheelchair, out to the front of the building.
"Senior Brother!" Mo Zhongyuan called out, his voice filled with excitent.
"I have already warned you. A piece of trash like you has no right to call Senior Brother," Hou Baoshu replied, offering him no courtesy whatsoever.
"You…"
"Cut the nonsense. Where is the great beauty? Hand her over now!"
Mo Zhongyuan had wanted to negotiate, to demand that Hou Baoshu eliminate Lin Tang first. But one look into his senior brother's utterly indifferent eyes was enough. He wisely waved his hand, ordering his n to push Shen Youling forward and present her to Hou Baoshu.
At that mont, Shen Youling's eyes were vacant, her expression numb. She was like a dry well. There's nothing left to fear… She was already terminally ill, with little ti left to live. If not for Lin Tang's ddling, she would already be dead by her own hand. What difference did it make if she were killed now?
CLANG—
Hou Baoshu drew his broadsword and laid the cold steel against Shen Youling's slender, pale neck. It seed blood was about to spill. Even Mo Zhongyuan couldn't bear to watch and looked away.
"This won't do…" Hou Baoshu suddenly plunged his sword into the ground beside him, shaking his head in disappointnt.
"What's wrong?" Mo Zhongyuan asked, curious. Had his Senior Brother changed his mind? I knew it. No normal man could bring himself to destroy such a beauty.
"Her emotions are too placid. Using her to consecrate the sword like this would be soulless," Hou Baoshu said, pulling out a small bottle. A perverse smile spread across his face. "The taste of blood is most exquisite only when emotions are at their most intense…"
He seized Shen Youling's face and forced all the pills from the bottle into her mouth, making her swallow.
"COUGH, COUGH, COUGH—" Shen Youling choked, doubling over. "What… what did you give ?"
The mont the pills hit her stomach, it felt like boiling oil scalding her from the inside. Her body temperature skyrocketed, her consciousness began to blur, and her breathing grew ragged. Oh no, this is… Her face paled with the horrifying realization. It's an aphrodisiac! Damn this scum, this monster! He's not just going to kill ; he's going to humiliate in my final monts!
"No!" Unwilling to accept this fate, Shen Youling lunged desperately toward the broadsword embedded in the ground. But Hou Baoshu simply kicked her, sending her tumbling to Mo Zhongyuan's feet.
"You help her along. When her passions are at their peak, I will run her through with a single strike," he said, flicking the sword's blade with his finger, making it sing with a clear hum.
Mo Zhongyuan was aghast. Forget the fact that he was in excruciating pain and had neither the mood nor the strength; even if he were perfectly fine and Shen Youling were a heavenly beauty, there was no way he could go through with it. He didn't want to be splattered with blood at the climax. The psychological trauma would be enough to make him swear off won for life.
"You dare defy my order?" Hou Baoshu's expression turned frigid, looking as if he might cleave Mo Zhongyuan in two at the slightest provocation.
Mo Zhongyuan's scalp tingled. He cursed the madman internally but said aloud, "Perhaps we could find a more private location? This is in full public view…"
"Hmph—" Hou Baoshu laughed with scorn. "Mo Zhongyuan, the reason you are so weak, the reason your martial arts were crippled, is because you lack a true warrior's heart. A true expert cares nothing for the judgnt of the mundane world! Wherever my sword points, all are but ants… Fine. Since you are so useless, I will handle it myself!"
With that, he ripped his own shirt apart, carelessly exposing a torso of chiseled muscle to the stunned crowd. He then advanced on Shen Youling, reaching out his vile hand.
This scene left all the onlookers speechless. A murmur spread through the crowd; everyone found his actions utterly depraved. Yet, no one dared to interfere.
Are you kidding? A man who could jump from a helicopter without a scratch was terrifying beyond imagination. Furthermore, the presence of Mo Zhongyuan and his nurous henchn made it clear they were from so super-powerful organization. Who would dare to provoke them? It would be suicide.
Shen Youling lay helpless on the ground, watching in horror as Hou Baoshu's hand drew closer. Her eyes widened as if they would tear, and her heart filled with utter despair.
Don't! Don't! DON'T!! I've never done a single bad thing in my life! Why must I suffer this tornt? Why?! Why?! Who will save ? CAN ANYONE SAVE ?!
In that deathly silence, when not a soul dared to speak, a figure suddenly burst forward, shouting furiously:
"Let go of that girl!"
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