The Rural Doctor of the Mountain Spirit

  This scalpel is called the Soul-Cutting Knife. The name, of course, couldn't have been taken out casually.

  The Soul-Cutting Knife has two functions. The first function is to cut living people and sever their souls. When the knife passes through, the gap left by the knife cutting through the flesh can be used to extract the soul, which means that the living person's soul can be pulled out alive from the gap. At the same time, it can also be used to insert a soul, which means that an evil spirit can be stuffed into a living person's body from the gap.

  Apart from this, the Soul-Cutting Knife can also behead ghosts, and with one slash, their souls will scatter.

  But after all, the Soul-Cutting Knife is a surgical knife, its main function is not to kill people or ghosts, but to perform surgery.

  What surgery is it specifically?

  The Soul-Cutting Knife can actually cut down other things from the ghost's body besides exorcising it, such as the ghost's hair, clothes, and fingernails. These things are impossible for ordinary knives to touch, even if they could, they couldn't be cut off, and after cutting them off, they couldn't be preserved either.

  And now I'm using the Soul-Cleaving Blade, precisely to take these things off the ghost of a bachelor.

  Watching the bachelor's ghost crawl over bit by bit, I still felt a little uneasy in my heart. However, I didn't retreat, but instead looked at it quietly.

  The ghost of the bachelor's head was still tilted, and he crawled towards me on the ground without stopping. One hand stretched out in mid-air, staring at me with those empty eyes without eyeballs: "Please, save me."

  I silently stared at him, coldly snorting a sentence: "I see you're still stubborn, harming others while alive and still wanting to entangle after death. I'll give you one last chance, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless."

  The bachelor fell to the ground and burst out laughing. Suddenly, he let out a loud cry and quickened his pace crawling towards me. The strange thumping sound made my heart feel creepy.

  However, I still stood in place without retreating. My hand had actually been placed on the drum at my waist, while the other hand grasped the Soul-Cutting Knife, cautiously watching the single man.

  He sprang up in front of me with a couple of quick movements, his head tilted to one side. His body was unusually stiff, so as he stood up, it kept making extremely discordant creaking sounds, as if his bones were rubbing against each other.

  And I still stared at him motionlessly, without taking a step back.

  The bachelor stretched out his hand to me, that hand was pale and thin, like a chicken claw. His mouth suddenly made an even more discordant sound, just like someone who had eaten too much and couldn't stop belching.

  "Save me, I'm suffering so much."

  I no longer hesitated, and my hand lightly patted the drum. A loud "thud" echoed out, and the bachelor's ghost let out a mournful cry, hastily retreating backwards. But I, at this moment, not only didn't retreat, but instead slowly walked towards him.

  Wielding the Soul-Cutting Knife, he swung it heavily onto the bachelor's head.

  Suddenly, a large cluster of jet-black hair fell from the bachelor's head. I quickly turned my knife and slashed at the bachelor's clothes, and a large section of his clothes also fell off.

  The ghost hair is actually the hair of the ghost, and the ghost clothes are the clothes worn on the ghost's body. In fact, whether it's the ghost hair or the ghost clothes, they are all part of the ghost spirit.

  Unlike humans, human hair and flesh are distinct, but ghosts don't. When I cut off the ghost's hair, in fact, I was cutting off a part of its soul.

  And I took these things, naturally for my own use. Ghost hair and ghost clothes are a kind of medicinal material recorded in the ghost doctor's technique. This medicinal material cannot be replaced by anything else in the world. This ghostly medicinal material is not only rare but also has a great effect on treating mental illnesses.

  The most crucial thing is that this medicine can also be used to improve one's physique.

  After I cut off his ghostly hair and clothes, the bachelor's ghost let out a howl. It was clear that he felt pain.

  I picked up the ghost hair and ghost clothes at this time, quickly retreated, stood one meter away from him, staring at him, and warned again.

  "This life, the reason you died prematurely is because of your own self-destruction. However, no matter what, once your physical body perishes, all the debts you owed have been repaid, I won't bother you again. But if you continue to do evil, I will make you suffer to the point where death would be a relief."

  The bachelor was startled by the sudden drumbeat, and his face surprisingly showed terror. He let out a loud cry, backing away non-stop: "I'll do whatever you say, please just spare me."

  I silently watched him, with a calm heart: "Go reincarnate, get out."

  The bachelor tilted his head, with messy hair covering half of his face. Then, he turned around and slowly disappeared into the darkness of night.

  I withdrew my gaze and stopped looking at him. I reckon this guy definitely won't go reincarnate immediately, but that's his business, I don't care. As long as he comes to the village again to do evil, I will beat him to smithereens without hesitation.

  I don't have time to bother with him, I still have a lot of things to do.

  After picking up the ghost hair and ghost clothes, I quickly ran towards the house. Then I found a stove, lit it on fire, and placed a paper bowl on top of the stove.

  These ghostly clothes and hair are after all part of a ghost, by the time it's daylight, they will disperse. What I need to do is before dawn breaks, quickly use a secret method to refine them, only then can they be preserved.

  The refining method is a bit complicated, first you need to use a paper bowl. Don't look at this as just a paper bowl, the paper bowl has talismans drawn on it. Even if you put this paper bowl directly over an open flame and burn it, it will absolutely not catch fire.

  Why not use an iron pot? There are other considerations, of course.

  In addition to paper bowls, we also need water without roots. Water without roots is actually rainwater, just rainwater that hasn't fallen to the ground.

  After doing everything, I poured the rootless water into a paper bowl and slowly boiled it until the water was boiling. Then, I put the ghost hair and ghost clothes in the water and started to simmer them.

  The ghost hair and ghost clothes are put into the boiling rootless water, they will melt immediately, and finally leave a little crystal at the bottom of the paper bowl. I need to crush the crystal into powder, then it can be packed in a bottle and sealed for later use as medicine.

  After doing all this, the sky was almost bright, I was a bit sleepy, after stretching, I went to bed.

  As for what I did today, I'm actually very satisfied with myself. Moreover, I also obtained the ghost hair and ghost clothes, and successfully refined them into medicinal powder, which means that from now on, I have truly become a ghost doctor.

  I lay comfortably in bed and slept until noon the next day.

  The next day after eating I had nothing to do, so I went for a walk in the village. On the way, I met someone, an idiot.

  This person stood in front of me, constantly hehe smiling at me.

  A villager next to me explained: "What a good person he was, so smart before, how did he become stupid?"

  I hastily asked the villager: "Uncle, tell me, what's going on?"

  The villager was dressed in farming clothes and appeared to be preparing to go down to the fields to till the soil. He looked around fifty years old, with a slightly hunched back and a somewhat frail body.

  He stopped in his tracks, gesturing with one hand while speaking: "It's still that bachelor, he was also ruined by that bachelor. This guy used to be very clever and almost became the village branch secretary. However, this guy is a bit kind-hearted, when the bachelor was struggling, he tried to help him live a better life, who knew."

  Who would have thought that this bachelor not only didn't take the hint, but also thought I was an idiot who deserved it. And one day, this bachelor lost all sense of decency and even went to his house to steal. During those days, the bachelor not only lived off him, but also kept asking for money from him every day.

  When he saw the bachelor sneaking into the house to steal things, even if this guy was kind-hearted, he couldn't help it. Then, he fought with the bachelor. But this bachelor was a habitual offender, and his movements were quick, as a result, this guy was beaten silly by the bachelor.

  At this point, the old man sighed: "It's really a good person with no good reward. A single man like that should be taken out and shot, he shouldn't live in this world."

  I thanked the old man and he shook his head and drove a cow away.

  Turning around, I saw that fool laughing at me with a big smile on his face. I walked up to him and patted his shoulder: "What's your name?"

  In fact, this fool is at least thirty years old, but in my eyes he's just a five or six year old kid.

  The fool smiled and said: "My name is Xiaoliang."

  I said, "Hello Xiaoliang, how smart do you think you are?" Xiaoliang nodded vigorously at me: "Very smart! I'm the smartest in the whole world."

  I said to Xiaoliang: "Then don't you want to be a little smarter?"

  Xiao Liang nodded heavily: "I'll think about it."

  Finally, I took the fool to Auntie Pao's house, then I took out the ghost hair crystal that I had refined last night, poured out a small portion, and dissolved it in water.

  To be honest, I'm a bit nervous. After all, this thing, I haven't personally tried it out, who knows if it's effective or not.

  After the ghost crystal dissolved in water, it turned green. However, there was no smell and wouldn't make people feel uncomfortable. I picked up the bowl and said to Xiaoliang: "Xiaoliang, drink it."

  Xiao Liang looked at me in confusion: "What is this?"

  I said: "Little Bright, just drink it and you'll be even smarter."

  Xiao Liang smiled at me and picked up his bowl, drinking it all in one gulp.

  I watched him from the side, feeling a bit cruel. After all, I wasn't confident about this thing in my heart, and if it didn't work or even had side effects, then I wouldn't be saving people, but rather harming them. And this fool, although foolish, at least lived happily, if I were to harm someone like that, I probably wouldn't have peace of mind for the rest of my life.

  After drinking water, Xiaoliang smiled at me again, he seemed to have no idea that I was using him as a test subject.

  I sat aside and also burst out laughing at him.

  "Xiao Liang, tell us a story."

  Xiao Liang clapped his hands and called out in a very innocent tone: "Great!"

  Then he began to tell a story: "Once upon a time there was a mountain..."

  Suddenly, Xiaoliang's voice stopped, his face was full of pain, and his body kept convulsing. And I saw that his mouth was constantly spewing out black blood.