Chapter 91: Misty Willow and Ripples

  Lin Zhong said with a hint of sadness and helplessness, "I've already explained the situation to Man Xiang, but she insisted on following me into the immortal realm."

  "Oh?" Yang Fan's face broke into a smile: "How did you respond to her."

  Lin Zhong said with a hint of melancholy: "If Man Xiang can advance to the Refining Qi stage, I wouldn't mind joining hands with her on the path to immortality. If not, she will give up..."

  Yang Fan nodded: "It's better this way, with her trash spiritual root talent, she can't even enter the immortal path, and when the time comes, she will naturally give up. This way, you won't have any entanglements with her either."

  In fact, this was also the result Yang Fan had hoped for. He was afraid that Liu Man Xiang would not give up and do something that would make Lin Zhong feel ashamed and regretful for life, leaving behind a seed of heart demon for the future.

  "In the next few days, you need to be a bit busy and pay attention to Hu Banzhen's whereabouts. If he wants to leave 'Wu Liu Town' or plot against the Liu family, notify me immediately."

  Yang Fan instructed again.

  Lin Zhong nodded and asked: "Now that Hu Banzhen's great momentum has gone, your medical clinic is already well-established and famous far and wide. I wonder what plans you have next."

  Yang Fan's calm and peaceful eyes flashed a hint of turmoil, as he said lightly:

  "After the medical hall is settled, you can focus on your cultivation and take care of 'Pu Ai Medical Hall' and my family. Three months later, I will probably go to 'Ghost Corpse Mountain', and almost a year later, I will also go to 'Kyoto'. During these two periods, you cannot close your doors for meditation, the rest of the time is up to you."

  "My lord, I have an idea."

  Lin Zhong hesitated and said.

  "Speak." Yang Fan succinctly spat out a single word.

  "I can see that the ultimate goal of Gongzi Kaipu's Medical Hall is to cater to the cultivators in the cultivation world. If so, once the medical hall has a certain reputation in the nearby cultivation world, it can be relocated to a remote mountainous area, serving only the cultivators. Of course, our treatment will definitely require a certain amount of spirit stones."

  "Well said, I have also considered this matter, but it is difficult to achieve in the short term, perhaps still need a few years of preparation."

  Yang Fan looked at Lin Zhong with a slightly appreciative gaze, and smiled: "In the future, if you have any suggestions, you can bring them up directly. Do you have any other suggestions now? It's best if we don't keep anything from each other."

  Lin Zhong was so encouraged that he felt grateful and said, "Although the young master's medical skills are exceptional, in the future, there will be more patients, and one person won't have time to handle multiple matters. You can consider taking on a few talented disciples in either the Immortal Realm or the Mortal Realm."

  "Accepting disciples?"

  Yang Fan was slightly stunned and hadn't thought of that point, but after a moment's consideration, he also felt it made sense.

  As Yang Fan's cultivation advanced, the patients he treated had to have higher cultivation and strength. Those ordinary wounded people would hardly be able to help him increase his cultivation, and could be completely handed over to his disciples to take care of.

  ……

  In the following days, more and more wounded people came to "Pu Ai Medical Hall" for treatment, including some Jianghu figures.

  Generally, ordinary illnesses and injuries don't require Yang Fan's intervention. Only when he encounters some very serious illnesses or injuries will Yang Fan take action.

  However, several doctors and apprentices in the hospital were busy to the point of being flustered. Lin Zhong often came over to help out during his spare time from practicing medicine.

  Unconsciously, half a month's time has passed in the blink of an eye.

  During this period, Yang Fan healed many wounded people. They were all ordinary people, and their cultivation grew slowly, but they were only half a step away from the late stage of refining Qi. They had already cultivated to the middle stage peak realm.

  On another front, Liu Zhenchang and "Pu Ai Medical Hall" joined forces to suppress Hu Banzhan's "Xianren Medicine Hall".

  The business of "Xianren Medicine Hall" is getting worse and worse, while the business of "Puyi Medical Hall" is gradually booming.

  Yang Guang and Yang Wei, these two new stars of the Yang family's Great Perfection of Qi Refining, naturally couldn't stay in Wuliuyi Town for long. The two seemed to have reached some sort of agreement and returned to Yangjia Fortress together.

  However, Yang Guang has left, but Li Pangzi is still in Wuliuyi Town, often colluding with Hu Banshen, and it's unknown what they're plotting.

  Yang Fan secretly sneered and, with the help of Liu Zhenchang's worldly power, gradually put pressure on "Xianren Medicine Hall".

  Under the instigation of malicious people, the townspeople spread rumors that Hu Banzhen was the culprit who poisoned Liu Zhenzhang's daughter and was a deceitful and treacherous person who deceived the common people.

  Unconsciously, Hu Banshen's reputation became more and more notorious, and it seemed that he could no longer stay in Wuliuyuan Town.

  ……

  In a certain secret room in the back hall of "Xianren Medicine Hall", Li Pangzi and Hu Baxian were whispering to each other, with two Qi-refining initial-stage cultivators standing beside them.

  "Master Li, I'm telling you, I really can't stay in 'Fog Willow Town' any longer..."

  Hu Banzhen smiled bitterly and said.

  "Hum, you don't want to stay in 'Wu Liu Town' anymore, where do you think you can go? There are more scattered cultivators in the county town and Kyoto, and you have even less chance of getting a meal. Listen to me, let's stay in Wu Liu Town, we'll definitely find a way to take down Yang Fan."

  Li Pangzi sneered: "Follow my plan and do it, after the matter is successful, you will naturally have your own benefits."

  Hu Banshen sighed lightly: "But the Yang brothers are not easy to mess with, although Yang Wei is not here now, but Yang Fan and Lin Zhong join forces, it's not something we can solve just by thinking about it."

  "Hmph, who said I'd take action against them?" Li Baozi sneered: "The reason we're being oppressed like this now has a lot to do with Liu Zhenzhang's suppression. Don't you hate Liu Degui and that woman Liu Manxiang, Hu Banshan?"

  "What you mean is..." Hu Banshen had already guessed Li Kuai's intention.

  It turned out that Li Baozi had actually taken a fancy to Liu Zhenchang's daughter, Liu Manxiang.

  "Haha, Liu Manxiang may not be as stunning as Yang Hui Xin, but she's still a top-notch beauty. I love to ravage this kind of elegant and refined young lady."

  Li Pangzi's eyes emitted a few strands of lustful light without any concealment.

  Hu Banshen hesitated and said, "I have a bad feeling about this... Yang Fan is not a simple person, what if he has set up a trap and is waiting for us to fall into it?"

  Li Pangzi sneered, "At your age, you've been in the cultivation world for so many years and still hesitate? Yang Fan is just a Qi Refining stage pharmacist, and Lin Zhong is only a newly advanced Qi Refining stage cultivator. With my strength and that of two other Qi Refining stage cultivators, although it's not easy to kill them, what difficulty could there be in bullying a few ordinary people under their noses?"

  "But... " Hu Banshen still felt something was off.

  "There's nothing to worry about! Yang Guang and Yang Yue have reached an agreement, these two will return to Yangjia Village, mutually restraining each other, and it's impossible for them to come back in the short term. Besides, those few ordinary people we oppressed are not related to the Yang brothers, nor did they violate any major taboos of the cultivation world."

  Li Baozi was overbearing and self-assured, yet surprisingly made perfect sense, leaving even Hu Banshen unable to find any flaws.

  ……

  At the same time, in Pu Ai Medical Hall, Yang Fan also faced a challenge since the opening of the medical hall.

  "Your Highness! The situation is not good, several cultivators have come to visit the patient, and they seem to be up to no good."

  Lin Zhong hastily walked in and said to Yang Fan, who was sitting cross-legged and contemplating the art of medicine.

  "What! Finally, an immortal has come to see a doctor?"

  Yang Fan's eyes lit up and he said excitedly.

  He has been running a clinic for so many days, and it's the first time he has had an immortal come to see him.

  At present, "Pu Ai Medical Hall" has a certain reputation and is admired by ordinary people nearby.

  However, the cultivators still held a skeptical attitude towards this.

  It's finally the weekend, and this afternoon is when the intense push starts. The most critical week has begun...