Chapter 45: Saved the Wrong Person

  After returning to the mountain, Mo asked and found that there was a horse-drawn carriage parked under Mount Wuliang. Lao Wu and several Taoist priests from the cafeteria were preparing to drive out of the mountain to buy rice and grains.

  "Old master, how is it? Have you found your wife?" Laowu saw Mo Xun and immediately ran over to him.

  Mo asked, looked up at Lao Wu, sighed and shook his head, "No."

  "Don't be discouraged, let's find it after we leave the mountain." Lao Wu said to comfort him.

  "It's no use, she wouldn't have survived these chaotic years." Mo Wen shook his head and said. Lao Wu had disagreed with searching for Lin Ruocheng from the start, now it seemed like they should have listened to him back then.

  "Yes, yes, right, Master. I just saw Li Zhenren go to the East Hall, has she finished the task she entrusted to you?" Lao Wu originally didn't like Lin Ruochen, and seeing Mo Xun give up on searching immediately expressed his agreement.

  "It's all set, who from Mount Wuliang will come out to assist the Hu people?" Mo Xiang asked casually. The Emperor of Zhao personally came, and Mount Wuliang did not dare or could not refuse, so he asked who Mount Wuliang had sent, but did not ask if anyone was sent.

  "Qingyangzi Daozhang followed them." Lao Wu frowned and shook his head, then lowered his voice, "This matter was handled poorly by Wuliang Mountain, they had no backbone, even Sima Daozhang was driven away by them."

  "When a man is under another's roof, how can he not lower his head?" Mo Wenjing calmly spoke up. Qingyangzi was naturally gentle and well-versed in worldly affairs, so it made sense that Mount Wuliang sent him out to deal with the Hu people. As for Sima Fengrou's departure, it wasn't necessarily related to this matter. Since everyone had learned the Wind Capturing Hand and Wind Chasing Step, Sima Fengrou had already fulfilled his duty and could leave at any time.

  "Hurry up, don't keep the several Taoist priests waiting." Mo Wen said.

  "Master, I have some news to tell you. Those few masters may not have completed the task given by Li Zhenren, and their faces don't look good," said Lao Wu.

  "Do you know the details?" Mo Wen asked with a frown.

  "I don't know what others have done, but Second Master and Third Master seem to have medically killed the patient." Old Five said.

  Mo Wen heard the words and frowned suddenly, Lao Wu's Er Ye and San Ye referred to Bai Li Kuang Feng and Ye Xiao Yao, while Bai Li Kuang Feng's medical skills were what he had pointed out.

  "Alright, let's go quickly. Don't cause any trouble outside." Mo Xun hastily waved his hand at Lao Wu, then turned to greet the Taoist from the dining hall with a bow, before turning around and heading up the mountain.

  Just as I entered the East Hall gate, I happened to see Ah Jiu coming out of the West Wing.

  "What's wrong?" Ah Jiu walked over quickly and looked him up and down.

  "What's up, where is Li Zhen?" Mo Wen raised his foot and walked towards his own room.

  Ajiu turned around and followed, "In the East Hall, you have medicinal scent and bloody smell on your body, are you injured?"

  "In Ye City, I met the barbarian who killed my family and took his life." Seeing that Ah Jiu had seen through him, Mo Xie didn't even bother to cover it up.

  "Is your injury serious?" Ah Jiu looked at Mo Wen's right arm.

  "It's nothing, no big deal." Mo Wen waved his hand and opened the door to enter his own room, with Ajiu following closely behind.

  "I'm going to change clothes, you go out for a while." Mo Wen said, earlier he had only simply washed his Taoist robe, the underclothes and small clothes inside were all stained with a large amount of blood.

  Although Ah Jiu was concerned about his injury, men and women were different, so he could only retreat and close the door.

  Don't ask, he took off his Taoist robe, changed into a new inner garment stained with blood, and then put on the Taoist robe again. At this moment, the sound of Ba Li's crazy wind came from outside the house, "A Jiu, why are you standing here?"

  "Mo won't be back for a while, he's changing in his room," said Ajiu.

  A hundred miles of fierce wind didn't care whether he changed his clothes or not, walked over and pushed open the door, striding in with big steps, shouting at Mo Wen who was tying his buttons: "Good for you, Mo Wen! It's all your good idea. That person can't withstand medical treatment, and has stopped breathing."

  "What are your symptoms? How did you take the medicine?" Mo asked, rolling up the blood-stained clothes and tucking them under the bed.

  "That man's belly was as swollen as a drum, I heard that you used ten kilograms of old stinky persimmon to brew a bowl of soup. Who would have thought that the patient suffered greatly after drinking it and died in just the time it takes to drink a cup of tea? It almost got me into trouble with the authorities, but you've really made things difficult for me." Baili Kuangfeng rushed over, grabbing Mo Xiang's shoulders and shaking him while shouting.

  Mo Wen heard the words and secretly frowned, Baili Kuangfeng said that the stinky hawthorn is also called mountain hawthorn, because it has a peculiar smell when it blooms, so it's called stinky hawthorn. Using this thing to treat abdominal distension and food accumulation is symptomatic, how can it kill people?

  "What kind of person is this patient?" Mo asked.

  "She is a sixty-year-old old woman with no children and an empty house." Ba Li Kuang Feng said.

  "So poor, how can one overeat?" Mo didn't ask, but muttered to himself. A poor family can barely get enough to eat, let alone overeat.

  As the two were talking, Ah Jiu's voice came from outside the door, "The man's abdomen may not be filled with rice, but rather accumulated white soil. When the white soil encounters a golden medicinal acid, it will stick to the intestines and stomach."

  "Yes, there is indeed white earth in her family." Baili Kuangfeng suddenly realized.

  Before administering medicine, one must first identify the illness. What I said earlier was only for treating food accumulation in the stomach, but I didn't expect that what she ate wasn't grains at all. The old woman had nothing to rely on, how pitiful and bitter.

  Mo asked with a sigh and shook his head. At this time, people's lifespan is very short, sixty years old is considered an elderly person, seventy years old is considered long-lived. An old woman living alone has nowhere to find food, under the pangs of hunger she actually swallowed indigestible white clay.

  "Oh, well, can't blame you. By the way, has that patient recovered?" asked Bai Li Kuang Feng, who wasn't too concerned about not passing the seventh test, because even if he didn't pass, he was still a disciple of the Upper Clear Sect and could still learn spellcasting techniques, just wouldn't get the ancestral transmission.

  Mo Wen nodded and turned to walk away, with Bai Li Kuang Feng and A Jiu following behind. The three of them headed towards the East Hall together, but when they arrived at the entrance, two of them stopped in their tracks, leaving Mo Wen to enter the hall alone.

  "Boundless Heaven Venerable, Tianzhuizi has met the True Person." Mo Wen Chongpan sat on the jade platform of the Eastern Temple's Fa Tai, bowing his head.

  "Fuxing Wu Liang Tian Zun, Tian Shu Zi, Ye Cheng Na Ren, how did you deal with him?" asked Yu Linglong.

  "Returning to the truth, that young man was invaded by external poison. After I identified the disease, I used sulfur to fumigate the poisonous insects and had him take medicine to expel the toxic gas from inside out. The patient's eyes are now no longer seriously affected, and he should be able to get out of bed in seven days. In half a month, he should be fully recovered." Mo asked with his body bent forward.

  Yu Linglong's face turned cold upon hearing this, staring straight at Mo Wen without saying a word.

  Don't ask why she has such an expression, knowing that her handling has deviated, but looking back on past events, the use of medicine for her symptoms seems to have been appropriate.

  A moment later, Yuling gathered her gaze back and shook her head with a sigh, "Wrong."

  "Dare I ask, sir, where did I go wrong? Was it a mistake in the diagnosis or an error in the prescription?" Mo Xuan asked uncertainly.

  "You're right in defending yourself, but you're wrong in not knowing what's right and wrong." Yuling shook her head again.

  "What words are these from a true man? The true man ordered us to go and rescue the people, I treated their illnesses and saved their lives, what fault is there in that?" Mo asked without understanding.

  "Who told you to go and rescue people?" Yu Linglong raised her voice.

  Don't ask, but the words made him frown and recall that Yuling had indeed not ordered everyone to go and rescue people earlier, but only let everyone take the test. When everyone was about to leave, she specifically reminded everyone, "When you arrive at the destination, be careful and weigh your actions."

  "Still don't know where you went wrong?" Yuling asked calmly.

  "That young man's moral character is flawed, I saved a great evil person." Mo Wen shook his head and sighed. At the time of the rescue, he had been thinking about why that young man, who was in his prime, would be invaded by that not-so-venomous snake. Now, connecting what he had seen earlier, he suddenly realized that the family had an old husband with a young wife, and their son had an affair with his stepmother. The two of them were together in the mill house when the man's yang energy was low, so he suffered from the invasion of the poisonous snake's venom. Lust is the root of all evil, this son's actions are contrary to ethics and morality, losing filial piety, and being a great evil person, naturally cannot be rescued. Yu Linglong's previous test was not limited to medical skills, but also included a test of medical ethics, and he happened to have taken this question on the test of medical ethics."

  "Don't think that saving lives and treating illnesses are all good deeds. Only saving the kind-hearted is a virtuous act, while saving the wicked is a sinful one." Yuling said.

  "Remember the teachings of the true man." Do not ask about personal experiences. In this world, some wrongdoings can be corrected and made up for, but some bad deeds are difficult to undo once they have been done, and what that man has done is just such a thing, intolerable to heaven and earth.

  "Go ahead, call Tianxuanzi in." Yulingong waved his hand at Mo Wen.

  Don't ask again, with a bow and courtesy, he turned and walked out in embarrassment.

  Ajiu was outside the temple at this time. After Mo Xiang came out and turned his head to gesture for him to enter, Ajiu nodded and stepped inside.

  "You didn't pass the test either?" Baili Kuangfeng's face was filled with schadenfreude, everyone likes to have someone accompany them in their misfortune, and Baili Kuangfeng was no exception.

  "That young man's moral integrity is questionable, I shouldn't have intervened to save him." Mo Xun shrugged off the right hand of Baili Fengxi who had placed it on his shoulder.

  "I would have failed to kill the man, and you would have failed to save him. If I had known this earlier, we should have switched roles - I would go kill that young man, and you would go save that poor old woman." Ba Li Kuang Feng sneered with a smile.

  No one asked Wen Yan to respond, at this time the other people heard the voices of the two men and came out to meet Mo Wen. Everyone had not passed the seventh test except for Qian Sui and A Jiu. However, although Qian Sui cured the person's illness, he caused the person to become deaf due to excessive medication. As a result, only A Jiu was able to pass the test. The alchemy furnace that Yu Linglong mentioned earlier naturally belonged to A Jiu.

  Sure, here is the translation:

  As expected, a moment later, Ajiu emerged from the temple gate with a black purple wooden box in her hands. This foot-long wooden box undoubtedly contained that alchemy furnace.

  Yu Lingong then came out, looked around at everyone, "You lot even if you don't get to personally receive the teachings of the ancestors, also must not lightly belittle yourselves, cut off your aspirations for advancement, remember that yin and yang exist in the heart, self-enlightenment can also attain the Tao."

  Everyone heard and responded in unison.

  Yu Lingling nodded slightly and turned around to walk away.

  "Li Zhenren, are you leaving?" Ye Xiangyao asked aloud, everyone else understood the implication behind Yuling's words, but only he spoke up.

  Yu Linglong heard this and did not respond, nor did she stop in her tracks. She walked slowly towards the door.

  "Li Zhenren, will we meet again?" Ye Xiangyang shouted once more.

  As soon as these words came out, everyone's eyes widened in shock. The night was carefree and bold, yet he uttered such impudent words.

  Unexpectedly, Yu Linglong didn't get angry upon hearing this, she simply turned her head and gave Ye Xuan a sideways glance before turning to leave...