August 15, 2018
Translated & Edited by Ery
*This chapter is sponsored by Torsten Maier*
At the sight of the book, Ding Lei's face suddenly beamed whereas the village chief's expression turned darker.
The Qimin medical book was the most widely circulated herbal book on the Wuji continent, only sold at first rate pharmacies in cities.
A place like Jiao Ye Village, being extremely small, was extremely hard to find the book even if one looked for it all over the village except for in the temple.
Since coming to Wuji Continent, Yun Sheng has never left Jiao Ye Village and never had gone through formal medical training, let alone reading the Qimin Medical Book.
Huo Yan Village's Ding Lei was different. Her home just happened to have a Qimin Medical Book.
Master Yang observed the change within the two childs' expressions. He glanced at Yun Sheng, "what, you haven't even read the Qimin book before?" Then don't participate in the examination. I won't accept those who are blind.
"Did you hear that, Master Yang told you to leave. You haven't even read the Qimin Medical Book before and you still dare to come take the assessment. Right big brother Ye?" Ding Lei was elated and intimately asked the youth.
The youth surnamed Ye also was somewhat slightly surprised. He didn't think that Yun Sheng hadn't even read a basic medical book yet still came to participate in the assessment.
"I'm not blind, just give me a quarter of an hour to read the Qimin book," Yun Sheng after being surprised restored her normal calm expression. She didn't fear Master Yang's cold eyes and directly took the book.
Qimin medical book was a lot thinner than the Yun Family's medical book but it still had hundreds of pages.
Everyone including Ye youth didn't understand what Yun Sheng was planning to do next.
Yun Sheng took the book, lowered her eyes while her slender fingers turned the pages of the book. Her pink lips wriggled slightly. At the start, her actions weren't considered to be quick but as she went deeper into the book, her actions sped up as she started to flip the pages faster.
Everyone then suddenly understood, she was going to read the whole book with a quarter of an hour!
"It's no use reading it. You're dreaming if you want to compete with me when you're just reading it at the last minute" Ding Lei said disdainfully.
It was difficult for a six year old child to read and understand a whole medical book without any prior medical training let alone memorizing the whole book within a quarter of an hour.
After immersed in her thoughts, Yun SHeng had just finished reading the medical book. "Master Yang, can you start the assessment? I am ready".
Yang Magician eyes flashed. With such a confidence, he can't help but was convinced by Yun Sheng."Yun Ying Teng" (I'm not going to attempt to translate any chinese medical herbs because first of all, I'm not majoring in eastern medicine and searching up the english equivalent takes too much time – I tried searching it up. So I'm just gonna leave the names as it is)
"Yun Ying Teng, this type of grass is a herbal medicine. It has purple leaves, is only three centimeters tall. It is dry, cold, and can cure deafness and brighten up the vision. Taking it for a long term can prolong life" Ding Lei hurriedly said and proudly sneered at Yun Sheng.
"You forgot it's habits, affinity for sunshine and wetness. Most likely grow in or along the river or wet valleys" Yun Sheng faintly added.
Master Yang after listening looked down at the book. It really was recorded in it.
She even noticed the inconspicuous parts about Yun Ying Teng.
Master Yang asked about several herbs a few more times and every single time, Ding Lei hurriedly answered first. However, Yun Sheng would always fill in a few things that Ding Lei had omitted.
She was articulate, not rushed, completely not like how a child would act.
This surprised Master Yang. The Ye youth from the side slightly raised his mouth. This wildcat really had a few knacks.
At the end of the exam, Master Yang closed the book and said in a serious tone "Qimin Medical Book page 109."
Ding Lei suddenly blanked out. She didn't expect that Master Yang would suddenly change the style of the exam.
Although she had studied Qimin book, but she was far from the point of being able to recite ah! Nevertheless, she didn't fret. She didn't believe that Yun Sheng would be able to recite it at all.
"Xue Xi Shi (Blood Rhino Stone), in the form of a crystal, shaped as a hexagon, has a sliver of blood silk at the core side ad is collected from the sea. When the stone is refined, it needs to be placed in a smokeless furnace and burnt red to be taken out to make it into powder. It could aid in the internal power as well as restrain bleeding." Yun Sheng's voice was like a bell. Right after her voice had faded, Master Yang's yellow face revealed a hint of admiration.
He opened the book up. She hadn't missed a single word ah!
Ding Lei's face scrunched up," How could you … It's impossible…you, you cheated! You can't possibly know the content of that page!"
"Qimin Book page 10- Gui Xian Cao (Turtle Saliva Grass), page 240- She Xi Hu (snake breathing dendrobium), page 321… do you still need me to continue? Ding Lei, remember your promise. You'll crawl back," at that moment, Yun Sheng's dimples on her delicate face was unusually vivid.
The different herbal species in the Qimin Medical Book compared to the medical book of Yun family's was a lot less. Compared to the ten thousand herbs in her family's book, she could even recite the Qimin book reversed!
The Ye youth at the side lifted his eyebrows. He seemed to have seen Yun Sheng's demonic smile.
"You! You…you," Ding Lei's face flushed. Having to crawl back to Huo Yan Village from Jiao Ye village wasn't just losing her own face but also her entire village's ah! She absolutely let the waste feel proud!
Suddenly, a fire lit up in her hand. With the blazing flames, she charged towards Yun Sheng's tiny body.
The few people present didn't expect that a magic apprentice could instantly use fire magic without needing to recite first.
This was Yun Sheng's first time fighting against a magician although the opponent was only an apprentice. However the flames were rapidly changing, hardly following any laws. It looked as if the flames were going to grow larger in a moment.
Yun Sheng's body suddenly became light. A pair of powerful arms quickly embraced her.
"Remember, you owe me once," the Ye youth's lazy foice fell lightly into her ear and Yunsheng only saw a beautiful face appear in front of her.
The youngster's lips hardly moved, his dim eyes twinkled, and the flames that had sprung upon Yun Sheng was stagnated in mid-air.
A fire expanded into a vicious fire wolf with a big stature, red eyes, and gave off an murderous aura. In mid air, it swallowed the flames released by Ding Lei and spit it back at Ding Lei.
This was magic transformation, at the intermediate level of magic.
The village grandpa opened his mouth widely and stared at him. The boy without any magical chants or weapons was able to directly use magic at the intermediate level!
"No–" Ding Lei cried out.
The fire sprang up and engulfed her whole entire body.
At this moment, the village grandpa had just reacted. Ding Lei can't die.
He took out his wand and waved it. On the wand were two blue and green magic stones. The blue one glowed brightly.
A stream of water dispersed out and extinguished the fire on Ding Lei.
However, the fire wolf had already burned Ding Lei beyond recognition. Her body was covered with burns. On her body fell out a burnt out low-level magic weapon.
Ding Lei came prepared this time. Her body also carried a magic talisman that could store a magical attack.
Within an instant, it had caused this much damage? This was magic?!
Yun Sheng's heart chilled, looking at the burnt body and agonizing Ding Lei.
Yun Sheng didn't sympathize her but also didn't appreciate the youth. She tried to break free from his arms.
However, the youth's arms were as if made from steel. It was as solid as the mountains and he didn't have any meaning of letting her go.
TIn terms of medical conditions in Wuji continent, extensive burns like Ding Lei's if mishandled only causes her to wait for death.
"Remember little wildcat, when facing an enemy, underestimating the enemy only means stupidity," the Ye youth's words were like frostbites, reminding Yun Sheng.
The strong lives, the weak dies!
However in the next moment, a bewitching smile appeared on his lips: "Welcome to the Jiao Ye Village Temple. Little wildcat, remember my name – Ye Bei Ming".
August 15, 2018
Translated & Edited by Ery
*This chapter is sponsored by Torsten Maier*
By the time they left the temple, Yun Sheng acquired five new silver coins and had a set of robes for the job.
Ding Lei's wounds were very serious. After Huo Yan people had known that the wounds were from people of the temple, they also dared not to attack and took Ding Lei away with them.
What happened within the temple was concealed by the village grandpa. However the villagers knew that Jiao Ye Village's waste, Yun Sheng, had defeated Huo Yan Village's Ding Lei and started to look upon her in a different light.
From the crowds' views, Yun Sheng calmly left the temple. Her mind, however, was still flashing the scene of a magic fire wolf appearing.
Unlike the village grandpa's gentle water magic and misty wind magic, the fire magic was arguably the most powerful and dazzling magic out of the four types of magic. Although Yun Sheng had the family's treasure with her, however magic was still too much for her to defend against.
Only, why was it that although she had already consumed the moonlight grass, she still couldn't condense the magical elements. This point left Yun Sheng feeling helpless.
Ahead appeared noises made by children.
"What kind of monster is it, let's throw rocks at it," a group of three and four year old children gathered around.
The children surrounded an unknown little dark beast, hard to determine what type of species it was.
The children called it monster because the beast had two heads.
One of the heads had been stoned and deformed by a child while the other too was splintered open and the skull dimly could be seen.
A deformed cub, in the eyes of the children indeed was a monster.
Beside Jiao Ye Village existed several barren mountains with some unknown wild animals living in it. Perhaps this young beast escaped from those mountains.
Yun Sheng from a doctor's point of view knew that the small deformed beast had congenital dysplasia. Along from starvation and the coldness, it wasn't going to survive much longer.
If it were in modern times, this little animal may still be able to survive with the help of advanced medical equipment used for a separation surgery. Unfortunately, the current environment was too rudimentary.
Just as Yun Sheng was about to walk away, her body jerked as if she had walked into an invisible wall.
She felt a series of strange mood swings, as if someone was whispering something into her ears.
Yun Sheng looked back over again and her sight collided with the beast's.
The little beast's eyes were full of pain.
That painful expression wasn't what a beast should have but rather more like a child's?
"Stop it, don't bully it," Yunsheng stepped forward without hesitation and scared the other children away.
When she was closer to the beast, Yun Sheng found out that even with such serious injuries, the beast still propped itself up when she had walked over. It's body's dirty fur stood up and it made up a defensive roar at Yun Sheng.
Most of the wild beasts were hostile to humans, not to mention a young beast that just had been bullied.
"I won't hurt you, don't be nervous," Yun Sheng knew that a dying beast was the most dangerous.
As she spoke, she edged closer to the two-headed beast who seemed to be pondering Yun Sheng's words with a trace of loss appearing within his eyes.
Just as the beast was thinking, Yun Sheng took out an anesthetic needled, raised it into the air, and pierced it into the body of the young beast.
The young beast cub shook and fell onto the ground.
Yun Sheng picked up the double headed beast and ran towards home.
On a mountain road outside Jiao Ye Village, several villagers of Huo Yan Village pushed a wheelbarrow carrying a Ding Lei wrapped up in gauze all over her body.
Ye Bei Ming's fire magic was extremely strong, it was a good thing that the village grandpa intervened in time. Also because he didn't want the villagers of Huo Yan village to become aggressive, Master Yang also did a simple treatment for Ding Lei.
Ding Lei's life was saved but her face and body was completely burnt. She no longer was able to restore her original appearance in this life.
"Lei Lei, don't be sad. Wait till we return to the village and let the village head come out and unite the pharmacies in the city to interfere with the business of the hemostatic flower of Jiao Ye Village. See how will they continue to survive," a villager bitterly said.
"And that Yun Sheng. She colluded with that temple's youth to harm me. I must get revenge. I must kill her," Ding Lei's ugly face twisted together.
She hated, extremely hated Yun Sheng. If it weren't for her, then the position of the assistant would already belong to her.
"Lei Lei, rest assured. The village chief will definitely avenge you," echoed several villagers.
"You guys won't be able to avenge yourselves," a man stood at the intersection ahead.
That man was tall and emitted a smell of rotten wine.
"Who are you? On what basis makes you think I can't get revenge?" Ding Lei endured her pain to sit up and glared at the drunkard stumbling ahead.
"Bullying the small, this old one can't see it to eye. I came to get revenge," the man's mouth spewed out an alcoholic stench as he spoke. Five glittering soulstones slipped out of the man's sleeve.
No one can bully Sheng'er.
Suddenly, the wind and clouds surged in the sky. The ground started burning and countless flames spewed out as if demons from hell were rallying and penetrating into earth.
Soul consuming magical fire illusion, the continent's most mysterious taboo fire magic.
"Sky magic…," said Ding Lei who had already been turned into coke (now this isn't the soda but rather a process coal used in blast furnace).
This fire, compared to the intermediate fire released by Ye Bei Ming was way more stronger.
The fire extinguished leaving only a few pools of human ashes on the ground.
As the wind blew, the ashes drifted away.
Cough
As he placed the magic staff into his sleeves, the drunk Yun Cang Hai violently started to cough.
He bitterly smiled and said to himself, " my magic has degraded to this life. I'm afraid even the wine won't be able to suppress the blood curse in my body. I'm afraid my whole life's magic… this place is no longer safe. Must I send Sheng'er back to that place? Only, what face do I have left to go back to that place."
He bent his back like an old man and headed towards the direction of Jiao Ye Village. Near evening, the twilight shaped his tall and thin figure into a long slanted shadow which made him appeared very sad and lonely.
At this time, Yun Sheng had placed the two-headed beast at home.
The two-headed beast that was embraced in Yun Sheng's arms had already fallen asleep under the influence of the anesthetic.
During the beast's sleep, Yun Sheng had purchased some tools needed to perform the separation operation.
Fortunately, she had just made a small fortune to purchase the exact amount needed.
Limited by the conditions, she can only transform her humble small bed into a temporary operating table for the time being.
The newly bought oil lamp from the village grocery store, the wine left from Yun Cang Hai, clean linen gauze, new cotton, a few suitable animal tendons, the recently purchased "scalpel", a few bone needles.
Placing the thin bedding on the window to shield up the situation inside the house. Everything for the surgery was now ready.
Yun Sheng changed into a body of clean medical clothes. She wore a white coat, used the wine to disinfect her hands and went to take off the beast ring.
Who knew no matter how many times she tried to take off the ring, it wouldn't come off. Helplessly, Yun Sheng had to wear the ring during the surgery.
August 15, 2018
Translated & Edited by Ery
*This chapter is sponsored by Torsten Maier*
Yun Sheng scraped off the dirty hair of the two-headed beast and saw the true appearance of the beast, it was a two-headed dog.
Canine devil beasts weren't uncommon, however this beast seemed to be different from the average canine.
However, now wasn't the best time to guess the breed of the double headed puppy.
Yun Sheng retracted her thoughts and realized that the difficulty level of her first operation in Wuji mainland wasn't small. There were no modern medical equipment, no assistants, and no postoperative hemostasis measures.
However, she didn't give up. At least the current situation of the two headed dog wasn't critical yet.
The two-headed dog wasn't fully developed when it was in the mother's womb causing it to be two-headed. Fortunately, its heart and other organs were well developed which undoubtedly increased the chances of surviving for the beast.
The only problem was the puppy's left head was necrotic so it must be removed. Even after having it successfully removed, the puppy will have a slightly crooked head.
The most difficult part of the operation was that the left head was connected to the right head. Removing the left head would most likely damage the major arteries in the neck.
If it were in modern times, blood transfusions were still available but on Wuji continent, where will she go find blood sources and transfusion equipment?
In addition, her Shennong ability had only broke through the first stage. Hence, she only could slightly identify the blood vessels floating on the muscle surface. However, she was unable to identify the small nerves deep in the muscle so today's operation was going to be a difficult one.
Yun Sheng calculated the time and didn't delay any longer. Otherwise once the anesthetic effects wore off, the puppy's conditions would become more dangerous.
She decisively shaved off the fur on the neck of the two-headed puppy.
The sharp scalpel lightly slid over the skin, just like cutting up cloth, and opened up a hole.
The scalpel deftly went around multiple nerves, avoiding a vein and bypassed a lymphatic tissue.
Under the oil lamp light, Yun Sheng's movement were considerably smooth unlike how a surgeon would act doing a surgery with the implementation of life and death. Instead, it was more like how a pianist played during a concert.
Experienced hands and the Shennong technique were crucial as Yun Sheng used them to the fullest of her ability. She found the cartilage that connected the two heads together.
After removing the dead muscles, the remaining were excess as Yun Sheng's scalpel slid across the last layer of the soft membrane.
Suddenly within a stroke of her scalpel, a hidden blood vessel was severed.
Blood spurted out instantly.
Yun Sheng continued her actions and took out a fine bone needle. The needle flashed and quickly stabbed in the surrounding area.
The blood miraculously stopped.
After the blood stopped bleeding, the nervous Yun Sheng was experiencing high tension. Stopping the bleeding only can last for a short moment so she be complete the operation as quickly as she can.
After the removal was successful, she used the prepared animal tendons and stitched them together with the puppy.
After completing a perfect surgical knot, Yun Sheng's body softend and sat on the bed as her strength instantaneously vanished.
In order to perform surgery, a surgeon's psychological and physical requirements are extremely harsh.
Although Yun Sheng had previously studied both eastern and western medicine before, she had participated in the medical activities of the United Nations as a Red Cross doctor.
Under such extreme conditions in Wuji Continent, it was conceivable that the pressure a six year old girl to complete an operation was extremely crude and needed the combination of both eastern and western medicine.
Yun Sheng light placed her hand on the chest of the two headed puppy. After the operation, the puppy's heart started to beat vigorously.
Two small dimples appeared near Yun Sheng's mouth.
She dragged her tired body and packed up the surgical instruments in her room.
After tidying up, she took the puppy to the storage room at the back of the house and made a bed out of haystack for him.
Yun Canghai didn't like animals. Yun Sheng wanted to wait for awhile for the puppy to recover before releasing it.
When Yun Canghai came back home, he couldn't find his daughter's small figure. The only sound was the boiling water coming from the kitchen.
After going to the kitchen to take a look, Yun Canghai was started.
The porridge pot in the kitchen was open and the grains of rice in the pot were tumbling.
Yun Sheng was lying on the table sleeping soundly while her body was dressed in the brand new medical assistant robes.
"Father, I will certainly become the assistant" the words Yun Sheng said in the morning before leaving home ranged into his ears.
On Yun Canghai's face appeared traces of lines as he stepped forward and picked up his daughter's small body as his eyes slightly turned hot.
Yun Sheng really was tired and accidentally fell asleep while she was cooking.
This sleep lasted as the sky slowly turned dark.
While in a daze, Yunsheng only felt herself in a warm and humid place.
There was a soft murmuring of a gentle female voice: "Sheng'er, will you blame mother?"
Mother?!
Yun Sheng's consciousness surged forward like a tidal current and she quickly sobered up.
She noticed her body had became tiny, her hands and feet were curled up and clearly she was in the form of a baby.
Her body was surrounded by a warm amniotic fluid, this was the situation before Yun Sheng's birth.
A beautiful woman leaned against the bedside. Her forehead were full of big pearls of sweat that kept rolling down.
The woman was in a simple house and she was about to go into labor. Her husband Yun Canghai was away in search of a midwife.
The woman's hand, while wearing a ring, gently stroked her belly.
Yun Sheng can be sure that this beautiful woman was her own short-lived mother.
"Although you're not born yet, but mother knows that you definitely will inherit my talent. It's not that mother is cruel but rather you don't have the the ability to protect yourself. They're too strong," the woman whispered. She hesitated for a moment and placed her hand on her raised abdomen.
"Mother can only leave it inside the beast ring until one day when your own ability awakens, then you can wake it up. Yunsheng, promise mother that you live strongly and protect your father. It is my fault that he doesn't have a home to return to, becoming the unfilial son in everyone's eyes. I owe him way too much."
After the beautiful woman finished speaking, she left a seal on the ring.
After a short while, the beast ring was restored to its original state.
After using her magic, the beautiful woman broke her water and the sweat came pouring down. Between her legs was wet.
At this time outside the house, a noise sounded "Hu Jiu Sheng, so you were hiding here!"
The beautiful woman coldly smiled. A staff appeared in her arms and she started to quickly chant.
There was a long bang and the house exploded.
From the moment that the house exploded, Yun Sheng woke up from the dream.
The sky had already turned bright. Yun Sheng wiped her forehead and found herself within a pool of cold sweat.
She looked down and saw the beast ring on her finger. She only saw the original darkness of the beast ring and the ring shined.