That's absolutely right. Babies represent new life and hope.
Perhaps his robes were stained with blood, but after saving the child, he felt an endless peace in his heart.
Suddenly, several images flashed through his mind.
In a village, countless corpses lay scattered about. A two-year-old child, covered in blood and holding a toy, stood helplessly crying amidst the corpses.
The child's eyes were filled with endless sadness and helplessness, and suddenly those eyes overlapped with his.
As if struck by a heavy blow, he suddenly felt a tearing pain in his mind, and the bloody scene that had just appeared in his consciousness was as if he had personally experienced it.
A crimson flame suddenly appeared on his forehead, radiating a crimson glow.
"What's wrong?" Ye Xingchen was taken aback and turned to look at Ruxin.
"It's alright." Ruxin tried his best to calm himself down, and the crimson flame on his forehead slowly disappeared.
Ye Xingchen glanced at him, then continued treating the woman in labor.
Finally, the dust settled, and the mother's family arrived. The husband, holding the baby, embraced his wife and wept uncontrollably.
“Your wife and child are both fine. The child had a slight heart problem, but it's resolved now. He'll be able to live like a normal person after he turns three,” Ye Xingchen said. “The medicine I'm using is divided into four parts. Every six months, take one part out, dissolve it in water, and give it to the child to drink. Remember, it must be done after six months, otherwise the potency is too great and the child won't be able to handle it.”
"I understand, I understand, thank you, doctor, thank you." The woman's husband knelt down with a thud and kowtowed three times.
"Get up." Ye Xingchen calmly kowtowed to him three times.
These three kowtows are enough to repay the life-saving grace; otherwise, today would have been a matter of two lives lost.
"Let's give the child a name," Ye Xingchen said, turning to look at Ruxin.
"Me?" Ru Xin looked at Ye Xingchen in surprise.
"Yes, Master, thank you for saving my child. I think the reason my child is safe is partly due to the life-saving grace of this divine doctor and partly due to the protection of your monk's robe. You must have been sent by Buddha to save my child." The husband of the new mother said earnestly while holding the child, "Please give the child a name."
"What's your last name?" Ruxin asked.
“Master, my surname is Shen,” the new mother’s husband said eagerly to Ruxin.
“The child was born in extremely dangerous circumstances, but he was born safely. This is partly due to the compassion of the divine physician Ye, and partly due to the protection of Buddha in the unseen world.” Ruxin said, “Let’s name the child Shen Cheng’an. I hope he will carry on the good fortune of today and live a peaceful and safe life.”
"Shen Cheng'an? Good, good, let's call him Shen Cheng'an. Thank you, Master, for bestowing this name upon him." The child's husband knelt on the ground, thanking the onlookers and the monks in the temple.
As the evening drum sounded, the sun set in the west, and dusk was approaching.
Ru Xin was dressed in white, so her clothes were stained with a lot of blood, but he didn't care at all.
Watching the new mother and her family leave, he felt an unprecedented sense of relief.
"So this is what it means to practice medicine and heal the sick with sincerity. If you weren't here today, I'm afraid I would be helpless," Ruxin said leisurely.
"I've always practiced medicine, so I really have to be involved in this today," Ye Xingchen said without hesitation. "But what about you? What did you see when you were holding the child just now?"
Ru Xin's smile froze instantly. He said calmly, "It's nothing, I'm just temporarily troubled by my inner demons."
"Inner demons? With your ascetic face, you can have inner demons too?" Ye Xingchen laughed loudly: "Actually, you know in your heart that it's not an inner demon. The reason you call it an inner demon is because you don't know how to face it."
"What else could it be but a demon in one's heart?" Ru Xin frowned slightly.
"Is it possible that it wasn't a demon in your heart, but rather your own personal experience?" Ye Xingchen glanced at Ruxin: "Did your master never tell you about your background?"
"No." Ru Xin slowly shook his head. He had never met his master; everything he knew was told to him by his senior brother.
His senior brother said he had no father or mother, so he believed he had no father or mother. As for his parents? They had never appeared in his life, not even in his dreams.
"You've been cursed with a spell that restricts your senses," Ye Xingchen sighed.
"A spell to suppress consciousness? What is that?" Ru Xin frowned slightly, looking at Ye Xingchen with some confusion.
"Everyone has parents. Even if you've never met them, you'll subconsciously picture their faces," Ye Xingchen said. "At the very least, you'll dream about them."
"But you are different. Your parents have never appeared in your life, not even in your dreams, and you have never questioned whether this is normal?"
"Why should I doubt it?" Ruxin said calmly. "Some people don't have parents, and some parents don't deserve to be parents. Aren't these things perfectly normal?"
"Do you really think so?" Ye Xingchen glanced at Ruxin.
“That’s right, that’s what I think,” Ruxin said calmly.
“Wrong, that’s not what you think. It’s what your senior brother has always taught you.” Ye Xingchen said, “He took you away from your parents and taught you to hate them. His heart… deserves to be punished.”
"Ye Xingchen, my senior brother is like a second parent to me. We've only just gotten to know each other a little. Don't force me to have murderous thoughts towards you again." Ruxin's brows furrowed tightly.
"Huh, you're really angry?" Ye Xingchen looked at him in surprise, then said, "If you don't face your own problems, they will eventually become your inner demons."
"You'd better take care of yourself; no matter how much others advise you, it won't help."
"Thank you for the reminder, I'll be careful." Ru Xin glanced at Ye Xingchen, then said, "See you in three days."
"Okay, see you in three days." Ye Xingchen nodded.
“You must be careful. Although you can force your way into the Saint realm, it is ultimately a forced breakthrough. If your opponent is too strong, you will inevitably suffer a backlash from your own power. At best, your realm will drop; at worst, all your cultivation will be lost.” Ru Xin couldn’t help but remind her.
"Then thank you for reminding me." Ye Xingchen nodded. "I will pay attention to my own situation, and so will you. You originally had no flaws, but your inner demons will become your flaws."
The two glanced at each other, then went their separate ways.
Ye Xingchen took Liu Qingwan back to school. Just after he saw her off, Gu Manyun called: "Cheng Qiang contacted me."
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