Dao Yi was overjoyed that Xuan Yuanzhan was now willing to let him recuperate, which meant that the boy really wanted to cultivate his Xuanmen techniques properly.
"That's certainly good, but the process of conditioning your body is extremely painful, and I'm afraid you won't be able to endure it..."
"I can handle it!" Before Dao Yi could finish speaking, Xuan Yuanzhan interrupted.
Seeing Xuan Yuanzhan's resolute expression, Dao Yi said with relief, "That's not what I meant. It's not that I don't want to treat your body, but that I can go to your place to treat your body for you, so you won't have to endure the pain and travel back and forth."
He could only say that the process of conditioning his body was no less painful than the cultivation of Xuanmen techniques; he still felt sorry for his only disciple.
He knew he was currently staying with Doctor Luo, and he meant that he could go to Doctor Luo to help him recuperate, so that he wouldn't have to travel back and forth when he was weak.
Xuanyuan Zhan thought about it carefully and said, "Let's forget it. You can't tell which way to go. If you get lost again on the way back, I'll have to take you back, which would be even more troublesome."
...Dao felt as if his heart and lungs had been pierced in an instant.
That is indeed a problem. He can go to the bamboo forest with this kid, but he may not be able to come back alone.
"Please stay here and treat my illness. I can go back by myself."
Although Xuanyuan Zhan believed that his master would not scare him for no reason and that it must really hurt, he also believed that he would not be unable to return on his own after enduring this little bit of pain.
As long as Ning'er is in the bamboo forest, he will crawl back even if he has to!
He should crawl back no matter where Ning'er is!
Actually, he didn't want to recuperate in the bamboo forest because he was worried that his master wouldn't be able to find his way back, and he was also worried that Ning'er would be frightened if she saw him in such pain.
It's better to recuperate here; Ning'er won't know about these things then.
"Go and get two buckets of hot water yourself, and I'll go prepare your medicine," Dao Yi said as he left the room.
Xuanyuan Zhan wasn't idle either; he went to the main kitchen of Bailong Temple to ask for hot water, a place he knew exactly where to go.
He had been a frequent visitor to Bailong Temple since he was a child, so the young monks there all knew him and knew that he was a pilgrim who was very familiar with their abbot. Therefore, he easily got back two buckets of hot water.
Not long after Xuanyuan Zhan returned to Daoyi, Daoyi also returned.
Seeing the two buckets of hot water still in the middle of the room, she glared at him and said, "Why don't you put them in the bathtub? Keep them for drinking!"
...Xuanyuan Zhan was instantly annoyed by his words and said with a wronged expression, "I already told you, could you please stop scolding me like this while wearing Master Daoyi's face? I'm not used to it."
Upon hearing this, Dao Yi instantly became serious and bowed to Xuan Yuanzhan with a Buddhist gesture: "Amitabha, please pour those two buckets of hot water into the bathtub."
Dao Yi's sudden change in attitude gave Xuan Yuanzhan goosebumps. He immediately rubbed his arms and said, "Forget it, you can just scold me!"
This seems even more disgusting. Why did he still feel like they were two different people even though he clearly knew that the other person was his master?
Now that he's been exposed, he can't stand him cursing at him while pretending to be Master Daoyi, and he can't bear to see him chanting Amitabha Buddha to him as his master.
Dao Yi didn't hold back at all, and kicked him: "Hurry up and go turn on the water."
Dao Yi truly treated Xuan Yuan Zhan like his own child, so he didn't hold back at all.
Xuanyuan Zhan stopped arguing with him, picked up two buckets of water and poured them into the bathtub.
When he arrived at the bathhouse, Dao Yi poured the medicine he had prepared into the tub, and the already steaming tub instantly boiled as if a fireball had been poured into it.
In the blink of an eye, the once clear bucket of water turned pitch black.
Seeing the water turn black, Dao Yi was extremely satisfied and instructed Xuan Yuanzhan: "Alright, take off your clothes and sit inside."
...Xuanyuan Zhan looked at the dark, bubbling hot water, then glanced at his master, who looked serious and not at all like he was joking. He could only grit his teeth, quickly take off his clothes, and get into the bathtub.
"Hiss~" Xuan Yuanzhan instantly felt as if a layer of skin had been scalded off, so hot that he couldn't sit or squat, and almost jumped out of the bathtub.
"Don't move!" Just as Xuan Yuanzhan was feeling restless, Dao Yi patted his shoulder and said, "There's a medicine in here, it's not really that hot!"
Hearing him say that, Xuan Yuanzhan felt a little relieved. But whether he was really hot or pretending, he really felt very hot right now!
"Sit still and behave, we're about to start the acupuncture."
Upon hearing Dao Yi's words, Xuan Yuanzhan immediately dared not move and obediently sat down.
Dao Yi took out silver needles and began to poke Xuan Yuanzhan's back one after another. Perhaps because he was numb from the heat, Xuan Yuanzhan didn't feel much pain at first. But soon he felt as if his whole body was being torn apart. The pain was so intense that it made him tremble all over.
Seeing Xuan Yuanzhan in such pain, Dao Yi felt a pang of sympathy: "There's no other way. This is the necessary path for cultivating Xuanmen techniques. Your master and all the disciples of Xuanmen have gone through this."
He was so anxious that his master had once told him that the more pain he felt during the body conditioning, the greater his future achievements in cultivating Xuanmen techniques would be.
Back then, it was his master who personally treated his body. He was in a lot of pain, almost unbearable pain. But his master said that his senior brother was in even more pain, which meant that his senior brother had a higher talent.
He knew this kid's willpower; this was only the beginning, and he was already trembling with pain, which showed just how much it hurt him. This also demonstrated that the kid had exceptionally high talent.
He didn't know how much pain his senior brother had endured back then, but he knew that it took his senior brother more than ten days to cultivate to the third level of the Xuanmen technique, while this kid only took seven days, which showed his talent.
"It's okay~ I can bear it!" Xuan Yuanzhan gripped the edge of the bathtub tightly, desperately suppressing his pain and constantly telling himself: It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt...
Although Dao Yi felt sorry for him, he knew there was no way to alleviate his pain at the moment, so he could only quickly finish the acupuncture: "You can stay in this bath tonight. It will probably be tomorrow before your body absorbs all the medicine in this bath."
The first treatment is the slowest because the body cannot adapt to the invasion of these medicinal liquids, so absorption will be very slow.
"Do you still remember the fourth level of the Xuanmen cultivation technique?" Dao Yi asked, looking at Xuan Yuanzhan.
"I remember," Xuan Yuanzhan replied, and then began to recite the fourth level of the Xuanmen cultivation technique.
He had been practicing the fourth level of the technique for seven or eight days and had already memorized it perfectly, so how could he not remember it?
Dao Yi was pleased to hear him recite it word for word: "Alright, since you can recite it, then cultivate and absorb the medicinal juice at the same time. I'm going to take a nap and will come back to see you later."
After saying that, Dao Yi really went to sleep.
Xuan Yuanzhan was left alone, enduring the pain while diligently cultivating the fourth level of the Xuanmen technique.
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