Chapter 53: The medical fairy's father's martial arts are invincible in the world!
Si Yuan was not surprised to hear the system say so confidently that it agreed to the original owner's wish but did not necessarily have to fulfill it.
Even children know that verbal promises cannot be trusted. Without a written contract, there is no binding promise. If the party making the promise wants to go back on their word, they can do so at no cost. Naturally, the party accepting the promise must be prepared to lose everything.
As a vested interest, Si Yuan would not be so kind as to speak up for the original owner and create a rift with his own system.
Just do your best to help the original owner fulfill his wish if you can.
Si Yuan did not dwell on this topic any more. He glanced at the sky. It was dinner time. The original owner only ate two meals a day. Now it had been five hours since the last meal, and he was so hungry that his intestines were knotted.
Si Yuan found the rice jar of the original owner's house, washed the rice with ease and started to steam the rice.
Using this ancient wood-fired stove to steam rice, you can get fragrant rice on top and sweet rice soup with rice oil on the bottom.
The original owner usually steamed rice in this way. She would eat the rice on top and give the rice soup at the bottom to her daughter.
After all, conditions are limited and milk is hard to come by.
Although the original owner was sometimes able to find a female prey that had just given birth and use the milk from her prey to feed her daughter, if he couldn't catch any prey with milk, he would take the meat he got from hunting to find a woman in the village who had just given birth and ask her to feed his daughter.
But the milk was not stable, and prey with milk could not be caught every day. In addition, other women in the village who had just given birth did not have enough milk for their own children, so it was difficult for them to share some with the original owner's daughter.
So when the original owner's daughter grew up, she drank more rice soup.
Si Yuan was not surprised by this situation. Although the original owner of the first world was born in a marquis's mansion, he was also wealthy after the separation. He was able to hire several wet nurses for his children and it was no problem to change a wet nurse every day.
But these lower-class common people cannot afford a wet nurse. If the mother of their own child has milk, the child can grow up drinking milk. If the mother has no milk, the child can only be raised by drinking rice soup. If the child cannot grow up, it is considered that the child has bad luck.
In ancient society with backward productivity, the infant mortality rate was extremely high.
When Si Yuan first traveled to the Tiancang Realm, he was born in an ordinary mountain village in the mortal world. Fortunately, his mother died after he was one year old, and he was able to be weaned at that time. His father died when he was seven or eight years old, and by then he had some ability to move independently and could find ways to fill his stomach.
But he also struggled to survive, and he had seen how difficult life was for other poor families in the village who could barely feed themselves.
That was the Tiancang Realm with abundant spiritual energy. Although mortals were naturally strong and healthy in an environment with abundant spiritual energy, the mortality rate due to natural disasters and man-made calamities was still high, not to mention the poor families at the bottom of the society in this small world without much spiritual energy.
The original owner's father, who took so much trouble and tried his best to raise his sick daughter, was already a rare good father in this ancient society. If it were anyone else, he would have given up on this sick daughter long ago and saved money to marry a new wife and have a son.
The original owner treated his daughter Fuling with a truly kind fatherly heart, and all the money he earned with hard work was spent on his daughter.
Si Yuan traveled through time and space, so of course it was impossible for him to mistreat the original owner's daughter, especially since this daughter was the target of his mission in this world.
After steaming the rice, Si Yuan would boil the rice soup. When the temperature of the soup dropped to a level suitable for drinking, he would feed the soup to little Fuling.
Because the child was still young and it was unknown whether she could stand on her own feet, the original owner had never given her a name, fearing that after giving her a name she would not be able to control her life and the King of Hell would take her life.
Si Yuan didn't believe this, and he was too lazy to think too much about it, so he simply gave the child the name she was supposed to have in the original plot - Fuling.
The original owner's surname was Li, so the child should be named Li Fuling, not just an ordinary medicinal herb named Fuling without a surname.
Little Fuling was very well-behaved. Perhaps she knew her family's difficult situation, so she would drink whatever she was fed. She even drank a bowl of tasteless rice soup obediently.
Half an hour after drinking the rice soup, it was time for her to take her medicine.
The original owner was a hunter who was good at hunting, but the reason he lived in such poverty was because he spent all his money on medical treatment and medicine for his daughter.
Little Fuling had to take medicine almost as soon as she started drinking milk in order to grow to this size.
Si Yuan took a look at the medicine that the original owner had prescribed for Xiao Fuling. The medicine was suitable for the symptoms, but because he was short of money, the medicine he bought was not very effective. It was not without effect after drinking it, but it was better than nothing.
Si Yuan still boiled the medicine and gave it to Xiao Fuling to drink. He had just traveled through time and space. Although his soul was powerful, his body was still that of an ordinary mortal and he could not do anything else. He could only go around the mountains to see if he could catch more prey or collect some medicinal herbs with good efficacy to boil medicine for Xiao Fuling.
After dinner, Si Yuan asked the next-door neighbor to take care of Xiao Fuling and gave her a small piece of pickled meat.
The original owner often arranged for her daughter like this when she went out. The neighbor's aunt next door also liked the well-behaved little Fuling very much. Besides, she was paid, so she was willing to take over the care of little Fuling.
The aunt didn't even ask Si Yuan what he was going to do. She took the child and said, "Come back early, be careful and safe, and remember that you still have a daughter who depends on you."
The original owner was a taciturn person, so Si Yuan didn't say much either. He just said "hmm" softly to indicate that he had listened, then he looked at his daughter reluctantly and turned to leave.
The young and ignorant Fuling had long been accustomed to being handed over to her aunt for care by her biological father. She nestled in her aunt's familiar arms, looking at her father's back which seemed to have become taller and straighter, with her eyes full of confusion and innocence.
Si Yuan was walking on the path leading into the mountain holding the original owner's kitchen knife, swinging it from time to time to chop off bushes or branches that blocked the way. He said to the system in his heart: [This small world has spiritual energy, but not much. It's too thin and it's impossible to practice. 】
The system said helplessly: [There is nothing we can do about this. Generally, small worlds have no spiritual energy. It is good enough that this small world has a little spiritual energy. Although I can't practice cultivation, I can practice martial arts. After all, this is a martial arts world. Even if the martial arts are low-level, there are still some extraordinary powers. 】
Si Yuan almost laughed out loud, how could a low-level martial artist who could fly a few feet away be called extraordinary?
Si Yuan felt that the spiritual energy in the mountains and forests was more active than in places where people lived. There was really little spiritual energy, but fortunately it was still active and could be absorbed and utilized by the human body.
The internal skills in this world are actually some efficient ways of absorbing and utilizing spiritual energy. After the spiritual energy enters the body, one's strength will naturally be enhanced. However, because the spiritual energy is too thin, the enhanced strength is not much.
In essence, it is based on the same principle as the Tiancang Realm's cultivation method, which is to absorb spiritual energy into the body and transform it into one's own strength.
Si Yuan was just strolling in the mountains and forests, and with a little thought, he modified the ordinary cultivation techniques he remembered in his mind into simplified martial arts secrets suitable for this world.
However, even the martial arts secrets that Si Yuan modified in such a short time are far more powerful than those top martial arts secrets in this world. After all, they are secrets derived from the immortal cultivation techniques.
The spiritual energy in this world is so low that even the most common cultivation techniques cannot be practiced, because the spiritual energy in the whole world is not enough for him to complete a large circulation using the cultivation techniques.
One can only practice this kind of low-level martial arts secrets that absorb less spiritual energy, so as to avoid causing a shortage of spiritual energy in this world.
Si Yuan did not focus on physical cultivation. After all, the upper limit of the world was there. Absorbing all the spiritual energy in the world would only allow him to reach a small stage of Qi Refining. He would not have enough spiritual energy to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage. Why should he spend all his time on physical cultivation? He might as well use this time to comprehend the laws of the world and focus on improving his soul realm.
Si Yuan walked among the mountains and forests. With his keen sense of spiritual energy, he quickly found several hidden century-old medicinal herbs.
There is a lot of spiritual energy gathered around these good medicinal materials, so Si Yuan is always successful in finding medicinal materials based on his perception of spiritual energy.
Good medicinal herbs that are a hundred years old are very expensive. Seeing that he had found so many good medicinal herbs, Si Yuan no longer cared whether he had encountered suitable prey or not. He sold these medicinal herbs for enough money, and the difficulties encountered by the original owner were naturally solved.
Si Yuan selected the century-old medicinal herbs that could be used by both himself and Xiao Fuling from the ones he found, and then sold the rest that could not be used.
The place of sale is the county town which is a bit far away from the small mountain village.
It was naturally impossible to sell good things at a high price in a small place like the ancient county town, but Si Yuan was not disappointed. He didn't have the time to climb mountains and wade through water to run too far just to sell them at a high price. The current price was still reasonable in the county town, and he was too lazy to run more, so he agreed.
After Si Yuan received the money from selling medicinal herbs, he turned around and left the pharmacy in the county town.
But not long after he walked out of the pharmacy, he felt like someone was following him.
Si Yuan knew without guessing that they were definitely coming for the money on him. In this small county, this amount of money was a huge sum of money. In addition, his appearance made him look like an ordinary poor man who got lucky, so he naturally attracted people's covetousness.
Si Yuan was in no mood to play cat and mouse with the people behind him. After all, it was getting late. If he didn't hurry back, he would probably miss the scene of bandits slaughtering the village tomorrow.
He had no intention of giving little Fuling to someone else to raise, nor did he want to see the mountain village where the original owner grew up destroyed by bandits.
So Si Yuan had no patience and directly led the people who were following him to a remote alley, arrested them, and after finding out who was the mastermind behind the murder and robbery, he killed the two men.
Si Yuan returned quickly and quietly killed the drugstore clerk who had deliberately leaked his information to the leader of an underground gang, as well as the gang leader who had actually ordered people to kill and rob.
After dealing with the covetous people attracted by the money, Si Yuan returned to the small mountain village where the original owner lived and took little Fuling back from the aunt of the next-door neighbor.
Si Yuan used the herbs he had on hand to make a pot of nourishing soup for Xiao Fuling to make up for the deficiencies in her body.
He had accumulated some spiritual energy in his body. In order to solve the problem once and for all, he transferred all of this spiritual energy into Xiao Fuling's body, bringing out the full effect of the tonic soup and replenishing Xiao Fuling's weak body.
This extremely effective method of nourishing the body can only be done by someone like Si Yuan, who comes from the world of immortal cultivation. And only someone like him who is from the world of immortal cultivation and is well versed in medical theory and pharmacology can do it.
The originally pale and weak little Fuling's complexion obviously became much rosier and cuter after Si Yuan completed her foundation. Anyone who sees her again will probably be unable to understand why a girl can become so much prettier after growing up.
But with Si Yuan standing there, no one dared to complain about the changes in little Fuling.
As the night deepened, time gradually moved towards the next day.
Just after midnight, Si Yuan heard a large number of footsteps approaching the village.
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