Chapter 168.
Huang Hui and Huang Lin were not expecting that they had caused such a big change by just stopping by to knock on the door.
At this moment, the Bagua under their feet faintly reflected the light, enveloping them all.
They could feel that at this moment all eyes were raised.
As long as the slightest movement, will trigger endless killing opportunities and danger, this feeling is like being targeted by heaven and earth, every step is a dead chess.
And the person playing chess was the woman in black not far away.
Terrifying, with a forbidden terror that made the hearts of the two men tremble.
At this time, even talking, also controlled by the other party’s gossip, they can feel that this time to pop out a word, will change the existing situation, into a dead game.
Right, is the situation, when the gossip appeared the moment, the whole world has become the black-clothed woman’s bureau.
As long as the woman in black wanted to, the situation would instantly turn into a life and death situation.
Huang Hui trembled slightly, but also try to control himself, do not tremble too quickly, because he felt that as he trembled, that crisis is gradually deepening.
The feeling of death, invaded the whole body, Huang Hui even felt that his days are numbered today, will soon become a corpse.
Just at this time, a voice rang out.
“Alright, don’t scare them.” A hand pressed on the black-clothed woman’s shoulder, and then, a man with a terrifying aura walked out from behind the black-clothed woman.
After this hand pressed on the woman in black’s shoulder, the woman in black’s skyrocketing anger disappeared, and so did the eight trigrams under her feet.
At this point, the woman in black became bewildered again, and naturally pressed Zhou An’s hand on her shoulder, gently pulling it back, as if everything that had just happened, nothing had happened.
Everything was back to being on cloud nine again.
Breaking free from the brink of death, Huang Hui was okay, able to stand, only his legs were shaking a little too often.
Huang Lin on the other hand couldn’t tense up at all, directly sitting down on the ground, his head covered in cold sweat.
Ghosts knew what they had just experienced, they even felt that they had seen the Great Milk, smiling towards them.
There was a feeling of weakness that came back from the dead, spreading in the heart.
Zhou An was helpless, it was also the first time he had seen the woman in black lose her temper.
Just now, when he was about to teach the woman in black a few more words, he felt someone approaching outside the door, so he brought the woman in black across the courtyard to come over.
When the knock on the door sounded, before he could open the door, the woman in black da-da-da-da-da ran over.
After opening the door, the scene that he had just seen happened.
Zhou An felt that if he didn’t step in to stop it, these two people in front of him would immediately turn into two corpses.
He was not a murderous person by nature, so he patted the woman in black on the shoulder, causing the woman in black to stop.
And it was only at this time that Zhou An sized up the two young men in front of him.
The one sitting spread out on the ground was flat and unimpressive, not much to look at.
The one who still remained standing, Huang Hui, on the other hand, made Zhou An take one more look.
Zhou An’s medical skills nowadays had changed qualitatively from when he was in the Tingyun Mansion.
The terrifying effects brought about by the Healing Dao Compass Seed after it had reached the sixth level allowed him to see at a glance that the young man standing in front of him had a high level of achievement in the medical arts.
In fact, it was normally not visible, but this person’s eyes were an emerald green color, and what was inside was able to be seen clearly.
Zhou An asked, “The two of you, you should be the people from the Heng Ren Medical Manor.”
Not long ago, there were two green-clothed maidens who had paid a visit to the door, but were driven out by themselves.
He didn’t feel the need to visit or get involved in these matters, so he refused very decisively.
But now, when two more people suddenly came, and one of them was still very skilled in medicine, Zhou An linked the causes before and after and got the results.
He couldn’t figure out why these people would pay a visit to his door again, after all, he wasn’t a professional healer either.
In fact, Zhou An wasn’t sure about the weight of his book, much less how much of an impact an amateur healer, writing that book, could bring about, so all of this should have been commonplace in his mind.
As he finished his sentence, Huang Hui, who had been maintaining his trembling, finally returned to normal, wiping a handful of cold sweat from his forehead, his face was still pale, but he was already able to speak.
Huang Hui arched his hand and said, “Huang Hui of the Great Yue Country’s Heng Ren Medical Manor, I’ve met Lord Zhou, I came here because I wanted to pay a visit to the house, please forgive me, Lord Zhou, it is indeed much of an impudence.”
Beside him, Huang Lin also reacted.
He suddenly felt ashamed of himself.
This big brother of his was still able to stand, while he had already sat down on the ground, so he hurriedly climbed up on his hands and knees.
After climbing up, Huang Lin was not as polite as Huang Hui, “I am Huang Lin, I have met Lord Zhou.”
Although he also addressed Lord Zhou, he lightened up quite a bit between his tones.
Seeing this scene, Huang Hui thought that something bad might be about to happen.
Usually this younger brother of his arrogant and domineering habitual, and their own against, their own are more tolerant, after all, to think of the flesh and blood kinship thing.
So over time, also developed this habit of Huang Lin.
Indeed, in the Hengren medical manor to say combat power, indeed not, but to say connections, the whole of the Great Vietnam inside, Hengren medical manor is also famous.
After all, these days, the jianghu people, or those big powers, who can guarantee that they will not be injured?
As long as they were injured, there would be places that would beg for their healers.
But Huang Hui wanted to remind Huang Lin that this was not the Great Yue Country, but the Great Chu Country.
The one standing in front of him was also the hand of the Artisanal Supervisor of the Great Chu Kingdom in the Maple Forest State, and was considered to be a high-powered figure.
However, he wanted to remind, but it was not good to remind in front of Zhou An, because if he reminded at this time, it would be sweeping Zhou An’s face.
So he just coughed a few times, hoping that his brother would be able to understand.
Fortunately, Huang Lin did not go crazy at this time either, and after addressing a sentence, he did not say anything.
Seeing this scene, Zhou An frowned and didn’t let the two in, but instead propped up the doorframe with one hand while one hand was grasped by the woman in black, “Since this is a visit, then now that it has been visited, the two of you please go back, there’s not much to eat or drink inside my house, so I won’t be entertaining the two of you.”
He had made up his mind that he did not want to have any interaction with these two people, after all, he was a very happy man every day now.
The joy of touching fish, who could understand?
Touching the fish, livering his proficiency, and sometimes flirting with the woman in black for a couple of sentences had become his daily routine.
He also enjoyed this routine.
If at this time, someone came to disturb his routine.
He would kill someone.
Hearing Zhou An say this, Huang Hui revealed a bitter smile, “Lord Zhou, visiting is one of the things, the other is, wanting to talk to Lord Zhou about something, do you think we can go in and talk?”
Zhou An shook his head, “Let’s say it here, what’s the matter, after we’ve finished, we should leave and disperse.”
Huang Hui was helpless.
He felt that this young man standing in front of him seemed a little less than reasonable and had a strange temper.
He had really brought enough sincerity to visit this time, but now he hadn’t even entered the door.
Although the young man in front of him was imposing and had a faint aura of death on his body, Huang Hui felt that it was really a bit rude to do so.
In fact, what Huang Hui didn’t know was that it was already considered very good for him to be able to stand here.
Zhou An had really been annoyed by the healers lately, and at this time, when he saw the healers, he was feeling a bit annoyed, and had maintained maximum restraint.
One must realize that with Zhou An’s temperament, many times the last thing he wanted to do was meet trouble.
He was just a Liver Proficiency, which had so much trouble.
If there was trouble, he swung and chopped people.
So in fact, this state and appearance that Zhou An displayed was more to minimize his troubles.
Both of them had different ideas.
But Huang Lin next to them couldn’t help himself.
“Lord Zhou, you’re going a bit overboard with this, we are at least healers from Great Yue, and this time when we came over to pay a visit, how can you not show the appropriate etiquette, or else it’s also a loss of face for Great Chu, am I right?”
The words carried a meaning of I’m here and you have to be courteous, otherwise it would be you who don’t know how to be courteous.
Zhou An sniffed and narrowed his eyes.
He felt that those two people in front of him had very different personalities, especially this slightly younger one, who seemed to have a sense of heavenly fear.
Huang Hui also finally couldn’t help himself and hurriedly explained, “This is my younger brother, during weekdays, he was spoiled by his family, so he is a bit unaware of the sky and the earth, please forgive me, Sir Zhou.”
He felt that just now, Zhou An’s eyes had carried something called a killing aura, making him feel a little cold on his body.
However, before Zhou An could say anything after these words were uttered, the woman in black next to him moved.
It was true that the woman in black was dull and dumb, and many times, in a state of bewilderment, but it didn’t mean that she couldn’t feel the other party’s aura.
She could feel the lightness and contempt that filled this Huang Lin’s body, so the black-clothed woman couldn’t endure this moment again.
Because this attitude was not only towards her, but also towards Zhou An.
There was a bright light at her feet, and the Eight Trigrams appeared once again.
And this time after the eight trigrams appeared, Huang Lin didn’t have the slightest reaction at all, and directly shriveled up and fell to the ground, spitting out a lot of blood, already suffering from a not-so-light injury.
The woman in black turned her head, put away the bagua, and turned to Zhou An with a very smug expression, meaning I’ve done a good job here, right, quickly praise me.
Zhou An was quite helpless, he knew that the woman in black was such a character, touched the woman in black’s head and complimented her a few times.
The woman in black showed delight in her eyes.
This world is like this, it is not that if you carry something in your hand and go to someone’s door to visit, they will definitely come to receive you well.
Especially if you visit a stranger’s home.
Let’s take a very simple analogy, a stranger comes to your house, although carrying something in his hand, but you will definitely bring it to the house?
This is absolutely impossible.
As for what Huang Lin had just shown, if the other party was an enemy according to Zhou An’s temperament, it would have long since become equal in size at this point.
Just like the aunt back then.
Now that the woman in black had stepped in, being able to leave him with a life had already been considered to make him burn incense.
When Huang Hui saw this scene, he was shocked and hurriedly went over to check Huang Lin’s injuries, and only after checking did he realize that Huang Lin was seriously injured, but his life was not in danger, and only then did he turn his head to smile bitterly and say: ”Sir Zhou, why is this necessary? It’s true that my younger brother doesn’t know any better, but it’s not so bad that he was seriously injured right out of the gate.”
Zhou An faintly said, “What do you think, what do you think would happen if it was me who did this to you instead?”
Huang Hui was slightly stunned, then he also understood what Zhou An meant and pulled out a pill and put it into Huang Lin’s mouth.
The injuries on Huang Lin’s body had eased quite a bit after the meal of treatment, and he barely managed to stand up.
But after standing up, he no longer dared to be so arrogant, and looked at the woman in black with some trepidation, moving a step back.
Only then did Huang Hui say, “Lord Zhou, it’s fine to stand here and talk, then I’ll make things clear, I came here this time because I want to ask Lord Zhou if I can unlock this disease.”
Saying that, Huang Hui took out a pitch-black jade stone from his bosom.
The jade itself wouldn’t be pitch-black, but it was wrapped in a layer of color, and there was a black substance flowing inside as well.
This was what Huang Hui was aiming for this time.
Inside this piece of jade, a disease was sealed, and this disease was extremely terrifying, and even they, the Heng Ren Medical Manor, had no way to completely unlock it.
This is a very strange kind of disease, the person who gets the disease will be the same as a normal person, but this disease will gradually erode the person’s whole body, until after the whole body is eroded, it will instantly erupt, and in an instant, the person will be killed in the Yellow Springs.
And this disease so far, there is no way to cure, can only rely on special things to suppress.
Not only that, the person who got this disease was the most honorable person in the entire Great Yue Country, the Emperor of the Great Yue Country.
They had come over this time to seek the Psychic Divine Pill in order to take it back and suppress the illness of the Emperor of the Great Yue Country.
As for why they came, it was actually quite simple.
It was because nowadays, many healers in the Great Yue Country had taken a little bit of the illness from the emperor, sealed it in the jade, and then went around seeking a solution.
Including many of the neighboring countries, they didn’t hide it either.
If according to the past moments, a situation like this, for other countries must be hidden, because even if other countries would treat it, they would not be willing to help the Emperor of the Great Yue Country.
But the current situation was different.
Ever since the establishment of the Great Chu Kingdom, nowadays, with the several neighboring countries, a much more complicated pattern had been formed.
Now after any country had a particularly big problem, it would affect the overall trend.
That was why the Emperor of the Great Yue Kingdom did not shy away from this aspect.
As for just how far it would affect, to be honest, Huang Hui didn’t understand it.
He only knew to follow this way.
It was like an ordinary person who would sometimes point fingers at some of the decisions of those leaders, saying that this was not good and that was not good.
But those who point fingers don’t think about it, sitting in their position, they have eaten more salt than he has eaten rice, and every decision is well thought out.
So for the Emperor of the Great Yue State does not cover up this matter, Huang Hui is not going to express their own opinion, the fact also proves that many neighboring countries, although they know that the Emperor of the Great Yue State is infected with this disease, but no one has not shown any abnormal situation.
After Zhou An saw this piece of jade, he subconsciously operated the Qi in his body and utilized the Medical Dao Compassion Seed to take a look at it, and immediately after that, he stroked his chin and fell into contemplation.
Just now, after just subconsciously glancing at it, he realized that he couldn’t understand any of the illnesses in it.
Not only that, but the proficiency level had surprisingly not risen upwards.
According to the past situation, if the skill of Medical Dao Compassion Seed wanted to rise, one would need to look at many difficult cases, and some brand new ones at that.
But in the current situation, one couldn’t read and couldn’t rise in proficiency, this situation could only mean one thing.
That was that the illnesses inside this piece of jade were simply too advanced, so advanced that the current Healing Compasses couldn’t solve them at all, much less trigger a rise in Healing Compass proficiency.
“Where did this come from?” Zhou An asked with a frown.
Huang Hui didn’t shy away from it, after all, the Emperor of the Great Yue Country had told them not to avoid this, so he honestly told everything.
“Infected with a disease, in order to seek the Psychic Divine Pill, that’s why you guys are teaching around?” Zhou An Xin was curious.
He heard what happened clearly and understood what was going on.
To be honest, he knew very well in his heart what kind of person the Emperor of the Great Yue Country was, that was an existence on the same level as the Emperor of the Great Chu Country.
For such a person to get sick, it was simply a fantasy to say so.
It was like telling you about a physically fit person and saying that he would gain a few hundred pounds tomorrow, it was simply impossible.
That was why Zhou An felt that there was a problem here.
“How did His Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Yue Country, contract the disease?” Zhou An asked.
Who knew that after asking so, Huang Hui shook his head, “His Majesty didn’t say, we don’t know either.”
Indeed, it was not said, so not only did they not know, I’m afraid that no one in this world knew exactly how the disease was contracted.
Zhou An stroked his chin and shook his head, “I can’t solve this thing, I can’t read it.”
He was telling the truth, because he really couldn’t read it, perhaps after the Healing Compassion Seed continued to be upgraded upwards, it would have a miraculous effect, but for the time being, it really wasn’t an area he could go into to solve it.
Hearing this, Huang Hui could only sigh.
He hadn’t come here with much hope per se, so he didn’t feel much disappointment.
“If that’s the case, then I won’t bother Lord Zhou, we’ll leave you here.”
The purpose had been achieved, and although it was not resolved, Huang Hui did not intend to stay much longer.
He turned around with Huang Lin and was ready to leave.
Right at this moment, Huang Hui suddenly felt that a cold, bone-chilling chill appeared on his body, and immediately after, he violently turned his head and looked at the woman in black behind Zhou An.
The woman in black was still blank in her eyes, but somehow, Huang Hui saw an icy killing aura from the woman in black’s eyes.
This killing aura was different from the previous one, before it was caused by offending Zhou An, but now it seemed to be caused by the piece of jade in his hand.
The black color inside the jade was flowing, the blankness in the eyes of the woman in black was disappearing, the murderous aura was gradually rising, and a layer of Bagua surfaced under her feet again.
This time, the killing aura was simply many times stronger than before.
Zhou An also felt it.
He gave the woman in black a puzzled look, then once again put his hand on the woman in black’s shoulder.
With this action from Zhou An, the woman in black also quickly reacted, the blankness of her eyes reappearing, hiding all of her murderous aura.
Zhou An also saw that the woman in black’s murderous aura came entirely from the piece of jade in Huang Hui’s hand.
To be precise, it did not only come from the jade, but from the disease in the jade.
Thinking of this, Zhou An stretched out his hand to Huang Hui and said, “Can you show me that piece of jade?”
It was only at this time that Huang Hui realized that he was soaked through, all drenched in sweat.
After hearing Zhou An say this, how could he not say yes and hurriedly handed over the jade in his hand to Zhou An.
After Zhou An received it, he shook it at the woman in black.
To be honest, he had always been very curious about the black-clothed woman’s life, normally, the black-clothed woman was never shown this state, but now that it appeared, then it must be related to the disease inside the jade.
Since this was the case, Zhou An wanted to try and see what exactly would happen to the woman in black.
Moreover, the method of the kind of attack that the woman in black had performed just now, even Zhou An could not see the end of it.
Obviously, it was a very strong and powerful method of attack.
When the jade appeared in front of the woman in black’s eyes, this time the woman in black didn’t show a killing aura and still looked at Zhou An with a blank face as if she didn’t know anything.
Zhou An stroked his chin and said, “You’re not acting for me, are you?”
The woman in black softly spoke, “What is acting ……?”
She was still as she was before, only able to speak in a stuttering manner, but was now able to show some of her meaning.
As far as this current state of the woman in black was concerned it looked as if it was real, and Zhou An had no way of determining whether what she was saying was true or false.
But this piece of jade in front of him didn’t seem to be able to induce any emotional changes in the woman in black anymore.
Thinking of this, Zhou An returned the jade again.
When he returned it, Huang Hui hurriedly put the jade away, and then arched his hand and said, “Sir Zhou, since you can’t solve this problem either, we’ll leave first, we’ve bothered you a lot this time, we’ll meet again next time if we have the fate to do so.”
After saying these words, he didn’t hesitate at all and directly took his brother and fled in a flying manner.
When he came, Huang Lin still had that disdainful look, but when he left, he was already trembling with fear.
This person who was spoiled by his brother and the Medical Village, now recognizing the cruelty of the world, simply did not dare to be half frivolous and impetuous.
The two of them walked very quickly, not daring to stay here at all, fearing that in the next moment, the mood of the woman in black would change again, and even Zhou An would not be able to stop it in time, killing the two of them, which would not be cost-effective.
Zhou An also did not say anything until after these two people disappeared at the end of the street, and only then did he close the door.
The woman in black still had that bewildered look and kept holding Zhou An’s hand, not wanting to leave an inch.
After pondering for a moment, Zhou An said, “Go back, go back and talk.”
Currently, he was going to go all out to liver the proficiency of the Swimming Dragon Steps, but now, it seemed that he still had to go out for time, in addition to teaching the black-clothed woman to recognize the words, he also had to use the black-clothed woman to brush up on the Holy Spirit Demon Body.
He was looking forward to seeing if the Holy Spirit Demonic Body’s proficiency continued to rise while the woman in black was being brushed more and more, whether it would produce some new changes.
Thinking about this, he pulled the woman in black and returned to the house.
Then, Zhou An divided up the future methods and began to focus on the two skills, Holy Spirit Demonic Body and Swimming Dragon Steps.
Time flowed like water.
This incident at the Heng Ren Medical Manor was actually just an episode.
After meeting Zhou An, Huang Hui and the others returned to the Universal Medical Center and taught again the next day.
After the teaching was done, they left Maplewood State in a hurry.
This trip had brought them too much of an impression, especially the woman in black, which had caused an unspeakable despair in their hearts.
So leaving one step earlier was also one step earlier for them to get themselves out of danger.
With the departure of the Heng Ren Medical Manor, the entire Maple Forest State once again returned to calm.
But something still happened, there were more new faces in Maple Forest State.
And these new people were the ones who took over the vacant official positions.
Zhou An spent this period of time, livering proficiency every day, half of the time was used to liver Swimming Dragon Steps, and the other half was used to brush up on the Sacred Order Demonic Body and teach the black-clothed woman to speak and read.
During this period, he also went to the Crafting Supervisor, after all, he was the hand of the Crafting Supervisor, sometimes he still had to go there.
When he went over there, those subordinates gave Zhou An an overview of the entire situation of the current Da Chu Kingdom, which had undergone a sea change.
A large number of officials had been secretly executed, new officials had taken over their positions, and now, while developing at a high speed, the state of Da Chu was filling in the loopholes and the dark places that were hard to find.
For Zhou An, all of this had nothing to do with him.
He was currently flipping through a variety of mineral books.
These things were all provided by the Crafting Supervisor.
It was not easy for Zhou An to come here, so naturally, he had to check them out carefully.
After reading it, he briefly arranged some specific matters before walking out from inside the Crafting Supervisor.
“Today, I still need to buy some vegetables and go back to cook, then Liver Swimming Dragon Steps, then mess with the Holy Spirit Demon Body, and also hand her over to talk.” On the way back, Zhou An stopped by to buy some vegetables, thinking as he walked.
This kind of life made him nourished and comfortable.
The woman in black had been following him around, pulling his hand and curiously surveying everything around her.
Ever since the last time the black woman appeared to change, there hadn’t been any other changes, and now after Zhou An’s drilling during this period of time, bringing her out every single day to buy things and groceries, the woman in black was much bolder than before.
Although there was still bewilderment in her eyes, but besides bewilderment and curiosity, Zhou An could feel that sometimes the woman in black’s emotions carried a kind of leap.
“Good …… eat!” The woman in black took a bunch of sugar gourds and ate them beautifully.
Going back should have been unhindered, but halfway there, two constables stopped Zhou An.
“Lord Zhou, finally found you, just now I went to the Crafting Supervisor and didn’t see it, so I guessed that you must be preparing to go home.” The constables carried their matching swords in their hands and bowed to Zhou An with clasped fists.
Zhou An was holding the woman in black with one hand and carrying the dishes in the other, after seeing the appearance of this constable, he asked, “What’s the matter?”
To be honest, Zhou An had been living too salty for a while, and now that a person suddenly appeared, he felt that there must be something to find him.
Otherwise there was no need to come over.
The constable respectfully replied, “Lord Zhou, it’s like this, our Maple Forest State has recently brought in quite a few new officials, so the Lu State Order decided to hold a banquet to also familiarize everyone with it, and Lord Zhou is a hand of the Crafting Supervisor, so the Lu State Order came over specifically, wanting to invite Lord Zhou over to attend this party.”
This was an unwritten rule, and it actually depended on the place.
Maple Forest Prefecture was huge, with many officials, and this time, due to the Emperor’s order, the entire officialdom had come under a major reshuffle, so there were many new faces entering.
As the head of Maple Forest Prefecture, besides the Zhen Gui Si, Mr. Lu was another big brother here.
So with all the new faces entering, he also had to seize the time to make the new faces integrate more perfectly into Maple Forest State, so that it could also continue to function in an organized manner.
And the banquet was the simplest and most effective maneuver.
Letting everyone meet each other in the banquet, and then brag about each other a little more, so that everyone’s relationship gradually blends in.
Even if there were some cases of mismatch, he would be able to deal with them by hosting them himself.
Sometimes, it was actually that simple, and a banquet could solve quite a few problems.
Zhou An thought about it and said, “OK, when is the time?”
Sitting in this position, in fact, at times, some favors are unavoidable.
Zhou An felt that this trip could go and be equivalent to giving a face to Lu Zhou Ling.
Everyone was doing things in Maple Forest State, looking up and seeing down, letting those new members see themselves would also be able to avoid quite a bit of trouble at some point.
When the constable heard Zhou An’s promise, his face was delighted and he hurriedly said, “It’s this evening, the location is at the biggest restaurant in our Maple Forest State, Xianhe Lou.”
Zhou An nodded and after asking for the exact time, he said, “Alright, I know, you go first, I have to go back.”
Since the matter had been notified in place, the constable did not stay and turned to leave.
Zhou An waited until the constable had left, pulled the woman in black and walked towards the house again.
It was just a banquet, just go there at night, now go back and continue with your liver proficiency.
Soon, Zhou An and the woman in black disappeared into the corner of the street.
Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, the morning hours passed.
The sun gradually set, and the dim yellow light illuminated the ground with a burst of warmth.
Even in winter, the afternoon sunlight made the vendors who were closing their stalls feel warm.
At this moment, within the largest restaurant in Maple Forest Prefecture, the second floor was all wrapped up.
One by one, people dressed in civilian clothes with a dignified appearance were entering and exiting the restaurant.
If one were to look carefully, one would realize that although each of these people had an air of a scholar, they were not in groups, but rather were gathered in twos and threes.
Obviously, these people were all in small groups.
At this time, the Luzhou Magistrate had also arrived at the scene, and beside him, he was followed by a young man dressed in white.
The young man was holding a folding fan in his hand and was gently shaking it.
“Lord Lu, this Zhou An is also too disrespectful to you, for something like a banquet, it is only polite to arrive early.” The young man shook the folding fan and said in a very bland tone.