How The Little Medical Cultivator Saves the Furries – CH69

Chapter 69

Mo Yin and Lei Qi were already waiting in the botanical garden.

Lan Fangyu stayed behind in the top-floor hospital room, watching as Ye Yumeng carried the insulated box and walked out of the room with light, brisk steps.

He could not help feeling a little uneasy.

“Do we really not need to follow him?” Lan Fangyu asked over the voice channel after Ye Yumeng entered the elevator.

“He’s got He Jun with him,” Mo Yin’s voice came through the channel.

In truth, he was nervous too. His eyes stayed fixed on the surveillance feed. That tiny insulated box would not be able to protect His Majesty in a critical moment…

The distance from the Core Inpatient Building to the botanical garden was very short, and with Ye Yumeng’s mobility device, it took less than five minutes.

Yet to Mo Yin and the others, those five minutes felt agonizing. It was only after Ye Yumeng safely entered the botanical garden that they finally breathed easier.

Escorted and protected by them, Ye Yumeng arrived at one of the lounge rooms.

This place had already been converted into a hospital room for the little rabbit. Although it was much simpler than the top-floor room, just looking out the window at the vast stretch of greenery made one’s mood improve.

The moment the insulated box was opened, Lu Nanzhou immediately sensed the difference.

It was not just the fresh, slightly cool air. There was also that familiar energy he had been studying for more than a month.

It was rich and concentrated. He no longer needed to struggle to move it; he could now guide it with ease.

Lu Nanzhou suddenly understood why Ye Yumeng liked this place so much.

“All right, I’ll stay here on watch. You all go get some rest,” Ye Yumeng said.

After settling the little rabbit onto the bed and letting Lei Qi make a few arrangements, he dismissed them.

He had no idea how tense Mo Yin and the others were. To him, this was really an ordinary matter.

“I’ll be in the lounge area. If you need anything, call me anytime.”

“All right.”

Mo Yin remained in the botanical garden, while Lei Qi returned to the top-floor hospital room to create the illusion of a shift change.

After going back to the lounge, Mo Yin did not idle around.

He took out the design plans for the botanical garden and began preparing to add an underground passage here, one that would connect it directly to the Core Inpatient Building so their movements could be even more discreet.

Inside the room, Ye Yumeng was already talking to the little rabbit again.

Now that he had the spiritual liquid vortex automatically absorbing spiritual energy, he no longer had to sit down and actively cultivate every time. His spiritual power would refill on its own, saving him a great deal of time.

Naturally, that meant he could do more things.

“Doesn’t this place feel very different?” Ye Yumeng asked the little rabbit as he sat by the bed.

Lu Nanzhou nodded.

“Try sensing it carefully and see whether you can detect spiritual energy,” Ye Yumeng said. “I’ll be in the room. If there’s anything you don’t understand, you can call me anytime.”

After the little rabbit agreed, Ye Yumeng got up and opened the windows.

Because this had originally been built as his cultivation room, many of the details were designed to his specifications. Besides ordinary windows, there were also large skylights in the ceiling that could be opened.

Once everything was fully opened, even denser and more abundant spiritual energy poured in.

Ye Yumeng let out a satisfied sigh. Even Lu Nanzhou could feel the difference.

“Tomorrow morning, we’ll move the five spirit plants from the hospital room over here too,” Ye Yumeng said as he took out his talisman-making materials.

There was now soaring demand for calming talismans, so he planned to draw a large batch as backup in one go. As long as the symbols were not activated, calming talismans could be stored for quite a while.

He had not tested it, but one or two months should definitely be no problem.

The Green Jade Brush moved across the paper.

These days, Ye Yumeng collected spiritual fruits from the cafeteria every day. Although ordinary spiritual fruits no longer helped him as much now that his cultivation had risen, they still nourished him over time.

As for the leftover peels and pits, he tossed them all into the spirit brush space, then cleaned out the residue the next day.

With time, the spirit brush space was also changing.

It had originally only been palm-sized and irregular in shape. Now it had expanded to twice its size and was gradually becoming spherical.

And the quality of the talismans made with the Green Jade Brush seemed to be improving as well.

To Ye Yumeng, this was an unexpected delight.

If the Green Jade Brush kept growing, perhaps he would not even need to continue improving the talisman paper and ink. It alone might be enough to extend the talismans’ effective duration.

One calming talisman after another took shape beneath Ye Yumeng’s brush.

It had been a long time since he had drawn talismans on such a large scale. Perhaps because his state of mind had changed, he felt his brushwork flowing with unprecedented smoothness.

Although it was repetitive work, the successful completion of each talisman filled him with a quiet sense of comfort.

By the time all 200 calming talismans were finished and Ye Yumeng came out of that wonderful state, he discovered, to his surprise—

He had broken through again.

It was only a minor realm advancement, so his spiritual power capacity had not increased, but the speed of the spiritual liquid vortex had grown faster once more.

Now, after finishing a batch of calming talismans, he did not even need to wait for the ink to dry. The spiritual energy he had used up had already recovered!

This was truly too wonderful.

Clearly, persisting on the path of merit had been the right choice. Advancing really did come smoothly this way.

Ye Yumeng set down the Green Jade Brush and slumped into his chair to rest.

Outside, the night had already turned deep and dark.

Ye Yumeng checked the time.

He had not seen Lu Qi for several days now… and he missed him a little.

Now that his cultivation had improved, using the Soul-Summoning Art no longer posed any burden to him in terms of spiritual power.

Should he try summoning him?

But it was already past midnight. Lu Qi was probably asleep by now, wasn’t he? Would it be inappropriate to summon him at this hour?

After hesitating for a while, Ye Yumeng gave up on the idea.

He did not know whether frequent summoning would have any bad effect on Lu Qi. Lu Qi was still recovering, so he ought to rest more.

He walked to the bedside and looked at the little rabbit curled up there.

The little rabbit’s eyes were tightly shut. He had apparently fallen asleep at some point. This was Ye Yumeng’s first time staying up with him through the night.

Resting one elbow on the bed, he propped up his chin with one hand and stared at the little rabbit in a daze.

Come to think of it, he had not thought about Xueqiu for quite some time.

It was not because he had been too busy and had no time. Rather… as he watched the little rabbit improve day by day, the knot in his heart seemed to be loosening as well.

Ye Yumeng cupped his face in both hands, and the scene of his first meeting with Xueqiu surfaced in his mind.

That had been when he was very young. He had already been wandering for some time, and one day he made his way to a market where many cultivators were buying and selling things.

Because he longed to become a cultivator himself, he stayed there and survived by running errands for them every day.

At one stall, a peddler was selling spirit rabbits.

All of them had been bred at his home, and after half a month of selling, only one was left.

The rabbit was tiny and especially adorable.

He had thought that since the spirit rabbit failed to sell, the stall owner would just keep it and raise it himself. Instead, he heard him say to someone else, “This one’s too weak. It won’t live long anyway. I’ll slaughter it tonight and eat it so it doesn’t waste feed. Might as well nourish myself a little.”

He clearly saw the fear in the little rabbit’s eyes.

As a homeless child, he was very poor back then and simply could not afford that rabbit.

Ye Yumeng gritted his teeth and walked away.

But he thought about that little rabbit the entire day. It was not until the market was about to close that he finally made up his mind and ran back.

By then, the peddler was already packing up.

The little rabbit had been grabbed by the ears and stuffed into a sack. No matter how hard it struggled, it could not escape.

Ye Yumeng ran over and exchanged his jade pendant for the little rabbit. It was the only valuable thing he owned, and he had originally been planning to trade it for winter food.

The peddler agreed and handed him the sack.

Ye Yumeng would never forget how adorable Xueqiu looked when he untied the sack and saw him curled up inside.

He stared at him blankly for a long while, then finally could not resist reaching into the sack and gently touching his little head. That fluffy, soft sensation was the most comfortable thing he had ever felt.

Xueqiu was the prettiest, cutest, smartest rabbit he had ever seen!

Although he had lost the jade pendant and no longer had money for winter food, Xueqiu always managed to lead him into the mountains to find things to eat. And Xueqiu’s body was warm, so sleeping with him in his arms kept the cold away.

Together, they endured two winters, until they met the old healer, who took him in…

Ye Yumeng remembered those childhood days.

Whenever he had thought back on them before, they always came with sadness and pain. But now, at this moment, he wore a smile on his face.

Resting his head on his arms, he looked at the little rabbit on the bed from up close. Feeling the much stronger life force now coming from him, he also felt the wound in his own heart slowly healing.

“You have to get better soon…”

He murmured, and before he realized it, he too had closed his eyes and fallen asleep.

When Ye Yumeng’s breathing became long and even, a blanket resting at the foot of the bed suddenly rose into the air and floated over to drape itself gently across his shoulders.

Lu Nanzhou had reopened his eyes.

His gaze rested warmly on Ye Yumeng for a long while before slowly shifting away.

Silently, he recited the incantation Ye Yumeng had taught him, released his spiritual power, and continued sensing the spiritual energy in the environment.

Time passed, though he did not know how much.

By the time Lu Nanzhou came back to himself, he realized he had entered a marvelous state.

It was as though the whole world had suddenly been muted. Every tiny detail became clear in his mind, and he could even see the paths of air flowing…

At a certain moment, there seemed to be a faint pop.

Tiny points of light appeared throughout the environment. And as they emerged, the world’s movement returned to normal.

Lu Nanzhou looked at those minuscule points of light, and a sigh of wonder rose in his heart.

So this was the world Ye Yumeng saw.

The next morning—

“You can really see it?”

Ye Yumeng’s delighted voice rang through the room.

Lu Nanzhou curved his lips slightly and used the voice machine to answer, “I think so.”

Ye Yumeng immediately gathered a small cluster of spiritual light.

“What color is this?” he asked.

“Red and blue.”

Ye Yumeng’s eyes lit up. He summoned another cluster, and after the little rabbit answered correctly again, he was finally sure Lu Nanzhou was not simply guessing.

“You really can sense spiritual energy now!”

This was way too fast, wasn’t it? It had only been a little over a month. The little rabbit’s talent was incredible!

It seemed that his inability to sense it earlier had indeed had a great deal to do with the concentration of spiritual energy. He had only arrived at the botanical garden last night, and by today he could already feel it!

“It looks like moving you here really was the right decision.” Ye Yumeng rubbed the little rabbit’s head and said with a bright smile.

“Mm.” Lu Nanzhou nodded.

“You must be hungry, right? I’ll go get you breakfast!”

Ye Yumeng excitedly turned to leave, only for Lu Nanzhou to stop him.

He asked, “Should I try absorbing this spiritual energy?”

Ye Yumeng paused.

Guiding spiritual energy into the body was the first step in entering the path of cultivation.

But the fire power inside the little rabbit’s body had previously reacted the moment Ye Yumeng tried guiding spiritual energy deeper inside him.

The first time spiritual energy entered the body, the disturbance would not be small. There was a high chance it would trigger backlash from his bloodline power, which would be extremely dangerous.

“Let’s wait a bit longer,” Ye Yumeng said, shaking his head. “Continue absorbing the spiritual energy in the spirit rice and build up your foundation first. That’ll be safer.”

At least over the past two months, when he had eaten spirit rice and absorbed its energy, there had been no backlash.

“All right.” Lu Nanzhou nodded obediently.

So Ye Yumeng left for the cafeteria, while Lu Nanzhou remained behind, continuing to sense those points of spiritual light and trying to understand them more deeply.

“Meeeh~”

As soon as Ye Yumeng entered the botanical garden, he heard a cheerful bleat from far away, along with Shi Yichun’s patient coaxing voice.

“Hanhan, these king plants belong to Doctor Ye. You can’t just eat them whenever you want, understand?”

“Meeeh—”

“I know they’re delicious, but Doctor Ye needs them to treat illnesses and save people. Let’s eat these high-quality plants instead, okay? They taste almost the same.”

Ye Yumeng immediately steered his mobility device over with He Jun, and sure enough, he saw Shi Yichun and his little lamb daughter.

The moment the little lamb spotted Ye Yumeng, she happily bleated and bounced toward him.

Ye Yumeng reached out and rubbed the fluffy top of her head.

Her wool was soft and felt especially good to the touch.

The little lamb clearly liked Ye Yumeng very much too. Her eyes curved as if she were smiling, and she nuzzled affectionately against him.

“Doctor Ye.” Shi Yichun walked over.

There was apology on his face. “Hanhan ate the king plants again. This time she ate a little too much…”

Ye Yumeng glanced at the two or three spirit plants whose leaves had been eaten away, then lowered his eyes to the little lamb.

Apparently realizing she had done something wrong, the little sheep, who had been smiling happily a moment ago, immediately lost her smile. She nervously lifted her head to peek at Ye Yumeng.

The instant her eyes met his, she hurriedly looked away again.

Ye Yumeng had no intention of blaming her. After thinking for a moment, he asked, “Hanhan, can you tell which plants are king plants?”

Hearing this, Shi Yichun froze.

“Doctor Ye, what did you say?” he asked, wondering if he had heard wrong.

Ye Yumeng looked at him and explained, “I said, can Hanhan distinguish which plants are king plants?”

“There’s no such talent in our bloodline…” Shi Yichun murmured.

In fact, he had never heard of such a thing anywhere in the interstellar world either.

The ability to identify king plants with the naked eye—Ye Yumeng was the first and only one he had ever encountered.

“This isn’t some bloodline gift.”

Ye Yumeng shook his head. Looking at the innocent-faced little lamb, he smiled and said, “We’ll know if we test it.”

“Meeeh?”

The little lamb tilted her head.

“You two wait here for a moment,” Ye Yumeng said. “I’ll be right back.”

After saying that, he rode away on his mobility device.

When Ye Yumeng returned, Shi Yichun saw that the assistant who was always at his side had come carrying vegetables in one hand and fruit in the other.

“Meeeh—”

The little lamb gave a delighted cry and ran over to greet Ye Yumeng.

“Sorry to keep you waiting.”

Ye Yumeng had He Jun set the vegetables and fruit down, then took out two fruits and said to the little lamb, “Hanhan, if I let you eat one of these, which one would you choose?”

Shi Yichun had already figured out Ye Yumeng’s intention, and he could not help feeling tense.

The little lamb looked at Ye Yumeng, then turned to look at her father. Shi Yichun smiled and said, “These aren’t from the field. You can eat them.”

“Meeeh~”

So the little lamb picked the fruit on the right.

Ye Yumeng did not reveal the answer immediately. Instead, he took out another two fruits.

This time, the little lamb clearly understood the rules of the game and decisively chose the one on the left. When Ye Yumeng set that fruit down by her feet, she bleated happily again.

By the final round, a whole little pile of fruits and vegetables had already accumulated at the little lamb’s feet, and she could no longer resist lowering her head and taking a bite of a leaf of greens, chewing happily.

Compared to her, Shi Yichun’s mood was far more uneasy.

Ye Yumeng finally stopped keeping him in suspense. Looking up at him, he smiled and nodded. “Hanhan really can tell the difference.”

Once or twice might have been luck, but when she could accurately pick out the spiritual fruits and vegetables every time, even in a two-choice or three-choice setup, it could no longer be coincidence.

And yet after hearing the answer, Shi Yichun was not simply overjoyed.

He reached out to rub his daughter’s head, and in his eyes there was pride—but also a hidden worry and sorrow.

With such a powerful gift, Hanhan should have had a brilliant future. Like her elder brother, she should have been able to shine in the field of cultivation and agriculture.

But the zerg race had destroyed all of that.

And now she was only a little sheep. In the future, she would only ever be able to remain in beast form. If one day he grew old, what would become of Hanhan then?

Originally he had not dared to imagine such a distant future. He had only wanted his daughter to live. But once she had survived, new worries had followed.

Still, no matter what, the fact that his daughter had survived and possessed such a gift was ultimately a good thing.

As long as she was alive, there would always be a way.

“Thank you, Doctor Ye,” Shi Yichun said solemnly.

Looking at the little lamb, Ye Yumeng also found it a pity.

Such a gift… she really was excellent material. It moved even him. If he could guide her onto the path of cultivation, perhaps one day she might even be able to transform into human form.

After all, demon beasts in the cultivation world could take human form, so why couldn’t the little lamb, who had been human to begin with?

But if he really took her as a disciple, how exactly would he teach her?

The only spirit beast he had ever dealt with personally was Xueqiu. He had prepared a cultivation method for Xueqiu, but Xueqiu had died before ever transforming, so he didn’t even know whether that method had been useful.

Still, no matter what, they would have to try first.

Ye Yumeng looked up at Shi Yichun and asked, “Uncle Shi, Hanhan can talk, right?”

Shi Yichun nodded.

It was just that she had been unconscious too long. She had been very young before her injury, and now that she had woken up, other than a few very simple words, she could no longer remember how to speak properly.

“Then please teach her to talk more,” Ye Yumeng said.

Shi Yichun seemed to realize something and looked at him in surprise. “You mean…?”

Ye Yumeng said, “I want to teach Hanhan a few things, but it’s difficult to communicate right now.”

He could not receive information through spiritual power, and he truly did not have the time to teach her slowly from scratch at the moment. For now, the little lamb would have to learn language on her own first.

A look of delight appeared on Shi Yichun’s face.

“All right, of course! I’ll teach her to speak properly as soon as possible!”

No matter how high Hanhan’s achievements in cultivation and planting might one day be, that alone would not protect her. In fact, her ability to distinguish king plants might even make others covet her.

But medicine was different.

As long as she could learn even a little of Doctor Ye’s skills, then at least within the Royal Sanatorium, she would have a way to secure a place for herself.

The patients who wished to be treated would naturally protect her of their own accord!

Shi Yichun was visibly thrilled, while the clueless little lamb still had no idea what was going on and was happily occupied chewing her delicious vegetables.

Seeing the little lamb’s eyes curve in a smile, Ye Yumeng reached out and touched the top of her head, encouraging her warmly, “Hanhan, do your best, okay?”

“Meeeh~”

The little lamb gave a sweet little bleat. It was hard to say whether she had understood.

After saying goodbye to Shi Yichun and his daughter, Ye Yumeng returned to the hospital room and continued feeding the little rabbit spirit rice porridge.

This time, however, after feeding him only a little, Ye Yumeng stopped and did not help him digest it.

Thanks to the feeding and the Liver-Soothing, Spleen-Strengthening Art over the past two months, the little rabbit’s stomach and spleen had become much stronger.

That little bit of porridge would no longer cause him any adverse reaction.

“Little Rabbit, now that you can see spiritual energy motes, try seeing if you can absorb the spiritual energy in the porridge by yourself,” Ye Yumeng said. “Just like I usually do—guide the spiritual energy into your meridians and let it circulate through your body.”

Listening to his guidance, Lu Nanzhou tried to sense that gentle, mild power contained in the porridge.

Perhaps because his own sensing ability had improved, this attempt was much clearer than before.

Once he could accurately and clearly sense that thread of spiritual energy, guiding and absorbing it became natural.

The problem was just that the energy contained in the porridge was far too little. The moment it entered his meridians, it vanished without a trace.

Ye Yumeng noticed that as well.

“It looks like you succeeded,” he said with a smile. “Our little rabbit is so smart.”

Lu Nanzhou paused. He wanted to stay reserved, but the slightly perked-up ears had already betrayed his good mood.

“Let’s continue,” he said through the voice machine.

“All right.”

After eating about half the amount he usually managed, he had to stop, and the rest still had to be fed with Ye Yumeng’s assistance.

Lu Nanzhou felt a little discouraged, but then he heard Ye Yumeng say, “Remember what I told you before? Slow is fast. Don’t rush.”

“Mm.”

Lu Nanzhou pulled himself together again and focused on sensing Ye Yumeng’s spiritual power, memorizing the route he used to guide that energy through his body…

These must be the meridians Yumeng had spoken of, right?

About half an hour later, this round of feeding and instruction finally came to an end.

Leaving the little rabbit to continue cultivating in the rich spiritual energy environment, Ye Yumeng left again and rode his mobility device back to the Core Inpatient Building.

Top Floor Room 006.

A lot of Ye Yumeng’s belongings were still here, and it would have been troublesome to move them back and forth, so for the moment he had not touched them.

“Woof woof!”

The moment Ye Yumeng entered, the robotic dog Wu Gang enthusiastically ran over to greet him.

He patted the robot dog’s head and played with it for a bit before having the robot nurse send the five spirit plants from the room over to Shi Yichun.

Then Ye Yumeng took out the 200 calming talismans he had made the night before.

He had originally intended to split them in half first, but after thinking about it, he simply circulated his spiritual power and activated them all at once.

Then he left the room and went to Lan Fangyu’s lounge, handing him all 200 calming talismans.

Lan Fangyu’s face showed clear surprise.

That was way too many!

He quickly gave Ye Yumeng a closer look. Seeing that Ye Yumeng’s complexion was rosy and his eyes bright and clear, he finally relaxed.

“Doctor Ye, these are…?”

“This is all the stock I’ve built up during this period. I’m leaving it all to you to distribute. Five days from now, I’ll give you another new batch.”

Ye Yumeng didn’t want to worry about this every day. Better to leave it to someone specifically in charge. All he had to do was hand over the calming talismans on schedule.

“Sorry for the trouble.”

Lan Fangyu hurriedly shook his head. “You’re far too polite! If there’s anything you need, you can always tell me to do it.”

He carefully put away all 200 calming talismans and said with solemn determination, “Please rest assured, I’ll absolutely complete this mission perfectly!”

Seeing him suddenly full of fighting spirit, Ye Yumeng smiled. “Then I’m counting on you.”

“Yes, Doctor Ye!”

Since Ye Yumeng was not planning to leave the Core Inpatient Building for now, he left He Jun behind to help Lan Fangyu with the packaging.

After all, each of those calming talismans had to be packed into small pouches for disguise, then made into sachets. The process was fairly tedious.

It would go faster with two people working together.

He Jun was more than happy to help. These 200 calming talismans meant hope for 200 wounded veterans—no, in truth the number would be even greater than that.

After all, each talisman lasted at least a month. As long as someone recovered within that period, the calming talisman could then be passed on to someone else.

The sooner they were repackaged and mailed out, the sooner those people could recover.

Seeing the two of them so full of energy and needing no supervision at all, Ye Yumeng left in peace.

But out in the corridor, he ran into Lei Qi.

Lei Qi greeted him and was just about to continue on with his business when Ye Yumeng suddenly called out to stop him.

“Doctor Ye, is there something you need?”

Now that Red Leaf Lotus was plentiful, Ye Yumeng was preparing to make ointment, which meant he would need tools and supporting materials.

After hearing what he needed, Lei Qi said, “You don’t need to go through me for those things. You can requisition them directly through the central system.”

“The permissions you have now are actually even higher than mine. Just search for what you need in the system, and once you select it, a robot will deliver it right to your door.”

Ye Yumeng stared.

“I’m just a junior doctor. Why would my permissions be higher than yours?”

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