Chapter 1775 — Suspicion, Part One — Perhaps This Was Also Why the Xuanyuan Yulong Art Was Invincible Before the Earth Stage, and Why I Was Hailed as the Foremost Man Below the Earth Stage in Those Days!
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"Ha-ha, I slept in today!" No sooner had Gu Mengyao finished speaking than Lin Dongfang pushed open the door and walked out. He looked hale and hearty, not at all like a man who had gone without sleep for an entire night. Wei Zhao knew, however, that although Old Lin practiced external martial arts without a formal rank, he had also cultivated several auxiliary internal techniques. Though he had not reached the Heaven Stage, his cultivation was still extremely high. After a night without sleep, a little breathing meditation was enough for him to recover completely.
Wei Zhao nodded to him with a faint smile but said nothing. He did want to ask Old Lin about a few things, but no one had eaten yet, so he first set about preparing breakfast.
A farmer's breakfast was simple: only rice porridge and pickled vegetables. Even so, Tang Zhi and the others ate with great relish. Wei Zhao had made the pickles himself, and they had long since witnessed his skill in the kitchen. A few plain little dishes were enough to make all the women salivate.
Only after breakfast did Wei Zhao say, "Old man, are you free? I'd like to discuss a few questions about medicine with you."
"Medicine?" Old Lin was slightly taken aback. He had no idea what sort of medical questions Wei Zhao wanted to discuss at a time like this, but he still nodded. "All right. And what about Yun Yun and the others?"
"We'll go wander around the village for a while and find Ergoudan and Yu Yuan-yuan to play with. If you have something to do, Wei Zhao, go take care of it first." Tang Zhi, Gu Mengyao, and Shen Yushu had become familiar with the village over the past few days. They knew nearly every household now, and spent their days darting from place to place, taking pictures and enjoying themselves immensely.
"All right." Wei Zhao was not worried about the women's safety. He knew everyone in the village, and there was no chance of any bad people turning up.
After clearing away the dishes, Wei Zhao followed Old Lin to his room. Old Lin was puzzled that Wei Zhao had come to discuss medicine with him. "Didn't you obtain the second layer of the Xuanyuan Yulong Art? Why aren't you in a hurry to cultivate it? Instead, you're here discussing medicine with me?"
Wei Zhao gave a wry smile. "Old man, I did obtain the mental cultivation method for the second layer. But cultivating the second layer has a prerequisite!"
"A prerequisite? What prerequisite?" Old Lin asked in surprise.
"Body tempering! I have to temper my body with medicinal substances before I can cultivate it." Wei Zhao continued, "The prescription I want to discuss with you is precisely the one used for that body tempering."
"So it's body tempering!" Upon hearing Wei Zhao's words, Old Lin nodded at once, his face brightening with sudden understanding.
"So you already knew about body tempering? Old man, do you know something? The way you said that made it sound as though you understood it quite well." Wei Zhao was good at reading people's expressions. Hearing Old Lin's words, he immediately looked at him suspiciously. It seemed that the old man really did know something.
"Since you've seen through it, I won't hide it from you. When you cultivated the first layer of the Xuanyuan Yulong Art, you underwent body tempering as well. I was the one who prepared the prescription for you. Don't you remember how I soaked your entire body in medicinal liquid every day?" Lin Dongfang did not try to conceal the matter.
"Oh? Are you saying that you knew all of this before I ever went to the mountain cave? You knew that I would cultivate the Xuanyuan Yulong Art?" Wei Zhao had already harbored some suspicions before this...
He had vaguely felt that there was something strange about Old Lin summoning him to the summit of West Star Mountain on that full-moon night ten years ago to test his martial arts.