Your classmates haven't taken the college entrance examination yet, but you are carrying bricks

Gu Ci did not refute, but walked to the table, poured himself a cup of cold tea, raised his head and drank it all in one gulp. Then he slowly told the story of what happened in the Li family's ancestral tomb.

After finishing his speech, Gu Ci said, "This is the thing. If you really need Soul-Calming Ice to treat Wukong, then you can only think of other ways..."

"The Soul-Calming Ice merged with me. It was indeed an accident!"

After listening to Gu Ci's story, Liu Zhenhai frowned and paced back and forth, as if he was thinking about something.

After a while, he stopped and stared at Gu Ci with his cloudy eyes: "It seems that for the sake of that monkey, I can only try to separate the ice essence of the soul-calming ice from your flesh and blood? Are you willing?"

Gu Ci heard this and laughed bitterly: "Doctor Liu, you are joking. Now my life is half Wukong's and half Soul-Calming Ice's. How can I be willing or unwilling?"

Liu Zhenhai looked at him deeply, and a hint of admiration flashed in his turbid eyes.

Although this kid is young, he has courage and boldness that ordinary people can hardly match. No wonder he dares to snatch food from the tiger's mouth and escape from the Li family's ancestral tomb unscathed.

"Okay! In that case, I will sacrifice my life to accompany you for once!"

As Liu Zhenhai spoke, he took out an exquisite wooden box from his arms. When he opened it, nine silver needles were neatly placed inside.

"This is the Nine Dragon Divine Needle passed down from my ancestors. It can seal the meridians of the human body and suppress the violent spiritual energy in the body. I will use it to help you today! It will be a bit painful to bleed you, so bear with it!"

Gu Ci laughed miserably, but in his smile there was a hint of determination to face death head on.

He sat cross-legged on the ground and closed his eyes, as if he was ready to endure the pain.

"Boy, aren't you afraid that I'll make a mistake and turn you into a popsicle?"

While Liu Zhenhai was fiddling with the silver needle, he glanced at Gu Ci out of the corner of his eye, trying to see some clues from his face.

"I've tasted the soul-calming ice before," Gu Ci took a deep breath and said slowly, "If this is my fate, then I accept it."

Liu Zhenhai snorted coldly and said nothing more.

He inserted nine silver needles into nine major acupoints on Gu Ci's body. A faint golden light appeared on the silver needles, shrouding Gu Ci in a hazy halo.

"Boy, this Nine Dragons Sealing Needle will temporarily block the flow of spiritual energy in your body, but it is only a drop in the bucket. Whether you can hold out until I can separate the ice essence of the Soul-Calming Ice depends on your own luck."

Gu Ci only felt a strong sense of numbness coming from the acupuncture points where the silver needles had pierced his body, quickly spreading throughout his body, as if all the blood in his body had frozen.

He clenched his teeth, trying not to make any sound, but beads of sweat the size of beans kept rolling down his forehead, showing that he was enduring pain that ordinary people could hardly imagine.

Liu Zhenhai took out a pitch-black scalpel from the bottom of the wooden box. The blade reflected a cold light under the candlelight.

"Hold on, kid!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Zhenhai raised his knife and Gu Ci felt a sharp pain in his chest, as if something was being torn out of his body alive. He could not help but groan, and a mouthful of blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth.

"Don't move! Fresh blood can only be extracted after the contaminated blood is removed!"

Liu Zhenhai let out a low growl, but his hands did not stop moving at all. He quickly took a silver spoon from the side and began to catch the blood from the corner of Gu Ci's mouth.

Blood dripped from the corners of Gu Ci's mouth and gathered into a small pool of dark red liquid in the silver spoon, emitting a faint fishy and sweet smell.

Gu Ci’s face was as pale as paper, beads of sweat the size of beans rolled down his forehead, soaking the strands of hair on his forehead.

He clenched his teeth tightly, and his body trembled slightly due to the intense pain, but he never made any sound, as if he was a lifeless sculpture.

Liu Zhenhai stared at the silver spoon in his hand with a focused expression, as if he was admiring a rare treasure.

He carefully poured the blood in the spoon into a medicine bottle made of white jade, then gently pricked Gu Ci's fingertips with a silver needle, squeezing out a drop of bright red blood and dripping it into the medicine bottle.

The moment the blood touched the medicine bottle, it seemed to be given life and turned into a tiny blood dragon, tumbling and swimming in the bottle, eventually merging with the dark red blood, emitting a faint golden light.

"It's done!"

Liu Zhenhai said excitedly with a gleam in his eyes.

Hearing this, Gu Ci endured the severe pain in his body and asked with difficulty: "Doctor Liu, is it ok?"

Liu Zhenhai did not answer, but handed the medicine bottle in his hand to Gu Ci and motioned for him to look at it.

Gu Ci forced his eyelids open and looked into the medicine bottle, only to see that the originally dark red blood had now turned into a crystal clear light blue, emitting an icy glow under the candlelight.

"This is……"

A hint of doubt flashed across Gu Ci's eyes. He could feel that this bottle of blood contained extremely powerful energy, which was even several times purer than the spiritual energy in his body.

"That's the secret of your blood."

Liu Zhenhai took back the medicine bottle and said in a deep voice, "Your blood contains an extremely powerful icy force. This force is exactly the same as the ice element of the Soul-Calming Ice, and even..."

At this point, Liu Zhenhai paused, as if he was organizing his words. After a moment, he continued, "It's even several times more powerful than the ice essence of the Soul-Calming Ice! I've been practicing medicine for decades, and I've never seen such a strange thing! You can actually control the Soul-Calming Ice, it's really amazing!"

"Okay, Doctor Liu, I'll trouble you with Wukong's matter!"

As soon as the words fell, the door of the ward rang.

"Our Second Miss, you must seize the opportunity!"

After Liu Zhenhai extracted the ice element, he slowly stood up and patted Gu Ci's shoulder meaningfully.

Gu Ci struggled to stand up. The pain in his chest made his breath smell bloody.

He looked down at his bandaged chest, then at the bottle of blood in his hand that was emitting an icy glow, and his heart was full of doubts.

The ice element of the Soul-Calming Ice, is it completely present in his blood?

The door of the ward was pushed open again, and a girl in an elegant dress walked in, holding breakfast in her hands.

The girl's face was still pretty, with a hint of heroic spirit between her brows. She was exactly the "Second Miss" that Liu Zhenhai mentioned.

"How are you doing?"

The girl took two steps at a time and came to the bed, her tone full of concern.

Gu Ci forced a smile: "I'm fine, Second Miss, I'm sorry to have made you worry."

Upon hearing the title of Second Young Miss, Liu Shiyu's face changed slightly: "Everyone in the family calls me Second Young Miss, which is boring. You, an outsider, call me Second Young Miss too, which is really boring. If you keep calling me like that, we won't have any friends anymore!"

Gu Ci grinned, the pain in his chest made his smile uglier than crying: "Second Miss, you are joking, friend? As for my worthless life..."