Transmigration: A person in a martial arts world, cultivating to ascend to immortality

Yucheng.

City Lord's Mansion.

Led by his servant, Xu Wei, carrying a medicine chest, strode through several corridors and arrived at a door.

Xu Wei ignored the pavilions, waterside terraces, artificial hills, strange rocks, and exotic flowers and plants he passed by, showing no interest in appreciating them.

Upon closer inspection, one can see that Xu Wei's forehead is already covered with fine beads of sweat, and his lips are dry.

Upon closer inspection, he was already the eighth physician to be invited into the city lord's mansion.

The reason he was so terrified was that the seven people before him had all been unable to cure the young city lord's illness, and in the city lord's anger, they were dragged out and had their arms cut off, thus becoming crippled.

Rumors circulate throughout the martial arts world that the young city lord's illness is a consequence of his many sins and is incurable.

To be precise, even if the city lord invited more doctors, it wouldn't be up to him, an unknown nobody.

The reason he was chosen was entirely because two years ago he successfully cured Huo Fei, a 'righteous hero' who had been suffering from a strange illness and bedridden for a long time.

The reason Huo Fei was able to recover was not so much due to him, but entirely thanks to the century-old wild ginseng with nine whiskers that the three children he adopted brought back from the Ten Thousand Mountains.

In other words, with this spotted ginseng, any doctor could cure Huo Fei's strange illness.

However, out of vanity and a desire for greater fame, he openly and secretly claimed all the credit for saving Huo Fei, downplaying the effects of the ginseng.

Huo Fei's three adopted sons, who were ignorant of medicine, also believed this after being persuaded by his sorcery.

Huo Fei, the righteous hero, already had a considerable reputation in the martial arts world, so Xu Wei quickly got his wish and gradually gained fame.

However, he hadn't enjoyed the benefits of this fame for long before the Yu City Lord's Mansion took notice of him and invited him to come and diagnose the young city lord.

Xu Wei was filled with regret at this moment, wishing he could slap himself twice.

He indulged in vanity and greed for fame and fortune, and now look what happened. He didn't gain much fame or fortune, but instead brought an undeserved disaster upon himself.

Xu Wei was well aware of his own medical skills.

Therefore, from the moment he was invited, he was not thinking about how to cure the young city lord's illness, but how to get away from the city lord's clutches unharmed.

As Xu Wei was anxiously pondering, the door opened, and he was greeted by a middle-aged man dressed in fine clothes with a dignified face.

"Greetings, Lord City Lord."

Xu Wei immediately bowed and clasped his hands in greeting to the middle-aged man.

This person is Tang Zhenghao, the city lord of Yucheng.

Tang Zhenghao glanced at Xu Wei and nodded almost imperceptibly. "Since Doctor Xu is here, please come in quickly. Mingxuan is lying inside."

Xu Wei entered the room and saw a middle-aged woman sitting by the bed, her hair adorned with jewels, dressed in gorgeous clothes but looking haggard with red eyes.

"Greetings, Lady City Lord."

Xu Wei bowed to the woman with his hands clasped in a gesture of respect.

Upon seeing Xu Wei enter, the woman immediately took out a handkerchief to wipe her eyes, slowly stood up, and said in a choked voice:

"Please, Dr. Xu, you must cure my Mingxuan. Heaven have mercy, Mingxuan is such a good child, I really can't understand why he has contracted such a strange disease! If you can cure Mingxuan, Dr. Xu, you will become the number one doctor in Yucheng!"

Xu Wei dared not take the words of this seemingly benevolent but actually treacherous city lord's wife seriously. After thanking her with a smile, he walked to the window, put on a serious expression, and pretended to examine the pale and emaciated young city lord Tang Mingxuan, who was lying on the bed.

In order to buy time, Xu Wei's inspection process was extremely thorough and slow.

If it weren't for the fact that Xu Wei's expression shifted between ease, surprise, and doubt, Tang Zhenghao and his wife Ding Lin would have already gotten impatient and stepped forward to inquire and interrupt.

Another fifteen minutes passed, and Tang Zhenghao, his expression growing increasingly impatient, finally couldn't hold back any longer. He coughed, stepped forward, fixed his gaze on Xu Wei, and asked in a deep voice:

"Dr. Xu, how is Mingxuan's condition? Is there any way to treat him?"

Xu Wei then withdrew his hand, looked at Tang Zhenghao and Ding Lin, sighed deeply, and replied in a solemn tone:

"The young city lord's illness is truly strange; it would be an exaggeration to say that it is a once-in-a-century occurrence. Ordinary methods simply cannot cure it; only unorthodox and unconventional remedies offer any possibility of a cure!"

"Unorthodox remedies?"

Tang Zhenghao glanced at Tang Mingxuan lying on the bed, and asked again with some doubt, "Is what Doctor Xu said true? How confident is Doctor Xu in curing Mingxuan with this folk remedy?"

Xu Wei held up a number with one hand and replied confidently, "Seventy percent!"

"Seventy percent?"

Ding Lin's face immediately lit up with joy.

Seventy percent is already very high, far exceeding her expectations.

Tang Zhenghao's expression softened.

He didn't believe Xu Wei would dare to deceive him. After all, with his status and power, crushing Xu Wei's entire family would be as easy as crushing a few ants.

Furthermore, he had already sent people to secretly investigate Xu Wei, and knew that this man was vain and cowardly.

How could someone like that dare to make up a pretext to deceive him?

On the other side, Xu Wei breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that Tang Zhenghao and Ding Lin believed his story, but he deliberately feigned difficulty, frowning and sighing:

"Lord and Madam, don't be too happy yet. The medicinal herbs needed for my prescription are simple in some ways, but difficult in others. Whether we can find them, and how good their quality is, depends entirely on you, Lord."

Tang Zhenghao waved his hand dismissively and said, "What's so difficult about that! Doctor Xu, just tell me, and I'll have people search for it immediately!"

With his wealth, he is confident that he can find any medicinal herbs that are still circulating in the world!

Xu Wei nodded, no longer hesitating, and immediately sat down at his desk to write a prescription containing forty-seven medicinal herbs.

Tang Zhenghao and Ding Lin took the prescription from Xu Wei and examined it carefully.

Many of the first forty-six herbs are already in the city lord's mansion. Only a few are over a hundred years old and are hard to find, but they can be acquired if the money is right.

Only the last ingredient made the two of them frown.

"Dr. Xu, what is the meaning of this spirit snake gall? What kind of spirit snake is it, and why have I never heard of it before?" Tang Zhenghao asked Xu Wei.

Ding Lin, who was standing to the side, also looked at Xu Wei with a puzzled expression.

Xu Wei slowly said, "The so-called spirit snake is a large snake that has lived in the world for more than a hundred years. The city lord and his wife must know that every part of a snake is a treasure, and many parts can be used as medicine. Among them, the snake gall is the most effective and has the most uses."

"The young city lord's strange illness is particularly difficult to treat. Ordinary snake gallbladders are unlikely to be effective. However, the gallbladder of this spirit snake is precisely the main ingredient in this prescription. The older the spirit snake, the better its effect!"

"If we can find the gallbladder of a nearly thousand-year-old spirit snake, the young city lord will not only be cured of his illness, but may even turn misfortune into blessing, stimulating his own aptitude and potential, and becoming a martial arts genius!"

At this point, Xu Wei immediately stopped talking, shaking his head with regret, "It's just that even a hundred-year-old spirit snake is hard to find, let alone one that's nearly a thousand years old. It's difficult, so difficult..."

After a moment of silence, Ding Lin suddenly thought of something, her eyes lit up instantly, and she looked at Tang Zhenghao and Xu Wei, saying:

"I know where the spirit snake is!"

"where?"

Tang Zhenghao and Xu Wei asked in unison.

"In the vast mountains!"

Ding Lin laughed and said, "Isn't the legendary White Snake Lady just a ready-made Great Spirit Snake?"