Reversing the Milky Way

Bai Cheng: "What did you say?"

Du Mingchun: "He said that all living beings in the world are equal and there is no hope of cause and effect. This sentence also reminded me of what Venerable Crane told us when we left the Taoist temple: one should not pursue the root cause of a doctor's practice. Otherwise, it will shake the doctor's heart."

After saying this, Du Mingchun's eyes looked somewhat confused, but they quickly cleared.

Du Mingchun: "If I hadn't treated him then because of his desire for revenge, I certainly wouldn't have treated him again if I encountered the same situation in the future. Wouldn't that have gone against the original intention of a doctor? Some people feel insignificant after being saved, while others become proud and determined. But what I want to say is that everything in this world has a cause and effect. I am just a doctor walking in this world, nothing more."

Upon hearing these words, Bai Cheng felt his mind go blank. It might be due to the different educational philosophies of the nine-year compulsory education system, but none of that mattered to him.

But the current situation is that Du Mingchun's pure philosophy is putting him in a difficult position, as it sounds somewhat like a Buddhist concept.

'This is a difficult situation. If our philosophies differ, then my idea might not be feasible. How can I persuade him?'

After thinking it over and over, Bai Cheng stared at the porcelain vase on the table for a long time before slowly speaking.

Bai Cheng: "I never imagined that Dr. Du, at such a young age, would have such profound insights. I admire him."

Du Mingchun: "Not at all, it's just that I've been practicing medicine for so long that I've become numb to the world's troubles."

Bai Cheng: "In that case, I wonder why Doctor Du is interested in this poison?"

Du Mingchun: "Exploring new things is also part of human nature."

Bai Cheng: "Really? If I possessed this kind of poison, I wonder if Doctor Du would be interested?"

Upon hearing this, Du Mingchun immediately looked at Bai Cheng in surprise. He had already inquired about the origin of the bottle. If Bai Cheng really had this poison, it could only mean that Bai Cheng was indeed responsible for what happened before. However, upon further reflection, he realized that these matters had nothing to do with him.

In fact, Bai Cheng dared to say that because of what Du Mingchun had just said. He was just a doctor and did not get involved in cause and effect. Since he was not an enemy, he was not a threat to him.

Based on Du Mingchun's pure ideals, Bai Cheng judged that the other party probably wouldn't reveal this matter. Sure enough, Du Mingchun's expression gradually changed from surprise to composure.

Upon seeing this, Bai Cheng guessed that the other party already knew, so he began to circulate his spiritual power and condense a small hidden spirit array to envelop himself and Du Mingchun within it.

Upon seeing this, Du Mingchun understood the situation perfectly, and thus directly confronted the issue.

Du Mingchun: "I didn't expect that young friend Bai Cheng is so fierce. You wouldn't ask me to help you harm people, would you? I won't help with something that violates professional ethics."

Bai Cheng: "Dr. Du, you flatter me. But if I were to say that I am now on the verge of death, what would you do, doctor?"

Upon hearing this, Du Mingchun immediately began to carefully examine Bai Cheng's face. To ensure he was not mistaken, he even had Bai Cheng cooperate with him to examine his body.

Du Mingchun: "Forgive my bluntness, but my young friend is in good health and has no serious illness. What is there to worry about his life?"

Bai Cheng: "Heh, who told you that being healthy means you're safe from death? Besides, how do you know I'm not sick?"

Hearing this, Du Mingchun was even more confused.

Du Mingchun: "Young friend, speak frankly, there's no need to beat around the bush."

Bai Cheng: "Dr. Du, do you know that a mental illness is also an illness?"

Du Mingchun: "Although I am aware of this, a mental illness requires a mental cure."

Bai Cheng: "That makes things easier. My cure is Shangguan Zhi."

Du Mingchun: "What do you mean?"

Bai Cheng: "I know you don't ask patients about their reasons, Dr. Du, but I can tell you that my mental illness is caused by fear and fright, by an inexplicable fear of death."

Du Mingchun frowned slightly.

Du Mingchun: "This matter has nothing to do with me."

Bai Cheng: "No! It has nothing to do with you, because you are a doctor."

Du Mingchun: "But I can't cure your heartache."

Bai Cheng: "Who told you to cure me? I'm just telling you that my heart problem is Shangguan Zhi."

Du Mingchun was even more puzzled.

Du Mingchun: "What does this mean? Are you saying that you need me to cure your mental illness, Shangguan Zhi?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng's eyes lit up, and he excitedly grabbed Du Mingchun's hands with both of them.

Bai Cheng: "Yes! That's right, that's exactly it!"

Du Mingchun still sensed that something was wrong.

Du Mingchun: "But I have almost cured Shangguan Zhi's illness."

Bai Cheng: "No, you are treating my illness now, it has nothing to do with Shangguan Zhi."

Upon hearing this, Du Mingchun suddenly stood up impatiently.

Du Mingchun: "Are you trying to play with me like a three-year-old?"

Bai Cheng: "Hey, Dr. Du, what are you saying? I'm a patient now, and I need your treatment, but my illness is a psychological one. And my psychological problem is Shangguan Zhi, so you should treat Shangguan Zhi. Is there a problem with that?"

After Bai Cheng finished speaking, Du Mingchun's brain started working at high speed. After all, he had been traveling the world for decades. He had already figured out this kind of logical problem after some thought.

Du Mingchun: "In the end, you still want me to harm Shangguan Zhi, but as I said, I am a doctor and it is impossible for me to do such a thing."

Bai Cheng: "Of course I know you are a doctor, but I didn't ask you to harm anyone. I asked you to treat someone."

Du Mingchun: "But Shangguan Zhi is not sick now, no, it should be said that he is cured."

Bai Cheng: "No, he's sick."

Du Mingchun: "How did you know? You're not a patient."

Bai Cheng: "I didn't know, but he's a patient."

Du Mingchun: "He is, but his illness has been cured."

Bai Cheng let out a deep breath upon hearing this.

Bai Cheng: "Dr. Du, let me ask you, is Shangguan Zhi your patient now?"

Du Mingchun: "Yes."

Bai Cheng: "Then think about it again, what's most important to the patient?"

Upon hearing this, Du Mingchun's brain began to work at lightning speed.

Du Mingchun: "Is it a panacea that cures everything?"

Bai Cheng: "That's not right."

Bai Cheng shook his head.

Du Mingchun: "That's due to substantial financial resources and a large family fortune?"

Bai Cheng: "It's still not right."

Bai Cheng shook his head again.

Du Mingchun: "What is that?"

Bai Cheng smiled meaningfully.

Bai Cheng: "Hehe, I didn't expect that after practicing medicine for decades, Dr. Du wouldn't even know what's most important to a patient?"

Du Mingchun: "Hehe, how much have you experienced, kid? Tell me what it is?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng's tone and eyes immediately became firm.

Bai Cheng: "The most important thing for a patient is to be sick!"

Upon hearing this, it was as if a thunderbolt struck Du Mingchun's mind; those few words seemed to bring him sudden enlightenment. However, after further reflection, he felt something was amiss.

Bai Cheng was hinting to him to give Shangguan Zhi a new illness, but this was far from in line with his medical ethics.

Du Mingchun: "Young friend, what kind of person do you take me for? How could I arrange such a trivial matter? Besides, the other party is the Shangguan family, and there are many physicians on standby in the clan. Their medical skills are not necessarily much worse than mine."

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng's gaze also turned melancholy.

'Sigh, it still won't work. But given the despicable nature of the Shangguan family, there will definitely be trouble once Shangguan Zhi recovers. And considering the worst-case scenario, Shangguan Yu might even try to kill me outright.'

Bai Cheng: "Alright then, since Dr. Du is so ethical, I won't force you to do anything."

As he spoke, Bai Cheng moved the porcelain vase in front of him back to its original position.

Du Mingchun looked at the porcelain vase, a hint of disappointment flashing in his eyes, and then seemed to be thinking about something else.

Bai Cheng: "In that case, please come with me, Dr. Du."

Du Mingchun nodded, and then followed Bai Cheng out of the clinic.

The next day, Bai Cheng returned to the shop. Upon seeing that he had brought back an elderly man, everyone began to discuss the matter. Only after Bai Cheng's introduction did they learn the old man's identity.

Bai Cheng: "Leave the rest to me and Dr. Du. You can go about your business."

At this moment, Cui Yuanfang slowly stepped forward.

Cui Yuanfang: "After you left yesterday, someone from the Bai family came again. I gave them the one thousand silver coins that the shop had made from profits."

Bai Cheng nodded slightly.

Bai Cheng: "You did a good job. If he comes again, give him a thousand silver coins. By the way, how much profit did you make this month?"

Cui Yuanfang: "This month is slightly better than last month. After deducting the 60% profit from Buqian, we can only scrape together a little over a thousand silver coins."

Upon hearing this, Bai Cheng began to ponder.

"This can't go on. Bu Qian will be leaving next month, and the shop will definitely run out of talismans. I don't know if Mi Hua is skilled at it; if all else fails, I'll just have him make a couple. But the 30% monthly tax on the shop is quite a lot. I'll have to ask Bai Fengze later if we can buy the whole shop; that way, we won't have to pay the tax to the Bai family anymore."

Afterwards, Bai Cheng and Du Mingchun entered the room and saw Shao Kaize lying on the bed.

Du Mingchun only glanced at the other person and found that the bones inside the body were severely damaged.

Shao Kaize: "Brother Bai Cheng, you must avenge me!"

Bai Cheng: "No rush. How did you get so badly injured?"

Shao Kaize: "That day, after that man who called himself Bai Jiang took me away, he dismissed the city guards and then punched and kicked me, treating me like a punching bag. Although I was at the Spirit Induction Realm, I was completely unable to defend myself. After breaking my limbs, he recalled the city guards and then sent me to the dungeon."

Bai Cheng shook his head helplessly.

Bai Cheng: "Did he say anything to you?"

Upon hearing this, Shao Kaize was visibly shaken.

Shao Kaize: "Yes, there is, but..."

At this point, he turned his head slightly toward Bai Cheng.

Bai Cheng: "Speak freely."

Shao Kaize: "He asked me to tell you that if you know what's good for you, you should get out of the Bai family yourself, so he won't have to take action against you."

Bai Cheng showed no reaction whatsoever after hearing this.

Bai Cheng: "Okay, I understand."

Then, he gestured to Du Mingchun that they could begin.

Upon hearing this, Du Mingchun immediately assumed a healing stance, raising his hands slightly and allowing green spiritual energy to circulate around him. As he continued to wave his hands in the air, green spiritual energy began to accumulate on his hands.

Then, he flicked a small ball of spiritual energy from his fingertip and it entered Shao Kaize's body. Immediately afterwards, this small ball of spiritual energy began to spread outwards within Shao Kaize's body.

Bai Cheng naturally couldn't let such a good opportunity for observation slip by, and he used his divine sense to observe the movement of that spiritual energy throughout the entire process. After that spiritual energy had circulated through Shao Kaize's entire body, Du Mingchun had already imprinted all the meridians through which the spiritual energy had just circulated in his mind.

He used the green spiritual energy he had gathered in his hand to scatter it onto Shao Zekai on the bed, and at the same time, Shao Zekai trembled as if he had been stimulated.

Next, Bai Cheng, probing with his divine sense, witnessed an unbelievable scene. The green spiritual energy surrounding Shao Zekai's body, under Du Mingchun's control, was rapidly invading his body.

At the same time, Du Mingchun spoke with a serious expression.

Du Mingchun: "Relax your body completely and do not resist subconsciously, otherwise it will affect the progress of treatment."

Shao Zekai nodded through the pain, and the treatment continued.

Next, Bai Cheng discovered that the spiritual energy was interconnected within Shao Zekai's body, gradually filling all the meridians. Immediately afterward, Du Mingchun waved his hand again, manipulating the spiritual energy to gather towards the broken bones within Shao Zekai's body.

Du Mingchun manipulated his spiritual power to piece together the broken bones one by one. Even the shattered bones were neatly pieced together like building blocks under his control.

Bai Cheng was also shocked after observing this scene. In his understanding, this was equivalent to a non-surgical repair of broken bones inside the body. Not only that, he also discovered that Du Mingchun was using spiritual power to protect Shao Zekai's blood vessels and meridians from damage, a skill comparable to that of a celestial being.

Bai Cheng turned his head to look at Shao Zekai's face and found that his expression was no longer one of pain, but rather one of enjoyment.

Bai Cheng: "How are you feeling?"

Shao Zekai: "Comfortable, refreshing, more refreshing than ever before."

Hearing this, Bai Cheng turned to look at Du Mingchun, who was completely focused. As if sensing Bai Cheng's intense gaze, Du Mingchun slowly spoke: "He is, after all, at the Spirit Induction Realm. But if the realm is higher, some cultivators can use their spiritual power to heal themselves without any external force. And if it is a Meridian Opening Realm expert, they can even regenerate broken bones."

Immediately afterwards, Du Mingchun quickly took out a pill from his storage bag and gave it to Shao Zekai. The pill emitted a strong aura of spiritual herbs, and even had a faint spiritual light on its surface.

Bai Cheng recognized it at a glance as a third-grade healing pill, the Tendon and Vein Regeneration Pill. It could regenerate severed veins after being taken, but the effect varied from person to person.

Immediately afterward, Du Mingchun took out a Life-Healing Pill and gave it to Shao Zekai. Then, with the help of Du Mingchun's spiritual power, he quickly refined the two pills in Shao Zekai's body. The medicinal power, guided by the spiritual power, rapidly condensed along the meridians at the broken bone. In just a moment, the broken bone sections began to heal each other.

Upon noticing this situation, Du Mingchun nodded in satisfaction, then waved his hand, dispersing all of his spiritual power from Shao Zekai's body.

The entire treatment process took no more than 45 minutes.

After doing all this, Du Mingchun let out a deep breath. Shao Kaize also seemed to feel that there was no more pain in his body.

Shao Kaize: "Thank you, Dr. Du!"

Du Mingchun: "Hehe, no need to thank me, it was just a small favor. Judging from your condition, you only need to take another five days' worth of life-restoring pills to recover completely."

After treating Shao Zekai, Bai Cheng thanked Du Mingchun. However, after seeing the amazing treatment method, he became interested in it as well.