Silavin
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After three months, Executive Zhou arrived at the herb garden on time, accompanied by a new errand disciple. He was there to relieve Su Chen of his duty of guarding the ten-acre herb garden. The unfortunate young errand disciple shuffled along behind Zhou Mieyan, unwilling but helpless. This task had been forcibly assigned to him by Zhou Mieyan; he had no choice but to comply. Su Chen, who had been counting down the days, was waiting outside the crude fence of the herb garden. He greeted…-
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Time flowed like mountain stream water, swift and unstoppable. Su Chen was guarding the herb garden at the rear mountain of the Medicine King Estate while quietly cultivating. A practitioner could only take the body-strengthening formula every seven days due to danger; medicine was in part poison, and overuse could lead to poisoning or resistance, diminishing the refining effect. So once every seven days was sufficient. Su Chen, however, drank the body-strengthening soup more often, roughly…
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Su Chen helped out in the kitchen of Pharmacist Li Kui, and also boiled body-tempering herbs for Wang Fugui and Li Jiao many times, so he knew the art of boiling medicine. Unlike ordinary people, the boiling method of body tempering herbs was not strictly kept secret. Su Chen put the three low-grade herbs into the pot, added water, and boiled for an hour. After a long period of boiling, the water was almost evaporated and finally concentrated into a bowl of dark brown medicine soup. Su Chen…
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Su Chen was wary of outsiders discovering the miraculous secret hidden in the herb garden, so he hurriedly harvested his own batch of blood ginseng and blood vine for body tempering. After collecting this precious haul, Su Chen couldn’t contain his excitement, carefully stowing away the herbs. He worried that hiding them under the bed, they’d be discovered, while storing them in tree hollows deep within the secluded forest made him anxious about wild rodents damaging them. But soon, he realized…
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Su Chen pulled out a small cloth pouch from within his robes. At the thought of how this pouch, which had been by his side for so many years, might hold a groundbreaking secret, filled him with exhilaration. He untied the string and carefully emptied its contents onto his palm—one by one, sixteen tiny blue stones glinted in his hand. From the moment he was born, except for the two stones given to Daoist Han Shan shortly after his birth and the two tears that fell into the lake and were…
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Alone in the straw shack, Su Chen wrinkled his nose at the musty smell and rolled up his sleeves. He began by cleaning and washing all the utensils inside and outside. Then, in the herb garden, he efficiently set to work. He carried water, applied fertilizer, weeded meticulously, and tilled the soil. This was similar to working on a farm—just make sure not to harm the roots of the herbs. Different types of herbs required different methods; this called for a good understanding of herbal…
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Su Chen arrived at the Errand Hall to report. The Errand Hall courtyard was located at the edge of the Medicine King Estate, nestled against a mountainside, with the servant girls and old maids’ servant quarters tightly adjoining it. Inside the courtyard, the buildings were low-lying and dilapidated, shabby and meager. Weeds grew everywhere, and the place looked abandoned and in disrepair. Along the walls, one could see rusty tools like hoes, axes, and saws scattered around. Seeing the…
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As Li Kui spoke, Su Chen immediately realized his oversight. He had only considered defying his seniors’ orders and maintaining the relations between the five outer disciples to prevent conflicts among brothers and sisters, which would have earned Li Kui and Wang Fugui’s mockery. But he hadn’t anticipated another possibility: that four of his fellow disciples might break their promises at a critical moment. Zhang Tieniu had always strongly desired to join the Medicine King…
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Outside the small courtyard, the atmosphere was tense and awkward. Five outer disciples stood there, each fidgeting nervously, trying to avoid eye contact. The situation was delicate. Although the five had to discuss it among themselves, they each had to decide what name to write on the bamboo slip inside the small hut before handing it over to Li Kui. Since others couldn’t see the results when they were handed over, this opened up countless possibilities—whether it was forming…
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