"I don't need a snake as a pet, even if it can talk."
After a brief moment of stunned silence, Dain reacted. Although the white snake around Baizhu's neck was mystical, Dain wasn't interested in it.
At most, he felt a touch of surprise.
"I'm not a pet, and I don't like people who wear eye patches!"
"Why haven't I heard you had this habit before?"
Hearing Changsheng's indignant shout, a hint of surprise appeared in Baizhu's eyes.
Changsheng had such a taboo? But when treating patients with eye ailments, he hadn't shown any excessive reaction?
"Now I do!"
Changsheng ground his teeth, huffing in exasperation.
"Haha, you're so many generations older than me, yet you act like a child?"
Hearing Changsheng's childish sulking, Baizhu couldn't help but shake his head, smiling with a touch of helplessness.
"I'm an old snake with a young heart. What do you, a junior, know?" Changsheng raised his delicate head, speaking with an air of ancient wisdom.
Seeing this, Baizhu didn't argue with Changsheng. Having spent so much time with Changsheng, he was very familiar with its temperament.
"Yu Jin, you've seen it. The connection between Changsheng and me is very close."
Baizhu sat down in front of the storage cabinet in the pharmacy, brewing himself a cup of qi-nourishing tea.
"Want some? It's very nourishing." Seeing Yu Jin's curious look, Baizhu raised his teacup and said with a smile.
Yu Jin leaned in to look at the tea in Baizhu's hand. It was full of various ginseng and fruits. Just one glance, and he knew it would surely cause a nosebleed.
"You see? I told you, Dain is more suitable for Changsheng than you are. Look at you, you're so weak."
Yu Jin snatched the teacup from Baizhu's hand, examined it, then put it back down.
He ran to Dain's side and tapped his body. Besides earning a glare from Dain, he couldn't budge Dain an inch.
"Look at this, how sturdy this body is, absolutely durable."
Yu Jin promoted Dain to Changsheng as if he were selling something good.
Then he received another glare, adding to Dain's, Yu Jin had now received two glares.
Baizhu, however, didn't give Yu Jin another glare. He heard Yu Jin's words, nodded thoughtfully, and fell into contemplation.
After a long while, Baizhu sipped his health-preserving tea, then he looked up and said to Yu Jin:
"It seems Mr. Yu Jin knows more than I imagined."
"Naturally. The secrets between you two cannot escape my eyes."
Yu Jin waved his hand at Baizhu, feigning modesty.
After his boasting, he propped his hands on the table and said earnestly, "Young man, I'm not trying to scare you, but if you continue like this, your life will be short!"
Yu Jin's words made Dain look at Baizhu a few more times. From the recent experience, this person named Baizhu was not only highly skilled in medicine but also possessed a rare benevolence.
Even more remarkably, he was still in his youth. Dain couldn't even imagine how many people Baizhu would save in the future.
But now Yu Jin was telling him that Baizhu's life would be short, how could Dain not be surprised?
"I naturally know this, otherwise, I wouldn't be so actively seeking the Changsheng medicine."
"The owner of Bubu Pharmacy, the highly skilled Doctor Baizhu, is obsessed with the Changsheng medicine. This is common knowledge among people near Bubu Pharmacy."
"If my time wasn't short, why would I make such a big fuss?"
Baizhu sighed as he spoke. He wasn't someone who liked to show off, but the Changsheng medicine was truly hard to find, and his body was getting worse by the day. Out of helplessness, he had no choice but to resort to this.
He even took in the slow-moving Qiqi, harboring a slight idea of studying zombies in pursuit of Changsheng.
However, later, Baizhu gradually came to treat Qiqi as his own younger sister.
"Changsheng isn't necessarily a good thing, especially when you can't stop time from eroding."
This was the first time Dain had seen someone so persistent and proactive about Changsheng. From his own experience, he offered advice as someone who had been through it.
"I know better than anyone. However, I have reasons why I must do this."
Baizhu didn't take Dain's warning to heart. As Liyue's most famous doctor, he naturally had no shortage of connections.
There were those who gave him clues about the Changsheng medicine, and also those who advised him to give up his delusions.
And the latter were more numerous.
"Once you achieve Changsheng, you will find that the price it requires is something you cannot foresee or bear now." Dain still hadn't given up on advising Baizhu.
"Do you know why my medical skills are so superb?"
Baizhu suddenly asked this, making Dain pause.
"I don't know. I haven't needed to see a doctor for a very long time."
Dain shook his head. He used to know what herbs could stop bleeding and heal bones, and what methods of bandaging could make wounds heal faster.
But now, all of that had been forgotten in the long river of time.
Baizhu heard this, gave Dain a meaningful look, and continued:
"Firstly, I am well-versed in medical texts and understand the art of healing; secondly, it is because of my [Ear Snake Dragging Dragon Technique]."
Baizhu widened his eyes, which had always been slightly narrowed, revealing two vertical pupils.
More like a snake's eyes than a human's.
"This [Ear Snake Dragging Dragon Technique] is a good art. It can save lives, but it costs my own vitality."
"Generations of predecessors all died young because of this, and Changsheng was passed down to me. Now, this fate is about to fall upon me."
"But I don't want to die, nor do I want A Gui to become sickly at a young age like me, and I certainly don't want Changsheng to be passed around like an object."
"This lineage has been passed down long enough by the time it reaches me."
Baizhu's tone carried an unshakeable resolve. No matter what, he would refine the Changsheng medicine.
This was not only for himself but also for the potential 'contractors' of the future.
They, too, deserved to be saved!
"Aren't you going to persuade him?" Dain didn't waste any more words with Baizhu. He just glanced indifferently at the silent Changsheng, as if asking casually.
"Changsheng? It doesn't need to consider so much." Baizhu shook his head. Changsheng's mind was more like a child's; Baizhu didn't need it to worry about so many things.
"No, it definitely knows more than you do." Dain's tone was also very firm, just like Baizhu's earlier.
Changsheng stopped being silent upon hearing this. It raised its head, avoiding Baizhu's gaze, and said, "Baizhu, this guy is right, Changsheng will distort you!"
"Haven't you noticed that you just said this snake is like an 'object,' constantly passed around by others? Isn't this precisely Changsheng's distortion of this snake?" Dain added from the side.
This time it was Baizhu who fell silent. After thinking for a long time, he slowly said, "Listening to you, Dain, it seems you've lived for a very long time?"
"To some extent, it's like the Changsheng you yearn for." Dain nodded, telling Baizhu directly.
"So..." Baizhu pushed up his glasses, looking a little excited.
"So hurry up and give Changsheng to Dain! I told you Dain is more suitable for Changsheng, but you didn't believe me and insisted on having a debate here."
Yu Jin popped out from between Dain and Baizhu, saying a long string of words.
Earlier, Baizhu and Dain had been arguing so fiercely that he hadn't had a chance to interject. Out of boredom, Yu Jin had even finished the tea Baizhu brewed.
Now that he finally found an opportunity to speak, he had to make good use of it.
"What do I need this talking snake for? To catch mice underground?" Dain scoffed, indicating he didn't need it.
"Dain, don't you want to respec?"
"What?"
"This snake is the Teardrop Larva, it can allow you to abandon martial arts and practice medicine!"
Yu Jin again said a lot of things that no one understood.
"Dain, become a doctor!"
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