The two of them stopped breathlessly at the door of Hongxing Medical Center. This was an old-fashioned manor, probably an ancient house left over many years ago. The two large red-painted wooden doors were tightly closed, and a wooden plaque was engraved on the door.

There are several vigorous golden characters on it: Hongxing Medical Center.

Li Ling'er took a breath and anxiously pulled the ring on the wooden door and hit the door panel hard, "Open the door! Open the door quickly!"

In the backyard of the manor, there is a unique octagonal pavilion on a small lake covered with lotus leaves. The pavilion shines with dim yellow light, and two thin and narrow figures are reflected on the rippling lake.

A man who looked like a servant hurriedly ran into the pavilion. He came to Li Dongyang and whispered a few words into his ear.

"Senior brother, it seems that we are not destined to have a good chance to reminisce about the past today!" Li Dongyang put down the tea cup in his hand and said calmly.

"I don't think so. We are all members of our own family, and we should let the younger generations listen to the stories of our seniors, right?" The old ghost grabbed a handful of peanuts and threw them into his mouth, clapped his hands, and said while chewing.

"Okay, go and let them in!" Li Dongyang said to the servant.

Ding Zuoyi, the servant, left and soon brought Bo Qi and Li Ling'er to the Bajiao Pavilion.

"Uncle! Uncle, are you okay?" Li Ling'er rushed up and looked around for a while, then asked with concern.

"I'm here to catch up with my old friend, what can I do?" Old Gui said with a peaceful smile, "Gui girl, you still have some conscience, why come to see my uncle in such a hurry!" Old Gui Gui Gui said with a peaceful smile.

He touched the bridge of Li Ling'er's nose.

Li Ling'er shrank her nose and wiped her eyes. Bo Qi glanced coldly at the thin but bright-eyed man sitting opposite.

"Bad boy, the old man didn't save you in vain!" the old ghost looked at Bo Qi and said.

"Okay, okay! Let's talk about the disgusting things when we go back. Let's talk about our affairs first. The grievances over the past thirty years, senior brother, please tell us how to resolve them!" Li Dongyang said impatiently.

"Oh, yes, I forgot to tell you that this is your uncle, please call him uncle!" the old ghost said pretending to be enlightened.

Li Ling'er glanced at the man opposite, bowed to him, and called him respectfully, but Bo Qi still stood still.

"Hey, senior brother, your apprentice is quite interesting. He doesn't understand the rules just like you!" Li Dongyang smiled contemptuously.

The old ghost sighed softly, "Hey! Junior brother, don't blame the young people nowadays. This kid is too arrogant and has to go through some things to get better." When he said the next part, the old ghost glanced at Bo Qi intentionally.

"It's good for young people to be arrogant. I think I was arrogant back then, but I don't understand why the master is so heartless. He would rather die than give me the secret book. What is he afraid of? Is he afraid that I will surpass him?"

Li Dongyang became more and more excited as he spoke. By the time he finished speaking, his fists were clenched tightly, and the veins on his temples were protruding.

"Dongyang, don't you always understand the painstaking efforts of the master? Not everyone can practice Taoism. Those who practice Taoism must have no desires and thoughts, and have a righteous heart. In addition, they must not marry for life, and they must not even approach women.

." The old ghost sighed.

"No! Impossible, this is absolutely impossible! This is a lie you made up. You lied to me. You must want to eliminate my hatred for you. You made up lies to deceive me. This must be the case!" Li Dongyang suddenly stood up.

He stood up, opened his eyes wide, shook his head, and said.

Seeing him like this, the old ghost couldn't help but feel a little sad. He took out a white handkerchief from his arms and handed it to Li Dongyang, "Junior sister also knew that you wouldn't believe me, so she left this behind before she died. Take a look.

!”

Li Dongyang took the handkerchief that was a bit old but still white and flawless. He was very familiar with that handkerchief. He slowly opened the handkerchief and embroidered the three words Li Xinrui on the upper right corner of the handkerchief. He clearly remembered that these three words were his flowers.

It took a whole night to sew it on stitch by stitch.

Li Dongyang glanced at the old ghost, and then carefully browsed the familiar handwriting left with cinnabar on the handkerchief. As he looked at it, his eye circles became moist, and tears fell on the handkerchief drop by drop, quickly spreading into

Two shadows.

After reading it, he slumped down on the chair, holding the handkerchief tightly in his hand, "This is all true, this is all true, I was wrong, I blamed the master wrongly, master! Dongyang was wrong, master

!”

"Well, the master has a soul in heaven, and he will forgive you, so from now on, you should not be resentful to the master, because both of us are people with too much desire, and practicing Taoism will definitely lead to obsession.

If you can't extricate yourself, you will only become a demon who will harm the world. This is why the master would rather destroy the secret book than give it to you." The old ghost said.

"Okay, even if this matter is in the past, I still have a grudge to settle with you. We both joined the same school, but until today we have never competed. I really want to know who is better, you or not.

I'm awesome!" Li Dongyang said provocatively.

"Does it matter who is taller and who is lower? Dongyang, you are not young anymore, why bother with these things anymore?" the old ghost said politely.

"Of course this is important. This is my dignity as a man. I want to know if the senior brother that my senior sister has always loved is worse than me. If not, why does she like you, and why does she say that I am not as good as you?" Li Dongyang! Got excited again.

"If we have to compete, then I will admit defeat now, okay? I no longer have the high spirits of the past. Now I am just a lonely old man. I just want to spend the last period of my life in peace." After the old ghost finished speaking, he turned around.

Pulling Li Ling'er and Bo Qi to leave.

"Are you scared? Senior brother, if you were sitting here thirty years ago, you would definitely compete with me. Thirty years, thirty years of time will completely wear away your ambition and arrogance.

Has it happened? Does that make you a coward? You are only in your early fifties, do you think I will believe that what you look like now is true?" As he said that, he quickly walked in front of the three of them.

, grabbed the old ghost's hair and pulled hard, but failed to pull it off. Suddenly, an incredible look of surprise appeared on his face.

"The person standing in front of you is indeed a gray-haired old man. Do you believe it now?" The old ghost looked a little pained. He raised his withered hand to hold Li Dongyang's wrist and took it away.

"What's going on? This, this is impossible, this is impossible!" Li Dongyang couldn't accept it.

"Twenty years ago, my junior sister came to me with a little girl. Her face was very haggard and her lips were very pale. It turned out that a plague broke out in the village where she lived that year. The plague quickly killed many villagers and continued to spread.

The rapid trend spread to the surrounding areas. In order to eliminate the plague and save the villagers, she decided to practice Taoism. Maybe she was really destined to Taoism. In just half a month, she had mastered all the Taoism. She refined

The talismanic water that eradicated the plague was given to the villagers to drink, ultimately saving an unprecedented disaster.

However, due to the powerful Taoist skills she had developed in a short period of time, her body was unable to suppress and withstand the sudden power. This power backfired on her, and she slowly and inadvertently lost her mind, and became more and more ordinary.

In the end, she couldn't help but kill the whole family of a villager, but the cry of the baby in the cradle of that family awakened her reason. She felt extremely guilty and left the village with the baby girl in her arms.

She didn't know where else she could go, so she wandered alone for three days and three nights before arriving in the town. Maybe God didn't want her to die. At that time, I was a well-known doctor in the town, and she overheard

I was in town, so I found my residence after asking him.

I settled her down with the little girl, and began to think of ways to suppress the powerful force in her body. Finally, I thought of the Taoist meditation formula and the Buddhist Heart Sutra. I combined the essences of the two and wrote a book.

The Heart Technique can make people calm down and restore their sanity. Because the power in Junior Sister's body is too powerful, the Heart Technique can only temporarily restore her sanity, but if the power in her body cannot be suppressed, one day she will collapse because she can't bear it anymore.

I couldn't watch something like this happen, so I took the risk of adopting her power into mine. My body was not born with a Taoist cultivation constitution. Halfway through the adoption, this was already the limit of what I could bear. Junior sister was afraid

I couldn't bear the explosion and died, so I forcibly terminated the adoption.

In the end, the power in her body was reduced. Under the counterbalance of her own internal power, the power calmed down. But because of an uncontrollable powerful force in my body, my internal organs were slowly damaged and aging accelerated.

The body's functions also age faster than ordinary people due to wear and tear. Twenty years have passed and it has become what you see now." The old ghost revealed the secret that had been buried in his heart for twenty years.

After listening to the old ghost's story, Li Dongyang's body went limp again. He held on to the backrest of the chair to barely support his body. "For thirty years, I have deceived myself and others. It turns out that all my faults are my own.

It’s all me!”

"Dongyang, I know that you have been bullied since you were a child, so you have a very strong self-esteem. Okay, senior brother agrees to compete with you. What do you think the competition will be?" The old ghost stepped forward and held his shoulders and said.

"No, I changed my mind. Since you are in poor health, it won't be fair even if you win. Now you and I have apprentices. What they have learned is our skill. Their competition is our competition. As long as

If your apprentice wins over my apprentice, all our grudges will be wiped out from now on." Li Dongyang also held the old ghost's shoulders.

The two looked at each other for a while, and the old ghost smiled, "Okay, whether it's a mule or a horse, you have to pull it out to know how much it weighs, right? I agree to your challenge!"

When Li Dongyang saw the old ghost agreeing readily, a long-lost bright smile appeared on his face. Perhaps in the past thirty years, this moment was the happiest for him.

"Bring paper and pen, I want to write a letter of challenge!" Li Dongyang said to the servant standing at the entrance of the pavilion.

"Tell me, what do you want to compete with?" the old ghost asked.

"What I am most proud of under my master is medical skills. If your apprentice can surpass my apprentice in medical skills, I will be convinced by you as a senior brother!" Li Dongyang said.

"Okay! How about we compare the essence of these medical skills, massage and massage?" the old ghost suggested.

"Okay, senior brother, you have to put yourself in this time. Black Bear is best at massage and acupuncture and cupping. He just won the championship in the city's masseur competition last year!" Li Dongyang said with some pride.

The old ghost just smiled softly. He turned his head and glanced at Bo Qi, then turned back and said: "Don't underestimate this apprentice of mine. Although he is a little-known wild boy, I don't think Black Bear can compare to him!"

Seeing the old ghost's confident look, Li Dongyang glanced at Bo Qi who was behind the old ghost and said, "Then let's meet Zhenzhang on the field!"

"Okay!" the old ghost said with a smile.
Chapter completed!