Chapter 249: Chapter 249

"This principle can also be applied to cultivation. Sometimes what you think is the limit actually isn't the limit. The qi your body can contain is similarly abundant. You think it's full just because you don't know how to store it properly."

"??" A Li was very confused. This was still too profound for her. She had only cultivated basic skills and hadn't encountered such things yet.

However, when she encountered problems later, remembering these words, the problems would be easily solved. But at that time, she wouldn't be surprised that Xiaoyao's single sentence could solve such difficult problems, because she would have already experienced such things many times.

"You'll understand. Not now, but you will later. Now go wash yourself. Hmm... go downstream..." Xiaoyao said. A Li was still dirty all over. If she were just a passerby, Xiaoyao couldn't demand anything, but now they would be together for a while, and he didn't like A Li being so dirty.

Tattered clothes didn't matter, but at least she should stay clean, this was the most basic requirement.

"Oh, I'll go wash clean right away. But when I'm clean, perhaps you'll think it's better if I stay dirty..." A Li said somewhat weakly, then went downstream to bathe. She didn't know if she was afraid of being seen by Xiaoyao or didn't want to contaminate the water where Xiaoyao washed ingredients, so she ran quite far away to wash.

Xiaoyao was somewhat puzzled, what did she mean by "better to stay dirty"? Really strange. But he didn't pay attention to it and quickly washed the ingredients clean, then began cooking.

"Smells so good... can we eat now?" A Li's voice came over.

"Still early. Don't steal food, it's not ready yet." Xiaoyao replied casually and added some firewood, then looked toward A Li.

"..., You're indeed not as good as when you were dirty. How do you have this strange illness? Now I understand why you're called A Li," Xiaoyao said after a moment of silence.

A Li had thought Xiaoyao would be like others and find her appearance unbearable, but now it seemed Xiaoyao didn't have any special reaction. That disgust, that disdain, none of it was present in him.

A Li had a strange illness that she'd had since childhood. Her body had fish scale-like things that were very painful to remove, like having her skin peeled off. Even if these fish scale-like things were peeled off, they would grow back soon after with no effect.

For this illness, A Li's parents had consulted many doctors. Everyone was helpless, and in the end, they spent all their savings. Eventually, they both fell ill from overwork and worry and passed away, leaving only A Li alone.

At that time, A Li was only six or seven years old and could only survive by begging. This strange illness definitely couldn't be treated anymore without money, and the strange illness also made many people avoid her. So she would generally make herself dirty to hide her strange illness.

Although this illness brought A Li considerable suffering, it also had certain benefits. If not for this illness, a little beggar like her would probably have been bullied long ago.

A Li looked at Xiaoyao and asked somewhat strangely, "Don't you find my condition disgusting and revolting?"

"No, this is just an illness. As a healer, I don't have discriminatory views, and I've seen much more disgusting things." Xiaoyao shook his head.

"Healer?" A Li didn't understand this term from Xiaoyao.

"That's right, I can treat illnesses. Regardless of status, I'm also considered a healer." Xiaoyao nodded. Nᴇw novel chapters are publɪshed on n0velfire.net

"Oh..." A Li nodded. Strangely, she didn't ask whether Xiaoyao could cure her illness.

Xiaoyao found this odd and asked proactively, "Why don't you ask if I can cure your illness?"

"No need to ask. I don't want to be disappointed again..." A Li shook her head.

"..." Xiaoyao was silent for a moment, then said very displeased, "Your words mean I don't have the ability to cure this kind of illness? Damn, you're looking down on me. Although this illness is strange, it's not too difficult. I can handle even harder-to-treat illnesses."

"Ah? You can cure my illness? Are you lying to me? I've consulted many doctors before, and they all said I was incurable, that they'd never even heard of my illness, let alone treat it," A Li's eyes emitted a kind of light, the light of hope. If she said she didn't want to cure this illness, that would be absolute nonsense.

Therefore, if Xiaoyao gave her hope at this time, she would definitely show anticipation, no matter how small this hope might be.

"That's because those people are ignorant. For your illness, not to mention me taking action, even some accomplished famous doctors would know how to treat it. Even if they couldn't treat it, they should know about this type of case and wouldn't say they'd never heard of it." Xiaoyao said slowly.

"..." A Li fell silent. Thinking carefully, the best doctors she could see were only relatively famous in Lion Country, but it seemed Lion Country's medical arts weren't very strong. The entire Lion Country didn't have many famous doctors, and those she saw weren't even these famous doctors, just relatively well-known ones.

With her background, this was all she could access. She wasn't nobility or even wealthy, being able to see a few relatively well-known doctors was already good.

Later, when she became a beggar, she was even less qualified to see famous doctors. She couldn't even see regular doctors easily. But she didn't need to either, people who cultivated Lion's Power almost never got sick. This was perhaps one of the reasons Lion Country didn't have many famous doctors.

"You have what's called relatively rare ichthyosis. Removing this layer of scales isn't too difficult, you just need to apply a certain medicine. One application works, immediate results." Xiaoyao said.

"This simple?" A Li couldn't quite process this. She felt this illness should be very complicated, requiring many treatments and procedures. But what Xiaoyao described was just once, simpler than some minor illnesses. Some minor illnesses required repeated applications.

"Treatment is simple, as long as you have the ointment. But the materials for this ointment aren't simple, many medicinal materials are needed, and the preparation process is also somewhat complicated," Xiaoyao replied.

"Ah, so that's how it is. What medicinal materials are needed? How much money?" A Li looked at Xiaoyao and asked, hoping the money Xiaoyao mentioned wasn't something she had no hope of obtaining in this lifetime.

"If we calculate how much money specifically, it should need about one hundred taels of silver," Xiaoyao replied.

"This... I don't have that much money. Forget it then," A Li shook her head and gave up on the idea of treating her illness. Actually, fish scales weren't that bad, just a bit ugly. It didn't affect her life.

One hundred taels of silver, for A Li, she might not be able to accumulate this much in a lifetime. Even if she could, she'd be old by then with not much good life left. Why waste one hundred taels of silver?

"You don't need to pay. Consider it your compensation this time. I'll make this ointment for you to use. I'm missing some materials now. Tomorrow I'll go into the city to look, or ask my boss to help bring some," Xiaoyao said with a smile.

"Of course it's real, as long as you cultivate well." Xiaoyao said.

"Naturally. Cultivation benefits me too. Xiaoyao, I don't quite understand, what benefit do you get from doing this?" A Li didn't quite understand. It seemed like she was the only one getting advantages now.

"I need to understand Lion's Power. This is my purpose. We each get what we need, it's not only you getting benefits. My benefit is getting what I need." Xiaoyao said casually.

"Oh..." A Li seemed to understand but not really, then stared at the food Xiaoyao was cooking. While talking, Xiaoyao hadn't stopped his cooking movements, and she had been staring the whole time, looking away for at most a few seconds.

"Can this be eaten now?" A Li swallowed and asked weakly.

"About ready. Bring those washed bowls and chopsticks over. We won't serve dishes seperately, we'll eat directly from the pot," Xiaoyao said with a smile. This time he hadn't cooked things separately either, it was all mixed together in a big stew.

In this kind of environment, cooking separately was too troublesome. Besides, one dish probably wouldn't be enough for A Li to eat much of anyway. Why bother with the trouble? Better to cook it all together.

"Ah, hot. Ah, delicious..." Although A Li called it hot, her eating speed wasn't slow.

"It's hot but you're still eating so fast, be careful not to burn yourself to death." Xiaoyao said with a laugh. This A Li seemed very persistent about food, sometimes speechlessly so, but also somewhat cute.

She seemed increasingly like Chi Chi...

"Chi Chi..." Chi Chi jumped over at this time, calling out loudly, seeming to complain a bit about why Xiaoyao started eating without waiting for it. But right now, it was more concerned about getting food itself, so it stared at the pot.

"You little glutton, here." Xiaoyao directly poured food into a large basin for Chi Chi to eat. This basin was much larger than Chi Chi's size, so Chi Chi lying on top eating looked somewhat amusing.

A meal passed unknowingly . Both Chi Chi and A Li seemed unsatisfied, but Xiaoyao ignored this. He was already full, and even if he fed these two gluttons more, it would be the same. He was too lazy to waste time on it.

"Alright, now that we've finished eating, let's get to the main topic. Start circulating your energy and cultivating. I need to understand how Lion's Power operates within your bodies," Xiaoyao clapped his hands, having A Li sit down and begin circulating energy to cultivate. He placed one hand on A Li's back, sending a wisp of true qi into A Li's body. A Li's physical condition was completely presented in his mind.