Open a Clinic to Cultivate Myself Chapter 172 About Sleeping together

Ning Tao smiled and said, “I think it's fine here. The house is comfortable. It doesn't matter if it is upscale.”

Qing Zhui opened the door of her room and uttered, “Bai Jing, this is my bedroom.” Then she pointed to the next door and said, “That's Brother Ning's bedroom.”

Bai Jing looked surprised and asked, “Haven't you slept together yet?”

Ning Tao was embarrassed. “Why… do we… have to sleep together?”

Bai Jing looked at Ning Tao with strange eyes and stated, “Qing Zhui is your demon slave, just like a concubine or a maid in name, concubine in reality in ancient times. Now that she has chosen you, she's yours. But you have not slept with her. Do you dislike her?”

“I…” It was hard for Ning Tao to explain. How could he know the relationship between the demon master and the demon slave?

Bai Jing then looked at Qing Zhui. “It's not all Ning Tao's fault,” she argued with a hint of reproach in her voice. “It must be that you are not doing well or not doing enough.”

“Well, I… I'll try.” Qing Zhui glanced at Ning Tao before she lowered her head shyly.

What were you trying to do?

Ning Tao wanted to ask her, but he didn't say anything. His problem with Qing Zhui was complicated enough. If he chimed in, it would be even more complicated.

“Ning Tao, take me to your clinic.” Bai Jing had no interest in Ning Tao and Qing Zhui's house, and just came to have a look at it in a perfunctory way.

Ning Tao was silent for a moment before saying, “Qing Zhui has told you something about the clinic. You have to be prepared. But I have to tell you again, it's very hostile to people or demons, who bear sins. Are you sure you want to go?”

“It's my decision,” Bai Jing said without hesitation. “Even if it's a terrible place, I want to visit it.”

“All right, come with me.” Ning Tao stopped reminding her and walked out of his house, heading for the Sky Clinic.

Under the cold moonlight, the Sky Clinic with white walls and black tiles looked more like an ordinary Hakka house than a clinic.

Bai Jing and Qing Zhui followed Ning Tao, but when Ning Tao walked to the door of the Sky Clinic, and opened the door, Qing Zhui stopped walking. “Brother Ning, I'm afraid… I'm not going in. You take Bai Jing in. I'll wait for you outside.”

Ning Tao glanced back at Qing Zhui and saw that her face was pale and her eyes were full of fear. She had killed so many people tonight, including the clinic's patients who didn't have to atone with life. The Sky Clinic was even more hostile to her. It was natural that she should be afraid to go in.

“Then wait outside.” Ning Tao opened the door to the Sky Clinic and walked in.

Bai Jing hesitated and entered the Sky Clinic.

When Bai Jing entered, the door of the Sky Clinic closed automatically without wind. The face on the good-evil tripod opened its eyes, its face full of anger. Suddenly, Bai Jing's legs could not help but tremble, she felt as if there were an infinite pressure on her body and soul!

When Qing Zhui came in for the first time, the good-evil tripod just took a look at her without showing her angry face, because she had never committed any sin since she was a child. She was an innocent snake demon then. Unlike her, Bai Jing struggled and practiced in the world, which meant that she could not be an innocent demon. Apart from others, in order to practice, she had to harm people.

Wolves traveled thousands of miles and would always drink blood and eat meat. And a Husky could walk 10,000 miles and still eat shit, or it could still eat grass. That was the difference between species. The nature made all things, also gave all things different nature.

Ning Tao had expected Bai Jing's reaction, so he wasn't surprised. “This is my clinic,” he said casually. “Look around. You can touch whatever you want.”

Bai Jing adapted herself to this environment, but she still dared not look at the good-evil tripod. Her eyes wandered away, and she made her way to the shelf where the three tripods stood.

On the shelf were the delicate perfumed tripod, the rotten broken tripod and the Heavenly Hound tripod. Ning Tao had used the delicate perfumed tripod and the rotten broken tripod for many times and benefited a lot. But he had not yet made clear what the Heavenly Hound tripod was used for. If it was a tripod used to refine elixirs, but the elixirs it made were very ordinary; if it was a tripod used to refine tools, but it couldn't even repair the broken tiles, let alone repair magic tools and improve their quality like the rotten broken tripod. Ning Tao even suspected that it was Chen Pingdao's bowl for eating. Without seeing Chen Pingdao, he could not get the answer.

The delicate perfumed tripod looked tattered, and so did the rotten broken tripod, like the antique cultural relics in the museum display case. Only the Heavenly Hound tripod was golden, looking very valuable. But Bai Jing was staring at the delicate perfumed tripod, her eyes shining.

Ning Tao noticed her eyes and thought to himself, “Does she want my delicate perfumed tripod? What excuse should I give for refusing her if she asks to borrow it?”

“Ning Tao, what's that tripod?” Bai Jing asked.

Ning Tao answered, “That's the delicate perfumed tripod, which I use for refining elixirs.”

“I make it clear that it is the tripod for making elixirs. You can't borrow it from a cultivating doctor?” he thought.

Bai Jing then pointed to the rotten broken tripod and asked, “What tripod is it?”

“The rotten broken tripod, just a broken tripod,” answered Ning Tao.

Bai Jing suddenly picked up the rotten broken tripod and said, “Since this is a broken tripod, how about you give it to me? You took Qing Zhui, but you didn't even give me a dowry. Just take this rotten broken tripod as a betrothal gift.”

Ning Tao froze on the spot. He thought Bai Jing was trying to get the delicate perfumed tripod, but he didn't think she just diverted his attention. What she really wanted was the rotten broken tripod!

Ning Tao couldn't give her the delicate perfumed tripod. It was the treasure tripod that he used to repair magic tools, and he expected to carry out the business of repairing magic tools in the future to earn good-evil rent or money. How could he possibly give this treasure to Bai Jing? Awkwardly, Bai Jing asked him for the treasure, and he was too embarrassed to refuse.

While Ning Tao was trying to figure out how to convince Bai Jing to put the rotten broken tripod back, the good-evil tripod suddenly gave a buzz. Bai Jing fell to the ground without warning before she could give a cry of surprise. The air in the clinic did not stir, but she felt as if a mountain were pressing down on her, and were crushing all her bones!

The rotten broken tripod fell from her hands to the ground and rolled twice before it stopped.

“This…This…” Bai Jing was miserable. She could not speak clearly in fear.

Ning Tao hurriedly picked up the rotten broken tripod and put it on the shelf, then picked up Bai Jing and walked outside.

As soon as they left the clinic, Bai Jing's pain and stress vanished. She recovered. However, her spirit was still in a state of extreme fear. Her face was pale, and her eyes were wide as if she had seen something terrible.

“Bai Jing, what's the matter?” Qing Zhui hurried up to meet them, her eyes full of concern.

Ning Tao put Bai Jing down and explained to Qing Zhui, “She touches something in the clinic, triggers the good-evil tripod, and is suppressed.”

There words were really meant for Bai Jing.

Qing Zhui said, “Bai Jing, you can't touch things in that clinic. It's good that Brother Ning was here, or you'd be in danger.”

Bai Jing finally relaxed. She glanced back at the Sky Clinic. The door had closed automatically, so she could not see the angry good-evil tripod. But when she remembered the angry face on the tripod and the repression she had endured, she could not help feeling fear. Without saying a word, she started for the end of the alley.

“Bai Jing?” Qing Zhui caught up and asked, “Where are you going?”

Bai Jing didn't stop until she got to the door of Ning Tao and Qing Zhui's house. She took two deep breaths before replying, “It's better here. I came here because I was afraid of the clinic.”

“I warned you in advance that I'm afraid to go into that clinic,” Qing Zhui said. “But you insisted on going in. Now you know how fearful it is?”

Ning Tao came over and said, “Miss Bai had never come here before. It's normal to be curious about the clinic. It's all right. If she wants to come again, she can come any time.”

Bai Jing rolled her eyes at Ning Tao and said angrily, “You took Qing Zhui without giving me any betrothal gift. As the elder sister of her mother's family, I only asked for a tripod from you, but I was actually suppressed in this way. Good, not only are you stingy, your clinic is stingy too!”

Ning Tao gave a wry smile and said, “Only I can use the tripod. You can't use it even if you take it back.”

Bai Jing was still angry. “Do you expect me to believe you? You don't want to give it to me, right?”

Ning Tao spread out his right hand and held it out in front of Bai Jing. A black and white flame shot out of his palm. The black part was as dark as ink, sending out evil auras, while the white part was pure and immaculate as snow.

Bai Jing was stunned. It was the first time she had seen such a strange fire. Most of the spiritual fire of the practitioners was like fog. Demon's spiritual fire was mostly misty green, like poisonous miasma, and some of them were very rare black. Bai Jing had never heard of, let alone seen, a half-black, half-white fire like Ning Tao's.

“Miss Bai, you're Qing Zhui's sister. I'm telling the truth. I'm not lying. Only I can use the tripod in the clinic, because only my fire can drive it. So you can't take it.”

Bai Jing was unwilling and wanted the rotten broken tripod very much. However, after what she had just experienced, and seeing Ning Tao's black and white alchemy fire, she couldn't help it. If she could not use the tripod, why did she take it?

“Well, I've already visited where you live and Ning Tao's clinic. It's getting late. Go to your rooms. I should go back, too.” Bai Jing then said goodbye to them and left.

“Qing Zhui, you go to the house and I'll see Miss Bai off,” Ning Tao said.

“Okay, I'll get you the bath water,” said Qing Zhui, turning and entering the room.

Ning Tao and Bai Jing walked side by side to the end of the alley.

“Miss Bai, I don't know if I should tell you something,” Ning Tao said.

“Didn't you keep Qing Zhui in the room in order to talk to me?” Bai Jing said. “Come on, it's all right.”

“Well, I'll get to the point,” said Ning Tao. “I don't know what your relationship with Qing Zhui is with Bai Sheng, but I know you're here today in part because of him. Please give him a message for me. I don't want anyone disturbing Qing Zhui's life right now, and mine. Not everyone can invade my clinic. If anyone wants to try, I promise not to interfere. He could do anything to my clinic, even if he burned it. But if anything happens, don't blame me.”

Bai Jing was silent for a moment before she said, “I must tell him what you said.”

She didn't say anything directly about her relationship with Bai Sheng, but it was a veiled admission, including that she had come to the clinic tonight at Bai Sheng's request. Ning Tao made her tell Bai Sheng what he had said as a sign of his attitude to them—”I don't mess with you, and you can't mess with me; Don't call attention to my clinic. If you have to do that, then sorry, you'll have to pay for it!”

After a few more steps, Bai Jing stopped and said, “You can go back. Qing Zhui's running a bath. You take a bath together and have a good time. You guys are weird. You've been together for so long but you haven't slept together yet. Is there something wrong with you?”

Ning Tao was speechless.

Why couldn't she just say goodbye?

After listening to her, how could Ning Tao make relatives with her in the future?

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