Open a Clinic to Cultivate Myself Chapter 217 A Core of the Size of a Volleyball

Autumn had arrived. The time to pay for the clinic's rent was up.

Before moving here from Garden Street in Shan City, the ledger of bamboo slips had indicated that the clinic's good-evil rent was 2,000 points and that the clinic would be upgraded.

It seemed like the Sky Clinic had been upgraded every two months, or perhaps that rascal Chen Pingdao had driven it to the verge of shutting down. Therefore it desperately needed to be upgraded to a certain point, before it could stabilize. However, Ning Tao did not know what was the specific reason. Even though he was the owner of the Sky Clinic, his understanding of the Sky Clinic was relatively limited. He could only uncover them slowly.

During the last time the Sky Clinic had upgraded, Ning Tao had attained the grade two elementary cultivation method, as well as pre-school punch skill. In two months' time, he had learned Ladder under Feet Powerful, Tolerance to Beating and Cat Claw Punch. What would he be receiving with the upgrade this time around?

“Could it be called grade three elementary cultivation method, and elementary school punch skill? If so, isn't it too passé?” Inside the clinic, Ning Tao was anxiously waiting for the time for rent payment, while imagining what would appear in the good-evil tripod.

Qing Zhui's voice called from outside. “Brother Ning, if the clinic were to move, remember to come pick me up.”

Ning Tao replied, “I know. Go back and wait.”

“Okay,” Qing Zhui said.

“Useless. Are you afraid that he doesn't want you anymore? How did I teach you? You should…” Then it was Bai Jing's voice, incessantly lecturing Qing Zhui.

Ning Tao forced a smile. At this rate, Qing Zhui would most probably be led astray by Bai Jing, yet he had no way of preventing it. He had already removed the Viper-like Insect from Bai Jing, and made Bai Sheng back off, so Bai Jing was pretty much liberated. Yet, she had become an unemployed bum. All she had been doing was to eat, drink and lead his chosen concubine astray. However, could he really chase her away, given the current situation?

He could not shake off the image of treating the snake demon sisters last night. Frontal stacking treatment, back stacking treatment, doggy style treatment, all types of treatment positions… all the mysterious yet ripe figures and restricted content revealing from torn clothing… So exciting, so tempting… His pair of eyes had been blinded for many times…

With his mind running wild, Ning Tao glanced at his pants below. He scolded, “Useless thing, you're already this useless, could you behave just a little better?”

The buddy was free-spirited as always. It continued standing proud.

Suddenly, the black and white aura of the good-evil tripod was sucked into the tripod.

The time for Sky Clinic's rent payment was up.

Ning Tao approached the good-evil tripod swiftly, and looked into the tripod. A whirlpool had appeared at the bottom of the good-evil tripod. The respective black and white of good intention and sin of evil intention were sucked into the whirlpool. 2,000 points of good-evil rent had disappeared, but it was not all.

The rent payment was completed in an instant. Ning Tao checked the ledger of bamboo slips right after.

New content had appeared on the ledger of bamboo slips: This month's rent has been paid. The debt balance is 1,321 points. Next month's rent is 2,000. It is 29 days and 22 hours until the next payment date.

So could it really be upgraded every two months?

Ning Tao could not help but make such a guess. He was under a mountain of stress. An upgrade would also translate into doubled rent. 2,000 would become 4,000. It was not easy to earn 4,000 worth of good-evil rent. Even if he were to con irredeemably evil people together with Qing Zhui, it would have to kill numerous people!

Inside the tripod was shimmering in gold. Each character and each graphic were glowing in the dense golden light. It looked like a sea of stars, so distant and enigmatic, like it was hiding secrets of the truth.

Ning Tao was experienced. He immediately activated his divine sense, establishing a connection with the good-evil tripod. Each and every one of the characters and images had rushed into his sea of consciousness. Instantly, a few words beaming in gold had surfaced to his mind: grade three elementary cultivation method.

Blargh! Ning Tao nearly coughed up blood.

Earlier on, he was just predicting the name of the cultivation method, and it turned out that he was right. He felt as if he could hear the voice of good-evil tripod saying, “Did you think I was passé? Then I'll show it to you!”

Very soon, another few glowing golden words surfaced to his mind—pre-school scalpel method.

Pre-school scalpel method?

Ning Tao was beyond speechless.

However, even though the name was incredibly passé as usual, he had attained good stuff from the upgrade this time round. The grade three elementary cultivation method had increased his speed of cultivating good energy and evil energy, and had also strengthened his sixth sense for detecting the presence of good energy. In other words, with his grade three elementary cultivation method mastered eventually, he would be able to detect the good energy emanated from good people. Even though it seemed like a useless power, it was very important to him, because it could help him earn merit of good intention and help good people.

Yet his favorite was still that pre-school scalpel method.

He had specialized as a surgeon at Shan City Medical University, so he had solid foundations in performing surgery. Now that he had attained the pre-school scalpel method, his surgical skills would be upgraded to an extent like “Nirvana”. Besides, this pre-school scalpel method was not only for surgeries, but also for combat. He had already attained Powerful Tolerance to Beating, Cat Claw Punch and Ladder under Feet, which were only for defenses. The only attack skill he had was Cat Claw Punch, but it was incredibly weak. With the pre-school scalpel method, it would be different. It would increase his combat abilities as a practicing doctor.

The golden light of the good-evil tripod had disappeared. 1,321 points of good-evil treatment fee had appeared in the tripod again. Heavy black and white aura continued to spiral in the air.

Ning Tao had suddenly recalled a thing. “We did not move! Does that mean Bai Sheng still hasn't left Guan City?” he exclaimed shockingly. Then he thought of another possibility. “Perhaps, Bai Sheng had already escaped but Sky Clinic will not leave until I kill Bai Sheng.”

There was actually a third possibility. It meant that the local tyrant could be someone else, but the chances of this were close to zero, so he had never bothered thinking about it.

After sorting out the cultivation methods he had just received, Ning Tao did not relax for a moment. He immediately sat down by the good-evil tripod with his legs crossed, cultivating his newly-attained grade three elementary cultivation method.

God knew how long he would need to master it.

The process of absorbing and cultivating good energy and evil energy had been hastened significantly with the grade three elementary cultivation method. If he were to compare the ABC of elementary cultivation method to a car, the ABC of elementary cultivation method was like the starting gear, which was also the first gear. The grade two elementary cultivation method would be the second gear, which was a little faster. The newly attained grade three elementary cultivation method would be the third gear, and it would be even faster.

Ning Tao had already been used to driving this car with the first and second gears, so with only an increase in a gear now, he could very quickly grasp the way of driving with the third gear. The car was going so smoothly that he had completely immersed himself in the cultivation, forgetting about time altogether.

Some time later, Qing Zhui's voice was heard from outside. “Brother Ning, are you inside?”

It was impossible to tell from the outside that the building was a clinic, but Qing Zhui could tell that it was the Sky Clinic because she was feeling a sense of fear once she approached it.

Ning Tao had just finished a round of practicing with the spiritual power for the grade three elementary cultivation method when he had heard Qing Zhui's voice. “I'm here. We're not moving,” he responded.

“Then are you going home to have lunch?” Qing Zhui asked.

“I won't be going back for lunch,” Ning Tao said.

With this time's cultivation, he had found out that the grade three elementary cultivation method had not only increased his speed of cultivating spiritual power, but had also better stabilized the side effects from the imbalance of good energy and evil energy. The evil energy in the good-evil tripod had clearly been stronger than good energy, but this time, he did not feel that it was overpowering to the point of causing discomfort for him. It still felt like everything was balanced, and he did not feel miserable. Therefore, he had intended to seize the opportunity to continue with the cultivation.

“How about dinner? Are you going back for dinner? Should I catch a fish from the river and make you fish soup?” Qing Zhui said.

The destined concubine was so caring, Ning Tao could not bear to reject her, so he said, “Okay, I'll be back at night.”

“Okay! I will go catch a fish now,” Qing Zhui's voice grew evidently delighted.

Then came Bai Jing's voice. “My sister is talking to you yet you can't even be bothered to open the door! Why are you hiding in the house while talking to her! Believe me, I would go buy a pack of rat poison and put it into the fish soup! Die from poison then my sister can go look for a better man!”

Ning Tao smiled wryly while shaking his head. He ignored Bai Jing, then awakened his divine sense and entered the physical world.

Every time he used a new cultivation method, he would enter the physical world to take a look at the Niwan acupoint.

The usual practitioner would have a full cultivation system, such as Qi Refinement, Foundation-building, Core Formation, Nascent Soul, also Void Cultivation, Being Consolidation, Spreading Enlightenment, and lastly, the trial, before becoming a deity and enjoying immortality. However, he was not the usual practitioner, this practitioner's system was not suitable for him. He was the inborn go-between of good and evil, owner of the Sky Clinic, so he did not use spiritual energy for cultivation. His resources for practicing were exceedingly blessed, but the one drawback was that he had no understanding of the clinic's cultivation system, which meant that he would not know about his progress, so he could only slowly figure out.

The previous time he was here, the Niwan acupoint was half white and half black. They were entangled like two halves of the Taiji. The spiritual power conserved within the Niwan acupoint had transformed into a huge black and white-striped boa.

This time, the Niwan acupoint had not changed significantly. The yin and yang were still intertwined with each other, forming the imagery of Taiji. Except, next to where he was standing, it was not a huge boa which had leaped from the black and white mud swamp, but instead, it was a ball.

The ball was half white and half black.

The black half was inflated while the white half was deflated, making the ball appear like a punctured volleyball.

Ning Tao was so surprised that his jaw dropped. “Could it be that the core has been formed? But…how could it be as big as a volleyball!”

The books about practicing from the Sword Pavilion Cave, such as the Explanation of Cultivation had described, once practitioners had reached the state of Core Formation, a core of the size of a thumb would be created in the Niwan acupoint.

Yet his core was the size of a volleyball!

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