Open a Clinic to Cultivate Myself Chapter 287 Execution of the Tyran

Ning Tao dragged Bai Sheng through the convenient door, then casually dumped him on the floor.

The good-evil tripod looked angry. Actually, it was no longer simply just angry, but rather, it looked enraged. Ning Tao was even suspecting that it could fly off the tripod any moment to tackle Bai Sheng, biting him to death and devouring him.

Bai Sheng lay on the ground like a dead dog. One of his legs was gone, he was bleeding from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. It was horrible. Before Ning Tao and Tang Zixian had arrived at the scene, he was still indulging in his wondrous feeling of being a god, but now he had ended up being more pathetic than a beggar by the roadside.

Karma would always be served ultimately. It was only a matter of time.

Ning Tao was Bai Sheng's “matter of time”.

Ning Tao looked expressionlessly at Bai Sheng, who was sprawled out on the ground like a dead dog. His voice was also cool. “What else do you have to say?”

Both of Bai Sheng's arms propped him up against the ground, trying hard to hold his head up. “Tsk!”

But before he could spit a mouthful of blood at Ning Tao, the mountain-like suppression weighed him down. His head was crushed heavily on the ground, his chin broke, and blood flowed out.

However, he was a thousand-year-old demon after all. Even with such a degree of injury, he was still enduring it instead of screaming out loud. It was just that every passing second of endurance felt to him as if it were a year long.

Ning Tao said, “I've already told you that my ledger has a record of all your evildoings, and when it's time, I would settle them with you one by one. Now, I'll settle the accounts, and you'll pay for them.”

He took the ledger of bamboo slips out of his small medicine chest, then placed it on Bai Sheng's head.

This was the reason why he had brought Bai Sheng back to the Sky Clinic. He did not gain anything the previous time when he killed Tang Tianren because he was not able to take Tang Tianren back to the Sky Clinic. However, this time was an opportunity. He wanted to know how much sin of evil intention he could earn from apprehending the evil tyrant, or if there were any other benefits. That was why he had left Tang Zixian behind, taking Bai Sheng alive to the clinic. He could not even be bothered with the technological magic tools that were related to Nicholas Conway.

People would die for money and animals would die for food, yet he had been putting his life on the line for the sake of treatment fees. Meanwhile, these treatment fees he earned would not even be able to buy him a bowl of porridge outside.

Bai Sheng had actually intended to take the ledger of bamboo slips away from his head, but he could not even lift his hand. Frustration, hopelessness, and agony were tormenting every nerve in his body. He opened his mouth, wanting to yell, but there was only the frail voice of a dying person. “Er.. yah..”

Ning Tao picked up the ledger and opened it.

Some content appeared on the ledger of bamboo slips: “Bai Sheng, a snake demon spawned in the third year of the Xianping period of the Song dynasty (1,000 CE). A tyrant. His biggest sin was killing his mother, and secondly, inflicting harm on humanity. His sins of evil intention are beyond what can be recorded. His body and soul must be destroyed, never to be reincarnated.”

Bai Sheng's sins were so abundant that the ledger of bamboo slips could only describe it as “beyond what can be recorded”. It was proof of how much evil he had committed.

However…

“This isn't right!” Ning Tao agitatedly exclaimed to the ledger of bamboo slips. “Sure, you said that it's beyond what can be recorded, but you could have at least told me how many thousands of sins of evil intention, right? Did you eat them up!”

Apprehending Bai Sheng alive was meant to be a joyous thing, but given such a situation, Ning Tao felt like he was a laborer who had worked hard for a few months, waiting to send his salary from his boss back home for the new year, but his boss had claimed that he was not done with his job and refused to pay his salary.

At least laborers could gain public attention and sympathy by attempting to jump off a building, putting pressure on their cruel employers, but who would be watching if he were to go to jump off a building?

However, just when Ning Tao was going to grouse, the content on the ledger of bamboo slips disappeared, and new content appeared: “This locale's tyrant had been eradicated. The clinic will been moving next month, treatment fees will be waived. A store door can be opened.”

Ning Tao finally heaved a sigh of relief.

However, he still felt like he was being shortchanged. The clinic's upgrade and treatment fees being doubled would not amount to more than 4,000 points, and even if he was going to open the door to the Elixirs & Equipment Store, it would not amount to more than 5,000 points. Were the sins of evil intention of a tyrant like Bai Sheng only worth 9,000 points?

“Just kill me… if you have the guts…” Bai Sheng finally managed to utter some words. It was even more painful for him to live on like this.

Ning Tao took the ledger of bamboo slips and placed it back into the small medicine chest. He then squatted beside Bai Sheng, looking at him quietly. It was unprecedented that the ledger of bamboo slips did not instruct him with the diagnosis “to draft the prescription pact of evil intention”. It meant that he did not need to draft the prescription pact of evil intention and feed Bai Sheng with a Fine Primary Elixir or something. It was obvious that the situation had nothing more to do with him. He had only wanted to take another good look at the thousand-year-old snake demon that had brought him countless troubles.

Indeed, the good-evil tripod was already making the howling noise of the tripod, likened to a butcher grinding his knife. The energy field suppressing Bai Sheng had weakened significantly, which could be its sign to Bai Sheng.

It was under this howling sound that Bai Sheng had calmed down. He seemed to have understood something as tears flowed from his eyes.

Ning Tao said calmly, “You actually know how to cry? Have you ever thought about the girls who have died because of you? How much their parents would be crying? How heartbroken they would have been?”

Bai Sheng said, “Don't talk to me about all those noble ideals. I'm a demon. If I don't harm people, how am I a demon? My plan for the way of money had just started, then you appeared. If you had given me a few more years, I would be able to destroy not only you, but also this entire clinic!”

Ning Tao did not care about all these provocative words, and instead, he smiled. “If you could destroy it so easily then you would be saving me, and I might even have to thank you. But I can be sure that even if I gave you another 10 years, you wouldn't be able to do it.”

“The way of money, the way of money…” Bai Sheng muttered, with an extreme feeling of unwillingness.

Ning Tao said, “Are these your last words? You're still thinking about such an abominable thing like the way of money at your time of death? What for?”

“Have you ever heard of the idea that there will always be goodness in people's last words?”

Ning Tao was slightly stunned. “What are you trying to say?”

“This world is going to change. The destruction of the magic ancient age was only the beginning and only a part of the conspiracy.”

“What conspiracy?” Ning Tao was overwhelmed with surprise.

“Legend has it that there lived a supernatural being. It had seized all of the world's spiritual energy, intending to leave the world to perish and descend into oblivion. Every hundred millennium is an epoch. The previous epoch was the magic ancient age, and it's now the technological age. Yet, we're also a millennium away from the great tribulation. If we want to survive, we would have to break through the barriers and cultivate to become deities.”

Ning Tao was flabbergasted and said, “Who did you hear this from?”

Bai Sheng did not say anything, but two teardrops fell from his eyes.

No need to guess anymore. Ning Tao could guess that it was Silvermoon Cherry that had told him. In this world, only Silvermoon Cherry could make a tyrant like Bai Sheng shed tears. But what was the meaning of these?

Bai Sheng lifted his head instantly, looking right into Ning Tao's eyes. “Promise me to take my pair of eyes to my mother. She had opened my eyes yet I've been blinded. Please tell her I've learned from my mistakes, and ask her to forgive me.”

Ning Tao said, “I can agree to your request, but I won't be touching you. I'll deliver your words to Silvermoon Cherry but I can't guarantee that it will forgive you.”

“I understand.” Bai Sheng raised both of his hands suddenly. With a shriek, he dug out his own eyeballs then brought them in front of Ning Tao with shaking hands.

Ning Tao had killed many people before, but watching Bai Sheng digging out his own eyes so cruelly and bringing them before him had still sent him chills. Anyway, he took Bai Sheng's pair of eyeballs.

“I'll… tell you… another secret.” Bai Sheng's voice was trembling slightly due to the pain.

Ning Tao's heart skipped a beat. “What secret?”

Bai Sheng said shakily, “The reason… I ended up like this… is actually because… I've been brainwashed by someone… and entered…”

However, just at that moment, the good-evil tripod howled. Blue smoke overwhelmed and consumed Bai Sheng in an instant.

Ning Tao panicked, yelling at the smoke, “Tell me who is that person? What did you enter?”

The blue smoke surged like a sea of clouds among the mountains, mysterious and unreachable. There was no response.

Ning Tao charged into the blue smoke, but his vision was filled with the surging smoke. Bai Sheng was nowhere to be seen. Not only could he not see Bai Sheng, but he could not see the good-evil tripod and the other things in the clinic. He felt like he had entered a sea of clouds, his view was cloudy and blurred, and there was no end to it.

If there were a fat, chubby deity appearing among the smokes at this point, telling him, “Tao, you'll never escape my clutches no matter how hard you try”, he wouldn't be surprised either.

After a while, the blue smoke had returned to the good-evil tripod.

The good-evil tripod was visible to Ning Tao once again. Everything in the clinic had returned to normal. Yet, he felt like he had just experienced a trip overseas, except that he was blindfolded and could not see any of the scenery.

“You could have killed him sooner or later but why did you have to kill him just when he was about to reveal a secret? Did you do it intentionally? Or are you his accomplice?” Ning Tao groused at the face on the good-evil tripod.

Actually, even he himself would not be able to believe what he just said. If the good-evil tripod and Bai Sheng were partners in crime, then why would it kill Bai Sheng? He could only blame it on that they had spoken too much instead of focusing on the important things. There would not have been such regrets if they had begun with the important things and left the nonsensical conversations for later.

Bai Sheng had died, leaving only one of his legs and a pair of eyeballs in this world. That pair of bloody eyeballs was in Ning Tao's hands. They seemed to still be carrying an expression, and it was a fierce one.

Ning Tao wrapped Bai Sheng's eyes with an ordinary prescription slip and placed it inside the small medicine chest. His legs had instinctively brought him to the Elixirs & Equipment Store. As he looked at the storeroom door, which was shut tight, he got the urge to push it open.

He had gained “Your Text” after opening the Scriptures & Scrolls Store. Even though it could only currently displayed two lines and he was stuck with the second line, the first line was already so incredibly powerful. Also, there was the plucking talisman from the leather scroll, in which both authentic and erroneous versions had also possessed miraculous functions. What could he then gain from opening the Elixirs & Equipment Store?

Ning Tao's curiosity grew, and his urge to open the door had grown stronger. Indeed, he had really lifted his hand, preparing to open the door. However, just when he was going to touch the door, he was suddenly reminded of something, and hurriedly withdrew his hand. After that, he strolled toward the lock wall and opened a blood lock, then walked right into it.

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