Open a Clinic to Cultivate Myself Chapter 353 Would You Laugh, Qin Shihuang?

Xu Fu's Immortality Elixirs had also been refined. Ning Tao had brought back a great deal of spiritual materials to refine them, but he only managed to refine six. After refining them, he put five into a porcelain vial and the last elixir on the ledger of bamboo slips for identification.

A few seconds later, identification information appeared on the ledger of bamboo slips: “A premium aphrodisiac for renewed spring vigor and reproduction, useful for treating infertility. Both men and women will become fertile upon taking it. Shriveled testicles will produce sperms and empty ovaries eggs. A woman will be able to conceive at one try.”

Ning Tao was stunned to the spot. He stared with a strange expression at the identification result on the ledger of bamboo slips. He did not move for at least a minute.

The First Emperor Qin Shihuang had yearned for immortality, which was why he had sent the famous Taoist Xu Fu to search for the immortality elixir in Japan. His first trip was fruitless, and Xu Fu did not return after the second. In Japan, Xu Fu was revered as the god of agriculture, medicine, and weaving. He played the role of a guiding teacher in Japanese culture. The legend of his immortality elixirs had been passed down in Hua Country for the last 2,000 years. One did not expect the elixir prescription buried in his grave to be no more than a fertility formula.

If the First Emperor Qin Shihuang knew about this result, would he have laughed in the underworld?

If Liu Shiba knew about this result beforehand, would he have traveled six times to Japan to look for Xu Fu's grave? Would he have spent billions to raid his tomb for the immortality elixir?

Nothing in this world is immortal, even the long-lived tortoise will breathe its last. Even nature will collapse and return to the void in time to come. Who truly can be immortal and live forever?

When one has unraveled this problem, any act of seeking immortality will seem naive and ludicrous.

“Shriveled testicles will produce sperms and empty ovaries eggs… Hahaha!” He did not know if Qin Shihuang would laugh, but Ning Tao could not help himself. He could not but imagine Liu Shiba impatiently taking the elixir and desiring a woman.

Actually, from the perspective of engendering life, it was not untrue that this elixir was an immortality elixir. If even shriveled testicles could produce sperms and a woman be made to conceive… were these not some form of immortality?

But viewed from the perspective of reproduction, this elixir would be a kind of practitioner's aphrodisiac. The ledger of bamboo slips had already identified the answer: an aphrodisiac for renewed spring vigor. This analogy had already outlined its essence.

He did not know how Xu Fu had managed to find this elixir prescription. The answer was not important.

Ning Tao put that last elixir into another porcelain vial. As a doctor, he might come across patients with infertility problems. He could then make use of this pill.

He would give Liu Shiba five in exchange for the secret of the hirer. If Liu Shiba claimed that he was a fraud, he would trick him into visiting Sky Clinic. Liu Shiba had been a grave robber all his life and renowned as the grandmaster of all tomb raiders. He must have committed many sins, like swindling and murder. If Ning Tao did not deal with such a villain, how could he regard himself as a go-between of good and evil?

Hence, even if this elixir prescription was a true immortality formula and not an infertility prescription, Liu Shiba would still soon die. For no other reason but the fact that he had run into the owner of Sky Clinic.

After storing the aphrodisiac, Ning Tao took out his cell phone to look at the time. He discovered it was a little past four in the morning. There was still some time before dawn. He felt that he had enough time to accomplish his third goal—that was, to refine the third version of the Ancestor-seeking Elixir.

Beep, beep, beep…

A mass of unread messages appeared at the lower corner of his cell phone.

These unread messages were all from his WeChat group, the “practitioners' club.”

He was a bit tired, so Ning Tao sat down on the chair at his desk and entered his WeChat group, browsing through the messages.

Wolf from the Northwest: Admin, admin, come in and show yourself.

Sure-to-be-Immortal Liu Qiangzhong: He won't come, I daresay. He is the god here. When have you ever seen a god interacting with the masses?

Independent Practitioner Wu Taichao: Can I send you guys lewd pictures? Will I get thrown out of this group?

Soon, a heap of lewd pictures appeared on the cell phone screen. There were animated GIFs and some still photos. All were very extreme.

Lei Zhenzi from Lingxiao Sect: Practitioner friend, let me have a video.

Independent Practitioner Wu Taichao: No torrent seeds. I only have pictures.

Elated Little Immortal: Send us photos and torrent seeds, they are unsuitable for kids.

Independent Practitioner Wu Taichao sent a photo of Jackie Cheung grimacing.

What kind of practitioners were these?

Ning Tao's heart was at sixes and sevens. He had started this group to know more about the cultivation world. He did not expect these practitioners and demons to be exchanging lewd photos and begging for torrent seeds in this WeChat group!

After browsing through a few more messages, the cell phone screen showed a message from Bai Shengsheng, the White Hare Spirit.

Bai Shengsheng, the White Hare Spirit: @Doctor Ning, show yourself. I would like to chat with you. The magic tool my mom left me is broken. As a pretty demon girl, what must I do for you to mend my magic tool?

Black Bear Spirit from Changbai Mountains: Doctor Ning must want both the money and the girl. White Hare Spirit, show us your photo. We'll see if there's hope for you.

Bai Shengsheng, the White Hare Spirit, really sent them a selfie. She was in a pair of bikinis and had a gorgeous figure. Her complexion was fair like white radish, her skin lustrously smooth.

What followed were a heap of pointless comments.

When he came to the final page, Ning Tao saw a message from a practitioner called Heng Zhenzi. His message was: has anyone received an invitation from Tie Guli?

This message from Heng Zhenzi was sent at two in the morning. No one replied to him.

“An invitation from Tie Guli?” Ning Tao felt somewhat curious. He wanted to query Heng Zhenzi, but thought better of it. If he were to show himself, there would be a whole mass of new messages.

After that, Ning Tao kept his cell phone and returned to the delicate perfumed tripod. He put all his prepared spiritual materials in and then started the spiritual fire. He began to refine the third version of the Ancestor-seeking Elixir.

The black-and-white flames flickered around the delicate perfumed tripod, soaring more than 60 centimeters high. The heat was intense. Due to its presence, Ning Tao could not see any reactions to the spiritual materials in the tripod.

He spent more than half an hour refining the ingredients.

Ning Tao felt an astonishment in his heart. “This time, I have expended so much time and yet haven't managed to refine the Ancestor-seeking Elixir. Perhaps it was because I have added new spiritual materials. But the incomplete versions of the Ancestor-seeking Elixir had also taken a lot of time in the past. If I collect all the remaining shards and refine them with the complete prescription, will it take an entire day and night?”

He did not know the answer to this question.

Since he was thinking, the spiritual ingredients inside the delicate perfumed tripod started to tremble. But Ning Tao had mastered the art of elixir refinement. He soon steadied the alchemy flame. But after another minute, a loud chime started to sound in the delicate perfumed tripod, and the spiritual fire ebbed away.

The refinement had ended.

When the spiritual fire completely subsided, Ning Tao went to the delicate perfumed tripod and stared straight into its bottom.

At its bottom, there was an elixir the size of a ping pong ball, resting quietly. It was as untainted as pure ice, glimmering with a faint, greenish light. A refreshing aroma like that of spring water wafted to his nostrils, creeping in.

Boom!

The Ancestor-seeking Elixir he had refined this time was too large and of a higher version. Before Ning Tao could touch it, his brain had already suffered an allergic reaction!

In that instant, he felt the scene before his eyes distorted, almost as if it were switching to another mysterious space, or an earlier time period! He had suffered allergic reactions with the Ancestor-seeking Elixir before, but they had never been so intense and real!

I rest within the womb, listening to the sound of the Way.

Dong!

He chanted the incantation once. The divine bell tolled and all his hallucinations disappeared.

Ning Tao immediately held his breath, extending his arm to take that Ancestor-seeking Elixir from the delicate perfumed tripod. The moment he touched it, the scene before his eyes distorted again. The feeling of being in a mysterious space or an earlier time zone was now even more intense and real!

I rest within the womb, listening to the sound of the Way.

Dong!

The divine bell tolled once more, and the hallucinations subsided again.

Ning Tao did not dare to be careless. He hurriedly kept this third version of the Ancestor-seeking Elixir into his small medicine chest. Then he put on surgical rubber gloves and placed the elixir on a prescription pact. He carefully sliced the elixir into five portions.

He had actually only needed five: one each for Qing Zhui, Bai Jing, Yin Molan, Jiang Hao, and himself. But now there was also Tang Zixian. Since she had also wanted one, he could only slice it into six portions.

An elixir the size of a ping pong ball, sliced into six portions, each around the size of a cherry. One portion would be enough.

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Ning Tao kept the five portions into five separate porcelain vials. Then he put them into his small medicine chest. After that, he took his portion and walked out of Sky Clinic.

It was not yet five in the morning. The sky was at its darkest. The alley facing Sky Clinic was quiet. There were no street lamps and the scene was pitch-dark. Not a human figure could be seen.

Ning Tao removed the rubber gloves on his hands. The moment his skin touched the new Ancestor-seeking Elixir, it started to react. His nose smelled the scent of this third-version Ancestor-seeking Elixir. Before a second had elapsed, his eyes had started to experience a searing pain. Then he lapsed into darkness.

This darkness was far longer than any he had experienced before. For a full ten seconds, his eyes could not see any ray of light.

“Am I… blind?” This terrible thought arose in Ning Tao's heart. In this pitch-black darkness, he could not hear anything. He seemed to be the only one left in the whole world. Other human beings and their lives were now buried in the earth, or frozen in ice. A lonesome feeling assaulted his every nerve.

He could not help it, but the desire to chant Your Text surfaced in his heart. He wanted that divine bell to toll and dispel this terrible hallucination. But he soon suppressed this emerging thought. If a man had no courage to grope and walk in the dark, how could he attract true sunlight?

Suddenly, there was light before his eyes.

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