Song of Adolescence

Chapter 113 Successor of the Medicine King

Xiao Se and others stayed at Sword Heart Tomb for three days.

Three days later, Xiao Se\'s body finally recovered. He walked out of the house, the sun was shining warmly on him, and he felt inexplicably comfortable. He turned to glance aside, and saw Hua Jin sitting in the yard, tending to the herbs she planted.

"You’re awake." Hua Jin did not raise her head, and continued to plow the soil with a hoe. "You’ve slept enough in the last few days, and your body should be almost recovered."

Xiao Se smiled lazily, sat down on the bench in the courtyard, raised his head and squinted into the sun. A small frown furrowed his brows. "It’ll never recover."

"It\'s not that there’s no cure for your damaged latent meridians." Hua Jin plucked off a herbal leaf and chewed it in her mouth, showing a slight smile. Then, she walked over to Xiao Se and handed Xiao Se the leaf. "For you?"

"What is it?" Xiao Se asked.

"Bingxin plant. It\'s very cooling. Chewing a slice when you first get up will make the whole person feel refreshed!" Hua Jin smiled.

Xiao Se took it and put it in his mouth, only to feel an instant of clarity spreading from the top of his head. At first, he felt dizzy, as if his whole person was in a daze. But, he recovered quickly and felt alert again, together with an indescribable kind of joy. He came back to himself. "You said that there’s a cure for the damaged latent meridians?"

Hua Jin nodded. "I remember I read an ancient book in the Medicine King’s Valley, which recorded a kind of medical technique called the soul replenishment technique. It can make withered trees see spring again, dried up springs gush with water, dead plants become regenerated, and the broken soul meridians can also be reconnected. But the book did not explain how to use the soul replenishment technique, so maybe it’s already long lost. After all, shifu who is known as number one in medicinal arts under Heaven, also doesn’t know this soul replenishment technique."

"Your shifu is?" Xiao Se was taken aback.

"Medicine King Xin Baicao!" Hua Jin raised her head proudly.

Xiao Se was speechless. "Then you’re…"

"Yes, Qianluo-shizhi has told me over the last few days that you’re a disciple of Changfeng-shixiong, so you should call me Little-shishu!" Hua Jin gave Xiao Se a stare.

Xiao Se couldn\'t help laughing. "How old are you?"

Hua Jin raised her head. "Fourteen!"

It had long been rumoured that the Medicine King, Xin Baicao, finally mentored a brilliant disciple, Sikong Changfeng, but this person was more fascinated by spear arts than medicinal arts, so in his twilight years, he accepted a young disciple, but nobody would have expected the disciple to be a little lady who was only fourteen years old.

"Don\'t look down at my age. I am a person with big ambitions," Hua Jin said proudly.

"What big ambitions do you have?" Xiao Se chewed on the leaf, leaned on the bench, and chatted with Hua Jin. He found this little lady indescribably fascinating.

Hua Jin stood up and looked at Xiao Se. "For example, learn the soul replenishment technique and cure your latent meridians."

Xiao Se was stunned for a moment, and said nothing.

"I\'m serious," Hua Jin emphasized.

Xiao Se finally smiled and nodded. "Okay."

Hua Jin pursed her lips. "You say “okay” but you don’t really believe it in your heart."

Xiao Se admitted frankly, "Because I don\'t want to have hope, so I won\'t be disappointed."

Hua Jin put out her hand. "They said you lent them your internal strength that day using a Circulation Array that you learned in some book. Can you show me?

Xiao Se nodded and reached into his sleeves, only to find that his clothes were empty.

Hua Jin took the book out from her sleeves and stuck out her tongue. "When I treated you with acupuncture and moxibustion, I already took everything you had on you. But without your permission, I didn’t read it. What does the book say?"

"It was written by Confucian Sword Immortal, Xie Xuan. It contains some of his own understanding of medical science and internal strength. He feels that medical science and martial arts are theoretically interlinked. For example, in the extinct kingdom of Western Chu, there was a group of famous medicine teachers. Although none of them knew martial arts, they were able to take certain drugs to enter the pinnacle realms of martial experts. One of them talked about the problem of latent meridians and internal strength. I realized this Circulation Array from that treatise which allowed me to lend my internal strength to others, without further injuring my latent meridians. But, I don’t know what went wrong and suffered from internal injuries.”

"What he said makes some sense." Hua Jin frowned. "You were injured because you were not familiar enough with the technique. When the internal strength was flowing, some leaked into the damaged meridians, so you suffered internal injuries. But what’s written in this book is not something I can agree with. Medical science is medical science, and martial arts are martial arts. There is no such thing as a shortcut in this world."

Xiao Se nodded. "At the end, Xie Xuan also said that although Western Chu medicine teachers created a large number of experts through this method and temporarily blocked the invasion from Beili, the backlash was huge in the end. All the medicine teachers either went crazy or died. In the end, the kingdom was still destroyed. But he said that using martial arts for good together with medical science is the proper way."

"What an interesting person. I really want to meet him." Hua Jin finished reading the book and handed it back to Xiao Se.

Xiao Se shook his head. "If you’re interested, you can keep it for a few more days."

Hua Jin smiled slyly. "I\'ve already memorised it."

Xiao Se was shocked, and then he came to the realisation that Hua Jin was actually one of those legendary people with eidetic memory. All she had to do was take one glance at the books she read, she could remember all of them. He couldn\'t help but feel secretly marveled.

"Moreover," Hua Jin added, "Your little brother Lei can\'t wait any longer. Everyday, he’s complaining that he can’t wait to get out of the Tomb and go back to Lei Clan Fort, saying that if he’s late, he will be killed by his sister. What sister is this, so fierce?"

"She’s probably one of the top five swordsmen in the world. What do you think?" Xiao Se shrugged.

In the Sword Pavilion, Lei Wujie was wielding the Heart sword in his hand, his sword heart pure and the sword aura like a tide.

As for Li Suwang who was standing opposite him, he hooked his index finger casually, and one sword after another flew towards Lei Wujie.

Lei Wujie waved the Heart sword and slashed one sword after another to the ground, feeling a little regretful. "Grandpa, so many good swords, such a pity, ah."

"They’re all ordinary goods, nothing to pity." Li Suwang smiled. "If you want to practice the Sword Heart Formula, you must have the determination to break all ordinary swords in the world!"

Lei Wujie\'s Heart sword swung around in front of him, and cut another three long swords to the ground.

Li Suwang smiled, waved his right hand, and four elegant long swords flew up.

Rainfall, Snowwatch, Flowergaze, Windscent. The Four Swords of Elegance flew towards Lei Wujie.

Lei Wujie shook the Heart sword in his hand, and gently swept the four long swords aside. The four swords dropped into the ground in front of him. He smiled slightly, "If I want to practice the Sword Heart Formula, I must have the heart to break ordinary swords, but even more so, I must have the heart to cherish swords."

Li Suwang nodded and smiled.

Lei Wujie looked at Li Suwang. "Grandpa, when I leave the Tomb this time, is there anything you would like me to do for you?"

Li Suwang thought for a while. "The Four Swords of Elegance are four good swords that I forged myself, but there’s one that’s even better. Do you know which one?"

Lei Wujie nodded. "Of course I know. The famous sword, Moving Mountains. Its sword aura is as vast as the sea, and one sword can move a thousand mountains and raise ten thousand tides. Ranked seventh on the Register of Swords."

Li Suwang nodded. "But now I don\'t know who has it. You help me find this person."

Lei Wujie said, "Do you want me to bring that sword back?"

Li Suwang shook his head and said with a firm voice, "No, I just want to know what sort of person has it."