It was totally quiet in the Sky Clinic. Blue smoke was fuming from the good-evil tripod. A smile appeared on the face of the tripod.
Su Ya was a kind girl. She had initially become a thief for the sake of the children of the Sunshine Orphanage. Thereafter, she had helped Ning Tao to look for patients with merit who needed help and had even sponsored those patients. These were all kind deeds that helped her accumulate a sizable amount of merit of good intention.
If it were anyone else, Ning Tao wouldn't have hesitated at all. He would have written a prescription slip and his job would be done after he completed the treatment. But she was Su Ya, the girl he saw as his younger sister. To cure her meant that he would have to sever his ties with her. He would remember her but she would no longer remember him.
Ning Tao placed Su Ya on the floor in the middle of the clinic and then took off his Heavenly Gem Garment to cushion her head. He had never tr
As Ning Tao exited Sky Clinic, a snowflake landed on his cheek and quickly melted away. He looked up into the night sky, many more snowflakes were falling from the dark night sky.It was snowing. It was the first snow of this winter.Autumn had gone and winter was here. Seasons changed, and it had always been so for the past billions of years. This world had its own rules, none of which humans could defy.Ring, ring...The phone in his pocket suddenly rang. Ning Tao took it out and answered the call immediately after taking a look.It was what he had expected, a call from Lin Qinghua."Is Su Ya alright?" Lin Qinghua's voice came from the phone.Ning Tao's voice was icy cold, "You still have the guts to call me? She's alright, but you won't be."Lin Qinghua stayed silent for a while before saying, "I know you're very angry now and can't wait to kill me, but I still have to say this
Pushing open the room door, Ning Tao entered Hu Xiaoji's room. Hu Xiaoji was sleeping soundly but she immediately woke up once Ning Tao entered the room."Papa, are you going to tell me a bedtime story?" Hu Xiaoji got up from bed, holding her blanket, while staring at Ning Tao with eagerness.Ning Tao walked to her bedside and sat down. He reached out to ruffle Hu Xiaoji's pretty little head and said gently, "I won't be telling you any bedtime story today. Let us father and daughter have a good chat."Hu Xiaoji blinked. "Papa, what do you want to talk about?"Ning Tao said casually, "What did you learn in school today?"Hu Xiaoji thought for a moment. "I learned the words, 'field', 'sky', 'sweet', 'fill'. I know these words but I don't know how to spell them, so the teacher punished me and made me stand in the corner with the broom.""Did you?""I did. I had to listen to Teacher Fang. I am a g
Yin Molan put Hu Xiaoji down and backed away.A thin mist enveloped Hu Xiaoji as she stood alone in the tomb."She can't see us," Bai Jing said.Jiang Hao said, "Then does she see the same illusion as us?"Bai Jing nodded. "She sees the same illusion as us. But we know that it's an illusion. She doesn't."Ning Tao said, "No more talking. Let's see her reaction."Bai Jing and Jiang Hao stopped conversing. In fact, Hu Xiaoji would not have heard even if they were to sing. But their conversation would disturb Ning Tao's observation.Ning Tao's eyes were locked on Hu Xiaoji, his heart filled with expectation and a little guilt. Regardless of whether she was a fox demon in her previous life, she was now only a child. She did not know her true identity and still went to school to learn the pinyin alphabet. It was a little cruel doing this to her. But both Western and local cultivation forces were ra
Yin Molan put Hu Xiaoji on the bed and covered her with a blanket.Ning Tao whispered, "All of you go outside and wait for me. I would like to talk to her alone."Jiang Hao, Bai Jing and Yin Molan, together with the Howling Celestial Dog, left Hu Xiaoji's room. The last who left was Bai Jing, who was closing the room door. But just before the door was shut, she poked out her head and mimed to Ning Tao the words, "You owe me a favor. How are you going to repay me?"Ning Tao turned his head away, pretending not to have seen.Bai Jing spat out a long tongue from her mouth, trembling nimbly, even faster than an insect's wings. But no one knew what she meant by such an action.Bai Jing closed the door.Ning Tao shifted his eyes to Hu Xiaoji's face. She was sleeping very soundly. He reached out and touched her forehead, injecting a whiff of spiritual power into it. Her eyelids trembled and she soon opened her ey
Enshrouded in darkness, cold winds fluttered wildly along with the snowflakes. The contours of Holy Mountain in the distance could still be discerned, towering into the clouds. This place was prohibited to humans, yet many wanted to subdue it.Four people and a dog appeared on the slope of a mountain, gazing down at Tingri's camp at the base.They were Ning Tao, Jiang Hao, Qing Zhui and Bai Jing. Yin Molan had wanted to come, but he was needed to protect Hu Xiaoji and had to stay at home.Jiang Hao raised her sniper rifle, using its Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight with night vision to observe the situation at Tingri's camp.This sniper rifle was a new technological magic tool from that sniper Qing Zhui killed. Qing Zhui had given it to Jiang Hao since she did not like using rifles, but Jiang Hao did and was very adept at it. In other words, Qing Zhui was giving a heroine a treasured weapon.Jiang Hao had given this sn
Crack!A bloody light flashed. A hand dropped to the ground.But it was neither Ning Tao's hand nor the Howling Celestial Dog's canine paw. It was Gongga's, grasping a Tibetan saber."Ah—" Gongga shrieked. He pinched his right wrist tightly with his remaining left hand. He was trying to stanch the bleeding in his severed wrist, but blood still kept gushing out.Tashi Dorje suddenly flipped over. He threw the Tibetan saber he had just pulled out onto the ground, then dropped to his knees.Ning Tao shifted his sight to the tent curtain which had been rented into two by the force. His one hand was fondling the Howling Celestial Dog's head, keeping it from acting recklessly.A woman was leading a white-haired old man into the tent. There was a translucent flute in her hand. The old man was carrying an antique erhu.Sun Pingchuan and Sun Lanxiang had arrived.Gongga did not even bother
A gunshot.A refined bullet was fired from the muzzle. Almost instantaneously, a gunshot rang out. The magic erhu in Sun Pingchuan's hands immediately exploded into smithereens!In that instant when his erhu, a magic tool, splintered, Sun Pingchuan had dodged. In that instant, a bullet shaved his thigh, hitting the ground. The ground trembled a little. There was no sound of an explosion, but a spiraling hole the size of a basin suddenly appeared there!Sun Pingchuan's face had turned completely pale. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead. If he had not blocked this blow using his erhu and dodged, the lower half of his body would have been gone!"How dare you—" Sun Lanxiang bellowed furiously. She raised the flute in her hand to her lips and was about to blow.Before she could blow the flute, the black muzzle of a pistol was already pointing at her head.Ning Tao said, "Go on, blow it. Do it quickly. I'm sur
The wind coupled with snowflakes blew across the mountain slope. The cracks in the boulders gave off mournful sounds, as if feeling frustration at a righteous girl falling into the hands of a despicable crook, weeping plaintively."If you have the guts, let me go. We will fight each other fairly!" Sun Lanxiang growled angrily.Thump!Ning Tao kneed Sun Lanxiang on her butt, without showing the least bit of compassion for her gender.Sun Lanxiang was so shamed that she cried, "I'm gonna kill you!"Ning Tao frowned. "Can't you just shut up?"Sun Lanxiang cursed, "Release me, you despicable rogue!"Ning Tao stopped walking and glanced back at the Howling Celestial Dog. "Celestial Howling, did anyone pursue us?"The Howling Celestial Dog replied, "No. I have been monitoring the situation all this while."Ning Tao instructed, "Continue monitoring. If anything happens, repo