Upon hearing what Mr. Wan said, Yue Fan stared at him, and suddenly smiled understandingly. "Mr. Wan, you are not an ordinary person, right?"

Mr. Wan was taken aback, then smiled and asked, "Why do you ask, Xiao Fan?"

Yue Fan said, "I have also learned medicine from Mr. Wan. Although I am not proficient, I know that the average master of medicine is definitely not as talented as you are, at least in acupuncture. And there is a lot of history behind your eyes, Mr. Wan."

"Ha ha ~" Mr. Wan smiled and said, "Xiao Fan, if I didn't see you grow up, I wouldn't believe that you are only twelve years old. Not only are you meticulous, but your eyes are also so sharp."

Yue Fan sat down and said, "Mr. Wan, can you tell me about your story?"

Before Mr. Wan could respond, Xiaoyaer also woke up. She rubbed her eyes and looked like she was still sleeping. When she saw Yue Fan, her spirit perked up and she quickly ran over and hugged him tightly, afraid that he would fly away at any moment.

"Xiaoyaer is also awake. Yesterday was a tough day for you," Yue Fan gently patted Xiaoyaer's head.

Xiaoyaer nodded and shook her head in Yue Fan's arms, tears unconsciously streaming down her face. Seeing the little girl like this, Yue Fan only patted her head to comfort her. After a while, Xiaoyaer stopped crying and got up from Yue Fan's arms. Then she ran over to Mr. Wan's front and gestured to him, "Grandpa, good morning, I'll go start the fire now." Saying that, she ran out of the house.

Looking at Xiaoyaer leaving, Mr. Wan sighed deeply and said, "Actually, there is nothing that can't be said. Since Xiao Fan wants to hear it, I will tell you about it."

Looking out the window, Mr. Wan slowly reminisced, "I am from Huai'an in Jiangnan. When I was young, I was a scholar. Although I was confident that I was knowledgeable, I could not see the difficulties of the world. I had a dream of becoming a good official who would speak for the people, but because the time was not in my favor, what could I do?!"

After a sigh, he continued, "At the age of thirty, I was appointed to the imperial academy and promoted to the position of scholar in the Hanlin Academy for my outstanding articles. I was also chosen by the court's imperial physician as a disciple and taught him the secret medical scriptures. Everything seemed to be going smoothly and promising. But all good things must come to an end. Due to my comments on the factional struggles in the writing of the 'Memoirs', some factions in the court were dissatisfied, and eventually I was framed by my long-time friend and my entire family was sent to prison...

Thinking back to the past, it's too painful to recollect.

"It was dark and gloomy there. My parents, wife and children couldn't bear the torture and died in prison. I was heartbroken and wanted to die, but thinking of how I was wrongly accused by my own friend, I couldn't let it go. I wanted revenge." At this point, Mr. Wan's heart was like a knife cutting, his face full of sadness and anger.

He took a deep breath and continued, "After my master knew about this, he tried everything he could to get me off the hook, but in the end, he had to use a death row prisoner to replace me to save me... Since then, I left my hometown and lived under a different name. But how could I just let the person who caused my family's ruin go free? So I wanted to seek revenge myself, but when I asked around, I found out that my enemy had been silenced and his entire family had died in the fire."

With tears in his eyes and laughter in his heart, Mr. Wan said, "It's laughable... originally I wanted revenge, but my enemy is dead, what's the point of me being alive. Heartbroken and disheartened, I wandered around and practiced medicine everywhere. Therefore, I also made some friends in the martial arts world, but the martial arts world is also a bloody and fierce place, there is no peace anywhere."

With a heavy heart, he finished his story with a sigh.

"Later, I met your father in the mountains and wanted to have a peaceful life, so we settled down here. You know the rest of the story." After finishing the story, Mr. Wan looked dejected.

The two were silent, the atmosphere was heavy.

After a while, Yue Fan deliberately changed the topic and said, "Mr. Wan, what is the real martial arts world like? In the city, I heard storytellers say that the martial arts world is a lively and exciting place with all kinds of people and things." With his eyes full of yearning.

Mr. Wan's mood gradually calmed down and he smiled and said, "The Jianghu is not as simple as the storytellers say. There are many things, but they are very annoying. Sometimes you can't see the difference between right and wrong, good and evil. I once saw a group of decent experts besiege a cultist. According to my understanding, it was because the cultist had a martial arts secret script. After hearing the news, those decent people came to kill him under the banner of eliminating demons and defending the righteous path. Later, the cultist threw out the secret script, and those decent people fought each other for it. Yue Fan, who is right and who is wrong? Who is right and who is wrong?

Yue Fan lowered his head and thought, "My father once said, 'Don't be fooled by the superficial. Some prey are very cunning, and you think they are almost dead, but they may pounce on you when you are not prepared. So you have to observe carefully. People are even more so. Don't be fooled by the superficial appearance of kindness. Sometimes what you see with your eyes is not necessarily true.' It seems that people in the Jianghu are the same."

Stolen novel; please report.

After thinking it over, Yue Fan nodded seriously and said, "Mr. Wan, tell me more about the Jianghu. I'm very curious. Why do others say the Jianghu is exciting?"

Looking at Yue Fan, Mr. Wan sighed helplessly and said, "You are not part of the Jianghu, so knowing too much is not good. The government is corrupt, but the Jianghu is bloody and violent. So you must remember, 'The government is like the sea, with no turning back, and once you enter the Jianghu, you never return.'" After finishing his words, he sighed again.

"I have remembered what Mr. Wan said," Yue Fan nodded. "I don't seek wealth and prosperity, but I want to live peacefully with my loved ones."

At this time, Xiaoya walked in and gestured, "Grandpa, brother, it's time to eat."

...

After dinner, Mr. Wan instructed Xiaoya and then took Yue Fan away.

Arriving at the bank of the Liushui River, Mr. Wan said to Yue Fan, "Xiaofan, do you know what the purpose of medicine is?"

"It's to heal and save people," Yue Fan blurted out.

Mr. Wan was pleased and said, "That's right. Although some people use it for crooked purposes, its purpose has never changed. But to heal and save people, we need to constantly explore the secrets of life, so medicine is constantly developing. However, throughout history, many medical giants have not yet discovered it, so we still know very little about life."

"The vitality in your body that I described in The Medical Classics is what I inferred based on its description. Normally after the vitality explodes, it needs a long time to recover and regenerate. However, because your spiritual power is so strong that it can prevent the vitality from dissipating, plus the fact that I used acupuncture to stimulate your vitality and make it grow, it has finally prevented the vitality in your body from dissipating and allowed it to continuously circulate through your entire meridian system to form its current state."

As Mr. Wan slowly explained everything to him, Yue Fan generally understood his situation, but he still had doubts and asked, "Mr. Wan, what is spiritual power? I have never heard of it before. It's not even mentioned in The Medical Classics."

Mr. Wan replied, "Spiritual force, in simpler terms, is the force released from your head when you think. There are some exceptional individuals in the inner court and the martial arts world who, despite not being highly skilled in martial arts, possess powerful spiritual force and various occult techniques. They can kill people invisibly, leaving them defenseless... For instance, the South Barbarian's witchcraft，they combine numerous poisonous insects, allowing them to fight and devour each other, leaving only the most poisonous one. They then nurture this most poisonous one with their own flesh and blood to achieve telepathic communication. The personal insect lays numerous eggs. These eggs are non-toxic and tasteless. After using the eggs to poison someone, even if they are highly skilled in martial arts, they cannot detect it. Then they can control the poisoned person through the spiritual force of the personal insect, leaving them unable to fight back. Of course, these Barbarian people usually do not appear in Central Plains and will not provoke trouble."

... The witchcraft of the South Ocean Divine Church is even more bizarre. It can use the things you carry to detect your breath, making you unable to hide no matter where you are, unless you know how to hide your breath, but this kind of practice is rare, and there are few in the martial arts world. It can also curse you through the things you often use. This kind of thing is mysterious and cannot be proved. I only heard about it from the old doctor in the palace before. In addition, there is stealthy magic, which can hide the body and make people unable to see it. There is object control magic, which can control some objects to attack. There is mind reading magic, which can know what others are thinking. There is mind control magic, which can control other people's minds. There are also many extremely strange practices in the martial arts world, which are called occult techniques. Although there are many types of occult techniques and their methods of attack are different, they all have one thing in common, that is, they all need strong spiritual force to support them, otherwise they will be counter-attacked.

Hearing these strange and bizarre exercises, Yue Fan felt a surge of anxiety and immediately asked, "Grandpa Wan, since these exotic arts require mental power, I wonder if my mental power is up to it.

Mr. Wan said, "Without guidance, even a strong spiritual power cannot be used, except when there is a great emotional fluctuation. For example, when you fought with the master last time, your life force exploded under the influence of great anger. However, your spiritual power is indeed very strong. I hope you can make good use of it in the future, okay?"

Yue Fan nodded vigorously and said, "I will."

Seeing Yue Fan's maturity, Mr. Wan was very pleased and continued, "The biggest problem right now is that we don't understand the purpose of life essence, and you are unable to control the essence in your body. However, you can still continue to follow the breathing method of the previous 'Heart Nourishing Scripture' to...

Continue to practice. According to the records of the Medical Classic and my speculation, if the vitality is very strong, it will undergo a qualitative change under certain circumstances and conditions, that is, the vitality in your body now. Therefore, I am sure that all your bodily functions will become very strong, and your recovery ability will be at least ten times faster than before.

Mr. Wan suddenly took out the knife he was carrying and slashed Yue Fan's right arm.

Yue Fan instinctively wanted to move away, but still trustingly extended his arm.

The knife was so sharp that it cut a long wound on his arm without any feeling. Only after he realized what had happened did Yue Fan feel a burning pain in his right arm.

At this moment, something strange happened... The blood just oozed out of the wound, but before it even flowed out, the wound quickly coagulated, leaving only a red scar to prove that he had indeed been cut.

"Grandpa Wan... is this what you mean by strong recovery ability?" Yue Fan looked at his arm in a daze and couldn't help but wonder, "This is too exaggerated."

Mr. Wan nodded with satisfaction: "Of course, the life essence is very wonderful. How could it only have this effect? It has never been discovered before, and no one knows about it, so you need to explore it slowly."

After a pause, Mr. Wan's expression turned serious: "Xiao Fan, your situation is very special, so please don't mention it to anyone except your father. In the future, you will embark on a path that no one has ever walked before. No one knows whether this path is bitter or sweet, whether it leads to life or death. I don't know if you have the courage to continue walking."

Courage? True hunters never lack courage!

Yue Fan's expression turned serious and he said earnestly, "Grandpa Wan, dad taught me many things. As a man, I should not complain about hardships. So no matter how bitter or difficult the road ahead may be, I will definitely continue walking."

"Hahaha——"

Mr. Wan smiled and said, "Xiao Fan, although the road ahead is unknown, I believe that you will definitely succeed!"

Then the two discussed cultivation on the spot.

...

【As a man, don't complain about hardships; against the fate, never stop.】