Reborn as a Mountain: I Defy the Heavens with a Smile
Author: Around_The_Moon
Chapter 41: Jing Xiaoâs Treatment
Jing Xiao, Lan Ming, and neither Li Mei expected Ye Chen to say this.
For a moment, they were all shocked and wondered if they heard it wrong.
Jing Xiao was the most doubtful, and she was even thinking if this was some kind of bad dream.
After all, a Qi-gathering cultivator asked her to be his maid, who was at the ninth stage of core formation.
If word got out, everyone would think Ye Chen had a few screws loose.
Jing Xiao also thought the same and looked at him with a frown.
"Do you know what you are talking about?" she asked with an unhappy look, thinking he was just teasing her.
However, Ye Chen was serious about this, so he nodded in response.
"I asked you to be my maid. If you agree, then I will treat you for free and even take care of the expertise," he repeated the words without any fear.
Hearing this, Jing Xiaoâs face twisted with anger, as she never thought he would really say it again.
If it was anyone else saying this, his head already wouldâve been blown off, but she didnât do anything to him and calmed herself down first.
Zhen Yunqi was living in the same suite as him; if she revealed a trace of her aura, she would be found out.
Moreover, itâs not like he was forcing her; as long as she can pay him, he will treat her.
"What do you want?" She inquired without beating around the bush.
It was all her fault for trying to get free treatment; if she had asked him what he needed first, maybe he wouldnât have brought this.
Ye Chen knew that she would not accept being his maid, but he was still disappointed. Nevertheless, he didnât show it on his face and replied.
"I want each special tier 4 and tier 5 herb, three slots to enter your mystic pagoda, 1 million high-grade spirit stones, and a favor from you," he demanded without feeling embarrassed.
Under the bed, Li Mei and Lan Ming were both dumbfounded. They didnât expect him to ask this much.
âBrother Chen, the whole Jade Mountain Sect might have only a few hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones. How could they give you a million? Moreover, you are also asking for high-tier herbs, three slots of the mystic pagoda, and a favor at that!â Lan Ming muttered in her heart with a speechless look.
The amount of total high-tier herbs in the Jade Mountain sects probably didnât even exceed thirty, yet he wanted each one of them.
Moreover, the mystic pagodas only allow five people to enter every month. Giving him three quotas means causing dissatisfaction among the disciples after all they fought for these places for a whole month.
As for a favor, who would want to owe one?
Everything he demanded was unreasonable, and there was no way Jing Xiao was going to accept it.
"Ye Chen, are you deliberately messing with me?!" Jing Xiao snapped in a chilling tone.
These demands were too much for even a first-grade sect, not to mention her.
There was no way she would agree to this if her cultivation was gone.
Ye Chen seemed to have expected her answer, so he wasnât surprised.
"I am not messing with you. I want to treat you, but itâs not easy. Moreover, you are at the bottleneck, right? Let me tell you, once the treatment is finished, you are going to have a breakthrough," he replied with a shrug.
Hearing him Jing Xiaoâs eyes narrowed. She had been stuck at the bottleneck for a long time; if not, she wouldnât have eaten that yin fruit in a hurry, which made her condition like this.
However, it doesnât mean she will agree to his unreasonable demands.
"I can only promise you 10,000 high-grade spirit stones and one quota to the mystic pagoda," she said after a moment of silence.
No matter how angry and unwilling she was, if he can help her break through to the Nascent Soul, then she can give him some benefits.
The breakthrough was more important to her as it could raise her strength; moreover, she hadnât heard of Zhen Yunqiâs breaking through the next realm, so she can suppress her.
Thinking of this, she decided to give me more spirit stones if he wasnât satisfied with this.
But she didnât know that Ye Chen never cared about spirit stones.
"Xiao Xiao, do you think I am some kind of kid?" He said with dissatisfaction and continued.
"I know it is hard for you to fulfill all of my demands, so I wonât make things difficult for you. Just give me each high-tier herb and three spots of the mystic pagoda; if not, then I am sorry," he declared, without any intentions of backing down.
For spirit stones, he didnât care too much because he could make them himself; as for favor, he only wanted to make things difficult for her.
But by no means will he let go of special high-tier herbs and the slots of the mystic pagoda.
He wonât compromise on that. If she still refuses, then he wonât treat her.
Anyway, she will recover after a year or two; itâs just that she will have a lot of problems when breaking through the Nascent Soul realm.
He had already given her a chance. If she doesnât appreciate this, then he canât do anything.
Seeing that he had no intention to back out, Jing Xiao fell silent.
The special tier 4 and tier 5 herbs were something her sect relied on for profits. Although the time it took for them to grow and mature was relatively less, it still takes about fifty years just to grow thirty of these herbs.
If she wanted to give each one to him, then it would be a total of fifteen, which was half the amount of these herbs.
As for the three quotas of the mystic pagoda, it was not hard, but still, it would cause a lot of dissatisfaction among elders and disciples.
She was now in a hard position. If she didnât agree, then her cultivation would go to waste, but if she agreed, her cultivation would increase.
At this moment the whole room fell silent, and everyone waited for her decision.
It didnât take too long, and Jing Xiao gritted her teeth.
"Okay, I will agree to give you tier 4 and tier 5 herbs as well as three quotas for the mystic pagoda," she said with a difficult look.
Hearing her, Ye Chen nodded and took out an IOU agreement.
"Here, please sign this," he said, clearly not believing in her words.
Jing Xiao couldnât help but feel angry at his distrust; nevertheless, she signed the IOU without saying anything.
She felt arguing with him was useless since she wasnât going to default on the debt.
After the IOU was signed, Ye Chen grabbed her delicate hand to take her pulse.
"Go and lie down on the bed; by the way, remove all of your upper clothes," he instructed as he took out the wooden box containing the âDivine Rebirth Needle Set.â
While hearing him, Jing Xiao was dumbfounded, and her face was filled with shame and hesitation.
"Do I really have to take off the clothes?" she asked with an unwilling expression.
As a medicine master, she knew what needed to be done, but she still couldnât help but ask. After all, it was her first time having a man see her body like this.
Hearing her, Ye Chen rolled his eyes.
"As long as you donât mind getting the injections in the wrong place, then sure, you can keep on your clothes," he stated and turned his head away, not paying any attention to her.
Watching his back, Jing Xiao gritted her teeth, and with shame, she removed her upper clothes and lay down on the bed.
When Ye Chen turned, he saw her milky white, soft skin, the deep cleavage between mountains, a beautiful navel with a pink belly button, an hourglass waist, long bare legs with thick thighs, and red undergarments covering her important parts.
However, his gaze didnât linger on her body, and he walked towards the bed with a golden needle in his hand.
"You have accelerated your condition by forcefully treating yourself; if not for this, I will only need to treat your navel area, which wouldnât need to take off all your clothes."
"So, itâs you who dug a grave for yourself," he stated without any mercy.
Jing Xiao couldnât help but regret her actions and really wanted to find a place to cry.
If she had not done that, maybe she wouldnât need to be embarrassed like this.
Nevertheless, she didnât feel too much, especially after seeing his calm eyes; however, there was also a slight sense of a loss.
âAm I really that unattractive?â she thought, feeling resentful towards him.
At this moment, Ye Chen was examining the root cause with his spiritual sense.
After doing this, he didnât delay and started to perform the âThreads of Vitalityâ technique.
He had learned this technique from myriad book, although this wasnât the highest level of technique; it was enough to treat the impure imbalance of yin and yang Qi in her body.
For a moment, they were all shocked and wondered if they heard it wrong.
Jing Xiao was the most doubtful, and she was even thinking if this was some kind of bad dream.
After all, a Qi-gathering cultivator asked her to be his maid, who was at the ninth stage of core formation.
If word got out, everyone would think Ye Chen had a few screws loose.
Jing Xiao also thought the same and looked at him with a frown.
"Do you know what you are talking about?" she asked with an unhappy look, thinking he was just teasing her.
However, Ye Chen was serious about this, so he nodded in response.
"I asked you to be my maid. If you agree, then I will treat you for free and even take care of the expertise," he repeated the words without any fear.
Hearing this, Jing Xiaoâs face twisted with anger, as she never thought he would really say it again.
If it was anyone else saying this, his head already wouldâve been blown off, but she didnât do anything to him and calmed herself down first.
Zhen Yunqi was living in the same suite as him; if she revealed a trace of her aura, she would be found out.
Moreover, itâs not like he was forcing her; as long as she can pay him, he will treat her.
"What do you want?" She inquired without beating around the bush.
It was all her fault for trying to get free treatment; if she had asked him what he needed first, maybe he wouldnât have brought this.
Ye Chen knew that she would not accept being his maid, but he was still disappointed. Nevertheless, he didnât show it on his face and replied.
"I want each special tier 4 and tier 5 herb, three slots to enter your mystic pagoda, 1 million high-grade spirit stones, and a favor from you," he demanded without feeling embarrassed.
Under the bed, Li Mei and Lan Ming were both dumbfounded. They didnât expect him to ask this much.
âBrother Chen, the whole Jade Mountain Sect might have only a few hundred thousand high-grade spirit stones. How could they give you a million? Moreover, you are also asking for high-tier herbs, three slots of the mystic pagoda, and a favor at that!â Lan Ming muttered in her heart with a speechless look.
The amount of total high-tier herbs in the Jade Mountain sects probably didnât even exceed thirty, yet he wanted each one of them.
Moreover, the mystic pagodas only allow five people to enter every month. Giving him three quotas means causing dissatisfaction among the disciples after all they fought for these places for a whole month.
As for a favor, who would want to owe one?
Everything he demanded was unreasonable, and there was no way Jing Xiao was going to accept it.
"Ye Chen, are you deliberately messing with me?!" Jing Xiao snapped in a chilling tone.
These demands were too much for even a first-grade sect, not to mention her.
There was no way she would agree to this if her cultivation was gone.
Ye Chen seemed to have expected her answer, so he wasnât surprised.
"I am not messing with you. I want to treat you, but itâs not easy. Moreover, you are at the bottleneck, right? Let me tell you, once the treatment is finished, you are going to have a breakthrough," he replied with a shrug.
Hearing him Jing Xiaoâs eyes narrowed. She had been stuck at the bottleneck for a long time; if not, she wouldnât have eaten that yin fruit in a hurry, which made her condition like this.
However, it doesnât mean she will agree to his unreasonable demands.
"I can only promise you 10,000 high-grade spirit stones and one quota to the mystic pagoda," she said after a moment of silence.
No matter how angry and unwilling she was, if he can help her break through to the Nascent Soul, then she can give him some benefits.
The breakthrough was more important to her as it could raise her strength; moreover, she hadnât heard of Zhen Yunqiâs breaking through the next realm, so she can suppress her.
Thinking of this, she decided to give me more spirit stones if he wasnât satisfied with this.
But she didnât know that Ye Chen never cared about spirit stones.
"Xiao Xiao, do you think I am some kind of kid?" He said with dissatisfaction and continued.
"I know it is hard for you to fulfill all of my demands, so I wonât make things difficult for you. Just give me each high-tier herb and three spots of the mystic pagoda; if not, then I am sorry," he declared, without any intentions of backing down.
For spirit stones, he didnât care too much because he could make them himself; as for favor, he only wanted to make things difficult for her.
But by no means will he let go of special high-tier herbs and the slots of the mystic pagoda.
He wonât compromise on that. If she still refuses, then he wonât treat her.
Anyway, she will recover after a year or two; itâs just that she will have a lot of problems when breaking through the Nascent Soul realm.
He had already given her a chance. If she doesnât appreciate this, then he canât do anything.
Seeing that he had no intention to back out, Jing Xiao fell silent.
The special tier 4 and tier 5 herbs were something her sect relied on for profits. Although the time it took for them to grow and mature was relatively less, it still takes about fifty years just to grow thirty of these herbs.
If she wanted to give each one to him, then it would be a total of fifteen, which was half the amount of these herbs.
As for the three quotas of the mystic pagoda, it was not hard, but still, it would cause a lot of dissatisfaction among elders and disciples.
She was now in a hard position. If she didnât agree, then her cultivation would go to waste, but if she agreed, her cultivation would increase.
At this moment the whole room fell silent, and everyone waited for her decision.
It didnât take too long, and Jing Xiao gritted her teeth.
"Okay, I will agree to give you tier 4 and tier 5 herbs as well as three quotas for the mystic pagoda," she said with a difficult look.
Hearing her, Ye Chen nodded and took out an IOU agreement.
"Here, please sign this," he said, clearly not believing in her words.
Jing Xiao couldnât help but feel angry at his distrust; nevertheless, she signed the IOU without saying anything.
She felt arguing with him was useless since she wasnât going to default on the debt.
After the IOU was signed, Ye Chen grabbed her delicate hand to take her pulse.
"Go and lie down on the bed; by the way, remove all of your upper clothes," he instructed as he took out the wooden box containing the âDivine Rebirth Needle Set.â
While hearing him, Jing Xiao was dumbfounded, and her face was filled with shame and hesitation.
"Do I really have to take off the clothes?" she asked with an unwilling expression.
As a medicine master, she knew what needed to be done, but she still couldnât help but ask. After all, it was her first time having a man see her body like this.
Hearing her, Ye Chen rolled his eyes.
"As long as you donât mind getting the injections in the wrong place, then sure, you can keep on your clothes," he stated and turned his head away, not paying any attention to her.
Watching his back, Jing Xiao gritted her teeth, and with shame, she removed her upper clothes and lay down on the bed.
When Ye Chen turned, he saw her milky white, soft skin, the deep cleavage between mountains, a beautiful navel with a pink belly button, an hourglass waist, long bare legs with thick thighs, and red undergarments covering her important parts.
However, his gaze didnât linger on her body, and he walked towards the bed with a golden needle in his hand.
"You have accelerated your condition by forcefully treating yourself; if not for this, I will only need to treat your navel area, which wouldnât need to take off all your clothes."
"So, itâs you who dug a grave for yourself," he stated without any mercy.
Jing Xiao couldnât help but regret her actions and really wanted to find a place to cry.
If she had not done that, maybe she wouldnât need to be embarrassed like this.
Nevertheless, she didnât feel too much, especially after seeing his calm eyes; however, there was also a slight sense of a loss.
âAm I really that unattractive?â she thought, feeling resentful towards him.
At this moment, Ye Chen was examining the root cause with his spiritual sense.
After doing this, he didnât delay and started to perform the âThreads of Vitalityâ technique.
He had learned this technique from myriad book, although this wasnât the highest level of technique; it was enough to treat the impure imbalance of yin and yang Qi in her body.