Clouds and Moon Shadow

Chapter 76 Successful Body Tempering

"Young master, could you please stop scaring me like this?" Doctor Zhang looked at the calm and unperturbed young man before him and began another round of lecturing.

A month ago, when he received a letter from the manager of Huichun Medical Clinic in Liquan County, he almost cried. He had finally found a master, but the master had suddenly disappeared.

Of course, the steward definitely didn't see the letter Gu Qingyue left behind.

Otherwise, the old man wouldn't have been nearly driven mad with fear.

Gu Qingyue patiently explained why she left Liquan County, but the old man just wouldn't listen.

Gu Qingyue decided to unleash her ultimate move.

"I need to conduct a body tempering experiment. Do you need my help?" Gu Qingyue used her trump card, then put her hands behind her back and arrogantly prepared to leave.

"What? What kind of body tempering? Don't go, tell me first," Doctor Zhang reached out and tugged at Gu Qingyue's sleeve, as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.

"Let me tell you, your body tempering had better be real, otherwise, this old man won't allow it. Don't say I'm disrespectful to my teacher then," Doctor Zhang said, immediately putting down his hand when he saw Gu Qingyue stop. He turned his face around with an air of arrogance.

Gu Qingyue didn't even need to look to know that the old man's mind was like a cat's claws. Hehe, as long as she threw out the bait, the old man would definitely take the bait!

"Follow me," Gu Qingyue said without further ado, leading the way to her private pharmacy.

Dr. Zhang followed closely behind, his eyes sparkling, completely oblivious to the strange facilities and the energetic young people training on the vast training field not far away.

Arriving at the northwest corner of the backyard, Gu Qingyue pushed open the door and went inside.

Gu Qingyue showed the old man the medicinal herbs that she had sorted out the night before, and explained the body tempering process.

Dr. Zhang felt as if he had opened the door to a new world!

What exactly did he learn from his master back then? Why does his junior master possess so many novel medical skills that he was unaware of?!

After the two discussed and finalized the body tempering plan, Gu Qingyue asked the Wen brothers to go down and make preparations.

Half an hour later, Gu Qingyue, wearing a slightly thinner robe, sat in a bathtub, and the bath water was Chinese medicine brewed according to dosage.

Dr. Zhang was ordered by Gu Qingyue to wait for her summons in the outer room. Although the old man was very indignant and his beard was flying wildly, wanting to see her physical reaction in person, Gu Qingyue ruthlessly refused.

Fifteen minutes later, Gu Qingyue felt a needle-like pain all over her body. This was the second time she had experienced this feeling in both her past and present lives.

It felt as if tens of thousands of needles were pricking her bones. She clenched her teeth in pain, and when she felt a bit numb from the pain, she began to circulate the Wuxuan Order, allowing her internal energy to flow slowly through her meridians.

To experience the most realistic effect, she did not use healing energy to alleviate the pain; she wanted to test the best possible results for the boys who would follow.

Half an hour later, a thin mist appeared above Gu Qingyue's bathtub, enveloping her like a silkworm cocoon. At this moment, Gu Qingyue closed her eyes, as if she had fallen into the mist, and her mind began to become confused.

With the last vestige of clarity in her mind, she forced herself to grit her teeth and continue circulating her internal energy, letting her inner breath flow through her meridians.

She could feel that although her body was in so much pain that it was numb, she could also gradually feel a sense of comfort spreading through her meridians.

Along with this came an unprecedented feeling of lightness that gradually filled her body, while the pain gradually subsided. Slowly, her mind returned to clarity, and she knew that she was close to success.

Half an hour later, when the medicinal bath had completely cooled down, Gu Qingyue stood up and went to the bath tub next to her to wash her body.

After getting dressed and coming out of the inner room, Doctor Zhang, who had been craning his neck to wait outside, saw Gu Qingyue come out, quickly tidied his messy beard, and ran over with paper and pen in his hand.

Gu Qingyue recounted her feelings in detail, and Doctor Zhang took her pulse again. The two discussed for another fifteen minutes before Doctor Zhang went out to find the Wen brothers to prepare the adjusted medicinal herbs.

Seeing Doctor Zhang leave, Gu Qingyue channeled her inner energy. An unprecedentedly light and powerful force began to surge through her meridians. The dullness she felt when cultivating inner energy in the past disappeared, and the exhilarating feeling was unlike anything she had ever experienced before.

The overwhelming surprise made Gu Qingyue laugh out loud and let out a loud whistle.

She quickly sat cross-legged, circulated her inner strength, and used healing energy to assist. After her inner strength had circulated smoothly for twelve cycles, Gu Qingyue was absolutely certain that her inner strength had made a qualitative leap.

I'm one step closer to becoming a master!

Over the next five days, Gu Qingyue and Doctor Zhang worked together to fine-tune the prescriptions according to each boy's constitution, and the results of the body tempering were very satisfactory.

A month later, Gu Qingyue was very satisfied with everyone's rapidly improving martial arts skills and significantly enhanced physique. At this rate, her Moon Shadow Pavilion would soon be able to venture into the martial world.

Gu Qingyue couldn't train with them all day long because she had to carry out her next plan. So, her martial arts training time became after dinner, and Liu Feng naturally accompanied her.

After a month, both of them had made significant improvements in both internal strength and martial arts. Take Gu Qingyue for example. Before, her internal strength was insufficient, and her lightness skill was only two or three times faster than normal running speed. Now, not only is it five or six times faster, but she also has no pressure in terms of altitude. As long as her internal energy is continuous, she can shorten the distance that used to take two hours to half an hour. This made Gu Qingyue feel like she had been reborn.

During this time, she visited her master Liu Yuan twice at Nanchong Mountain, mainly to inquire about many martial arts matters. Later, for convenience, she directly brought her master and several disciples down the mountain and temporarily settled them together at the Gu residence.

With her master's help, Gu Qingyue had more time to manage the shop.

The three-story building on Yongyang Street was bought by Gu Qingyue half a month ago. At the same time, she also bought eight servants from the brokerage firm. Among them, a couple in their forties, Liu Yong and Zhao Meizi, and their twelve-year-old daughter Liu Daya were arranged to work at the Gu residence.

Of the other five, two men in their thirties had previously worked as stewards in wealthy households, but were implicated and sold off because their masters had made mistakes. After the assessment, Gu Qingyue basically recognized their abilities.

Among them, Zhang Huanzhi was temporarily assigned to find people to renovate the shop and make overall arrangements for Gu Qingyue, while Wang Zhong, who was good at dealing with people, was assigned to be the temporary manager of the shop. His current task is to find tea channels and tea snack ingredients for the shop.

The other three were former cooks who were secretly trained by Gu Qingyue to practice various tea snacks and drinks provided by Gu Qingyue. In addition to traditional tea, they also developed several milk teas specifically for women. In fact, the tea snacks also included several delicious Cantonese breakfasts developed in Liquan County, with the main focus being a mix-and-match.

The reason Gu Qingyue decided to position the shop as a tea and food establishment was because she accidentally discovered that Rong Qingqing was a tea master. Therefore, she decided to focus on a comprehensive tea house with exquisite tea snacks and tea ceremony performances.

After their research, they also incorporated elements of Gu Qingyue's previous life's tea ceremony, such as atmosphere, tea ceremony culture, and incense embellishment, and finally formed a new style of tea ceremony that is unique to them.

Therefore, the task of training the young people to master the art of tea ceremony performance was entrusted to Rong Qingqing. In the future, their task would also be to collect various information while serving as tea masters.

At the same time, Gu Qingyue personally arranged courses on assassination, infiltration, rescue, intelligence gathering, and disguise, opening a door to a new world for the young people.

That's right, she wants to train them into top-notch spies and assassins, so that she can gain an advantage in this chaotic world and have the ability to protect herself.

Although they are still very young, don't underestimate the potential of a young person; there's a long road ahead.