Heretic Apothecary Genius

Chapter 33: Why Aren’t You Saving Her?

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Ren Jie took a stroll around the forest and found that the surrounding plants were all the common ones instead of precious herbs. There was nothing much for him to look at, so he unknowingly walked to the front of a wooden hut.

The windows were open and the hut was quite small, so he was able to see everything in it at once.

He saw Ren Tiancong sitting by the side of the bed engrossed looking at the woman lying on the bed. She was very pretty, and upon a closer look, Ren Jie realized that she seemed to be in a deep sleep.

Ren Tiancong was holding the hand of the woman, and while Ren Jie was unable to see through everything like when he watched Gao Ren prepare medicinal prescription or like he was able to with Birdy and Mole Rat’s cultivation techniques, he could see that Ren Tiancong was using his strength to help suppress some issues within the woman’s body.

What shocked Ren Jie the most was that when he took a closer look at the woman, he realized that when Ren Tiancong channeled his strength into her body, many runes and restrains appeared on her. Also, she seemed to be poisoned.

“What’s going on? Why don’t you save her?” Ren Jie said without thinking. Even though he had no idea who was the person lying on the bed, he could tell that the man sitting next to the bed was his Sixth Uncle Ren Tiancong, and this woman must have an unusual relationship with him. He had no recollections of Ren Tiancong marrying or he would have known that that was his aunt. One thing worth noting was that Ren Jie was at a very high realm now, but even then, it was confined to the Divine Power Realm.

He was able to advise Gao Ren on medicinal prescriptions and help the personal guards hone their cultivation techniques, or even understand the smiley old man’s All-Kill Array with no issue, but when it concerned something too advanced, even he was at a loss.

Since he was able to see through the problem at a glance, it meant that it was not too severe, but evidently, this woman’s vitals did not look good. She was merely kept alive by Ren Tiancong’s strength and other substances. Thus, Ren Jie found it very strange.

“Ah… you…” Wan Hong had just finished preparing tea and emerged from another room. He did not see Ren Jie when he got up, but he heard his voice nearby. Then, when he realized that Ren Jie was standing at the window of the hut, his heart nearly jumped out of his chest.

How could he talk?

He had only been gone for a short while, how did he already end up here? Oh no, oh no, it was a huge taboo to interrupt Sixth Uncle now and…

“Boom!” Just as Ren Jie finished speaking, Ren Tiancong had already released the woman’s hand and turned over quickly. His eyes were full of rage as he threw an invisible vigor ball at Ren Jie which forced him back a dozen meters.

Ren Tiancong carefully placed the woman’s hand down on the bed before he slowly got up.

“Sixth Uncle, it’s me…” Wan Hong immediately came forward to admit to his wrongdoings, but Ren Tiancong merely raised his hand and stopped him.

Ren Tiancong looked at Ren Jie who had been blown away by the vigor ball without a trace of fear or guilt, his expression souring.

Feng-er would always occupy a painful spot in his heart, and he did not allow anyone to mention anything about her. This was what Ren Jie had just done. If it was anyone else who said such hurtful words to him, he would have spared no mercy by now.

“I don’t care what you do outside, but you’re not to speak nonsense about your aunt and not to come near this hut anymore…”

“She’s really my aunt? Then all the more I must say it. Sixth Uncle, if you don’t have any grudge against aunty, then why don’t you save her? I really don’t understand it.” Even though Ren Tiancong was exerting immense pressure on everyone around him at the moment, Ren Jie had even experienced a Sage preaching and the Emperor’s aura, as well as that of the smiley old man. Hence, he paid no mind to this and quickly spoke before Ren Tiancong could finish speaking.

“Grudge? I’m not saving her?” Ren Tiancong was really angered now, completely furious. He was willing to give anything to have her awake from her coma even if it meant he had to die for her to do so.

Ren Tiancong grabbed the air before an invisible hand grabbed Ren Jie. While Ren Tiancong had no intention to kill Ren Jie even in his anger, he still exerted a lot of force.

“Please calm down!” Wan Hong knelt down on the floor in a panic when he saw Ren Jie being grabbed by the invisible hand and suspended in the air. At this point, his body had been compressed and even his bones made cracking noises.

“I’m willing to give everything I have for her to regain consciousness, so if you spout any more nonsense, don’t blame me for not showing mercy. Even if your father was around he would not care if I punished you, so leave this place immediately and never return.” Ren Tiancong suppressed his anger as he prepared to have Wan Hong take Ren Jie away.

He had tried various methods all these years, and even Ren Tianxing had racked his brains as well, but none of them worked.

Hence, Ren Jie’s words were utter nonsense to him.

“Even if you mean well, but if you do it the wrong way it’ll be futile. How long do you think you can last by using your strength to suppress the issues in aunty’s body?” Even though Ren Jie was held by the invisible hand and his bones kept making cracking noises, he disregarded the pain as he had been cultivating the Jade Emperor Refinement Technique. Hence, he told Ren Tiancong directly. “If you want to save her, then put me down first.”

Save… her? He can save her?

Ren Tiancong had completely given up hope at that point and had planned to live out the rest of his days with Feng-er just like that. If not because his oldest brother had tasked him with a few matters, he would not have had a care for the outside world at all.

“I said you can do anything you want outside, but if you continue to spout nonsense over this matter…”

“Heck!” Ren Jie could tell that Ren Tiancong did not trust him at all and continued to treat him like a child fooling around, so he jumped straight to the point. “My guess is that aunty’s illness always acts up around this time and you must have looked for people to help cure her of this poison. You also sought help in the aspects of restrains and runes, but every time they tried to cure her she suffered a bit more harm. It seemed like a simple poison at first, but in the end, more problems arose the more you tried to cure her. Thus, aunty went into a coma and became a vegetable…

“Or in other words, a living dead…” Seeing as Ren Tiancong did not understand the term vegetable Ren Jie thought of another way to say it before continuing. “Hence, now you can only use your strength to stabilize her condition, but this is not a sustainable solution as there are at least 17 different ailments tangled in aunty’s body now.”

“What did you say…” Ren Tiancong’s hands trembled and he raised his hands emotionally before Ren Jie flew in front of him in the next second. They were so close that they were almost stuck together as Ren Tiancong seemed to look straight into Ren Jie’s soul.

He could not believe that Ren Jie knew his wife’s condition. Most of the 17 ailments only appeared at the later stage, and only he was aware of her condition.

How did this kid know, and why did he speak as though he saw everything.

Ren Jie replied honestly, “I saw them just now.”

Saw… saw? Who was he kidding? He had invited countless people over. Most of them were able to see through some of the ailments at a glance and all thought that this was no serious issue at first. However, as the treatments continued there would always be new problems arising. In the end, all of them were left helpless over the issue.

In the end, nobody was able to tell what was going on, and this was why Ren Tiancong had slightly given up. Yet Ren Jie said that he had been able to tell all of it at a glance, what did he think this was?

He knew everything at a glance? Who was he kidding? But still, he was the only one here. And even if anyone tried to dig into this matter there was no way they would find out anything.

When he saw how shocked Ren Tiancong was, the ailments he had seen in his aunt’s body reappeared in Ren Jie’s mind and he repeatedly analyzed them just like he had done the night before with the Thousand-layer trees laid out by the smiley old man in order to derive the All-Kill Array. With his all-rounded realm, he continued to play out the different combinations that the 17 ailments in aunty’s body could take on.

“No, there are more than 17 types. There’s two more, a total of 19 types. Even though they are all nothing severe individually, but all 19 types of ailments are tangled with each other in aunty’s body to form a deadly trap. It’s difficult for me to tell what kind of trap it is now, but judging from the current situation, it should be that during the initial act up, every time an ailment is triggered aunty’s body will suffer a bit more damage. Then more medicines and strength will be needed to suppress it.”

“Yea!” After analyzing it in his head, Ren Jie looked over at Ren Tiancong admiringly. “Honestly, Sixth Uncle, I respect you a lot for always looking for ways to treat aunty’s illness. And when the situation worsened you must have been too scared to keep on trying. Judging from aunty’s condition, if the last two ailments act up then all 19 types of them will form such an incredibly complicated system that even an immortal will not be able to save her. Hence, your last resort was to use your strength to keep suppressing it, and you have to do it every day too. It’s hard to imagine how much effort you have devoted over the years…”

“That’s nothing. That’s nothing at all as long as Feng-er can recover. Can you… really treat her?” It was the first time in so many years that Ren Tiancong saw a glimpse of hope at all, even a sliver of it. He grabbed Ren Jie’s shoulder, and he could feel the strength in his hands from his shoulder as well as his emotions.

“This concerns the laws of seals. I have to look up how to treat it. The other eight kinds of poisons need to be dealt with too, and also the runes, the oppression of the meridians, the insect poisons…” Ren Jie thought about it before speaking. “There is a way, but it has its risks as well. Honestly speaking, the person who poisoned aunty is incredibly smart and sinister. It’s like he had guessed what would happen today and is trying to torture both of you slowly. That’s much more cruel than just killing!”

Ren Jie finally understood why nobody was able to cure her as all the simple poisons, runes, laws of seals, restraints and insect poisons were all linked to each other. Curing one of the ailments would set off the rest. As it concerned too many areas, they could not be treated separately, which led to the current situation.

Even though Ren Jie was not incredibly powerful now, he had heard a Sage’s preaching and thus was very advanced in terms of the Mighty Realm. At this realm, he was able to take one look and understand anything no matter which area it was from.

A glint of killing intent flashed across Ren Tiancong’s eyes. How could he not know after all these years? But there was nothing he could do but to play along with this evil ploy.

“I’ve worked out what the remaining poisons are as well. The good thing is, in order to keep aunty in this condition, they’re not super advanced or powerful. It’s only that they are interlinked and thus nobody can understand this unique trap that spans across more than a dozen areas. Otherwise, it would be tricky.”

As he spoke, Ren Jie looked over at Ren Tiancong who was gradually coming closer to him. “Sixth Uncle, if you want to get intimate wait till aunty wakes up. You need to get me a paper and a brush for me to take down some things first, then I’ll quickly go and prepare them. You must do it discreetly as well, nobody can find out about it.”

“They won’t. Just tell me what you need.” Since it concerned Yun Feng-er’s life, Ren Tiancong’s divine sense had already expanded over the entire area in an instant. If there were any other divine senses in this area, then he would spare no mercy at all.

“Paper, brush…” He shouted a command immediately. Wan Hong, who had served him for many years, did not need any more prompting.

This was probably the only matter that could make Sixth Uncle so emotional and different from his usual composed manner. Now that he could see some hope in the situation, even Wan Hong found it simply… simply unbelievable.

All these years they had invited many people over, and he had been the one seeing to all of this, even fetching people over from other countries at times. These people were all highly unusual and hard to meet even for a prince. However, Ren Tiancong always managed to find a way to invite them over.

Alas, it always ended with disappointment for him. Even though Wan Hong still found it hard to believe that Ren Jie would be capable of doing it, he had been the only one who was able to get Sixth Uncle so worked up and made him see some hope. Maybe…