Back in the hospital room, Long Xiao approached Bao Tiexiong's bed and reached out to grab his wrist.
Bao Erhu shoved Long Xiao away, saying, "Who are you? Don't touch my father."
Long Xiao looked at Bao Erhu and said, "I am Lin Shijie's son-in-law. If you want your father to wake up, don't interfere."
Li Yizhen, standing behind Bao Erhu, said in a low voice, "Director Bao, I can't treat your father's illness. In Donghai, my master is the only one who can cure him."
"Your master?"
Bao Erhu looked at Long Xiao in surprise, not expecting the renowned top physician of Donghai to call a young man in his early twenties his master.
"Divine Doctor Li, are you kidding me? How can he be your master at such a young age?"
Bao Erhu absolutely did not believe that Long Xiao could be Li Yizhen's master.
"Director Bao, I, Li Yizhen, never lie. Moreover, I have no reason to lie to you. If you don't trust me and my master, we will leave immediately."
Seeing Li Yizhen get angry, Bao Erhu quickly said, "I'm sorry, Divine Doctor Li. I was blind. I apologize to you and your master."
Li Yizhen looked intently at Long Xiao, wanting to understand how Long Xiao had made his diagnosis. Seeing Li Yizhen remain silent, Bao Erhu also stood respectfully to the side, saying nothing more.
Long Xiao held Bao Tiexiong's wrist and quickly discovered three ruptured blood vessels in his brain, with significant blood clots and slow bleeding.
The hospital had already administered hemostatic medication. Now, Long Xiao needed to quickly repair the blood vessels and remove the blood clots.
Acupuncture was fast, but Long Xiao's Dantian had very little green vital energy left. Without the assistance of green vital energy, the recovery speed would be greatly reduced.
To wake Bao Tiexiong as quickly as possible, Long Xiao decided to refine a medicinal pill that could rapidly repair blood vessels and remove blood clots and thrombi.
"Old Li, let's go to Xinglin Grass Hall to refine some pills. He should wake up before dark."
As Long Xiao and Li Yizhen prepared to go refine medicine, Long Xiao said to Bao Erhu before leaving, "Director Bao, let my father-in-law go home and rest. If you dare to touch him again, your father will never wake up."
"Are you confident you can cure my father's illness?" Bao Erhu asked disbelievingly.
"I can, but it requires your trust."
Bao Erhu said without hesitation, "Alright, I trust you. If you can cure my father's illness, I will not make trouble for your father-in-law, and I will give you a ten million yuan consultation fee."
Long Xiao didn't even eat lunch and rushed to Xinglin Grass Hall with Li Yizhen to refine medicine.
When leaving the hospital, Long Xiao encountered Lin Xuan, who had just arrived.
He told Lin Xuan that Lin Shijie was fine and asked her to take him home, as Li Yizhen would handle things here.
Long Xiao refined the medicinal pills at Xinglin Grass Hall, and Li Yizhen was present throughout the entire process.
Seeing Long Xiao's pill refining techniques, Li Yizhen was greatly astonished. He had never encountered such methods in any of the medical books he had studied since childhood.
"Master, what sect does this pill refining technique belong to?" Li Yizhen asked curiously.
Long Xiao's green vital energy in his Dantian was too scarce, so he only refined ten pills the size of soybeans.
He placed the freshly rolled pills into a small porcelain bottle and said, "This pill refining method is unique to me. Ancient methods require the True Fire of Samadhi, but my strength is insufficient. This is a compromise method."
Li Yizhen also wanted to learn this method of refining medicine. Long Xiao shook his head and said, "The most crucial step in this method is rolling the pills, which requires a special kind of true qi. You don't have true qi in your Dantian, so even if I teach you everything, you won't be able to learn it."
It was already evening when the two returned to the hospital. Bao Erhu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. The other Bao family members were worried that Long Xiao and Li Yizhen would run away and were clamoring to send people to the Lin family to arrest them.
Seeing the two appear in the hospital corridor, Bao Erhu rushed to greet them with a smile.
"Divine Doctor Li, Divine Doctor Long, have you finished refining the medicine?"
Long Xiao nodded and, right at the hospital room door, took out the porcelain bottle and poured out a pill for Bao Erhu.
"Director Bao, give this to your father. He will wake up soon."
Bao Erhu was overjoyed and quickly instructed someone to prepare warm water. He personally fed the pill to his father's mouth.
Long Xiao and Li Yizhen did not enter the room but chatted about medical arts at the doorway. Soon, they heard Bao Erhu's astonished shout from inside the room: "He's awake! Dad, you're awake! This is great! You're truly divine doctors. The medicine you refined is like an immortal elixir!"
A few minutes later, Bao Erhu excitedly ran out of the room to report the good news to Long Xiao and Li Yizhen.
Li Yizhen breathed a sigh of relief. Long Xiao looked at Bao Erhu expressionlessly, as if this outcome was entirely within his expectations.
Long Xiao and Li Yizhen left the hospital. Soon, the news of a comatose patient being awakened by a single pill spread throughout the entire Fifth Hospital. Within a few days, everyone in Donghai knew that the Bao family patriarch, who had been in a coma, had been saved by a pill.
Many people connected to the Bao family inquired about the situation from Bao Erhu.
Bao Erhu sent people to investigate Long Xiao's background and learned that he was merely a live-in son-in-law of the Lin family and not a doctor at all. He then concluded that Li Yizhen claiming Long Xiao as his master was a deception.
Why Li Yizhen would deceive him became a mystery in Bao Erhu's mind.
Bao Erhu was convinced that the immortal elixir-like pill was refined by Li Yizhen.
As the news spread, Li Yizhen's reputation soared again. Many people with patients suffering from conditions like coma or paralysis sought Li Yizhen for medicine.
Every day, a large crowd of people visited Li Yizhen's clinic or sent messages through various connections to buy medicine.
Mi Tianfu from Xinglin Grass Hall heard the news and quickly informed Long Xiao. Mi Tianfu and Mingyue had witnessed Long Xiao refining medicine that day.
Three days after Bao Tiexiong woke up, Long Xiao was in the shade of a tree in the courtyard of Xinglin Grass Hall, drinking tea and watching workers construct the building.
"Brother, why don't you teach me how to refine medicine too? Someone is offering a hundred million yuan to buy the medicine you refined that day," Mi Tianfu said with a fawning smile, pouring tea for Long Xiao.
After a few days of interaction, Long Xiao had a deep understanding of Mi Tianfu. Although this person was kind-hearted, he was very lazy, had poor comprehension, and often played petty tricks.
"You can't learn this. Mingyue's comprehension is better than yours. It will take at least ten years to refine medicine like that."
For the past two days, Long Xiao had been coming to Xinglin Grass Hall every morning. Besides supervising the renovation, he took time to teach Mingyue a qi cultivation method. He wanted Mingyue to cultivate true qi first before teaching him medical skills.
Since he couldn't learn pill refining, Mi Tianfu wanted Long Xiao to agree to let him help sell the medicine and make a profit.
Long Xiao took out the porcelain bottle, poured out a pill, and placed it in Mi Tianfu's hand, saying, "This pill is for you. How much you can sell it for depends on your ability."
"Thank you, thank you, brother."
Mi Tianfu was so delighted that he almost knelt down to Long Xiao, not expecting Long Xiao to give him a pill directly.