"I hated it for killing my brother, so I set up a hand grenade trap there, with ten powerful grenades! When I was setting the grenades, I found a wooden box inside and took it with me. I was afraid it would return, so after setting the grenades, I immediately fled the scene."
"Five minutes later, I had hidden a few miles away from the cave when I heard the monster returning to the cave. A few minutes later, I heard a loud explosion, my grenades had been triggered by it! The grenades were specially made, with incendiary, poison, and high-explosive types. I figured it couldn't have survived."
Ye Tian: "Did you go back to check?"
Shi Hu sighed: "I didn't dare. As soon as the explosion sounded, I fled the scene. Three days later, I left that cursed place and was taken to a military hospital to recuperate."
Speaking of this, he took out a wooden box from the side: "The last thing I took out was this."
Ye Tian glanced at it: "Have you looked at what's inside?"
Shi Hu nodded gently and said, "If you're interested, you can take a look yourself."
Ye Tian opened the wooden box. Inside was a pen and a diary. Beneath the diary was a piece of animal hide, folded and placed inside.
Ye Tian opened the diary and quickly scanned a few lines, his expression immediately turning to shock. A few minutes later, he closed the diary and the wooden box.
Shi Hu: "I was even more surprised than you were. Who would have thought that that cursed thing was actually a person who had lived for over three hundred years?"
Lu Chuanxin exclaimed and stood up abruptly: "What? The monster was a person!"
Ye Tian: "Old Lu, sit down. Why are you so surprised? He's not your relative."
Lu Chuanxin shot Ye Tian a glare: "Can't I be surprised?"
Ye Tian said to Shi Hu, "If you're willing, consider this wooden box and its contents as payment for the consultation."
Shi Hu said, "Of course. I've been studying this for over two months, and it has no value to me. If Physician Ye needs it, you can have it."
Ye Tian wrote a prescription and asked Lu Chuanxin to send someone to get the medicine.
Before long, Yang Shoucheng also arrived. The few of them sat down to chat and drink. When the medicine was brought, Ye Tian treated Shi Hu's internal injuries with his celestial needles. Such internal injuries could only be treated by a master of medicine like him; ordinary hospitals were powerless.
After the acupuncture, Ye Tian prescribed a few more doses of medicine for him to take back and drink, one dose in the morning and one in the evening.
The moment Ye Tian inserted the needle, Shi Hu knew his injuries could be treated. That comfortable feeling couldn't be faked. He felt his severed meridians immediately unblocked. This person was indeed a divine physician!
After the treatment, Shi Hu left his contact information. He said, "Boss Lu, my injuries have healed, and I can return now, so I can no longer be your bodyguard."
Lu Chuanxin smiled: "That's great news."
Shi Hu bowed to Ye Tian: "Divine Physician Ye, I will thank you again if I have the chance."
Ye Tian: "General Shi, you are too kind."
During dinner, Shi Hu revealed his military rank, with golden branches and leaves and a golden star insignia on his shoulder! Although it was the lowest rank of general, he was still a general!
After Shi Hu left, Lu Chuanxin couldn't help but ask, "Brother, tell me quickly, I'm dying of curiosity."
He had always wanted to know what was written in that diary.
Ye Tian was silent for a few seconds and said, "Nothing much, just a cultivator who went down the wrong path."
Shi Hu was stunned: "A cultivator?"
Ye Tian: "The person in that cave was a *juren* from the early Qing Dynasty who later began to cultivate by chance. He had no guidance and relied solely on his own understanding of Taoist classics. This person had excellent aptitude and, at the age of forty, finally achieved the status of an immortal. After becoming an immortal, he wanted to break through further, so he painstakingly found an ancient cultivation secret scripture from the imperial palace, which is the animal hide beneath the diary."
"However, after cultivating, he found that his body began to mutate, and he started to like eating raw meat like a beast. Due to his physical changes, he dared not live in the city and moved into the deep mountains and forests, living there for many years. It wasn't until the last few decades that he felt he was finally about to break through and achieve the status of a loose immortal. He believed this was related to his consumption of human flesh, so for the past twenty years, he had been capturing and eating people everywhere."