Fortunately, Ding Kan wasn't one to give up easily, especially not on his own life. His will to survive was rooted in his subconscious. As long as there was a glimmer of hope, he would struggle to climb back up.

　　"Thank you, Medicine Grinding Immortal, for the treatment. Could I trouble you, Manager Wan, to calculate what compensation I need to pay? Anything I have, you can take."

　　Ding Kan spoke with difficulty, but he managed to say these words in one breath, and he held that breath, waiting for my answer. He was afraid that if he exhaled, he wouldn't be able to take another breath.

　　I was also afraid that he would breathe his last, so I didn't dare to delay for even a second. I quickly scrambled to use my abacus, but after I finished, I was stunned. For the first time in five years, I suspected I had made a mistake. I quickly recalculated, but the result was the same. I calculated it several more times, and it was still the same.

　　Ding Kan watched me fiddling with the abacus, not quoting a price, and his expression became a little anxious.

　　"Is what I need to pay something so rare that I can't afford it?" Ding Kan barely managed to ask.

　　"No, quite the opposite." Realizing that I hadn't miscalculated, I laughed. "You don't need to pay anything. You don't even need to pay the standard two-thousand fee. Not only will my rabbit offer free treatment with its own materials, but I also have to provide you with food and lodging, and take good care of you, until the full seven-seven forty-nine days, or until your injuries are healed and your cultivation is restored. All you need to do is cooperate with the treatment, not commit suicide, and not harm yourself.

　　Ding Kan, you really are destined not to die. I've been the manager of this funeral shop for five years, and this is the first time the abacus has made me do a losing business. But it doesn't matter, I'm happy to do this losing business."

　　A smile appeared on Ding Kan's face, but it looked a little bitter.

　　"As expected, my karmic debt from killing is too heavy. Although killing evildoers doesn't mean bearing karma, killing good people and ordinary people still comes at a price. A death sentence can be avoided, but a life sentence is hard to escape."

　　At the time, I didn't understand what Ding Kan meant by this sentence. But, who cares what it meant? Anyway, this kid's life was saved. Such a young and brilliant talent, it would be a shame if he died.

　　It wasn't until I put Ding Kan in the little rabbit's medical room that I finally understood why Ding Kan's smile was so bitter, and I finally understood what he meant by a life sentence being hard to escape.

　　When Ding Kan's body collided with the White Bone Saber, all of the Dark Ice Profound Art (Minghan Xuan Gong) in his body was scattered. But this scattered energy didn't dissipate from his body, but accumulated in his joints, bone crevices, muscles, and internal organs. This is also the reason why Ding Kan is now almost completely paralyzed. If we want his body to recover, we have to dispel this accumulated Dark Ice energy or reorganize it and return it to its proper place.

　t need to think to know that whether it was dispelling the Dark Ice energy from his body or reorganizing it and returning it to its proper place, it would be a complex, difficult, painful, and lengthy process. Compared to that, the last open-cut surgery was nothing. Moreover, dispelling the Dark Ice energy from his body would definitely be easier than reorganizing it.

　　If the abacus hadn't already calculated the requirements so clearly, I would have definitely asked the little rabbits to only save his life and not his cultivation. Although his Dark Ice Profound Art was not easy to cultivate, even if the Profound Art was gone, he still had his martial arts, and his formations and spells wouldn't be affected. He would still be an expert. It's not worth suffering so much to preserve that bit of Profound Art.

　　But no matter whether it's worth it or not, we have to listen to the abacus. The abacus has clearly stated that his injuries need to be healed and his cultivation needs to be restored. He must preserve his Dark Ice Profound Art.

　　Let him slowly suffer. The next forty-nine days will be no different from being tortured every day.

　　Fortunately, Ding Kan was very tough and had a very good attitude. He didn't have any resistance and cooperated very well with the treatment. Except for being a little sentimental on the first day, he was actually quite happy in the following days. Listening to the little rabbits banging and clanging in the small room, I was a little scared. If I were lying in there, I'm not sure if I would still want to persevere.

　　After a few days, Ding Kan was slightly better and able to get out of bed. He chatted and laughed with the people and the evil spirits in the shop. Sometimes he could even twist a little to the music, and he was extremely lively. My shop was bustling to the extreme.

　　"You're quite good at finding joy in suffering. But you really don't need to force yourself. You don't need to please me and the other things in the shop. Just relax. Don't worry, even if you don't smile at us, I won't kick you out." I was very serious when I said this. After all, this is a person with superb acting skills. He can deceive more than three hundred people at the same time. What's so strange about deceiving me?

　　Of course, it's not that I'm afraid he'll deceive me out of anything. I just don't want him to be so tired every day.

　　Ding Kan smiled and said, "What? Am I that fake in your eyes? It seems that people really can't have blemishes. Once you have a blemish, people will remember it for the rest of their lives."

　　I quickly waved my hand and said that I didn't mean that. I really hoped that he could relax and show his true self.

　　"If I told you that this is my true self, would you believe it?"

　　"It's a little difficult to believe," I said truthfully.

　　So many things happened to him all at once. He succeeded in revenge, killed more than three hundred people, was seriously injured, and his body continued to endure great pain. Each of these things could cause a person's emotions to fluctuate violently or even collapse directly. Now that so many things were all stacked on top of him, he was still talking and laughing like nothing was wrong. I really didn't believe that this was his true self.

　　Ding Kan didn't seem to know how to explain it to me clearly. He thought for a long time before telling me that finding joy in suffering has always been his strength, otherwise he would have died long ago. Moreover, he felt that his current state was very good, really good. He didn't feel that he was in pain.

　　"Manager Wan, I'm not the same as you. Although I have a good memory and a good understanding of certain things, I'm still different from people with real talent like you. Many things that you can learn at a glance, I have to put in a lot of effort to learn. I've suffered more in the past ten years than you can imagine.

　　In order to survive, I must be able to adjust my mentality, relieve my stress, and soothe my emotions. No matter what happens, I can quickly accept it calmly and adapt to it, get used to it, and recognize it as quickly as possible. Otherwise, I would have died more than ten years ago."

　　"That seems to make sense. So, how are you brainwashing yourself now? Can you tell me about it?"