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"Su Qin."

He felt that this name was very familiar, wasn't this the new student who had defeated Dong Xinyao, and so it turned out to be him? No wonder he said that he had enmity with Dong Xinyao, and heard that at the new student's ceremony a few days ago, this new student did not have a teacher, and it was said that the one who was pushing him was Dong Jizhong, who was taking revenge for his son.

"..."

Yue Lu Town could tell from the name that this town was extremely related to the Yuelu Academy.

The first place in the town was for the retired old Confucian scholar s to live. As time passed, the first batch of descendants born from the old Confucian scholar s took root in Yue Lu town.

There were three big families in Yue Lu Town: the Dong family, the Min family, and the Kong family. The Kong family had the highest prestige here, but the strongest power was still the Dong family.

On the east side, a pavilion was erected, with countless courtyards, taking up a large area of land, standing tall and upright. This was the ancestral home of the Dong family, and it was also a symbol of the status of the Dong family.

There were three Horned Horses pulling the carriage parked at the entrance all year round. Because the Dong family was too big, it would take about an incense stick's time for a person to ride a gnu into the main house from the outer sect. If a person relied on their feet, they would probably need to walk the entire day.

Now I have to say what happened in Inner court ?

Hundreds of Night Pearls were embedded on the roof of the building. At the entrance, two tall golden pillars were smelted out of gold, shining brilliantly, indicating the noble status of the house's owner at all times.

An urgent voice came from inside the room, "Uncle, how is Yao'er's health? It's been several days but he still hasn't recovered from his illness."

Dong Jizhong stood in front of his bed and looked at his son who was laying on his bed with a pale face.

"Sigh ?"

Beside the bed, there was a medicine box placed by an old man with white hair and a face full of wrinkles. He really used his hand to place the vein on Dong Xinyao's wrist, at times frowning, at times shaking his head, and at times looking at Dong Jizhong, which made him feel extremely annoyed.

Finally, a long time passed. The old man struggled to stand up.

Dong Jizhong quickly reached out to support the old man. This was an antique from the Dong family, it could easily take his life, he did not dare to die here.

The old man was panting as he stood up. After resting for a while, he said, "Suizhong, you are the current patriarch of the Dong family, so don't be impatient when encountering anything. This will affect your judgement, and if you are careless, the Dong family will fall into an abyss. "Alright, I know that you're concerned about your son's condition, but this old man has underestimated the consequences of the reverse circulation of his meridians. Initially, I thought that using the top-grade Great Recovery Pill would allow you to quickly repair your meridians, but now, it seems that the effect of the Great Recovery Pill is still very small.

Medicine Bath...

Dong Jizhong suspected that his uncle's method of medicinal bath would work. He believed that only the poor would take medicine baths, those with slightly more money would go to alchemists to buy pills.

A medicinal bath was to use boiling hot water to boil the medicinal herbs. Once the medicinal herbs were boiled, one would sit cross-legged in the water and absorb the medicinal herbs' energy. This method of absorbing the medicinal herbs was not even a tenth of the medicinal pills' energy.

The old man thought that Dong Jizhong would suspect him, but he did not explain. Dong Jizhong had to respectfully call him grandmaster when he saw his identity, if not for Dong Jizhong's pleadings, the old man would not even look at Dong Xinyao.

The old man said: "I will list the medicinal ingredients for the medicinal baths. You will arrange for people to go to the medicine warehouse to get them, and at noon, when the sun is at its hottest, we will officially start the medicinal baths. Also, you will personally go look for the fire spirit stone, they must all be high-grade fire spirit stone."

"Yes!"

When the elderly wrote down the medicinal ingredients for the medicinal bath and gave it to Dong Jizhong, he secretly took a glance at it.

The herbs on the list were almost all extremely poisonous. Hundred year old corpses, money, red feather plumes, thousand hand centipedes, blue jade scorpions, flower corpses, extended pills, and soul-raising herbs.

On top of that, there were only the Expansion Pills and the Soul Nurturing Grass which were the tonics. Every other pill could poison an ox to death, and even if he put them all together, he would be helpless to do anything about it.

With doubts and confusion in his heart, he quickly ordered his men to prepare the ingredients for the warehouse.

Dong Jizhong personally went to pick the high ranked fire spirit stone.

Fire spirit stone was a fire type spirit stone and it was a rare type of spirit stone as well. Because there were very few of them, the price of fire spirit stone had always been high.

A piece of low rank fire spirit stone was priced at 100 high rank spirit stone. Even the Dong family, who was a powerful family, wouldn't have too many high rank fire spirit stone.

Dong Jizhong took his identity card and went to the treasury. It was not like the medicine warehouse where people casually went in and out of, the treasury was filled with treasures accumulated by the ancestors of the Dong family over the past few hundred years.

"Halt ?"

Before Dong Jizhong even got close to the treasury, an aged voice sounded out.

Dong Jizhong stopped and bowed, then said: "I don't know which clan ancestor is on duty today, I am the current Patriarch Dong Jizhong, and am following Third Uncle's orders to come to the Secret Treasury to search for a few high grade fire spirit stone."

A series of undulations appeared in the air, and an old man over the age of twenty appeared in front of Dong Jizhong. Because of the old age, the old man had his eyes covered by eyelids, and his entire face was covered with wrinkles, and his hair was sparse.

Dong Jizhong did not dare to look down on the old man just because he was too old. On the contrary, he became even more respectful, because the older the clansman, the higher their position in the Dong family.

"The current patriarch ?"

The old man seemed to have not spoken for a long time. His throat was rolling and spitting out words with difficulty, the pronunciation was not standard at all. It was as if he was trying to recall if there was a Patriarch called Dong Jizhong in the Dong family.

"Oh, I remember now. Twenty-five years ago, that little guy Dong Fengxian informed the old man that the next clan leader is you, Dong Jizhong!"

After Dong Jizhong heard everything, he suppressed the shock in his heart with a look of respect, "Patriarch has made it clear that the person you are referring to is the biological grandfather of his ancestors, and I am indebted to the clan elders for praising and recommending this junior as their Patriarch. In these past few years, Dong family has also had some small achievements under this junior's lead, so this junior can be considered to be worthy of grandfather's recommendation and the love of the clan elders."

He said this in front of the old man because he wanted to leave a good impression in the old man's mind. This old man said this in front of the old man because he wanted to leave a good impression in the old man's mind.

"Yes!"

The pale old man let out a hmph sound, which was fine, but Dong Jizhong was not satisfied with his answer. He guessed that the old man would say a few nice words even if he did not praise the old man.

Even if you are the clan leader, you can't take too many things with you in the secret treasury. Since the fire spirit stone isn't considered valuable in the secret treasury, I'll make the decision that you can take a few more pieces, but you are not allowed to leave any items in the secret treasury. I've already left behind my soul imprint, so the moment a secret treasure comes out, I'll immediately know. This was the first time the old man had spoken of this. After he spoke, he disappeared into thin air.