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When Zhou Hao woke up again, he found himself lying on a bamboo bed, in front of him was a worried looking Li Ruolan.

Seeing that he had woken up, Li Ruolan immediately helped him to sit up, "You're finally awake, I'm so worried."

Seeing Li Ruolan's haggard expression, Zhou Hao said apologetically: "I'm sorry for making you worry."

He looked around and saw that it was Dr Gongsun's hut. There were all kinds of air-dried herbs on the walls and there was a small wooden cabinet there. On top of the cabinet was a bunch of string bound books.

"How long have I been unconscious?" Zhou Hao patted his forehead, feeling a little dizzy.

"It's been a day and a night." Li Ruolan used a wet cloth to wipe Zhou Hao's face, "Why did you start fighting with the Dr Gongsun, it's not good even if someone is injured." Her tone was slightly blaming.

"Who asked the Old Man to marry him." Zhou Hao was extremely angry when he thought back to it.

Li Ruolan blushed for some reason, "That's right, even if you didn't want me to marry him, you still shouldn't have been so impulsive. I thought he had beaten you to death and even cried."

Hearing that Li Ruolan had cried for her sake, Zhou Hao felt a bit happy for some reason.

Seeing Zhou Hao's secretly happy expression, Li Ruolan lightly hit his head, "What are you thinking about? I was thinking that if you die, then wouldn't all of my promises to Dr Gongsun be in vain?"

Hearing that, Zhou Hao could only scratch his head, and laughed: "Hehe, then what about Old Man?"

"He vomited blood because of your beating, but he seems to be a Qi Master. He recovered after a short while of meditating."

Zhou Hao knew that the Dr Gongsun was strong and powerful, and was a legendary inner sect expert. Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to leave a palm print on such a hard rock.

Just then, Dr Gongsun walked in.

The only difference was that he didn't use a cane this time. Instead, he had attached two wooden sticks to his broken legs. He looked like the one-legged captain in a pirate story. Although he looked strange, his movements were nimble.

The moment he entered, he immediately scolded Zhou Hao: "Bastard, I saved your life out of kindness, but you have repaid me with kindness and almost scattered my bones."

"What a pity I didn't kill you." Zhou Hao curled his lips and said.

"Zhou Hao, Dr Gongsun, say one less word." Towards the two people who were going against each other, Li Ruolan was truly helpless.

The Dr Gongsun snorted, then came to the bedside and grabbed Zhou Hao's head. Zhou Hao knew that he was doing it for his sake, so he did not resist.

Dr Gongsun said: "You brat, although you don't have any manners, your health is quite good. You have only recovered in a day."

Zhou Hao wanted to argue with him, but Dr Gongsun continued: "Do you want to learn martial arts?"

"Martial arts?" Zhou Hao stared blankly for a moment, then suspiciously looked at Dr Gongsun, "So what if I want to, so what if I don't want to?"

Dr Gongsun stroked his beard, "If you want, I can teach you."

Hearing him say that, Zhou Hao became even more vigilant, "If you don't have anything to say, then you just have to steal, what is your goal?"

"Fuck you! I taught you so well, yet you still suspect me so much?" He turned his head to look at Li Ruolan, "Girl, say something fair, is this brat alright?"

Li Ruolan said. "But, this is indeed unlike your temper, Dr Gongsun."

"He really doesn't know how to repay kindness!" Dr Gongsun was so angry that he blew his beard, and then stared at Zhou Hao.

"I will only ask you one question. Do you want to learn or not? I saw that your physique is quite good so I decided to do this. I don't need you to return the favor."

Zhou Hao thought that if he could learn the skills of the Dr Gongsun, then he would be able to subdue and bring him away. Furthermore, after leaving, he would no longer have to fear that bald brother anymore.

First, Dr Gongsun threw a thread-bound book to Zhou Hao. It was filled with pictures of human meridians and acupoints.

"If you want to practice martial arts, you have to first learn how to nourish your Qi, which is also known as Qi Gong. First, clearly recognize all these acupoints and meridians, remember them firmly, then I will teach you Qigong. "

Zhou Hao spent only half a night to completely memorize all of the human body's meridians and hundreds of thousands of acupoints, which surprised Dr Gongsun.

After that, he boiled two medicinal pellets and began to teach Zhou Hao a special breathing method.

Zhou Hao had previously seen those so-called breathing exercises taught by Qi Masters, but it was completely different from the one taught by Dr Gongsun.

The breathing method taught by the Dr Gongsun often required a long period of time to breathe, which could easily cause suffocation.

However, the results were also obvious. After learning for a short while, Zhou Hao felt that the turbid Qi that was originally suppressed in his chest had all been swept away, and he felt refreshed.

Furthermore, as he got more proficient in this method, the amount of time Zhou Hao took to breathe became longer and longer. In the end, he could actually hold his breath for as long as ten minutes at a time.

"Concentrate, do you feel the anger in your chest now? You try to push it down and let it flow into your dantian. "

At the same time, he extended his right hand to his spine and slowly touched it to his waist, helping Zhou Hao to draw the Qi into his dantian.

Under the guidance of the Dr Gongsun, Zhou Hao felt the Qi in his body slowly flow into his dantian, allowing his abdomen to feel extremely warm and comfortable.

Then, the energy started to flow from his dantian to the other meridians in his body. Then, he felt as if his body was instantly filled with energy, and even his fractured right arm was rapidly recovering.

"Alright, that's enough for today. You seem to be in good spirits." Dr Gongsun said: "I have to say, you have talent in the area of Inner Qi."

Zhou Hao was elated when he heard it, but this was the first time Dr Gongsun praised others.

"As long as you practice Internal Martial Arts, it would be best to start it before the age of five. After that, the foul air from the outside would slowly invade the human body and clog up your eight extraordinary meridians. It will be very difficult to practice it in the future." Therefore, many inner sect experts who have achieved great things have started their cultivation since young. "

The Dr Gongsun said to Zhou Hao: "The medicine I fed you before, and also the breathing technique I taught you, are all to slowly expel the turbid energy from your body."

"Alright, alright, dinner is ready." Li Ruolan laughed.

The three of them set up a wooden table in the open area outside the hut and sat together to eat. Li Ruolan made two dishes and a soup, which consisted of rabbit meat, mountain chicken and a pot of dried mushroom soup.

Li Ruolan's culinary skills were not bad, so Zhou Hao ate with relish. "I didn't know before that Teacher Li's culinary skills were actually this good."

"In the past, when I was still in university, I could only take care of myself. This craftsmanship was also something that I trained at that time." Li Ruolan said.

Dr Gongsun smacked his lips, "Women's cooking skills are indeed different."

He had lived alone for dozens of years. He was the type of person who did not feel hungry after eating his fill.

"Dr Gongsun, have you lived here for dozens of years?" Li Ruolan asked him.

"What's not good about this place? It's warm in the winter and cool in the summer, and it's much better than those resorts. Furthermore, there are all kinds of herbs on Qiuning Mountain, so it's quite convenient for me to gather them."

Zhou Hao looked at him, "You seem to be very knowledgeable in Chinese medicine."

Dr Gongsun raised his eyebrows, "I don't dare to say anything else, just those people in the Chinese Academy of Sciences don't know much about Chinese medicine."

Zhou Hao and Li Ruolan thought at the same time, what big words.

However, in the past few days, they had all seen Dr Gongsun's medicine. For injuries as severe as Zhou Hao's, he was able to move freely in a few days.

After eating, Dr Gongsun instructed Zhou Hao to practice the breathing technique, and he walked into one of the forks in the cave.

Li Ruolan packed the tableware while Zhou Hao sat cross-legged and practiced the mystical breathing technique.

After that, the idle Li Ruolan started to flip through the ancient books on the wooden cabinet. She discovered that all of them were all related to Chinese medicine and acupuncture.

The text inside was obscure and hard to understand. Li Ruolan, the college student majoring in English, read it for a long time but still couldn't understand it. In the end, she put the book back to its original position.

The cave could not be divided into night and day, so when Li Ruolan was tired, she went to sleep.

In the past few days, she had been sleeping in the hut, while Zhou Hao slept on the straw mat outside the hut. As for the Dr Gongsun, he had not seen anyone frequently, and it was unknown where he slept at.

Immersed in the mystical breathing technique, Zhou Hao had no idea how much time had passed by the time he regained his senses.

He walked into the hut and saw Li Ruolan, who was sleeping on the bamboo bed, so he helped her tuck in her blanket.

Looking at Li Ruolan closely, she only felt that her expression was tranquil, as she laid on the bed like a delicate crabapple flower.

Unable to control himself, Zhou Hao slowly moved closer to her face. Her breath, which carried a faint fragrance, slowly made Zhou Hao feel a sense of infatuation.

As he got closer and closer to Li Ruolan's cherry lips, Zhou Hao's heartbeat became faster and faster.

Just as their lips were about to touch, Zhou Hao suddenly stopped.

"I can't blaspheme her like that." He said to himself in his heart.

Shaking his head, Zhou Hao walked out of the hut and laid down on the mat. His heart was unable to calm down no matter what, and his mind was filled with Li Ruolan's peaceful and beautiful face.

However, Zhou Hao didn't know that when he walked out of the hut, Li Ruolan, who was lying on the bamboo bed, had already opened her eyes as her face flushed red.

On the other side, the Dr Gongsun walked through a zigzag path, and finally arrived at another cave.

The size of the cave was very small, not even a tenth of where Zhou Hao and the rest were. However, this place was much brighter than the large karst cave.

At the center of the cave, there was a crack that was about a foot wide. From the crack, there was a yellow light and it emitted a bit of heat.

From above, the crevice looked to be more than a hundred meters deep, and one could faintly see the slow flowing lava below.

Beside the fissure was a special plant, its long roots grasping at the fissure and extending downward, absorbing the heat of the lava at close range.

Compared to the astonishing root, the stem was not even half a meter long. At the top of the flower bloomed a bright red flower the size of a palm. In the middle of the flower was a red fruit the size of a soldier's ball.

There was an inverted stalactite at the top of the hole above the plant. Sparkling droplets of water dripped down the stalactite, landing on the flowers and providing water for the plant.

Dr Gongsun knelt in front of the plant, his eyes blazing with passion, "Amber fruit, hehe, a Amber fruit that can only be formed once every sixty years."