The Wild Doctor and the Fair Beauty

Yu Li smiled and nodded. "Yes, I was with Jiang Xinghai last night. We fell asleep in each other’s arms. I slept so soundly, so comfortably. It felt wonderful."

"Miss Yu, your cultivation... you’ve reached the Great Venerable realm?" Zhu Yan’s expression was complicated as she looked at Yu Li, her gaze filled with disbelief.

She could feel the powerful aura radiating from Yu Li—an invisible force that unsettled her and made her own heart race.

Yu Li knew what Zhu Yan was thinking. "I know it’s hard for you to believe. I can hardly believe it myself."

She said as she headed upstairs, "But the truth is undeniable. I was a Fifth-Realm Venerable, and I truly broke through to the Great Venerable realm overnight."

Hearing this, Zhu Yan was utterly shaken. "Forgive me for asking, Miss Yu, but... is Jiang Xinghai the reason your cultivation progressed so rapidly?"

"Jiang Xinghai will be back before ten. You can ask him then." Yu Li gave a noncommittal smile.

"But isn’t he visiting the Zhao Family at Piaomiao Mountain Villa at eight?" Zhu Yan asked, a flicker of doubt in her eyes.

"It was a last-minute change of plans. He’s making a trip to the Yan Family," Yu Li said, then went upstairs to change her clothes.

Zhu Yan sat on the sofa, lost in thought.

’If Yu Li’s cultivation really skyrocketed because of Jiang Xinghai, then what kind of man is he?’

She frowned, a conflict raging within her.

’Ever since her failed marriage, she’d sworn off the idea of being with a man ever again.’

’But she’d been stuck at the Seventh-Grade Great Venerable realm for years, desperate for a breakthrough.’

’If she slept with Jiang Xinghai just once... could she achieve a breakthrough too?’

...

「Meanwhile.」

「The Yan Family Estate, Provincial City.」

It was eight in the morning by the time Jiang Xinghai arrived.

He had purchased a batch of medicinal herbs on the way, having to visit five different apothecaries before he found everything he needed.

"Patriarch Yan, Mr. Jiang is here!"

At the announcement from a family servant, Yan Duo—now limbless and confined to a wheelchair—came rushing over.

"Mr. Jiang, you’ve come!" Yan Duo was overjoyed, his face breaking into a wide smile.

"Have them leave us," Jiang Xinghai said with a wave of his hand.

Yan Duo immediately dismissed the servants.

Jiang Xinghai said, "I once promised to reattach your limbs. I’ve come today to make good on that promise."

"Mr. Jiang, I am eternally grateful."

When Yan Duo heard this, tears immediately streamed down his face. He was frustrated that being stuck in a wheelchair prevented him from kneeling to show his respects.

The last time Jiang Xinghai had visited the Yan Family, he had eliminated several of their arrogant and rebellious elders.

Now, Yan Duo was the Patriarch of the Yan Family.

Moreover, back in Central State, Yan Duo had been made a servant by Jiang Xinghai’s own subordinate, Yan Qingshan.

As a result, Yan Duo was utterly terrified of Jiang Xinghai.

"However," Jiang Xinghai continued, dashing the hope he had just offered, "I originally told you to prepare four limbs that night so I could reattach them the next day. But I was called away on business and things were delayed. The limbs you prepared are no longer usable."

Yan Duo could only manage a bitter smile.

"Of course, you now have two choices," Jiang Xinghai said from his seat, offering another glimmer of hope. "Either you kill someone to acquire their limbs, or you can slowly regrow your own. It will take less than ten years for you to be as good as new."

"I’m willing to slowly regrow them!"

Yan Duo made his decision without a shred of hesitation. "It’s just... Mr. Jiang, can limbs really be regrown? That seems to go against..."

"If you don’t believe me, then so be it," Jiang Xinghai said coldly.

"I believe you! I believe you! I wouldn’t dare not to," Yan Duo stammered. He was well aware of Jiang Xinghai’s superb medical skills; legend had it he possessed miraculous treatments that could bring the dead back to life and grow new flesh on bare bones.

’Ten years. He could afford to wait.’

"This is a bottle of Repair Ointment. Apply it to your stumps every morning and evening. As long as you maintain proper nutrition, it might not even take ten years for your limbs to grow back." Jiang Xinghai took out a glass bottle the size of a tube of toothpaste and placed it on the coffee table.

The glass bottle contained a pitch-black ointment that looked unremarkable.

"I am beyond grateful." ’This must be it,’ Yan Duo realized. ’The miraculous ointment that can grow flesh on bare bones!’

"At noon today, I want you to represent the Yan Family and meet with the Feng and Yu Families at the hotel across from the Gathering Talent Tower..."

Jiang Xinghai then briefly explained what he had discussed with Yu Zhuo the previous night.

Yan Duo listened and promised to obey without question.

An alliance of their three families against the Zhou, Sun, and Wei Families would be a contest between equals.

"That’s all. When you run out of the ointment, you can purchase more from the AM company."

With his business at the Yan estate concluded, Jiang Xinghai’s next stop was the Feng Family.

He knew that AM’s Provincial City branch was set to officially open in just three days.

Naturally, he would need to launch a new product to give the opening a boost.

Initially, AM had only launched a single product: the Anti-Aging Cream, for whitening and preserving one’s youthful appearance.

Two other flagship products, the Longevity Pill and the Repair Ointment, had yet to be announced.

That was why the herbs he’d purchased earlier this morning were the ingredients for the Repair Ointment.

At the noon gathering, he would give the list of herbs to the Yu, Feng, and Yan Families to procure with all their resources.

While he was on his way to the Feng Family’s estate, he received a call from Shen Lingxue.

’Oh no!’

Jiang Xinghai slammed on the brakes. ’Has the Sun Family made a move against the Shen Family in Jizhou?’