In the past, others told me that good people will be rewarded, I didn't believe it. At that time, I felt that this sentence was to deceive those fools and make them do more good things. But now I'm a bit convinced.

  To know the evil spirit on my right hand, the talisman given by the fortune teller can only suppress it for three years.

  What's the point of searching in a vast crowd? Where can I find the successor of the medical book? If it wasn't for my curiosity this time, and I happened to save Hong Zhuo, I reckon I would never have found the successor of the medical book in my lifetime. Even if we had passed each other by, I wouldn't have known he was the successor of the medical book.

  Sometimes life is just a combination of various coincidences.

  I picked up the medical book and touched it. It was definitely the same as the mountain book I had, identical in texture.

  "This is what my father left me when he died, how about it? Are you interested?" Hong Zhuo asked from beside me.

  "Not just interested." I nodded vigorously, then realized I hadn't introduced myself yet.

  "Brother, I'm Zhang Lingfeng. To be honest with you, I have something that I'd like to ask for your help." I grasped Hong Zhuo's hand, looking at him excitedly and speaking bluntly.

  Hong Zhuo said: "Ling Feng, you saved my life before. If there's anything, just say it. As long as I, Hong Zhuo, can do it, I'll definitely help you."

  "Alright." From now on, whoever dares to say that Hong Zhaolong is useless, I'll be the first one to beat him up.

  I raised my right arm and pointed at that dark, tattoo-like aura and told Hong Zhuo about it.

  It's just a few words, nothing more than telling him how to ward off evil spirits.

  "I once heard a guy from Longhu Mountain say that only the Medical Book can help me." I said, staring at Hong Zhuo, waiting for his reaction.

  Hong Zhuo furrowed his brow, glanced at the wound on my hand, then retrieved a silver-white safe from under the bed. He opened it to reveal various long needles and several talismans inside.

  He took out a five-centimeter-long silver needle and lightly pricked the spot on my right hand where the stagnant energy was accumulating, then pulled out the needle, unexpectedly the place where the needle had pierced turned pitch black.

  "It's not going to be easy, these evil spirits have already gathered in the bones of your right hand. The talisman is only suppressing them from roaming around inside your body, but the bone in your right hand has long been corroded by the evil spirits."

  Hong Zhuo furrowed his brow and said: "The only way is to cut off the right hand, abandon the chariot to save the general."

  Quack doctor! If I had to cut off my arm, I'd rather go to my dad's hospital and have it amputated directly.

  I didn't dare show a displeased expression, fearing that this guy would be unhappy. After all, this is a matter of life and death. I forced out a smile and said: "No, Brother Hong, if I cut off one hand, wouldn't I become disabled? It's not that I'm afraid of being disabled, but there are too few modern Taoist priests who can exorcise evil spirits. I learned the Tao to slay demons and evil spirits. If I were disabled, how could I carry out heaven's will and slay demons?"

  This Hong Zhuo looks like he has somewhat traditional ideas, I can only use such grand and righteous words to move him.

  "Is there really no way to get rid of this evil spirit on my bones?" I asked.

  Hong Zhuoyi listened, shook his head and said: "You should know that the bones in your right hand have been severely corroded by evil energy. To be strict, this bone of yours is already an evil thing. Even if you clear out the evil energy, you won't be able to save this hand. In the end, the bones in your right hand will still leak out evil energy and cause you to die from entering evil."

  "Damn it, must I really cut off an arm?" I cursed, could it be that the five weaknesses and three shortcomings I had were crippling?

  Hong Zhuo sank into thought for a moment before saying: "However, it's not like there's absolutely no way out. There is one method in my ancestral medical book, but it goes against the heavenly way."

  "We cultivate the Xuanxue of Yin and Yang, which is against the heaven. You quickly tell me." I heard that Hong Zhuo said there was still a way, and my heart also became excited.

  "This technique is called Changing the Bones of an Immortal," said Hong Zuo.

  "Change the bone?" I blurted out, the name sounded awesome, I quickly said: "Brother Hong, this one, this is good, I want this one."

  "If you really don't want to be disabled for life, then there's only this method, but this method also has its drawbacks. If you change your bones to immortal bones, then your yang body won't be complete. Although it's called immortal bones, they're actually the bones of a monster, and you won't count as a complete person."

  "Where am I going? What's that?" I asked curiously.

  "As a human, the right hand is a demon, it's a human demon." Hong Zhuo said seriously: "However, our cultivation is the way of cultivating the mind, even if the body is not complete, but the heart is kind, one can still achieve great things. Anyway, I won't look down on you."

  Is he kidding me? He said all this just to comfort me?

  "Just be a ladyboy then, hurry up and change. Being a ladyboy is better than losing an arm." I gritted my teeth, anyway it's not like I'm a Thai ladyboy, who cares.

  "Changing one's bones isn't that simple, it requires three special things." Hong Zhuo picked up the medical book and flipped through it for a while before saying: "The 'Five Arts' Medical Book's method of changing one's bones is different from the ordinary method of bone replacement."

  "What's different now?" I asked with concern, as this relates to whether I will be disabled in the future, and I was naturally extremely serious.

  "The ordinary method of bone substitution only requires one root of demon bone, but the substituted bone will have a very heavy demonic energy. If a person's willpower is not strong enough, they will be possessed by the demonic energy and become a true half-human, half-demon." Hong Zhuo said: "But my bone substitution technique is different, I won't go into details, anyway, as long as you find three things, I can help you substitute your bones."

  "What three things?" I asked.

  "Witchbone, Ghostdew, Zombieblood." Hong Zhuo said.

  After hearing Hong Zhuo mention these three things, I asked in confusion: "I do know what a Yao bone is, it's the bones of a monster, right? And I understand that a Jiangshi blood is the blood of a corpse. But what is a Gui Lou?"

  Hong Zhuo smiled and said, "Among these three things, the hardest to obtain is zombie blood, while the easiest to get is ghost dew. Ghost dew is actually just a drop of water condensed from the grievances of a ghost's soul, but zombie blood is much harder to get."

  "Shouldn't be hard to get the Corpse's blood, right?" I thought back to a year ago when I dealt with Old Corpse of Dong Shu's household, one slash of my sword and quite a bit of blood spurted out.

  "Jiangshi are jiangshi, and corpses are corpses. These two kinds of evil creatures aren't the same." Hong Zuo looked at me with a puzzled expression and asked: "Didn't your previous master ever tell you about jiangshi?"

  "Hmm, I really don't know." Now I'm also asking humbly.

  "For zombies, you can understand it as, the corpse is just an ordinary animal, while the zombie is a demon that has been cultivated. The corpse only needs to cultivate to a certain extent, its body will stiffen, absorb the moon's essence, and then it can become a zombie." Hong Zhuo shook his head and said: "I haven't seen real zombies either, I don't know how to explain it clearly. Later on, when you encounter one yourself, you'll understand."