Open A Clinic To Cultivate Myself Chapter 305 The Bizarre Case Of The Female Corpse In The Stone Coffin

Bai Qingyi disappeared together with the ancient room. Ning Tao found himself staring at ancient stone bricks, the stone coffin as well as at the Picture of the Six Samsara Realms. The picture was hovering in mid-air and glowing with a greenish light.

What he had experienced just now was not real.

Ning Tao suddenly s.h.i.+fted his eyes to Qing Zhui. He found her slithering on the ground, the lower half of her body turning into the tail of a green snake. She kept spitting up her tongue, her face full of a sweet and fatuous smile.

She had been affected by the Picture of the Six Samsara Realms. She was in a consciousness that only she herself knew.

The Howling Celestial Dog was standing upright, muttering, “My students, let us recite: 'Men at birth are innately good. Their natures are similar; their habits cause them to be different…'”

Was the Howling Celestial Dog a teacher at a private school in a former life?

Ning Tao felt greatly surprised. Soon, he became even more stunned. Whiffs of blood Qi started to gush from the dog to the Picture of the Six Samsara Realms. The Howling Celestial Dog's mind was obviously also weakening. Ning Tao then looked at Qing Zhui, summoning his state of looking. He took one glance, and was enraged and shocked. Not only their blood Qi but also their spirits were soaring into the Picture of the Six Samsara Realms!

This Picture of the Six Samsara Realms must be an evil magic tool. It might even be on the same level as the Soul-devouring Urn!

Ning Tao did not want it to continue harming Qing Zhui and the Howling Celestial Dog. He recited aloud, “I rest within the womb, listening to the sound of the Way!”

Dong!

After injecting spiritual energy into it, a divine bell started to toll at every section of the first line of Your Text. The sound waves surged mightily, overcoming all. The greenish light from the Picture of the Six Samsara Realms instantly dissipated. It hovered and trembled repeatedly in the air, almost as if it were resisting and converging energy to fight Ning Tao.

Ning Tao lunged forward and leaped up. He extended his arm and grabbed at the Picture of the Six Samsara Realms hovering above the stone coffin.

He was about to reach above the coffin and had everything in the stone coffin in his sight, when his hand grabbing the Picture of the Six Samsara Realms suddenly froze.

There was a woman lying in the coffin. She was dressed in resplendent finery and her face was exquisitely beautiful. Even her figure was so exceptional that no one could cavil. But she was no human. A golden, furry tail extended from her b.u.t.t.

The tail of a fox.

The G.o.ddess statue outside the tomb chamber, the woman in the stone coffin with a fox's tail. All these pointed to one person— Hu Ji.

After this momentary shock, Ning Tao managed to grab the Picture of the Six Samsara Realms hovering in mid-air. The picture kept trembling in his hand, as if trying to escape his grasp. He tried to counter it with spiritual power, but the more he tried to suppress it, the more vigorous the picture shook. After a standoff of a few seconds, he started to feel himself holding a high-speed vibrator!

Whoos.h.!.+

In the end, Ning Tao did not manage to suppress the Picture of the Six Samsara Realms. It escaped his grasp and streaked into the roof of the tomb chamber. Even the hard stone bricks could not stop it. There was a loud crash. Stone bricks overhead on the ceiling were shattered, their fragments splintering in all directions. Boulders and earth suddenly fell.

Ning Tao hastily dodged.

Rumble!

The mountain boulders and earth started to bury the stone coffin.

Ning Tao raised the tactical flashlight and shone at the ceiling of the tomb chamber. There was a large cavity at the spot where it had been hit, extending to the summit of the mountain. Just when he was s.h.i.+ning into the depths of that cavity, booming rumbles began to resound from above. Rocks, earth and sand began to fall.

The Picture of the Six Samsara Realms was streaking outside like a rocket. The cavity was crumbling. Even if it had been a real rocket soaring in the sky, Ning Tao could not overtake it since it was heading for an unknown destination.

“Brother Ning…” Came Qing Zhui's voice. She sounded very confused.

Ning Tao hastily put down the tactical flashlight and raced to her.

Qing Zhui clambered up from the ground. The expression in her eyes seemed confused. “What happened?”

Her snake tail had disappeared. but her trousers were torn. It had become a skirt, unable to disguise her tempting curves. But she had not noticed this herself.

Ning Tao saw that she was not hurt and felt instant relief. “It was that Picture of the Six Samsara Realms. I suspect it is an evil magic tool. Unfortunately, it escaped.”

Qing Zhui asked in astonishment, “Did it have a tool soul?”

Ning Tao nodded. “It attacked me on its own and tried to escape my grasp. It succeeded. All these bore the traits of a tool soul. I suspect it must be an evil magic tool, in the cla.s.s of the Soul-devouring Urn.”

The Howling Celestial Dog had recovered too. It stood by Ning Tao's side, p.r.i.c.king up its ears to listen, like an obedient student listening to his teacher's lecture.

Then Ning Tao mentioned the stone coffin. “There's a woman in the stone coffin with a fox's tail. I suspect she might be Zhu Hongyu's mother, Hu Ji.”

Qing Zhui and the Howling Celestial Dog all gazed in its direction, but that stone coffin had already been buried under boulders and earth. They could no longer see it.

Ning Tao said, “Don't bother to look. It's only a corpse. I believe it will start rotting after we open the coffin. Let's leave this place. On our way out, we can search for some spiritual soil or spiritual materials.”

“Okay,” Qing Zhui a.s.sented. She seemed to recollect something and said, “Just now, I seemed to be back in my childhood days… What a strange feeling…”

Ning Tao took off his jacket and fastened it on her waist. It was not to s.h.i.+eld her from the dog's eyes. After all, it was only a dog. Ning Tao was worried that he could not withstand her allure and would be tempted.

Only now did Qing Zhui realize that her trousers were torn. She gave an awkward smile and instinctively covered her b.u.t.t.

Ning Tao opened the small medicine chest, took out the Soil-seeking Inkstone, and poured 30 ml of ink into it.

Ripples began to appear on the surface of the ink. It started to surge in the direction from where they had come.

Ning Tao finally managed a smile. “There's spiritual soil here. It hasn't been a wasted trip.”

The Picture of the Six Samsara Realms had disappeared. The stone coffin had been buried. The grave robbers were all dead. Ning Tao had not earned even a little sin of evil intention. If they had left just like that, it would really be a wasted trip. But the Soil-seeking Inkstone had detected the presence of spiritual soil. This proved that he was still quite lucky.

“Let's go and take a look.” Ning Tao had the Soil-seeking Inkstone in one hand and the tactical flashlight in his other. He walked towards the exit.

Qing Zhui followed behind Ning Tao. “Brother Ning, let me hold the flashlight.”

Ning Tao handed her the flashlight. Just when he was about to stride, a faint voice suddenly rang out from behind. He turned back to look. Then he heard an extremely faint wail from under the collapsed rubble. It was so faint that he could not make out what it was saying.

The Howling Celestial Dog p.r.i.c.ked up its ears. It spoke. “Goodness gracious me, there's… there's a kid wailing under all that rubble.”

“What?” Ning Tao was stunned.

The Howling Celestial Dog continued, “I'm certain there's a girl in there. She is crying very sadly.”

Instantly in Ning Tao's mind hovered the image of the woman with the fox's tail in the coffin. He was certain he had seen a ravis.h.i.+ng, mature and voluptuous fox demon. How did it turn into a girl?

More importantly, the body in the stone coffin was a corpse. How did that corpse turn into a living girl?

Qing Zhui was affected. “Brother Ning, could it be that fox demon deluding us?”

Ning Tao shook his head. He could not answer. It was all too bizarre for him to understand. The ravis.h.i.+ng fox demon had turned into a girl. He could feel chills tingling up his spine. The sanest choice now was to leave immediately, taking away any spiritual soil that they could find. But he could not leave just like that. He was a doctor— a cultivating doctor. How could he abandon a female baby just like that?

“Very well. Let's save her.” Ning Tao made up his mind.

With Qing Zhui and the Howling Celestial Dog as his a.s.sistants, they soon excavated a tunnel out of the rubble of boulders and earth. The stone coffin slowly revealed itself. The baby's cries became louder and louder.

After removing a large stone tile on the coffin, Ning Tao shone his tactical flashlight into it.

There was indeed a female baby in the stone coffin. She had no fox's tail. She was lying on a resplendent dress. It was that dress worn by the fox demon corpse. The female baby was naked, but there was a membrane on her. It resembled a plastic wrap smeared with oil.

“What…” Ning Tao was stunned. He could not believe his eyes.

The corpse of a fox demon had turned into a female baby. Even a cultivating doctor like him could not understand or accept it.

The baby stopped wailing, stretching out her chubby hand at Ning Tao. She was babbling with its tiny mouth. “ga… goo… goo…”

She could not yet speak.

Her tender small hands, her adorable face… how could anyone a.s.sociate her with the corpse of that fox demon?

Ning Tao summoned the states of looking and smelling in his eyes and nostrils. He could detect an almost negligible demon aura from the baby, and a very faint scent of flowers. But he could not be certain if they were the odor of a fox demon.

Qing Zhui suddenly stretched out her hands. “How adorable. Let auntie carry you.”

Ning Tao hastily caught her arm and pulled her back. “Don't touch her first. Let me ascertain her ident.i.ty.”

Qing Zhui asked, “How?”

Ning Tao opened his small medicine chest and took out the ledger of bamboo slips. The female baby was stretching out her arms for a cuddle. He put the ledger on her small hands. A few seconds later, he took away the ledger and unfurled it to read.

Information appeared on the ledger of bamboo slips: Nameless. A newborn fox demon.

Qing Zhui also drew near to read.

Ning Tao kept his ledger of bamboo slips back into his medicine chest. His face was full of bewilderment. “Nameless, a newborn fox demon. No sin of evil intention… is she the reincarnation of Hu Ji?”

Qing Zhui answered, “Probably. Perhaps if we did not barge in, she might have been resurrected. But since we intervened, this is what happened. Brother Ning, aren't you looking for clues about the Ancestor-seeking Elixir? Bring her back. Then, when she has recovered her memory, she can enlighten you about the provenance of the Ancestor-seeking Elixir and what was on its elixir prescription.”

Her words convinced Ning Tao somewhat. But he discovered a problem. “Who will raise her?”

Qing Zhui chuckled. “Me! I need to learn how to bring up a child. Then, when I have your child, I can raise it well.”

Ning Tao felt speechless.

Qing Zhui carried the female baby from the stone coffin. The baby wanted to suckle at her breast, but she said frantically, “I don't have any milk. Girl, I'll look for some goat's milk for you later.”

“Goo… goo…” The baby started giggling with peals of laughter, as clear as silver bells.

Ning Tao gave a wry smile. He waved his hand. “Let's go. Take back the spiritual soil once we locate it. After that, I will visit the supermarket in Guan City and buy her some milk powder.”

Without any warning, there was another fox demon baby among their team of demons.