"The Divine Doctor?"
Uncle Huang asked in surprise. The Divine Doctor's name was extremely widespread in the cultivators' world. According to rumors, he was a cultivator with sublime medical knowledge who helped many cultivators with problems. Many cultivators in this era considered themselves indebted to him.
"That's right."
"...That cultivator with medical knowledge?"
Even Bai Fanxian was interested. She went so far as to ask Liu Yianfei herself, surprising the young man for quite a while.
"I should say that person is a doctor who started cultivating—that would be more accurate."
Having finished speaking, Liu Yianfei laughed lightly when reminiscing about the past.
"I met Wu Jia back before he started cultivating. At that time, he was a famous doctor in the countryside. I'd say he was one of the most talented people at treating people I've ever met."
"When he encountered the world of cultivation, he became fascinated with it. But what was unexpected then was that he was just like this child."
"He had no qi power. Even spending over two years, he still couldn't enter the 1st-stage Qi Gathering level."
The young man recounted the past story while his gaze turned to look at Hui'er, who sat listening intently.
The more she heard that someone had been like her, and that person had recovered, the hope of being able to become a cultivator returned to circulate in her heart again.
"I don't know what happened to him after that, but when I met him again, he had recovered. And his cultivation was even faster than others at the same level."
"The Tang Clan probably already got word—Wu Jia will come out of closed-door cultivation soon. If you're interested, try meeting him."
Liu Yianfei left it at that before taking his leave. He didn't use this matter to bargain or pester Bai Fanxian into accepting the previous conditions. This made Bai Fanxian start to feel she wanted to help him a little.
If he helped her or her people, she was ready to repay him.
If that Divine Doctor could truly cure Hui'er, she wouldn't mind concocting elixirs to treat the chronic wounds he was suffering from.
Actually, don't think Bai Fanxian couldn't cure Hui'er. Rather, she didn't know the cause. Those who specialized in concocting elixirs and those who specialized in medicine were naturally different.
She was someone who had been called the "Alchemy Empress" in her era. She was the only one who could concoct Tier 8 elixirs, which were legendary in that era. It's just that concocting elixirs and diagnosing the cause of illness weren't the same. She absolutely wouldn't risk concocting those intensely powerful elixirs and have her people consume them randomly.
Bai Fanxian sighed. Meanwhile, Uncle Huang began contacting and requesting abundant information from the Tang Clan to prepare, so that when the day came that the Divine Doctor emerged from cultivation, they could depart immediately.
"Grandmaster Bai, the Divine Doctor will emerge from cultivation in seven days."
"The location is a mountain valley village in City C. If we drive there, it should take about three hours."
"I've troubled you all..."
Bai Fanxian nodded in acknowledgment gratefully. This time the Tang Clan was truly willing to handle many matters for her.
"It's our honor." Uncle Huang smiled and bowed politely.
"In that case, during this week does Grandmaster Bai have any schedule or want to do anything special?"
The old butler asked according to duty. Preparing matters for the master was the work of a butler like him.
"Mm... I'll probably read books?" The young woman pondered and answered carelessly.
"About that... the next batch of books might take some time." Uncle Huang spoke with a troubled expression.
Because Grandmaster Bai was someone who read books at an unbelievable speed. The quantity of books people spent months reading, she finished reading completely in just a few days. And she learned extremely quickly. Uncle Huang tried to order new books to rotate in daily, but lately it was starting to not keep up with her reading speed.
"Is that so..."
Uncle Huang noticed the small regretful look that appeared for just a moment on Grandmaster Bai's face. His head started spinning rapidly. He had to find another hobby to help her pass the boredom during this time.
This too was the duty of a first-rate butler!
"Grandmaster Bai, are you interested in reading books on the internet instead?"
"Internet...?" Bai Fanxian turned to look. Some modern books also mentioned things about the internet. It's just that lately she had focused attention on finding the cause of Hui'er's condition, so she hadn't paid much deep attention to it.
"Yes. There are far more books on the internet than printed in physical volumes. There are also articles or social networks that are very convenient for communicating."
"And where can I find the internet?"
Hearing Huang Zihan boast about its benefits, Bai Fanxian became interested. Upon hearing it had books and various media far more than the outside world, she wanted to test whether this internet was truly as good as the old butler said.
"Please wait a moment, Grandmaster Bai."
Huang Zihan smiled happily that his lady was starting to be interested in something besides books, even if it was books that just happened to be on the internet.
The old butler disappeared for just a moment. He returned with a clean white small portable computer. This computer was ordered along with the renovation of this house, one of the conveniences Tang Xinlan and Tang Tianjie prepared in case for Bai Fanxian.
Besides this, this house already had internet set up. Normally Uncle Huang used it to contact the outside world or follow some news, so there was no problem at all with Bai Fanxian suddenly wanting to try using the internet like this.
"Here it is."
Huang Zihan placed the portable computer in front of Bai Fanxian. The young woman was quite interested in this thing. It had a shape somewhat like a television, but with buttons with many characters below instead.
Uncle Huang explained how to use the computer to the young woman step by step—from turning on, turning off, starting to use various functions, including how to type characters.
Bai Fanxian watched Uncle Huang's hands slowly typing for her to see. She observed the hand placement, typing sequence, and how to use various parts of the keyboard intently.
The old butler was quite impressed with the young woman's learning speed, because after he demonstrated, before long Grandmaster Bai could already start typing characters into sentences. Though a bit slow, it was a good start.
"Grandmaster Bai, I'll teach you how to use websites."
Uncle Huang began the next step. He opened up a basic browser, then pointed to the box in the middle for Bai Fanxian to see.
"In this box, if Grandmaster Bai wants to search for anything, just type it in." He tried typing "books." Suddenly many websites where one could read books online appeared to choose from.
Bai Fanxian swept her gaze across the screen. She found there were many book titles, including a tremendous amount of articles she could click to read very conveniently.
"I more or less understand..."
Bai Fanxian nodded. Her learning speed made it so that in less than one hour from when the old butler started teaching, she could already use this computer and internet skillfully.
Her advantage was that she wouldn't forget what was taught. Besides this, she also discovered that if she didn't know how to solve a problem, she just had to type it into that search box and many methods would come up to present to her. This thing was convenient and pleasing to her in the extreme.
"Alright, read slowly. I'll go get tea to serve." Uncle Huang sighed with relief. Seeing that Bai Fanxian was starting to sink into the world of books, he also helped Bai Fanxian create an internet user account and linked a bank account with a certain amount of the Tang Clan's money for her to purchase books that required payment before reading.
You could say he truly prepared thoroughly!
Before leaving, the old butler paused as if remembering something. He walked back to the lady of the house and asked:
"Grandmaster Bai, there's one website that's like a cultivators' community. Would Grandmaster Bai like to go look?"
"Cultivators' community?" Bai Fanxian raised an eyebrow in surprise.
But she was secretly interested. In this era, finding even one cultivator was so difficult. She herself also wanted to know what the cultivators' world in this era was like.
"Then I'll enter it for you." Uncle Huang asked permission to slide the portable computer in front of him. The old man didn't type in the search box, but typed in the box for entering website names directly.
And once entering, he still had to fill in some password. When he scrolled back, an incredibly modern and beautiful website appeared.
Of course, because this was the online gathering place for cultivators in the country. One had to receive a code from someone who was already a member to enter. It also received financial support, and this site still collected service fees for things like buying and selling information, or auctioning items where the website received a percentage share.
With capital this thick, if it appeared as just a simple website that looked cheap, cultivators probably wouldn't use the service.
Bai Fanxian slowly browsed through the various topics on the site. There was everything from latest news, an information trading room, an auction room, to a room where one could create threads to discuss and exchange opinions.
Bai Fanxian clicked into the discussion room. Inside there were many threads with people constantly coming in to interact—from latest news, rankings of Grandmasters in the martial world, asking questions, to debating about cultivation as well.
That was what interested her. She had wanted to know for a long time what the cultivation concepts of this era were like. Besides this, she might be able to find the reason why the cultivation power of this era had declined to merely this level.
Many threads lined up in hundreds. Bai Fanxian randomly clicked into one to look. This thread had quite a lot of people coming in to discuss.
It had a rather interesting title: "Q&A Elixir Problems."
The person who created the thread seemed to be someone rather famous. And he was a highest-level Tier 3 alchemist. Sometimes he could even concoct Tier 4 elixirs. This made him quite respected.
In that thread, many alchemists would come in to ask questions about elixirs or materials, and that alchemist would answer every question, acting like an expert and receiving no small amount of praise and compliments.
Bai Fanxian would have no problem with this, but when she scrolled to read some questions and answers in that thread, she furrowed her brows into knots.
...This was rather...
Extremely displeasing to her!
"Huang Zihan... can I type into these threads as well?"