Chapter 217 A Core of the Size of a Volleyball (1/2)

It had been raining continuously for a few days. The weather had turned chilly.

Autumn had arrived. The time to pay for the clinic’s rent was up.

Before moving here from Garden Street in Shan City, the ledger of bamboo slips had indicated that the clinic’s good-evil rent was 2,000 points and that the clinic would be upgraded.

It seemed like the Sky Clinic had been upgraded every two months, or perhaps that rascal Chen Pingdao had driven it to the verge of shutting down. Therefore it desperately needed to be upgraded to a certain point, before it could stabilize. However, Ning Tao did not know what was the specific reason. Even though he was the owner of the Sky Clinic, his understanding of the Sky Clinic was relatively limited. He could only uncover them slowly.

During the last time the Sky Clinic had upgraded, Ning Tao had attained the grade two elementary cultivation method, as well as pre-school punch skill. In two months’ time, he had learned Ladder under Feet Powerful, Tolerance to Beating and Cat Claw Punch. What would he be receiving with the upgrade this time around?

“Could it be called grade three elementary cultivation method, and elementary school punch skill? If so, isn’t it too passé?” Inside the clinic, Ning Tao was anxiously waiting for the time for rent payment, while imagining what would appear in the good-evil tripod.

Qing Zhui’s voice called from outside. “Brother Ning, if the clinic were to move, remember to come pick me up.”

Ning Tao replied, “I know. Go back and wait.”

“Okay,” Qing Zhui said.

“Useless. Are you afraid that he doesn’t want you anymore? How did I teach you? You should…” Then it was Bai Jing’s voice, incessantly lecturing Qing Zhui.

Ning Tao forced a smile. At this rate, Qing Zhui would most probably be led astray by Bai Jing, yet he had no way of preventing it. He had already removed the Viper-like Insect from Bai Jing, and made Bai Sheng back off, so Bai Jing was pretty much liberated. Yet, she had become an unemployed bum. All she had been doing was to eat, drink and lead his chosen concubine astray. However, could he really chase her away, given the current situation?

He could not shake off the image of treating the snake demon sisters last night. Frontal stacking treatment, back stacking treatment, doggy style treatment, all types of treatment positions… all the mysterious yet ripe figures and restricted content revealing from torn clothing… So exciting, so tempting… His pair of eyes had been blinded for many times…

With his mind running wild, Ning Tao glanced at his pants below. He scolded, “Useless thing, you’re already this useless, could you behave just a little better?”

The buddy was free-spirited as always. It continued standing proud.

Suddenly, the black and white aura of the good-evil tripod was sucked into the tripod.

The time for Sky Clinic’s rent payment was up.

Ning Tao approached the good-evil tripod swiftly, and looked into the tripod. A whirlpool had appeared at the bottom of the good-evil tripod. The respective black and white of good intention and sin of evil intention were sucked into the whirlpool. 2,000 points of good-evil rent had disappeared, but it was not all.

The rent payment was completed in an instant. Ning Tao checked the ledger of bamboo slips right after.

New content had appeared on the ledger of bamboo slips: This month’s rent has been paid. The debt balance is 1,321 points. Next month’s rent is 2,000. It is 29 days and 22 hours until the next payment date.

So could it really be upgraded every two months?

Ning Tao could not help but make such a guess. He was under a mountain of stress. An upgrade would also translate into doubled rent. 2,000 would become 4,000. It was not easy to earn 4,000 worth of good-evil rent. Even if he were to con irredeemably evil people together with Qing Zhui, it would have to kill numerous people!

Inside the tripod was shimmering in gold. Each character and each graphic were glowing in the dense golden light. It looked like a sea of stars, so distant and enigmatic, like it was hiding secrets of the truth.

Ning Tao was experienced. He immediately activated his divine sense, establishing a connection with the good-evil tripod. Each and every one of the characters and images had rushed into his sea of consciousness. Instantly, a few words beaming in gold had surfaced to his mind: grade three elementary cultivation method.

Blargh! Ning Tao nearly coughed up blood.

Earlier on, he was just predicting the name of the cultivation method, and it turned out that he was right. He felt as if he could hear the voice of good-evil tripod saying, “Did you think I was passé? Then I’ll show it to you!”

Very soon, another few glowing golden words surfaced to his mind—pre-school scalpel method.

Pre-school scalpel method?

Ning Tao was beyond speechless.

However, even though the name was incredibly passé as usual, he had attained good stuff from the upgrade this time round. The grade three elementary cultivation method had increased his speed of cultivating good energy and evil energy, and had also strengthened his sixth sense for detecting the presence of good energy. In other words, with his grade three elementary cultivation method mastered eventually, he would be able to detect the good energy emanated from good people. Even though it seemed like a useless power, it was very important to him, because it could help him earn merit of good intention and help good people.