32: temptation

Thump!

Shen Bing's heart trembled, and she froze in place.

"You... what do you mean?"

Shen Bing's eyes were flustered.

"We're all adults now. Don't you understand what I mean?"

"Liu Jiangyi! You're taking advantage of the situation!"

Shen Bing gritted her teeth, biting her lips, and held back tears, "You're almost old enough to be my father. How... how can you say such things?"

"Men love beauty regardless of age. We're not related by blood, so what if it's an old man and a young wife?"

Liu Jiangyi said dismissively, "You keep saying you can't live without your father, and you keep saying you're willing to give everything for your father."

"Now it seems, that's not entirely true, is it?"

"Fine!" Shen Bing's eyes suddenly showed determination. She stood up abruptly, sobbing, "I promise you!"

"As long as you can save my father, I... I can marry you!"

Liu Jiangyi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he finally smiled.

He reached out and patted Shen Bing's shoulder.

Shen Bing trembled with fright, instinctively wanting to dodge, but she didn't dare to move.

Liu Jiangyi smiled faintly, "No need to be nervous. That was just a test for you."

"Your filial piety has moved me. Let's go, lead the way."

Shen Bing's beautiful eyes widened instantly, "You... you were testing me?"

"What? You actually wanted to marry me?"

Liu Jiangyi smiled as he observed Shen Bing.

Whoosh!

Shen Bing's pretty Face immediately flushed red. She quickly turned her head, "Teacher Liu, let's... let's go in quickly."

"Interesting girl."

Liu Jiangyi shook his head and followed Shen Bing's footsteps.

...

Second floor master bedroom.

When Liu Jiangyi returned, Chen Hong was already wailing, holding Shen Wanqian, whose lips were black and purple, and whose heart had stopped beating.

"Dad!!!"

Shen Bing was stunned by this scene and screamed, about to rush over.

"Stop!"

Liu Jiangyi pulled Shen Bing back, then pulled Chen Hong away, and then grabbed Shen Wanqian's wrist.

"Presumptuous!"

Murong Jin angrily said, "Uncle has already passed away, how dare you disturb his peace?"

"You can even bring the dead back to life?" Great Master Ru Yun also snorted disdainfully.

"Shut up!"

Liu Jiangyi suddenly turned around, his eyes cold.

"You!" Great Master Ru Yun felt offended and was about to retort, fuming.

"You what!?"

Liu Jiangyi angrily said, "You incompetent quack with no discernment! Besides your Upper City status, what else do you have?"

"Director Shen's muscles are relaxed, making it impossible to hold the shrapnel in place. If you want to save Director Shen, the bullet must be removed. But you merely repositioned the bullet, causing it to press on his heart again, and even more severely."

"Is your brain stuffed with shit?"

"Laughable!" Great Master Ru Yun retorted, "Director Shen is a Ninth-Rank Martial Artist, with rich Spiritual Qi in his body. How could there be such a thing as muscle relaxation?"

"As long as I move the shrapnel, he will naturally recover. This is just an accident!"

"Hmph! You say it so easily, but have you considered that Director Shen recently practiced Body Refining, and during his Breakthrough, his muscles loosened and relaxed, and before they could reshape and upgrade, he fell into a coma?"

Thump!

Those words instantly made everyone around them widen their eyes.

Chen Hong said, bewildered, "This... this shouldn't be. I never heard Old Shen mention that he was going to practice Body Refining."

"No! There! There is!"

Shen Bing suddenly said excitedly, "Father told me before that he got a Cultivation Technique and said he would try it himself first and then teach it to me."

"I didn't think much of it at the time and didn't ask further. Now it seems this Cultivation Technique must be a Body Refining Technique!"

She looked at Liu Jiangyi in disbelief, "I didn't expect Teacher Liu to actually see that my father was practicing Body Refining. He's truly amazing!"

Chen Hong was also shocked.

The mother and daughter originally thought that Liu Jiangyi hadn't even noticed the bullet pressing on the heart.

But who would have thought!

He saw much more, he just hadn't said it!

Great Master Ru Yun's old Face was flushed red, but he was still unwilling and sneered, "These are all just guesses. Shen Wanqian is already dead. Whatever you say is useless!"

"Heh heh, what if I can save Director Shen?"

Boom!

Like a clap of thunder!

"What?" Shen Bing was overjoyed, "You can really save my father?"

"No! Impossible!" Great Master Ru Yun still retorted, "Shen Wanqian has lost all vital signs. Even the King of Hell couldn't save him!"

"Heh heh, and this is considered a Divine Doctor?" Liu Jiangyi said disdainfully, "You don't even know what suspended animation is!"

"Suspended animation? How is that possible?"

"Why not possible?"

Liu Jiangyi turned his head and placed his hand on top of Shen Wanqian's head. A surge of Spiritual Qi instantly flowed into it.

Beep beep beep...

The next moment, all the life monitoring equipment around them immediately started flashing.

Chen Hong and her daughter were overjoyed, tears of excitement welling up in their eyes.

They never expected that Shen Wanqian was actually not dead.

Liu Jiangyi said proudly, "Director Shen was already extremely weak. With injury upon injury, his brain suffered severe oxygen deprivation, causing him to temporarily enter a state of suspended animation."

Great Master Ru Yun's Face turned green like a pig's liver.

He only felt a sharp pain in his cheeks.

Although Liu Jiangyi hadn't cured Shen Wanqian yet, this single act of diagnosing suspended animation already put him at a disadvantage.

"Old man, watch what real medical skill looks like!"

Liu Jiangyi took out silver needles and quickly began to apply acupuncture.

Soon, Shen Wanqian was pricked like a hedgehog, and the last silver needle was inserted directly into his heart.

"Nonsense!"

Great Master Ru Yun spoke again, trying to save Face, "Shen Wanqian's heart is already severely stimulated. You are killing him!"

"You ignorant fool, if you have no knowledge, then shut up, otherwise you'll only make people laugh at you!"

Liu Jiangyi picked up the herbs nearby, then took out a clay pot, and began to boil the medicine.

"Director Shen's condition is indeed due to heart stimulation, but this needle of mine is not to stimulate Director Shen's heart, but to suppress its beating frequency, to prevent damage to the heart during the upcoming surgery."

"Originally, as soon as I returned, the heart's beating would have been smoothly suppressed, but the silver needle was pulled out. Now, whether it can be suppressed again depends on Director Shen's fortune."

Upon hearing this, Shen Bing and Chen Hong immediately remembered that when Great Master Ru Yun and the others arrived, the heart rate displayed on Shen Wanqian's heart rate monitor was indeed much lower than usual.

"It's my fault... it's all my fault..." Chen Hong cried out, slapping herself across the Face.

"Mom! Don't be like that." Shen Bing quickly pulled Chen Hong, comforting her, "This isn't your fault. You didn't want Father to get hurt either. Don't be like this..."

"No... it's my fault. If I had firmly believed Director Liu, this wouldn't have happened. If Old Shen dies, I'll be the culprit. I'm sorry..."

Chen Hong was almost crying herself to exhaustion.

Great Master Ru Yun and Murong Jin remained silent, both nervously staring at the heart rate monitor.