“What did you say?” Bai Sheng's look changed. There was a flash of excitement in his eyes that bent upwards.

Noticing their reaction, Ning Tao deadpanned, “I said I could give you an Ancestor-seeking Elixir.”

Bai Sheng and Bai Jing involuntarily looked at each other, and Bai Jing's eyes sparkled with excitement.

Ning Tao continued, “I have no control over the stuff in the clinic, and even if I give it to you, you won't be able to use it. I think Miss Bai has told you about this situation. If you want the tripod, you can go and get it with me. Take whatever you want, but I have to remind you that my clinic is not friendly to sinful people.”

If Bai Jing hadn't been to the clinic, he wouldn't have mentioned it. Instead, he told the clinic to crack down on Bai Sheng. In this way, the matter was easy to deal with. However, he suspected that Bai Jing had told Bai Sheng about the clinic, so if he didn't, Bai Sheng would be suspicious. He would show sincerity in bringing the matter up directly.

Sure enough, Bai Sheng shook his head and said, “Doctor Ning, I'm not going to your clinic for a while. You said you'd give me an Ancestor-seeking Elixir. There's no joking about it. I'll be serious.”

“I'm not kidding,” said Ning Tao.

Bai Sheng's tone was noticeably more worried. “Show it to me. If you do have the Ancestor-seeking Elixir, Qing Zhui will be yours from now on.”

“Let me be clear,” said Ning Tao. “It's an incomplete Ancestor-seeking Elixir, but it has some elixir power of the Ancestor-seeking Elixir. It can clear the marrow and renewed your muscles, and greatly increase your demon power, which is equal to your years of cultivation.”

“Bring it out and let me see.” Bai Sheng urged. He was clearly worried.

Ning Tao opened the medicine chest and took out the little porcelain bottle containing the Ancestor-seeking Elixir. Instead of handing it to Bai Sheng, he uncorked it and dumped the incomplete Ancestor-seeking Elixir into the palm of his hand. In that instant, he awoke his nose to enter the state of smelling.

The nose was different from the eyes. Eyes were the windows of the soul. The variation of the eyes under the state of looking would make people suspicious and alert, but the nose in the state of smelling would not. As long as he didn't say anything, no one knew that his nose worked better than a dog's at the moment.

The taste of the Ancestor-seeking Elixir flooded Ning Tao's nostrils. At that moment, his eyes suddenly got hot, and then a strange picture came into his sight.

There was no room, and he was not in the First Building, but at the foot of a silver tree. The tree was several stories high and had a large canopy. Its bark and leaves were silver, as if it had been watered with silver. Every one of its branches and leaves was flas.h.i.+ng with green brilliance and dense aura. At the foot of the tree, a little white snake was raising its head as if to wors.h.i.+p the silver tree.

'Is the white snake Bai Sheng?'

What kind of tree was that?

Ning Tao's heart was filled with surprise and confusion.

Bai Sheng didn't know what Ning Tao could smell or see, so he could not wait to reach out and grab the incomplete from the palm of Ning Tao's hand.

In fact, he almost grabbed it.

When the incomplete Ancestor-seeking Elixir left Ning Tao's hand, the scene in Ning Tao's eyes suddenly changed.

Under the silver towering tree, the small white snake disappeared and the woman in red appeared again. She was breathtaking with a pair of pale green eyes. She looked him straight in the eye, and her eyes were full of loneliness.

For a split second Ning Tao almost wanted to ask who she was and why she was here, but he swallowed it in time. Only he had an allergic reaction to the Ancestor-seeking Elixir. The woman in red was his secret. If he talked, or acted strangely, Bai Sheng and Bai Jing, with their keen observation and super sixth sense, couldn't help but suspect.

Ning Tao just closed his eyes.

Bai Sheng took the incomplete Ancestor-seeking Elixir and sniffed it, then stuck out his tongue and licked it. At the moment when his tongue came into contact with the Ancestor-seeking Elixir, he seemed to be certain of something. “Yes,” he said, unable to contain his excitement. “There is a legendary elixir power of Ancestor-seeking Elixir, but it was not complete.

Bai Jing's eyes glint at Bai Sheng's hands looking for the incomplete Ancestor-seeking Elixir, but she dare not ask Bai Sheng to show her.

Bai Sheng's eyes fell on Ning Tao, which seemed to penetrate Ning Tao's heart. “It's the first time I've seen an elixir of this quality. How did you make it?”

Ning Tao opened his eyes and replied, “I didn't make this. I got it by accident from a senior.”

He had recovered from the allergic reaction.

“You didn't make it?” Bai Sheng looked straight into Ning Tao's eyes, as if trying to penetrate Ning Tao's secret.

“I'm an cultivating doctor, but I can't make it,” Ning Tao said.

“And from whom did you get the elixir?” Bai Sheng asked.

“The Taoist Heavenly Hound, Chen Pingdao,” Ning Tao said.

Chen Pingdao had lied to him, so it was okay for him to put this thing on Chen Pingdao. Not only would he put this on Chen Pingdao, but he would put other things on Chen Pingdao if he needed to. With Bai Sheng's greed, as long as he said the incomplete Ancestor-seeking Elixir was his own refining, Bai Sheng 100 percent would ask him for the elixir prescription. Leave it to Chen Pingdao and let Bai Sheng to find Chen Pingdao.

Bai Sheng recalled but shook his head. “I haven't heard of Chen Pingdao,” he said. But I think as long as there is a destiny, I and Chen Pingdao will meet anyway. Your elixir is very good, and I will take it, but you cannot take away my beloved daughter with just one elixir.”

“I know it's not enough. There are a few more in here, all for you,” Ning Tao said, before suddenly flinging the tiny porcelain bottle at Bai Sheng.

Bai Sheng was surprised and reached for the bottle. However, just as he opened his hand, Ning Tao's hand suddenly reached out and s.n.a.t.c.hed the Ancestor-seeking Elixir from the palm of his hand.

Bai Sheng grabbed the bottle, but lost the incomplete Ancestor-seeking Elixir. With his talent and strength, Ning Tao couldn't take it out of his hands if he tried to rob it directly. But Ning Tao distracted him first and suddenly grabbed it, which was another matter. Unguarded, he was not as fast as Ning Tao, who had practiced the Cat Claw Punch.

“Don't you dare!” Bai Sheng's eyes instantly became a pale green, full of strong demon aura and murderous intent!

Bai Jing, recovering herself, snapped back, “Ning Tao, what are you doing?”

Ning Tao looked fearlessly, “Don't I dare? There is nothing in the world that I dare not do. This Ancestor-seeking Elixir is mine, and I gave it to you because you raised Qing Zhui, but if you think of her as your cash cow and me as your cash machine, you're wrong. I won't be held hostage by anyone. I can give you this Ancestor-seeking Elixir, but I have to take Qing Zhui. I have nothing else to give you.”

Bai Sheng took a look at Bai Jing with a flash of cold light in his pale green eyes.

Ning Tao sneered, “If you think you can take something out of my hand, you can try. But once you do, that little bond between us will be gone. We will be enemies from now on.”

Try?

Or not?

The ball was in Bai Sheng's court.

Whether to run or not, it depended on Ning Tao. In the small medicine chest he had opened, the common prescription pads with the many blood locks lay in the most prominent place in the medicine chest. If he tried to escape, no one could catch him.

Ning Tao's confidence made Bai Sheng hesitate. There was no turning back. If he wasn't absolutely sure he could take Ning Tao down, he might even lose the incomplete Ancestor-seeking Elixir, and would make enemies of Ning Tao. Cultivating doctors were rare and must be well connected. When he was the enemy of a cultivating doctor, if he could not kill him, it was a constant source of further troubles!

The atmosphere in the room was suddenly tense.

“Hha!” Bai Sheng suddenly laughed. “Doctor Ning, I should be your father-in-law. What you said is offensive. How embarra.s.sed have you made me?”

Ning Tao said, “That's rough, but it makes sense. Some things are better said.”

He was going to say, “You're not my father-in-law,” but he refrained from saying it. Qing Zhui was still stuck here, so it was not time to turn on him. He had to convince Bai Sheng that he could still benefit from his “son-in-law”. So he could take Qing Zhui.

“You're right. Okay, you give me that pill and you can take Qing Zhui away,” Bai Sheng said.

Ning Tao then tossed the incomplete Ancestor-seeking Elixir to Bai Sheng.

Bai Sheng grabbed it and immediately slipped it into the porcelain bottle, as if worried that Ning Tao would s.n.a.t.c.h it from his hand again. After he had just licked it, he knew exactly how powerful it was and what good it did him. In his mind, Ning Tao's “betrothal gift” was definitely a great gift, but he was too greedy and wanted to get more benefits from Ning Tao.

Bai Jing deliberately showed an unhappy expression and asked, “Ning Tao, look at you, you have gone too far. You upset my adoptive father.”

From Ning Tao's point of view, Bai Sheng was very happy, but he calmly said, “Now that Senior Bai has agreed, I will take Qing Zhui away.”

“How could you come to Qing Zhui's house for the first time and leave without a meal? Have a meal before you go. If you don't trust me, you go to see Qing Zhui first.”

Ning Tao hesitated and said, “Okay, I'll go find Qing Zhui first. You talk.”

Then Bai Sheng and Bai Jing watched Ning Tao leave.

When he heard Ning Tao coming down the stairs, Bai Sheng said aloud, “I can't see through him. That's interesting.”

Bai Jing looked at the closed window with a worried look on her face and said, “Adoptive father, Qing Zhui will be mad at us because of the way we using her.”

“Mad at us? Once she joined me, she'll be mine for life. She will do whatever I want her to do, whether she likes it or not. If she dares to defy my will, you should know very well what will happen.” Bai Sheng's voice was icy.

Bai Jing's body quivered slightly and she lowered her head, not daring to look into Bai Sheng's eyes.

Bai Sheng's tone became soft again. “Bai Jing, you are my favorite and dearest daughter. You know what I want. Be nice to Xin Zhiyu. Get him quickly. I want not only the Xin family's Grand Dream Company, but also the elixir prescription of the Ancestor-seeking Elixir. As for Chen Pingdao, I'll try to track him down.”

“Yes,” Bai Jing replied obediently, and backed away.

A sneer came out of Bai Sheng's mouth, and a low voice whispered, “You think you're Qing Zhui's demon master? Don't dream. Once she joined me, she is mine forever. You can take Qing Zhui. I want you to take her. Not only that, you'll be mine. Your clinic will become mine, and you can't escape me!”

Only he could hear his voice.