Reincarnation of the God of Medicine
Chapter 149: Memories of the past
Xiao Tian had a terrible headache after hearing Sunlong say Lily's words.
Along with that pain a memory of the past flashed through his mind.
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Xiao Tian remembered himself when he was 5 years old. He often ran away from the palace every time his father gave a palace tatakrama lesson.
Xiao Zhaoye had always been annoyed by his son's mischievous behavior, but because Xiao Hong continued to pamper him he was not free to scold him.
Xiao Tian often acted as he pleased because he had never been scolded since childhood, and his father knew about it. Therefore when Xiao Hong was not in the palace, Xiao Zhaoye often stole the opportunity to scold Xiao Tian in order for him to obey his orders and stop being a brat.
Unfortunately Xiao Tian had never heard his father's scolding and advice, he had always run away during the palace's manners lessons.
Although he was still five years old, Xiao Tian was extremely skilled at escaping. He always exited the palace while using a perfect disguise. Because of the perfect disguise, king Xiao Zhaoye was unable to recognize him while he was undercover.
Xiao Tian had a face-changing mask that Xiao Hong gave him.
He also had a space ring that held a lot of commoner clothes as well as some gold coins. All the equipment to escape and disguise it was a gift from his own biological mother without his father's knowledge.
"Mother is amazing, I go everywhere with this mask and these clothes. With a different shirt and face, you can't recognize me at all" Xiao Tian said.
When exiting the palace, Xiao Tian always went to the playground or commoner place to hang out with friends of his age.
One day, while he was visiting the town of Shandian, he accidentally bumped into a little girl who was his age.
The girl was crying because of the clean clothes she was carrying on her small basket, accidentally falling into a muddy puddle.
"Ma .. I'm sorry, I accidentally dropped your clothes."
"Please stop crying" Xiao Tian said as he picked up his clothes that had fallen into a puddle of mud.
"What's wrong, it's all my fault that I wasn't careful when I walked." the girl picked up her clothes then hurried away leaving Xiao Tian while trying to wipe her tears.
"Tu .. wait what's your name!" asked Xiao Tian.
The girl left Xiao Tian regardless of Xiao Tian's call.
Feeling guilty Xiao Tian continued to follow the girl until he stopped at a small house made of wood. He saw the little girl trembling in fear as she wanted to knock on the door of the house.
Before he knocked on the door, the door opened itself and a thin-faced, slightly fat woman was seen from behind the door.
"Why have you been so long?"
"Didn't I tell you to come faster!" said the woman with a jutek.
"Ma .. forgive me madam." replied the little girl.
"I'm sorry?"
"It's so easy to apologize."
"Give me my clothes, I want to wear them for the party tonight" said the woman, seizing the little basket the little girl had brought.
The girl seemed to tremble in fear when her basket was forcibly snatched by the woman. The woman looks even more angry when she realizes that the clothes in the basket have been dirty decorated with mud.
"What the fuck!"
"I'm just telling you to take my clothes from the laundry, why are my clothes this dirty!"
"I'm going to throw this misbehavior at your father!" sniff the woman.
"Please don't tell my dad I promise I'll be a good girl."
"Just punish me, I don't want you to be mad at me anymore so as to extend my punishment for living under your watch." replied the girl.
"If you don't want your father to know about this, get the fuck out of here and get my dirty clothes!"
"Never come back before my clothes are clean again!"
"And one more thing, there's no dinner for you today" said the woman, throwing her basket at the little girl.
After being content to nag the little girl, the woman closed the door of her house so loudly.
"Dad, I want to go home."
"When you'll come back and take me away from this place, I miss the kingdom of the Clouds and your affection."
"Please pick me up, father." said the girl in tears.
The girl went to an old well to draw water, but because her little finger had not been able to withstand the weight of the water she almost slipped down. Seeing that the little girl was about to fall Xiao Tian rushed over and held onto the body of the little girl so as not to fall into the well.
"You okay?" said Xiao Tian.
"You?"
"Why are you here?" ask the little girl.
"Is that how you thank someone who helped you?" asked Xiao Tian.
"I didn't ask for your help." replied the girl.
"But I want to help you, after all I made you like this, so this is also my responsibility." Xiao Tian replied.
Xiao Tian helped the girl draw water and cleaned the woman's clothes for the night. After the job was done, the girl said. "Thank you, I'm sorry for speaking rudely to you and ignoring your words since the market."
"What's wrong, I was wrong at the time. It should be me who apologized for walking around incautiously and not paying attention around me." Xiao Tian continued.
"Lilly?" asked Xiao Tian.
"Tell me your name." reply the girl.
"Oh .. So Lily is your name, my name is Yanyan."
"Greetings." Xiao Tian continued, shaking hands with the girl.
From then on they became very familiar and often spent time together.
Although they are familiar, they both still use pseudonyms to maintain their identity.
However, even though Lily hid her identity well, Xiao Tian accidentally managed to find out Lily's true identity.
Despite knowing about it, Xiao Tian pretended not to recognize the girl's true identity by acting as usual.
"Lily, are you keeping anything from me?" asked Xiao Tian.
"Why have I kept something from you, we've been friends for a long time." replied the girl.
Xiao Tian learns that Lily is a princess of the cloud kingdom, and has the real name of Jia Li's putry. He was being punished by his father for doing something that offended his father. Where he questioned the change in attitude of the father towards him since his sister was born into the world.
Five years had passed, the moment where the punishment of princess Jia Li had ended. He said goodbye to Xiao Tian for having to return to the Cloud kingdom. But it remained secretive of her true identity as a princess, because she did not want Xiao Tian to know her little secret. Whereas Xiao Tian had actually recognized Lily's identity long ago.
"Yan yan .. Take good care of yourself, I have to go where I came from. I can't explain it to you, but I need to remind you that I will never forget you, see you Yan yan." princess Jia Li walked over leaving Xiao Tian with a face filled with tears.
"See you, Lily."
"I will never forget you, even though distance separates us." Xiao Tian stared straight at Jia Li's daughter with tears in his eyes.
Xiao Tian pretended not to know Lily's true identity until distance separated them. She wants Lily to tell her own truth someday.
When Lily had long since left Lightning kingdom, Xiao Tian continued to undergo his activities as usual. He always escapes from his manners lessons at the palace, for fun.
Until the moment where all his fun had ended, where he had to lose his disguise mask as well as all his gold coins for violating Xiao Hong's order not to go out of the palace for a while.
Xiao Hong forbade his son from going out of the palace as the darkness sect as well as the demon sect started to appear frequently and wreak havoc in many regions of the lightning empire.
In order to keep his son safe, Xiao Hong introduced Taiwu to Xiao Tian. It was the first time they met and met each other.
When it was familiar enough the fateful incident happened to Taiwu. Where she loses the only mother she cares about from being kidnapped by a sect of darkness, and her father who is crazy for not being able to protect her mother when a sect of darkness makes an impromptu attack.
The attack of the darkness sect back then not only made Taiwu feel sad. Xiao Tian also felt sad that king Xiao Zhaoye had also suffered severe injuries from protecting him who was escaping the palace. The wounds suffered by his father at that time were so severe that the alchemists and court healers were overwhelmed because they could not treat their king's wounds.
Until one day a high-level alchemist came out of nowhere, he healed king Xiao Zhaoye in just a matter of seconds. Seeing that miracle everyone called him a God of Medicine.
Xiao Tian was extremely obsessed with that alchemist, for seeing the miracle he had created with his own eyes.
From then on he became interested in alchemy and called himself a Medicine God, unfortunately he had no talent in martial arts or alchemists.
He always failed when trying to cultivate or do martial arts. Although he had tried various ways, he could not master a single martial technique at all.
Because too forced himself finally he suffered severe injuries which resulted in him not being able to practice martial arts again. Although he could not practice martial arts anymore, Xiao Tian did not give up on studying alchemy.
Other than his personal teacher, no one knew of the severe injuries Xiao Tian had sustained. This happened because Xiao Tian studied martial techniques and alchemist science without his father's knowledge. He learned those things outside the royal palace with Xiao Hong's permission.
Because it was always a blur during the lessons in the palace, many bad rumors spread about Xiao Tian. From his lazy attitude and various things, but he ignored the rumors and continued to study alchemists and still claimed himself as a God of medicine.
Xiao Tian had a body that was so weak from the injuries he had sustained, he was unable to bathe himself and was always moaning in pain at night. Xiao Hong gave orders to the servants to help her bathe and accompany her while sleeping to scold her when in pain. However due to that anyway, the skewed rumor about Xiao Tian spread back.
The source of the rumor was not from outsiders but from insiders. The one who spread the skewed rumors about Xiao Tian was his own uncle, General Xiao Fei ji, who had a personal grudge with his father.
The rumor was indeed not too Xiao Tian ignored because he felt that the rumor was not so important to him.
His indifferent attitude, making death almost pick him up, he, jia Li's daughter is consumed by bad rumors about her and orders the assassin to send a wild tiger into the medicinal forest to kill Xiao Tian who had proposed to her.
After recalling all of those things, Xiao Tian's headache disappeared instantly.
"So Lily is another name for Jia Li's daughter."
"That's the reason why I still like him even though he almost died for what he did."
"So the owner of this body was indeed very familiar with Jia Li's daughter long before she proposed to him" said Xiao Tian.
When it was already feeling quite calm, Xiao Tian stopped thinking and then paid attention to the surroundings. He was surprised to see himself in a dark mode filled with black aura standing right in front of him.
"Who are you, why do you look like me!" snarled Xiao Tian.
"I am you, and you are me."
"We are one, and will never change." replied Xiao Tian's artificial body.
When Xiao Tian was still confused by what was happening, a mysterious voice sounded back.
"After defeating your friends and love, it's your turn to beat your dark side."
"Defeat him and make him fuse with you, you are allowed to use the power of qi as well as spirit power for the obstacles this time."
"You have to win if you want to get out of here, if you lose then your dark side will rule over your body, while your spirit will be sealed in the ice maze until someone takes you out."
"This is the last hurdle before you come face to face with me" said the mysterious voice.
"Once you go, let's start the fight, my dark side!" continue Xiao Tian.
"It is with pleasure." replied Xiao Tian's dark side.