Ninth In the World

There were six people sitting in the large hall of the Ji Family’s mansion on Taiyue Island, excluding the owner of the mansion, Ji Baishan.

Ji Baishan’s expression was solemn, and his eyebrows were furrowed.

After a long pause, he eventually said, “There is still no news about Doctor Di, although we have been searching for him for a month. My grandson, Ji Xiaoting, has been denied proper treatment for too long. If we are unable to find Doctor Di in the next couple of months… I guess the Ji Family will be left with no heir…”

Yu Jianfu was just as anxious, as he had been the one to recommend Di Jiu to the Ji Family. The Ji Family had returned the favor by appointing him as Director of their private hospital. However, if Di Jiu was not to be found, how would he be able to treat Ji Xiaoting?

“Doctor Lin, you were present twice when Doctor Di was treating the patient. Did you learn anything from him that could possibly save my son?” asked a middle-aged lady sitting beside Ji Baishan. She was Ji Xiaoting’s mother, Li Xuehua, who had aged considerably ever since her husband had gone missing on the Fairy Planet and her son had slipped into a poisoning-induced coma. Even her sideburns had turned white.

Even though she knew that it was impossible for Lin Bo to master Doctor Di’s medical skills, she could not help but try her luck. Li Xuehua was willing to exhaust every possibility in order for her son to get better.

Lin Bo blushed. If he had the ability to save Ji Xiaoting, he would have already done so when the Ji Family had invited him over.

“Xuehua, the poison Xiaoting consumed is extremely rare. Even Doctor Di may not be able to cure him. There is still a month until the Fairy Planet Treasure Auction. We will go to the auction and see if there are any medicinal herbs that could neutralize the poison…” a middle-aged man sitting beside Ji Baishan consoled her, saving Lin Bo from this awkward situation.

He was Ji Xiaoting’s uncle, Ji Tangfei, who was the only member of the Ji Family that worked for the government.

“Senior Di’s real name is Di Jiu…”

“Di Jiu?” Ji Xiaorong could not help but gasp in surprise. This was not the first time she had heard this name.

When Ji Baishan heard his granddaughter’s tone, he realized that she must have met Di Jiu before. “Have you met Di Jiu before, Xiaorong?” he asked immediately.

Ji Xiaorong suddenly had a bad feeling. “Yes, I have. He came to the Swallow University’s Institute of Martial Arts to find me. He told me that he could heal my brother, but I thought that he was a scammer…” she replied hurriedly.

“Where is he?” Ji Baishan asked her as he stood up. His voice was trembling slightly.

He knew why Ji Xiaorong had thought that Di Jiu was a scammer, as Lin Bo and Hu Qianli had mentioned that Di Jiu did not look like a doctor that could perform miracles. In fact, he was too young to be taken seriously.

Hu Qianli suddenly stood up with a pale face and said, “Doctor Di’s medical expertise is the best that I’ve ever seen. If it wasn’t for him, my son would still have been tormented by that disease, or he might even have died. I may not know much about the other things that you have said, but I’m infuriated that you would think that Doctor Di is a scammer.”

Li Xuehua, who was also agitated, immediately apologized, “I’m sorry. Xiaorong did not mean it that way. Xiaorong, tell us where you met Doctor Di. Quick!”

Xiaorong felt that something was wrong, so she replied right away, “Di Jiu came to find me at the martial arts hall. He claimed that he could heal my brother. He looked very young, but I still stopped and listened to him. However, when I asked him about the medicinal uses of Styrax, he could not answer. That’s why I thought that he was a scammer.”

This time, even Lin Bo frowned. Even though Styrax was rare, it was not an exotic herb. He knew that Styrax dispersed a sweet warmth that could refresh the mind and ward off radical Qi, as well as neutralize internal toxins.

It was normal for Ji Xiaorong to know about Styrax, as it was possible that Ji Xiaoting had been poisoned by an Evil Qi. However, it seemed impossible that Di Jiu would not know about it. Could the Di Jiu that Ji Xiaorong had mentioned not have been the real Doctor Di?

As this thought entered his mind, he immediately asked, “Miss Xiaorong, did Di Jiu mention anything else about himself?”

Ji Xiaorong hesitated for a while before she replied, “He said that he had saved a girl named Yumu from a poisonous snake bite on the Wang Chuan Mountain and revived a person lying in the mortuary of the Ai Bo Hospital. Isn’t it obvious that he was lying? Someone lying in the mortuary couldn’t be…”

Ji Xiaorong paused. She felt that something was not right. Everyone was staring at her with a strange expression on their faces.

“Xiaorong, the person who approached you was the very doctor we are looking for. Where is he now? We have to bring him here immediately,” Ji Baishan said in a grave tone.

“Ah…” Ji Xiaorong’s arm started trembling and her crutch fell to the floor. She finally realized that the person she had asked to leave had been the very person the Ji Family was desperately looking for. It had been Doctor Di.