With the disturbance caused by Li Guangzhi, Ning Luoxi lost the desire to continue her tour. Moreover, she feared that Li Guangzhi might return to seek revenge on Ding Fan. While Ding Fan was able to fight, he couldn't handle multiple attackers alone, and the Li family's power was still too great.

Whether or not to visit Tiger Head Mountain was of little interest to Ding Fan; he was only accompanying Ning Luoxi, after all. Now that she wanted to return, he naturally had no complaints, and they promptly took a car back together.

Back at the clinic, Ding Fan helped Ning Zhanshan go through another round of acupuncture. After this session, the vital energy Ning Zhanshan lost due to his severe illness had recovered, and his complexion was now much improved.

After dinner, whether intentionally orchestrated by Ning Luo Mountain or not, the medicine shop was left with just Ding Fan and Ning Luoxi.

Under the locust tree in the backyard, after closing the shop for the evening, Ning Luoxi brought out some watermelon and melon seeds. She and Ding Fan chatted about all sorts of things.

Ding Fan quite enjoyed such moments—the shade of the locust tree, the gentle breeze, and the company of a beautiful woman. He had no improper thoughts, but having a stunning beauty to accompany him in the cool breeze and chat while eating watermelon was surely a pleasant affair.

"Brother Fan, your acupuncture skills are incredible. My dad is considered a great traditional medicine expert in Dongcheng, and he says he's not as good as you," Ning Luoxi gushed with admiration as she spoke to Ding Fan.

Ding Fan smiled modestly. "Your father is overpraising me."

"Not at all, Brother Fan, you really are amazing. My dad's illness was late-stage cancer, which the doctors at the big hospitals couldn't treat, but you cured him in no time. How could you not be amazing?"

As Ning Luoxi spoke, she handed a piece of watermelon to Ding Fan.

"Brother Fan, can I ask you for something?" Ning Luoxi's charming eyes sparkled with a cute expression as she looked at Ding Fan.

"I have to go back to Dancheng tomorrow, so I won't be able to accompany you to Tiger Head Mountain," Ding Fan hurriedly said.

Since Zhou Ruoran's escape from danger, Ding Fan hadn't seen her. Although Lin Qingqing was taking care of her, he still felt uneasy not having seen Zhou Ruoran safe. It was for this reason that Ding Fan informed Qin Manshu in advance that he would report to the hospital in three days.

"I'm not that keen on fun, and besides, I asked you to accompany me to Tiger Head Mountain because I just wanted to spend time with you...." Ning Luoxi's voice trailed off, softer and softer, but after giving Ding Fan a sharp look, she pouted slightly.

Seeing Ning Luoxi's childish demeanor, Ding Fan chuckled. Since Ning Luoxi's father recovered, her mental burden had been lifted, and her naturally playful and unrestrained side was fully revealed—utterly adorable...

"Brother Fan, I'm really serious this time, but if you feel disinclined to agree, you can just say so..."

Observing Ning Luoxi's unusually serious demeanor, Ding Fan nodded solemnly. "Alright, if it's within my power to help, I will."

"Brother Fan, your medical skills are amazing, and I want to become your disciple. I want to learn medicine from you," Ning Luoxi said earnestly, her eyes void of any jest.

"Learn medicine?" Ding Fan was taken aback; he hadn't expected Ning Luoxi to want to learn medicine from him. "Luoxi, aren't you about to start working at Qin's Group? Why do you want to learn medicine?"

"What you don't know, Brother Fan, is that our Ning Family's Fengming Hall was once very influential in Dancheng. It's said that one of our ancestors was an Imperial Physician who treated the emperor. I'm not sure about the Imperial Physician part, but my grandfather and great-grandfather were indeed renowned doctors in Dancheng.

However, for some reason, our family's fortune declined gradually, and by the time it reached my father, only the Ning Family's medicine shop remained.

Since I was very young, my father has worked tirelessly to rebuild Fengming Hall. But the medical books left by our ancestors have been lost, and my father's medical skills, which are not very advanced, could only provide marginal support. Rebuilding Fengming Hall has been extremely difficult."

Hearing this, Ding Fan started to comprehend Ning Luoxi's words; she wanted to help her father achieve his unrealized dream of learning medicine to rebuild Fengming Hall.

"Luoxi, may I ask about the ring on your neck—who gave that to you?" Ding Fan didn't respond to Ning Luoxi's previous question and instead pointed at the ring on Ning Luoxi's neck.

Ding Fan's primary objective for this visit was to inspect Ning Luoxi's storage ring. Having heard Ning Luoxi mention that her ancestors were divine physicians, he now had a suspicion that perhaps one of Ning Family's ancestors was a cultivator who had pursued the path of medicine.

"Are you referring to this ring on my neck?" Ning Luoxi touched the ring. "My father told me that my grandfather personally put it on me when I was very young. It should be a relic left by the Ning Family's ancestors, but it's probably not worth much."

Indeed!

Ding Fan's eyes brightened; this object was indeed a legacy left by the Ning Family's ancestors. Since the ring was a storage ring, it meant that someone among the Ning ancestors must have practiced cultivation.

"Could you let me have a look at that ring?" Ding Fan asked.

Ning Luoxi found Ding Fan's request somewhat peculiar, but she didn't say much and obediently took off the ring from around her neck, handing it over to him.

Ding Fan took the storage ring in his hand and scanned it with his Divine Sense, but there seemed to be a Prohibition on the exterior of the storage ring, preventing his Divine Sense from penetrating it.

However, Ding Fan didn't mind at all. The storage ring had not yet acknowledged a master, and once it had, he would be able to freely inspect the contents within it.

An item that had acknowledged a master could only be probed and even communicated with by the owner's Divine Sense. Others were unable to do so.

Right then, Ding Fan bit through the tip of his index finger, causing Ning Luoxi, who was aside, to be taken aback. She really didn't understand why Ding Fan needed to do this.

However, she didn't interrupt him. In her view, there was a reason behind everything Ding Fan did.

A blood drop fell onto the storage ring, and promptly Ding Fan circulated his True Qi. Soon, the blood drop on the ring started to transform, acting like a cleaning agent, and in a flash, it had washed away all the tarnish on the surface of the ring.

Seeing this change, Ning Luoxi, who was watching from the side, couldn't believe her eyes. Having been educated in atheism for so many years, she had no way of explaining what was happening before her.

Despite being astonished, Ning Luoxi remained silent, simply watching Ding Fan with nervous eyes.

As the tarnish vanished, the storage ring held in his hand began to emit a slight warmth, and Ding Fan felt delighted inside. He knew that the storage ring had acknowledged him as its master.

Ding Fan immediately swept his Divine Sense into it, and to his surprise, it had a space ten meters square within it.

This size couldn't compare with the storage ring Ding Fan had before, which was large enough to fit five or six soccer fields. However, something was better than nothing. At least with this storage ring, Ding Fan would find it much more convenient from now on.

Ding Fan probed into the storage ring, wanting to see if the previous owner had left any treasures for him.

At that moment, in a corner of the storage ring, there indeed lay a book inscribed with the characters for 'Mystical Medical True Teachings' written in seal script. It was a medical book, and beside it was a porcelain bottle. Additionally, scattered nearby was a Lingzhi mushroom that must have been at least three to four hundred years old, not spoiled due to being dried.

Ding Fan was overjoyed. Last time, in the ruins of Immortal's Peak, he found only a small segment of Spiritstone Essence, but this time not only had he acquired a storage ring, he also found a Lingzhi mushroom.

As for the porcelain medicine bottle, Ding Fan hadn't yet had a chance to examine it, but he felt it likely contained treasures as well.

Right away, Ding Fan took out the 'Mystical Medical True Teachings' from the storage ring.

Ning Luoxi, who was beside him, was completely dumbfounded. She hadn't understood where Ding Fan had produced the medical book from.

Before, Ning Luoxi mentioned that this storage ring was a heritage passed down by her ancestors and that the ancestral medical book had been lost. At this moment, Ding Fan suspected that the 'Mystical Medical True Teachings' inside the ring might very well be the lost medical book of the Ning Family.

Full of curiosity, Ning Luoxi moved closer to Ding Fan.

Ding Fan didn't force the issue with Ning Luoxi; after all, the ring originally belonged to her, and he had no right to pressure her. Besides, Ning Luoxi was naturally kind-hearted, so Ding Fan wasn't worried that she would turn against him.

Ding Fan opened the medical book, and on the first page, aside from the four large seal characters for the title 'Mystical Medical True Teachings', there were also two lines of small text in the bottom right corner.

As they were written in seal script, Ning Luoxi couldn't understand them.

Although Ning Luoxi didn't understand, Ding Fan could read them, as seal script was the common writing system in the Cultivation World, so this posed no difficulty for him.

He translated the seal script on the spot,

"Descendants of the Ning Family, diligently cultivate, use medicine to enter the way, fall from the mundane and rise to sainthood..."

Upon hearing this, Ning Luoxi realized that the book in front of her was indeed the ancestral medical book the Ning Family had lost many years ago.

With a look of disbelief, she regarded Ding Fan. The treasure missing for so many years had been found by Ding Fan so effortlessly. Ning Luoxi was becoming ever more convinced that there was nothing Ding Fan couldn't do in this world...

Ding Fan flipped through the book from the first page with great speed. In a short while, he had read through the entire tome, and now he was even more certain that this was indeed the Ning Family's ancestral medical book.

However, the medical book was extremely esoteric and difficult to comprehend. Some of the contents were completely disconnected from modern medicine; they were from two different worlds. Pondering, Ding Fan felt that even if he gave the book to Ning Luoxi, it wouldn't be of much use to her.

"Luoxi, this medical book belongs to your Ning Family, but after looking through it, I think it's unlikely for you to grasp it easily. If you're willing, though, I could teach you…" Ding Fan said indifferently.