Rebirth: The Time-locked Girl

Being selected for the Su Family Elder Group does not depend on age or gender, but rather on merit and strength, which then determine the rankings.

If a successor's abilities surpass those of the elders, they will immediately replace the predecessor after a competition and a family meeting have concluded.

The current Great Elder and Second Elder are both over eighty years old, while Su Yingxia is still a year shy of fifty, which speaks to the prowess of her medical skills.

"It's really troublesome to call on Sister Yingxia so late at night," Ye Wanlan's eyes softened slightly as she nodded lightly, "If there's anything I can help you with in the future, I will make sure it's done."

"You're too polite, Ah Lan," Su Yingxia said with a slight shake of her head and a smile, "You're Little Yu's friend, of course, I want to help to the end. I'll accompany you for the surgery."

She didn't ask why Ye Wanlan knew medical techniques; her sixth sense told her that there was much about the young girl that was impenetrable.

"Okay," Ye Wanlan turned her head, "Dean, don't let anyone near the fourth floor until Sister Yingxia and I have completed the surgery."

The dean quickly responded, "No problem."

He always felt there was something odd about her seniority, but he couldn't point out where the oddness lay.

After changing into surgical gowns, Ye Wanlan and Su Yingxia entered the operating room.

Ye Wanlan first took out the two herbs she had received and began processing them to extract their essences.

"Jasperry and Mountain Spirit Liquid?" Su Yingxia was startled, "Ah Lan, how did you get these...?"

The names of these two herbs sounded ethereal, but they were extremely toxic substances that even she dared not touch lightly.

Because a slight mishandling during processing could instantly lead to death by poisoning, not to mention using them on patients.

Su Yingxia watched Ye Wanlan's movements and suddenly understood: "I see, fighting poison with poison. These two herbs combined can act as a powerful tonic to heal the patient's legs."

"Yes," Ye Wanlan kept her eyes fixed on the reagent bottle, "Fortunately, it's still within twelve hours, otherwise, even these herbs couldn't save him."

Indeed, the Taiyi Divine Doctor was known in Jianghu as a being who could contest with fate, even for those who were on the brink of death, but every ailment had a golden period for rescue.

"Yes..." Su Yingxia sighed softly, "Three hundred years ago, our ancestor was just ten seconds late, and couldn't save Marshal Huo's life. Otherwise, we might have had a chance to turn defeat into victory."

Ye Wanlan looked up: "Ancestor?"

"The last Palace Master of my Taiyi Palace, Shui Yunqing," Su Yingxia explained, assuming Ye Wanlan was not familiar with the history of Taiyi Palace and the Su Family, "In those days, she led the Taiyi medical practitioners to the battlefield to save the Divine Strategy Army, but unfortunately, they were still too late."

Among the Six Great Sects, the Divine Strategy Army was the only one that received strong support from the Imperial Court.

Because the founder of the Divine Strategy Army was a marshal who had helped the Grand Ancestor Ning to conquer the world, and the initial intention of establishing the Divine Strategy Army was still to protect Shenzhou.

Divine Strategy Military, spears like dragons, shaking heaven and earth!

Three hundred years ago, when foreign enemies invaded, the Divine Strategy Army, being in the field and battling, became the first sect to be annihilated with no one left to carry on the lineage.

Compared to Taiyi Palace and Great Purity Sect that still had descendants, the Divine Strategy Spear Technique was completely lost.

Ye Wanlan was silent, not saying a word. After extracting the essences of Mountain Spirit Liquid and jasperry, she dipped the Silver Needle into the essence fluid and began to perform acupuncture on Lin Woyu.

With a needle placed, she said to Su Yingxia, "Sister Yingxia, please follow my treatment on the left leg."

Su Yingxia concentrated fully and inserted a Silver Needle into an acupoint on Lin Woyu's left leg.

The atmosphere in the operating room was tense until the last Golden Needle went down.

"Shua!"

The meridians instantly cleared, and the bruising began to fade gradually.

With this, Lin Woyu just needed to rest in bed for a while, and his bones would also heal.

"I never thought there was such a method for treating legs," Su Yingxia murmured, "I've never seen it before in my entire medical career."

Although the Su Family had lost the latter seven parts of the Taiyi Divine Needle technique, it didn't mean they would cling to the old ways to make a living.

In the past three hundred years, several gifted disciples had developed new methods of treatment.

"Next, we need to work together to wake the patient up," Ye Wanlan wiped the sweat from her forehead and breathed out, "I'll administer the next needle, then Sister Yingxia, you'll follow with one."

"Alright, no problem." Although she said so, Su Yingxia couldn't help feeling a bit nervous.

After sterilizing the Silver Needle again, Ye Wanlan slowly inserted it into an acupoint on Lin Woyu's shoulder and reported the next acupoint to Su Yingxia.

Even so, both of them had beads of sweat on their foreheads, clearly running low on energy.

Moreover, Ye Wanlan had been in control of her own body for less than two months, which wasn't enough to sustain her through the surgery on her own.

"Ah Lan!" Su Yingxia promptly supported her, and upon feeling her pulse, her expression changed involuntarily, "You need to take good care of yourself first!"

Such a young age, yet so frail.

"I'm fine, just very tired," Ye Wanlan said with a faint smile, "Only eighteen needles left, can't stop now."

She steadied herself and continued with the next needle.

This time, without Ye Wanlan stating the location for the next needle, Su Yingxia accurately followed with another puncture: "It should be right here."

Ye Wanlan's expression relaxed a bit, "That's the spot, Sister Yingxia is impressive." Check for the latest updates on My Virtual Library Empire (M-VL-EMP-YR).

After all, Su Yingxia was one of the Su Family elders, and her strength was certainly above that of Shen Que, the holy hand of the nation's physicians.

After the initial round of needle insertion, even without Ye Wanlan's guidance, Su Yingxia was now able to pinpoint the locations of the rest of the needles.

After all, the truly skilled practitioners of the Su Family's medical techniques never appeared in any public event to prevent being persecuted by those with intentions.

It was just last century when two core members of the Su Family travelled far to the Global Center, but were assassinated on their way back home.

The plane crashed into the sea, and its wreckage has been unfound to this day.

And these two core members were just twenty years old at the time.

Since then, the Su Family has been much more cautious.

As the last needle was placed, Su Yingxia frowned at the numerous gold and silver needles embedded in Lin Woyu's body.

Suddenly, she blurted out, "Is this also the Taiyi Divine Needle?!"

If it wasn't the first three parts which she had already mastered thoroughly, then it could only be one of the latter parts!

Su Yingxia immediately recalled a section she had once read in a book—

"Taiyi Divine Needle Volume Five" involves inserting silver needles into the body with gold needles as a supplement, which can activate the consciousness of Wooden Stiff and accelerate their awakening.

Su Yingxia's heart shook.

It was the fifth part of the Taiyi Divine Needle!

Su Xueqing didn't know, the younger generation of the Su Family also didn't know; in fact, over the years, the Su Family had already discovered the fourth part of the Taiyi Divine Needle, and about half of the fifth part was also composed.

But regarding the method to "awaken the Wooden Stiff" recorded in ancient books, the Su Family was still powerless.

But now, Su Yingxia had not only witnessed but also participated in this treatment!

As the wife of Rong Jingqiu, of course, she knew of the prophecy within the Rong Family.

Could it be… Ye Wanlan was the one who would change their fate?

"Ah Lan, rest assured, I will not speak of today's incident to anyone," Su Yingxia slowly said, "Neither will Rong Jingqiu nor Rong Yu."

She knew the importance of the matter, and she also knew that walls have ears.

Right then, Su Yingxia had only one thought—

Protect Ye Wanlan at all costs, no one should hurt her adopted sister!

**

The director had been anxiously waiting outside the operating room until two hours later, when daylight had fully broken, the lights of the operating room finally turned off.

The door opened, and Su Yingxia helped Ye Wanlan out.

The director hurried over, "Miss Ye, the rest area is ready for you, please go and rest."

"I'm okay," Ye Wanlan smiled faintly, "I need to eat something first, is there any food?"

"Yes, of course!" The director nodded repeatedly, "Please come this way, Miss Ye."

"Miss Ye."

"Student Ye!"

Yan Tingfeng and Rong Yu, who had also been waiting outside, both rose to their feet.

Seeing the girl's pale complexion, Yan Tingfeng's expression tightened slightly as he stepped forward and took her hand.

The hand was cold, lacking its previous warmth.

Rong Yu, however, was stunned in place, "Mom?!"

His dad had shown up, but why was his mom here too?

This was not going to end well, was he going to endure a brutal beating even though he was away from home?

Su Yingxia looked at him, "Why aren't you sleeping at this late hour, what are you doing?"

Without thinking Rong Yu blurted out, "I immediately came over when I heard that something had happened to Student Ye's family."

As soon as he finished speaking, he instantly covered his mouth, his heart in his throat, fearing his mother might beat him on the spot for wandering around in the middle of the night.

"You have a conscience at least," Su Yingxia said, "My child has finally grown up, and I am relieved."

Rong Yu: "???"

Something was off about the turn of events!

Yan Tingfeng promptly took out a box of pastries and watched Ye Wanlan finish eating, "Feel better now?"

"A bit, but I'm still hungry," she replied.

"Hmm, I'll accompany you to eat some more, and then you can get a good rest," he suggested.

Yan Tingfeng looked up to see a lock of wet hair on her forehead, and instinctively reached out to push it aside.

The next second, he withdrew his hand, "I apologize."

Ye Wanlan was unconcerned, "Let's go."

Ye Wanlan spent a full hour eating before she finally felt her strength restored.

"Ah Lan!" Just getting the news, Lin Huaijin rushed over, "You all really scared me to death!"

Ye Wanlan looked up, "Uncle, it's okay, Aunt will wake up in a few more hours."

"I was worried about you! You didn't come home all night," Lin Huaijin panted, "Mom, you should rest too. I'll stay with Woyu."

Lin Weilan was indeed tired. She waved her hand, about to say something, when she received a call from an unfamiliar number.

"Mom, it's me, Bai Jingxue."

Lin Weilan's expression turned cold, "What is it?"

"Madam, I won't beat around the bush. I have arrived in Jiangcheng for the custody of Lin Yue and Lin Qin," Bai Jingxue said with a slight smile, "Since their mother has turned into a vegetable, we shouldn't delay the children's future, don't you think?"

Of the entire Lin Family, he only feared Lin Woyu. But could Lin Woyu wake up?

She couldn't.