"Have you seen a doctor?"
Cultivators possess strong bodies, immune to a hundred diseases. Ordinary poisoning and injuries can be resolved with the use of Elixirs. Doctors have not been rendered obsolete, as medicine and Alchemy are intertwined. Many doctors are also Alchemists.
"The doctor prescribed Purifying Spirit Pills, but I can't afford them. I'm only hanging on thanks to two doses of medicine."
"Go and invite the best doctor from the Inner City. Don't worry about the Spirit Stones."
Jia Ren spoke a few words to Yun Niang, then waited quietly.
Yun Niang hesitated for a moment but still went to fetch a doctor. In less than the time it takes to drink half a cup of tea, she returned with a doctor, an older man with a white, peppered beard.
"The situation is very severe," the doctor stated gravely. "If delayed for another two days, the poison will penetrate deep into the bone marrow, and there will be no hope of recovery."
