Supreme God Reborn as the Disgraced Son-in-Law

The Master Wager

"Step aside." Doctor Sun shoved his way into the humid underground cavern.

The doors closed behind them. The Jiangbei underground medicinal market smelled of crushed dried roots.

Hundreds of stalls lined the damp stone walls.

Thousands of desperate buyers and secretive sellers crowded the narrow dirt aisles.

Doctor Sun walked down the main path with his head held high. The underground market was his true domain. He was not just a modern hospital chief.

He was a highly respected Master Apothecary in the hidden world of traditional pill refiners.

Vendors dropped their weighing scales the moment they saw his white coat. Several stall owners rushed out from behind their tables to bow deeply in respect.

"Welcome Master Sun." A wealthy herb merchant smiled broadly. "We saved the premium century ginseng for you."

Doctor Sun ignored the merchant and stopped in the center plaza of the market. He turned around and pointed an accusing finger directly at Ye Tian.

"Listen to me everyone." Doctor Sun projected his loud voice to draw a massive crowd. "Look closely at this boy."

Dozens of merchants and buyers stopped their negotiations. They gathered around the plaza to watch the spectacle.

"He is a con artist." Doctor Sun shouted to the crowd. "He is trying to scam the Su family with a fake potion. He plans to feed boiled mud to the dying Patriarch."

The crowd erupted into angry murmurs. The merchants glared at Ye Tian. They noted his youth and the complete lack of an apothecary guild badge on his chest.

"He looks like a street rat." One vendor spat on the dirt floor.

"Throw him out of the market." Another customer yelled. "Do not let him buy our sacred herbs."

Ye Tian stood calmly in the center of the hostile crowd. He looked at Doctor Sun with profound boredom. The old doctor was a noisy insect demanding to be crushed.

"I will not let you murder Patriarch Su." Doctor Sun sneered and crossed his arms. "To ensure you are exposed as a fraud we will hold a public test right here."

"Speak your terms." Ye Tian replied softly.

"I wager ten million yuan." Doctor Sun pulled out his phone and displayed his bank balance to the crowd. "We will both brew a medicinal potion. We will test it on the sick beggars at the edge of the market."

Doctor Sun pointed to a line of impoverished sick people sitting against the far wall.

"Whoever has the fastest and most effective medicine wins." Doctor Sun declared. "If you kill your patient or your medicine fails you will confess your crimes to the Su family and go to prison."

The sick beggars along the wall perked up immediately. They dragged their diseased bodies forward. They were desperate for free medicine from the famous Master Sun.

"Please choose me Master Sun." An old man with rotting lungs begged on his knees.

Ye Tian agreed to the terms. He turned away from the boasting doctor and began walking toward the herb stalls. He had a specific shopping list to fulfill.

Doctor Sun wasted no time. He grandly showed off his decades of refining experience. He commanded his assistants to buy the most expensive ingredients in the market.

He purchased premium snow lotus sliced deer horn and aged tiger bone. He rented a large bronze brewing cauldron from the market overseer.

Doctor Sun controlled the flames under the cauldron with practiced precision. The fragrant smell of rich medicinal soup filled the entire cavern.

The crowd watched in silent awe as the Master Apothecary worked his magic.

"The soup is ready." Doctor Sun announced proudly after thirty minutes.

He poured the steaming golden liquid into two porcelain bowls. He walked over to the old man with rotting lungs and a younger man suffering from severe chronic joint pain.

"Drink this." Doctor Sun ordered.

The two beggars swallowed the hot soup eagerly. The results were nearly instantaneous.

The old man began coughing violently. He turned red and spat a wad of black phlegm onto the cobblestones. Then he took a deep full breath.

"My chest." The old man wept tears of joy. "The heavy weight is gone. I can breathe again."

The younger beggar groaned as his twisted joints popped loudly. He slowly pushed himself off the dirt floor. He stood straight up on legs that had not worked properly in five years.

"A miracle." The younger beggar shouted to the cavern. "Master Sun is a living god."

The onlookers erupted into massive applause. Vendors cheered and clapped their hands.

"Within one or two days your ailments will be completely eradicated." Doctor Sun boasted loudly. He soaked in the adoration of the crowd.

Doctor Sun turned his smug face toward Ye Tian.

"Give up boy." Doctor Sun laughed. "No medicine in the world works faster than mine. You cannot beat a master."

Ye Tian did not look up from his small clay pot. He finished quietly grinding and mixing his ingredients. He did not buy snow lotus or tiger bone.

He bought cheap bitter weeds toxic black ash and discarded snake skin. He used a fraction of his true Qi to perfectly extract the raw essence from the garbage herbs.

He poured the result into a small unassuming glass vial. The liquid was pitch black and smelled like bitter earth.

Ye Tian walked past the cheering crowd. He ignored the beggars begging for easy cures. He walked to the darkest corner of the market wall.

He approached an impoverished mother wearing ragged clothes. She sat in the dirt weeping silently. She cradled a frail dying little girl in her lap.

The little girl was burning up with a fever. Her skin was terrifyingly pale despite the heat radiating from her body. Her lips were cracked and bleeding.

She was completely unresponsive. She had not spoken a single word in four months.

"What are you doing?" The mother looked up in terror as Ye Tian approached.

The crowd noticed Ye Tian target. They erupted into vicious verbal abuse.

"You arrogant monster." A vendor screamed. "She is already dead. You are using a corpse for a stunt."

Doctor Sun walked over and scoffed at the sight of the dying child.

"You are truly cruel." Doctor Sun shook his head in mock pity. "That child organs are already shutting down. Her illness is too late to cure. Modern surgery could not save her now."

"Your ignorance is exhausting." Ye Tian looked at Doctor Sun.

Doctor Sun face turned purple with sudden rage. He hated the sheer audacity of this young vagrant.

Doctor Sun pointed a shaking finger at Ye Tian face. He decided to raise the stakes to completely destroy the boy.

"If that mud water of yours can pull that girl back from the gates of hell I will quit." Doctor Sun shouted at the top of his lungs.

The crowd went silent to listen to the master vow.

"I will personally revoke my National Medical License." Doctor Sun sneered. "I will fall to my knees in this dirt and become your student."

Ye Tian looked back down at the dying girl. The narrative of mortal medicine meant nothing to him. He was not guessing.

He had scanned the entire underground market with his Divine Sense the moment he walked through the iron doors. He felt the exact energetic signature of the little girl.

She did not have a virus. She suffered from a highly rare pure Yang meridian blockage. Her body produced too much fire energy and it was cooking her internal organs.

Doctor Sun premium golden soup would have killed her instantly. It was full of hot Yang herbs.

Ye Tian specifically bought the cheap toxic weeds. They contained absolute Yin poison. The poison was required to counteract and neutralize her burning Yang energy. He brewed the dark liquid exclusively tailored to her unique illness.

"Hold her head steady." Ye Tian knelt in the dirt beside the mother.

The mother looked at the black liquid. She had nothing left to lose. The hospitals had sent her daughter home to die a week ago.

She nodded weakly and tilted her daughter head back.

Ye Tian unstopped the glass vial. He poured the dark bitter liquid past the girl's cracked lips. He stroked her throat to force her to swallow.

The crowd held their collective breath. Ten seconds passed in total silence.

Suddenly the little girl eyes shot wide open. They rolled back into her head exposing the whites.

Her tiny body violently convulsed. Her spine arched off her mother lap.

"She is seizing." The mother screamed in absolute horror.

"He poisoned her." A vendor shouted in panic. "Murderer. Grab him."

The market security guards drew their heavy wooden batons and rushed through the crowd. Doctor Sun smiled cruelly. He prepared to watch Ye Tian get dragged off to prison.

The little girl suddenly leaned forward over her mother arm.

Splat.

The girl vomited a puddle of foul black toxic sludge onto the dirt floor. The sludge hissed and steamed in the cool air. It was the neutralized remnants of the Yin poison and the Yang fire.

The guards stopped their charge. They stared at the steaming puddle.

The little girl stopped shaking. She slumped back into her mother arms.

The heat radiating from her tiny body vanished instantly. The terrifying pale color left her skin. A healthy warm flush flooded back into her sunken cheeks.

She blinked her bright eyes several times. The cloudy haze of the fever was completely gone.

She looked up at her weeping mother.

"Mommy." The little girl spoke her first clear words in months. "I do not hurt anymore. I am hungry."

The entire underground cavern went dead silent.

The only sound was the hissing of the boiling sludge on the floor. The merchants dropped their jaws. The security guards lowered their batons in pure shock.

They just witnessed a dead child come back to life. They witnessed a cure that defied every known law of medical science.

The mother let out a wail of profound joy. She squeezed her daughter tightly against her chest.

She dropped to her knees. She grabbed Ye Tian's pant legs and pressed her forehead against his shoes.

"Thank you." The mother wept uncontrollably. "You are a god. Thank you for saving my baby."

Ye Tian reached down and gently placed his hand on the mother shoulder.

"Stand up." Ye Tian said softly. "You do not need to kneel to me."

He helped the weeping woman back to her feet. The little girl smiled at him and wiped her mouth with her sleeve.

Ye Tian turned around. His ancient cold eyes locked onto Doctor Sun.

Doctor Sun stood frozen in place. His face was completely devoid of color. He looked like a man standing on the gallows waiting for the floor to drop. His medical coat suddenly felt like a heavy shroud.

The master apothecary realized he just witnessed medical technique that surpassed human comprehension. The dark mud water was a miracle.

Ye Tian walked slowly toward the trembling old man. The crowd parted instantly to give the Sovereign a wide path.

Ye Tian stopped two feet away from Doctor Sun. He extended his open hand. His voice held the absolute unyielding authority of the Nine Heavens.

"You owe me ten million, your license and your knees." Ye Tian stared into the old man's terrified eyes. "It is time to collect."