Chapter 16: High Man

  In the following days, Ye Han made a stunning performance in class, and his score even jumped from the bottom to tenth place in the whole class in a routine test later on, shattering many people's glasses, and for a time became the focus of discussion among all teachers and students.

  A student who was originally mediocre became excellent in both character and learning in just a few days, which can't be said to be anything but a miracle.

  For Ye Han's transformation from "bad to good", Xia Zixuan, as the class teacher, was very pleased and happy. In order to set up a learning model for other students in the school, Xia Zixuan also made a special trip to Ye Han's home to conduct a home visit, wanting to understand what reasons led to Ye Han's transformation. However, she didn't get any clear answers because even Ye Han's parents didn't understand what had happened to their second son.

  As for this, Xia Zixuan could only understand that Ye Han was previously young and ignorant, but now that he's growing older, his mind is starting to mature, and he knows how to be considerate of his parents' hard work and understand the teachings of his teachers.

  Right after that test, Xia Zixuan moved Ye Han's seat from the last row corner to the middle of the fourth row. None of the students expressed any objection, as everyone had witnessed Ye Han's progress.

  These days, Ye Han naturally did not give up on cultivating the "Yin Yang Five Elements Jue", but every time he sneaked out, he no longer locked the courtyard gate from the inside. Instead, he directly climbed over the wall and left, then before his family woke up, he would climb back over the wall and return home, doing it all without anyone being aware of it.

  "The Immortal Doctor's Gate" entered the Tao through medicine, so Ye Han first cultivated the wood pulse in the five elements. After several days, he ran around a range of dozens of miles, cultivating and absorbing some wooden spiritual energy in places with dense trees. The green wooden spiritual energy in his dantian had increased to twice its original size when it was first formed, although it was still very weak. However, the medical skills Ye Han learned in his past life could already be used with the assistance of this small amount of wooden spiritual energy.

  In addition, Ye Han also tried every means to find many Chinese and Western medical books in this world to browse. For some useful parts, he remembered them firmly, but for most of the medical knowledge, he was filled with disdain. For example, some patients had a cold, fever, headache, and cough. For Ye Han, as long as they took two or three days' worth of medicine, they could be cured, and the cost would not exceed tens of dollars. However, when they went to some hospital doctors, they would rather have the patient undergo a thorough examination from head to toe, then have them hospitalized for intravenous drips, and spend thousands of dollars. Not only did this make the patients suffer, but it also wasted a lot of money.

  When he had nothing to do, Ye Han specially opened a prescription and handed it over to his father, saying that it was obtained from an old Chinese doctor who knew his friends, specializing in the treatment of stomach diseases, with good results. Ye Kui didn't think much of it, but Yang Xiuying took an attitude of trying it out, went to the Chinese medicine store according to the prescription, grabbed a few doses of medicine back and decocted them for her husband to drink. Unexpectedly, after taking several doses of traditional Chinese medicine, Ye Kui's stomach disease, which had been troubling him for many years, improved significantly. In the past, he would get sick every three or two days, suffering from pain and vomiting, but now he no longer suffered from that kind of torture.

  According to Ye Han's words, as long as his father insisted on drinking two or three more courses of treatment, the chronic stomach disease that had plagued him for many years would be completely cured. Ye Kui and his wife naturally no longer doubted it, and at the same time, they were grateful to the old Chinese doctor whom Ye Han knew, and several times wanted to buy some gifts to thank him in person, but were repeatedly put off by Ye Han with excuses.

  During this time, Ye Han and Tang Shuang had a chance encounter at the school gate. When Ye Han asked about Tang Shuang's grandfather's health, she said that it was sometimes good and sometimes bad. Her parents had already invited a renowned expert in cardiology from abroad to perform surgery on her grandfather in the next few days, hoping for a good outcome.

  To Ye Han, the so-called "operation" in this world was nothing to sneer at, because he knew that once a person's body was cut with a knife, some of their vital energy would be lost, which was actually a kind of disguised harm to the patient. However, although he didn't think much of it, judging from Tang Shuang's tone, her family seemed to have great confidence in that authority expert in the international medical community, so he couldn't say anything else. He just left Tang Shuang with the words "come find me if you need anything".

  That evening after school, Ye Han and Ye Zhuang walked home along the pedestrian path as usual. When they passed by a small alley on the west side of the school, more than a dozen people rushed out from inside and surrounded them. One of them was none other than Bao Ge, who colluded with underworld youths, dominated the campus, and extorted "protection fees" from students. Most of the others were Bao Ge's underlings. Only one young man standing beside Bao Ge seemed not to be a student of Municipal No. 1 Middle School based on his attire.

  As autumn approached, the weather had already cooled down, but the young man was still wearing a black tank top, paired with a pair of dark blue jeans, and on his feet were a pair of military-style black leather boots. With his height of around 185cm, slicked-back hair, slightly dark skin, and piercing eyes, he looked exactly like a tough guy from the underworld.

  "Brother Leopard?" Seeing Brother Leopard and the others, Ye Zhuang's body trembled slightly, but he immediately thought of how they had been brutally beaten by Ye Han that night. His courage surged, his chest puffed out again, and he sneered coldly: "Liu Bao, wasn't it enough to taste the fists of our Ye family's patriarch that day? Do you want to ask for another beating?"

  Leopard Brother's real name is Liu Bao, but after he made a name for himself in the Number One Middle School campus, he forbade others from calling him by his own name again, uniformly referring to him as "Leopard Brother" to show off his awesomeness.

  Brother Leopard had a cigarette in his mouth, and when he heard Ye Zhuang call him "Liu Bao", he immediately sneered and said, his eyes suddenly cold. He took a few fierce puffs of smoke, then spat a cloud of smoke onto Ye Zhuang's face. His gaze turned to Ye Han, and with a sly smile, he said: "Damn it, I didn't expect you to be so good at fighting, you little punk! Hmph, but don't get too cocky, today I've invited someone to help me take revenge! If I don't teach you a lesson, how can Brother Leopard still hang out in school?"

  When he mentioned "high man", Ye Zhuang and Ye Han's eyes turned to the young man with a shaved head beside him at the same time.

  "Leaves... Old Master Leaves..." Seeing the robust appearance of the young man with a shaved head, Ye Zhuang felt a lot of pressure and his original confidence disappeared. He swallowed some saliva and moved closer to Ye Han's side, feeling that it was safer this way.

  Ye Han patted his shoulder, indicating that it was nothing, then smiled and said to Bao Ge: "Liu Bao, right? How much protection money have you collected in the past few days? Hmm, the money we robbed from you last time is almost gone, I was thinking of going to find you for more, didn't expect you to deliver it to my doorstep... Come on, hand over all the money on you, I won't hit you! Otherwise..."

  "Damn, go to hell!" Leopard Brother heard that he still remembered his "protection fee" at this time, and couldn't help but get furious, sternly interrupting him and indignantly saying: "When death is near, you're still so arrogant, not seeing the coffin doesn't bring tears! Hui Ge, help me beat him up!"

  "How dare you scold my brother! I'll beat you to death!" Ye Zhuang had always admired Ye Han, and when he heard Bao Ge scolding him, he immediately got angry, rushed forward, raised his hand and punched Bao Ge's chest.

  Bao Ge wasn't a match for Ye Han, but he was more than enough to deal with Ye Zhuang. Seeing Ye Zhuang swing his fist to hit him, Bao Ge sneered and lifted his leg, delivering a swift side kick. Although he hadn't practiced any martial arts, his fighting experience was very rich. In terms of combat power, he was far superior to Ye Zhuang. This kick was both fast and ruthless, and it seemed like it would land squarely on Ye Zhuang's abdomen.

  Just as Leopard was about to kick, Ye Han's figure flickered and he took a step forward, reaching out to grab Ye Zhuang's collar and gently pulling him back. Ye Zhuang only felt himself retreating like the wind, and by the time he reacted, he found that he had already been pulled away from Leopard, while Ye Han had taken his place, facing Leopard head-on.