1: Saved the Public Enemy by Mistake, Is It Too Late to Kill Him Now?

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## Summary

Lu Jiu is woken up early one morning by the sound of someone knocking on the front door of his medical hall. He opens the door to find out who it is, only to have the person immediately fall forwards into the property. They are heavily bleeding to the point where Lu Jiu thinks to himself that they should have stopped at the funeral parlor next door instead. The person coughs, revealing that they're still alive, and Lu Jiu reluctantly brings them inside.

With the assistance of Little He, Lu Jiu treats the injured person and bandages him up. At Little He's questioning, Lu Jiu reveals that the person is a cultivator and his spirit core has been forcibly removed. Little He points out that Lu Jiu doesn't treat cultivators, to which Lu Jiu responds that he can't just let the person die outside of his medical hall. He speculates that the person was attacked by a gang of cultivators who weren't holding back.

Little He expresses confusion that someone who looks like a teenager would have so many enemies and Lu Jiu says that cultivators can maintain a youthful appearance and the young man may perhaps have lived for a century and made many enemies. He instructs Little He to throw the man out the back door once he's done treating him, as well as to close the front door and clean up the blood that was left by the person before, saying that the medical hall will be closed for the day. Little He leaves to get to work.

Some time later the person struggles to sit up, shocking Lu Jiu that he's awake already, but immediately collapses back down. The motion disrupts something under the covers and Lu Jiu pulls it out to get a better look at it. It's a jade token with a silver cloud pattern and the character "Liu", leading Lu Jiu to realize the person's identity.

The scene flashes back to a number of cultivators gathered under banners labeled "Justice", discussing how the demonic sect's Paradise Pavilion lord Liu Jianghe jumped off Qianxing Cliff and died. They mention that he's murdered countless people and call him a scourge.

Back in the present, Lu Jiu panics and tries to throw Liu Jianghe out before he wakes up. As a precaution he goes to seal Liu Jianghe's spiritual senses with a needle, but Liu Jianghe suddenly reaches up and stabs his hand on the needle first, revealing that he's awake. He asks Lu Jiu what he's doing, and though Lu Jiu tries to play it off, Liu Jianghe grabs his hand and his neck and accuses him of planning to crack open his skull. Lu Jiu points out that he treated Liu Jianghe's wounds and tries to get free, but Liu Jianghe grabs Lu Jiu's hand tighter. A circle of qi appears around their joined hands and forms into a taijitu before dissolving. Liu Jianghe reveals that he's placed a life and death contract on Lu Jiu, so if Liu Jianghe dies, Lu Jiu will also die. Liu Jianghe then coughs heavily, even coughing up blood thanks to having reopened his wounds. He asks Lu Jiu to save him and promptly passes out. Lu Jiu is in shock for a moment, then shouts for Little He to bring him more medicine. Little He, having just come back from cleaning up the blood out front of the medical hall, is confused because he thought they were throwing the man out, but Lu Jiu just shouts more insistently.