The other party might be illiterate, but they are by no means stupid. In the face of absolute power, anything he did was meaningless.

“I must kill him, I have to find a way to kill him!!” David Thompson roared madly in his heart.

His right hand unconsciously gripped the edge of the stone bed, and as he shouted the last sentence in his mind, the veins on the back of his hand bulged.

With a “crack,” he forcibly broke off a piece of the hard stone bed.

This change caught David Thompson off guard. He looked at his hand, then at the stone he was holding. He immediately realized this was the effect of the pill.

It wasn’t just his strength—other aspects had changed as well. David Thompson even felt his eyesight had improved. That pill made David Thompson feel as if he had been reborn.

But as soon as he thought about how he had obtained this ability, David Thompson felt sick all over again.

“Senior Thompson? Are you alright?” Lily White cautiously poked her head in from the doorway.

David Thompson looked up at her with a complicated expression, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Lily White took a step forward and said, “Senior Thompson, you really don’t need to blame yourself. We all know you had no choice. If… I mean, if Master asks me to go again, you don’t have to switch with anyone else. After all, everyone’s fate is the same.”

David Thompson didn’t want to talk about this with her. Seeing the blood on her forehead, he took out a pill he had refined earlier and handed it over. “Take it, it’ll stop the bleeding.”

Lily White saw the pill in David Thompson’s hand and shook her head in fear. “I won’t take the pill, absolutely not.”

David Thompson gave a dry laugh and casually tossed the pill on the ground. “Yeah, all medicine is three parts poison. It’s really not good to take it.”

Lily White bit her lip, thought for a moment, and then asked David Thompson, “Senior Thompson, are you planning to go against Master?”

David Thompson’s expression changed, and he nervously looked toward the door, quickly rushing over to close it.

“It’s fine, Master can’t hear us right now. Master relies on ‘Mr. Young’ to keep watch. Every time there’s a big market day, ‘Mr. Young’ has to go back for the market.”

“What is ‘Mr. Young’?” David Thompson asked in confusion. This was the first time he’d heard the term.

“‘Mr. Young’ is just ‘Mr. Young’. You can’t see or touch it. I heard from my grandpa that only highly skilled experts can command them.”

“Oh?” David Thompson’s heart stirred, and he made a mental note of this point. This information was extremely important to him.

“When is the big market day?”

Hearing this, Lily White looked at him in confusion. “The first and fifteenth of each month are market days, Senior Thompson. How do you not even know that? Didn’t your parents ever take you to the market?”

David Thompson shook his head. The memories in his mind—whether real or imagined—proved that he had only ever lived in the city and had never participated in such rural market gatherings.

“Senior Thompson, let’s get back to the main topic. Are you really planning to go against Master?”

David Thompson’s expression hardened. “Of course. I wish I could eat his flesh and drink his blood!”

Lily White took a deep breath and nodded firmly. “Then, Senior Brother, count me in. I want to help with this too!”

David Thompson looked at the young girl before him and her determined gaze. Lily White might not be as weak as he had imagined.

“Alright, you’re in.” David Thompson agreed. He really did need some help right now.

After thinking carefully for a while, David Thompson said to her with a serious expression, “The two of us aren’t enough. Go to the herb storeroom and keep an eye out. See if there’s anyone else who’s dissatisfied.”

Others might not dare to resist Daniel Thompson, but the medicine servants in the storeroom were doomed to die anyway. There were bound to be some who were unwilling to accept their fate. This was a fundamental conflict, and among these people, there would definitely be some he could win over.

“Okay.” Lily White nodded and turned to leave.

After sitting for a while, David Thompson picked up the round jade pendant tied to his waist. He thought of the senior brother who had failed to escape.

“Brian Thompson, Brian Thompson, was it like this when your group gathered together back then? I hope I won’t end up like you.”

In the period that followed, David Thompson began to fully immerse himself in life at Qingfeng Temple, keeping the herb storeroom meticulously organized, both people and things.

Faced with such a diligent disciple, Daniel Thompson naturally had to reward him. He taught him all sorts of basic pills, as if he truly intended to train him as a disciple.

These ordinary pills weren’t very effective—at most, they allowed David Thompson to treat minor colds and external injuries.

Moreover, David Thompson didn’t know if it was just Daniel Thompson’s pills or if all pills in this world were like this, but there was always a limit to them. If you took too many, medicine for illness would become poison.

There were also taboos—you couldn’t mix them, and mixing them could easily cause problems.

Rather than saying David Thompson could now be a clumsy doctor, it was more accurate to say he was now a qualified poisoner.

The pills weren’t the key. The key was that through this contact, David Thompson’s relationship with Daniel Thompson gradually warmed.

Sometimes, the other party would even let David Thompson assist him while refining pills.