Chapter 1208 — The Yin-Cold Qi
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"No... or rather, not for the moment." Old Man Wei sighed. "As for this illness, I have consulted a great many ancient texts and visited a great many people, and to this day I have only a rough conjecture."
"Oh? What is it? Tell me!" Wei Zhao's heart sank when he heard the old man say there was none, but he still refused to give up hope; he wanted the old man to say more about Feng Xiaoxiao's illness, to see whether he might find some way to break it.
After all, he still had Jiao Yazi; once he discussed it with him, there was no telling — there might just be a solution.
"How shall I put it... Xiao Chuchu's illness closely resembles being poisoned by gu, though whether it truly is gu I cannot say — at any rate, it looks much the same." Old Man Wei said, "Back then I visited Xiao Chuchu's hometown and had Feng Tianlong obtain her clan genealogy through the Mysterious Investigation Bureau, and I discovered something!"
"Xiao Chuchu? What did you find?" Wei Zhao asked at once.
"Xiao Chuchu is Feng Tianlong's wife," Old Man Wei said. "Xiao Chuchu's ancestor must have been something like a high priest — a Dharma Protector of some sect. Her forebears for generations were all Protectors, but for some unknown reason her branch broke away from the original sect, or perhaps the sect itself perished; and so they lost their cultivation method, and lost the way to guide the yin-cold qi within their bodies. That is what brought about the present tragedy..."
"Yin-cold qi?" Wei Zhao had not expected so much story to lie behind it all, and could not help being astonished. "Then what should I do now? Old man, what do you mean by saying there is no cure for the moment? Does that mean she can still be cured?"
"Yes, yin-cold qi. This yin-cold qi grows weak when it meets the strong: given a suitable cultivation method and a fitting way of training, it will slowly be made to serve the cultivator, becoming an aid to his true qi and raising his own strength! That is to say, when the strong one is the master, the yin-cold qi is the assistant; but in Feng Tianlong's wife and daughter — and in the generations before them — the yin-cold qi was master and they were the assistants! So naturally their bodies would run into trouble." Old Man Wei explained, "This yin-cold qi is much like the gu poison in Ergoudan's body: it devours the nourishment within the body! And as one grows older, the yin-cold qi grows too, until at twenty it reaches full formation; then the body's nourishment reaches the critical threshold of being devoured, and there is no possibility left but for the yin-cold qi to swallow up the body's vitality."
"This..." Wei Zhao was visibly moved as he listened. So this was Feng Xiaoxiao's condition — no wonder that whenever he touched her hand, it had always felt so cold and icy...
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