Chapter 1209 — None of the Methods Work
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"I see..." Wei Zhao was suddenly vexed. So his good intentions had wrought harm? All that true qi he had poured into Feng Xiaoxiao had not helped her in the least, but hurt her instead? As for a Heaven-stage master of an utmost-yang heart method — that was beyond him for the present; and the old man had said this was only a stopgap to prolong life, good for a time but not for a lifetime, a trouble that would return. So Wei Zhao turned his eyes to the second method. "Old man, if there is a first, does that not mean there are others as well?"
"There are. Legend tells of a fruit called the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit — a fruit of pure yang, imbued with the utmost yang spiritual qi of heaven and earth. One fruit taken can suppress the yin-cold qi in the body for decades. Of course, it varies from person to person: some may be suppressed for a lifetime, while others for only eight or ten years. Still, it is a comparatively reliable method." Old Man Wei said, "At the very least, far more reliable and safer than the first."
"Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit? I have never heard of such a thing. What is it?" Wei Zhao was startled; of such a thing he had never heard a word.
"I don't know either." Old Man Wei's words were like a basin of cold water dashed over his head.
"Uh..." Wei Zhao wanted to swear. You don't know, so why say it? Isn't that just empty talk? Still, he choked down his anger and asked, "Old man, if you don't know, then why say such a thing?"
"I only read a description of this fruit in some old pharmacopoeia — it is a sovereign remedy for dispelling yin-cold poison. But what the thing actually looks like, and where it is to be found, that I do not know." Old Man Wei sighed. "If I could find it, I would have gone looking long ago. Why wait until now?"
Wei Zhao thought it over and had to admit the old man was right. If he knew where to look, he would have gone long ago; it was he himself who was too impatient, and had overlooked that.
"Then this method is only a legend? Most likely it cannot be done at all?" Wei Zhao asked, dejected.
"Yes — unless you can find a Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit and have her try taking it," Old Man Wei said with a nod.
"Is there a third method?" Wei Zhao asked.
"A third... you could say there is. Find a supreme heart method and oral formula of the yin-cold attribute and let her cultivate it. When she has cultivated it to the Heaven stage, perhaps she will then be able to guide the yin-cold qi in her body and make it serve her." Old Man Wei thought for a moment, then said.
"This..." Wei Zhao was left speechless. Never mind how hard such a supreme yin-cold heart method and oral formula would be to find — even if one were found, in the weather and environment of a city she could make no progress in cultivating it; and even if she made some progress, to reach the Heaven stage was difficult beyond words... And beyond all that, the most important point: Feng Xiaoxiao lay in a coma — how was she to cultivate at all? So Wei Zhao could only say, "Isn't that just empty talk?"
"It is empty talk — because from the very beginning I said I had no method." Old Man Wei sighed.