Chapter 2741 — Beyond the Five Elements
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"Sweat..." Wei Zhao broke into a sweat at Bai Lingtou's words. "Teacher Bai, what are you thinking? There's nothing between Xinyan and me. I believe her lethargy is caused by something else!"
"Something else? What do you mean? Are you saying there's something wrong with her body?" Bai Lingtou was, after all, a man versed in medicine, and he grasped the crux of the matter at once. "Tell me," he asked.
"You could put it that way. It's a long story..." Wei Zhao then recounted to Bai Lingtou in detail how, ever since the military training, he had discovered that the peculiar fragrance on Wang Xinyan could be used for cultivation. By now Wei Zhao regarded Bai Lingtou as another of his masters, and so he concealed nothing from him.
"Oh? Wang Xinyan has this ability?" Bai Lingtou was rather surprised. "Could it be that this is because of her special constitution?"
"It's connected to her constitution? What kind of constitution is it?" Wei Zhao was taken aback and asked at once.
"What exactly her constitution is, I don't know either, but from what I have found in the ancient texts, this phenomenon of hers should be caused by the fact that the testing bead cannot identify her constitution!" Bai Lingtou said. "Such a constitution must be a special one that transcends the Five Elements. Such exceptions are extremely rare!"
"Oh? A special constitution?" Wei Zhao could not help being shocked at Bai Lingtou's words. "Beyond the Five Elements, there are special constitutions as well?"
"Yes, there are some special constitutions, though they are relatively rare among cultivators and exist mostly among spirit beasts. Many spirit beasts' attributes transcend the Five Elements," Bai Lingtou said. "Wind, lightning, healing, and so on—these are special existences among spirit beasts rather than Five Elements cultivators."
"So that's how it is." Wei Zhao nodded, and his thoughts turned to the Wind-Thunder Violet Lightning Beast—it must belong to the wind element, surely? And he wondered whether Sun Jingyan might also possess a special constitution beyond the Five Elements; her mental cultivation formula was peculiar as well, and she was probably not a cultivator within the Five Elements either.
"So the condition you describe in Wang Xinyan should be a manifestation of this special constitution. The specifics I don't yet know, but you have given me the general direction, and I will keep it in mind," Bai Lingtou said. "The pressing matter is this: stop using the fragrance from her body to cultivate, and let us see how things turn out."
"Yes, that was my decision as well." Wei Zhao nodded. "Then I'll have to trouble you with the rest, Teacher Bai."
"Ha, trouble? What trouble? I'm your teacher; answering your questions is only proper," Bai Lingtou said with a smile.
Because of these discussions with Wei Zhao, Teacher Bai had delayed his regular class time.