Chapter 1414 — Chen Yuxuan's Sigh
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In a case like Chen Yuxuan's, even once the wounds healed his strength would surely not hold. To remain at the Yellow rank would already be a stroke of fortune; to break through to the Mystic rank again was all but impossible — unless there was the legendary Meridian-Unblocking Pill, but that was something only the hidden families possessed. An ordinary family could never have it.
"Lingshan, this time, I was a man about it!" At the thought, Chen Yuxuan could not help saying proudly. "I'm hurt, yes, but from now on Yu Feng probably won't pester you anymore. It was worth it."
"Thank you..." Qiu Lingshan murmured. "Yutian, you're a good man, but matters of the heart can't be forced. I..."
By rights, with all Chen Yuxuan had given up for her, Qiu Lingshan ought to have said something; but she truly felt nothing for him, and all she could do was resolve in secret to make it up to him in some other way.
"Ha, I know!" Chen Yuxuan cut her off. He knew she had just handed him a good-guy card, but he had already made his peace with it and was no longer tangled up in the question. "Lingshan, don't talk about that. Wei Zhao is my closest friend — I could even call him my master. My strength came from him, and since I lost it, so be it; let it be as if it never was. Even if when I recover I'm not Mystic rank but only Yellow rank, that's still not bad..."
What worried Chen Yuxuan was not himself but his family. With an injury this grave, the Chen family was, he feared, truly done for.
"But... the Chen family, Grandpa Chen..." Qiu Lingshan was torn inside. Though Chen Yuxuan had not said it, she understood perfectly well that the Chen family was likely finished — struck from the ranks of the great families. The only way to preserve the Chen family's standing was a marriage alliance between the Song and Chen families. But that marriage — she truly could not accept it.
"Ah... that is my one worry too..." A flicker of loss crossed Chen Yuxuan's eyes. "I don't know how heartbroken Grandpa will be when he hears. Not long ago I told him I had broken through to the early Mystic rank — the old man laughed for three whole minutes!"
"Apart from the Meridian-Unblocking Pill, is there any other way to restore your strength?" As she said this, Qiu Lingshan made up her mind: if there was, then whatever the price, however bitter the hardship, she would help Chen Yuxuan find it.
"There's... only the Sun family left... I've heard the Sun family's cultivation method is a healing one; it can repair a cultivator's damaged meridians. But most of the Sun family have only cultivated the first layer of it, and a physician can heal only one person — he cannot heal a second. That is to say, once the method is used, it cannot be used for anyone else... So the Sun family is not likely to heal me..." Chen Yuxuan smiled bitterly. "Unless the Chen and Sun families were to form a marriage alliance. But... why would the Sun family ever look twice at the Chen family?"