Chapter 2887 — Little Nine's Illness
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"Those questions I asked before—can you answer them now?" Wei Zhao held Yang Qiqi in his arms. After a long while, seeing that she still said nothing, he asked.
"Ah..." Yang Qiqi gave a slight start, and her face flushed at once. She hurriedly said, "Mm... my father—there's still no word of him. He hasn't contacted us again. My mother and the others are terribly worried, but there's no way to reach him. Home is all right, only that after Father left, our influence and standing are nothing like they were before. And as for cultivation, Father never left behind any connections in that world either. That is why I came out to search so hard for medicine for Little Nine!"
"So that's how it is..." Wei Zhao nodded. Indeed—back then, though his master had been renowned in the secular world of assassins, he had left Wei Zhao no connections at all in the world of cultivation. That was why Wei Zhao had struggled so bitterly all this time. Had he belonged to a good sect like Zhang Naipao's, he would not have had to labor so hard, nor risk such dangerous trials just to obtain Qi-Gathering Pills and Ice Heart Jade Bone Pills. "Little Nine—how is she, really? From the way you've been acting these past few times, her condition seems very grave?"
"Yes. The spirit medicine I traded for at the cultivators' market failed when we tried to use it, so I had no choice but to search again for things connected to earth-attribute spirit beasts. The Dragon of the Five Baleful Spirits is a five-attribute spirit beast, and its claws are of the earth attribute. That is why I came here," Yang Qiqi said. "As for Little Nine's problem... honestly, I don't fully understand it myself. I had people from the Overseas Cultivators' Association examine her. They said it is because there is too much earth element within her body, and it has never been activated. At first the symptom was that she could not walk with her legs; now it grows worse and worse—her entire lower body is limp and utterly without strength, like a puddle of mud. It keeps worsening. If she is not treated in time, in the end she will be like a victim of rickets, and her whole body will go limp..."
"Rickets?" Wei Zhao was slightly taken aback. But one thing he could be certain of: Little Nine's illness was absolutely not rickets. Old Man Wei had not been able to diagnose it back then—how could it possibly be rickets? Something else struck him as strange, though: "That spirit medicine from the earth-attribute spirit beast last time—how did it fail?"
"The Overseas Cultivators' Association is, after all, different from the birthplace of martial cultivation here. They have skilled masters over there, but they are not at all clear about certain ancient legends. It was only after consulting a great deal of material that they reached their conclusion—that the earth element in Little Nine's body could be suppressed with things taken from earth-attribute spirit beasts. But as for how to suppress it, and how the parts taken from the spirit beast should be used, there was no correct method at all; one could only grope one's way forward!" Yang Qiqi smiled bitterly. "Last time, after I went back, I mixed it into water and had Little Nine soak her body in it, but it had no effect whatsoever..."
"Too much earth-attribute essence?" Wei Zhao frowned slightly. Why did it sound rather like Feng Xiaoxiao's case back then? The only difference was that Feng Xiaoxiao had had too much yin-cold attribute, while Little Nine had too much earth-attribute essence.
But in a matter like this, Wei Zhao was not quite sure whom to ask. The only ones he could turn to now were Leader Bai or Old Man Wei.
At that thought, Wei Zhao first called Leader Bai. After all, Old Man Wei had known of Little Nine's condition before and had examined her, yet had no good solution either, so Wei Zhao decided to ask Leader Bai first.