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Especially when they saw the two girls looking exactly as expected.
Yuhengzi closed her eyes. “The first matter is resolved. Now for the second.”
“Song Qingyao, we cannot investigate the situation inside your spiritual root, not even you yourself.”
“There’s even your own water spiritual root separating you from it. You can’t establish contact either.”
“There is only one way to solve this.”
Elder Wei’s face changed instantly. “Yuhengzi, you!”
Yuhengzi ignored Elder Wei completely and continued, “Break and rebuild. Destroy your spiritual root.”
Hearing this, both Song Zhiyou and Song Qingyao were stunned.
Destroying one’s spiritual root was nearly the same as destroying one’s cultivation. But now Elder Yuhengzi was asking Song Qingyao to do exactly that.
“Yuhengzi, what if your guess is wrong? What if there’s no extra ice spiritual root inside her root, just some other illness?”
“That’s exactly what I’m about to say,” Yuhengzi interrupted Elder Wei. “If there is an ice spiritual root within yours, you can connect with it, reshape your Dao body, and be free from the backlash and loss of control.”
“But if there is no ice spiritual root and my judgment is wrong, then you will become a complete cripple from now on.”
“Of course, there is a second option. You should have noticed that as your cultivation improves, the once fatal backlash is now less severe. You can continue cultivating. Perhaps in a few more years, the ice spiritual root’s backlash will be something you can easily suppress.”
After speaking, Yuhengzi sighed, gave Song Qingyao one last look, then fell into a deep sleep.
She had reached her limit.
The entire room fell into a deathly silence.
Elder Wei frowned. “Don’t listen to her nonsense. What break and rebuild? Come back with me to Xuantian Sect. There might be other methods.”
“Even if Xuantian Sect has no solution, your backlash isn’t serious now. You still have more time to think about this.”
“If you become a medical cultivator with your water spirit root, it would be excellent. There likely won’t be any more backlash.”
Backlash usually only erupts during battle. If Song Qingyao became a medical cultivator, such situations would decrease drastically.
“Thank you… Elder.” Song Qingyao spoke blankly, her face still pale.
Elder Wei nodded, about to comfort her further, when Song Zhiyou suddenly spoke. “Our Xiao Qi won’t become a medical cultivator. She doesn’t want to be one.”
Song Qingyao froze, staring blankly in Song Zhiyou’s direction.
Elder Wei was also startled, then immediately scolded.
“Nonsense! This is a matter of life and death, and you’re encouraging her?”
Before he could finish, Song Qingyao suddenly gathered her courage.
“Elder… It has nothing to do with my sister. I don’t want to be a medical cultivator.”
As she spoke, her gaze became resolute.
Elder Wei looked at the sisters incredulously, his brows furrowed, his fingers trembling with anger.
He had already calmed the girl down. There was no need to break any spiritual root.
But now, the two of them were more reckless than the other!
“Do you realize that if there is no ice spiritual root in yours, or if something goes wrong when destroying your root, the lightest outcome is becoming a cripple, the worst is dying without a burial place?”
“I know!”
“And you still want to try?”
Song Qingyao got off the bed, straightened her back, her eyes growing brighter.
“Yes, I want to try! If becoming a cultivator means I have to be so timid, barely surviving, then how can I pursue the Great Dao?”
“You… you simply…”
Elder Wei was so angry he could hardly speak. Before he could say anything, Song Zhiyou had already stepped in front of Song Qingyao.
“Elder, how about we make a bet?”
Elder Wei fumed, beard bristling. “At a time like this, you want to bet with me?”
“Bet on whether my Xiao Qi can rebuild her spiritual root and become a mutated ice spiritual root!”
“If I lose, I voluntarily give up my status as an inner disciple of Xuantian Sect and leave with Xiao Qi. If I win, hehe… Elder, how about giving my excellent Xiao Qi a Tianjiao status and benefits, plus a storage pouch, twenty thousand spirit stones, and three bottles of pills?”
Song Qingyao grabbed Song Zhiyou’s sleeve, her nose stinging again.
Seeing Song Zhiyou grinning and winking at him, Elder Wei was about to lose his mind.
“Fine, fine! Neither of you listens to advice. I’ll take your bet!”
With that, he flicked his sleeve, turned, and carried Yuhengzi out of the room.
But after closing the door, the anger on his face vanished instantly.
A trace of recollection passed through his eyes. He shook his head and couldn’t help but chuckle.
The next second, he met Song Zhiyou’s gaze straight on.
Elder Wei: “???”
What was this little brat doing out here?
Elder Wei’s smile disappeared. His expression stiffened again.
“What do you want now, girl?”
“Thank you for the Tianjiao spot, Elder Wei!”
Song Zhiyou bowed deeply to him, then ran off after shouting.
Elder Wei’s face darkened again.
He had a feeling that Xuantian Sect would become exceptionally lively in the future.
He didn’t know if that was good or bad.
But all of this depended on Song Qingyao pulling through.
As for how much chaos the two would cause if they joined Xuantian Sect, that wasn’t something he, as the recruitment elder, needed to worry about.
Song Zhiyou hadn’t come out just to see Elder Wei’s expression change.
She closed and locked the door, then took out the Bagua Sky-Covering Array she had retrieved from Zhao Nan, inserted spirit stones, and activated it.
Song Qingyao followed behind Song Zhiyou, watching her set up the array and bring a large bowl of water into the room.
After arranging everything, Song Zhiyou mysteriously reached into her sleeve.
Song Qingyao didn’t know what she was going to take out. But just as her hand was about to emerge, she suddenly smelled an incredibly refreshing, unique fragrance.
If Elder Wei were still here, he would have found this scent very familiar.
It was the Qiongjiang Jade Lotus.
Song Zhiyou placed the Qiongjiang Jade Lotus into the basin.
The lotus instantly unfurled. The fragrance seemed to recede, but gained an indescribable spiritual charm.
Song Zhiyou then poured a small bottle of Qiongjiang Jade Dew into Song Qingyao’s mouth.
Song Qingyao, still dazed, was manipulated by Song Zhiyou, who pressed her shoulders and made her sit cross-legged.
Song Zhiyou’s expression turned serious, looking directly into Song Qingyao’s eyes.
“Song Xiaoqi, I am absolutely certain and affirmative that there is a mutated ice spiritual root inside your water spiritual root, and it’s the best kind, the ultimate mutated ice spiritual root.”
“So don’t be afraid. Just stay firm.”
“I am right here beside you.”
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