Ruan Qin’s treatment continued for a long time.
Her fingers remained on Su Wan’er’s wrist the entire time, her spiritual power guiding the medicine power of the Qingxuan Yangyuan Pill inch by inch to repair those broken meridians.
Ruan Qin was extremely focused. The medicine power of the Qingxuan Yangyuan Pill was too potent. If left to circulate through Su Wan’er’s body on its own, it could easily cause secondary damage to the freshly healed meridians due to the sheer intensity.
So she had to disperse the medicine power into countless fine threads, guiding each one into different meridians, allowing them to complete the repair in the gentlest possible manner.
It was an extremely tedious process that required an intimate knowledge of the human meridian system and exceptionally precise spiritual power control. Fortunately, Ruan Qin possessed both. She meticulously completed the repair of every single meridian without the slightest oversight.
Ruan Se stood nearby, occasionally handing over a clean silk handkerchief to wipe the sweat from her sister’s brow.
Lai Li’an leaned against a chair by the window, looking off to the side. In reality, he was staring at his system panel.
[Target: Su Wan’er]
[Cultivation: Foundation Establishment Peak]
[Spirit Root: Heavenly Grade Water Spiritual Root]
[Physique: Heavenly Dao Physique (Repairing)]
Lai Li’an stared at that “Repairing” status and sighed inwardly.
‘Could this pill actually have this effect too?’
He sat in the chair and waited. One wait turned into several hours.
Suddenly, the system panel changed.
[Physique: Heavenly Dao Physique (Repair Complete)]
Lai Li’an’s pupils dilated slightly for a moment.
‘The Heavenly Dao Physique… repaired?’
When he’d looked at the system panel before, the physique slot for Su Wan’er had read “Heavenly Dao Physique (Incomplete).” He hadn’t paid much attention to it back then. He never expected this thing could actually be fixed.
He opened his eyes and let his gaze fall on Su Wan’er’s face.
The girl’s complexion had already returned to a healthy rosy color. Her breathing was steady and deep, as if she were in the middle of a pleasant dream.
She looked like she was fine now.
But those four words, “Heavenly Dao Physique,” stuck in his mind like a thorn. He had to pull it out, and he was very curious about what it did.
He pondered for a moment, then spoke.
“Fellow Daoist Ruan.”
Ruan Qin’s fingers remained on Su Wan’er’s wrist. She didn’t look up, only giving a faint acknowledgment:
“Mm.”
“Have you ever heard of… the Heavenly Dao Physique?”
Ruan Qin’s fingers paused slightly, as if she were thinking something over.
“Heavenly Dao Physique? I’ve heard of it.”
She paused, then spoke slowly:
“The Heavenly Dao Physique is an extremely rare constitution. Those who possess it are naturally attuned to the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Energy from birth. Their cultivation speed is several to dozens of times faster than an ordinary cultivator’s. They possess extraordinary comprehension, extremely thin bottlenecks, and almost never encounter obstacles in their cultivation. A realm that would take an ordinary cultivator decades of bitter training to break through might only take a few years for someone with the Heavenly Dao Physique, or even less.”
Lai Li’an raised an eyebrow slightly.
‘Several to dozens of times faster?’
‘No wonder this girl cultivates the Taichu Five Elements Dao Canon like she’s drinking water, and breaks through without breaking a sweat. I thought it was all thanks to her Heaven-grade Spirit Root. Now I see, the Heavenly Dao Physique is the real monster. And that was just the incomplete version.’
“Beyond that,” Ruan Qin continued, “the Heavenly Dao Physique has an even more frightening characteristic. Compatibility.”
“Compatibility?”
“An ordinary cultivator’s physique has a certain degree of rejection toward their spirit root, and there are also conflicts between techniques of different attributes. For example, a cultivator with a Fire Spirit Root who forcefully practices water-attribute techniques will, at best, suffer qi deviation, and at worst, have their meridians completely destroyed. But the Heavenly Dao Physique is different. The Heavenly Dao Physique has an extremely strong tolerance for spirit roots and techniques. In theory, it can be compatible with spirit roots of any attribute and cultivate techniques of any attribute.”
She paused here, lifting her head to glance at Lai Li’an.
“The Dan Sect’s archives record that someone with the Heavenly Dao Physique appears only once in a thousand years.”
“The Dan Sect was founded eight thousand years ago. In all that time, there have only been two documented cases of the Heavenly Dao Physique. The first was the founding patriarch of the Dan Sect. The second was a Grand Supreme Elder from three thousand years ago. It’s said that senior broke through to Nascent Soul before reaching a hundred years of age. Later, he wandered the world and was never heard from again.”
She withdrew her gaze and refocused her attention on Su Wan’er’s pulse.
“The Dan Sect receives no fewer than a hundred genius cultivators from all across the Cangwu Realm every year. Among them are no shortage of extraordinarily talented individuals, and those with top-grade spirit roots are a dime a dozen. But the Heavenly Dao Physique? I’ve never seen one. Even throughout the entire cultivator community of the Cangwu Realm, the words ‘Heavenly Dao Physique’ appear more often in legends than anywhere else.”
Ruan Qin stopped abruptly.
Her fingers rested on Su Wan’er’s wrist, and her entire body went still, as if frozen in place.
Then, slowly, she turned her head and looked at the quiet face on the bed.
Her gaze lingered on Su Wan’er’s face for a long time. So long that even Ruan Se began to feel something was off.
“Sis?”
Ruan Se called out softly.
Ruan Qin didn’t respond. Her gaze was still fixed on Su Wan’er’s face, disbelief churning in her eyes.
Her spiritual power was still flowing through Su Wan’er’s meridians. Those meridians were now completely repaired. The spiritual power flowed through them without obstruction, circulating far faster than that of an ordinary cultivator.
But it wasn’t just the speed. It was how smooth it was. So smooth it was abnormal.
When her spiritual power traveled through Su Wan’er’s meridians, she could barely feel any resistance at all. It was like a boat sailing across a calm lake, with nothing to impede its path.
In an ordinary cultivator’s meridians, spiritual power always encountered some degree of resistance during circulation.
Ruan Qin’s fingers trembled slightly.
She suddenly remembered the question Lai Li’an had asked earlier.
‘So it wasn’t a casual question. He was telling me: look, this girl under your hands, she has the Heavenly Dao Physique.’
Ruan Qin snapped her head up, her gaze shooting directly at Lai Li’an.
Lai Li’an lounged lazily against the back of his chair, the corner of his mouth curved in a faint, knowing smile, as if to say,
“You finally figured it out.”
Ruan Qin’s pupils contracted slightly. She suppressed the raging waves of shock within her.
“She… has the Heavenly Dao Physique?”
Lai Li’an didn’t answer. He only tilted his head slightly.
Ruan Qin’s gaze shifted away from Lai Li’an’s face and settled back on Su Wan’er.
‘The Heavenly Dao Physique, seen only once in a thousand years.’
She had seen countless geniuses and believed she had witnessed all there was to see in the world. But a physique of legendary proportions like the Heavenly Dao Physique, she had never laid eyes on one before.
And now, a possessor of the Heavenly Dao Physique was lying right under her hands, unconscious, under her care.
Ruan Qin’s fingers tightened slightly. Suddenly, she understood something. Why her younger sister was so convinced by this person. Why Meng Qiuran held him in such high regard. Why this man had remained perfectly composed and unflappable from start to finish.
Because he had the confidence to be.
His disciple had the Heavenly Dao Physique. His mastery of the Alchemy Path far exceeded her understanding. And perhaps even his cultivation level was a facade.
With someone like that, what reason did he have to be anything but calm and composed?
Ruan Qin took a deep breath, pushing down the surging emotions within her.
She redirected her attention back to Su Wan’er’s pulse and continued guiding the last wisp of medicine power. The thought she’d entertained earlier about poaching his disciple had been completely abandoned.
A seedling with the Heavenly Dao Physique was not something anyone would willingly hand over.
Since this man surnamed Lai could take someone like this as his disciple, it meant he had either seen through Su Wan’er’s physique or possessed some other means of doing so.
Either way, it proved that his vision and methods were far beyond hers.
Rather than making an enemy of him, it was better to build a good relationship.
Fortunately, her younger sister already had a decent rapport with this person. For the Dan Sect, that might very well be a good thing.
Ruan Qin calculated silently in her mind, her expression revealing nothing.
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