Volume 11 Chapter 75 Ancient Nieyao. Madman Gewu.

Xiacang Anxi continued to develop over the centuries, converting forests and mountain paths into new roads, except for one area that was immutable. Said area remained proof that Xiacang Anxi was once a primitive land at least half a millennium ago. There wasn’t a building that wasn’t damaged and rotten without creatures dropping by. There was a palace caked in dust to the point it wasn’t recognisable. In reality, the buildings were complete twenty years ago.

Nieyao was replete with snakes, not just any snake but lethally poisonous ones, a white python that could crush parts of a forest with its sheer size, tigers, leopards and wolves craving fresh flesh, as well as venomous insects. All the skeletons and fragments of once complete body parts strewn across the city were a by-product of the fighting between its unfriendly residents. Whether it was classified a cemetery or den for fiends, neither would be wrong.

Sitting on his seat constructed from beast bones and cushioned with tiger fur, Nanjiang’s best shaman physician heaved a heavy breath. “Your qi meridians have been severed, and the true qi in your dantian has been expunged. The qi residue inside you prohibits any external force from entering your body. It is a miracle you can talk and walk.”

The man reclining in his seat had an appearance more frail and aged than his physician. “… Just give me the conclusion.”

“If only your meridians were severed, then your internal discipline was erased. This old one could have found a way to expel the energy within you. Unfortunately, the method used to sever your meridians…”

Ingenious and merciless were the words that the physician never enunciated. While the method wasn’t lethal or peculiar, every pathway for true qi to travel through had been split by the inches. The physician already tried ten approaches. If it wasn’t for Gewu glaring at him, the physician would’ve walked off already because he had never come across such a case in the decades he had been practicing.

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