"Yes."
"But these supernatural medicinal materials only work on Black Bodhi. Perhaps it has something to do with it being a tree. The other strange beings tried them several times, but none of them had any effect."
Old Monk said slowly.
"I see..." Jiang Qiao nodded.
Yet he was deeply shocked inside.
If what Old Monk said was true, then following this line of thought, many questions suddenly had entirely different answers.
Strange beings carried vital energy and blood, yet were also filled with age and decay.
This was common knowledge to everyone.
But precisely because it was common knowledge, everyone assumed it was merely an inherent trait of strange beings. No one had ever thought deeply about the possibility that, to strange beings, this might actually be a disease.
Perhaps.
The reason strange beings fell into slumber was not merely their lack of a vessel or their own incompleteness.
The true reason.
Might lie in the aging of their vital energy and blood!
And according to common sense, medicinal materials could cure illnesses, so supernatural medicinal materials could naturally cure supernatural diseases. The senescence that strange beings were born with might perhaps be alleviated through treatment?
And what would happen if a strange being regained its youth?
Jiang Qiao did not know.
Perhaps there were hardly any people in the entire Supernatural Circle who knew either.
As far as he knew, even Durahan had never considered this problem. Although he had mentioned the withering of strange beings' vital energy and blood, he had merely recorded it as a phenomenon.
He had never delved into the reasoning behind it.
"But if the aged vital energy and blood of strange beings is a disease, and supernatural medicinal materials can treat it, then why is only Old Monk's Black Bodhi effective?"
"Is