Innate Cauldron Saint Body

Hearing this, Zhao Wanqing and Liu Feng were both startled.

As people who knew the field, of course they understood what Lin Heng's metaphor meant.

But he could determine their young lady's illness merely by touching her and observing her tongue?

"Young master's words are correct. My body is indeed like that. I can feel an endless stream of spiritual energy seeping into my body, but the spiritual power I can expel is pitifully little. Every day, I can only endure the pressure from my internal organs and circulate my qi method to discharge a portion of the spiritual power."

"But if things continue at this speed, in less than three years, my body will burst apart and I'll die because it can no longer bear being filled to the brim with spiritual power."

Her coughing from time to time was because the qi method needed to operate through the heart and lungs. Over time, the pressure on her lungs and the severe overload of their function had left her with a lung disease.

Her lungs would only get worse and worse.

Seeing that Lin Heng knew a thing or two, Liu Feng hurriedly asked, "Young master, is there any way to treat it?"

Lin Heng glanced at him and ignored him.

Now he thought to call him young master.

He really did not know whether to call him grass bending with the wind or someone desperately loyal to his master.

"I won't hide it from you, Lady Zhao. This is also my first time seeing a situation like yours. First, you're only an ordinary person, without even a spirit root. Second, I can't see any special physique in you either."

"Or rather, this illness of yours could be given its own physique name all by itself."

"To put it bluntly, if this physique of yours were compared to anything, it more or less has the flavor of a cauldron."

Lin Heng was willing to name it: Innate Cauldron Saint Body.

"C-cauldron..." Zhao Wanqing's expression changed. That was hardly a pleasant word.

"Lady Zhao, don't be nervous. I'm only making a comparison. Think about it. Right now, you're only an ordinary person. You want to refine the spiritual power inside you through cultivation methods, but because of your spirit root and bodily issues, you can't cultivate."

"From a cultivator's perspective, a cauldron differs from the mutually beneficial system of Dual Cultivation. Instead, it's a one-way extraction... so the method I can think of is to use a means of harmonizing yin and yang to absorb away the abundant spiritual power inside you."

Lin Heng tried to phrase it as tactfully as possible.

The situation was just like this now. If Zhao Wanqing could solve the problem of excess spiritual power through self-refinement, she would not be standing here all sickly and frail.

And to absorb spiritual power through external conditions, the other party had to be a cultivator, and they also needed to have an abundant capacity for storing spiritual power.

For example, Lin Heng.

Of course, it was not that he was recommending himself, but rather that his cultivation path differed greatly from other people's. His unique Spirit Wheel System completely removed any concern about excess spiritual power.

"Impossible. This is too absurd." After hearing this, Liu Feng was the first to step forward and disagree. "Wouldn't that truly be treating my young lady as a cauldron!"

A mobile furnace that could serve as a continuous storage vessel for spiritual power—no one could accept that description.

"You can't put it that way. Your young lady is doing this to save her life. Since it concerns her life, she has to pay some price no matter what.

"If two people were truly in love with each other, wouldn't that be a beautiful thing?"

One could alleviate her illness and preserve her life, while the other could obtain a great amount of spiritual power and improve their own cultivation.

After Lin Heng said this, Zhao Wanqing seemed to have a new line of thought opened up, and her eyes widened round.

That was right!

If she found someone she liked... it was not exactly impossible.

Thinking this, her cheeks reddened slightly, and she raised her eyes to glance at Lin Heng again.

Ever since Lin Heng had cut the Gordian knot and saved her in Zigu, he had left a trace of mysterious goodwill in her heart. Add to that her mother saying he was the noble benefactor of the Zhao Family.

A Child of Destiny bearing Dragon Qi—with all kinds of buffs stacked together, it would be hard not to feel goodwill toward him.

"Lady Zhao, I have to take back what I said yesterday morning!"

"What did you say?"

"I'm actually a good person." Lin Heng grinned and held out a finger, striking a pose he thought was very handsome. "If it really reaches the point where there's no other choice, you can consider me first."

Looking at his chuunibyou gesture, the corners of Zhao Wanqing's mouth could not help but lift.

From the bottom of her heart, if it were anyone else acting like this, she might not be able to like it.

Yet Lin Heng's personality just happened to be reserved and cool while also mixed with a little bit of playful oddness, which was actually rather likable.

"All right. If that moment truly comes, I hope Young Master Lin will be willing to act and save my life."

"Huh?"

This answer left Lin Heng somewhat surprised. She had actually agreed seriously to something he had said half-jokingly.

However, he did not think too much about it, treating it entirely as a polite response to brush things off.

"What the hell, what kind of wolf-and-tiger words are these! Young lady actually indulged him in making such a frivolous joke!! What right does this brat have?" A storm of curses rose in Liu Feng's heart!

After the family head passed away, he, as an uncle-like elder, had served as both servant and bodyguard while protecting Zhao Wanqing as she grew up. From the bottom of his heart, he had long regarded her as half a daughter.

He had not had much goodwill toward Lin Heng to begin with, and after this little exchange, he found him even more unlikable.

Ding, Main Storyline has begun:

(Orthodox) Main Storyline mission: After the Auction officially begins, Ye Tian will obtain an unrivaled treasure. You will face even more crises, and the future will become difficult to predict. Reward index: top grade

(Anti) Main Storyline mission: Seize the initiative and take the treasure from Ye Tian's hands, adding a bargaining chip to your odds of victory in the future. However, the road ahead of you remains filled with fog. Perhaps this is your most important choice. Reward index: unknown

"The mission came right at the limit. The interface popped out the moment the Auction officially began."

Lin Heng shook his head inwardly. He had already had an answer in his heart.

If he wanted to proceed according to the orthodox mission, there would have been no need for him to come to Swallow Cloud City.

It was not as if he had not read the rough plot of the "Beauty Record." Every treasure on the original protagonist Ye Tian's body was a heaven-defying object. If he let him get all the treasures, who in the later stages could possibly rival him?

Lin Heng stood up and took out the Detailed List again. The Detailed List contained only brief categories and did not include detailed names or descriptions.

The first three auction items were weapons forged in Maple Leaf Town. Most likely, they were meant to let the people on the first floor fight over something lively.

Maple Leaf Town—though its name sounded unremarkable, it was the most famous land of weapon forging on the Heavenly Profound Continent.

The Heavenly Profound Continent's Ten Famous Swords and Three Deadly Weapons all came from this place, which showed the vastness of its reputation.

It was not bound by the Dynasty and formed its own faction. It could be viewed as a loose sect, because the people there all made a living by forging weapons, including both cultivators and ordinary people.

Treasure Pavilion, fourth floor.

Among the Thirteen Cities of the Western Continent, the forces of four City Lord's Mansions and six Justice Bureau branch forces were divided between the northern and southern sides of the Chamber.

At this moment, Ye Tian was also holding the Detailed List, familiarizing himself in advance with what items there were.

Only, his expression looked very flustered. His left eye was filled with bloodshot veins, and the eye socket was terribly red and swollen.

Last night, Yun Yao had punched him twice in the eye with two solid bangs, and he still had not recovered even now.

"Could she have discovered the matter of the Sunfall Pill? But in the state she was in back then... her consciousness was already blurred. She couldn't possibly have sensed there was a problem with the pill."

"That country bumpkin Lin Heng couldn't possibly recognize the pill either. If he gave the Sunfall Pill to Senior Sister to eat, then with two kinds of Spring Poison breaking out together, a man would have to be used as the antidote."

The moment the image of Lin Heng secretly plucking the peach behind his back appeared in his mind, he immediately denied it.

"No... Lin Heng doesn't have that much nerve. If he dared to lay hands on Senior Sister, with my understanding of her, she would absolutely slice him to pieces."

"Could it be... because our support came too late? If Lin Heng and I had arrived a few hours later, maybe Senior Sister really would have been defiled by that beast from the City Lord's Mansion!!"

Ye Tian suddenly came to a realization.

Right!

It had to be like this!!

Right now, he and Lin Heng were in a relationship where if one flourished, both flourished, and if one suffered, both suffered. If the Sunfall Pill was exposed, not only would Lin Heng be finished along with him, he himself would also be dragged into disaster.

At present, there was only one possibility: Lin Heng had seen the pill and become greedy, secretly hiding it away without giving it to Yun Yao to take.

"A country bumpkin is a country bumpkin. Good thing he didn't botch this matter." Ye Tian let out a long breath, his eyes filled with disdain as he thought inwardly, After this, I absolutely have to get that pill back from him!