Since You're a Filial Child, You Shouldn't Trade Your Body for Medicine

Mother Jiang, lying in bed, seemed to hear her daughter's voice. With difficulty, she lifted her heavy eyelids, her cloudy gaze slowly sweeping over Li Changsheng before her.

Seeing that he was merely a boy whose youthful innocence had yet to fade, her cracked lips moved slightly, but she did not even have the strength to speak.

She could only shake her head gently, her eyes filled with exhaustion and helplessness.

She had long seen through the state of her own body. Even high-level healing Soul Masters were powerless—how could a young boy possibly defy fate and change her destiny?

She took it as a child's careless boast. She did not want her daughter to rejoice in vain, and feared even more that her daughter would ultimately collapse in despair.

Seeing the dim look in her mother's eyes, Jiang Nannan's nose stung, and her eyes instantly reddened.

The suffering of these past years, the helplessness, the despair of seeking treatment everywhere only to be turned away—all of it surged into her heart at that moment, filling her chest with bitter grief.

Li Changsheng stepped forward, his expression calm and composed throughout, without offering any unnecessary words of comfort.

"Move aside a little. Don't interfere with the flow of divine power," Li Changsheng said softly.

Jiang Nannan immediately came back to her senses and hurriedly stepped aside to the bedside, holding her breath.

Her beautiful eyes remained fixed on Li Changsheng's every movement. Her heart pounded violently in her chest, and even her fingertips trembled faintly from tension.

Li Changsheng slowly raised his right hand, and a gentle pale-green radiance instantly blossomed from his palm.

It was unlike the weak, thin, pallid glow of ordinary healing Soul Masters, which carried the exhaustion of soul power.

The divine power of life in his palm was supremely pure, vast and majestic. It was warm as spring sunlight—soft, yet containing an unimaginable abundance of vitality.

A faint green glow spread through the room, instantly dispersing the gloomy, deathly air that had lingered in the bedroom for so long. The entire dim room suddenly became warm and bright.

Threads of green flowing light, seemingly alive, drifted slowly from Li Changsheng's palm and gently enveloped Mother Jiang's frail body.

Under Jiang Nannan's watchful gaze, the power of life flowed continuously into her body through her pores, meridians, and acupoints.

The instant the divine power of life entered her body, Mother Jiang's previously sluggish, weak breathing abruptly became calm and steady.

Her originally shriveled, sallow skin began to lose its waxy yellow hue at a visible pace, gradually revealing the healthy color of living flesh.

The cold residual poison that had entrenched itself in her internal organs and eroded her vitality for years melted and disintegrated rapidly beneath the cleansing of primordial divine life power, like ice and snow beneath the blazing sun.

Her damaged, withered organs were gently restored, while her depleted life force was replenished layer by layer.

The meridians that had been blocked for years were completely cleared. Every chronic illness and lingering ailment within her body gradually healed beneath the nourishment of this strongest, purest vitality.

Mother Jiang, who had been so weak in bed that even opening her eyes was difficult, trembled faintly.

Her tightly furrowed, haggard brow completely relaxed.

The weary, pain-ridden look that had haunted her face for years faded away entirely.

Her aura visibly became stable and strong.

The entire process took only a few short breaths.

When the final strand of green flowing light seeped into Mother Jiang's body, the radiance in Li Changsheng's palm slowly withdrew, returning entirely into him. Everything became calm once more.

"It's done."

Li Changsheng withdrew his hand, his tone indifferent, as though he had merely done something insignificant.

Those two simple words made Jiang Nannan's entire body tremble. Her pupils suddenly contracted, and she froze where she stood.

She stared blankly at her mother on the bed, as if struck by lightning. Her mind went utterly blank, and she completely lost the ability to think.

The sight before her overturned everything she knew.

A moment ago, her mother had been barely clinging to life, ready to pass away at any moment, her condition declared incurable by countless physicians. Yet now, she lay peacefully on the bed.

Her complexion was rosy, her breathing even and deep, and her skin had regained its warm luster. There was no longer even a trace of the sickly appearance of someone on the brink of death after a long illness.

The terminal illness that had tormented her mother for years and driven them into despair had truly been completely cured by this seemingly ordinary young man in just a few breaths!

Years of fruitless searching for doctors, despair that tormented her day and night...

Countless nights of helpless tears, the hardship of running everywhere to buy medicine, enduring cold stares and humiliations...

All those desperate moments when she had been pushed to the brink with no way out surged into her mind.

Yet the terminal illness that all her efforts had failed to shake was now completely eradicated by a seemingly young and ordinary boy with casual ease.

Overwhelming shock, wild joy, disbelief, and endless bitterness and grievance instantly shattered all of Jiang Nannan's strength.

She stared blankly at her mother, then slowly turned to Li Changsheng beside her, standing tall with a calm expression. Her clear eyes instantly filled with burning tears, which streamed continuously down her fair cheeks.

Unable to bear the tumultuous emotions in her heart any longer, Jiang Nannan bent her knees slightly and gave Li Changsheng a deep bow. Her voice choked and trembled, filled with utter sincerity and gratitude. "Thank you... thank you so much! You saved my mother. That is the same as saving my life!"

"I said it before. As long as you could cure my mother, I would give you anything you wanted."

After saying that, the girl straightened her back. All hesitation and doubt faded from her eyes, leaving only utmost seriousness and resolve.

She came from a poor family and had nothing. She could not offer precious treasures or rare stones, nor could she grant high rank or generous rewards.

But so long as it was something she possessed, so long as it was something Li Changsheng wanted, she was willing to give everything she had, offering it all in repayment for this grace of giving her mother a new life.

Li Changsheng lowered his gaze to the tear-streaked girl, whose posture remained upright and whose pride had not been broken. His eyes shifted slightly, but his tone remained calm. "There's no need to take it to heart. This is only a transaction between us."

As his words fell, he looked out the window, a faintly profound glimmer passing through his eyes.

Saving Jiang Nannan's mother had been nothing more than a simple gesture to him.

But he knew that from this moment onward, the course of fate had quietly been rewritten.

After all, in the original course of events, Jiang Nannan had used her body to exchange for the Profound Nether Sect's Black Tortoise Divine Pill in order to save her mother.

Although it had been a transaction rather than coercion, it had remained a dark chapter of Jiang Nannan's youth.

After all, she was not a woman greedy for wealth and glory.

She was merely a filial child who wanted to save her mother.

Since she was a filial child, she should not have been forced onto the path of trading her body for medicine.

It was precisely for this reason that he had taken the initiative to find Jiang Nannan.

After all, with the Destruction Scepter and the Life Ancient Tree, two super divine artifacts, in hand, how could he possibly have no other way to awaken his martial soul?

Even if, taking a step back, he truly could not find anyone to help, he could still go to the Clear Sky Sect and seek out that girl Tang Wutong.

After all, the current Clear Sky Sect was not only the number one sect in the world, but also had the Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape guarding it.

It could be called exceedingly powerful.

After hearing this, Jiang Nannan nervously slipped her fingers into the pocket of the rough cloth garment pressed against her body.

Then, with great care, she took out a coarse cloth purse worn smooth and shiny.

This was all the savings she had painstakingly accumulated by living frugally and rising before dawn each day to sell vegetables from a stall.