Jingliu was already over eighteen hundred years old. That was no longer merely old age—she could be considered a living fossil, an ancient relic.
Having been taught by the dragon masters for many years, she had mastered sixty to seventy percent of Luofu medicine. She had seen no shortage of mara-struck patients, yet no solution had ever been found.
Only by severing one's emotions and desires and forgetting the past could it be temporarily eased. Even then, it was merely a stopgap measure.
"Miss Jingliu, do you know why Generals Feixiao and Huaiyan suddenly came to the Luofu?"
"I do not. But I suspect it has something to do with the Luofu's internal traitor."
"No. It is somewhat related to me personally."
"Oh? Could it be that my benefactor has done something significant again? Since Jing Yuan trusts you so deeply, it must be something beneficial to the Xianzhou. Huaiyan is one of the long-lived species, while Feixiao is Foxkin... To specifically dispatch those two to the Luofu, could it be something benefiting the long-lived species and the Foxkin... Wait."
Something that benefited the long-lived species and the Foxkin?
Though this Sword Champion was proficient in martial matters, she was far from ignorant of politics. Otherwise, how could she have raised someone as perceptive as Jing Yuan?
"Mara-struck... Don't tell me there is a solution?!"
Her emotions surged violently in an instant. Shirou Emiya gave her a deep look. The Xianzhou people enjoyed long lives and traveled the Sea of Stars; the level at which they stood already far exceeded that of ordinary planetary civilizations. Coupled with their long lives and accumulated experience, there were countless people like Jingliu who only became more formidable with age. Besides... Jingliu had once been the foremost Cloud Knight of the Luofu.
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