Heaven's Damnation

The Cultivation Realm differed from the Mortal Realm. While many miraculous pills could only be borne by cultivators' bodies, a small portion could also treat illness and ward off evil for ordinary people. Listening Crane Manor possessed immense wealth and had cultivator friends. If the He Household's eldest daughter had fallen ill, why would they prioritize ordinary people's methods of treatment when money was no obstacle?

That was highly unreasonable. It was precisely because Wen Xu had noticed this inconsistency that he had signaled Chunchou to leave early that day.

Yet unexpectedly, the boomerang had come flying back to their door today.

"You mean Aqing had contracted some grave illness, perhaps one related to cultivators?" For He Gan to go to such lengths to conceal it from her, even fabricating the nonsense that his only daughter had eloped with someone, and for him to dare not summon even a Mysterious Physician in order to keep the matter hidden, only daring to first use ordinary medicine and stone remedies—where exactly was Aqing?

Xia Ying's heart burned with anxiety. She forced herself to calm down. Cultivators had many ways to locate an ordinary person, but if He Gan had deliberately hidden Aqing away, ordinary methods would be useless.

She had already tried. The senior brother at the Heavenly Secrets Pavilion had said they needed either her birth characters or blood as a medium. She had neither.

"Little Martial Granduncle, you're clever. Can you help me think of a way?" Xia Ying had considered asking her paternal uncle, but he happened to be in seclusion recently and rarely saw anyone.

She had also asked Aunt Bing to keep watch for her, but Listening Crane Manor was not, after all, a cultivation Aristocratic Clan. The City Lord's Office seldom paid attention to intelligence concerning