The Strange Illness in Her Chest

Inside the room, Jiang Nannan's mother coughed violently, and a mouthful of dark, foamy blood surged from her mouth!

This made Jiang Nannan so anxious that tears streamed endlessly down her face.

"Mom, don't scare me. I'll take you to a doctor right now!"

As Jiang Nannan spoke, she tried to lift her mother, but the calm Bei Bei stopped her.

"Don't move Auntie yet. We still haven't figured out what's going on."

"And don't we already have a healing-type Soul Master right here?"

Bei Bei's words made Jiang Nannan realize.

That was right—Su Mu was now a one-ring healing-type Soul Master who had absorbed a Soul Ring!

Seeing Jiang Nannan's anxious gaze fall upon him, Su Mu released his Soul Ring and placed both hands on Jiang Nannan's mother.

Her kind face was filled with pain.

"Child, I know what happened with your father back then caused you to misunderstand Nannan and me."

"We all understand that you didn't mean any harm."

"Nannan is very grateful to your whole family. I only hope that after I'm gone, you can all live well and stop having conflicts."

"If anything happens, talk more... cough, cough... talk things through."

As Mother Jiang spoke, another mouthful of bloody froth spilled from the corner of her lips.

After Su Mu poured his Soul Power into Jiang Nannan's mother, he found no serious illness or incurable condition.

Instead, it was like a pool of stagnant yin energy lodged in Mother Jiang's chest. With his current Soul Power Level, it was difficult to disperse it!

Fortunately, his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul possessed Ultimate Life. It could forcibly keep Mother Jiang alive long enough for her to hold on until they found a suitable doctor.

Logically speaking, Jiang Nannan's mother should never have come into contact with something like this. After all, this was already within the realm of Soul Masters and Soul Beasts.

Could someone have secretly tampered with Jiang Nannan's mother?

Su Mu thought carefully, and suddenly, a crucial piece of information surfaced in his mind—Xuanming Sect!

It seemed that in the course of the story, Jiang Nannan became entangled with Xu Sanshi of the Xuanming Sect during this period.

Before Jiang Nannan started school, that incident had happened.

Then, after Xu Sanshi arrived at school, he encountered Jiang Nannan and pursued her fervently. Everything seemed to have traces to follow!

Su Mu said nothing and simply continued releasing Soul Power.

Jiang Nannan's mother's frail, sickly body gradually regained a rosy complexion.

For someone without Soul Power, a Soul Master's Soul Power and life-attribute energy were the best tonics, more effective than eating ten thousand nutritious meals.

As Su Mu released Soul Power, Jiang Nannan's mother's breathing also became more even.

Seeing this, Jiang Nannan wiped away the tears at the corners of her eyes and suddenly hugged Su Mu around the waist.

Jiang Nannan, who had been half-kneeling by the bed, now buried her head against Su Mu's chest.

"Thank you, Su Mu. Without you, I really wouldn't know what to do."

At that moment, Jiang Nannan's resolve became even firmer.

Her Martial Soul had awakened because of Su Mu's father, and now Su Mu had saved her mother, sparing her from illness and pain.

She was determined to follow him for the rest of her life. Even becoming his concubine would be fine.

As long as she could take good care of Su Mu and repay both his life-saving grace and the grace of giving her a new life, no hardship or exhaustion mattered.

Jiang Nannan had already made up her mind, but Su Mu had no idea what to do. For now, he was completely at a loss!

After replenishing more than half the Soul Power in his Soul Ring, enough to keep it running at minimum output for a week or two, Su Mu walked out into the courtyard.

Looking at the objects arranged around him,

What a useless broken system. It charges money for everything!

He had no money now, so he could not even investigate properly.

After carefully searching around and finding nothing unusual in the surrounding houses, Su Mu finally went back inside.

Looking at everyone in the cramped room, Jiang Nannan was wiping a hot towel and placing it on Mother Jiang's forehead, easing her discomfort and headache.

Su Mu remained cold and silent, while Bei Bei was the first to notice that something was wrong with him.

"What is it? Is this illness difficult to cure?"

As he spoke, he continued rummaging through things, and a map of Shrek City appeared in his hand.

There were many renowned medical clinics in Shrek City. They could practically handle ordinary people's illnesses with ease.

If we can't find a good doctor in Heaven Dou City, why not go to Shrek City with us this year?

Maybe we can find a suitable treatment.

"Don't worry."

Bei Bei and Tang Ya, standing nearby, also comforted Jiang Nannan. As they cared for Mother Jiang together, Tang Ya said:

"Nannan, since I happened to discover this matter, you're not allowed to keep things hidden from us in the future."

"I'm the leader of the Tang Sect, and you're already the Tang Sect disciple I've set my sights on."

"If you have any difficulties, just tell me. If you don't have enough money, I'll cover it."

Tang Ya patted her flat chest and made the promise, moving Nannan to tears.

Su Mu, meanwhile, approached the bedside and crouched down as he asked Jiang Nannan's mother:

"Auntie, have you met anyone strange these past two days, or has anything strange happened at home?"

His words immediately drew the attention of the three others, and Bei Bei quickly added:

"You mean this isn't an illness, but that someone poisoned her!"

Su Mu nodded. Though he did not dare be certain, that seemed to be the only explanation.

Logically, with his Ultimate Life attribute, any chronic illness or hidden injury should have been healed.

Yet the energy in her chest had not been removed or healed directly. Either his Soul Power Level was too low,

or this Soul Power illness was too troublesome. An ordinary person should not have been able to endure such an illness for so long. The other possibility was that Jiang Nannan's mother had recently come into contact with someone from the Xuanming Sect.

This was merely a trap set by the Xuanming Sect, for the sake of a girl with Innate Full Soul Power and an exceptionally gifted Martial Soul attribute.

She was to be used as material for the Martial Soul awakening ceremony of the Xuanming Sect's next sect master's son, the heir to the next sect master.

Su Mu had heard a little about this before. The Xuanming Sect's Martial Soul awakening required a highly gifted girl as material.

There was no need to go into the process. In any case, it was an extremely vile and inhumane act.

Even if the other party consented, such a thing was not worth advocating.

Honestly, it would be better to cut it off. Maybe cutting off Xu Sanshi's QQ would let him successfully awaken the Xuanming Sect Bloodline.

But Jiang Nannan's mother looked somewhat confused.

"You had only been gone for two or three days. I didn't leave the village either. Most of the time, I stayed home weaving clothes and digging in the vegetable patch. I didn't do much."

"Other than yesterday, when someone seemed to want to tow away your vehicle. I said a few words to him and wiped the vehicle down while I was at it. After I came back, my coughing got worse."

As Jiang Nannan's mother spoke, she fell into thought, confusion flickering across her face.

At the time, she had only seen someone whose disguise was not particularly concealed. He seemed like an ordinary person who had come to inspect the vehicle, nothing more.

Moreover, he had not done anything to her. After chatting for a while, he left.

Upon hearing this, Su Mu immediately felt that the person Jiang Nannan's mother mentioned was highly suspicious!

Free-Range Chicken Village itself was a rather remote village, and strangers normally never came here!

That person's goal was not to steal his wrecked vehicle—they had long been secretly watching Jiang Nannan's mother!