San San sighed. "Honestly, if you'd studied a little more medicine, you could cleanse his body right now and use Spiritual Power to drive out the poison. But it's not too late. Why not learn? You might need it again someday."
Ye Chuqi said flatly, "If I remember correctly, this isn't a matter of studying a little more medicine. Cleansing someone else's body takes at least Deity Transformation Stage cultivation. Even the most gifted medical cultivator would need to reach the Golden Core Stage to purge poison from someone's body." She stated the facts without mercy. "I'm still at the Foundation Establishment Stage. I only just reached it."
San San: "..."
"In a world without a trace of Spiritual Energy, I can probably only shut myself away in the space and make do with what I have. Maybe I really could reach the Deity Transformation Stage in a few hundred or thousand years?"
San San burst into tears with a wail.
Ye Chuqi: Well, there it is.
Insight was a subtle thing. Joshua had seen the overwhelming Magic Elements wielded by Mages and the surging Fighting Spirit of Martial Fighters. He had always believed he understood power well enough, and he had been confident he could enter the Imperial Capital Academy. He had never expected this accidental poisoning to show him how frail he was. It had nearly shattered his dream, yet it had also shown him the most wondrous power of all.
The moment he closed his eyes, he sank inward, as though submerged in a warm, viscous liquid, and gradually became aware of his body. Ye Chuqi had said a force was damaging it. The poison existed as a form of energy. Only by sensing it and learning to control it could he give himself a chance to