Ye Chuqi froze for a moment.
Yuges and Barnard were friends despite their age difference, and Yuges knew Barnard very well. He knew that as long as Barnard still had something to believe in, he would keep holding on. Yuges had to do his best to secure this chance for him, too.
Ye Chuqi, however, thought back to their journey here. Though the old man had looked unhappy, his lips pursed, he had cooperated with everything she did. The effects of those medicines were certainly enticing. He, too, wanted to live a few more years, and then a few more. Surely, if he held on long enough, he could wait until—
"I understand." Ye Chuqi looked at Ye Qinglan and Yuges. "I need somewhere absolutely quiet. No one is allowed to disturb me, and no one is allowed to watch. I'll give it a try, but I can't guarantee it will work."
Both the spirit spring and the Spiritual Liquid could stimulate a person's potential, but neither suited the old man's condition. His life had already reached its end. No amount of stimulation could draw enough potential from his depleted life force.
But if she could combine acupuncture with the methods of the Cultivation World's Medicine Cultivators, then use Spiritual Liquid, she could give his body an artificial source of life force to sustain it. It would not last very long, though. Even if she succeeded, she could buy the old man no more than six months to a year.
The greatest difficulty was probably that, while she knew a little about formations, she knew absolutely nothing about acupuncture. As far as she knew, this world had no such treatment method, either. Even if she wanted someone to help, she had no one to turn to.
San San muttered under