Chen Han watched the perfectly straight plume of sandalwood incense smoke inside the hall and more or less understood that the Manifest Holiness True Lord had very likely descended in his divine manifestation.
The monster had only just been placed in the incense burner, yet the True Lord had already descended. That meant the thing was highly unusual, and it put Chen Han on her guard.
Not good!
Her heart gave a sudden jolt. Ignoring the worshippers who wanted to speak to her, Chen Han rushed out of the Demon-Subduing Hall, then reached the door of the Rear Courtyard Living Quarters with a light leap.
Only after taking a moment to settle her mind and steady her breathing did Chen Han open the door and enter. Inside, Hu Kuangming was still writing the prescription, laying out every precaution clearly as well.
A Fei and Chi Qinghu were attending to different tasks: one watched the child on the bed, while the other added charcoal to the brazier.
The child still lay motionless and unconscious. Chen Han examined him carefully for quite a while before letting out a small breath of relief. She had feared there might be something wrong with him too.
And now, thinking back belatedly, why was this child still alive?
This was not cold indifference born of Chen Han's ineradicable demonic nature, but an objective assessment of the facts. There was nothing exceptional about the child himself, and after being reduced to this state by such a bizarre specter, he should normally have been dead.
Besides, that little brother of hers should not have possessed the ability to keep him in this state.
"Miss Chen, follow this regimen to nurse him back to health. I'll prepare the medicine myself and bring it over, but it would be best