The moment the child called out "Mother," delight and surprise blossomed on the Zhou couple's already tear-streaked faces.
"Yes! Yes! Mother's here, my boy! You can talk! Husband, our child can talk!"
"Father."
"Yes, yes, yes! Father's here!"
The Zhou couple were beside themselves with excitement. It was not that their child had been unable to speak from birth; rather, after contracting that strange illness, he had gradually lost the ability.
Now that his voice had returned, it seemed to herald the beginning of his recovery.
With that done, Yi Shuyuan's divine light dispersed. He left a trace of divine sense in the temple's statue and vanished from the spot himself, for it was time to wake up over at Heavenly Battle Mountain!
Inside the room in the True Lord Temple's rear courtyard, the Zhou husband turned straight toward Chen Han in his excitement and bowed to her repeatedly.
"Thank you, miss! Thank you! You're a living immortal serving the Manifest Holiness True Lord! Saving our child means saving our whole family!"
"Yes, yes! Thank you, living immortal!"
The Zhou wife joined her husband in bowing, both of them overwhelmed with excitement.
Chen Han hurried forward to help them up.
"No, no, no. All I did was pull the child out of the water. The city's doctors treated his illness, a martial hero from Rivers and Lakes protected his heart meridians, and the Demon-Subduing Sacred Venerable eliminated the evil haunting him. My contribution was nothing."
As the Zhou couple continued thanking her, Chen Han felt heartened, but she could not help glancing toward the divine light beside her. Clearly, however, the Manifest Holiness True Lord did not mind.
With his voice restored, the child seemed to have regained quite a bit of strength as well. Above all, his vitality and