"Has anything strange happened in your city?" Su Jiu finally asked the question she most wanted answered.
Qi Song smiled. "If you want to know about strange happenings, I think North City has more of them than South City."
Su Jiu's eyes flickered. "How much do you know about the wall dividing the two cities?"
Qi Song fell silent for a long while. Rather than answer her directly, he slowly withdrew his hand from above the girl. "Her injuries have stabilized for now. All she needs next is to take some pills and slowly recuperate.
"Once her body has fully recovered, she should have around twenty years left to live."
Su Jiu's gaze dimmed slightly. "Only twenty years? What if she takes a Lifespan Pill or reaches Foundation Establishment again within those twenty years?"
In principle, a cultivator gained a great deal of lifespan with every advancement, and Lifespan Pills were another effective means of extending one's life.
But all Su Jiu saw was Qi Song shaking his head.
"It won't help. She has no cultivation whatsoever now. Even if she cultivates normally and reaches Foundation Establishment within twenty years, she won't live any longer, because she has already drawn on all her lifespan before the Nascent Soul stage through the Immortal Pool Spring."
Su Jiu understood what Qi Song meant. In other words, this girl with a heavenly spirit body would only regain the cultivation a cultivator ought to possess once she broke through to the Spirit Severing Stage. But could she possibly do that in a mere twenty years?
"As for Lifespan Pills, you should know that, for most cultivators, only the first one they take has any effect."
Su Jiu pressed her lips together and glanced at the girl, who still lay unconscious on the bed. "You