Bai Qianqian took a deep breath, walked over, and sat down in the wicker chair.
Lu Changfeng dispensed with pleasantries and laid his fingers on her wrist to take her pulse.
A strand of primordial beginning true qi transformed into Shennong Qi and probed her meridians like silk spinning from a spring silkworm.
The moment his true qi entered her body, his brow furrowed slightly.
Not because the Lovesickness Gu was particularly overbearing-quite the opposite. Its power was not violent, and it hardly even qualified as a poison. It was an exceedingly fine, tenacious, lingering force, like a spider's thread steeped in honey, winding upward through her meridians straight into her Niwan Palace.
It wound layer upon layer around the outer walls of her entire sea of consciousness, like red silk veiling the heavenly gate.
Bai Qianqian's internal cultivation was formidable.
Perhaps because she had been born in Hongfang, where spiritual qi was abundant, and possessed exceptional aptitude, she looked young yet had cultivation even stronger than Liu Song's. But despite that immense power, the Lovesickness Gu had sealed the most critical point of her twin bridges to heaven and earth-the Hundred Meeting point at the crown of her head.
The key to sensing heaven and earth lay in those twin bridges.
The Hundred Meeting point atop the head was the heavenly gate, while the Gushing Spring points beneath the feet were the earthly doors.
Only with the heavenly gate unobstructed could one leave the body in divine wandering, manifest an incarnation beyond the body, and connect with heaven and earth.
Yet the Lovesickness Gu veiled that Heavenly Gate like red silk. Even as it severed her connection to heaven and earth, it ceaselessly wove illusions of lust, eroding and infiltrating her sea of consciousness day after day.
Truly vicious!