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Thanks to [Jing Shi Zhi Hui Da Ji Ba] for the Great God Certification... Next, she urgently wanted to know exactly how her Master had cured her heaven-deficient condition and elixir organ.
However, the diary entries for the next ten years never mentioned this matter again.
The records ended at that ultra-large-scale expedition that took place while she was unconscious, which was recorded in the Yaoqing annals.
Historically known as—the Yatedelan Ring Star Belt campaign.
This campaign lasted for a full thirty-two years, the longest in Yaoqing's history.
Qi Zhimu's diary also came to an abrupt halt on the eve of his departure for the Yatedelan Ring Star Belt.
Jingliu pondered carefully and thought of a certain possibility.
Everything that happened in this campaign was not only highly likely related to Mian Xue and Clear Cold activating The Self-Actualization Aspect, but also closely linked to curing her heaven-deficient condition and elixir organ.
Jingliu took a deep breath and turned her gaze toward the last jade message.
Unsurprisingly, the answer was here.
The familiar furnishings of the Alchemy Commission came into view.
This was the first time Jingliu had seen herself lying on a hospital bed, unconscious, from such a perspective.
Master was clad in armor, holding a bouquet of simple flowers in his hand.
He replaced the withered flower branches in the vase, his long fingers gently brushing over her loose, long hair.
"I don't know how many years this trip will take, but Master will come back alive to cure you. Master promises you, I will never break my word."
The unprecedented gentleness in his voice and the softness in his eyes both caused Jingliu's emotions to fluctuate.
It turned out that everything she had once envied about her seniors, she had as well.
It was just that Master's tenderness toward her had always been hidden so deeply, so deeply that not a trace of it was revealed.
After making the promise and saying his goodbyes, Master set out on the journey with Mian Xue and the others.
The scene shifted, and the sight made Jingliu's pupils shrink.
A Borisin as massive as a mountain was chewing on the flesh and blood of the Cloud Knights. In the pool of blood at its feet lay Mian Xue and Clear Cold, clinging to their last breaths.
Only half of their bodies remained, and their internal organs were scattered across the ground.
In the next second, the Borisin was slapped to death by Master, whose eyes gleamed with a fierce light. Its life energy, along with all its blessing of abundance, was entirely plundered by him.
Then, it showed the process of Master saving the Mian Xue sisters.
Hearing the Mian Xue sisters' final words, Jingliu finally understood that their deep bond with Master had sprouted during this very campaign.
It was not just an awakening of emotions, but an intertwining of stances and fates.
The three of them became an inseparable community of destiny, touching the forbidden to activate The Self-Actualization Aspect and embarking on a thousand-year-long road of plundering Abundance Power... She wasn't the only disciple willing to give everything for Master.
Was Master unwilling to face his feelings and accept her really because he didn't want to involve her by touching the forbidden?
Jingliu couldn't help but think this way once again.
But on second thought, she felt the reason might not be so superficial.
Continuing to watch, she learned that Master had secretly kept the abundance scourge obtained from Ussa and replaced his own heart with it... It must have left some kind of aftereffect, though it could be suppressed.
Looking at Master's expression, he didn't seem to care much.
Then came the campaign that lasted for decades.
Up until this point, the specific method and process for curing her heaven-deficient condition and elixir organ had still not been found, and she couldn't figure out how it related to that war.
Finally, on the second day after the Hunt expedition returned in triumph, Master took her away from Yaoqing to a world under the IPC's jurisdiction, under the pretext of finding a Divine Doctor to treat her illness.
There was no Divine Doctor there at all.
Or rather, the Divine Doctor was Qi Zhimu himself.
In a secret medical room with only the four of them, the treatment officially began.
Jingliu finally understood why Master insisted on finishing that thirty-plus-year war before starting to treat her heaven-deficient condition and elixir organ.
—He was clearly taking the plundered blessing of abundance, purifying and transforming it through a method she couldn't understand, and then infusing it into her elixir organ.
As the saying goes, supplement wherever there is a deficiency; this was exactly that principle.
Just as Jingliu thought everything would go smoothly, an unexpected turn of events quickly arrived.
"How can this be...?"
Taking in the many complex data points reflected on the instruments, Qi Zhimu's expression was quite unsightly.
This was the first time Jingliu had seen him make such a face.
Surprise, confusion, and also dazedness, along with a very obvious fear.
He was afraid.
Afraid he couldn't cure her, afraid of breaking his promise.
Master had said he would definitely cure her.
"What's wrong, Lord Zhimu?" Clear Cold asked immediately.
"Her elixir organ cannot absorb any external Abundance Power. This is inconsistent with the characteristics of Abundance Power," Qi Zhimu explained in a heavy voice.
The sisters were both shocked.
"What if it's unpurified Abundance Power?"
"No, purification is just a general term. Perhaps calling it 'adaptive modification' is more accurate, similar to blood type matching or the matching criteria for organ transplants in Short-Lived Species."
Qi Zhimu slowly shook his head, his brow furrowed tightly.
"I have already memorized the fluctuation frequency of the imaginary energy in Jingliu's elixir organ, and the sequence coding is aligned correctly, but the result..."
"The Originator of Longevity hinted that I would have a way and the confidence to cure her, but now..."
"Could it be that this path was unfeasible from the very beginning?"
At the thought of the unacceptable and terrible consequences, Qi Zhimu's spirit fluctuated violently, actually triggering the mara affliction.
The abnormalities appearing on the surface of his skin were something no Xianzhou person could mistake.
"Calm down, calm down..."
Qi Zhimu threw a punch that blew off half of his own head, forcibly inhibiting his regenerative power to prevent it from recovering immediately, using the intense pain to suppress his surging emotions.
Jingliu saw this, and her heart ached for him.
She couldn't bear to see Master go through decades of bloody battles to save her, and then have to exhaust all his efforts to find the one true path.
When she woke up a thousand years ago, she couldn't help but ask. At that time, her liar of a Master said he had found an ancient prescription to cure her.
At that time, her intuition told her it wasn't that simple.
Looking at it now, it truly was so, the journey was filled with countless thorns.
"Liar... just how much of the truth are you still hiding from your disciple..."
More than ten minutes passed before Qi Zhimu managed to calm down, suppressing the symptoms that were about to erupt due to his emotional turmoil.
The Self-Actualization Aspect could plunder Abundance Power to avoid the troubles of mara affliction, yet Master wanted to use this plundered power to save her.
To save her, Master was willing to endure the pain of mara affliction for many years... The guilt in Jingliu's heart grew deeper and deeper.
At that time, how easy and simple was her life?
Besides chasing after Master's back, following his footsteps, and longing for his recognition and tenderness, she almost didn't have to worry about anything.
Many daily troubles never found her. Why?
It was because Master silently shouldered so much, yet she was completely oblivious to everything.
Don't say Master hid it well; if she had been attentive, how could she not have found a single clue?
It was clearly that mindset of wanting to gain Master's recognition and love at work—only wanting to see what she wanted to see, which caused her to ignore so many details.
She kept saying she loved Master, but in reality, her feelings for Master were just morbid possessiveness!
Realizing all this, Jingliu's eyes quickly became moist, and her vision blurred.
What kind of... terrible mistake had she made?
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