Chapter 149: The Third Layer of the Diagnostic Technique: Observing the Qi Sea and Sea of Consciousness
The last time she was at the Eastern Depot, encountering about twenty injured cultivators had already made Hua Changxi feel the Eastern Depot’s immense strength. But this time, coming to the Northern Garrison Command, she discovered that more than half of the people in the Imperial Guards were cultivators.
They all say the Imperial Guards are the Royal Family’s confidantes; looking at it now, they are indeed heavily relied upon.
Led by Pang Shaoyu, Hua Changxi met the injured.
“Were you all wiped out in one go?”
The courtyard was filled with injured, estimated to be at least a hundred people.
Pang Shaoyu’s expression was somewhat grim. Thinking of the Grand Emperor disregarding their lives and wanting to use their lives to activate the Dragon Palace array formation, he was filled with hatred.
“My uncle-in-law is severely injured. Let’s go see my uncle-in-law first.”
Pang Shaoyu led Hua Changxi into a room. On the bed in the room, Chang Wei, the Commander of the Northern Garrison Command, whom Hua Changxi had met once, lay with his eyes tightly shut, his face contorted in pain and covered in sweat, appearing to be enduring something extremely agonizing.
Hua Changxi walked to the bedside and began the four diagnostic methods.
When she focused her consciousness on her eyes, warmth suddenly surged and enveloped her eyeballs. The next moment, a three-dimensional transparent image of Chang Wei’s body appeared in her vision.
She clearly saw that within Chang Wei’s spiritual root, a golden dragon the size of a little finger was frantically attacking his spiritual root.
At this moment, Chang Wei’s spiritual root had already been attacked by dragon claws to the point of being on the verge of shattering.
“I can save your uncle-in-law’s life, but he won’t be able to cultivate anymore after this.”
Pang Shaoyu’s face showed pain upon hearing this: “If he can’t cultivate anymore, it would surely be worse than death for my uncle-in-law. Are you sure there’s no other way?”
Hua Changxi: “His spiritual root is severely damaged. With my abilities, I definitely cannot repair it. What I can do is stabilize his condition first and prevent further damage to his spiritual root.”
“The Imperial Guards have immense influence. Perhaps you can think of another way to help him repair his spiritual root.”
Pang Shaoyu quickly said, “Then please stabilize my uncle-in-law’s injuries first.”
Hua Changxi took out her spiritual needles and directly used them to seal the small golden dragon. Then, she injected spiritual power into the needles and directly dispersed the small golden dragon.
“Done.”
The entire needling process took less than fifteen minutes. Pang Shaoyu hadn’t expected it to be so fast. He had intended to question her a few times, but seeing Chang Wei’s complexion visibly relax, he couldn’t voice his doubts.
“Would you like to examine my uncle-in-law again?”
Hua Changxi looked at him: “The remaining problem for your uncle-in-law is the damaged spiritual root, which I cannot resolve. His spiritual root is too severely damaged. Either find heavenly materials and earthly treasures specifically for repairing spiritual roots, or…”
Pang Shaoyu: “Or what?”
Hua Changxi: “Your uncle-in-law’s spiritual root has only been torn apart; it can be stitched together, but stitching a spiritual root is a very delicate operation.”
Pang Shaoyu was somewhat speechless: “You can even diagnose that my uncle-in-law’s spiritual root was torn?”
Hua Changxi looked at him: “I am a professional physician. I can not only diagnose that your uncle-in-law’s spiritual root was torn, but I can also diagnose what injured him.”
Pang Shaoyu didn’t believe it: “Then tell me, what injured my uncle-in-law?”
Hua Changxi smiled and rubbed her thumb and index finger together rapidly.
Seeing this, Pang Shaoyu was somewhat speechless and also felt a pang of pain. He really wanted to test Hua Changxi’s medical skills. After a slight hesitation, he took out a blue bead the size of a thumb and handed it to Hua Changxi.
“This is a water repelling pearl.”
Hua Changxi’s eyes flickered, and she smiled as she accepted the water repelling pearl: “Did you find a dragon’s lair?”
Upon hearing this, Pang Shaoyu’s expression trembled. He hadn’t expected Hua Changxi to be able to deduce what had happened to them through such a simple diagnosis.
They had indeed found the Dragon Palace at the bottom of the sea. The Grand Emperor, in order to contract a dragon egg, had sent them wave after wave into the array formation, completely disregarding their lives.
It wasn’t until the accompanying Imperial Guards were injured that the Grand Emperor stopped.
Uncle-in-law was so severely injured, not only because he was at the forefront, but also because he took the attack for me when I was attacked. Otherwise, I would have fallen too.
Hua Changxi continued: “There is a strand of dragon qi within your uncle-in-law’s body. It was this dragon qi that destroyed his spiritual root. I have already used spiritual needles to disperse that dragon qi. Alright, you can take me to treat the other injured cultivators now.”
Pang Shaoyu snapped back to attention, gave Hua Changxi a deep look, and led her to the adjacent room.
The injuries of the other injured Imperial Guards were similar to Chang Wei’s, except that the small golden dragons within their bodies were noticeably fainter, not as solid as Chang Wei’s.
Dispersing the small golden dragons was not difficult, but with hundreds of people, Hua Changxi spent an entire night to finish diagnosing and treating everyone.
Diagnostic Technique Great Accomplishment: Diagnosed 136/1000
When the number of diagnosed cultivators reached one hundred, Hua Changxi clearly felt a burning sensation in her eyes. A white light flashed within her eyes, and then she could faintly see the Qi Sea in the Dantian of the injured cultivators.
As the number of diagnosed cultivators increased, the Qi Sea she saw became clearer and clearer. At the same time, she could also see a gray, hazy space behind the cultivators’ foreheads.
‘The gray, hazy space must be the spiritual platform, the Sea of Consciousness!’
Whether it was the Qi Sea or the Sea of Consciousness, although both were within the cultivator’s body, they gave Hua Changxi a feeling of vastness and infinity, as if they were not in the same space as the body.
She felt that if the body was in three-dimensional space, then the Qi Sea and Sea of Consciousness were in four-dimensional space.
Hua Changxi carefully examined the Qi Sea of the Imperial Guard cultivators, and then looked at her own Qi Sea.
She discovered that the size of the Qi Sea, the density of spiritual energy within the Qi Sea, and the solidity of the spiritual energy were all different.
From these aspects, one could roughly infer the cultivator’s realm and strength.
The diagnostic technique had improved again, and Hua Changxi was very happy. This not only advanced her medical skills but also allowed her to probe the depth of cultivation by examining others’ Qi Sea and Sea of Consciousness. For her, it was undoubtedly another means of self-preservation.
“Here.”
Pang Shaoyu personally escorted Hua Changxi out of the Northern Garrison Command and handed her the Floating Light Sword and its sword manual: “Thank you for your help this time. If you ever need my assistance in the future, just say the word.”
Hua Changxi took the Floating Light Sword and sword manual and smiled, “Will do.”
Watching Hua Changxi’s retreating back, Pang Shaoyu felt fortunate. Fortunately, the Imperial Guards hadn’t acted against her back then, otherwise, his uncle-in-law and the others would likely have been doomed this time.
After leaving the Northern Garrison Command, Hua Changxi did not return to the Medical Affairs Department. Instead, she left the city and flew on clouds to Lingguang Hall.
After landing in the plaza in front of the main hall of Lingguang Hall, Hua Changxi eagerly took out the Floating Light Sword and sword manual and began to study them.
The sword manual was very obscure. After reading it through several times without understanding, she put it aside and picked up the Floating Light Sword.
Hua Changxi wanted to see if the sword was a spiritual artifact, so she injected spiritual power into it.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the spiritual power was injected, the Floating Light Sword turned into a spiritual energy-devouring black hole and began to frantically absorb the spiritual power from Hua Changxi’s body.
At first, Hua Changxi was relatively calm. The name Floating Light Sword sounded very imposing, so she thought it was normal for it to absorb some spiritual energy.
However, after the sword had absorbed eighty percent of her spiritual energy, she could no longer remain calm and quickly took out the third-rank Fire Returning Pill she had refined to replenish her spiritual power.
Finally, just as Hua Changxi’s spiritual energy was about to be depleted, the Floating Light Sword stopped absorbing, and with a ‘swoosh,’ it detached from Hua Changxi’s palm and hovered in mid-air.
