Chapter 19 – Vast-Body Dantian (II)

Chapter 19

Vast-Body Dantian (II)

Long Tao had just left the house to practice movement arts at the back of the mountain peak when he saw his master coming up from the distance. His steps were slow, his breathing haggard, and he was sweating buckets.

You’d think he’d just fought in a legendary battle, but no, he was simply climbing up the mountain with two extra people in tow–a boy and a girl.

Long Tao ignored the comatose boy and focused on the girl–as someone with intimate experience with poisons, he immediately recognized hers. And, beyond it, recognized the potential in her.

Though he couldn’t tell exactly which physique she had, he could tell that it was a body-related one and that even in a Major or perhaps even in Divine Realms, it wouldn’t be bottom of the barrel.

How? That was the question hanging in his mind. How did his master find someone like that in this backwater?

“Hey, ungrateful disciple! Will you just stare at me with that look or help?!” Long Tao chuckled momentarily before heading over and taking the boy as his master put the girl down.

“You sure do pick up the strangest things, Master,” he said, rueful of just how out of shape his master was. The boy barely weighed sixty pounds, if that, and the girl likely weighed half of that, and he, as someone at Spirit Manifestation Realm, struggled to carry them up a mountain. Perhaps, he mused, he’d have to implement a workout routine for this out-of-shape Master of his…

“Oh, don’t you even start, phew, phew,” He sat down directly on the dirt, completely disregarding his position as an Elder. “What the hell kind of a custom is it to live at the top of a mountain? These people are insane…”

“What do I do with these two?” Long Tao asked; he’d already surmised that the girl likely asked his master to also bring the boy, as the latter seemed to have a wasted dantian. If he wasn’t immediately taken care of, he wouldn’t live the night. “I’ll take the boy inside and help him,” He knew that his master likely didn’t know how to help the boy. Rather, there was a good chance that there wasn’t anybody in the sect who could.

Perhaps if it were five or six days earlier, these low-level alchemists may have been able to concoct a pill, but the boy was on the brink of dying, with Death Qi already slowly condensing in his breath.

“Y-yeah, you do that,” his Master said. “I’ll just dig a hole here in preparation for my death…”

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“C-can… can I come?” the girl asked suddenly, prompting Long Tao to glance over at her. There was radiance in her eyes unfitting her scrawny build, and though they were full of fear and trepidation… there was also determination within them.