Chapter 79: Foreign Energy
After ensuring his daughter was soundly asleep and out of danger, Mingfeng finally got up and stretched. The surroundings looked like a disaster, but Yan Ping’s condition was worse than he feared. It was not an exaggeration when Gu Ying informed him that her cultivation base was now weakened to the Refined Core. Her energy pulse was so weak now that both teacher and student could be said to be of a similar cultivation level.
Gently calling out to the exhausted blind prophet, Mingfeng noticed how much she seemed to age in just two months. The Yan Ping he knew appeared like a young woman in her late twenties despite her snowy hair. However, the Yan Ping before him was now a wrinkled old woman who barely had any vitality.
"Senior, allow me to help," he grasped her hand lightly after waking her up to channel some energy into her weakened body.
At first, the Mystical Qilin Sect leader had no idea what Mingfeng was doing. However, after receiving treatment, she quickly stopped him. The backlash he suffered from helping to stabilise his youngest daughter was no joke. He shouldn’t have the time to help someone else when he was in an equally dangerous situation.
"Save it," she snapped crankily. "I’ll recover my cultivation progress naturally with enough rest and the right environment. Lend me your cultivation chambers. You must conserve and hide your present cultivation regression from everyone else until you can get an excuse to go into isolated training to recover."
Indeed, Zhao Mingfeng’s cultivation core temporarily regressed to its Radiant Core stage. If he had a few days, it might return to the Transcendent Core foundation stage. However, returning to the Divine Core level would still take him several years. With the threat looming in the murim world, he could not afford to let anyone else know about their vulnerabilities.
"I’ll escort you to the best cultivation chamber. There’s a pool full of dense spiritual energy that helps with recovery and healing. It would be best to stay there for a few months to recuperate. Someone will regularly send supplies. The sect has several good medicines for qi recovery. It should help you."
Nodding in thanks, too weak to reject help, Yan Ping tapped Mingfeng’s shoulder.
"Did you sense it, too? The foreign energy in your child."
It took Mingfeng a while to understand what she was talking about. Initially, he thought the rampant energy was a side effect of Anji’s core getting sealed for too long. However, he knew it wasn’t the case after witnessing the explosive power and how his daughter tampered with it to obey her. Yet, the energy did not bear malicious intents.
"Do you happen to know what that was?" he asked.
If Yan Ping was right, Anji must have contacted a powerful spiritual beast. Several of her disciples have made contracts with spiritual beasts in the Mystical Qilin mountain.