Chapter 1158: Traces
Lion City was the most prosperous place in the entire Nanyang. Though it could not compare to Jade Capital, where nothing was lacking, it was still abundant in supplies. Qi Xuansu was now the Chief Deputy of the Poluo Daoist Mansion, so he could mobilize the Daoist Mansion’s manpower and resources and was no longer as constrained as before.
Ordinary low-grade Soul-Returning Incense took the form of an incense stick, costing 10 Taiping coins each.
For Lin Yuanmiao to fully gain control over the Immortal body, he would need 10,000 of such incense sticks, which amounted to 100,000 Taiping coins.
At the very beginning, Qi Xuansu provided Lin Yuanmiao with 1,000 sticks. Later, Zhang Yuelu added another 5,000 sticks.
Qi Xuansu’s thinking was straightforward. He could simply make up the remaining 4,000 sticks of Soul-Returning Incense so that Lin Yuanmiao could fully control Lin Lingsu’s mortal shell. Later, they could supplement him with other methods and rely on Lin Yuanmiao’s Immortal body to heal itself.
This was much like an ordinary person falling ill. Often, medicine could only relieve symptoms, while true recovery still depended on the body’s own self-healing ability.
Xie Jiaofeng took stock of Tianfu Palace’s inventory. Counting the high-grade and mid-grade Soul-Returning Incense and converting them into low-grade equivalents, there were about 1,600 sticks.
Qi Xuansu had not been entirely clear in his instructions at first. But after learning of the Tianfu Palace’s reserves, he explicitly stated that the remaining shortfall of 2,4000 sticks needed to be made up and ordered Xie Jiaofeng to handle the requisitioning.
Xie Jiaofeng had spent many years in Lion City and was genuinely good at dealing with people, with solid connections to boot. Moreover, he was requisitioning in the name of the Daoist Mansion, so gathering 2,400 sticks of Soul-Returning Incense was no difficult task.
Before long, the Huasheng Hall personnel had arrived.
If it had been the main branch of Huasheng Hall in Jade Capital, curing Lin Yuanmiao would have been assured. But this was only the Poluo branch, and Qi Xuansu did not expect them to resolve the Immortal sword qi eating away at Lin Yuanmiao’s body. He only asked that they do their utmost to help alleviate Lin Yuanmiao’s injuries, strengthen his life force, and provide auxiliary support to buy some time.
The Huasheng Hall personnel first moved Lin Yuanmiao into a sufficiently sealed, quiet chamber, then used various tools on his body.