Chapter 61: Journey To The Cave
knelt beside the bed and watched the thin film come up through Hao's skin the way water comes up through a wet stone, and I held my breath for the length of a slow count.
"His body is purging. It is not a sickness. It is a cultivation event."
"How can you be so sure?"
"Hao pulled the fire and smoke into himself the night Hekou burned. He drew it inward instead of letting it pass him by, the way a young cultivator will reach for any source of Qi he can find before he has learned what is safe to reach for and what is not. His body has been holding it since. Now it is processing what he took in, and it is expelling the energy through his pores."
Suyin listened to me intently before responding.
"So his body is doing the right thing?"
I nodded.
"Is there any way for us to help guide the process along, then? To help him quicken the purifying?"
I thought about what she asked for a moment before responding.