Chapter 193: Treating the Foot Injury
The child’s injury was troublesome, and in the current situation, they couldn’t leave him alone in Lijiao Village. Otherwise, once those villagers came to their senses, the child probably wouldn’t survive. Changyang had no choice but to take the child back to the Medical Valley and left a few disciples behind to continue investigating the child’s background.
Yun Jiao examined the boy’s entire body. Previously, due to the urgent circumstances, she had only treated his external wounds briefly. Now that she could take a closer look at his meridians and sea of consciousness, she immediately noticed the problem—this child was indeed different from ordinary people.
Inside his body, unlike a normal human, there was something extra. A black aura flowed through all his meridians. Strangely enough, this demonic energy—which should have been extremely harmful to humans—had no effect on him at all. In fact, it originated from within his own sea of consciousness. Just like how a cultivator absorbs spiritual energy and circulates it through the body, his body gathered demonic energy instead. But because he had never cultivated, that energy simply lingered between his sea of consciousness and his meridians, unable to gather in his dantian. Under normal circumstances, he couldn’t control this demonic energy at all; only when he was extremely agitated would it unconsciously leak out.
“This child… what exactly is he?” Changyang was stunned. Having practiced medicine for so many years, he had seen all kinds of strange physiques, but this was the first time he’d encountered something so bizarre.
To call him a demon—he clearly had a human body. But to call him human—he carried demonic energy within him, and it didn’t harm him at all.
It was as if… this body had been specially made for becoming a demon!
Changyang instinctively looked toward Yun Jiao beside him. “Fellow Daoist Yun, what should we do?”
He looked troubled. Glancing at the boy who had already fallen asleep, he sighed. The boy’s leg bone had been fractured and not properly set, leaving him unable to walk. Now, after so long, it could only be broken again and reset. To spare him the pain, they had used a talisman to put him to sleep. But with that demonic energy earlier, they were hesitant to begin. “We can’t delay fixing his leg any longer, but this demonic energy…” If it suddenly surged while they were setting the bone, they might not escape unscathed.
“The demonic energy in his sea of consciousness is sealed,” Yun Jiao said with a slight frown. Changyang couldn’t see it, but she could sense that their Grandmaster had just placed a sealing mark in the boy’s sea of consciousness, locking away most of it. Unless the Grandmaster himself removed the seal, that energy wouldn’t leak out. “I’ve used a talisman to block his five senses. What troubles me is the residual demonic energy in his meridians…”