Neither.
Sage was caught off guard by the Doctors assumptions, though after thinking about it, he wasnt actually surprised by such conclusions. At that mont, Sage pulled out an Oathstone and held it out to the Sect Elder.
I follow an uncommon legacy, my poison skills are not based upon knowledge. Can you please swear not to reveal what I show you to anyone?
Lanyan thought about it for a mont before nodding and putting his hand onto the stone. He infused so Qi and swore a quick oath, I vow not to share any of the secrets that Lang Sheng reveals to today at any ti in the future.
Sage thought about the oath for a mont for any loopholes and then nodded, it was good enough. Then he climbed onto the bed, Sit him up for .
The two of them took a few monts to push Xuelong into a seated position. Sage sat behind the man, crossing his legs like he was entering a ditation position, he then placed both hands against Xuelongs back and started to circulate his Qi in a certain special thod. Then his Qi moved through his right palm and rushed into Xuelongs body. It traveled through Xuelongs ridians and made its way towards the mans Dantian and then slowly swirled out and back through Xuelongs body before re-entering Sages body through the left palm. As it moved through Xuelongs body, the Qi was tainted by the poison he was infected by and then returned back into Sages body.
Of course, Sages body had no problem with this. His second set of ridians drew away the poison from his Qi and after making a full revolution through his Inner World, it rushed back into Xuelongs body. Entering clean and then returning corrupted once again. The Sect Elder Chang Lanyan was surprised, not by the thod Sage used, but by his willingness to do so.
Said technique was called Living Tallow and was not uncommonly known by Doctors. It was based around an idiom, A candle illuminates others, at the cost of burning itself up. It took the illnesses of others onto oneself, it didnt repair wounds of the flesh, but it worked for diseases, poisons, and many other ailnts. It was usually only used by the very powerful to cure the very weak. In most cases a powerful cultivator used it to save their mortal family mbers.
Sage actually learned the technique from the Thousand Poison Pamphlet, a manual he got from that dreadful woman in the Earthdawn Sect so many years ago. It hadnt been much use to him, as it mainly contained poisons only effective on those between rank one to three and only a few very obscure rank 4 and 5 poisons. The problem of course being that it wasnt an actual Poison Master legacy or training manual. It was mainly a huge collection of poison concocting instructions. More of a recipe book then a manual teaching you how to be a chef. He had no training as a Poison Master, and always seed to have sothing more important to do. It was only after he retrieved the Universe Ring from Guan Zhenyan that he stumbled upon it again and gave it a read. Thats when he saw that there were also a handful of techniques scattered throughout the book, most of them were ant specifically to handle certain poisons or as antidotes for the preceding poison.
It took a few hours for the treatnt to be completed. Each revolution of Qi through Xuelong and back through Sage could only transfer over a small amount of the poison. The poison didnt seem to be spreading, but it almost felt like it had lted away sothing important inside Xuelongs body. Sage wasnt a Doctor, so he didnt know any of their specialized diagnosis techniques, nor was he very knowledgeable of dical science back in his old life. He didnt have much of an idea of what was going on, other than that he was succeeding in pulling so sort of poison out of Xuelongs body. The poison continued to collect inside Sages Poison Dantian, slowly taking the form of a small sphere. It was currently quite blurry around the edges, shifting and swirling like a small nebula. As soon as it reaches a semi-solid and perfect shape that would an Sage could start to produce it and use it as his own. Of course, that was all secondary to healing Xuelong. He wasnt doing this for the poison, but in the hope that the favor would get him out of the ss with Huifang.
When Sages Qi returned to his body without any further signs of corruption for the last dozen revolutions, he lowered his hands and called over to the Doctor. Chang Lanyan ca over from where he was guarding the door and picked up Xuelongs hand. He placed his index and middle finger over the mans wrist and Sage felt a surge of Qi before the Doctor smiled, Youve done it! Though, I shouldnt be surprised. Living Tallow is certainly an ancient and effective technique. How are you? Will you
He trailed off, obviously wondering if Sage had so terrible price to pay for his usage of the technique. Except, Sage rely shook his head, The only poisons that can do anything to are those that can hurt Saints.
The Doctor was surprised by such a statent, but it made sense given how he was sworn to secrecy. He held Xuelong up so Sage could climb off the bed and then he used so sort of technique that cleansed the sheets of the bed before laying Xuelong back down. Chang Lanyan fed the treasured Discipled a few pills and then looked at Sage, May we allow the others in, now?
Sage was rely exhausted from channeling his Qi for such a long period, but otherwise in perfect condition so he had no objections. With that, the Doctor nodded to him, a show of respect for his help and then walked back over to the doors of the room to allow the others back inside. The room they were in was quite large, almost enough to be a hall, and so he chose to sit far away from the important bed to take a rest. The important people from the Sect shuffled in and took turns examining Xuelong in their own ways, with so sort of technique in use that prevented Sage from hearing anything. They conversed with the Doctor for a while before Uncle Rong finally ca over to where Sage was sitting, A life for a life. Im surprised that youve managed to save your neck. Well done, but its not over yet.
My neck? They were serious earlier
So ti later, a servant ca and led him to a private room, not bothering to reunite him with Songji or Dian Huifang. When he tried to ask about Songji, there was no response, and the defensive formation outside his room was much stronger than the one at the Dian Clan. As nice as his room was, he realized that these guest quarters also seed to double as a prison. The worst part was that the arrays were fully featured. Sage couldnt use any of the ssaging devices he had, not even the ssaging Jades, which were the most difficult to block. Not even his Twin Soul or a small insect were able to sneak out. He thought about trying to break through by force, but without knowing more about the situation he decided not to go overboard. It was still possible that his actions had changed their opinion of him and he didnt want to ruin it by breaking their expensive arrays. Even so, he wasnt at ease and spent the night with his guard up, maintaining a light ditation to keep his awareness.
The next afternoon, he was summoned once more.
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