Chapter 178: Ji Haoyue

"Hey, Lingyun, is your background really that important to you?" Chen Jing asked with some confusion.

"In some respects, it certainly is. My intuition tells me that my appearance at the orphanage is not simple, and furthermore, I owe a massive favor—a favor I must repay." Lingyun nodded.

Chen Jing was just about to ask why Lingyun's intuition was so accurate, but she suddenly remembered that Lingyun possessed the Heavenly Calculation, a technique that could be called heaven-defying. Although it was said he could not calculate his own fate, getting some revelations from it was no problem.

"By the way, Lingyun, I recently made a friend whose situation is a bit strange. Could you help me take a look?" Chen Jing said to Lingyun, not knowing what she was thinking of.

"The situation is strange? In what way is it strange?" Lingyun raised an eyebrow.

"It's just that I always feel like there are some weird things clinging to him, but when I go to sense it carefully, I find nothing unusual about him," Chen Jing said, frowning. "More importantly, the aura on him doesn't seem to be just one kind; there are several different powers entangled together, tormenting him to the point of misery. I've asked many famous doctors to see him, but none of them could find the cause."

"Several different powers entangled together?" Lingyun seemed to have his interest piqued. "Alright, when does he have time? He can come over and let me take a look."

"It just so happens he has nothing going on during this time; I'll have him come over right now!" Chen Jing pulled her phone out of her pocket and dialed a number.

After a short while, she put down her phone and said with a smile, "He said he'll be over in a moment!"

Not much time passed; shortly after Busujima Saeko and the others returned from buying groceries, the room's door was knocked upon.

Luo Yexi opened the door to see a tall boy in a white shirt standing outside. The boy looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a fair complexion, delicate features, and a faint smile on his face. Although his face was somewhat pale, he gave off the feeling of a sunny, upbeat boy.

Generally speaking, such a boy would be very popular with girls. However, Luo Yexi felt an extremely subtle power from this boy that made the Nine Yang True Qi within her body feel disgusted. Luo Yexi's Nine Yang True Qi was condensed from the Supreme Yang Qi of heaven and earth; any power capable of making the Nine Yang True Qi react this way was, nine times out of ten, nothing good. This power was hidden in the deepest part of the boy's body, which meant this boy was very likely the one using this power. Considering this, Luo Yexi's impression of this boy dropped. However, her face showed no change; she simply invited the boy into the room in a detached manner.

"Haoyue, you're here, come on over!" Chen Jing greeted the boy.

"Is there something you need me for, Sister?" the boy asked.

"Lingyun, this is Ji Haoyue, a good friend I met a while ago," Chen Jing introduced him to Lingyun. "Haoyue, this is the Ling-level genius I mentioned to you before, Lingyun."

"Hello!" Lingyun greeted Ji Haoyue with a smile, his gaze sweeping back and forth over his face.

During the time it took for Ji Haoyue to walk from the door to here, Luo Yexi had already used Condensing Sound into a Thread to tell Lingyun what she had sensed. This also stirred Lingyun's curiosity—what kind of power could make the Nine Yang True Qi inside Luo Yexi feel such revulsion?

"Lingyun, hurry and take a look at Haoyue; what exactly is going on with his body?" Chen Jing said.

Hearing Chen Jing's words, Ji Haoyue couldn't help but give a bitter smile: "Sister, I've already said that this strange illness of mine is beyond saving. Before I became friends with you, my father had already asked many experts to look at my condition, and they were all helpless."

"They are them, and Lingyun is Lingyun. Weren't they also helpless regarding the True Qi in my body before? But now, that matter has been solved by Lingyun!" Chen Jing waved her hand dismissively.

"Sister, your True Qi problem has been solved?" Ji Haoyue was stunned. At the time, in order to solve the True Qi problem in Chen Jing's body, he had invited many experts, but none had any effect. He couldn't help but be surprised that the situation had actually been cured by someone.

"Of course, this is all thanks to Lingyun. Hurry and let him take a look; maybe he has a method for your illness!" Chen Jing said.

Looking at Ji Haoyue sitting before him, Lingyun keenly felt several vast powers lurking within his body, one of which was the very power Luo Yexi said made her Nine Yang True Qi feel disgusted. Lingyun reached out a hand and placed it on Ji Haoyue's pulse, while at the same time, a flash of golden light flickered in the depths of his pupils as he began to examine Ji Haoyue's body.

In Lingyun's eyes, there existed a fist-sized mass of eerie red light within Ji Haoyue's body. Within this mass of red light, he could see countless vengeful spirits emitting silent roars in agony. Lingyun recognized this thing; it was called the World-Extinguishing Blood Curse, a substance refined from the pain and resentment of countless vengeful spirits. If the quality and quantity were sufficient, it could corrode almost anything; it was extremely terrifying. Don't let the small size of this red light fool you; to refine this much, at least hundreds of thousands of innocent lives were required!

Lingyun was also filled with dread toward this World-Extinguishing Blood Curse. The power of hundreds of thousands of vengeful spirits condensed together—even an Innate expert would turn and run without a word upon seeing it. The World-Extinguishing Blood Curse was refined from the power of vengeful spirits, and its might was even greater; even existences that had surpassed the Innate realm would have to give it a wide berth.

Surrounding this mass of red light were circles upon circles of Seal Array patterns, which had actually used this boy's body as a vessel to construct a powerful Seal Array. These array patterns were clearly not laid down by one person, but by many experts who had exhausted their own life Source Power to set them up. The power used to set them up was also quite ingenious, making it so the power of the World-Extinguishing Blood Curse could not endanger the body of the vessel at all.

As for why Ji Haoyue's body was like this, it was also caused by this mass of red light. Although the Seal Array firmly sealed the World-Extinguishing Blood Curse, a portion of its aura inevitably leaked out. This leaked aura clung to Ji Haoyue's body, constantly trying to put him to death. Unfortunately, Ji Haoyue happened to possess National Fortune Dragon Qi and Humanity Imperial Qi; although these two powers were thin, they happened to suppress the leaking curse, which was the only reason Ji Haoyue had lived until now. However, the clash of the three powers had greatly consumed Ji Haoyue's essence, energy, and spirit. In his current state, he could live to at most eighteen years old.

Among these two powers, the one Lingyun cared about most was the Humanity Imperial Qi on Ji Haoyue. One must know that Humanity Imperial Qi was the signature power of the Human Emperors of the past. Could this boy have some connection to the Three Sovereigns of old? His surname was Ji—could he be a descendant of the Yellow Emperor!

"Lingyun, seeing you frown like that, did you discover something?" Chen Jing asked upon seeing Lingyun's expression.

"I did make some discoveries, it's just that it's not easy to solve for the time being!" Lingyun withdrew his hand.

"What discovery?" Chen Jing asked.

"The reason Ji Haoyue's body is like this is because of a curse. But I have no way to deal with this curse right now," Lingyun waved his hand. "Hmm, no, I should say, I have no way to deal with the thing that caused the curse."

"A curse? The thing that caused the curse?" Ji Haoyue's eyelids couldn't help but twitch. Previously, his father had consulted a Master from the Dark World, and he had also said it was a curse. Could it be that this boy, who was only a year or two older than him, had really seen something?

A trace of disappointment flashed in Chen Jing's eyes: "Then can you solve it?"

"Not now, but the future is uncertain. However, I'm afraid he doesn't have that much time to wait, am I right?" Lingyun turned his gaze toward Ji Haoyue.

"Yes." Looking at Lingyun's gaze, Ji Haoyue hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded.