Chapter 75: My Son

I don't know either, and that pill is still a perfect-grade pill with pill markings; those who take it can not only reforge their meridians but also suffer no aftereffects.

Observing the pill's pure hue, the alchemist's skill in pill refinement is likely unmatched throughout the Northern Abyss Continent.

Hum……

Hearing this news, Su Yuan's brain crashed, leaving him blank.

A perfect-grade pill.

A seventh-grade Vein-forging Pill.

To him, these things sounded like Arabian Nights fantasies, yet they actually exist.

Heaven knows, for a cultivator, damaged meridians mean at best a drop in realm, at worst spiritual qi leakage, rendering them unable to cultivate and reducing them to a useless cripple.

Violent spiritual qi is a lethal blow to cultivators, especially those just setting foot on the path of cultivation, for their meridians.

In the Eastern Wasteland Region, because of the violent spirit phenomenon, how many youths and maidens who have just begun cultivation die from meridian damage and bodily explosion… Only major sects and great powers have the resources to build Spirit Gathering Arrays, refining the violent qi, thus keeping spiritual power within the meridians' tolerance.

Yet constant day-and-night cultivation inevitably accumulates some spiritual power; over time this damages the meridians—just like the son of the Cold Moon Sect Leader.

"Prepare the carriage! I'm heading to the Cold Moon Sect right now."

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The Cold Moon Sect—since the Young Sect Leader's death, the sect interior has from time to time echoed with wailing.

"My youngest son, my youngest son!!" Sect Leader Li sat with disheveled hair on the main seat, bursting into tears, gasping heavily, her heartache so great she could barely breathe.

Even now she still cannot accept the reality of her son's passing.

Sect Leader Li's hair turned white overnight, her face still streaked with uncoagulated blood tears; she sat listlessly, spacing out, her eyes fixed on her son, the usual cultivation chamber.

Suddenly.

A sect guard led Sect Leader Su Yuan hastily into the sect's main hall.

Seeing his old friend, now white-haired overnight, Sect Leader Su Yuan felt uneasy.

"Sect Leader Li."

Hearing someone call her, Sect Leader Li lifted her gaze in a daze, looking toward Su Yuan.

After a moment, under the other's soul-shaking words, Sect Leader Li's dim eyes finally gained a glimmer of light.

She sprang up from her seat: "What did you just say?!"

"I say," Su Yuan spoke solemnly, delivering that shocking news: "The Cheng Manor, Master Cheng's granddaughter, who also overstrained her cultivation and damaged her meridians, was on the verge of losing all her cultivation and exploding, but at the critical moment she was saved by a seventh-grade Vein-forging Pill."

"I heard this from Master Xu."

"Now Master Cheng's young granddaughter has not only reforged her meridians but, turning misfortune into blessing, her cultivation has risen a level, with no side effects whatsoever—all thanks to that seventh-grade Vein-forging Pill."

Vein-forging Pill?

Sect Leader Li's gaze glazed over as she fell into some memory, stopping her tears.

Could it be that Young Master Ye Xuan has arrived to rule the Eastern Wasteland?!

It must be; otherwise, who in the Eastern Wasteland Region could produce a seventh-grade pill?

You know, even the Eastern Wasteland's top alchemist, Master Xu, is powerless……

"Is this Vein-forging Pill something you begged from Young Master Ye Xuan?" Sect Leader Li's whole being lit up with a ray of light.

Yet in her heart rose disbelief—Ye Xuan neither came early nor late, but only after her son's death did he appear, and he even gave the promised Vein-forging Pill to the Cheng Manor.

For a moment she found it hard to accept.

"Ye Xuan?" Su Yuan snorted: "No, don't you remember what Master Cheng said that day inside the Space Teleportation Array?"

"He said that when Su Chen left Qianyuan City, he personally visited our three major powers; only the Cheng Manor welcomed Su Chen, yet Su Chen wasn't seeking aid—he was delivering treasures."

"Su Chen could even produce talismans, a rare inheritance long lost in the Eastern Wasteland; perhaps the meridian-reforging pill could also be given to the Cheng Manor…"

This sentence struck like a bolt from the blue!

A roaring sound echoed!

Sect Leader Li felt the world spin before her eyes, then everything went black as she collapsed onto the ground.

Standing beside her, the Cold Moon Sect's Holy Maiden, her eyes red and swollen from weeping, her mouth open wide enough to swallow an egg, her silk scarf slipped from her hand.

All scenes of Su Chen appearing at the Cold Moon Sect that day replayed in her mind; when the guard entered to report…… everything Su Chen did could be done without entering the sect—just find any spot……

So,

That day was!!

"How… how could this be…… humph, absolutely impossible…" Sect Leader Li was the most unwilling to accept, to believe this fact.

Because that day she had looked down on Su Chen with the utmost contempt and scorn, she was certain the Heaven Mystery Dao Sect would be annihilated, repeatedly convincing herself in her heart not to welcome Su Chen into the sect—for the sake of giving Ye Xuan a good impression, and for her son's Vein-forging Pill.

But now?

What did she hear?

She heard that the Cheng Manor's Heaven's Pride Daughter, whose meridians were likewise damaged, had her meridians reforged!

And it happened precisely when Su Chen paid a visit.

"By my handwritten order, summon the rear gate guards to the main hall."

Sect Leader Li's face had lost all color, her hands trembled uncontrollably; she forced herself to stay calm, telling herself over and over…… that Vein-forging Pill could not have been sent by Su Chen.

She would rather there be some unknown secret behind this.

Shortly after.

The guard who had been on gate duty that day came to the main hall.

Upon entering the main hall, sensing an oppressively heavy, stifling atmosphere, the guard involuntarily formed a grim suspicion.

"On the day the Young Sect Leader Su visited, were you the one guarding the rear gate?"

"Reporting to the Sect Leader, it is indeed your subordinate."

"Now, you must immediately tell me everything that happened that day, leaving out no detail, including his demeanor and expression." Sect Leader Li's heart leapt to her throat.

The guard, already anxious, grew even more terrified, and without hesitation recounted every detail of that day's release, omitting nothing.

In particular, when Su Chen finally left, the self‑mockery on his face and his demeanor at that moment were fully reproduced: "That day, Young Sect Master Su, after hearing my words……"

"The Cold Moon Sect is no longer something the declining Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect can aspire to."

"Forget it, I won't give you that Meridian Reforging Pill."

"From now on, my Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect will have nothing to do with the Cold Moon Sect… Sect Master, after saying those words, Young Sect Master Su's figure vanished and he left."

Meridian Reforging Pill…

Reforging the damaged meridians…

Ahhh!!

Sect Master Li and the Holy Maiden of the Cold Moon Sect, mother and daughter, felt their hearts pound violently, a shudder ran through their bodies, their meridians swelled with pain, and they could barely breathe.

In that instant, Sect Master Li felt as if her whole body had lost sensation.

She only felt the world before her eyes grow dark, and a constant ringing sounded in her ears.

Having lived over a thousand years, she had never felt such regret, such self‑loathing.

She actually barred the life‑saving pill meant for her own son, forcing it away by sheer force.

Su Yuan, standing aside and solely seeking proof, was likewise shaken to the core, a surge of tumultuous waves rising within him.

Yet at the same time, he understood everything clearly; the compensation must come from his elder brother.

"Hahahaha!!"

Sect Master Li had already been teetering on the edge of her heart demon; for a cultivator, an unstable Dao heart is the greatest taboo.

Once the Dao heart shows a crack, the heart demon will seize the opportunity to enter.

As she thought, she stretched out her hands and then ruthlessly slapped her own face: "I've been waiting for Ye Xuan's Vein‑forging Pill, but the result is…… ahahaha!"

"After struggling to have a child in my old age, my son possessed extraordinary talent, the makings of a Great Martial Emperor, yet in the end I killed him with my own hands……"

"Why, Heavenly Dao, why…… do you treat me this way."

"Do you really envy talent so much? My son had only just set foot on the path of cultivation, not yet revealing his peerless gift, yet I, fearing implication by the Heavenly Mystery Dao Sect, sought to leave a good impression for Ye Xuan."

"In the end I personally buried my son's life."

Sect Master Li's eyes were so dry that not a single tear could flow; she had cried her tear ducts dry.