Chapter 440: Hand of Creation

"Long time no see."

As soon as Hua Changxi entered Qihuang Hall No. 10, she smiled and walked toward Pang Shaoyu and Chang Wei.

"Peak Master Hua!"

Chang Wei, being experienced, greeted Hua Changxi naturally.

Beside him, however, Pang Shaoyu felt slightly ill at ease.

It could not be helped; the gap between them had grown too vast nowadays.

Back when he first met Hua Changxi, he had been a member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, while she was merely a laborer.

Now their statuses had reversed; he was but a lone cultivator, while Hua Changxi had become a figure that all lone cultivators looked up to as if gazing at a towering mountain.

After exchanging a few pleasantries with the two to dispel some of the awkwardness, Hua Changxi got straight to the point: "Do you both understand why I asked you to come here?"

Chang Wei glanced at Pang Shaoyu and nodded: "We do. Steward Yu has already informed us."

Hua Changxi immediately activated her 'Eye of Illusion Breaking' and scanned Chang Wei from head to toe: "Your spiritual roots are torn too severely, and without timely repair, they have now shrunk drastically."

After deciding to 'verify whether the teachings of Hall No. 10 involved research into spiritual roots,' the first person she thought of was Chang Wei.

For no other reason than that, when treating him before, she had considered that if she knew the technique for suturing spiritual roots, she might be able to stitch his torn ones back together.

Hearing Hua Changxi's diagnosis of his condition, Chang Wei held his breath tightly: "Do I still have a chance to continue cultivating?"

Thinking of her treatment methods, Hua Changxi did not make any absolute promises: "Regarding treatments for spiritual roots, I have previously only engaged in medicinal pills and acupuncture. In your case, conventional pills and acupuncture can no longer solve the problem."

"Therefore, I intend to try a treatment method on you that I have never attempted before."

"I cannot guarantee whether your spiritual roots can be repaired."

Upon hearing this, Chang Wei sighed, and his eyes grew somewhat dim.

Seeing his reaction, Hua Changxi confirmed once more: "Are you certain you want to undergo my treatment?"

Noticing Hua Changxi's concern and solemnity, Chang Wei smiled: "Rest assured, Peak Master Hua. Since I am here, I am naturally willing."

He knew very well how severe the injury to his spiritual roots was; otherwise, the royal family would not have abandoned him outright back then.

Having stepped onto the path of cultivation, he did not wish to remain an ordinary mortal.

Thus, even if there was only a sliver of a chance, he was willing to try.

Moreover, the person treating him was Hua Changxi, who was suspected to be the Fire Lotus Fairy, giving him even more confidence.

Hua Changxi then turned to Pang Shaoyu: "As the family member, do you understand the treatment situation, and are you willing for the patient to undergo treatment?"

Pang Shaoyu had not expected Hua Changxi to ask him; he quickly nodded: "Willing." After a pause, he hurriedly asked, "The treatment process won't endanger his life, will it?"

This time, Hua Changxi gave an affirmative answer: "It will not."

Hearing this, Pang Shaoyu immediately grinned: "Then there's no problem. Treat him as you see fit; we trust you."

Hua Changxi glanced at him; this person's personality had not changed much from before. It seemed that living as a lone cultivator suited him quite well.

Hua Changxi looked at Jia Lu: "Arrange the treatment room as I told you earlier." Then, turning to Ye Lingxuan and Jiang Henian, she added, "You two will assist me during the treatment."

"If any issues arise that I fail to notice, you must intervene immediately."

Suddenly singled out and entrusted with such important tasks, Ye Lingxuan and Jiang Henian felt both surprised and apprehensive.

Did the Peak Master really trust their medical skills so much???

The treatment room was spacious and clean. In the center stood a green stone bed carved from top-grade Wood Spirit Stone, surrounded by pure Wood Spirit Qi rich in vitality, while black fruits emitting a dark glow were embedded along its edges.

Additionally, in front of the stone bed stood an operating table laden with spiritual needles of varying lengths and thicknesses, along with various medicinal pills and potions.

Accompanied by Pang Shaoyu, Chang Wei entered the treatment room. Seeing how thoroughly the disciples of Danyuan Peak had prepared, his initial nervousness eased considerably.

Hua Changxi said: "Except for Jia Lu, Ye Lingxuan, and Jiang Henian, everyone else stand outside the formation."

To avoid interfering with the treatment process, Hua Changxi had set up an isolation formation; those outside could see and hear everything within, but nothing from outside could penetrate into the formation.

Next, Chang Wei cooperatively lay down on the Wood Spirit Bed. As soon as he lay down, under the influence of the black fruits, he fell into a deep coma within mere breaths.

Seeing this, everyone present felt somewhat surprised.

Unable to hold back, Pang Shaoyu asked Yu Fu beside him: "Steward Yu, what happened to my uncle?"

Yu Fu pointed to the black fruits along the edge of the Wood Spirit Bed: "Do you see those black fruits? Those are Drunken Immortal Fruits; the fragrance they emit has a powerful anesthetic effect."

Only then did Pang Shaoyu realize the truth, and he asked again: "Will cultivators also be knocked unconscious by the scent of the Drunken Immortal Fruit?"

Yu Fu replied: "That depends on the grade of the Drunken Immortal Fruit."

Pang Shaoyu nodded, asked no further questions, and focused his attention on the situation inside the formation.

Meanwhile, standing before the stone bed with a solemn expression, Hua Changxi first took out the Qihuang Token given to her by Gu Jinfan and placed it on the operating table. Only then did she pick up a spiritual needle and gently insert it into several major acupoints on Chang Wei's body.

Upon seeing the Qihuang Token, the eyes of Ye Lingxuan and the others flickered. As they watched Hua Changxi's needling speed increase, becoming faster and denser, they finally pulled their minds back to the present.

Chang Wei's spiritual roots suffered from two issues: first, they were torn too severely; second, prolonged lack of spiritual qi nourishment had caused them to atrophy.

Due to this atrophy, many parts had fractured, resulting in his spiritual roots existing within his body as disconnected segments.

According to conventional treatment methods, one would first need to restore elasticity to his atrophied spiritual roots by repeatedly infusing them with spiritual qi to nourish and fill them.

Only after resolving the atrophy problem could one proceed to treat the tearing of the spiritual roots.

This process would undoubtedly be lengthy.

Hua Changxi did not have time to waste on this; before coming to Qihuang Hall No. 10, she had crushed a seed of the Creation Pomegranate.

The Creation Pomegranate could directly generate spiritual roots, and the juice of its seeds possessed excellent properties for inducing spiritual root formation.

A single seed of the Creation Pomegranate equated to one pill of Creation Elixir, capable of causing an ordinary person to develop spiritual roots.

Had it not been to verify the teachings of Qihuang Hall No. 10, she truly would not have borne to consume a single seed of the Creation Pomegranate.

The moment Hua Changxi opened the porcelain bottle containing the juice of the Creation Pomegranate seed, an indescribable aura drifted out, instantly causing Jia Lu, Ye Lingxuan, and Jiang Henian inside the formation to display expressions of intoxication.

"What wonderful treasure has the Peak Master taken out?"

The observing disciples of Danyuan Peak, noticing the change in demeanor among the three, were all extremely curious about what exactly was inside the porcelain bottle in Hua Changxi's hand.

Hua Changxi dipped a spiritual needle into the juice of the Creation Pomegranate seed, carefully controlled the dosage, and slowly inserted the needle into the areas where Chang Wei's spiritual roots had atrophied most severely.

With the first needle inserted, under the perspective of her Eye of Illusion-Breaking, Hua Changxi saw that, spurred by the juice of the Creation Pomegranate seeds, Chang Wei's withered spiritual root became full and vigorous like a withered tree encountering spring, and even the cracks on the spiritual root were gradually healing.

Hua Changxi glanced at the Qihuang Token; seeing no reaction, she began inserting the second needle, the third needle...

After the ninth needle was applied, the severed parts of Chang Wei's spiritual root, broken due to atrophy, grew back completely, reconnecting head to tail to form a complete closed loop.

[Creation Hand (Manifestation): 0/1000]

Seeing the new data suddenly appear in her vision, Hua Changxi's heart shook violently; she had not expected that after the 'Observation, Listening, Questioning, and Pulse-Taking Technique', the Shennong Cauldron possessed other inheritances.

Creation Hand?

Manifestation?

While Hua Changxi's thoughts were in chaos, the Shennong Cauldron in her sea of consciousness trembled slightly, and then countless information flooded wildly into her mind.

"Creation Hand steals the craftsmanship of heaven and earth to continue the Dao path, mending the deficiencies of Yin and Yang to save all living beings."

"This divine ability uses 'spiritual power as the guide, origin as the medium, and laws as the ruler', specifically designed to treat terminal Dao illnesses such as destroyed spiritual roots, shattered dantians, and collapsed seas of consciousness."

"The divine ability is divided into three layers: Manifestation, Restoration, and Reshaping."

"Manifestation—the practitioner uses spiritual power as a guide and gathers the origin of life as a medium to project and manifest the patient's spiritual root, dantian, and sea of consciousness, making them visible, tangible, treatable, and curable..."

"Restoration—building upon the foundation of Manifestation, following the origin of the spiritual root, dantian, and sea of consciousness, using a life vessel as the brush and spiritual power as the ink to repair damage and continue severed paths."

"Reshaping—reaching the peak of creation, discarding the constraints of 'restoration', stealing the spiritual beauty of heaven and earth, gathering the origin of the universe, using the practitioner's own spiritual power as fuel and primordial qi as fire to perform a rebirth and reconstruction of the manifested spiritual root, dantian, and sea of consciousness."