Chapter 457: Curse

"So you are Fellow Daoist Shi Hongyao. I heard that during my coma these past few years, it was all thanks to your spell-casting and treatment that my injuries did not worsen, allowing me to wake up on my own." Wang Yu pushed away the Big Green that was acting spoiled on him, let it lie on the floor in front of the bed, and asked the pink-clad girl.

"Senior, please forgive me. This junior once obtained a pharmacist's inheritance in her early years, and the healing techniques within it happened to have some effect on lightning power, which is why I dared to treat the Senior." Shi Hongyao explained hurriedly upon hearing this.

"Rest assured, I do not blame you. On the contrary, I must reward you sisters heavily. In a certain sense, you two saved my life. However, may I take a look at your pharmacist inheritance?" Wang Yu asked directly.

"No problem. These methods were all self-taught by this junior, so I ask the Senior to provide some guidance." Shi Hongyao replied without hesitation, then took out a thick, nameless animal-skin book from her person and handed it over with both hands.

Seeing her sister's action, Shi Qiuping beside her seemed to want to say something, her expression flickering, but she immediately thought of something and closed her mouth, remaining silent.

Wang Yu raised a hand and pulled the animal-skin book from the girl's hand into his own. He flipped through it seemingly casually, but deep within his pupils, threads of sharp light flickered.

He had unexpectedly activated overclocking mode.

The animal-skin book was flipped through very quickly; a page was turned every few breaths, giving one the feeling of rapid reading at a glance.

When Wang Yu finished reading the last page and closed the animal-skin book again, he closed his eyes slightly.

Relying on the power of overclocking, he had already memorized all the content of the pharmacist inheritance recorded in the animal-skin book and grasped most of it.

Interesting!

Although this pharmacist inheritance came from the hands of a Qi Refinement cultivator, some of the medicinal formulas and secret healing techniques recorded within were quite unique.

In particular, a medicine called 'Spirit Ghee' recorded within, as long as it is applied to the body surface, not only has miraculous effects on various external injuries, but if combined with a 'Green Wood Hand' massage technique from the inheritance, it can allow the medicinal power to permeate the body, and it actually has a certain therapeutic effect on shattered meridians.

In this way, the trace of residual repair power in his meridians most likely came from these two things.

However, this Green Wood Hand must be practiced by someone with a Wood Spirit Root, and the grade of the Wood Spirit Root cannot be too low; it must be at least mid-grade or higher.

Thinking of this, Wang Yu opened his eyes and asked the girl:

"What is your spirit root attribute, and do you know its grade?"

"Reporting to the Senior, this junior has a five-element spirit root of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. Except for the wood spirit root which is mid-grade, the others are only low-grade spirit roots." Shi Hongyao replied with a dim expression upon hearing this.

Five-element spirit root!

Wang Yu subconsciously scanned the girl in front of him with his divine sense; she only had the cultivation of the third level of Qi Refinement, so what she said was likely true.

"The healing methods in this pharmacist inheritance are indeed very effective for my injuries. In the future, you will continue to prepare 'Spirit Ghee' and use the Green Wood Hand to massage me.

However, your cultivation is too low right now. I have a few bottles of cultivation pills useful for the Qi Refinement stage here. Take them in the next few days, refine the medicinal power, and see if you can advance to the mid-stage of Qi Refinement as soon as possible. Only then will the Green Wood Hand be more effective for me." Wang Yu threw the animal-skin book back, flipped his hand, took out three small porcelain bottles from his waist, and tossed them to the girl.

"Thank you, Senior, for the reward. This junior will definitely try her best to advance to the mid-stage of Qi Refinement to assist the Senior in healing." Shi Hongyao caught the book and medicine bottles in a flurry, replying with great joy.

Shi Qiuping beside her was also both surprised and delighted.

"Fairy Shi, what is your spirit root?" Wang Yu turned his head and asked the young woman as well.

"This junior has a four-element spirit root of gold, water, fire, and earth, but they are all low-grade spirit roots." Seeing Wang Yu ask this, Shi Qiuping's heart skipped a beat, and she replied honestly.

"Four-element spirit root aptitude is considered quite good among rogue cultivators, but I observe that there is an abnormal force attached near your dantian, which greatly affects the operation of your magic power. Have you been secretly harmed by other cultivators using a curse technique?" After staring deeply at the woman, Wang Yu asked.

"Senior has keen eyes. This junior was indeed cursed from afar by an enemy using an unknown 'curse technique' in her early years. Since then, cultivation has been greatly hindered. Although I have sought help from others many times, it has never been completely cleared." Hearing this, Shi Qiuping's heart trembled, and she replied even more respectfully.

"Although curses are rare, they are indeed quite sinister. If cast from afar, they mostly require the use of the victim's essence blood, hair, or skin. The bit of curse power in your body is not incurable, but it requires second-rank power to be completely eradicated. Otherwise, as long as a little remains, it will grow on its own again.

Your dantian has been attached by this curse power for too long and is already in a state of withering and instability. If it is not removed, I fear that in another three to five years, your dantian will collapse on its own, and all your cultivation will be lost." Wang Yu said indifferently.

"Senior, save me!"

Shi Qiuping's face turned pale. Ignoring everything else, she bowed deeply to Wang Yu again.

"Rest assured, Fellow Daoist. Since I have pointed this out, I will naturally help you solve it. Come closer." Wang Yu instructed.

Although the young woman was apprehensive, she walked over a few steps as instructed.

Wang Yu narrowed his eyes slightly. After staring at the young woman again, he raised his arm and grabbed at the young woman's dantian area from a distance with his five fingers spread.

A 'hissing' sound erupted.

Five nearly translucent threads of mental power shot out from his fingertips, flashing and disappearing into the young woman's dantian.

The young woman's face turned pale, and a painful expression immediately appeared on her pretty face.

"Endure it, it will be over soon."

Wang Yu said coldly. After his five fingers trembled slightly, the five translucent crystal threads retracted in a flash, but each carried a small mass of unknown gray gas at the tip, which was pulled out from the young woman's body.

The moment the gray gas mass left her body, Shi Qiuping's face turned pale first, then flushed red. She hurriedly took out a medicinal pill from her bosom, swallowed it, and sat cross-legged on the spot to regulate her breathing.

These translucent threads were threads of mental power converted from Wang Yu's powerful spiritual power.

Although star mental power is greatly suppressed in the cultivation world, just like divine sense power is in the Blue Star, relative to his current terrifying mental power, condensing it into threads was naturally not difficult at all.

As for the curse residue in the young woman's body, although he had seen it with his own eyes for the first time, he had seen quite a bit about it in some miscellaneous books within the sect.

Although curse techniques are very rare and are generally classified as evil arts in various sects, they are extremely troublesome once one is afflicted.

Generally speaking, it is only possible to succeed in casting the spell if one's cultivation and divine sense power absolutely suppress the opponent. Moreover, even if the spell is successful, it generally does not have an immediate killing effect, but relies on the various sinister powers contained in the curse to slowly torture the opponent for a long time before causing death.

But if one's cultivation and divine sense are far above the opponent's, why bother with the trouble of casting a 'curse'? One could just go to their door and kill them. Therefore, for cultivators of the same rank, curses are actually quite useless in actual combat and are generally only used for certain special purposes.

For example, if two parties have a deep grudge, and one party not only wants to kill the opponent but also wants to exterminate the opponent's entire clan or those of the same bloodline, they might use the 'curse' method. Through the opponent's essence blood, it is possible to curse to death the opponent's close relatives or even relatives within several generations.

The method Wang Yu used to remove the curse power for the young woman naturally also came from related miscellaneous books in the sect.

At this moment, he moved his five fingers slightly again, and all the mental power threads flew back, leaving a gray gas mass the size of an egg in his palm.

Wang Yu stared at the gray gas mass in his palm, and crystal light flickered in his pupils one after another.

He saw that within the gas mass, vague mini-runes the size of rice grains were surging, and they quickly turned into blurry ghost faces, looking extremely eerie!

Truly very evil!

Wang Yu felt a slight chill in his heart. He flicked his wrist, and threads of white flame surged from his palm, instantly igniting these gray gas masses and turning them into nothingness in the firelight.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, pondering the specific differences between divine sense and star mental power in the finer details. ===== CHAPTER 458 =====