Chapter One Hundred: The Northbound Stream of Memory

“Yiyi, have you made up your mind?”

Half a day later, Lin Fan looked at the little girl sitting quietly in the deep pool before him and spoke slowly, his eyes heavy with concern.

Just half a day ago, he had examined all her injuries and used the healing medicine stored in his ring to mend some wounds. Yet, it was merely a drop in the ocean—less than a tenth of her meridians had recovered. Helplessly, he had to give up.

It was then that Ximen Yiyi asked him if she could truly cultivate, which reminded him of the moment during their battle when Yiyi was on the brink of a mental collapse, and he had offered her words of comfort.

So, he immediately affirmed her hope and began assessing her aptitude!

What he discovered shocked him deeply.

Yiyi’s entire set of meridians was blocked, her energy sea sealed shut. Even the 108 major acupoints on her body were pitch black; the smaller meridians were tainted with dark bruising as well.

This was not just poor aptitude—it was a congenital severance of meridians, a rare and fatal condition known as the Heavenly Poison Severed Meridian!

If it weren’t for the mysterious expert who implanted an incredibly powerful toxin-absorbing pearl inside her, which sucked away the lethal poison coursing through her body, Yiyi would have died by the age of two or three.

Even with this potent toxin-absorbing treasure, she would not survive beyond fifteen!

With such a severed meridian constitution, cultivation was simply impossible. If it were only a natural severance, there might be a sliver of hope—however small—for cultivation, because though the meridians were blocked and energy could not flourish, there was still a minuscule chance of becoming powerful, even if only one in a hundred thousand or a million.

But the Heavenly Poison Severed Meridian was a dead end—no path to heaven, no way beneath the earth.

The first step in cultivation is to temper the body, and during this process, even before energy arises within, the intense poison inside Yiyi’s meridians would erupt under bodily strain.

This Heavenly Poison Severed Meridian was an innate, devastating toxin of unparalleled strength—far beyond the poisons in Jiang Beicheng’s body.

Once it erupted, it was uncontrollable and would instantly claim Yiyi’s life!

No wonder Yiyi’s father and relatives said she could not cultivate. At this moment, Lin Fan fully understood the truth.

Yet, looking into Yiyi’s eager, hopeful eyes, he found himself unable to speak.

If he told her she could not cultivate, the fragile conviction she had fought so hard to build would shatter utterly. Where before she might have become mentally deranged, now she would likely perish from despair.

He knew that when her spirit was on the verge of collapse, he had instilled in her a firm resolve: to avenge her father and uncles, to repay the blood debt.

Therefore, her desire to cultivate was overwhelmingly strong.

Lin Fan also considered that whether or not she could achieve revenge, she would live on for that purpose.

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