Volume 3, Chapter 171 – The Woman Who is Terminally Ill

Chi Xiyan took a deep breath.

Her gaze regained its determination.

Cultivators nourished their bodies with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. With spiritual power circulating, their bodies remained clean, unstained by dust.

Chi Xiyan only felt uncomfortable when in dirty, chaotic environments, just like earlier in the gambling house at Five Immortals House.

After wrapping her shoe soles with spiritual power, Chi Xiyan stepped into the room.

Inside was dim, the windows completely sealed shut.

Chi Xiyan could smell a damp, moldy odor.

Her delicate brows furrowed as she raised her hand to cover her nose.

“Sister Chi! Can you save my mother? I don’t know what’s wrong with her. She won’t wake up!”

Chi Xiyan heard Yu Lizhi’s voice. Her gaze followed the direction of the sound.

Yu Lizhi was crouched beside a shabby bed, tightly gripping an old woman’s hand.

The woman’s eyes were tightly shut, her lips purplish, her breathing weak. Her life hung by a thread.

Chi Xiyan didn’t speak. She covered her mouth and nose as she slowly approached.

The deeper inside, the heavier the moldy smell.

Could this dark, damp place really be fit for human habitation?

Living in such a place long-term would make even a healthy person fall ill!

Just as Chi Xiyan felt she could barely endure it, she seemed to catch that fresh, clean fragrance again.

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That wisp of scent was like bamboo shoots breaking through soil after rain, giving one a natural, refreshing sensation.

This hint of fragrance brought a touch of redemption to Chi Xiyan, trapped in the musty stench.

It gradually eased her tightly furrowed brow.

Chi Xiyan’s expression remained unchanged, but her heart stirred with surprise.

What was this fragrance?

This wasn’t the first time she’d smelled this faint, clean scent. She’d noticed it once before at Five Immortals House.

This smell seemed to come from Yu Lizhi.

The closer she got to Yu Lizhi, the more obvious the clean fragrance became.

This scent dispelled the discomfort the room’s gloomy environment brought to Chi Xiyan.

By the time she reached Yu Lizhi’s back, Chi Xiyan’s complexion had returned to normal.

She looked at Yu Lizhi’s back, her gaze carrying a hint of complexity.

Was this girl’s fragrance natural?

When she’d first met this girl, Chi Xiyan hadn’t noticed this scent’s existence.

She’d first noticed it at Five Immortals House.

The environment there had been smoky and chaotic, similar to here.

So only when in such filthy, unbearable environments did the fragrance from her body become obvious?

Looking at the girl’s reaction, she seemed completely unaware of this characteristic.

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A person with natural body fragrance.

Chi Xiyan had read extensively through medical texts and had indeed heard of similar special constitutions. However, this was the first time she’d encountered one outside of books.

“Sister Chi!” The black-haired girl turned around, tears gathering in the corners of her eyes, looking at Chi Xiyan with reddened eyes. “Please look quickly, what’s wrong with my mother?”

“Mm.” Chi Xiyan focused her attention, withdrawing it from the pleasant smell on Yu Lizhi’s body.

She walked to Yu Lizhi’s side, wanting to find a place to sit, but there wasn’t even a small chair in this room.

Looking at the dirty, messy bedding before her, Chi Xiyan ultimately dismissed that idea.

She bent down slightly. The woman before her had an indescribable odor.

Like the smell from a pile of corpses.

Rotting and putrid.

If she couldn’t sense the woman’s weak breathing, Chi Xiyan would have suspected she was already dead.

Chi Xiyan frowned. She placed a handkerchief on the woman’s wrist, and through the thin fabric, began taking her pulse.

Lu Zhuxin crouched beside her. This series of small actions from Chi Xiyan made her want to laugh.

If Lu Zhuxin hadn’t used her pheromones to help Chi Xiyan overcome the discomfort, this girl with her cleanliness obsession would probably have been knocked out by the smell.

Fox demon pheromones weren’t only for use in bedroom matters. When properly applied, they could also soothe emotions and relieve tension and pain.

After the inexperienced first use on Song Shiyuan, Lu Zhuxin could now control the dosage of her pheromones with great proficiency.

Chi Xiyan continued examining the old woman. But as the sensation of the pulse’s beating transmitted from Chi Xiyan’s fingertips, her complexion gradually turned ugly.

She looked again at the unconscious old woman before her. The woman’s lips were dark blue, her Yintang acupoint was blackened… All signs indicated this old woman’s life was coming to an end.

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Chi Xiyan inexplicably recalled the Daoist priest Yu Lizhi had mentioned earlier.

That priest had said three spirit stones could cure the old woman before them.

Chi Xiyan felt that if that person could truly accomplish it, she would bow and take them as her master on the spot.

At least, Chi Xiyan felt she couldn’t do it.

“Sister Chi, my mother… how is she?”

Lu Zhuxin watched Chi Xiyan’s profile. She could clearly see the troubled expression appearing on Chi Xiyan’s face.

Haha.

So even this girl had moments when she wore such a deflated expression.

Lu Zhuxin didn’t actually know the old woman on the bed.

This old woman was someone Huang Huying had found, a critically ill prisoner.

Lu Zhuxin had once considered having Hu Mei’er play the sick old woman.

But when Hu Mei’er heard she’d have to play Yu Lizhi’s old mother, she’d jumped up and refused, absolutely unwilling no matter what.

Moreover, fox demon illusions had their limits.

Pretending to be a living person was easy to expose, especially before someone like Chi Xiyan who was proficient in alchemy and medicinal principles.

So the best method was to directly find a real patient.

This way, they could ensure fooling an alchemist proficient in medicinal principles.

Huang Huying had also assured Lu Zhuxin that this critically ill old woman was a prisoner who deserved her fate.

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She’d driven her son-in-law to death, killed her own husband, destroyed her children’s families, and finally ended up with no one to depend on in her old age.

Lu Zhuxin didn’t actually care about these things.

She only cared about Chi Xiyan’s reaction.

“Zhizhi…” Chi Xiyan sighed. She said, “I’m afraid I have to tell you something not very pleasant.”

“Sister Chi!” The black-haired girl immediately grew anxious. “What’s wrong with my mother? Can she really not be saved?”

“Sister Chi, can’t you think of another way?”

The black-haired girl’s face went pale with anxiety. She instinctively grabbed Chi Xiyan’s sleeve, gripping it tightly.

Chi Xiyan frowned.

Too close! She was too close!

She didn’t like people approaching her so closely, and especially hated others grabbing her sleeve like this.

Certainly, the girl before her smelled very pleasant, which was also why Chi Xiyan could barely tolerate the damp, moldy stench of this room.

But thinking that this girl had also grown up in such a dirty, crude environment made her feel inexplicably uncomfortable.

She raised her hand to pull at her sleeve, but found she couldn’t extract it from Yu Lizhi’s hand.

This girl gripped very tightly, who knew where she got such strength.

Unless Chi Xiyan used some cultivation to shake her off.

“Sister Chi, please, please! You must save my mother!”