Chapter 52: A Warm Hand

I knew that once a Qi Core completely gets out of control, one has a high chance of becoming a cripple. Being a cripple meant losing all your cultivation without the hope of ever regaining it back again. On simple terms, if you have a job as an office worker and you get fired, you’re a cripple, in the sense that you lost something without ever regaining that same thing back again.

Of course, I don’t know what would happen if one of my Qi Core gets destroyed while I tried to stabilize the other one. But hey! It’s better than losing both with losing your life as an added bonus.

And with all these on the line, I decided to make it a notch harder by gathering the surrounding Qi in the area. To put it in layman’s terms, cultivation is the glass and qi is the water. The better your glass, the better command you have with that water. But what if your cup is already overflowing and you still decided to put more water on it?

That’s pretty much what I’m doing when I began gathering the surrounding Qi. Of course, it will further improve the quality of my glass but if my cultivation can’t keep up, then the glass wouldn’t be able to take it and it would break. However, regardless of what I do, both of my Qi Cores are at breaking point, so doing something this stupid won’t really add to the risk.

If I succeed here, then there’s a huge chance I’ll be able to stabilize my Qi Core as well before it’s too late. But if I fail, well, back to being a rabid human we go.

No, I must not fail here! I am the esteemed Sect Master of the most powerful sect in the world! I am Tang Yongrui of the Tang Sect! I can’t die here, not when my disciples are eagerly waiting for me!

“You have to stop this now, Tang Yongrui! Your body won’t be able to take it!” The System advised, but I decided to ignore her.

‘Just do your job reducing the pain, I’ll do the rest.’ I thought to myself since I’m sure the System could read my mind.

Is it just me or did the System just nod in response?

I’m becoming crazy, that’s what.

Now, when it comes to risky cultivations like this, we have what we call the bottleneck. Just like when a cultivator couldn’t break through the next realm for a long time, risky cultivations like this are more likely to get a bottleneck as well. This is like the unpassable wall on your journey. The only way to a breakthrough was nothing short of a miracle…

… and luck, lots and lots of luck.

Now, as a Sect Master who has experienced countless risky cultivations like this, I know that having the confidence of breaking through the cultivation is a must. If one wouldn’t believe in himself, then he’d have already lost the battle. I live by those ideals.

And those ideals are put to the test right now.

Gradually, my Virus Qi Core was getting bigger and bigger with no point of stopping. It took all of my being just to make sure it won’t explode and make my body explode with it. As for my original Qi Core, it was far beyond saving. The System was just giving me all the pain reliever it could give so I won’t experience more pain than I’m experiencing now.

If it weren’t for the System, I would have died of pain by now.

Tip. tap.

Tip. tap.

“Young man, just hang in there.” I heard someone whisper on my ear as my body was dragged towards somewhere. I still don’t know who our savior was but apparently, he didn’t leave me behind although I was bitten in several places.

If you ask me how I know about this, somehow, I could still feel my body. WHICH IS A GOOD THING! That means the stabilization of my Virus Qi Core is working and I’m slowly taking control of my mind.

“Will he be all right?” I heard a girl’s voice worriedly asked as she caressed my hair. For some reason, warm water was dripping on my face. I don’t know if it was the girl’s tears, snot, or saliva, but all I could say is that it was warm… and gross! Totally gross!

But who am I to complain, I can’t even move my body at the moment.

“Do you have any healing herbs or medicine in hand, sir?” If I were to guess, I think it was Liu Zhi who was speaking now.

“No, I don’t. And we can’t touch him either. From the looks of it, his body is trying to fight the virus. Tampering with his healing or progress might impede his overcoming. He must overcome this trial alone. All that we could do is believe that he will make it through.” An unfamiliar guy spoke, for some reason… his voice is so familiar.

“He’s right, Liu Zhi. If we gave him the wrong herb or the slightly wrong medicine, it might endanger his life even more. Right now, we have to wait. Just as he saved Wu Yan, I hope he could do the same to himself.” This time, it was Blade who spoke.

But seriously? Wouldn’t you at least attempt to help me? I saved your life, you know. Even a simple pain reliever is enough! Argh, not being able to talk is so frustrating.

“Do you have anything to say to him? There’s a possibility that he can hear us right now.” The unfamiliar yet familiar man spoke again.

Great! Let me guess what comes next… my burial? Am I right?

Sigh.

Clasp!

Suddenly, something warm clasped my hand. Although I couldn’t feel it, I could sense that it was a girl. Is it Wu Yan? Well, she’s the only girl in the group.

“Yong Rui, thank you… thank you so much for saving me.” Wu Yan tearfully muttered as she clasped my hand even tighter, pushing it on her chest. “If it weren’t for you… “

Ahh… I can die in peace now…

Wait, not yet! Isn’t this my chance?! A girl’s finally fallen for me! No, let’s not jump to conclusions here. Right now, we have to stabilize our Virus Qi Core… stabilize…. stabilize…

“Wait, did you just call him Yong Rui?!” The unfamiliar yet familiar voice asked. His exclamation reminded me of one person…

Luo Zehn?!

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