"Then, what do we do?"
With tears in her eyes, the Coloured Glaze put her hands together and begged like a lost kitten. "Senior, please save my senior brother no matter what. Whatever repayment you want, we will try our best to fulfill it as long as it is within our means!"
Li Yao thought for a moment and said, "I don't think that I was a doctor before. Treating patients is not my specialty. However, your senior brother's problem is just a minor one. If it comes down to it, he can always stop practicing the Lightning Strangle in the future and switch to a technique of the thunder class that is more reliable.
"What I care more about is your father and his master.
"I don't know if your father's illness has anything to do with the 'Lightning Strangle', but I do know that anyone who practices the 'Lightning Strangle' will have a high chance of having their nerves, veins, and muscle fibers seriously blocked if they do not practice certain ancillary arts that can expel the waste products in their cells.
"If your father has been training for decades, and his Cultivation is purer than ever, his blockage must be a hundred times more serious than your senior brother's. The 'embolism of spiritual energy' that has been accumulated for a long time may have covered all the critical parts on his body. Once it breaks out, it will not be strange that he will be killed instantly."
"What!"
The Coloured Glaze covered her mouth in disbelief and stepped back. She fell to the ground and burst into tears.
"Senior!"
Han Te was sweating hard in anxiety. He crawled to Li Yao and said at a loss, "It doesn't matter what happens to me, but please save my master. He is truly a good man. Everybody in the thousand square kilometers nearby knows that he is a great man. The lives of thousands of people in the Village of Peace depend on him to protect them!"
Li Yao continued calmly, "As I said just now, I am not a doctor. I have never even met your master before. This is just my speculation based on the circulation of your spiritual energy. Perhaps there are other reasons that caused your master's disease. That is not something that I can resolve.
"If it is only because of the Lightning Strangle, I can figure out a way to help you and your master recover bit by bit. I can even help you improve the Lightning Strangle and figure out a way to expel the waste of the mitochondria.
"However, regarding your junior sister's problem, I am truly helpless."
Han Te and Coloured Glaze had just heard that Li Yao was willing to help them. Just as they were about to cry tears of joy, they heard Li Yao shift the topic to Coloured Glaze. The two little guys were stunned at the same time.
Han Te stammered, "W-what's wrong with my Junior Sister?"
"Her problem is a hundred times more serious than yours."
Li Yao turned the crystal camera to the Coloured Glaze, whose redness was flickering. "Little girl, tell me. Have you been having a headache every once in a while in the past half year? It is not the kind of pain that feels like being stabbed by needles, but the kind that feels like your brain is being torn apart from the middle and somebody is grabbing your hair and tearing it apart. The pain is like a thin line that runs through your entire face, and the most painful point should be the tip of your nose, right?"
"Who said that?"
Han Te shook his head hard and denied it as if he had been stimulated. "My Junior Sister didn't!"
"I …"
Coloured Glaze, on the other hand, was pale and shocked. She mumbled, "It does happen every couple of days. How do you know, senior?"
"What!"
Han Te jumped to his feet first. Waving his hands, he said, "Isn't it the same as masteress's? Coloured Glaze, why — why didn't you ever tell us? Even our master didn't know?"
"I didn't want you to worry …"
The girl lowered her head, bit her lips softly, and played with her fingers in confusion. "At first, I thought that it was an illusion. After all, the pain was very feeble and barely there. But recently, the attacks were getting more and more frequent, and the pain was getting more and more obvious. It was not until then that I thought of telling you. But my father was ill again, and the annual Bliss Ceremony was coming soon. Whether or not the Village of Peace could survive the new year would depend on the Bliss Ceremony this year. I didn't want to distract you at such a moment, so I thought that it wouldn't be too late to tell you after the Bliss Ceremony."
"You —"
The young man was so anxious that he was about to cry, but he had nowhere to vent his feelings. He bashed the ground so hard that electric arcs were dancing, and the broken stones were splashing everywhere.
Li Yao observed them without batting an eyelid. "What, does your masteress's mother, the Coloured Glaze's mother, have the same symptoms?"
"Yes, senior."
Han Te said gloomily, "The Coloured Glaze's mother passed away five years ago. She had exactly the symptoms you described a year before her death. She had a splitting headache, as if a burning saw was sawing her head from the middle, and the tip of her nose was the most painful part!"
"Then —"
Li Yao continued asking, "If my guess is correct, the Coloured Glaze and her mother practice the same technique. They both change the structure of part of their brain cells and significantly increase the intensity of the brainwaves they release to form a controllable magnetic field of brainwaves outside their body. By changing the intensity, structure, and frequency of the magnetic field, they can interfere with the form of spiritual energy of their allies or enemies, thereby helping to heal their allies, increasing the intensity of their attacks, or disrupting the enemy's techniques."
Han Te stared at Li Yao in bewilderment. He was truly awed by the mysterious senior who had been buried below the ground for hundreds of years. "Senior, you are truly amazing. I don't know if their brain cells have any messy changes, but it is true that the Coloured Glaze and my masteress's masteress practice the same technique named 'Heavenly Heart Change'. It can both calm the mind of one's allies, boost their spiritual energy, accelerate their recovery, and increase their damage. It can also disrupt the enemy's moves and nip the enemy's techniques in the bud. It is a top-tier ancillary technique that is both offensive and defensive. It is very awesome!"
"It is indeed very awesome, especially for the caster of the technique."
Li Yao sneered and said, "When you practice such a technique, your brain cells will be in a state of high-frequency oscillation for a long time, as if high-energy microwaves are piercing through your brain all the time. It is almost certain that your brain will mutate. Also, once the attack breaks out, you will be dead for sure. There is barely any chance that your soul will be preserved and you will turn into a spectral Cultivator."
Hearing his ruthless judgment, the Coloured Glaze seemed to have accepted the verdict of fate. Sitting on the ground, she did not say anything but put on a pale smile at Han Te, begging him not to worry about her.
The young man's face, however, was so red that ten thousand arrows of blood seemed to be spurting out at any moment. He fell to his knees before Li Yao and held back his tears. "Senior, please save my master and my junior sister. Just like how you saved me just now, help them bleed and clear the venom and waste inside their bodies. As long as you are willing to help, I will agree to any conditions. Whatever you want, I will try my best to get it for you!"
Li Yao's indicator dimmed. He pondered for a moment and said, "You only have simple mitochondrial waste that cannot be excreted, but your junior sister has very serious brain damage and mutations. How can they be lumped together?
"The brain is the most mysterious and delicate organ in the human body. How can the problem be solved by piercing a few holes and letting some blood out?
"Yes, the brain itself does not have any sense of pain. Your junior sister's dull pain should be caused by the high intracranial pressure. Opening her brain and reducing the intracranial pressure can temporarily alleviate her pain, but it is a temporary solution. Your junior sister is still in the growth stage. Since the brain mutation has already occurred, it is not as simple as stopping the practice of the 'Heavenly Heart Sutra' can solve it. It is best to ask a brilliant brain doctor and a Meditation Healer to treat her."
Han Te was confused. "We are a small place. Few doctors come here. As for 'Meditation Healers', what are they?"
Li Yao was slightly dazed. After thinking deeply for a while, he said, "How about this? Since your junior sister's problem is the instability of the magnetic field of her brainwaves, as long as there are suitable tools and parts, maybe I can help her refine a special helmet first. After she wears it, it will temporarily stop the mutation of her brain. But it is not a long-term solution. You have to find a real expert as soon as possible during this period."
"Thank you, senior. Thank you, senior! Thank you, senior!"
Han Te felt both heartache and delight. Finally, sticky tears flowed out of his eyes. Holding the Coloured Glaze's hand, he hesitated for a moment and said, "I wonder, senior …"
"I can help you, but you have to help me, too. Let's make a deal."
Before he finished, Li Yao said, "As you can see, I … only have part of my remaining soul left. I've been buried below the ground for hundreds of years and lost all my memories. I don't know the first thing about myself or the brand-new era. You have to work as my guides and help me get to know the brand-new world."
"Of course!"
Seeing that Li Yao agreed readily, the young man regained the vigor of a jumping monkey. He patted his chest hard and said, "Leave it to us. Please return to the Village of Peace with us, senior. We will certainly help you figure out the whole world as soon as possible so that you can be completely integrated into the Land of Sins!"
Li Yao smiled and went on. "One more thing. I don't want other people to know my real identity for now. Even your master, the father of the Coloured Glaze, cannot be told. As for other people, you can just tell them that you have picked up a common spiritual puppet for cleaning and maintenance purposes from the ruins and have modified and upgraded it. Is there a problem?"
The young man and the girl looked at each other and shook their heads hard at the same time. "No problem!"
"Right —"
Han Te thought for a moment and asked carefully, "In front of other people, we can pretend that we have picked up a 'universal cleaner'. But in private, how should we address you, senior? Do you still remember your name in the past?"
Li Yao pondered for a moment and said, "I vaguely remember that there was a 'Yao' in my name in the past. So, you can call me 'Grandpa Yao'."
"Hey."
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