Chapter 1319 — Good News

"Uncle Feng, please try to calm down. Let's go downstairs and talk this over in my room." Fearing that Feng Tianlong's voice might disturb Gu Mengyao and the others in the bedroom, Wei Zhao made a gesture of invitation and spoke.

"Good!" Trembling with excitement, Feng Tianlong followed Wei Zhao downstairs to his room, and the instant they stepped inside he demanded, "Xiao Yi, tell me at once — do you have a way?"

"Uncle Feng, there is a way — I simply don't know whether I can find that medicinal ingredient. If I can, then naturally there's no problem at all," Wei Zhao said. "But there is a crucial issue, and that is time. There isn't enough of it. Even if I set about searching with all my might, it will take a month or perhaps even longer, and Xiaoxiao can't hold on that long..."

"A medicinal ingredient? News of the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit?" Feng Tianlong asked, half in shock, half in delight.

"Yes. The old man came across a medical text in which an ancient sage of medicine once treated cold poison in a patient of the utmost importance, and what he used was the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit — an ingredient capable of neutralizing the chill within the human body, exactly what Xiaoxiao needs!" Wei Zhao said. "And the place where this sage found the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit was very likely set down in his case notes — and those case notes are very likely resting in his tomb!"

"Oh? You mean... you have found the tomb of this sage of medicine?" Feng Tianlong said in astonishment.

"I have, and I am preparing to go." Wei Zhao nodded, told Feng Tianlong all about Qiu Lingshan's plan, and then added, "Qiu Lingshan has invited me to go to the tomb with her, and as payment, she will allow me to transcribe every medical book inside!"

"That much is no obstacle. Even if she refused to let you copy them, I have my own ways of bringing them to you for a look." Such matters did not worry Feng Tianlong; given the particular nature of the department he served in, gaining access to such things was child's play. "So you're saying there is real hope for Xiaoxiao's illness?"

"So it should have been — but time waits for no man!" Wei Zhao smiled bitterly and heaved a sigh. "We learned of this news a little too late. Had it come sooner, things would never have come to this!"

"That much, at least, I can still manage — keeping that last flicker of life alive in Xiaoxiao," Feng Tianlong said. "You may not know it, but when Susu passed away, I had an ice coffin made for her and sealed her away on the spot, so that the functions of her body would not degenerate."

"What? You actually thought of that?" Wei Zhao froze for an instant, then nodded. "Absolute zero?"

"The department I belong to may be somewhat unusual, but even we cannot reach that standard. Still, falling short of that temperature, sealing Xiaoxiao away for a few decades would pose no problem," Feng Tianlong said. "As it happens, this wasn't my idea — it was Lin Dongfang's, back in the day. That is to say, your master. He raised an interesting notion at the time: a man was frozen inside a glacier, and when the glacier melted, the man actually came back to life... and only then did he conceive of this method. Of course, though the method can guarantee that Xiaoxiao's body will not spoil, it carries risks as well. Whether that anecdote is true or false is one matter; even if it is true, it owed a great deal to sheer chance. So if she were to freeze to death and never come round..."

"That won't be a problem." A look of heartened relief spread across Wei Zhao's face. So long as Feng Xiaoxiao's body underwent no change in substance, then with his omnipotent energy at hand he should be able to restore her spark of life himself — and everything else was in place; the only thing missing was the Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit!

Seeing the smile appear on Wei Zhao's face, Feng Tianlong said nothing more on the matter. Evidently Wei Zhao already had the whole thing worked out and full confidence in his grasp of it.

"Very well. I'll have men see to it at once and have another ice coffin made!" Not daring to delay, Feng Tianlong set about arranging the affair there and then.

"When you froze Aunt Susu back then, did you already hold to the thought that she might one day be cured?" Wei Zhao asked.

"I did. Divine Physician Lin Dongfang said as much at the time — that if a Heaven-tier expert were to step in, Susu could be saved. But... a Heaven-tier expert..." A faint, disappointed smile slipped across Feng Tianlong's lips. "I begged them, every one. But no Heaven-tier expert would risk dropping a level just to save an ordinary person..."

"You... have met a Heaven-tier expert?" Wei Zhao stared at Feng Tianlong in astonishment, never having imagined that the man could have come into contact with such a being.

"Forget it. No dwelling on past glories. I'm nothing but an ordinary man now — let's not speak of it..." Clearly unwilling to reopen that stretch of the past, Feng Tianlong simply shook his head and would say no more.

Seeing how Feng Tianlong looked, Wei Zhao knew he wished to say no more and did not press him. "In that case, my mind is at ease! If it can be managed, I will find two Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit and give one to Aunt Susu as well. But... if there is only one, I must beg Uncle Feng's forgiveness — it can go only to Xiaoxiao! Split a Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit between two people, and no one can guarantee it will still take effect... You love your wife, but I want my wife to live too..."

"I know — I understand!" Feng Tianlong could not help but laugh at what Wei Zhao had said. "She's my daughter too! Believe me — even if I did feed the only Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit to Susu, and she came back to life only to learn that I had not saved Xiaoxiao, she would kill me with her own hands!"

Wei Zhao nodded. Feng Tianlong was right — what parent does not wish their own child safety and happiness? Even if it meant giving up their own life. He was certain that if Xiao Susu were to wake, she would feel exactly the same.

Wei Zhao believed that if he and Xiaoxiao were ever to have a child of their own, and he found a single Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit, Xiaoxiao would surely give it to their child rather than take it herself.

With Feng Tianlong sent on his way, Wei Zhao's spirits opened up all at once, and the gloom that had hung over him was swept clean. So long as the problem of time could be solved, nothing else was a problem! The Fire Spirit Sacred Fruit — Wei Zhao believed that with effort he would certainly find it. And even taking the most pessimistic view, should he fail to find it, then once he had advanced to Heaven-tier he could treat Feng Xiaoxiao himself!

Drop a level? Wei Zhao wasn't afraid of that — hadn't he dropped often enough? His level had so often fallen to zero, on Xiaoxiao's account; the worst that could happen would be that same outcome. Could it even go negative?

So Wei Zhao was happy — he could not keep himself from leaping up off the ground. Only after he came down did he shake his head. When had he grown to be like this? It seemed the old man had been entirely right about one thing: he had changed!

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