Northem couldn't help but shiver seeing Althea's smile. There was something wrong with that smile. Sure enough, he heard Althea say, "The process will be extremely painful, you will feel like dying. But you have to endure it. If you lose your consciousness midway then the spiritual energy inside your body will rebound and your meridians will be crushed resulting in you losing your cultivation and damaging your spirit seed"
Althea turned serious and said it word by word.
"So, are you willing to go through the excruciating pain in exchange for growing strong!"
How could Northem give up on this opportunity? He steeled his heart and replied, "Young Miss, I am willing to suffer any kind of pain and bitterness if it can free me from the clutches of my physique. Only then I will be able to protect you"
Althea noticed the look of determination in Northam's eyes and nodded in satisfaction. The person she planned to nurture cannot have a weak heart.
"Alright, since you have already decided I won't say anything further. You just have to consume the Nine Turns Blue Vine directly and after that circulate the spiritual energy around your spirit seed. Unclogging your meridians and cleaning the impurities will take a little time. You have to bear with the pain", Althea explained.
Northem took the Nine Turns Blue Vine out from the jade box and hold it in his hand. It was only five inches tall, he closed his eyes and throw it inside his mouth. He could feel the burst of spiritual energy inside his mouth. The energy was purer than he had imagined. He could feel it go down his throat and after that spreading towards different parts of his body. He immediately started circulating the spiritual energy around his spirit seed. After a while when the pure energy from the Nine Turns Blue Vine reached his meridians, he started experiencing the pain Althea had said.
Standing beside Northem, Althea looked at him with her eyebrows creased. She had very high expectations from Northem, otherwise, she wouldn't casually hand out the Nine Turns Blue Vine to him. Fine beads of sweat started forming on Northem's forehead.
The door of the room was lightly pushed open and Ethaan walked in slowly. He looked at Northem who was going through the pain equivalent to that of burning in the ninth level of hell and casually walked towards Althea.
"Don't worry, his will is extraordinary. He will get through", Ethaan said, as he raised his hand and rubbed the creases between Althea's brows.
Althea was taken aback by Ethan's actions but didn't protest. She nodded her head in agreement. Even though he is going through excruciating pain, Northem didn't make a sound. He simply gritted his teeth and endured the pain.
Time slowly passed by and inside the room, one person sitting and two persons standing, no one utters a single word.
After two hours, Northem's body started to discharge black liquids from his pores. It was the impurities that were clogging his meridians. It continued for another one more hour. After a while from the corner of Northem's mouth, blood started trickling down and the energy around him started to become unstable. Noticing the abnormality, Althea cried out, 'Not good!"
Ethaan also noticed it and before Althea could take action, he pushed Althea to the side and immediately stood at the back of Northem. He condensed his energy in the palm and raising both his hands he did a quick palm movement in the air and placed it on Northam's back. His actions were swift and neat, Althea couldn't help praising him inside her heart. A while later, the energy around Northem started to stabilize.
"You are lucky to pick up a subordinate who has supreme grade physique", Ethaan beamed as he said those words.
"Supreme Grade Physique!"
Althea turned her head and looked at Ethaan with a questioning gaze.
Ethaan smiled at him said, "Physiques are also divided into several grades"
It was Althea's first time hearing that Physiques are also divided into several grades. She had only read it from books that, there are people with unique physiques.
"You only knew that he had a Waning Moon Physique but you didn't know the Grade of his physiques. Physiques are divided into three grades, they are, Mortal grade, Earth grade, and Supreme Grade with Mortal grade being the lowest grade and Supreme Grade being the highest one. Your subordinate is lucky to have the Supreme Grade Waning Moon Physique. After today, his cultivation will start to improve by leaps and bounds since his meridians are already unclogged", Ethaan explained.
Althea noted the information. She felt like she is constantly learning new things ever since she meets Ethaan. It made him feel like she was only a frog at the bottom of the well during her past life.
"The abnormality before was because he had a Supreme Grade physique!", Althea asked.
Ethaan nodded, "if he had a Mortal or Earth grade physique then, it would be okay but Supreme grade physique needed someone to guide them when unclogging the meridians. If not they needed a pill to aide them if they think that they cannot trust anyone because it is the time when one is the weakest without any defense so if the person had ulterior motives, the result will be death"
Althea very well understood that. Unless it's someone you can completely trust, no one will hand over one's life in the hands of the other.
"Since your subordinate had a supreme grade physique, his body has twenty-one meridians in total. Seven more extra meridians than the normal person. To open up these extra meridians, someone has to guide the spiritual energy into these meridians, or else the spiritual energy will lose its way among the meridians. This was the reason why your subordinate almost suffered an internal injury", Ethaan patiently explained everything to her.
"And the one helping him should be someone with strong cultivation!", Althea asked.
"Smart", Ethaan replied
Or else why would he push away Althea and took the initiative to help Northem. Of course, he knows that Althea had a sliver of Divine level sense but her current strength is only the third stage of the low level. If Althea were to help Northem, she would suffer an internal injury too.
Althea was no fool, she understood it based on Ethaan words even though he didn't tell her directly.
"Thank you for your help", Althea thank him again sincerely.
"There is no need for thank you between us. Oh, yes, how did you find out about his physique? Did you perhaps came across someone with the same physique in the past?"
Althea inwardly sighed, Ethaan was too smart. But thinking about that particular someone with waning moon physique she had come across in the past, she couldn't help but frown.
'A debt of blood will be paid in blood', Althea smirked as her eyes turned cold.
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