Supreme Divine Physician in the City
Chapter 314: Ice Cicada Heart Devouring Gu

Chapter 314: Chapter 314: Ice Cicada Heart Devouring Gu

Ye Xuan fell silent for a moment, not answering her question, but frowning and counterasking, "How old are you this year?"

"I turned twenty-three today, and in three months, I’ll be fully twenty-four years old."

Su Yumo was taken aback, somewhat baffled, not understanding why Ye Xuan was responding off-topic, but she still answered truthfully.

"When did you start getting sick? When did your body first experience the coldness, the freezing stiff?"

A glint flashed in Ye Xuan’s eyes as he continued to ask.

"It was probably around seventeen or eighteen, I can’t remember exactly."

Su Yumo furrowed her brows, gave a rough timeline, and then immediately asked, "What’s the matter? Does my illness have to do with my age?"

"Correct, your condition coincides well with the timeline you described."

Ye Xuan nodded, answering her question before continuing, "Did it start off not too painful when you first got sick, with the episodes not lasting long, until these past one or two months when it suddenly got more severe?"

"Yes."

Su Yumo looked at Ye Xuan with surprise, nodded slightly, and said, "At first, I just felt a general chill all over and no other significant symptoms. The doctor said I had a weak constitution with excessive coldness. I didn’t pay much attention to it at the time. After that, there weren’t any episodes for a long period, only recently did it become severe."

"Alright, I basically understand now. The situation is more or less as I deduced," said Ye Xuan with a solemn expression.

"Ye Xuan, what exactly is wrong with me? And, what is this Innate Yin Meridian you mentioned?" Su Yumo pressed on.

"You don’t have an illness."

Ye Xuan shook his head, his gaze fixed on her, "Do you know anyone from the Miao Clan? Or, should I say, the witch families of the Miao Border! Have you ever come in contact with these people?"

Not an illness? Then what is it?

Curiosity grew within Su Yumo’s heart.

At that moment, after hearing Ye Xuan’s words, she showed a face full of bewilderment:

"The Miao Clan? I remember...I don’t think I have any Miao friends! Does this have something to do with the Miao people? And what’s the witch families of the Miao Border?"

"The witch families of the Miao Border are a hidden family. You wouldn’t understand even if I told you now."

Ye Xuan didn’t explain much further but asked, "Have you ever heard of the witchcraft of the Miao Border? I mean, Gu Technique!"

"I know that."

Su Yumo nodded slightly; the witchcraft of the Miao Border was too infamous. Even if she had never seen it firsthand, she had seen it on TV before.

"If I’m not mistaken, what you’re experiencing isn’t an illness; you’ve likely been poisoned by a Gu!"

Ye Xuan spoke gravely, offering his diagnostic conclusion.

What?

Gu Poisoning!

Hearing this term, entirely foreign to her, Su Yumo’s gaze was filled with confusion.

Originally, she had always believed she was suffering from some sort of illness or a complex medical condition, even the doctors had said it was caused by an inherent coldness in her constitution.

But now, hearing the term ’Gu Poisoning’ from Ye Xuan, she was completely at a loss; this was beyond her imagination!

"Ye Xuan, what is Gu Poisoning? Is my condition...is Gu Poisoning very serious?"

Even though she wasn’t clear on the meaning of "Gu Poisoning," Su Yumo still urgently inquired.

"It should... count as very serious."

Ye Xuan’s expression turned solemn, and after hesitating a bit, he nodded.

Su Yumo’s heart skipped a beat, "Then... how serious is it?"

"Do you want to hear the truth?"

"You tell me, I can take it!" Su Yumo clenched her teeth.

"Alright, then I’ll tell you, you have at most three months to live, then you will have to say goodbye to this world forever," said Ye Xuan.

What?

Three months!?

Su Yumo’s face turned pale as if struck by a bolt from the blue, her entire being froze, standing there as if she were a clay statue or wooden carving.

She had thought it would be serious, but she had never imagined it would be this serious!

She... only had three months to live?

No one could accept this!

"Ye Xuan, you... you’re not joking, right? I’ve just felt chilly, how could I only have three months left?"

Su Yumo’s pretty face was deathly pale, her tone trembling as she spoke.

Even if someone has a strong mental fortitude, hearing that they will die soon would instill fear in anyone.

This isn’t about being cowardly or strong; it is human instinct. In the face of death, anyone would feel fear!

And how much more so for Su Yumo, the youthful manager with a bright future ahead?

"It was you who asked me to tell you, and now you don’t believe it."

Ye Xuan shook his head helplessly, then his face took on a serious expression as he said in a solemn voice:

"Although I’m not exactly an honorable person, I wouldn’t joke about this kind of thing! I can say with responsibility that you have been poisoned with ’Ice Cicada Heart Devouring Gu,’ a Poisonous Insect specifically used to catalyze the Innate Yin Meridian."

"And you, are the rare possessor of the Innate Yin Meridian! The reason you feel cold and your limbs freeze up is that the Innate Yin Meridian releases icy chills from time to time, and the Ice Cicada Heart Devouring Gu feeds on the cold yin energy emitted by the Innate Yin Meridian, gradually consuming your Life Energy as it grows!"

"It can’t live without the nourishment of yin energy, and at the same time, it consumes more and more of your Life Energy, making its own Vitality stronger while also enhancing the host’s Yin Evil Energy! Put simply, it acts like a catalyst; what might normally take your Yin Meridian ten years to mature can be halved by the catalysis of the Ice Cicada Heart Devouring Gu, which also matches the timeline of your condition’s outbreak!"

"Because the Ice Cicada Heart Devouring Gu is only active during specific times of each month or each year, after it consumes your Life Energy, it falls into a dormant state, slowly converting your Life Energy into the Yin Meridian’s yin energy! This period is a resting phase, so you seem like a normal person and can’t notice any abnormalities. Once it has digested, it wakes up again, continues to consume your Life Energy, and so the cycle repeats until it depletes all your Vitality!"

"The lifespan of the Ice Cicada Heart Devouring Gu is determined by the Life Energy of the human body; if the person lives, it lives, if the person dies, it dies too, and when it has devoured all the Life Energy, it enters its mature phase. At this time, the host dies as they have no Life Energy left, and the Poisonous Insect will also perish inside the human body."

"After the death of the Poisonous Insect, that’s when the Yin Meridian matures, which is three months from now. That’s why I say you only have three months left! Because in three months, when the Poisonous Insect dies and the Yin Meridian matures, at that time, you will turn into a ’human Gu’!"

In fact, Ye Xuan hadn’t expected that Su Yumo would have the Innate Yin Meridian, a rarity in this world, where not one in a million possesses it.

Of course, Su Yumo didn’t possess a complete Innate Yin Meridian, or rather, could only be seen as a half-finished product, a Pseudo Yin Meridian Body!

A true Innate Yin Meridian wouldn’t have any outwardly cold energy leakage; it is pure Yin Evil Energy, the purest energy source, perfectly fused with the human body and meridians, absolutely a fine seed for Cultivation.

Such a person isn’t just one in a million—such rarity doesn’t exist even in one amongst tens of millions!

Only a Pseudo Yin Meridian Body would have cold energy leakage at intervals, eroding their own body.

And the Ice Cicada Heart Devouring Gu is used precisely to catalyze the Pseudo Yin Meridian Body.