Urban Extraordinary Immortal Doctor
Chapter 1300: Can You Save Him?

Chapter 1300: Chapter 1300: Can You Save Him?

Xia Chenyu mused, "Based on what you’ve said, during the decades Zhou Qingyan patiently waited for Li Chenzhou, he must have returned to Ruoshui Palace. Otherwise, how could he have learned about his wife and daughter’s circumstances?"

As she spoke, she glanced at Li Chenzhou’s corpse with a look of disgust, and snorted, "If Li Chenzhou was alive and even returned to Ruoshui Palace, why then did he not see his wife and daughter for decades? Fang Bai, you just said that Li Chenzhou is a man of enduring love and bitter fate... If he was so affectionate, how could he do such a thing?"

Fang Bai sighed, "Actually... he had his difficulties..."

"What difficulties?"

"When Li Chenzhou left his wife and daughter to gain experience, it was to enhance his strength, then to assist his wife and daughter to also cultivate to the Innate realm of perfection, so that their whole family could aspire to enter the three thousand great worlds, possessing stronger strength and longer lifespans."

"Unfortunately, during his training, Li Chenzhou encountered a great calamity, stricken by a strange fire poison, and his strength was greatly damaged. When he returned quietly to Ruoshui Palace, he discovered that his wife, Zhou Qingyan, had become the Ruoshui Palace Master, and her cultivation level had already reached the Innate realm of perfection. The differences in their identities, status, and strength were enormous, no longer on the same level."

"This disparity made Li Chenzhou feel utterly ashamed. Moreover, Li Chenzhou knew that once one becomes the Ruoshui Palace Master, they must sever all emotional ties and cannot have any male companions in the Martial Dao for life. Furthermore, from the discussions among the disciples of Ruoshui Palace, Li Chenzhou learned that Zhou Qingyan, because of his perceived betrayal and heartlessness, had greatly changed her temperament to be ruthless and cold, indifferent and unfeeling, even brutally interfering in their daughter Zhou Yuruo’s matters of the heart, leading to the daughter eloping with her lover, her whereabouts unknown..."

"Li Chenzhou thought that since his wife had thoroughly hated him, if he revealed himself suddenly, he would likely not survive. Therefore, he left Ruoshui Palace quietly again, deciding to travel across the True Martial Realm, seeking a way to restore his strength, while also looking for news of his daughter Zhou Yuruo... He felt that if he could find his daughter, by taking her to see his wife Zhou Qingyan, explaining the reason and moving her with emotion, the family might still have the possibility of reuniting and reconciling. Just that he never expected..."

As Xia Chenyu listened up to this point, her face showed a sudden realization as she took over Fang Bai’s words, "He never expected that after finding this Essence Stone Vein, while cultivating here, he accidentally suffered from Deviation and ultimately perished here... It seems I wronged Li Chenzhou earlier!"

Fang Bai smiled and said, "I said that Li Chenzhou had a bitter fate because, having finally returned to the Innate realm of perfection with the help of this Essence Stone Vein, he became complacent, attempted to break through to a higher realm, resulting in Deviation, and finally his demise."

Xia Chenyu said with emotion, "So, this is essentially a case of extreme joy turning to sorrow, isn’t it? In this way, his wife Zhou Qingyan will never see him again, and her misunderstandings about him will only deepen! It’s a pity that Zhou Yuruo doesn’t know that she has lost her father, and Zhuge Lian doesn’t know about her grandfather’s passing..."

As she said this, with a smile that was not quite a smile, she looked at Fang Bai and added, "You’re acquainted with Zhuge Lian, and now her grandfather has perished here, what do you plan to do?"

Fang Bai gave a wry smile, "Considering the tense standoff between Golden Crow Manor and the tens of thousands of strong members of the Martial Artists Alliance, with a great battle imminent, it is definitely not acceptable to leave the body here. Hmm, I plan to take Li Chenzhou’s remains, find Zhuge Lian, and hand them over to her. After all, it’s her grandfather, so it’s up to her how to handle it!"

Taking a mummy to someone was something Xia Chenyu found extremely awkward, but since Fang Bai had made his decision, she wouldn’t argue or object, silently nodding her head instead.

Although Fang Bai had a Spatial Spirit Device, it was only an ordinary Spiritual Artifact, with a space that could only store objects with the Five Elements Attribute of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. As for all living beings in the world, whether alive or dead, they could not be stored within it, unless it was an Immortal Ring or Divine Ring whose space had already evolved the Yin Yang Five Elements, with natural phenomena such as wind, thunder, rain, and snow, and able to sustain all things.

Li Chenzhou’s deceased physical body could not be placed inside the Space Ring, so it had to be taken away directly.

Fang Bai reached out with his right hand, grasping the left arm of Li Chenzhou’s body, ready to first take him out of this deep pit beneath the ground, find a proper place to store him, and then, after things were settled here, take him to find Zhuge Lian.

Fang Bai had no idea where Zhuge Lian currently was, so he decided to first visit the Huaxia Sect to see if Zhuge Lian was there. If not, he would meet with friends and family from the secular world before continuing the search for Zhuge Lian.

As Fang Bai reached out with his right hand to grab the left arm of Li Chenzhou’s corpse, he was about to lift it when his body suddenly trembled lightly and his eyes widened, revealing an expression of disbelief.

"Fang Bai, what’s wrong?"

Xia Chenyu saw Fang Bai’s shocked and astonished expression and couldn’t help but become nervous as well.

Fang Bai’s gaze was fixed intently on Li Chenzhou’s face, which looked like withered tree bark, and his Divine Sense penetrated Li Chenzhou’s body, thoroughly investigating. After a long while, with a solemn face, he said word by word: "His heart meridian... is still beating..."

"Ah?"

Xia Chenyu was startled and instinctively retreated several steps.

To hear that someone "dead" for many years still held a sliver of life was almost like seeing a ghost in broad daylight. After all, Xia Chenyu was a woman and couldn’t avoid feeling a trace of fear.

"How... how is it possible... why can’t I sense his heart meridian beating... and look at his skin... look at his appearance... he is clearly dead for many years! Are you... could you be mistaken?"

"I am not mistaken!"

Fang Bai nodded emphatically and said: "Though the beating of his heart meridian is faint to the point of being undetectable, it is indeed still beating... If I hadn’t examined him carefully, I too would have thought he was just a corpse that had been dead for years..."

Xia Chenyu said: "But... whether he is dead or not, there isn’t much difference, right? His Qi Sea is destroyed, his meridians completely severed, and his flesh and bones are all withered... unless it was someone of divine being, who could possibly save him..."

"As long as the lifeforce is not extinguished, there is always hope... there is always hope..."

Fang Bai’s eyes shone with a hint of excitement as he slowly walked around Li Chenzhou’s "corpse" where he sat cross-legged, saying as he walked: "Before his death, he condensed his final True Yuan, protecting this small region of his heart meridian, managing to maintain its beating to this day, which shows how extraordinary the lifeforce of an Innate perfection warrior can be. The heart meridian is like the roots of a great tree; even if the branches are dead, as long as there is lifeforce in the roots, there is a possibility of resurrection..."

Xia Chenyu’s beautiful eyes widened, pointing at Fang Bai with her slender, green-white fingers, she said: "You mean... you can save him?"

Fang Bai said: "I can’t guarantee that I can save him. But since there is hope, we must try... hope that a miracle will occur! After all, in his life, Li Chenzhou was an Innate perfection warrior who stood at the summit of this world’s Martial Dao. By saving him, I could learn many things that I wish to know..."