"Mr. Lin, please wait a mont."
Since he was at soone else’s place, Lin Miao naturally had to follow their rules. He stopped patiently, carrying his dicine chest without the slightest impatience.
Baili Yuyao knocked on the door first before pushing it open and entering.
"Mother, Mr. Lin is here, he’s just outside."
"I know, please let him in." Baili Bingyun had deliberately changed into a simple robe and even dressed up a bit.
Baili Yuyao ca out and said, "Mr. Lin, my mother invites you in."
Lin Miao nodded slightly. Wearing a woman’s blouse and skirt felt quite uncomfortable, but there was no way he could change into sothing else now, nor was there any need.
With the dicine chest on his back, Lin Miao followed Baili Yuyao inside.
Through a beaded curtain, Lin Miao saw a woman in her forties reclining on a soft couch. She was dressed very plainly without luxurious clothing. Her face looked a bit thin, but her bone structure was excellent.
One could tell that before she fell ill, she must have been an exceptionally beautiful woman.
"Lin Miao greets you, madam." Lin Miao was very aware that many older won, even if they were no longer young, did not like to be addressed as "old," especially those who were ill and whose emotions were volatile and sensitive.
Baili Yuyao had not introduced her mother’s identity, so Lin Miao pretended not to know. Otherwise, he could have addressed her as "Mistress of the Manor."
"Mr. Lin, I can’t walk well, pardon my informality."
"You are too kind, madam."
"Yuyao, please let Mr. Lin co closer," instructed Baili Bingyun.
"Yes, mother." Baili Yuyao agreed, ca out from behind the curtain, and slightly bowed, "Mr. Lin, my mother invites you in."
"Thank you." Lin Miao gently pushed aside the beaded curtain and finally saw clearly the mistress of the embroidery house, Baili Yuyao’s mother, the true appearance of the second-generation embroideress.
Observing Baili Bingyun’s complexion closely, it was indeed significantly different from a normal healthy flush. Such pallor indicated a serious internal problem with her body.
"Mr. Lin, Yuyao has probably already told you about my situation. Do you have any good thods?"
"Madam, I still need a detailed inquiry to proceed," Lin Miao replied.
"Very well, since Yuyao trusts you and has invited you over, I will follow your advice," Baili Bingyun nodded slightly.
She also wished to recover from this hemiplegia. Having half of her body immobilized, and deteriorating, was sothing unbearable for a strong person to accept.
"Could you describe the situation when this occurred?" Lin Miao had already thought of the questions he needed to ask.
"At the ti, I was ditating and cultivating. As my inner breath flowed through... it suddenly went out of control. I tried to guide it back to the Dantian, but no matter how I tried, I couldn’t. It broke off from my Dantian and then vanished without a trace..."
"Are you saying that after losing control, your inner breath not only disobeyed you but also disappeared inside your body?"
"Yes, since then, I’ve been searching for this inner breath. I know it is the main cause of my hemiplegia, but after six months, I haven’t found it. I didn’t let Yuyao call a physician because I knew my issue is sothing a physician might not be able to solve."
"Mother, why didn’t you tell ?" Baili Yuyao asked with a hint of reproach.
"I didn’t want you to worry."
"Mother..." Baili Yuyao’s eyes beca moist. Although her mother had been irritable lately, she still cared about her.
Lin Miao understood now. Baili Bingyun knew the cause of the illness but couldn’t resolve it. Lin Miao had never encountered such a situation before. With martial artists, many normal observations and pulse diagnoses could only serve as references.
Highly skilled martial artists have the ability to alter their pulse and disrupt a physician’s judgnt.
A martial artist of Baili Bingyun’s level, at the peak of the ridian Passage Realm, could completely alter the flow of ridians and inner breath, as well as blood flow.
Anyone with basic knowledge of diagnosing the pulse could disguise themselves as having any possible ailnt, thereby confusing the physician’s judgnt.
Of course, no one would normally do such a thing unless they had a special reason.
"Madam, could you open your mouth and let check your tongue coating?"
"Tongue coating?"
"I an your tongue."
"Why do you want to check my tongue to treat my condition?" Baili Bingyun was quite puzzled. Although she rarely consulted physicians, she had never heard of such diagnostic thods. Usually, it involved asking about symptoms, observing, and checking the pulse, but checking the tongue coating was indeed rare.
"Madam, when the body has a problem, it often reflects on the tongue, so I need to check your tongue coating."
"Is there such a saying?"
"Mother, listen to Mr. Lin." Baili Yuyao had inquired a bit about Lin Miao’s situation, so she naturally understood.
"Alright." Baili Bingyun nodded, opened her mouth, and stuck out her tongue.
The tongue was pale white with dark, congested spots, a typical sign of internal blood stasis. The specific situation needs to be determined after pulse diagnosis.
"Alright, Madam, please extend your right wrist."
This ti Baili Bingyun didn’t ask much, but being half paralyzed, she was unable to move conveniently. She had to rely on Baili Yuyao to slightly move her wrist forward and roll up her sleeve a bit.
Lin Miao gently placed three fingers on Baili Bingyun’s wrist and closed his eyes slightly.
"Madam, you are a martial artist. Later, I might need to use a strand of internal breath to enter your body, please do not resist?"
Baili Bingyun glanced at her daughter, Baili Yuyao nodded slightly towards her, so she agreed.
The pulse was sunken, stringy, and had so blocked areas — a typical symptom of Qi deficiency and blood stasis.
However, if treated purely according to Qi deficiency and blood stasis for differentiation, it might not achieve the ideal result. After all, martial artists have abundant Qi and blood, especially soone like Baili Bingyun, a master at the peak of the ridian Realm. She was in seclusion preparing to breakthrough to Heaven Primordial when her Qi pathway obstructed.
With a master like this, it’s possible she has blood stasis, but Qi deficiency seems unusual.
Lin Miao contemplated, then simply gathered a strand of internal breath, entering Baili Bingyun through the Neiguan Acupoint: "Madam, please do not resist."
Baili Bingyun nodded, and as Lin Miao’s strand of internal breath entered her body, she noticed it with surprise. Despite his young age, Lin Miao could control internal breath so exquisitely, moving through her ridians effortlessly, encountering no obstacles.
He must be very familiar and knowledgeable about the flow of internal body ridians; otherwise, it wouldn’t have been possible. She started to believe her daughter Baili Yuyao’s words that this young man nad Lin Miao truly possessed exceptional dical skills.
Indeed, there was severe congestion inside the immobile section of the ridians, and this congestion seed alive.
Whenever slightly stimulated, it would retreat, only to return the mont you passed by, almost as if it had intelligence.
This situation was sothing Lin Miao had neither heard of nor seen.
As Lin Miao’s internal breath flowed inside Baili Bingyun, she could feel it, because she regained control over her locations wherever Lin Miao’s internal breath passed, but as soon as it moved away, everything returned to its previous state.
It was bizarre.
Similarly, Baili Yuyao also used internal breath to explore for her mother, yet it didn’t achieve the effect Lin Miao did. Could it be that Lin Miao’s cultivated internal breath was different from ordinary people’s?
According to Baili Bingyun’s description, the energy blocking her ridians belonged to her but was beyond her control, detached from her grasp.
The way to solve the problem is either to guide this energy into the Dantian or to extract it from the body. Without this energy, Baili Bingyun would naturally recover.
This energy belonged to her, yet she couldn’t grasp or touch it, and Lin Miao found it only after intrusion, scattered throughout Baili Bingyun’s body, like a child playing hide and seek. Of course, it could only occupy half of her body; the other half was beyond its reach.
"Madam, did your symptoms appear suddenly or develop gradually?" Lin Miao released his hand and asked as he opened his eyes.
Baili Bingyun replied, "Initially, it was just this arm, then it extended to the shoulder and this half of the body, plus this leg. Now, most of my body is immobile; apart from speaking and eating, there are tis when even directing Qi is much more difficult than before."
"Can you still perform internal vision?"
"Not on this half, but the half that can move, yes." Baili Bingyun replied.
"It’s absorbing and assimilating your internal breath to grow stronger, and once it occupies your entire body, you will beco a completely living corpse." Lin Miao stated his judgnt, cruel as it sounded, but the facts seed to be heading in that direction.
Baili Bingyun appeared to have her own internal judgnt regarding Lin Miao’s assessnt, showing no great surprise, whereas Baili Yuyao gasped and hurriedly asked, "Mother, is this true?"
"Mr. Lin is right, it’s like a parasite, consuming my power to strengthen itself, while I’m utterly powerless." Baili Bingyun nodded, Lin Miao’s accurate detection of her illness indeed impressed her.
rely relying on her earlier symptom descriptions, it was impossible to deduce, only after his internal breath’s probing was this secret unearthed.
"So, Mr. Lin, is there hope for my mother?" Baili Yuyao asked eagerly.
Lin Miao shook his head, "I don’t know, but Madam’s illness probably won’t be much affected by dication unless it’s a mythical elixir; perhaps it might work."
"No use, I’ve taken a Guiyuan Elixir before, and with its power, I could only temporarily suppress it for a short while to reclaim bodily control; but once the dicine’s effect waned, everything returned to its previous state!" Baili Bingyun shook her head.
"Were you trying to breakthrough to Heaven Primordial in seclusion? And was this Guiyuan Elixir prepared for such a breakthrough?" Lin Miao asked.
"How did you know?"
"Breaking through to Heaven Primordial is essentially unlocking the Ren and Du ridians, connecting the Heaven and Earth Bridge, rging the upper, middle, and lower Dantians into a line, achieving the state of integration with nature, connecting with the heavens." Lin Miao casually explained.
Baili Bingyun, upon hearing this, couldn’t help but shiver even with her immobile half-body. She had explored for so many years without knowing what Heaven Primordial truly was, only understanding the direction. She had struggled hard for a long ti, and now soone could articulate what breaking through to Heaven Primordial was; how could she not be shocked?
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