The Mighty Mage
Chapter 100: Celestial Qi

Chapter 100: Chapter 100: Celestial Qi

Long Yifan felt his ears were ringing and for a moment he felt the entire world was turning silent.

All he could see was Gu Jin and how confident she looked at that time.

"You can cure her?" Long Yifan asked, his voice tinged with a hint of incredulity.

"Miss Gu," the head butler began, his tone laced with skepticism,

"With all due respect, my young miss has been under the care of the best doctors and healers in the region. If they couldn’t help her, how can you?"

Gu Jin was staring at Long Yifan with a sharp gaze and asked,

"Do you believe me?"

Long Yifan looked at the sincerity and confidence of Gu Jin and said,

"Nope."

Gu Jin: "..." I had expected this but I am still a bit disappointed.

Gu Jin coughed as she said,

"I think before giving your answer you should give me a chance."

Long Yifan shook his head and as he said seriously,

"Miss Gu, till now I have hired 100 Western doctors, 86 Chinese doctors, 90 healers, 77 divine doctors, 120 shamans, 10 medicinal organizations, 40 herbalists, 32 poison masters, 50 ghost exorcists, 60 paranormal experts, 20 black magic practitioners, and 40 psychics."

He paused as he looked at Gu Jin and asked,

"Total of 725 people. Do you what was the common thing that they said?"

Gu Jin pursed her lips.

"No, to be precise what was the most common thing they asked, do you know that ?"

Long Yifan chuckled.

His chuckle didn’t have any joy but bitterness,

"Do you believe me, sir? That was their question. With their question came another line. Believe me, sir. I will cure Young Miss completely!"

Long Yifan laughed as if he was selling some funny joke.

However, it was only he who knew how hurt he was...

The pain of seeing your loved one’s health deteriorating day by day and all you can hope is that one day...one day by some miracle they would be cured...

How foolish.

But the truth is they don’t want to face...the bitter reality in front of them. The reality where the one they loved, spent their time with, and had beautiful memories with, in a day or two would close his/her eyes for eternity...

Only Long Yifan knows how difficult it is to watch his sister die.

Was it painful to see their loved one dead? Of course.

But from Long Yifan’s perspective, an excruciating thing was to watch his sister die slowly day by day and he who had everything could only hug her and console her.

Gu Jin’s expression softened when she saw the bitterness in Long Yifan’s eyes.

How similar. She thought.

However, currently, she can’t focus on her bitter memories and has much more important things to do as she said,

"What if I can identify her illness?"

Long Yifan’s laughter died and he asked softly,

"Um? Sure. If you can identify her illness I would let you treat my sister. And if you can cure my sister completely...then I will owe you."

Was he an idiot for believing a 14-year-old girl? Maybe.

But does he regret it? Nope.

Because at the end of the day, he was a brother who wanted nothing more than his sister to be cured.

The head butler who was about to protest stopped when he heard his young master’s words.

Not many people know but out of 725 people, only 3 were able to identify what illness their Young Miss had, and that was too only after analyzing it for 5 months.

How could a child like Gu Jin identify an illness that even the top doctors couldn’t?

Gu Jin said nothing and sauntered to the girl’s bed.

She bent down and checked the girl’s pulse.

She had already had an idea of what illness the girl was suffering from, now she was just confirming if her guess was right or not.

After 3 minutes, Gu Jin moved away, closed her eyes, and mumbled something.

The head butler was confused by Gu Jin’s action. Long Yifan looked at Gu Jin leisurely.

He was ready to hear a wrong answer or hear some nonsense too.

Gu Jin suddenly opened her eyes and looked at Long Yifan.

The sudden stare made Long Yifan’s heart skip a beat.

Those red ruby-like eyes were brimming with confidence. And for a moment his heart sped up.

Long Yifan had experienced these feelings before.

Hope.

He was hoping that Gu Jin would give him a correct answer.

He was hoping that Gu Jin would have what those 725 people didn’t have...

Gu Jin slowly said,

"She has an illness named...Celestial Qi Disruption Syndrome."

The head butler shook his head in disappointment and Long Yifan simply closed his eyes.

He couldn’t believe he almost believed a 14-year-old girl who had just started to learn magic.

What a cruel fate, maybe the god wanted to teach him a lesson and hence they were playing such a cat-and-mouse game.

They would give me hope and then dash it.

He should have learned the lesson by now...

Gu Jin continued even though she could sense the disappointment of Long Yifan,

"Her Celestial Qi is disrupted. If I am not wrong other than the trauma she had suffered earlier, and the poison she consumed or was forced to consume, her Celestial Qi was also disrupted by someone."

Long Yifan’s eyes widened and the head butler too was shocked.

Before Gu Jin could continue, Long Yifan interrupted her, his voice sharp with disbelief.

"That’s enough, Miss Gu. Your imagination has run wild enough for one day."

Gu Jin blinked, taken aback by Long Yifan’s sudden dismissal.

"But—"

"No buts," Long Yifan interjected firmly, his expression hardening.

"I appreciate your attempt, but I won’t entertain baseless theories."

The head butler nodded in agreement, his skepticism evident in his posture.

"Indeed, Miss Gu. It’s best not to spread unfounded speculation."

Gu Jin knew what she had sensed was real, but faced with Long Yifan’s disbelief, she struggled to find the right words to convince him.

"I-"

"You say she is poisoned?" Long Yifan asked and Gu Jin saw what she had never seen in Long Yifan’s eyes before...menace.

Was he angry because he thought that she was lying?

Gu Jin nodded at Long Yifan’s question.

Long Yifan chuckled,

"No. She isn’t posioned. Someone had put a curse magic on her! Hence she is like this!"

Long Yifan’s breathing turned rapid when he said those words. His eyes had turned red and even though he was looking handsome, Gu Jin didn’t like the current emotions in Long Yifan’s eyes...

Despair.

Despair and desperation...he was looking so broken and vulnerable that Gu Jin wanted to hug him.

Gu Jin had never experienced these feelings before. She couldn’t bear to see the pain and despair in Long Yifan’s eyes and hence she did something that shocked the head butler and Long Yifan completely.

Whoosh.

Long Yifan felt a warm soft body enveloping him and patting his back in a soft soothing voice,

"Everything will be alright."

Long Yifan blinked slowly and his entire body stiffened.

The relief and warmth he hadn’t felt in a long while slowly started spreading in his entire body. The panic he felt after seeing his sister’s deteriorating health, the desperation of not being able to save his sister, and the sadness that was bearing down, seemed to have found an outlet...

If it had been some other day he would have felt disgusted. He hates the physical touch the most...however now...now he felt that maybe getting hugged was one of the most relaxing things.

Just this once...this once, he would ignore Gu Jin’s bold action.

He won’t hold her responsible for the nonsense she had said now.

"You...." That was all the head butler could say. When he saw how his Young Master didn’t push away Gu Jin and instead relaxed, he felt that it was better to keep his mouth shut.

"I am not lying. Your sister may be cursed and it was maybe the source of Celestial Qi disruption." Gu Jin said as she patted him.

The head butler was irritated,

"Oh? So can you show me then how to fix Celestial Qi?"

What was this Celestial Qi anyway? The head butler snorted in his mind.

They have never heard a term named Celestial Qi.

Maybe it was a nonsense.

Gu Jin paused, took out some needles that she had in her space, and pulled away from Long Yifan.

"Maybe the terms I am using are unfamiliar to you, but I guess if you see the result you will not continue to doubt."

Before the head butler could stop Gu Jin, Gu Jin had reached the girl’s bed and inserted needles in her arms, head and legs.

Long Yifan who was in a daze, felt his heart turning cold.

What was Gu Ji doing...

"You....what are you doing..." Long Yifan shouted.

"Uhhh..." The girl on the bed suddenly moved.