Chapter 67: Recovery

The sun was shining brightly outside, softly falling on the earth and men through the French window. It was warm and cozy. Jiang Mosheng and Yu Jinli sat on the rug in front of the window, with legs crossed as they absorbed Power of Faith around them and guided it through their bodies, eventually storing it in dantian. If one could see the Power of Faith in the air, one would be amazed at what a beautiful scene it painted in the room. White dots of Power of Faith floated around Jiang Mosheng and Yu Jinli like a fog and made the room an unreal world. Since Jiang Mosheng was able to get out of bed, each day the two would go into cultivation mode in front of the window for several hours. At first, Jiang Mosheng had a lot of Power of Faith while in comparison, Yu Jinli had way less, whose advancement was slower. Yu Jinli would look at his golden coattail take in and cultivate Power of Faith with envy. Later, after Yu Jinli signed as an exclusive streamer with increasing fans, he collected more and more Power of Faith, which meant his cultivation had eventually got on the right track as well. Yu Jinli loved live-stream because not only could he get Power of Faith from his fans, but he also liked his fans who were nice to him. Certainly, there were haters. Fortunately, as soon as haters showed up, his fans would kick their asses. Moreover, since Yu Jinli’s haters would more or less have bad luck later, gradually, not many people dared to throw shade at him openly. At first, everyone took it as a coincidence and nobody believed in it seriously, especially not haters. After being down on their luck for once, haters resented Yu Jinli more. Couldn’t help themselves, they would post aggressive comments again and would end up more unfortunate, who eventually didn’t dare to slander Yu Jinli openly during his live-stream. Therefore, Yu Jinli’s live-stream became a rare scene. Unlike fights and foul atmosphere in other live-streams, it was filled with joy and harmony. In addition, people found that good will towards this live-stream and steamer brought good luck while ill will brought bad luck. Therefore, with fans’ promotion, more viewers came on account of Yu Jinli’s reputation. No matter what they joined his live-stream for, Yu Jinli ended up with more viewers and Power of Faith, which entered his body, followed his veins and was stored in his inner core in the form of spirit power. Yu Jinli felt that the spirit power in his inner core had increased a lot. His cultivation had reached the second stage of Qi Transformation. Given his speed, it was fairly quick. However, there was a long way to go before he could reach the stage of Golden Core. For a spirit beast, he could only have a tangible inner core after entering the stage of Golden Core. Before he was in this world, he just lived in the form of a human for several years but he had a high cultivation level. However, now he had another body, he had to start from the beginning again. Since he was in human body, he couldn’t transform back to a koi fish. Unless he reached the stage of Golden Core, he couldn’t turn into a koi fish or the other way around. As a koi fish spirit beast, he had lived over a thousand years in the form of a koi fish. Surely, he preferred his original form. Yet given his current situation, he could do nothing except for collecting as much Power of Faith as he could and improve his cultivation level so that he could transform one day and regain his own body. Waking up from meditation, Yu Jinli turned to the person next to him, only to find that Jiang Mosheng woke up too. Without further thought, he grabbed Jiang Mosheng’s wrist and put his fingers on it. Channeling a trace of spirit power into Jiang Mosheng’s body, he ran a careful test. The two were used to these moves. Ever since they had started cultivation, Yu Jinli would give Jiang Mosheng a test with spirit power, then told him about any mistakes he made so that he could get rid of the toxin and recover. For a cultivator, letting another person’s spirit power enter his own body was very dangerous, even if it was his kin. Normally, such an approach wasn’t taken. After all, it was an easy way to destroy a person. Yet every time Yu Jinli did this, Jiang Mosheng was relaxed, without the least resistance or unease. He trusted Yu Jinli. After his spirit power ran through Jiang Mosheng’s body, Yu Jinli told him: “Ah Sheng, all your injuries are healed. The situation on the toxin has also improved. You’ve reached the third stage of Qi Transformation. You are brilliant.” With glowing eyes, Yu Jinli stared at him admiringly. Jiang Mosheng had just learned about cultivation and had reached the third stage of Qi Transformation in a month. He was way too talented. Yu Jinli felt so jealous! Yet it was his golden coattail. The more powerful his golden coattail was, the prouder he was. “You are a great teacher, little chestnut,” said Jiang Mosheng with a slight curve around his lips. As expected, Yu Jinli’s grin grew wider and his eyes turned brighter. Quietly, he puffed his chest. That little look of pride simply made Jiang Mosheng want to give him a pinch on the face or a stroke on the head. He didn’t think he could let go of such a cute little guy. Fortunately, his mom didn’t ask his opinion when she took the little one to their family. Now, he was the little one’s nominal fiancé. Jiang Mosheng never felt so lucky. His recovery was a big event, especially with a coming election. News about Jiang Mosheng’s injury had been spreading like crazy, with all sorts of claims, including paid trolls. Things were heading to a direction that wasn’t good for Jiang Family. If nothing was done, Jiang Family would be overwhelmed by unfavorable public opinion. “Ah Qian, has Ah Sheng really recovered?” Seriously, Jiang Zhentao wanted to confirm. That was critical to the next step. Shen Qian put away his usual laid-back attitude and replied sincerely: “According to the inspection, he has fully recovered except for the toxin that is driven to the corner of his body.” “Will the toxin strike again? Is it possible to get rid of it?” With a faint frown, Jiang Zhentao asked. As long as the toxin wasn’t completely removed, he couldn’t set his mind at ease. The toxin was a knife hanging over their heads which might drop at any moment. Shaking his head helplessly, Shen Qian said: “That toxin is too potent. No matter what method I use, I won’t be able to eliminate it, but Uncle Jiang, you don’t have to worry about it too much. It is kept at a corner, wrapped in a force so it won’t come out for the time being. Although I don’t know what that force is, it’s actually protecting Ah Sheng.” In fact, Shen Qian didn’t detect the force that wrapped the toxin. He only got that the toxin was very active. Active it was, it was kept in that little corner, desperately trying to spread towards the whole body, but just couldn’t get out of that little corner. That was why Shen Qian speculated that there was a mysterious force trapping the toxin and keeping it from spreading. After hearing what Shen Qian said, Jiang Zhentao was finally relieved. Although he didn’t know what the force was, he thought it might have something to do with his son-in-law Yu Jinli. After all, that was also why his son started to get better. Now that it involved his son-in-law, Jiang Zhentao didn’t want to get to the heart of the matter. Nor did he wish others to do that. After all, the less it was known, the better it was. “I see. Thank you for working hard lately, Ah Qian,” said Jiang Zhentao sincerely. Because of his son’s condition, Shen Qian had been coming over for tests recently. “It’s nothing. I’m happy to see that Ah Sheng has recovered,” said Shen Qian smilingly. That his friend was safe for now took a load off his feet. Since Jiang Mosheng’s health was already much better, it was natural for Jiang Family not to continue to hide it from the public, especially to stop the forces against them in the dark. Otherwise, the election half a month later would be bad news to them. Jiang Zhentao told Jiang Mosheng and Qiao Mulan about his plan for their opinions. It was only a matter of time before Jiang Mosheng reappeared in the public eye. Qiao Mulan knew it, but as a mother, she didn’t want that to happen so soon. After all, there was still toxin in her son’s body. Nor could Jiang Mosheng restore his super core. She wished that her son could live like a normal man, not a representative of the military headquarter. In this era, if one wanted to gain a firm foothold, one must have the support of the people. Even the military headquarter needed to win people’s heart and get close to the people. The way to realize that was to choose a representative, so that the people could learn about and support military headquarter. Jiang Mosheng was the one who was chosen. Young and promising with impressive military merit, Jiang Mosheng was a member of the first-tier family. Additionally, he was handsome and impeccable, which made him the most suitable representative in every respect. Jiang Mosheng did not like publicity and he enjoyed playing to the gallery even less like those celebrities. Yet his power as a mutant, his background, and a face so handsome that both people and god would be jealous of, already won the public favor. Military headquarter hardly worked on it. As soon as some of Jiang Mosheng’s contributions were leaked out, the people spontaneously held him as a national hero.