InvincibleConnoisseur

Chapter 79 He Was Going to Commit Suicide!

Having devoted himself to treating that old lady for three hours, Wang Ke had used up all the spirit energy in his body. Then, he slumped into the chair the old man had taken in from the outside.

In the past three hours, he had used up not only his spirit energy but also his spiritual strength. The drowsiness brought him into repeated muddles.

"Wang, are you OK? I have made up the bed for you in the east room. We happened to have the last new quilt, and I put it on that bed. If you feel tired, please go and take a rest!"

The old man looked at Wang Ke's pale face worryingly. He reached out his hand to support Wang Ke by his arm and asked him solicitously.

He could see that Wang Ke had done his utmost to treat his wife.

Looking at his wife's sleeping face, the old man had mixed feelings of excitement and bitterness in his heart. He thought, "My wife can finally have a good sleep after so many years!"

Wang Ke nodded slightly and let himself be supported by the old man to the east room. He asked the old man not to come in and bother him if there was nothing special. Then, after the old man had left, he crossed his legs, trying to regain his spirit energy and spiritual strength.

Wang Ke did not recover to his peak condition until the noon of the next day. To his surprise, he felt that his cultivation had got some faint new improvements thanks to yesterday's exhaustion. So had his spiritual strength. The milky white smog had taken up more than half of that fingernail-sized space at the center of his eyebrows.

Wang Ke got out of the bed vigorously. When he saw the warm sunshine through the window, a shadow of a smile touched the corner of his mouth.

After a night of cultivation, he did make big progress. If he cultivated himself at the usual speed, it would take at least ten days or half a month to make as much progress as he had made last night.

Having put on his shoes, Wang Ke pulled the door open and walked out.

"Wang, you wake up!"

Seeing Wang Ke walking out of the east room, the old man was pleasantly surprised and exclaimed.

Wang Ke said with a smile, "Yes, sir. What about your wife? Did my yesterday's treatment work?"

Hearing Wang Ke asking about that, the old man nodded excitedly and said, "It worked. It did work. My wife could sit up this morning. Though she could not get out of bed yet, she no longer feels her spine that painful when she sits up. If it had been several days ago, I would not have dared to believe that!"

Wang Ke smiled slightly. As one's effort would pay off, he felt that yesterday's hard work was worth it.

Wang Ke checked the old lady's body again and made sure that she had had her self-healing capability activated, and she would recover after a week. This made him breathe a long sigh of relief.

These were the only things he could do for this unfortunate family.

This morning, when Wang Ke was still having a rest, the old man hurriedly went to the local market in the county and bought a lot of good food material. Of course, he would not be stingy to Wang Ke. He even had an impulse to make offerings to Wang Ke, a living Buddha who had relieved his misery.

Wang Ke did not treat the old lady immediately after lunch. Instead, he took a chair and sat down outside the central room, enjoying the sunshine comfortably. He rarely had time to relax at ordinary times, so he decided to relax fully now.

In mid-afternoon, someone suddenly pushed the gate of the yard open. Hearing the sound, Wang Ke, who was enjoying the sunshine with his eyes closed, quickly opened his eyes. Besides, the old man squatting beside him, who was smoking his pipe, also stood up quickly.

The old man's son was hobbling, seeming to suffer sharp pain at every step. However, his eyes were full of evil.

"Old codger, I'm hungry. Get me something to eat."

Then, that young man's body suddenly froze as he saw that Wang Ke sitting on the chair was looking at him.

The old man trembled with anger because his son had called him "old codger". He turned to glance at Wang Ke painfully and then lowered his head.

"It seems that my words carry no weight!"

There was a flash of coldness in Wang Ke's eyes. He stood up, strode up to the young man, and knocked him down with his foot. Then, he crouched down beside him and said coldly, "I've never seen such a scumbag like you! Has your conscience been eaten by a dog? He is your father. How could you a***e him? Are you still a human being? As the old saying goes, filial piety is the foundation of all virtues. What about yours? I've heard that your father praised you, saying that you were quite sensible and used to study hard when you were young. However, how you've changed now!"

Wang Ke slapped the young man soundly on his head. It seemed that he had not scolded him enough, so he snapped, "Your mother gave birth to you after ten months' pregnancy and brought you up under the hardship of living. Do you repay them in this way? Do you see those sheep in the corner? Open your eyes and have a look. Even the little lamb gets down on its knees when sucking the breast. Are you indeed inferior to an animal?"

The young man raised his head stubbornly with deep hatred and a flash of frenzy in his eyes.

When Wang Ke caught the young man's eyes, his body froze for an instant because he keenly noticed a trace of struggle containing a little regret and pain in the depths of his eyes.

What was the matter?

What was going on?

Wang Ke suddenly stood up. At that moment, he suddenly felt that there was something wrong with this young man.

"You..."

Wang Ke opened his mouth once or twice more but did not know what to say.

The young man struggled to get up off the ground. However, as his right leg had fractured, and he had suffered Wang Ke's sound beat, his body fell hard on the ground again. Then, he struggled to get up again.

After five or six times of getting up and falling down, the young man finally sat on the ground, trembling. There was full of gloom in his eyes, and even his body exuded chill.

This was?

Wang Ke suddenly narrowed his eyes as he felt something disturbing on that young man.

There must be something wrong with him!

After this idea instantly popped into his head, Wang Ke immediately decided to observe this young man with his extraordinary vision. He did want to know what happened to this young man.

The spirit energy quickly flowed into his eyes under his control. When Wang Ke saw that colorful world in front of his eyes, he directed his gaze at that young man.

He saw that clouds of gray smog were wreathing the young man's temples, and there were even some streams of gray smog flowing slowly on his body parts. What surprised Wang Ke most was that he saw a cloud of gray smog wreathing the young man's fractured right leg broken by him, and he could feel that that cloud of gray smog was eroding the young man's muscles and vessels.

What the hell was this gray smog?

Wang Ke was bug-eyed in wonderment, looking at the gray smog wreathing that young man without blinking his eyes.

Was that the Hui energy?

This term emerged in his mind automatically.

Could this gray smog wreathing that young man be the Hui energy that could affect people's minds?

After a long while, he finally earthed to himself. He quickly turned to the old man and asked, "Sir, do you remember where your son had gone before he became like this? Was there anything abnormal about him during that time?"

The old man did not know why Wang Ke asked about that, but he still tried to recollect. After a while, he said with a bitter smile, "Of course, I remember that. I remember what had happened at that time clearly."

"It was a summer day, and it was quite hot in our house. So, he sneaked up to the mountain behind the village to do his homework. When I went to find him, I found that he was doing his homework in a cave. After I had taken him back, he got a serious illness the next day. After he had recovered, there were some strange changes in his personality. At first, I didn't care about it. However, as he then entered senior high school, the changes in his personality were so incredible. I even suspected that he was not my son anymore."

Wang Ke nodded silently. Hearing that old man's description, he came to know that the changes of this young man must have something to do with that cave. Therefore, he made up his mind to go to that cave.

"Well, since I can absorb the spiritual energy in magic weapons, can I also absorb the Hui energy in his body?"

Just after this idea had occurred to him, Wang Ke had an impulse to have a try. He thought for a moment and then made up his mind. He believed that he should have a try for the sake of this family.

He quickly pushed down the young man's shoulders with his hand and thundered, "Stay still. Otherwise, I'll break your two arms, too."

The young man stiffened and dared not to move after struggling a few times.

With his spiritual strength highly concentrated, Wang Ke endured the pain resulting from using the extraordinary vision again and had an inward twitching of his mind when he saw the gray smog again.

Absorbed it!

The gray Hui energy in the young man's body was pulled out smoothly in Wang Ke's mind and wanted to rush toward Wang Ke's body.

In an instant, the spirit energy came out of Wang Ke's body, and his spiritual strength poured out frantically, together confining the gray Hui energy he had absorbed in a place half a foot away from his forehead.

Ten seconds later, there was no gray Hui energy in that young man's body.

Wang Ke quickly cut off the spirit energy flowing into his eyes. After his extraordinary vision had disappeared, he quickly rushed out of the yard and dashed to the mountain behind the village, like a flash of lightning.

That young man was sitting on the ground. The gloom in his eyes gradually disappeared, and even his pupils began to be out of focus. After a short time of several breathes, the young man fell limply and passed out into a coma as if his mind had been taken away.

Wang Ke dashed to the mountain behind the village, keeping controlling the gray Hui energy. With the move of his mind, he dissipated the gray Hui energy halfway up the mountain to prevent it from occupying his body. Then, his body shot away to the distance like a cannonball.

When he got back to the old man's house, Wang Ke saw that the old man was sitting outside the central room and smoking. He immediately frowned and asked, "Sir, where is your son?"

The old man stood up and sighed, "After you had run out just now, he fainted. I don't know what happened, and I have moved him into the room."

Wang Ke nodded slowly and said, "Sir, I think that your son has been stained with something unclean. I am afraid that it was this unclean thing that made his temperament profoundly change."

The old man was shocked and then exclaimed, "Something unclean? What is it?"

Wang Ke hesitated for a moment and said, "Do you know the Hui energy which could disturb a person's mind?"

He had not wanted to tell him that. However, he thought that country people were quite receptive to those weird things, and everyone knew some of them.

The old man stood still for a moment and then muttered, "Hui energy that could disturb a person's mind? How can I haven't heard that? There was a woman in my village. More than ten years ago, she had met something unclean and went mad shortly afterward. She even jumped into the well and died at last..."

"That was true!"

Wang Ke said inwardly. Hearing the old man's telling, he ascertained the idea in his mind basically. However, he needed to wait for the old man's son to wake up before making the next step.

On the third afternoon of Wang Ke's coming to the village, that young man who had been in a coma for a day and a night finally woke up. Thanks to Wang Ke's treatment with spirit energy, the old man's wife had been able to stand. Though it was still a little difficult for her to walk, the spirit energy Wang Ke had left in her body was nourishing her broken bones. It would not be a long time before her recovery.

The young man's eyes were clear like mirrors that had just been rinsed with water. After he had woken up, he sat still for half an hour. Then, he got up and staggered away from home.

The moment he stepped out of the yard gate, two lines of tears fell down his face and wet his clothes.

Wang Ke followed him quietly. After following him halfway up the mountain behind the village, he hid behind a rock and secretly watched the young man sitting on a rock on the hillside.

Time went by. When the sun was sinking in the west, and half of the western sky had been dyed red by the setting sun, the young man slowly stood up straight. Somehow, he had a sharp knife in his hand. Then, he slowly held it to his throat with a flash of sorrow and misery in his eyes.

Gosh! He was going to commit suicide!