22 Heaven’s Piety Drug, Telekinesis

"Hua Xia, a mere insignificant country, dares to do such a thing!?"

"Slaughter that Third Prince, make him regret sullying the name of the Li Family!"

"Liu Tao, the Wan Family shall support your desire for revenge!"

"Liu Tao, the Dongfang Family will manipulate the Nan Xi Empire to flatten Hua Xia! We'll remove that wretched so-called Imperial Family sitting on a gilded throne!"

All of the branch families stood in anger as they instantly proclaimed and called for the destruction of the Hua Xia nation, some even going as further to perform a short-memory erasure procedure and a physique-restoration to Liu Tao's granddaughters to restore their dignity.

Compared to other renowned families, the branch families of the Li Family were highly supportive of each other, as their ancestors had served alongside of Li Shao Qing, sharing both sorrows and accomplishments. Outside of the main family who had to fight due to the singular position of family head, it would not be improper to call these branch families brothers.

Many families called for the enactment of a memory-erasure procedure on these girls, before restoring their ruined physiques. Utilizing the extract of a Five-Thorned Night River Lotus alongside of the Illusioned Coccon's stem would result in a powerful memory-erasing drug with no side effects, and the Heaven's Piety Drug could remove the effects of any physical damage. Only extremely diluted variants of Heaven's Piety were auctioned, and yet these nations were more than willing to shell out billions of RMB for a single pill.

The Heaven's Piety Drug was a complete physical restoration pill. As long as the patient had not died, any injury could be restored at no cost, even re-growing missing or amputated limbs. Even physical defects like blindness, deafness, or mute disability would be removed from this pill, making it a heaven-defying restorative that would instantly ignite a world war if released to the public.

Although the diluted Filial Piety Drug that was auctioned to powerful nations could only re-grow limbs and not cure inborn defects, the medicine's value could be estimated from the sheer competition to obtain these pills.

As the conversations among the branch families escalated, the originally silent Li Shao Qing raised his hand, his soft voice instantly quelling other noises into submission.

"Liu Tao, remove your distribution from Hua Xia, and reclaim your granddaughters. Permission of the Heavenly Dipper squadron is granted, and Wan Moxian is to issue a <Starfall>, Your granddaughters will be allotted a complete restoration."

As soon as he had comprehended the Patriarch's orders, Liu Tao stepped forth, giving a heavy kowtow to the Patriarch with streaming tears of gratitude. Allowing him to use the Heavenly Dipper squadron to reclaim his granddaughters would guarantee a successful recovery, and a complete restoration would mean that they would be able to live a new life in a different country. The Patriarch still remembered their companionship during the founding of the Li Family!

As soon as Liu Tao had returned to his seat, the Wang Family Head stood to make his report. As a middle-aged man with a powerful, muscular physique, his booming voice echoed within the reception hall.

"The Wang Family makes its report. The Eastern Islands experimentation results have returned a negative for any side effects of general strength-enhancing medicinal products below the categorization of military-grade substances. In two months, the Wang Family will begin the experimentation for generic sensory perception enhancing drugs. Additionally, the Wang Family's third daughter has been tested at her coming-of-age ceremony to possess an extraordinary capability of telekinesis."

The Wang Family head's words were like a bombshell dropped onto a placid city; the family members instantly stood up in shock, with even Li Shao Qing furrowing his brows in surprise. Li Mo Shang widened his eyes in disbelief, focusing directly onto the figure of an eight-year old young girl. Following her father's gesture, the young girl stepped forth before Li Shao Qing, her childish voice being captured by everyone's ears in preparation for dissection, their eyes following each of her movements without pause.

"Greetings to Patriarch, this lowly one is named Wang Tingting. I obtained a strange ability upon my eighth birthday, and my father requested me to attend this annual Family Meeting."

Her voice was crisp and clear, albeit somewhat shrill due to her young age. Though eight years old, her appearance revealed that she would definitely become a femme fatale, as her skin was quite fair and unblemished compared to children at her age. She seemed unfazed by the piercing and examining glares sent by the branch families as she performed her curtsey towards Li Shao Qing.

"Display your ability."

Hearing Li Shao Qing's noncommittal reply, Wang Tingting curtseyed once more before scanning her eyes around. Stopping her gaze onto Li Mo Shang's extremely handsome appearance, the girl gave a cute smile before clearly stating, "This big brother, Tingting will borrow your cup!"

Raising her hand, the cup before Li Mo Shang instantly soared into the air before hovering before Wang Tingting. As she then pointed at the floating cup, it began to rotate and revolve around the room, without a single drop spilling. The families' expressions revealed gaping eyes of astonishment at this exhibition of a psychic ability, and Li Mo Shang's pupils constricted in shock.

Worldy qi!? Although others may be clueless on the source of Wang Tingting's ability, Li Mo Shang was absolutely clear that she was manipulating worldly qi, for he manipulated a more refined variant, spiritual qi! He had guessed that others with the ability to manipulate qi existed since he had obtained the Heretic manual, but she was too young. Even the Heretic manual dictated that humans were unable to sense worldly qi much less manipulate it until the early twenties if a spiritual core was not formed!

Willing his spiritual core to become active and his eyes flashing with an indeterminate light, Li Mo Shang conducted a complete scan upon Wang Tingting, his piercing spiritual sense forcing everything to be revealed. Ignoring Wang Tingting's sudden quiver, Li Mo Shang began to sort through his results, attempting to discover the abnormality.

Sifting through information and filtering out statistics and perfectly detailed diagrams about her physique, Li Mo Shang immediately arrived before a constantly changing mental projection of her brain. There, he could see a mass of spiritual qi frolicking in her brain; it enlarged several sections of the brain tissue, before encompassing the entire brain. From Li Mo Shang's perspective, this spiritual qi was playing around in Wang Tingting's undeveloped brain, supplementing her cognitive abilities and forcing early mental maturation, hence her calmness displayed earlier.

With the intention of testing the capabilities of the amassed spiritual qi, Li Mo Shang gently drummed his fingers onto the table, his eyes never leaving Wang Tingting's figure. An extremely small thread of spiritual qi coalesced into a formless needle which then collided with the flying cup, instantly pulverizing it into dust, the contained tea splashing onto the wooden floor. Everyone's attention snapped towards Wang Tingting, who stared at the remains of the cup in disbelief.

When examining the mental projection once more, Li Mo Shang discovered that the cluster of spiritual qi in her brain suddenly reared back, coalescing into the shape of a tiny python. As its form was quite indistinct, Li Mo Shang couldn't make out its species, although he noticed that the spiritual qi did not have a consciousness, merely a powerful cognitive supplement exploited by Wang Tingting. Focusing his gaze onto Wang Tingting's figure, he saw that the girl had lost her calm and was extremely flustered with pouted lips and misty eyes.

"Return to your seat. Wang Feng, we shall discuss this matter later."

Breaking the uncomfortable silence, Li Shao Qing ordered Wang Tingting back to her seat before stepping forward to discuss next year's agenda. This girl, the Li Family must carefully groom! A psychic in a modernized world without any magic or supernatural phenomenon, who knows what kind of turmoil she will cause on her debut. If the situation was exploited properly, the Li Family would become the supreme existence in Blue Flame World!

After the spiritual cluster had returned back to its formless mist within Wang Tingting, the girl resumed her calm mentality, and the meeting resumed its normal agenda. Li Mo Shang noticed that before Li Shao Qing discussed future medicinal plans, he had given Wang Tingting a scrutinizing glance, an unreadable light within those wizened eyes. There were no further surprises of extraordinary ability, and the meeting concluded hours later without a hitch.

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Returning to his room once more, Li Mo Shang observed the clean surroundings to check whether anything had been displaced. Outside of the repaired gouges on the floor, everything was as is, giving Li Mo Shang a piece of mind. Resting his eyes for thirty minutes, he quickly strode out of Spring Courtyard, ignoring his mother's flushed countenance.

Walking quickly without stopping, he arrived before the desolation of the previously beautiful forest, where he chanced upon a couple observing the destruction. As the male stepped forth to closely examine the ashes on the barren ground, the female cautioned him, but was too late. A cold wind enveloped the man's figure, and he instantly disintegrated into ash, causing the female to jump back in terror, her expression ghastly.

Watching such a spectacle, Li Mo Shang could not help but sigh as he examined his "masterpiece." The wreckage caused by <Dance of Dragons> was indeed too much, laying a permanent restrictive barrier that resulted in instant death, not even giving people a chance to escape. Li Mo Shang could not help but muse that in the future, less people would visit Withered Springs.

Returning back towards the sole remaining tree in the barren forest, Li Mo Shang formed his specialized spiritual sword with the inscription of the Ancient Ming Tribe and the interlocked nine suns. Stepping forward with his right foot, then quickly pivoting to perform a sweeping horizontal slash towards the right, Li Mo Shang began to execute the first sequence of the <Eternal Spring Arts>. As soon as the slash reached its end, he suddenly spun in the reverse direction, producing a harsh gale that stirred the deposited ash to form a cloud.

Over and over a figure amidst a cloud of ash practiced sword techniques unceasingly, attempting to find a unison juncture that could perhaps unite these individual and prideful martial arts techniques.