From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

The ladybug spoke in human language: "Manali, without me, you must study hard from now on and stop being naughty."

The two were struck dumb, and even after Jiang Liu removed the immobilization spell, they remained frozen in place, in disbelief.

What kind of feeling is this?

It's like your closest ally suddenly betraying you, joining the enemy's side, and stabbing them in the heart.

The complex emotions I felt at that moment coalesced into one word:

Blanch!

Of course, romantic Paris wouldn't have the word "焯" (chao), but Manali still managed to utter "艹" (cao) without any instruction.

"Ok?"

Jiang Liu paused for a moment, looked at Manali, and smiled, "A Sino-French mixed race? That's so familiar."

However, I can only give you one day.

"Tomorrow afternoon at this time, outside Notre Dame Cathedral, we expect to receive your sincere apology, or you may as well say goodbye to your superhero careers!"

After saying that, Jiang Liu and Jin Ge quickly left.

Without the help of the two spirits, Black Cat and Ladybug, Manali and Ejun were just two ordinary boys and girls who couldn't catch up with Jiang Liu and Jin Ge at all and could only watch them go by.

"Damn it! Ladybug and black cat must have been bewitched by that guy!"

Manali was furious. "They must be brought to justice, or who knows what bad things they might do with ladybugs and black cats."

"Calm down, Manali, we are no match for him."

Ejun said in a deep voice, "Didn't you notice? He doesn't have any sprites, yet he still possesses power that we can't even imagine."

"You mean he was actually an elf who turned into a human?" Manali asked incredulously.

"...I mean, he probably knows a lot about elves."

Ai Jun was speechless, but he still patiently explained, "Ever since we found the box containing the elves in your house by chance and obtained the black cat and ladybug, we have been using their power without any guilt to fight against the black magic butterfly, which also has the power of elves, but we have never thought about where their power actually comes from."

"What's there to think about?"

Manali wondered, "Isn't the purpose of gaining power to catch thieves, arrest criminals, and even find a way to take back the elf from the Black Demon Butterfly to prevent him from using the elf's power to do evil again?"

"Indeed..."

Ejun couldn't refute this point, but now there are people who possess power that even they can't resist, even without being possessed by an elf or influenced by elf power.

How should they deal with it?

“Don’t worry, Ejun, we’ve only temporarily lost the black cat and the ladybug, but we still have the power of the twelve zodiac animals!” Manali pulled Ejun’s hand. “Let’s go to my house.”

"Ok."

Aijun agreed.

the other side.

"Who created you two?"

Jiang Liu held a ladybug in one hand and a black cat in the other, asking curiously, "I can sense your abilities. One of you is good at aggregating matter, and the other can decompose matter. You can barely call it creation and destruction, but why are you in the shape of a cat and a ladybug?"

To describe the feeling, it's as if these two creatures, after being created, incorporated the primordial energy of other living beings, thus becoming the images of a cat and a ladybug.

“We were originally two spirits, one black and one white. But to take on a form, we had to merge with the energy of a non-human being. Manali and Ejun didn’t want to harm animals, so one of them found a ladybug and the other found a dead black cat.”

Mentioning this, the black cat seemed to be complaining, "A thousand years ago, I was a tiger king whose roar alone could make people flee in terror!"

The ladybug sighed, "Who isn't? I was a dragon a thousand years ago! I really envy the twelve zodiac animals. Why don't they change their appearance because of foreign souls? Unlike the two of us and the other five."

"The twelve zodiac animals? The other five? So there are nineteen of you in total?"

Jiang Liu thought of Manali's French-Chinese mixed heritage, and then thought of the abilities of the black cat and ladybug—destruction and creation, representing yin and yang—plus the other "twelve zodiac animals." So, without a doubt, the remaining five spirits, whose forms would also change due to the foreign spirits, must represent the five elements.

Stroking the two grains of crystal, each the size of a grain of rice, Jiang Liu observed them with his spiritual power and sensed them through his Qi body. A look of realization appeared in his eyes: "So that's how it is. This is a legacy. If the holder is only obsessed with the power brought by the spirit, he will not be able to truly obtain the techniques within. The twelve zodiac signs correspond to the twelve meridians, practicing the Meridian Flow Technique, then internally refining the Qi of the five internal organs, and finally harmonizing Yin and Yang to internally refine one's life force!"

But this form—"

According to Jiang Liu's deduction, the ultimate goal of cultivating this technique is to incorporate all nineteen spirits—the twelve zodiac animals, the five elements, and the yin and yang—into one's body, completely merging them with one's own soul, achieving a state similar to his innate ability—Godhood Conferment—transforming them all into deities of one's own body and mind.

[Why does it feel like someone is imitating my innate ability?]

For no apparent reason, Jiang Liu had this thought, but he immediately dismissed it and sent it into the cycle of mental images. He then asked the black cat and ladybug, "So, do you two want to follow me? Or would you rather follow your original masters, those two young men and women?"

Although the words that the black cat and ladybug said to Ejun and Manali sounded like betrayal, they were not so heartless towards the two of them.

Indeed.

As elves, the black cat and ladybug knew very well that following Jiang Liu would lead to a brighter future, but the difference between intelligent beings and other living beings lies in their emotions.

The instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm is inherent in all living beings, but only intelligent beings will violate this instinct to sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others.

Of course, self-sacrifice is a noble quality, but for most people, acting on emotion is a more common occurrence.

"It seems you've already made your choice."

Seeing the black cat and ladybug remain silent, Jiang Liu smiled and said, "And since you're following your own choices, let's see how they perform tomorrow."

Paris may need heroes, but definitely not childish, capricious heroes…

# Chapter 773 Treatment (Part 1)

This is my home.

Jin Ge is not wealthy, especially in a big city like Paris, where he cannot afford to buy his own house and can only rent.

The only thing he could be thankful for was that he had a gentle and considerate wife and a sensible and well-behaved daughter—but his daughter had an incurable disease.

"Jin Ge?"

In the stairwell of the residential building, a middle-aged man was slowly walking down the stairs, holding onto the handrail. Upon seeing Jin Ge, he exclaimed in surprise, "You're back from your business trip?"

He couldn't tell his acquaintances about being a mercenary, so Jin Ge publicly claimed that he was constantly on business trips: "Yes, I'm back from my business trip. If all goes well, I may never leave Paris again and instead open a Good Luck Dessert Shop with my wife."

"A dessert shop?"

The middle-aged man sighed, "Then I wish you good luck, Jin Ge. Your daughter's illness will surely get better."

Thank you for your blessing.

Jin Ge was grateful and then introduced him to Jiang Liu, "This is the landlord who rented the house to me. His name is Tom Edward. You can just call him Mr. Tom. Mr. Tom and his wife also run a bakery with the best bread in all of Paris."

"Hello, young man, are you here to study in Paris?" Tom asked enthusiastically. "Would you like me to show you some houses?"

"Thank you, but I didn't come to Paris to study. I just came here for a day or two with Mr. Jin Ge. He and I are... distant relatives."

"Is that so? Then I won't bother you any longer. I'll be going now. Tonight, Notre Dame Cathedral will be exhibiting a very precious Eastern artifact, which is said to contain the wisdom of an ancient Chinese monk. I must go and have a good look at it." Mr. Tom smiled and waved to the two of them before hurrying off towards Notre Dame Cathedral.

Exhibits embodying the wisdom of ancient Chinese monks...

Jiang Liu will make a note of this for now.

They went upstairs and into the house.

The room is not large, only 300 square meters. The living room and kitchen are located in one room. Although it is crowded, it is well organized.

"Golden Song!"

Hearing the door open, the bedroom door opened, and an orange-haired woman carrying a broom came out. Upon seeing Jin Ge, she immediately dropped the broom, rushed into his arms, kissed his cheek, and said happily, "You're back! Pamni will be so happy!"

Who is this?

When the woman jumped off Jin Ge, she noticed Jiang Liu, but she wasn't shy, just curious.

“You know, wife, I have abilities beyond those of ordinary people, and so does he. He’s the doctor I hired,” Jin Ge said.

"Really?"

The woman was not a cultivator. She pulled Jin Ge aside and asked in a low voice, "Is it reliable? None of the 'doctors' you invited before could do anything about it."

As she finished speaking, tears welled up in her eyes.

Whenever Jin Ge brings in a doctor, a famous figure in the medical field, or a witch doctor with extraordinary powers, she holds onto the hope that they can do everything in their power to cure her daughter's illness.

The higher your expectations, the greater your disappointment will be.

No doctor could cure cancer; it was an incurable disease. Both famous doctors and unknown witch doctors gave the same advice: give their daughter everything she wanted before her life was completely over, so that she could have a better time in the last period of her life.

"Do you know, Natasha?"

Jin Ge stroked his wife's hair and said gently, "If God truly exists in this world, then it is this young man I brought here."

Hearing her husband say such a thing, Natasha was shocked—if her husband wasn't crazy, then the boy he brought with him truly possessed power far beyond what ordinary people could imagine!

The seed of hope was planted in her heart once again.

thereafter.

Jiang Liu followed Jin Ge and his wife into Pamni's room. He turned on the light and saw that the walls were pale yellow with some cartoon posters on them and a rocking horse next to the bed.

My first impression can be summed up in two words: warm and cozy.

But what followed was a pungent, medicinal smell.

"traditional Chinese medicine?"

Jiang Liu picked up the glass from the bedside table, sniffed it, and named several medicinal herbs: "Astragalus membranaceus, Ganoderma lucidum spore powder, Hedyotis diffusa, Scutellaria barbata, Curcuma zedoaria, Sparganium stoloniferum, etc., used to treat weakness, fever, and relieve pain."

These words were like a reassurance, instantly rekindling the seed of hope in Natasha's heart. She excitedly exclaimed, "This is a medicinal soup prepared by Tom's wife, Cheng Xiabing. It's said to be able to treat masses and lumps... I think that's what doctors in the East call cancer?"

"That's what it's called, but it's not accurate."

Jiang Liu nodded, then shook his head. "It can't be generalized."

Within the scope of Traditional Chinese Medicine, there is indeed a definition called "Zhengjia Jiju," which refers to lumps in the body caused by factors such as "disharmony of Qi and blood" and "phlegm, dampness, blood stasis, and toxins."

In terms of treatment methods, it is not much different from the treatment of other diseases; it still follows the same approach of promoting blood circulation and smoothing the meridians.

Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes that the human body is an integrated whole, where affecting one part affects the whole. Therefore, treatment does not directly target the symptoms, but rather focuses on regulating the macroscopic and complex open system of the human body. Its essence is to regulate the efficiency of the body's major systems, thereby stimulating the body's vitality and achieving the purpose of curing diseases.

The incidence of cancer was simply lower in ancient Eastern countries.

Or perhaps the average lifespan of people in ancient times was even lower than in 1927, and they didn't live long enough to develop the disease.

Or perhaps ordinary people with cancer never even thought of seeing a doctor, so their condition remained unknown!