Chapter 1454 — The Divine Physician Blunders into the Den of Ecstasy
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Though the two divine sabers had not yet ripened, possessing form but not substance, the fact that Qin Mu and the others could hold out under their might until now was truly an anomaly.
Fang Ziyan waited several more days, and suddenly something stirred in her heart: "The might of the two divine sabers on the God-Slaying Platform seems much diminished.
. .
" She did not know whether it was an illusion, and at once sent her primal spirit out of her body to observe carefully. All at once, the Saber Dao of the twenty-fifth layer of heaven had actually added yet another layer of heaven!
"Could this be an illusion caused by Celestial Venerable Mu and the others raising their Dao realms, their cultivation and strength swelling greatly? " Fang Ziyan examined the matter in fine detail, reckoning whether the might of the two divine sabers of the God-Slaying Platform had waned, and recorded it.
Several more days passed, and her heart could not help but tighten.
"The might of those two sabers has indeed weakened! Celestial Venerable Mu and his four companions are seizing the chance to rob the sabers of their power, refining that baleful aura and claiming it for themselves! " She rose abruptly, murderous intent boiling from her. She thought, "I must report this to Her Highness the Consort, or those two divine sabers will be even farther from ripening.
Who knows what year or month they can be brought to maturity! " She was just about to set out for the Great Spirit-Energy Transfer Bridge to report to Consort Qiang when the divine physician suddenly came to announce, "Lady Fang, the famed physicians of Jingping have been invited here!
" Fang Ziyan was somewhat impatient. "Bring them in, and have them diagnose me this instant.
If they can cure my eyes, they shall be richly rewarded; if not, off with their heads! I have urgent business with Her Highness and cannot delay! " At that moment a gentle voice reached her, bearing the magnetic timbre that belongs only to men, and her heart could not help but grow calm.
"Lady Fang, there is no injury in this world that I cannot cure. Rest easy, my lady; your wounds are to me as good as gone at a touch of the hand. " Fang Ziyan's heart thumped violently twice.
She found that voice most pleasing and delightful, and quietly sent her primal spirit out of her body to look upon the famed physician. He was tall and powerfully built, his heroic spirit overflowing, clad in robes of blue.
Yet his face was covered by a bronze mask, and beneath that mask were a pair of heart-stirring eyes that seemed able to speak, and all they spoke were intimate words of love. "Famed physician of Jingping, why do you wear a mask, not daring to show your true face? " The fretfulness in Fang Ziyan's heart melted away; she asked this with a smile.
The bronze-masked man made no secret of it. "I report to you, my lady: this one's countenance is hideous, and I feared to frighten my patients, and so I cover my ugliness with a mask.
" Fang Ziyan laughed. "You lie.
Your eyes are so beautiful, surely you cannot be ugly. Before me you need not wear a mask. I do not trust men who wear masks, least of all a famed physician who comes to heal me.
" The bronze-masked man hesitated a moment. "My lady's discerning eye is matchless. In truth, it is because this one is handsome of face and feared to bring on needless trouble, and so I often hide behind a mask.
" He smiled bitterly.
"I practice medicine in all quarters, and have piled up debts of love, a rather sorry state. " Fang Ziyan grew all the more curious, and insisted that he take off the mask. The bronze-masked man had no choice but to remove it, saying, "My lady, a physician's heart is the heart of a parent.
I beg you to regard me only as a physician. " When the mask came away, Fang Ziyan's primal spirit felt as though struck by lightning; all the beauty of the world, it seemed to her, was nothing more than this, gathered wholly upon the man before her.