章 101: Gongsun Ling(2)

With the bashful smile still plastered on her face, Gongsun Ling recounted the details.

Apparently, anyone afflicted with the congenital ailment she had would develop a rigid muscle syndrome in their teens. By their mid twenties, this would graduate into heavy muscle spasms and a gradual loss of nervous coordination, and by age thirty upwards, the brain cells would begin to degenerate, leaving one's body in a vegetative, almost coma-like state.

Di Tian noted that the combination of symptoms mentioned by Gongsun Ling actually bore close similarities to several chronic mortal diseases he knew from Earth like Huntington's disease and Parkinson's.

"Your father was a Grandmaster Inscriptionist, so he definitely was also a cultivator. Was he unable to discover a cultivation cure?" Di Tian asked curiously.