There was an additional layer of sympathy for this newly acquainted young friend.
"I think your father misunderstood. Although you are not Ying Ji's child, the black energy inside you likely has little to do with the Ghost Path lineage."
Baili An understood that his father actually knew about the condition within him for a while, but thought it was the result of the combination of sword and ghost paths, so he kept silent.
He smiled pale-faced and asked, "The black energy inside me? What does that mean?"
Wen Hanwei explained, "For any human cultivator, the body contains the Five Elements and thirty-six cultivation nodes. Just now, when I investigated your body, it inexplicably bore strands of black karma.
That karma and energy latched onto your thirty-six nodes of cultivation, while normal cultivators accumulate Spiritual Power during cultivation, letting it circulate around the body.
