Undying Life

Chapter 118: Healing

As Zhongshan ran with Sorrowful Green Threads in his arms, after some time, he finally found a perfect place—a secluded valley with a small lake and even a dry cave. The interior was a bit rugged, but that didn't matter as long as they had a place to take shelter.

Gently laying Sorrowful Green Threads down, Zhongshan took a deep breath as he examined the breaker arrow lodged in her chest.

The breaker arrow resembled an ordinary bamboo arrow, but it was made of a very special material and engraved with numerous strange runes. It pierced directly through Sorrowful Green Threads' left chest, with the tip emerging from her back, staining her body with blood, which continued to flow.

With Sorrowful Green Threads intoxicated by the Hundred Days Drunk and currently unconscious, it would be a hundred days before she woke up. Zhongshan took another deep breath; now wasn't the time to worry about modesty—Sorrowful Green Threads' life was the most important.

"Hiss~" Zhongshan quickly tore open Sorrowful Green Threads' shirt and undershirt without reservation, exposing her blood-soaked ** upper body.

On her delicate skin lay a lot of blood, giving her an eerie beauty. Even though Zhongshan had seen it before, his expression still froze.

Furrowing his brows, Zhongshan quickly shifted his gaze to the area around Sorrowful Green Threads' left chest.

Blood flowed from the front and back of her chest, staining the peaks with a crimson hue. Zhongshan didn't dare to immediately pull out the long arrow but instead placed his hand around the arrow.

His hand touched the damp skin, and the slight elasticity didn't disturb Zhongshan's thoughts. Closing his eyes, Zhongshan gently probed with his true essence to see the effects of the arrow.

However, even though Sorrowful Green Threads was intoxicated, her body instinctively resisted. Whenever Zhongshan's true essence entered, it was immediately bounced back. After several attempts, Zhongshan finally managed to explore around the skin at both ends of the arrow to see where he could probe.

During this process, Zhongshan's true essence was repeatedly resisted by Sorrowful Green Threads' true essence. At one point, Zhongshan's true essence entered one of Sorrowful Green Threads' acupuncture points, resulting in an intense reaction, with a sword qi shooting out, leaving Zhongshan drenched in cold sweat.

Nevertheless, he finally managed to explore it thoroughly.

After exploring, Zhongshan took a deep breath. It was close; too close. The long arrow had been shot right next to the heart, and by sheer luck, it hadn't severed any blood vessels or meridians, only tearing some muscles and mucous membranes.

Repositioning Sorrowful Green Threads' body, Zhongshan pinched the middle section of the breaker arrow in her chest.

With all his strength, he tried to break it, but the arrow didn't snap.

Furrowing his brows, Zhongshan wondered how to remove it. Eventually, he retrieved Sorrowful Green Threads' white sword from the side. Infusing it with true essence, although it was his first time using it, the sword must have been of high quality. Zhongshan began cutting at the tail end of the arrow.

"Crack~" The arrow in Sorrowful Green Threads' chest snapped into two pieces, but there were still many pieces left inside her.

Quickly retrieving some hemostatic agents from his storage bracelet, Zhongshan used the blood oozing out to wet the remaining arrowheads protruding from her chest.

Looking at the sleeping Sorrowful Green Threads, Zhongshan gently said, "I'm going to pull out the arrow now. Bear with the pain."

Of course, Sorrowful Green Threads was fast asleep; how could she hear him?

With one hand supporting Sorrowful Green Threads and the other grabbing the arrowhead on her back, Zhongshan opened his eyes wide and pulled hard.

"Crack~" With a gush of blood, the arrowhead embedded in Sorrowful Green Threads' body was completely pulled out.

"Dang-clang."

Zhongshan casually threw away the arrowhead. Quickly sprinkling some strong liquor, he then used a piece of white cloth to plug the wound. Blood continued to flow, quickly staining the white cloth red.

Leaning against the cave wall, Zhongshan wrapped his left arm around Sorrowful Green Threads' body. He plugged the blood hole in her back with a piece of white cloth and covered the wound on her left chest with his hand.

Looking at the extremely pale and weak Sorrowful Green Threads, Zhongshan's right hand, now free, made a gesture.

A small bottle suddenly appeared in Zhongshan's hand. It was the Revival Pill, given to him by Sorrowful Green Threads when they first met. She had thrown it to him after injuring him with a palm strike.

Looking at the pill, a strange smile appeared on Zhongshan's face. "Revival Pill, I've always been reluctant to use it. I didn't expect to use it on you after going in circles."

After saying that, Zhongshan removed the bottle cap with one hand and poured out the white Revival Pill.

Having recently browsed various rare treasures and spiritual medicines at the Treasures Pavilion, he naturally knew how to use it.

With a light pinch, the Revival Pill suddenly split into three portions.

Taking the largest portion, Zhongshan gently brought it to Sorrowful Green Threads' mouth. However, her mouth was tightly shut, so Zhongshan could only gently push half of the pill into her mouth. Worried that she might hold it in her mouth without swallowing, he used his index finger to push the pill into her moist mouth.

After a few pushes to ensure that the pill had been swallowed, Zhongshan withdrew his finger from her soft mouth.

Feeling the strange sensation just now, Zhongshan shook his head to clear his mind. Taking a deep breath, he looked at the wound on Sorrowful Green Threads' chest.

Releasing his left hand, Zhongshan took out the second portion of the crushed pill, sprinkled it slowly over the wound, and the bleeding slowed down significantly.

Following the same procedure, Zhongshan also sprinkled the last portion of the crushed pill on Sorrowful Green Threads' back. At this point, the blood finally stopped flowing.

"Sigh~" With the bleeding stopped, Zhongshan heaved a sigh of relief. However, Sorrowful Green Threads was still in a critical condition, and she would remain in a hundred days of deep sleep, posing a difficult problem.

For now, they couldn't leave. Zhongshan was certain that the group of Red-Clothed people must be lurking outside the wolf area. They could only temporarily remain trapped in the valley.

Looking at the blood-covered Sorrowful Green Threads in his arms, Zhongshan gently leaned her against the clothes he had laid out earlier, propping her up against the cave wall.

As for himself, Zhongshan got up to tidy up the surroundings. He cleared out a flat area, spread out a blanket, and placed spiritual stones around for Sorrowful Green Threads to instinctively absorb enough spiritual energy while in her deep sleep.

After finishing this, Zhongshan looked at Sorrowful Green Threads again. Covered in blood, he gently laid her on the bed he had just made, allowing her to lie down and continue her deep slumber.

Next, it was a waiting game for Bei Qingsi's awakening.

During the day, Zhongshan searched the valley for herbs like millennium ginseng, slicing them into pieces and placing them in Bei Qingsi's mouth to let her suck on them. At night, he would replace them with fresh ones, occasionally feeding her a little clear water. This ensured that Bei Qingsi could absorb enough moisture and nutrients.

While meticulously caring for Bei Qingsi, Zhongshan continued his cultivation. The next stage of cultivation was to open up the meridians.

The number of meridians was three hundred and sixty-one. That meant each person had three hundred and sixty-one meridians, in addition to the Dantian that had already been opened, there were another three hundred and sixty similar places to store true essence, which needed to be surging before one could reach the Golden Core stage.

Currently at the sixth level of Innate, ascending one level required opening ninety meridians each time.

Having had Tianxingzi inspect his body, Zhongshan's meridian breakthroughs were much quicker. Due to the different sequences, the difficulty of breakthroughs varied. Especially for someone with extremely poor aptitude like Zhongshan, the sequence needed to be as smooth as possible.

Each day's meridian breakthroughs didn't feel tedious for Zhongshan. By the third day of cultivation in the valley, when Zhongshan was about to cut a slice of ginseng to replace the one in Bei Qingsi's mouth, he suddenly noticed that the clothes on Bei Qingsi's left chest were slightly damp.

What's going on? Zhongshan quickly untied her clothes, revealing the wound.

Although the wound was no longer bleeding, it was oozing pus.

This was bad. Zhongshan knew something was wrong. He quickly used his true essence to investigate. Why wasn't Bei Qingsi recovering quickly as expected, given her constitution?

After several probes, Zhongshan narrowed his eyes and furrowed his brows.

At the site of the wound, there was a strange energy that seemed to be constantly preventing the wound from healing.

Zhongshan carefully sensed it again, then took out the 'Breaking Gang Arrow'. When his true essence entered it, he discovered that the strange energy at Bei Qingsi's wound was from the Breaking Gang Arrow.

Perhaps when Bei Qingsi woke up, she could expel it in an instant, but the problem was she wouldn't wake up for another ninety-something days.

Zhongshan attempted to expel it, but Bei Qingsi's true essence resisted his own. Whenever his true essence entered Bei Qingsi's body, it was forced out by her true essence. Zhongshan's palm pressed against Bei Qingsi's chest, and after two hours of true essence exchange, only a trace of the residual aura of the Breaking Gang Arrow was expelled.

Zhongshan was sweating profusely and had to temporarily give up. He gently wiped away the pus, laid Bei Qingsi down, and went out to continue cultivation. The next day, he resumed the true essence confrontation with Bei Qingsi, expelling the residual aura of the Breaking Gang Arrow.

Although each time left Zhongshan utterly exhausted, after each rest, his true essence grew significantly. Moreover, Zhongshan was very careful when expelling the pus from Bei Qingsi, fearing that he might hurt her. Thus, he practiced maximum control over his true essence.

After a month of true essence confrontation, Zhongshan unexpectedly opened thirty meridians at once. Coupled with the ten he had opened at the Kaiyang Sect, he had now opened forty meridians.

After a month of recuperation, Bei Qingsi's wound gradually healed, returning to its former beautiful and smooth state, with not even a hint of scar left on her chest. She was still as charming and soft as ever.

Zhongshan believed that today's final expulsion would surely rid Bei Qingsi of the last traces of the Breaking Gang Arrow.

After washing his hands by the lake, Zhongshan slowly walked towards the cave. Just as he stepped into the entrance, Bei Qingsi, who had been in a coma, fluttered her eyelashes ever so slightly.