Chapter 284: Expelling the Poison
Chapter 284: Expelling the Poison
Inside the quiet room, Nalan and her father were talking in hushed tones, occasionally turning their gazes toward the two men by the bed. After some time, their whispers slowly stopped when they saw the sweat rolling off the old man’s face and blue veins popping on his arm. The Nalans looked at each other and saw anxiousness and restlessness in each other’s eyes.
Xiao Yan’s face remained calm despite the growing restlessness in the room, his fingers pointed at Nalan Jie’s back trembling slightly. The faint green flame was constantly being controlled by his spiritual strength and its high temperature was being used to slowly expel the "Searing Poison" that had already invaded the bones.
The green flame wrapped itself around the periphery of the pitch-black bone. Although it seemed to cling to the surface, upon looking closely one would observe that they were separated by a very small gap. The Heavenly Flame’s temperature was too high, if it were to directly come in contact with Nalan Jie’s bones, even if he were a Dou Wang level powerhouse, he would instantaneously receive a severe wound or even die.
The blazing high temperature of the flames slowly permeated the pitch-black bones, causing smoke to slowly emanate from them.
With the continued roasting of the flame, a black mist quietly seeped out of the bones, but before it could escape, it was swiftly surrounded by the green flame and under its terrifying temperature, this "Searing Poison" which could even threaten a Dou Huang, was roasted into nothingness.
However, when Xiao Yan used the ‘Heavenly Flame’ to incinerate these black colored mists, he found that some black colored unknown thing actually slowly adulterated together with the ‘Heavenly Flame’ at the moment that the black colored mist was about to volatilize. Immediately afterwards, they became still within the fire.
As the time was spent quietly, the section of the pitch-black bone that was wrapped by Xiao Yan’s green flame was, with a speed visible to the naked eye, gradually restored to its normal color.
On the outside, at this time, Nalan Jie’s body had been drenched with sweat. His old face, while twitching uncontrollably, was emitting a slight sound of sucking in cold air from between his teeth.
"Little... little brother, is it done? Huh?" Nalan Jie’s trembling voice came out hoarsely as blue veins on his arm twitched as if they were small snakes.
Xiao Yan’s forehead was densely covered with sweat. Handling the Heavenly Flame with such precision for a long time was highly draining and was a large burden on his spiritual strength. He heard Nalan Jie’s question and slowly replied in a soft voice, "Since you are at the limit of your endurance, we shall stop here for this expelling poison session. The extent that the poison was embedded in your body had far exceeded my expectations. I wanted to expel it in one go, but it seems like that is not going to be possible so we can only choose to slowly take our time......"
"Can the ’Searing Poison’ truly be fully expelled?" When Nalan Jie heard his reply, he could not hide the authentic surprise in his voice. Even after having lived for so many years, if given a choice between life and death, everyone will choose the former.