Chapter 488: Desperate
No matter how much blood essence Ye Chen used, he couldn’t regrow his hand. His right arm remained a stump. His thoughts flashed toward the moment he was injured. Before he cut off his arm, the black ray had already disintegrated his entire hand, and it was crawling up his wrist before he cut it off.
Was it related to the black ray?
Ye Chen halted his recovering actions and sealed the vial. He diagnosed his body, but he couldn’t find any traces of the black ray that struck him, no matter how hard he tried. By all accounts, he should have nothing stopping him from regrowing his hand.
‘Unless my soul was injured?’ Ye Chen forced his expression to remain neutral, even if no one was looking at him, but he still couldn’t stop his face from paling. If it really was a soul injury, then it would become a problem. Unless Ye Chen solved the soul injury, he would not be able to heal himself.
He diagnosed his soul, and afterward, sweat coated his back. Ye Chen hadn’t noticed until now, but his soul was also missing its right hand. The dragon king’s attack was a material and a soul attack. The more terrifying nature was that the soul aspect was incredibly secretive. Unless one actively searched, they wouldn’t notice the soul injury.
Of course, it could because the soul injury wasn’t that major, but it didn’t make it any less terrifying.
Ye Chen exited his chamber and arrived at the Merit Exchange Hall. Here, he could exchange his military merits for items, resources, and artifacts. He had his eyes on an emperor-level artifact, but that could wait. He used most of his military merits to exchange for true dragon blood essence, so Ye Chen could only exchange for a monarch-rank soul recovery pill.
After returning to his assigned chambers, Ye Chen immediately ingested the soul recovery pill. A cool sensation filled his soul, and he let out a sigh of relief he didn’t know he was holding. He could feel a phantom pain, one that resembled a freeze burn in his right stump.
He closed his eyes and focused all the pill’s effect into the right arm of his soul. The burning sensation intensified. It ended forty days later, but Ye Chen’s expression was dark. His soul only had a tenth of its hand regrown.