Chapter 396 - 128: New Title: Medicine Jar Ill Body
He understood in his heart that this warmth must be the effect of the Miracle Fruit, allowing him to keep his mind clear and unaffected by the Earth Evil Qi.
He gritted his teeth and activated the Third Layer of the Mountain Suppressing Chart Heart Method, and his Qi Blood surged through his meridians like lava, beginning to resist and scour away the Earth Evil Qi that clung to his bone marrow and rushed towards his internal organs.
The ulna in his right arm was the first to crack, and the periosteum held back the Earth Evil Qi for less than three breaths.
Fortunately, after several painful medicinal bath experiences, Lin Chen had a high tolerance for pain and did not panic at the crack in his ulna, remaining calm and guiding the Mountain Suppressing Chart’s heart formula to allow his Qi Blood to continue washing through his meridians with the Earth Evil Qi.
Frequent illness makes a good doctor.
He now also had a set of countermeasures, so long as he wasn’t crippled, there was nothing to worry about.
A two-hour period later!
The mist dissipated, and Lin Chen breathed a sigh of relief, beginning to pant heavily, but the Earth Evil Qi rampaging inside him hadn’t disappeared and was still coursing through him.
Lin Chen began to slow the rhythm of his Qi Blood flow, letting his Qi Blood envelop the Earth Evil Qi and circulate it throughout his body, like electricity flowing, which caused his acupoints to reverberate wherever the Earth Evil Qi passed.
Once, twice, three times...
After nearly a hundred cycles like this, the Earth Evil Qi in his body was finally absorbed completely.
Meanwhile, the warm current in his mind began to flow through his body, smoothing over his injuries as if with an iron, quickly reorganizing his broken meridians, and even the blood trails on his skin surface, where the Earth Evil Qi had cut, were slowly fading.
Just as Lin Chen’s body began to recover, the mist above the valley surged down again, filling the valley once more in less than a hundred breaths.
The Earth Evil Qi came again!
The warm current returned once again to Lin Chen’s head, keeping him sober.
This time, the Earth Evil Qi was even more violent than before!
In three breaths, Lin Chen became a blood-covered person. This time, the Earth Evil Qi didn’t just cut his body surface but pierced his pores like icy needles.
Lin Chen’s body was like a water-filled balloon at this moment, punctured by numerous fine needles, causing the water inside to splatter out—not water, but blood in Lin Chen’s case.
Pierced by a thousand needles!
In mere breaths, Lin Chen’s face was pale, yet he still gritted his teeth and operated the Mountain Suppressing Chart Heart Method, causing his twenty-four acupoints to continually tremble, each tremor forming a small vortex, which wrapped the invading Earth Evil Qi in each acupoint, constantly stimulating them.
Under the stimulation of the Earth Evil Qi, the seventy-two minor acupoints surrounding Lin Chen’s twenty-four acupoints began to tremble as well, slowly absorbing the Earth Evil Qi.
The time for a cup of tea passed, and the mist disappeared.
Lin Chen looked inward at himself, feeling the Earth Evil Qi in his acupoints, and started slowly absorbing it like before. As the Earth Evil Qi was absorbed, the seventy-two accompanying acupoints continued to expand outward.
Bang, bang, bang!
His body emitted drum-like vibrations.
With each vibration, all the acupoints were compressed into a mass like dough by a powerful force, and then, as the force dissipated, the dough instantly spread out, becoming a bit more resilient and elastic than before.
Lin Chen could clearly feel the strength of his body improving, yet at the next moment, his body staggered.
His Qi Blood had lost too much.
At his current level of Qi Blood and age, his Qi Blood vitality was extremely vigorous, but that didn’t mean it was inexhaustible. This time, at least three-tenths of his Qi Blood had drained away from his body, and the Qi Blood induced to absorb the Earth Evil Qi and refine acupoints also caused a depletion of his Qi Blood.
This was the first time Lin Chen noticed that his Qi Blood was insufficient.
"It’s not just because of the bleeding. Back during the medicinal bath, the bleeding wasn’t any less, so the Earth Evil Qi must greatly deplete Qi Blood."
Realizing this, Lin Chen understood why the three ancestors of the Huang Family failed. If his Qi Blood couldn’t hold up, another few rounds of this Earth Evil Qi would likely leave him a dried corpse.
Rumble!
Before Lin Chen could catch his breath, the mist above, like thunderclouds, began to churn down again, accompanied by a howling gale that tore through the valley, striking the rock walls and producing thunderous sounds.
Boom!
The mist dropped once more, and the Earth Evil Qi reappeared.
Puff!
Puff!
Puff!
Lin Chen spat blood several times in a row, his expression becoming listless, and he kept stepping back.
This time, the Earth Evil Qi struck his bones like heavy hammers.
Every blow caused his bones to shake!
Unlike the heavy hammers of the Thousand Hammer Map, the heavy hammers of the Earth Evil Qi attack also siphoned off his Qi Blood.
This pain was unbearable for any human.
Fifteen breaths later, Lin Chen had retreated to the edge of the valley.
A few steps back, and he wouldn’t need to endure this Earth Evil Qi, but that would also mean giving up this opportunity.
The Exotic Fruit bore only one pulp every twenty years, and giving up now would mean waiting another twenty years.
Should he give up?
Unwillingness flashed in Lin Chen’s eyes. A twenty-year chance, he was unwilling to let it go.
And just at that moment, an information appeared in Lin Chen’s mind.
[Status Panel Update Complete!]
Lin Chen’s heart moved, but before he could check the panel, he suddenly realized that the pain from the Earth Evil Qi’s assault around his body had lessened.
?
This sudden change stunned Lin Chen for a moment; then he was overjoyed, thinking the panel update must have caused some changes.
"Panel!"
Lin Chen murmured softly, and the panel appeared before him. After quickly scanning through the updated contents on the panel, light flashed in his eyes, and he finally understood where the body change came from.
[Title: Medicine Jar Ill Body (Pain during energy absorption is reduced, but the pain will not disappear, only be delayed, and after absorption, double the pain is experienced)]
(Note: This title is calculated based on the host’s multiple medicinal baths and Flood Dragon True Blood refinement performances during the previous martial arts stage.)