Chapter 272
Celestial Realm
When I regained consciousness, I found myself staring up at the ceiling of a dim room. I checked my body’s condition, and my limbs were intact, with barely any loss of internal energy. All my nerves were still connected, but for that reason, just moving my fingers brought a wave of intense pain crashing over me.
‘To alleviate this pain, I need to select a breathing technique.’
Among the traditional medical arts of the Hua Clan, there was a specific breathing method to relieve agony when it became extreme. Specifically, it required connecting the heart meridians with one’s breath, necessitating considerable internal energy, but the undeniable fact was that using this technique could reduce pain by more than tenfold compared to usual.
As I concentrated, the pain that had once engulfed my body began to fade, leaving only a distant numbness in my limbs, as if I were moving a large shell. There was a downside in that the sensory perception in my limbs became quite dulled, but there was no better breathing technique for pain relief than this. The only drawbacks were that it required focus and was not useful in combat, but is there anything better than pain relief in self-emergency treatment?
I sat up and gathered the clean clothes next to me. As I stepped out of the room, I heard a voice.
“You must be in pain all over since your insides are in chaos, yet you’re already moving? What a remarkable hero.”
Looking across the corridor, I spotted an elderly man sitting in a chair, engrossed in a book. Although I had never seen him before, it was immediately apparent that he was a person of substantial internal energy. As I gazed at him blankly, the old man spoke.
“I treated you. Had your natural healing powers not been strong, I wouldn’t have been able to save you either.”