Chapter 671 671. Recovery
"She was poisoned on an academy expedition by the bite of a venomous roothfang snake. We've tried everything possible, invited blackflask Alchemists from different regions and organisations across the universe secretly, to try to provide an antidote for her." She sighed—an indication that the situation was a hopeless one.
Kailen was silent, listening.
She continued: "The problem does not lie in the antidote, but in the purity level of the antidotes provided. Had it been a matter of just crafting antidote, I could have personally handled it, and my great grand uncle, the ancestor, could have also handled it. However, the poison is too strong. Even the ancestor's antidote, which had a purity level of 90 percent, didn't work. We've tried everything possible, but she's still not recovering; she keeps deteriorating further."
Kailen understood.
The venomous roothfang snake was a very dangerous sentient beast. Its poison was very lethal. The one Red Sun's daughter encountered on that academy expedition definitely had very strong poison abilities. At this point, it was not just a matter of making the right antidote. It was making an antidote with a purity level high enough to counter and nullify the extremely potent and lethal abilities of the poison.
Kailen was confident he could make this work. With a purity level of 99.99 percent, he was confident that he could nullify the poison. After that, he would get the mission over with and go back to focus on his cultivation.
"Alright. Please, can I take a look at her?"
The moment Kailen spoke, hope lit up in the eyes of Red Sun.
"Please..." Red Sun replied.
At the moment, a mobile teleportation gate appeared in the room. The two entered it.
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In a large luxurious bedroom, a pink skinned asura teenage girl could be seen lying on a bed. Through the transparent glass windows, the rays of the sunlight cast its glow on her. A teddy bear was laying at her side in the bedroom.
Eventually, her eyes weakly fluttered open after sensing the presence of two individuals in the room. She had a very weak demeanor. It was obvious that she was very sick and she didn't have long to live.
Several attendants in the room, attending to the young girl, bowed immediately on seeing two individuals appear before them.
"Your Imperial Princess!"
"Black Flask Darkhaven!"
Red Sun simply nodded at their greetings. She proceeded towards her daughter's bed at the moment. Kailen nodded amiably to them, after which his gaze traced on the asura teenage girl lying on the bed. He squinted his eyes in thought.
"As expected of the venomous roothfang snake. Extremely deadly."
The girl stared weakly at her mom. "Mum, not another alchemist again. I know I don't have long to live, just let me die. You don't have to keep getting my hopes up for no reason." She sighed. She had already accepted her miserable fate.
Even the ancestor—that senile old man—had failed. Those renowned Black Flask alchemists from various regions in the universe had even failed to cure her. Naturally, what could one more person accomplish?
A tear almost fell from the eyes of Red Sun. Seeing her daughter like this was very difficult for her. At the moment, another person rushed into the room. He was tall, robust, had three arms and two legs, and radiated an intimidating aura. He was the father of the girl on the bed, and Red Sun's husband.
"Honey, you are here. Are the ingredients ready?" Red Sun asked.
The man simply nodded, staring at his daughter anxiously.
"Can I have them sir?" Kailen asked.
This was when the man recognized him. A look of hope flashed through his eyes. That's right. His wife said she had found someone she was certain could help their daughter recover this time. Naturally, he didn't doubt her. Any opportunity, even a small sign of hope for their daughter, was something he would not pass by. So, he had rushed for the ingredients for the antidote on the direction of his wife.
But seeing the man before him, he realized that there was a high chance his daughter will fully recover. Kailen Darkhaven. How did his wife find someone of this man's calibre to come here?
Pushing everything he had heard and watched in videos about the man before him to the back of his mind, he focused on the recovery of his daughter and replied: "Please, Black Flask, save our daughter," he said anxiously as the ingredients for the antidote floated towards Kailen.
Under everyone's hopeful gazes—except the broken gaze of the girl who had given up all hope—Kailen nodded warmly.
Quickly, the infinite alchemy flame manifested before him. The antidote ingredients floated together into the infinite alchemy flame under the influence of Kailen's spiritual power.
Under the hopeful, worried, surprised, and awed gazes of the pairs of eyes on him, Kailen started working. The ingredients melded together seamlessly under Kailen's control. Kailen took notice of everything: molecular weight, atomic integrations, heat adjustment, and worked flawlessly. His movements were simple, natural, fluid, and preternatural at the same time.
Very soon, a pungent aroma spread throughout the room. This antidote... why did it smell different from the previous ones? They all had the same pungent smell, but there was something different about this one—some sort of revitalizing fragrance. Everyone knew this was definitely not ordinary.
Was this how watching an alchemist—a blackflask at that, with a purity level of 99.99 percent, the only one who currently existed in the universe—looked like?
Red Sun was shocked. Too shocked. She was a Black Flask, a prodigy in her own right. But this... the alchemical process she had just witnessed was something she would remember for the rest of her life.
Everyone observed the floating mass of liquid float and enter a flask under Kailen's influence. The infinite alchemy flame disappeared.
Kailen appeared before the bed of the teenage Asura. "Can you open your mouth for me?" he said, voice warm.
The girl nodded, eyes a bit hopeful. Would this man she didn't know make a difference? Would she recover? She opened her mouth. Kailen poured the contents of the liquid in her mouth gently, after which she swallowed everything.
Suddenly, she felt heat permeate her whole body. Then, the previous feeling of something eating away at her cells, eroding her being, disappeared. What replaced it next was extreme comfort and invorgoration.
"You should be coughing the remaining residues in your lungs out now," Kailen said.
Right when he spoke, the girl coughed something extremely brownish out of her lungs. For the first time, with tears on her face, her extremely tall figure rose from the bed. Her parents couldn't believe it.
Their daughter was fine now.