The Journey of Immortal Cultivation
Chapter 43 Medicine

Chapter 43: Chapter 43 Medicine

Upon seeing him, Ning Xiaoxian felt a pang of guilt deep inside her heart. Deceiving such an honest person, her barely existent "conscience" felt uneasy.

"Miss Ning must have been frightened," he said without waiting for her to speak, "Your wound is about a foot long, the poison has been removed, and I have applied the Spiritual Medicine from my sect. It should mostly heal within another two hours."

"How long have I been asleep?" How much poison had Changtian actually applied to her?

"We returned at late evening (7 p.m.). It is now 9 p.m. to 11 p.m., and the servants said that before we arrived, they had already heard unusual noises from the hall, and your bleeding had already stopped on its own. So, you must have been unconscious for at least three two-hour periods."

That meant she had slept for six hours! Lord Changtian, you truly are ruthless.

She glanced at her shoulder, indeed wrapped in a bandage, and couldn’t help but ask: "Who applied the medicine to me?" It obviously wasn’t the person in front of her, and she hoped it wasn’t Shi Jishan, lest she had mixed something like intestinal rupture powder into it.

"The maids in this house cleaned your wound and applied the medicine," he said, his handsome face blushing slightly, before he continued seriously, "Miss Ning, could you recount what happened after we left the house?"

"Yes. After you left, the demon didn’t make any other moves," she began recounting the story she had fabricated, "It just sat there with its head down. Since none of you were around, I stayed far away from it and we were at peace. After a while, it suddenly spoke, saying that the place you hit at noon hurt a lot, and asked me to check on it. I thought since it was tied up, it couldn’t do any harm, so I went over to it."

Her voice was very slow as she spoke, as if recalling the situation at that time. Quan Shifang listened intently, making Ning Xiaoxian feel guiltier.

"Senior Brother Quan wounded it with his flying sword this noon. I saw that indeed there was a cut under its rib, about this long," she gestured with her hands, but accidentally touched the wound on her shoulder and hissed, "The wound was still bleeding. I couldn’t bear to see it like that, the demon also looked very weak, so I asked if there was anything I could do to help."

Quan Shifang sighed,"Miss Ning is truly kind-hearted, not even holding a grudge for it almost taking your life at noon."

His words made her very uneasy. Miss Ning was someone who would avenge grievances, and Afu was currently having his spiritual power sucked out in the God Demon Prison, a pain no more comfortable than death. Such a White Lotus Saint Mother facade could only come out when she was pretending.

She quickly continued, "It asked me to take some medicinal herbs from my top and apply them on it."

Quan Shifang’s eyebrows twitched, "What kind of medicinal herb?"

"It was a brown-black paste."

"Does it have a smell?" he asked urgently.

"Yes, as soon as I took out the medicine, the room filled with fragrance, a very unique scent. After I applied it to the wound, within a short while, its complexion greatly improved, but its eyes became redder and redder. I got scared and was about to step back, when it suddenly chuckled twice and with a burst of strength, broke free from Senior Brother Yu’s immortal rope!"

She bit her lower lip tightly, "I couldn’t help but cry out. It saw me and was very displeased, so it scratched me with its claw and said it would spare my life in return for helping it out of trouble. Then I quickly felt my head grow heavy and lost consciousness."

Quan Shifang sighed, blaming himself, "It’s also our inexperience, when we caught the demon we didn’t thoroughly search it, and instead ended up hurting Miss Ning. Earlier, when we were fighting in the bat demon’s nest, a few demons, seeing they were severely injured and unable to continue, also pulled out this medicine to swallow. After taking it, their strength actually increased, and two junior brothers were carelessly scratched."

Hearing this, Ning Xiaoxian knew she had bluffed her way through. Because she had experienced it firsthand, the people of Chaoyun Sect had already believed Ning Xiaoxian’s words. Afu indeed had such a medicine on him, which was made by mixing musk and some spirit grass that stimulates demons’ excitement. After swallowing, it can enhance a demon’s strength and speed in a short amount of time, but it only works on demons and is their essential medicine for fighting desperately. However, after the effect of the medicine wears off, they inevitable become weak.

Ning Xiaoxian summed up that this is the demons’ stimulant.

Actually, after everyone returned to the Prefecture and found her lying on the ground, Quan Shifang had Shi Jishan check her shoulder wound. Though unwilling, the latter still informed him of the injury examination results. The wound was thin and long, spreading from below the collarbone to the top of her left shoulder, seemingly inflicted by a sharp claw and the wound blackened, clearly containing toxin, seemingly intent on teaching her a lesson.

Speaking of which, it was also the handiwork of Lord Changtian, who had only seen Afu injuring and chasing people in the alley, yet was able to imitate its techniques and strength so accurately. The wound on Ning Xiaoxian’s shoulder looked scary and bled a lot, but the cut wasn’t really deep. By applying the spiritual medicine for generating flesh from Chaoyun Sect and resting overnight, it was mostly healed.

Quan Shifang told her, "Afu left a note on the table, which basically told us not to chase, and that it would leave Siping County, henceforth, we each go our separate ways without troubling each other." Upon seeing this note, the cultivators sneered, thinking the nerve of this bat demon wasn’t small, but if it could leave Siping County, it meant more security for Old Huang, and Quan Shifang could be more at ease.

"And that group of bat demons?" she was more concerned about the outcome of the battle.

"Gao Village had already become a stronghold for the bat demons, with no living person inside," he sighed. "Located in a remote area, Gao Village rarely interacted with people. The entire Gao Family of over thirty members was drained into mummies, and it went unnoticed for over two months." He was secretly relieved; it was fortunate he didn’t take her there, how could she bear such a horrifying scene?

"We killed nine bat demons. Bat King Wo Tou also lost an arm and fled alone seeing the unfavorable situation. The remaining five were all captured by us. Before leaving, we set Gao Village on fire," he said with furrowed brows, clearly disturbed that they hadn’t captured the leader. After all, his maternal grandfather’s house was in Siping County; what if Wo Tou recovered and lashed out at his relatives as revenge?

"Just now, I received a secret order from the sect via transmission, requesting all disciples outside to return to the sect at full speed. By tomorrow morning at the latest, I have to lead everyone back to the sect. The Fu Bat family has never appeared in records before, and their blood actually has hemostatic and flesh-generating properties. My sect pays great attention to this and demands that we bring back a living bat demon."

Alas, besides his maternal grandfather, of course, he was also concerned about her. Miss Ning insisted on heading west, and given the current difficult times, who knows how far she could go as a girl. He was inclined to accompany her, but with multiple responsibilities in the sect and as the Sect Leader’s Disciple entrusted with high expectations, it would be a long while before he could leave the sect again after returning.

Ning Xiaoxian naturally sensed his troubles: he was running out of time. Apart from Wo Tou, the murderer carrying the guilt of two human lives hadn’t been caught yet, but the orders from his teacher were hard to disobey.

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