The boy-faced elder led the young man away at a furious speed, dodging powerful ghosts and gods along the way for several thousand miles before he finally failed to suppress his injuries and plummeted. Master and disciple rolled and tumbled across the ground for several miles before they managed to stop.
"Master!"
The young man leaped to his feet and hurried to the boy-faced elder's side to check his injuries.
The boy-faced elder sat up with difficulty and waved his hand. "I'm not going to die. Scholar Zhu plotted against me, and I suffered a heavy blow because I lacked caution for a moment. This fellow is truly formidable; even without the Innate Dao Embryo, he still possesses this kind of adaptability. But now that I know his methods, there's no way he can ambush me next time."
He took out a vermilion jade bottle and poured out an immortal pill.
He didn't rush to swallow it, instead pressing his index finger gently against the immortal pill. Light shone from within the pill, and with the pill as the core, multiple phantom projections formed—the Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Primordial Spirit, Void Realm, sun, moon, and stars—secretly aligning with the various cultivation stages of a cultivator.
Only then did the boy-faced elder swallow the immortal pill, and the injuries he had sustained rapidly diminished.
"If not for our exploration of the Immortal Abodes and obtaining this bottle of immortal pills, I'm afraid I would have taken a massive tumble."
He expelled a breath of turbid air, stood up, and said, "This pill is truly worthy of being an immortal item; it's a pity I don't know the refinement method, so every time I use one, there's one less."
In a mere moment, his injuries were completely healed.
The boy-faced elder pondered.