On Finger Flicking Peak, inside a small wooden cabin.
Lu Chen lay weakly on the bed, bare-chested, two shocking blue-black palm prints stamped across his chest.
Huang Rong sat beside the bed, scooping out a dab of Peach Blossom Island's uniquely prepared healing ointment and, with her delicate fingertips, applying it to the palm prints as gently as she could. As she carefully treated his wounds, tears shimmered in her eyes, and she looked as though she might burst into tears at any moment.
Seeing this, Lu Chen comforted her softly:
"Don't worry, Rong'er. I'm fine. You, on the other hand—you took a punch to the shoulder from Ouyang Ke..."
"That was only a minor injury. I took a Nine-Flower Jade Dew Pill and applied medicine; it doesn't hurt anymore."
Huang Rong said in a tear-choked voice:
"But you... those two palm prints on your chest are so huge. Just now, you could barely stand, and you couldn't even walk..."
"Not being able to stand or walk wasn't because of my injuries. I was just exhausted. After all, I used Sword One twice in a row..."
The first Sword One had used his fingers in place of a sword to take Ouyang Feng away, draining nine-tenths of Lu Chen's internal power. He had also taken two palm strikes from Ouyang Feng squarely in the chest.
Fortunately, his Sword One had struck Ouyang Feng first and broken his Toad Style, causing his true force to leak away. The utmost fierce palm power had plummeted by more than half; coupled with the Soft Hedgehog Armor protecting him, that was why Lu Chen had been wounded without dying.
Of course, this outcome had been within his calculations from the beginning.
He had already decided that the decisive blow would come when Ouyang Feng