The midwife flung the door open, her face drenched in sweat. Her voice trembled. "My lord has lost too much blood—she can't hold on!"
Chen Wuya said nothing. The hand pressed against Bai Zhi's lower abdomen did not ease. He could feel her breath sinking, as though something were dragging it down. That golden light was still flowing into her body, yet the bleeding would not stop.
Gritting his teeth, he altered the circulation route of the Chaos Art again. This time, rather than forcibly suppressing it, he let his true qi spread out and flow through her meridians like water. The Heavenly Machine Scroll tattoo on his chest burned fiercely. Golden patterns crawled all the way down his arm before surging into his palm.
A thread-thin strand of golden light extended from his palm and wrapped around Bai Zhi's wrist.
The midwife's eyes widened. "Th-this... what is this?"
The golden thread wound around her wrist a few times before slowly seeping into her skin. The veins there had been darkened nearly black, but now their color began to fade. Bai Zhi drew a heavier breath, and the rise and fall of her chest steadied somewhat.
The midwife reached out to feel her pulse. The instant her fingers touched it, she froze. "The blood... it's slowing! It really is stopping!" She looked up at Chen Wuya. "This is... medical skill?"
Chen Wuya shook his head. "It isn't medical skill."
He did not know what it was. The system suddenly trembled, and a line of text surfaced in his sea of consciousness: [Medical Ability Activated] [Mistaken Healing Domain Unlocked]
He understood. He had used it wrong. He had taken a combat technique to save someone, turning chaotic true qi into something nourishing. The system had recognized that "mistake" and, instead, opened