Healing Injuries

Lu Chen suppressed his curiosity about the other items and cautiously approached with Yun Qingyue.

No restrictions barred their way. It seemed the Marsh Monster had merely treated this place as a "precious herb garden" to nourish itself and had set up no defenses—perhaps it had never imagined anyone could fight their way here.

Yun Qingyue took out a special jade blade and jade bottle. Using Medicine King Valley's secret technique, she carefully cut down the Seven-Aperture Linglong Life Fruit together with a small section of its jade stem, then sealed it inside a Cold Jade Box covered in preservation runes.

She then used the jade bottle to collect roughly two-thirds of the Vitality Spirit Liquid from the hollow.

"The Life Fruit's medicinal power is immense. It needs to be refined with other mild spiritual herbs into a Life Creation Pill to achieve its greatest effect without side effects. My current conditions are insufficient, but I can use the spirit liquid as the main ingredient and combine it with other pills to stabilize your injuries and begin repairing your foundation." Yun Qingyue explained, "As for the fruit, it would be best to save it until we can ask an elder from the valley—or find an alchemy grandmaster—to handle it."

Lu Chen nodded. "Handle it as you see fit. I trust you." He walked to a corner and brushed the dust from the stone slab and bronze box.

The runes on the stone slab were ancient and incomplete. They seemed to record some sort of formation or seal, mentioning words such as "suppress," "seal," and "souls return," but the text was too fragmented to decipher.

Considering the Marsh Monster's nature, Lu Chen guessed that the slab might originally have sealed or suppressed something here, only to fail with age or be