Turmoil Within the Pass and the Journey Home

Over the next five days, Lu Chen and Yun Qingyue kept a low profile, staying in the inn to focus on healing and recovery.

Using the remaining Vitality Spirit Liquid as the primary ingredient and supplementing it with other spiritual materials, Yun Qingyue refined two more batches of Vitality Vein Renewal Pills.

Lu Chen took the pills each day, circulating his cultivation under Yun Qingyue's assistance to dissolve their medicinal power, focusing on repairing the foundations of his life force.

The effects were indeed remarkable. Nourished and permeated by pure life energy, the last damaged areas were gradually mended and reinforced.

By the evening of the fifth day, the medicinal power of the final pill had been completely absorbed.

Lu Chen slowly finished his cultivation and opened his eyes. His gaze was clear and profound, his aura smooth and perfectly connected, with none of its former obscurity or weakness remaining.

He examined himself internally. The area of his life foundation that had once been dim was now aglow with flowing radiance, extraordinarily stable. The damage had astonishingly recovered to 99%!

Only the final, exceedingly faint flaw remained, as though it were connected to the deepest level of his life essence—something ordinary methods could scarcely reach.

"How do you feel?" Yun Qingyue asked with concern. She had remained at his side almost every step of the past few days, expending no small amount of energy, yet she was sincerely relieved to see his condition improving by the day.

"Better than ever!"

Lu Chen rose and stretched his limbs. Blood and qi surged endlessly through his body like the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, his true essence full and turbulent, his divine sense sharp and unobstructed. With 99% of his foundation restored, he felt that his strength had risen by at least thirty