"Pant, pant..."
Liuli leaned against a tree trunk that had been severed, with only half remaining. She covered the wound on her left arm, blood streaming from it as she gasped for breath.
Enduring the intense pain, she took out a healing pill from her Storage Ring and swallowed it. The wound, deep enough to expose bone, began to heal at a visible rate.
However, unable to use Dou Qi, she could not immediately refine the medicine's effects. Fortunately, the pills were of high grade. Even without deliberately absorbing them, the medicinal power released after taking them was more than enough to treat a nonfatal wound. Yet the blood, vitality, and life force she had lost could not be replenished.
Her already fair face was deathly pale with weakness. Gripping her sword, she struggled to support herself, her eyes fixed tightly on the black-robed man strolling toward her from afar.
"I didn't expect you to have so many pills. Are you an Alchemist?" Mo You stopped ten zhang away from the Young Girl and looked her up and down, his gaze lingering especially long on the exposed skin where her clothes had been torn.
"Pah!" Liuli spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva. Controlling the two remaining flying swords, she pointed them at the black-robed man and cursed, "You know I'm an Alchemist and you still dare mess with me? Believe it or not, dozens of Dou Zongs will come after you and wipe you out!"
For a moment, wariness flashed through Mo You's eyes. But he soon shook his head and laughed. "No. Although your Soul Power is strong, I can't sense even a trace of Dou Qi in your body. Without Dou Qi, you can't even control alchemical flames. What are you going to use for Pill Refining?"