Another day passed. With the remaining pills in his backpack, Mu Chen's external injuries had fully healed. However, the tangled mess of meridians within his body and his severe internal injuries had greatly reduced his strength.
"Three days remain until the mission begins."
A hazy, beautiful figure capable of making any man's blood race surfaced in his mind. Remembering her ruthless methods, Mu Chen could not help but shudder.
Fight her in this miserable state? Was he going to deliver himself to her on a platter?
Mu Chen tugged at his hair and ruthlessly drove those unpleasant images from his mind.
Three days was far too little time, but there was nothing he could do. The mission deadline had been set long ago.
"The most urgent matter is to recover from my injuries first. I've refined the Jade Bone Body-Tempering Pill once before. Even with the mess inside my body, I should still have a fair chance of successfully refining it.
"But I've already taken that pill once. My body has developed resistance to it, so if I take it again, the effect will probably not even reach thirty percent of what it was before," Mu Chen pondered.
"It's not as though there aren't better pills that could heal my body's terrible condition in one go. But according to my memories, that pill is a top Fourth-Tier pill and extremely difficult to refine. Even an ordinary Fifth-Grade Alchemist giving it everything they had would have no more than a forty percent chance of success."
Mu Chen borrowed a quiet chamber from Hai Bodong and set Moonlight Stones into it. With a clang, he took out his medicine cauldron and placed it in the center of the chamber.
He casually loosened his wrists, then swallowed a pill that suppressed pain. The