Yun Xiaomei treated the baby elephant very quickly, probably because she had spent years treating the wilderness around Gongshan as her backyard and living alongside the wild animals, thoroughly familiarizing herself with the properties of these herbs and the animals' habits.
But Chen Jue was a little curious. With her ability to communicate as a Born Mountain Lord, why had she been unable to talk the two adult wild elephants down?
By then, the two elephants Chen Jue had thrown into the river were slowly climbing back out, river water dripping from their bodies as they trumpeted incessantly.
Meanwhile, Yun Xiaomei had torn half a strip from a piece of white cloth lining her back basket, quickly tied it around the baby elephant's herb-coated wound, then turned and stood on a rise in the ravine, trumpeting several times at the two approaching elephants.
Perhaps the cold river water had physically cooled them down. Upon hearing Yun Xiaomei's voice, the two irritable wild elephants gradually slowed their steps and trumpeted twice in response, seemingly entering into some special form of communication.
Only after Yun Xiaomei fell silent did she wipe away her sweat and turn to Chen Jue, who stood beside her on full alert. "Brother Chen Jue, they won't cause any more trouble. I've calmed them down!"
Only then did Chen Jue nod and relax. He opened his mouth and exhaled, sending a visible white wave of air rolling out. It formed a white arrow of air that shot several meters before dissipating. At that same moment, the closed pores all over his body opened, releasing the force he had been holding in.
The next second, sweat gushed from his entire body, and waves of white vapor rapidly heated the cool mountain forest around him.
Those two explosive bursts of