Xing Yang and Xing Mu also hid the trace of desolation in their eyes, their gazes growing bright and spirited. After all, new days would always arrive as promised. As long as hope remained, they would earnestly plan for what lay ahead.
At the very instant the New Year fireworks bloomed, Mu Bai's ravaged body finally began to change.
Mu Bai was utterly unconscious, his entire body in an open state. In particular, his body was so badly shattered that the Five Elements essence within his bones and flesh had long since poured out into the world, while the Five Elements outside continuously seeped into his bones and flesh. It was just as when Mu Bai had comprehended how the wood and earth essences connected with the outside world at the foot of Tianmu Mountain.
The Five Elements figure within his Divine Sea was steadily refined, sending Five Elements essence into the bones and flesh throughout Mu Bai's body. Washed and nourished by the settling essence, then nurtured by the Five Elements outside, his bones and flesh gradually sprouted new tissue, healing and growing together.
"Ah..."
Mu Bai suddenly cried out and reached to claw at the wound in his abdomen. Xing Mu's eyes were sharp and his hands swift. He stopped him at once and bound his hands together with black-gold chains.
The growth of new bone and flesh caused an unbearable itching deep within, and it was precisely this that brought Mu Bai a measure of awareness.
"Ah... it itches..."
Within Mu Bai's abdomen, his shattered organs had already regrown into rudimentary forms. His liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys had been reconstructed from wood, fire, earth, metal, and water respectively. Only then did Mu Bai show signs of life again, and only then did he become aware