Qin Tiexin's consciousness is floating in an endless pink deep sea.
He no longer knows how long he has been here.
Time lost its measure in this sea of consciousness. There was no sunrise or moonset, no change in voice, only the everlasting pink color and the "True Fire Furnace Scripture" that he recited over and over again.
Every time he read it, his understanding of the book Cultivation Method deepened. The words seemed to come alive during repeated readings, spreading layer by layer deep in his consciousness.
But the severe pain coming from his consciousness also interrupted his reading time and time again.
Sometimes there is a tearing burning pain in the back, as if a piece of flesh has been peeled off by something;
Sometimes the chest is cut open by a cold force, and the coldness penetrates along the wound into the bone marrow, and even the conscious mind can feel the stinging pain of being forcibly torn apart;
At the most severe time, the entire right arm seemed to have suddenly disappeared, and all connections with the arm were suddenly lost, as if it had never existed.
After a moment, a white light exploded in his head.
At that moment Qin Tiexin didn't even feel any pain, only an unprecedented emptiness. It was as if something had penetrated the temples, and consciousness leaked out from those two holes, like a punctured water bladder.
He could feel that his thoughts were becoming blurred, the pink color in the sea of consciousness began to rotate, and the rhythm of recitation that he could originally maintain was completely disrupted.
I am not dead, am I?
At this moment, something suddenly appeared in the pink sea of consciousness.
A small wooden figure the size of a palm, roughly carved, with wrong limbs and torso proportions, as if it had been carved carelessly by an unskilled carpenter.
But its body was engraved with dense runes, and the light of the runes Penetration broke through the pink mist, making it particularly clear in the sea of consciousness.
Little Death-Substitution Puppet, Senior Brother Chen Xi gave it to him.
Qin Tiexin Before he had time to think too much, the runes on the little puppet's body lit up at the same time. A gentle suction force surged out from the runes on the puppet's chest, pulling his consciousness completely out of the pink sea of consciousness and sucking it into the puppet's body.
The fragments of thought that were flowing out were also pulled back one by one by the suction force, and were reassembled around the core of his consciousness. Then the runes on the little puppet began to rotate slowly, sealing his consciousness in the small space formed by the runes, isolating all interference from the outside world.
The pink deep sea disappeared, and Qin Tiexin's consciousness sank into the warm and quiet darkness inside the little puppet, as if it had been put into a tailor-made protective shell.
"Xi'er! Come and see! Tiexin What's going on?!"
"Master, don't worry, junior brother, he is fine."
"What do you mean it's okay? My right arm is gone and my head was shot through. How can I say it's okay?!"
"It's okay. Master, wait a moment and let me come."
Chen Xi walked forward, squatted down and took a look at Qin Tiexin's body.
The right arm was broken at shoulder level, the fracture was smooth, and the bones and tendons were clearly visible in cross-section.
There is a hole as big as a fist on the right temple, and inside you can see the damaged skull and brain tissue that has stopped beating.
There were numerous large and small wounds all over his body, he lost too much blood and Golden Core penetrated his brain. Normally, ten Body Refining Realm monks would be dead.
But Chen Xi could sense that there was still an extremely weak energy flowing in his body, which was the essence of the blood pool refined into his blood by "True Fire Furnace Scripture". Although most of it had been consumed, the remaining energy was still barely maintaining the bottom line of life.
More importantly, the connection between him and the Little Death-Substitution Puppet he gave to his junior brother is still there, which shows that the consciousness of Qin Tiexin has not dissipated.
Chen Xi glanced at the five-foot-long severed arm next to Qin Tiexin. It was dry, grey-brown, and the skin was close to the bones. It looked like a burnt dead branch. There was an extremely strong current on the severed arm. Its thin, almost imperceptible aura does not resemble spiritual power, nor does it resemble Qi and Blood, but more like the residue of an extremely Elder Gu power that he felt somewhere a long time ago.
It's a bit familiar, but I can't remember where I've seen it.
He didn't think too much about it, he wanted to rescue his junior brother first.
Chen Xi stood up and glanced across the entire cave. There were a lot of dark red blood stains scattered on the ground. Some of it was sprayed out when Qin Tiexin's right arm was cut off, some flowed out when his chest was cut open by a knife, and some of his skin was peeled off his back. The flesh was spilled, and some were spattered when the temple was penetrated by Golden Core. Each pool of blood contained the blood pool energy that had not been completely consumed in Qin Tiexin's body, and had a faint golden sheen under the cold light of fluorite.
This blood is his own, and the energy in it is absorbed by himself. It is the most suitable for Repair his body.
"Save the herbs." Chen Xi said to himself.
He took out a set of formation flags from the storage ring and set up a small formation around the location where Qin Tiexin fell.
The formation flag activated itself after being inserted into the rock. The formation pattern spread from the bottom of the flagpole toward the center of the formation, intertwining into a six-foot-diameter circular formation base under Qin Tiexin's body. Then he raised his right hand, and the blood stains on the ground seemed to be pulled by an invisible force, peeled off from the cracks in the gravel, and gathered into a blood ball in mid-air.
Even the severed arm that was chopped off was photographed by him from a distance.
He put the broken arm into the blood pool in the center of the formation base, and took out a few auxiliary medicinal materials from Storage Bag to stabilize the "True Fire Furnace Scripture" Cultivation Method cycle in Qin Tiexin's body that was still running out of control.
This guy forcibly ran some kind of energy-absorbing Cultivation Method before he passed out. Now, even though the person has passed out, the Cultivation Method is still running on its own. If it is not stabilized first, the energy poured into it will go out of control again.
After doing this, Chen Xi sat down cross-legged on the edge of the formation base, pressing his right palm on the formation eye.
The array pattern lit up, and the Essence Blood in the blood pool began to rotate clockwise with the array base as the center. The rotation speed became faster and faster, forming a small bloody vortex. The bottom of the vortex was connected to every wound on Qin Tiexin's body. Essence Blood was poured into the body from the wound along the guidance of the array pattern, and began to Repair those damaged tissues.
The first things to heal are the small wounds.
Qin Tiexin had dozens of cuts made by scimitars all over his body. The longest one was half a foot long and only half an inch deep. All healed within a few breaths after Essence Blood was injected. The new skin rolled outward from the edge of the wound, covering the exposed muscles, and then quickly hardened and toughened, returning to normal skin color.
Next was the deepest knife mark on the chest, which was cut from the clavicle to the lower edge of the ribs. Under the perfusion of Essence Blood, it began to heal from the inside out. The broken sternum was rejoined, the hematopoietic tissue in the medullary cavity was restored to activity, the cut pectoralis major muscle fibers were reconnected one by one, and the skin was closed from both sides of the wound to the middle.
Finally, there is the fist-sized hole in his head.
Essence Blood poured into the skull along the carotid artery and accurately wrapped the damaged brain tissue and shattered skull under the guidance of the formation. The brain tissue minced by Golden Core began to grow again under the stimulation of Essence Blood. New brain cells spread from the edge of the wound to the center, rebuilding the complete brain tissue structure at an extremely fast speed. The broken skull fragments were glued together by the new bone tissue, and the gaps were filled. Finally, the scalp gathered from the edge of the hole toward the center, covering the entire skull again.
The whole process lasted about one stick of incense.
When the last drop of Essence Blood was absorbed, all the wounds on Qin Tiexin's body were healed except for the fracture on his right arm. His breathing began to return to evenness, his chest rose and fell regularly, and the sound of his heart beat was steady and powerful.
But the right arm could never be connected.
Chen Xi tried three times.
For the first time, I aligned the bones of the broken arm with the shoulder joint and injected Essence Blood in an attempt to make the bones heal on their own. However, it failed. The bones at both ends of the fracture touched together and automatically bounced apart.
The second time, he used his spiritual power to place a healing pattern on the fracture to suppress the repulsive force. However, he failed, and the repulsive force directly shattered the healing pattern.
The third time, he called up all the remaining Essence Blood in the blood pool and poured it into Qin Tiexin's body and severed arm at the same time. He tried to use the most primitive Essence Blood resonance to connect, but failed. The repulsive force not only did not weaken, but became more obvious.
Chen Xi frowned. Between Qin Tiexin's body and the right arm, there was a barrier that he couldn't Penetration. This was no longer a problem that his current methods could solve.
He took out two sealing talismans from the anklet, and attached one to the fracture on Qin Tiexin's right shoulder. The Spirit Rune of the sealing talisman spread from the talisman paper to the surface of the skin, forming a circle of pale golden sealing lines, temporarily locking the passage of Essence Blood at the fracture.
A strip was attached to the broken arm of Qin Tiexin to seal it up and prevent it from losing activity until subsequent treatment.
"I'm sorry, Master, I can't do anything with my arm."
Luo Ling was silent for a moment, and her eyes moved from Qin Tiexin's empty right shoulder to the hole on his face, which had healed, leaving only a circle of new skin that was slightly lighter than the surrounding skin. Finally, it fell on his steadily rising and falling chest. She took a deep breath and slowly exhaled it. The anxiety in her tone that had been suppressed all along was finally relieved.
"It's good to be alive. When will Tiexin wake up?"
"Right away."
Chen Xi took out another wooden puppet from the anklet of his right foot. It was exactly the same as the one he gave to Qin Tiexin in the Flowing Cloud Sect fang City. It had a big palm, rough carvings, and was covered with fine runes.
The difference is that the runes on the chest of this puppet are emitting an extremely weak dark golden light. Through the texture of the wood, a shadow can be seen slowly flashing inside. A human figure can be vaguely seen in the outline of the shadow, huddled quietly in the rune space at the core of the puppet.
Chen Xi placed the puppet on the skin of Qin Tiexin's chest, and pinched a simple Method Formula with his right hand. The runes on the puppet lit up and then went out, and finally all the light converged on the huddled shadow at the core of the puppet.
Then the puppet cracked and shattered into a pile of tiny sawdust.
The rune light in the sawdust separated from the fragments and floated into the air, circled around Qin Tiexin's head, and then penetrated through his eyebrows.
After two breaths, Qin Tiexin's eyelids moved.
His eyes slowly opened, and the dark golden rune in his pupils had disappeared, returning to normal dark brown.
His eyes wandered for a few breaths, and then began to focus, slowly scanning the surroundings, including the holes that had been punched through the cave dome, the broken rocks and dried dark red blood stains on the ground, the Edgeless stuck crookedly in the gravel next to him, and the dried formation marks underneath him.
Then his eyes fell on the two faces in front of him.
Luo Ling squatted beside him, with one hand still on his shoulder. The red robe was covered with dust and gravel powder. His eyes were a little red, but his face was tense and his lips were pressed into a line.
Chen Xi sat on the other side of him, wearing a dusty robe and a plain face. He was still holding the Method Formula finishing gesture in his hand, with a faint smile hanging on the corner of his mouth.
Qin Tiexin's gaze rested on the faces of the two men for a moment. He opened his mouth, and his voice was so hoarse that it almost didn't sound like his own. Every word needed to be squeezed out from the depths of his throat, but he still tried his best to say the four words as completely as possible.
"Master, senior brother."