The chief medical practitioner of the Ice and Snow Pavilion lives in a single-family stone castle deep in the inner city of Wind and Snow Pass.
The outer wall of the stone castle is covered with some kind of cold-resistant dark green vines. The leaves are motionless in the cold wind, and the surface is covered with a very thin layer of ice film.
Luo Ling led Qin Tiexin through two inspection posts. The guard at the door stepped aside after seeing the token presented by Luo Ling.
Entering the door is a spacious consulting room with warm yellow fluorite inlaid on the walls and soft light.
The cabinets against the wall were filled with large and small elixir bottles and medicine jars, and there was a faint smell of herbs in the air. A female revisionist was organizing the medicine cabinets with her back to the door, and turned around when she heard footsteps.
She was wearing a plain gray-blue robe, and her hair was tied back casually with a wooden hairpin. She had a thin face, some fine lines at the corners of her eyes, but her eyes were sharp.
Her cultivation level is only Foundation Establishment Late Stage, but there is a calm concentration all over her body, which is the temperament of someone who has been immersed in medicine for many years.
"Elder Luo." The female medical cultivator nodded towards Luo Ling, then her eyes fell on Qin Tiexin's empty right sleeve, "Is that him?"
"Yes, please Physician Xu."
"Sit." Physician Xu stretched out his hand towards the stone bed against the wall.
Qin Tiexin walked over and sat down. A thin layer of soft straw mat was spread on the surface of the stone bed.
Physician Xu walked up to him and took a look at the sealing talisman affixed to the fracture on his right shoulder. Chen Xi Spirit Rune The talisman paper Spirit Rune affixed was still in operation.
"The sealing technique is very sophisticated." Physician Xu lightly tapped the talisman paper with his fingertips and felt the flow of breath inside the seal. "The person who applied the talisman has a very deep foundation and maintained the maximum activity of the break."
She carefully lifted up a corner of the sealing talisman with a very light movement. The moment the talisman paper left the skin, a very subtle knife whistling sound came from the break. It was the sound made when some kind of power remaining in the wound came into contact with the air after the seal was opened.
Physician Xu frowned. She completely removed the sealing talisman and put it aside. She took out a palm-sized bronze mirror from the medicine cabinet next to her and attached it to the fracture of Qin Tiexin's right shoulder.
The back of the bronze mirror is engraved with fine Spirit Rune, and a layer of light green light emerges from the mirror surface, clearly reflecting the meridians, bones, and muscle textures at the fracture.
She looked at the image in the mirror and was silent for a while.
"Physician Xu, what's wrong?" Luo Ling asked standing nearby.
Physician Xu did not answer immediately. She changed the angle of the bronze mirror and gently pressed several acupuncture points with her fingers on the edge of the fracture, observing Qin Tiexin's reaction every time she pressed them.
When the blood flows to the fracture, there will be a stabbing pain like a knife. Qin Tiexin made no sound, but the muscles in his shoulders will tighten unconsciously.
Physician Xu noticed that she could feel the instant stiffness of her muscles when she pressed her hand.
"Does it hurt?"
"It hurts."
"What kind of pain?"
"It's like a knife is cutting constantly." Qin Tiexin thought for a while, "It cuts once every time the heart beats."
Physician Xu nodded and picked up the jade box containing Qin Tiexin's severed arm from the ground.
Opening the lid of the box, inside is Qin Tiexin's right arm that was broken at the shoulder level. The flesh and blood at the fracture was well sealed by the sealing talisman, and there are still a few old scars left on the surface of the arm from the Iron Spine Sect's secret realm.
She used a bronze mirror to look at the cross-sections of the broken arm and shoulder, and then inserted a silver needle as thin as a hair into the two fractures to observe the Spirit Rune reaction on the silver needle.
Then she put down the bronze mirror, took out a clean cloth and wiped her hands.
"Can't connect."
Luo Ling's eyebrows were raised. "Can't connect... what do you mean?"
"His shoulder was chopped off by a Law Treasure with [Extreme Sharpness] on it." Physician Xu turned the bronze mirror over and let Luo Ling look at the image on the mirror.
Qin Tiexin After magnifying the cross-section of the meridians at the broken shoulder, you can see extremely small gray-white debris attached to the end of each meridian. Those debris glow with a faint metallic luster in the mirror, like countless micro blades invisible to the naked eye, which are cut off by them every time blood flows through it.
"This is not an ordinary knife wound. [Extreme Sharpness] is the power that has touched the prototype of Principle. These Sharpness fragments remaining at the ends of the meridians will continue to destroy the new tissue. Any granulation will be chopped as soon as it grows, and any nerve will be cut off as soon as it is connected. The sealing talisman only locks the injury to prevent it from worsening, but it cannot remove these Principle residues."
Physician Xu put down the bronze mirror and glanced back and forth between Qin Tiexin's shoulder and broken arm. "If this is just the problem, we can still find a solution. But there is a second question. At what level of cultivation was your arm cut off?"
"Body Refining Stage."
"What now?"
"Qi and Blood Realm."
Physician Xu nodded, as if he had already guessed the answer, "Body Refining Stage's physical strength is more than one level behind the Qi and Blood Realm. The energy density in your blood now far exceeds that of Body Refining Stage. Even if this broken arm is intact, Even if you connect it back to the ground, it won't be able to withstand the operation of your current Qi and Blood. The meridians, bones, and muscles of the arm are still at the strength of Body Refining Stage. Forcibly connecting it will only make it overwhelmed by your Qi and Blood, and it will explode from the inside within less than half a stick of incense."
Luo Ling was silent for a moment. "Physician Xu, is there nothing we can do?"
Physician Xu took a yellowed medical book from the medicine cabinet, turned to one of the pages, and pointed his finger on the page. There was a pill glowing green and green on it.
"Yes. The first way, [Withering and Flourishing Regeneration Pill], is a fifth-grade elixir. After taking it, the amputated limb can grow back from the fracture. The new arm will naturally match the user's current physical strength. But this elixir is extremely precious. You should know the value of the fifth-grade elixir. It requires at least Nascent Soul level refining Alchemist, and the refining difficulty of [Withering and Flourishing Regeneration Pill] is also top-notch among the same-grade elixirs. In the entire Azure Xuan Region, there is no Alchemist that can refine fifth-grade elixirs. This elixir only survives in some top sects. In terms of output, only the top alchemy sects of Central Heaven Great Region have this ability."
"What about the second one?"
"The second way." Physician Xu put away the medical book and looked at Luo Ling and Qin Tiexin, "Find a medical practitioner with medical knowledge above Third Realm. Third Realm medical practitioner can use Secret Method removes the Principle residue at the shoulder fracture, and at the same time adjusts the strength of the severed arm to a level that matches your current body, and then uses a one-time secret technique to reattach the arm. The advantage of this method is that you retain your own arm, but the disadvantage is that it is troublesome, time-consuming, and requires extremely high medical repairs."
"Third Realm medical practitioner?" Luo Ling asked, "Which senior is Azure Xuan Region?"
Physician Xu shook his head. "Azure Xuan Region is the highest level of medical cultivation, including me. Those who can break through to the Third Realm are either in Central Heaven Great Region or Heavenly South Domain."
Heavenly South Domain!
As soon as these three words came out, the expression of Qin Tiexin sitting next to him suddenly changed, as if he was stunned by something suddenly hitting him.
Luo Ling was frowning in thought and didn't notice his reaction. She muttered, "Central Heaven Great Region...Central Heaven Great Region, you can go to Shangzong to find a master..." She paused and seemed to think of something.
At this moment, Qin Tiexin suddenly stood up, and the stone bed shook slightly as he stood up.
He turned to Luo Ling, clenching his left fist tightly, and the burning Fire of Life in his chest beat several beats faster than usual.
"Master."
Luo Ling raised his head and was stunned for a moment when he saw the expression on his face.
She had never seen Qin Tiexin look like this. His usually silent and almost dull face now carried a rare eagerness to finally find an exit after being suppressed for too long.
"I want to go to Heavenly South Domain."