Lu Mingxuan and Xu Yingying, the senior and junior disciples, led Chen Shuangbai to the camp where the wounded were staying.
Chen Shuangbai glanced at the group and conservatively estimated that there were several hundred injured people, including those with minor injuries, serious injuries, and even those who had lost parts of their bodies.
A strong medicinal aroma wafted from inside, and all the Alchemist coming and going were in a hurry.
Lu Mingxuan sighed softly and said, "To be honest, Junior Brother, our Empty Sword Sect is not without its own set of losses."
Chen Shuangbai nodded and said, "War inevitably involves casualties, but there's something I'm curious about... We are all cultivators, so why are you treating the wounded like ordinary people?"
Lu Mingxuan looked slightly embarrassed.
But he didn't hide anything, and said, "Junior brother, you probably know that everyone in our sect is a sword cultivator. Our cultivation and lives depend on our swords. We are not good at other skills."
Therefore, when our disciples fight against the Heart-Eroding Demon Beast, there are usually only two possible outcomes.
"One is that the flying sword in one's hand is sharp enough and powerful enough to defeat the opponent with a single strike and take their life. The second... is that the opponent is too strong, and one ends up with a broken sword and a wounded person."
Hearing this, Chen Shuangbai roughly understood.
But just then, a group of new Alchemist arrived outside Chen Shuangbai looked over and saw that they were wearing the robes of disciples from the Jade Spring Sect's Heavenly Spring Peak.
Fan Caiwei was among them.
"Senior Sister Fan!"
Chen Shuangbai called out.
Fan Caiwei looked over upon hearing this, and seeing it was Chen Shuangbai, a smile appeared on her face. She stepped forward and said, "I was just saying I was looking for you!"
"What does Senior Sister want with me?"
Chen Shuangbai asked.
Fan Caiwei pointed to the injured people upstairs and downstairs, and explained the situation in the most concise way possible.
"Our disciples from Heavenly Spring Peak were ordered to come here to assist the Alchemist of the Empty Sword Sect in treating these wounded individuals. However, there are too many of them. Many of the wounded are suffering from a special toxin that needs to be removed with incantations or external force before they can take the medicine."
"I thought to myself, this is the time for you to step in."
After studying under a master at Heavenly Spring Peak for more than half a year, Chen Shuangbai was eager to show his talent, and so... among his peers, very few could surpass him in alchemy skills.
Not only his alchemy skills, but also his mastery of the " Water and Wood Pure Splendor Incantation," a powerful and highly effective technique for enhancing and strengthening elixirs, is so famous that many disciples would even come to Chen Shuangbai to ask him to perform a spell on them before attempting to refine elixirs.
Regardless of whether it's the right treatment or not, let's just have one go and see.
Chen Shuangbai knew that she wasn't joking, but genuinely needed him to heal the injuries of these fellow clan members.
Lu Mingxuan, who had overheard the conversation, asked, " Junior Brother Chen... you're also an Alchemist?"
Fan Caiwei then noticed that there were two fellow practitioners from the Empty Sword Sect standing next to Chen Shuangbai, so Chen Shuangbai introduced them to each other.
Fan Caiwei raised an eyebrow slightly and smiled, "So it's Senior Brother Lu of the [ Horizontal Mountain Sword ]!"
"I've long admired your name."
" Horizontal Mountain Sword?"
Chen Shuangbai looked at Lu Mingxuan thoughtfully. He remembered that Lu Mingxuan hadn't mentioned this name during their last meeting.
Lu Mingxuan touched his nose and smiled somewhat embarrassedly, "It was just a joke between fellow disciples, I don't deserve such praise from Senior Sister Fan."
After some investigation, Chen Shuangbai learned that the current generation of the Empty Sword Sect has produced five outstanding Dao Seed with exceptional abilities and temperaments, who are revered within the sect as the [ Five Edges of the Empty Sword Sect ].
Lu Mingxuan was one of them. Because his Swordsmanship was wide and sweeping, like a mountain that stretches across the earth, heavy and steady, combining offense and defense, he was known as " Horizontal Mountain Sword ".
The other four are also among the best of this generation of disciples.
"I'm sorry to have made you laugh, Junior Brother Chen."
Lu Mingxuan waved his hand, then said seriously, "What Senior Sister Fan just said, is it that she wants Junior Brother Chen to remove the poison inflicted by the Heart-Eroding Demon Beast that is entrenched in the bodies of our injured fellow disciples?"
"Exactly!"
The group approached one of the injured men and saw him lying on a wooden bed, a hint of pain on his face, and layers of cold sweat on his forehead.
As if hearing someone approaching, the other person opened their eyes, and after seeing who it was, weakly called out "Senior Brother/Sister".
Lu Mingxuan looked at the man, both anxious and angry. Xu Yingying, who was beside him, couldn't help but comfort him for a few moments. Then she bent down, took the man's pulse, and stood up, saying to Lu Mingxuan, "It is indeed that Bone-Eroding Miasma."
This man's name is Li Mingye, and he is Lu Mingxuan's cousin.
He also came from a cultivation Lineage under the Empty Sword Sect, and many members of his family had joined the Empty Sword Sect.
This person is both my cousin and my junior fellow student.
He should have listened to Lu Mingxuan's discipline, but he was a mischievous monkey. Despite his insufficient cultivation, he insisted on going to the battlefield, and thus was infected by the Heart-Eroding Demon Beast's poison.
Although Lu Mingxuan was angry, he looked around and saw that most of his fellow disciples had similar symptoms, so he softened his heart and honestly explained the origin of the poison.
" Junior Brother Chen, ever since the Heart-Eroding Hundred Poisons Lineage got involved, the number of injuries in our sect has increased rapidly. Among them is a poison called Bone-Eroding Miasma, which is quite troublesome and has made our sect's Alchemist somewhat hesitant."
Fan Caiwei added, " The Bone-Eroding Miasma is considered the signature poison among the Hundred Poisons Lineage of the Heart-Eroding lineage. It's not difficult to find a cure; my Jade Spring Sect has already developed a corresponding antidote. The difficulty lies in the fact that these toxins have now become too deeply entrenched."
"Before administering the appropriate detoxifying medicine, there must be a way to first remove some of the toxins from their bodies and slightly activate some of their body's instincts to fight against external forces."
Fan Caiwei is not good at fighting; she came here precisely for these matters.
Chen Shuangbai understood.
"I understand."
then.
Chen Shuangbai walked to the center of the small building, while Fan Caiwei asked the Alchemist to stop for a moment, saying loudly, "Please stop for a moment."
The Alchemist of the Empty Sword Sect all turned their attention to this, wondering what this female Alchemist from the Jade Spring Sect was up to.
But the disciples of the Jade Spring Sect Heavenly Spring Peak seemed to have guessed as much, and immediately turned their gazes to Chen Shuangbai, laughing, " Junior Brother Chen, are you about to display your divine power again?"
Chen Shuangbai chuckled and replied, "Senior brother, what are you saying? I'm just doing my duty."
Fan Caiwei continued, " The Bone-Eroding Miasma has been lingering on the bodies of our fellow disciples for far too long. My junior brother needs to use magic to remove a portion of it first, before they can take the appropriate antidote."
Upon hearing this, the Alchemist of the Empty Sword Sect's eyes lit up, and they all looked at Chen Shuangbai.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Chen Shuangbai flipped her left hand, and a green gourd emitting a clear, luminous light appeared in her palm.