Chapter 11: Save Me, Good Brother
A gentle breeze swept past, causing the grass to undulate in waves of vibrant green.
The lush green teemed with vitality, dotted with colorful wildflowers that stretched across the landscape like gems scattered on a green velvet blanket, a sight to gladden the heart.
Beside a large tree, Dahuang kept ramming its head against the trunk until, a moment later, a few fruits fell down. Dahuang caught them in its jaws and trotted toward a cave not far away.
Reaching the deepest part of the cave, it came up beside a still somewhat charred body. This was Xiao Yichen, who had been struck by lightning into a human jerky a month ago. By now, he had regained consciousness. He had no idea how he had managed to survive, but fortunately, his mindset was good—he didn't dwell on the impossibilities, figuring that staying alive was all that mattered.
Dahuang crunched down on the fruit in its mouth, letting the juice drip down onto his body, where it slowly seeped into his skin through the surface scars.
Feeling a surge of medicinal potency within him, Xiao Yichen slowly opened his eyes, looked at Dahuang beside him, and smiled faintly. "Thank you, Dahuang..." Right now, only his eyes and mouth could move; any slight movement of his other parts sent agonizing, heart-rending pain shooting through him.
As for the pill in his mouth, the moment he regained consciousness, Dahuang had very thoughtfully used the fruit juice to melt away the pill's sugar coating.
With the medicinal aid, his internal injuries had healed remarkably well. However, his wounds were simply too severe; once the entire pill had patched up his internal organs to a passable degree, its efficacy was completely exhausted, leaving his external injuries to heal at a slow pace of his own.
As for those fruits, they were precisely the Red Lotus Fruit that Liu Qingqing had originally asked him to pick, which possessed a certain efficacy for healing injuries. During this time, Dahuang went out every day to pluck a few to help him recover.
"At this rate, today should see the complete recovery of my internal injuries. As for the external wounds, I imagine they won't take much longer either." Xiao Yichen lay on the ground, slowly sensing every part of his body. Although the process of using lightning had been agonizing, the harvest was enormous.
At this moment, he had officially stepped through the gates of the Body Tempering Realm. Once his injuries healed, his strength would undoubtedly surge dramatically.
What thrilled him even more was that an inexplicable energy had somehow appeared within his body. It was neither spiritual energy, nor the so-called lightning force left behind in his body after being struck, but rather an unfamiliar, unknown energy.
This energy possessed a destructive power rivaling that of thunder, yet it was far more docile. Interwoven with this docility, however, was an aura of supreme magnificence. The first time he allowed this energy to radiate from him, Dahuang and the others had actually prostrated themselves and kowtowed before Xiao Yichen, as if sensing some inexplicable and overwhelming majesty.
In all the books he had read, Xiao Yichen had never once seen any precedent of a practitioner in the Body Tempering Realm manipulating energy. In other words, this was an opportunity belonging exclusively to him. He had a premonition that this energy would carry him to the pinnacle of this world.