Duosheng Danyuan

"this......"

Completely unexpected joy. The moment Elder Huaizhen heard Su Wanqing's words, his eyes lit up. However, his reserve as an elder and a teacher of the Refining Heart Hall made him hesitate subconsciously.

It was this moment of hesitation that caused him to completely lose the only chance in his life to obtain Su Wanqing's essence blood.

"Su Wanqing, do you know what you're saying?!" Lin Xu, who was standing to the side, lost control of his voice in his excitement. He grabbed Su Wanqing's arm and shook it violently, saying anxiously, "How can you just give something like this to someone else? Especially something like this..."

Lin Xu didn't finish his sentence, but gave Elder Huaizhen a meaningful look.

"Hehe, this is not something I asked for." A line of drool dripped from the corner of his mouth, but Elder Huaizhen remained expressionless and shrugged indifferently.

"I know," Su Wanqing replied to Elder Huaizhen, and at the same time, to Lin Xu.

"Su Wanqing, your essence and blood are very important. You should think carefully about this." After a moment of contemplation, I reminded her.

"Yes, I know." Su Wanqing repeated her words, glanced at me, then looked back at Elder Huaizhen, her lips twitching slightly as she forced a smile and asked, "How is it?"

"Hmph... Of course I'd gladly accept, but you'd better assure those old fogies in the Xuan Palace that you're doing this voluntarily."

"You don't need to worry about that."

"Su Wanqing..." Lin Xu's hand was still gripping Su Wanqing's arm with worry. Clearly, he did not trust Elder Huaizhen, who was eloquent, discriminatory, and arrogant at first but obsequious later.

"It's alright, Brother Lin, he wouldn't dare lie to me." Su Wanqing reassured Lin Xu with her usual cheerful smile.

"Then we can almost..."

"Need not."

Before Elder Huaizhen could finish speaking, Zeng Yixi, lying in a pool of blood, suddenly spoke in a hoarse voice.

"Yi happy!" It was Tang Anran again, excitedly calling out Zeng Yi Xi's name, almost wanting to rush to Zeng Yi Xi's side the next second.

"Stop! You stay there and don't come any closer," Elder Huaizhen said coldly, snapping his fingers. Instantly, an invisible, heavy pressure rendered Tang Anran completely immobile.

"Zeng Yixi, your wound is quite deep, you definitely need Elder Huaizhen's help." Su Wanqing said with concern, her eyes slightly moving.

"I know, but... cough! cough cough... it's okay, trust me, this wound isn't as serious as it looks. I can handle it, it'll heal in a bit, I can handle it..."

"This is already a fatal wound, Zeng Yixi. You can't keep playing with your life like this..."

"What Zeng Yixi said in the late Qing Dynasty is actually correct." Elder Huaizhen squinted, jumped off the chair, nodded slightly to Zeng Yixi, and then said, "I admit that being able to generate pills under such extreme conditions just now makes you worthy of being called the most resilient disciple of the Pill Generation Academy in the past ten years. Perhaps you are also the one who has studied the 'Secret Method of Pill Generation with the Heaven and Earth' the most and is most compatible with it."

"hehe......"

"You're right, this injury isn't serious. Although it would be a fatal wound for a mortal, for us cultivators, it's just a minor incident in our cultivation journey. The chronic wounds in the heart, lungs, and chest cavity, from the inside out, can be healed quickly even if you're only at the Foundation Establishment stage and know some physical and healing techniques."

"Hmph..." Zeng Yixi remained noncommittal to Elder Huaizhen's words. She simply clutched her chest in pain and tried her best to keep herself from falling.

"However, what I just said is based on the premise that you have already mastered the basic healing techniques. You haven't mastered the methods of healing injuries yet, have you? That will make treating your current wounds much more complicated. Self-healing from the inside out and treatment from the outside in cannot be generalized."

"Is that so..."

"Of course," Elder Huaizhen said confidently.

His confidence stemmed entirely from his grasp of information asymmetry. These ten disciples, who had only just entered the sect two days ago, hadn't even had time to study any medical texts, let alone learn any healing techniques. Even Su Wanqing, who had been personally taken to the Xuan Hall by the Supreme Elders and the Sect Leader for training, could only see that Zeng Yixi's injuries were severe, and couldn't think of any way to cure them.

Therefore, if Zeng Yixi wanted to live, she had to ask him for help. And Su Wanqing's willingness to offer her life essence for Zeng Yixi was an unexpected surprise from Elder Huaizhen.

Healing techniques that work from the outside in don't necessarily require the recipient's vital essence, but Zeng Yixi's wounds involve her heart and lungs, so Huaizhen's suggestion to use her vital essence isn't really a problem. However, the quantity doesn't need to be as many as ten drops. About half a drop as a medicinal guide is sufficient.

Elder Huaizhen's demand for ten drops was clearly an outrageous extortion. His original plan was to have Zeng Yixi beg him, thereby using this as leverage to demand twenty or even thirty drops of her life essence.

However, since Su Wanqing was willing to give him her life essence, Zeng Yixi's life essence was completely unimportant.

The life essence of the Heaven and Earth Pure Spirit Root... even a drop, no, even just half a drop, would be enough for Elder Huaizhen to savor for a long time.

The reason Elder Huaizhen spoke at such a long time and no longer mentioned the rule that each person could only ask one question was simply because he felt guilty. He desperately wanted to obtain Su Wanqing's life essence blood, which is why he spoke so eloquently and incessantly about the healing techniques and even Zeng Yixi's wounds.

Unfortunately, he still missed it.

"Thank you, Elder Huaizhen." Zeng Yixi said to Elder Huaizhen with a smile, her face covered in blood.

"Don't thank me. If you want to thank someone, you should thank Su Wanqing. After all, she paid the price you were unwilling to pay. You should be grateful from now on."

With green light swirling around his right hand, Elder Huaizhen was grinning from ear to ear.

"Of course I'm grateful to Su Wanqing, but right now, I'm even more grateful to you."

"What do you mean?" Elder Huaizhen's expression stiffened slightly as he realized that something seemed amiss.

"Originally, I was only 50% confident, but since you said that, my confidence has increased to 90%. Hmph... Why do you think I have no access to healing-related methods?"

"The Refining Heart Hall only begins teaching healing techniques to those who reach the peak of Foundation Establishment. For cultivators below the Golden Core stage, there are almost no other channels for learning cultivation methods besides studying at the Refining Heart Hall."

"Almost non-existent, yet it does exist." With a grin, Zeng Yixi finally straightened her bent back and took a deep breath.

"You mean Mingling Residence? Hehe, the targets in the secluded cultivation room are all calculated based on the data provided by the 'Heart Refining Pool'. As long as the Heart Refining Hall doesn't grant you access to healing techniques, you won't be able to cultivate any healing methods in Mingling Residence."

"Oh, I see."

"What... wait!" As a glint of green light flashed in Zeng Yixi's eyes, Elder Huaizhen realized that the little girl in front of him was not bluffing at all.

He walked straight up to Zeng Yixi, grabbed her right wrist with one hand, and with the other hand lifted Zeng Yixi's robe, revealing her white inner lining stained with blood.

Immediately afterwards, Elder Huaizhen gently lifted the lining with his hand and discovered that the previously blurred flesh beneath the clothes was actually beginning to heal in an organized manner. Although the flesh was still torn and bleeding from the spiritual power, the deepest blood vessels had indeed begun to heal, and the continuous flow of blood was gradually decreasing. Zeng Yixi had actually used a method she had learned from somewhere to perform the simplest hemostasis treatment on her wounds.

"Where...did you learn it?"

"Anyway, it's not in the Refining Heart Hall." With a laugh, Zeng Yixi staggered back a step.

She removed her outer robe and inner shirt, leaving only the sports vest that a young girl usually wore. Then, Zeng Yixi gently ran her fingers along the robe and shirt, cutting off the parts that were not yet stained with blood and making strips of cloth for bandaging. Then, in full view of everyone, she began to bandage the wound.

"Damn it, how did she learn healing techniques?" Looking at Zeng Yixi, who was truly beginning to regain her vitality, Elder Huaizhen felt a surge of anger. "She's only been an inner disciple for three days. They shouldn't have had any chance to come into contact with immortal techniques when they were in the outer sect, right? The Ancient Pill Scripture Pavilion is a place only those at the Core Formation stage can enter. They couldn't possibly... Wait, the Ancient Pill Scripture Pavilion? Could it be that guy Jianshan...?"

His face was alternating between black and red; Elder Huaizhen's expression at this moment was absolutely terrible.

"Zeng Yixi, are you really alright?" Su Wanqing looked at Zeng Yixi, who had already started bandaging her wound for the second time, pursed her lips, and said with some concern, "This kind of wound caused by cultivation is not the same as what we know..."

"Internal injuries are one thing, but external injuries are another, right?" Zeng Yixi coughed twice as she tightened the second bandage, then gave Su Wanqing a forced but determined smile. "I just want the external injuries to heal quickly. As for internal injuries, I have some tricks up my sleeve."

"Really..." Although Su Wanqing was worried, she didn't say anything more after hearing Zeng Yixi's words and sat back down in her chair.

"Elder Huaizhen, I guess I've successfully produced the elixir? Based on Chen Yu's experience yesterday, I should go back to my seat, and then you should begin today's lesson, right?"

"...Zeng Yixi, right? I'll remember you."

"Thank you for remembering me, Elder Huaizhen. If there's nothing else, I'll go back to my seat." Looking directly into Elder Huaizhen's gloomy eyes, Zeng Yixi walked calmly and unsteadily toward her seat.

He gave me a meaningful look.