Chapter 2816 — Healing Your Wounds
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It was not until the second-layer mental incantation of Wei Zhao's Xuanyuan Dragon-Taming Art began to circulate and set about repairing the wound on the beautiful girl's chest that she felt wave upon wave of warmth spread through her body, bringing her a measure of clarity.
And this time, she felt it distinctly—there were hands upon her breast! Startled, she opened her eyes and saw Wei Zhao, his own eyes shut, both hands resting on her chest...
"You... you you... what are you doing?" the girl cried out instinctively, meaning to slap him away, only to discover that not only did she have not a shred of physical true qi to sustain such a move, but she could not stir at all—as though... her acupoints had been sealed!
The girl was well versed in the arts of medicine and alchemy, and knew of the body's acupoints and the sealing thereof. She could not perform the technique herself, but she understood it well enough, and knew that certain external-school cultivators possessed such skills. Yet she had no time now to dwell on that; what occupied her mind was the question of what, exactly, Wei Zhao intended to do!
Shame and fury alike seized her. Her lovely eyes flew wide and glared fixedly at Wei Zhao, as though she wished to spit flames from them and burn him to ashes!
"Healing your wounds, of course..." Wei Zhao was likewise startled to see the girl awake, but reflecting that her acupoints were sealed by his own hand and that she had no physical true qi left in her body, he paid it little mind. His hands remained where they were, repairing the injuries within her.
"You? Healing my wounds?" The girl was taken aback. She was not the sort to act on blind impulse; furious as she was, Wei Zhao's reminder made her realize with a jolt that the injuries in her body had actually healed!
How grave her wounds had been, she knew full well. Glancing from the corner of her eye, she saw the bloodied claw of the Five Fiends Dragon still lying plainly beside her, and in an instant she understood—it must have been Wei Zhao who had drawn out the Five Fiends Dragon's claw for her!
But even if he had helped remove the Five Fiends Dragon's claw, how had he managed to heal her wounds? Could he have a third-grade Great Return Pill in his possession? Or had he discovered the two Great Return Pills she carried on her person?
Yet the girl dismissed the thought again. It was impossible that Wei Zhao carried a third-grade Great Return Pill—had he done so, he would never have begged Kang Jingming for third-grade elixirs earlier. He himself, presumably, could not yet refine one.
In truth, back in the cave, the girl had recognized Wei Zhao's identity at first sight. She knew he was Wei Zhao, and knew a thing or two about him.
What she had not expected was to encounter Wei Zhao here—and that Wei Zhao would dare set foot in the Five Fiends Mountains!
Could it be that Wei Zhao had stolen her two Great Return Pills, taken one himself, and fed the other to her? That was the only explanation she could conceive. After all, she knew well how gravely he had been wounded. Struck by the Five Fiends Dragon's technique and, like herself, hurled off the cliff by the beast, he was lucky not to have died outright in the fall—how could he possibly have healed her?
Yet even if Wei Zhao had taken her Great Return Pills and consumed them, the girl would not blame him. On the contrary, she thought him a man of loyalty and honor. Any ordinary cultivator who found Great Return Pills on her person would likely have swallowed one and then coveted the other—there was no chance he would have given her any, only left her to live or die as she might. How could anyone waste a Great Return Pill?
So the girl remained deeply grateful to Wei Zhao. Had he not fed her a Great Return Pill, she would likely have been on the road to the Yellow Springs by now.