Am I in a hospital?
In his confusion, Chi Chen opened his eyes and looked at the chandelier above his head and the various medical instruments and tubes inserted into his body. Chi Chen breathed a sigh of relief. Since he was in the hospital, it proved that he was not dead. If he was not dead, then Lin Bai and the others should be safe.
"Chi Chen, you're awake?"
Beside him, Lin Bai's surprised voice made Chi Chen's head buzz.
Chi Chen reached out and rubbed his ear with a helpless expression, but this gesture made him pause in surprise.
"These hands, how can they be so white and so tender? Like they were just grown!"
Chi Chen looked at Lin Bai with a questioning look. He wasn't dark-skinned before, but he wasn't this fair either.
To use a popular internet phrase, "My roommate has been dead for three days and he's still not as fair-skinned as you."
Upon seeing this, Lin Bai's expression became even stranger.
"Chi Chen, don't you remember anything?"
Then Lin Bai briefly described to him the terrible state of Chi Chen that day and the miraculous scene that happened to Chi Chen afterwards.
"If the captain hadn't stopped you during this time, you would have almost been dragged away by that old man to be dissected and studied!"
Lin Bai recalled the day when Chi Chen's severed limbs regenerated and a new body grew. Even now, it still felt like a dream. Perhaps it really was the power of God, just as Old Ma had said.
Thinking of this, Lin Bai's gaze toward Chi Chen became even stranger.
Everyone says there are no gods in this world, so is it possible that Chi Chen is the only god?
Otherwise, how would you explain Chi Chen's heaven-defying combat power and the miracle that happened that day?
Chi Chen was also somewhat stunned upon hearing this.
That day, Her Majesty the Queen... oops, I mean, Goddess Nuwa said that her body was not feeling well, but I never expected it to be in such a bad way.
No wonder even the goddess Nuwa had to fall into a deep sleep again after healing herself. Firstly, she didn't have much divine power yet, and secondly, repairing her body would definitely require a lot of energy.
Chi Chen came to his senses and suddenly remembered his newly acquired divine restriction. Wasn't now the perfect time to test "Divine Restriction: The Revival of All Things"?
Chi Chen released all his spiritual power, and the revival of all things was activated. A strange power slowly flowed through his body, and a tingling, itchy sensation came from all parts of his body.
"Oh, uh-uh!"
Chi Chen couldn't help but feel a strange sour sensation and made a rather odd sound.
Upon hearing this, Lin Bai gave Chi Chen another strange look.
"Cough cough!"
Chi Chen coughed awkwardly and continued to urge all things to revive.
In just a short while, Chi Chen felt that most of the injuries in his body had been quickly healed.
However, this also resulted in a significant depletion of Chi Chen's spiritual power.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!"
Chi Chen's face was slightly pale, and he was panting heavily. In just a short while, he had consumed as much mental energy as if he had fought several battles.
The healing ability to revive all things is absolutely the top-tier forbidden healing ability, but the corresponding cost is also enormous.
"If we want to resurrect people, I wonder what price we would have to pay!"
Chi Chen pondered. When he obtained the divine restriction, the information also warned him to use it with caution, which meant that the price he would have to pay would definitely not be simple.
"Chi Chen, are you alright?"
Seeing Chi Chen making strange noises one moment and panting with a pale face the next, Lin Bai immediately became nervous and reached out to press a button on the bedside table.
"I'm fine!"
Chi Chen gave Lin Bai a reassuring look, then looked down at his chest. Although his body had been reborn, the hideous wounds on his fair skin were still there.
Now Chi Chen was certain that the mysterious palace containing the monkey and Nuwa was located within the wound on his chest, or rather, within the mysterious runes.
"By the way, where are the others?"
Thinking of the instructors and other new recruits, Chi Chen asked.
"They're also in Shangjing District during the seven days you were asleep. They've been arranged to stay in one place by the Zhanmi Bureau. I was supposed to go there too, but the captain told me to stay!"
Lin Bai briefly explained the situation of the others, then continued, his expression somewhat somber:
"Chief Instructor Cheng Hu has sacrificed himself. It is said that he single-handedly fought against three enemies at the Star Radiance Realm, killing two of them. One of them is missing. The remaining eighteen instructors died in battle. They were buried together just two days ago!"
"Did Chief Instructor Cheng Hu also sacrifice his life?"
Upon hearing this, Chi Chen's expression darkened. The figure who always wore a stern face, scanned the entire room with sharp eyes, and would stop them from eating at the slightest provocation, reappeared in his memory.
"Where is he? He's awake! Let this old man see him!"
As the two remained silent, a small, thin figure, leaning on a cane, strode briskly into the ward.
Behind him followed two middle-aged doctors in white coats, looking both amused and exasperated.
"A miracle! It's truly a miracle! Not only have severed limbs regenerated, but the new flesh also possesses such vitality! Kid, how did you manage to do that? Quickly, tell me! Even I, at most, can only regenerate severed limbs, but I could never achieve such speed and perfect matching!"
Old Ma kept moving around in front of Chi Chen's hospital bed, sometimes pulling up Chi Chen's arm, sometimes pinching Chi Chen's face. If Chi Chen hadn't held the blankets down tightly, Old Ma would have lifted the blankets to take a closer look at his younger brother.
"Ahem, teacher, teacher!"
Beside the hospital bed, two middle-aged doctors gave Chi Chen an apologetic smile, though their eyes also held a strange glint in them.
Chi Chen felt a little uneasy. The last time he encountered a similar situation was in Luan Ning District, and the doctor there didn't look at him any better than this old man and woman.
Chi Chen looked at Lin Bai, who nodded, indicating that this old man was the same old man he had mentioned earlier who had acted like a shaman beside him that day.
"Kid, tell me quickly, how did you do that?"
After a while of commotion, as the black lines on Chi Chen's forehead continued to increase, Old Ma finally stopped. However, his somewhat cloudy old eyes were fixed on Chi Chen, as if he were saying, "If you don't tell me, I'll dissect you and study you."
Upon seeing this, Chi Chen felt a headache coming on. According to Lin Bai, on the way back to Shangjing District that day, it was this old man Ma who kept him alive the whole way.
Although with Nuwa's healing, Chi Chen would certainly not have died even without her care, but he still had to accept this debt of gratitude.
Therefore, Chi Chen really didn't know what to do with this old man who wanted to explore his biggest secret.
Under the intense gaze of Elder Ma, whose eyes were practically bulging into Chi Chen's face, Chi Chen remained silent for a long time before finally speaking:
"I don't know either. This body just grew out like that. Maybe I've always had an exceptional constitution since I was a child? Don't you think so, Lin Bai?"
"ah?!"
Upon hearing this, Lin Bai was stunned. "Chi Chen, is this the explanation you've been racking your brains for so long?"
And why did you kick the ball towards me?
It's not like I lost a limb and it grew back!
Exceptional physique?
What kind of extraordinary physique does he have to be able to regenerate severed limbs?
From being on the verge of death to becoming a fair-skinned, delicate young man?
"Heh, heh... Yes! Right? Chi Chen has always been incredibly healthy since he was a child. He used to break his leg while playing one day, but the next day he could be jumping around and walking like the wind!"
Lin Bai spoke, and the two of them, as expected of good brothers who grew up together, were both first-rate in their ability to speak fluently.
Upon hearing this, Old Ma and the two doctors twitched at the corners of their mouths, and several black lines immediately appeared on their foreheads.
Can you even believe what you're saying?
Just as Old Ma was pressing Chi Chen for an explanation, Zhang Rong's imposing figure appeared at the ward door.
About ten minutes later, after much persuasion from Zhang Rong, Old Ma, though still somewhat reluctant, finally left with his two students.
"team leader!"
Chi Chen and Lin Bai called out Zhang Rong at the same time.
Zhang Rong gave Chi Chen a deep look, and then said:
"Are you alright? Get up and walk around a bit? Come with me somewhere; there are some things you have a right to know!"
Upon hearing this, Chi Chen's expression froze, and he had his own guess. Indeed, he had been resurrected this time, and with the terrifying abilities displayed by the Battle Saint Intent and Battle Saint Armor, anyone who wasn't stupid could see the problem with him.
The source of that problem, of course, was the scar on his chest.
"After all these years, can we finally unveil your mysterious veil?"
Chi Chen looked down at his chest. What secrets were hidden there?
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