Chapter 47: Holy Spring of Life, This is My Guest
Seeing that she was in so much pain, Shen Jiang knew that she had reached the limit of her endurance. At this moment, she did not care about offending anyone and first checked Elizabeth's condition.
Fortunately, Elizabeth only has shingles on her waist and has not spread to other parts of her body.
"Don't worry, I will definitely cure you."
Elizabeth was in so much pain that her face turned pale and she even had hallucinations. She felt as if someone was licking her lower back mercilessly with a red-hot iron plate, and then someone was tearing her lower back apart, and then slowly grinding her wound with a rusty blunt knife. The pain was so severe that her soul could not help but tremble.
As long as the black-haired woman in front of her could restore her to normal and no longer be tortured by this terrible pain, the Holy Spring of Life would be meaningless to her and dispensable, so it would be fine to give it to her.
"This is your only chance to obtain the Holy Spring." Elizabeth panted, but she didn't lose her mind. She immediately agreed to the deal with this woman who looked like a black witch. "As you said, before Kailan obtains the Holy Spring, you must dispel the evil disease in my body!"
At the end of her words, her tone was filled with heartbreaking pleading.
She would give anything for someone who could make her pain go away now, because she couldn't wait any longer.
Not even a minute or a second more will do.
In fact, even if there was no holy spring, Shen Jiang would still cure the other person.
Her treatment of the other person was not entirely out of selfish motives.
When a great doctor treats a patient, he must calm his mind and resolve, be free from desires and demands, and first develop a heart of great compassion and sympathy, vowing to save all sentient beings from suffering.
This is a passage she memorized when she was in college, and it is also a passage she has always kept in mind since she became a doctor.
But at the same time, only if she cured Elizabeth's illness would she no longer need the holy spring, and her grandmother would have a glimmer of hope.
Every second of delay would only bring more pain to the haggard woman. Shen Jiang had no time to explain and simply helped the sweating princess to a chair nearby to rest. "Wait here for me, I'll be back soon."
After saying this, her figure quickly ran away like a light swallow.
Shen Jiang had just walked around the woods outside the valley a few times. She had a good memory and was very familiar with the terrain there after just a few trips. Therefore, when she was looking for the medicinal herbs she needed, she was very familiar with it.
She remembered clearly in her mind which area contained which medicinal herbs, so she also remembered where the spider web had formed.
Yes, Shen Jiang plans to use ancient remedies to treat Elizabeth.
She had seen records of this disease in an ancient medical book. As early as in ancient times, the ancients used their wisdom to deal with such a serious disease.
The tiny blisters on Elizabeth's waist are called "snake around the waist" by the Chinese people. The main symptom is pain. Judging from her symptoms, she has developed the most severe neuralgia.
This disease is extremely painful, but easy to treat.
Shen Jiang found the first spider web and carefully peeled off the intact and clean part in the middle. The sticky spider silk was entangled in Shen Jiang's white cotton gloves and was not easy to tear off, so Shen Jiang simply took off the gloves.
Shen Jiang raced against time to collect spider webs, his movements becoming more and more skillful. Fortunately, this forest rarely saw dragons, and the ecological environment was good, so intact spider webs were not difficult to find. In half an hour, Shen Jiang had harvested a layer of spider web nearly a millimeter thick.
After searching the spider web, she found a centipede passing by in a corner. Shen Jiang did not hesitate and stepped on it to death on the spot.
"Almost done." Shen Jiang wiped the sweat from his forehead with his wrist and couldn't wait to go back to find the princess.
The black witch left quickly and decisively. Elizabeth held on for a while, but when she saw that she never came back, she was filled with despair.
The one who appeared in front of Elizabeth earlier than Shen Jiang was her husband Kailan.
Kailan was a very tall man, with light golden hair that was somewhat similar to Elizabeth. Seeing his wife so weak, Kailan immediately carried her back to Longxue's bed with heartache.
"The little one is already asleep, so I won't disturb you. Just lie down here, I'll go wait at the spring. Once the spring opens, I'll come back with holy water."
The sound that reached Elizabeth's ears was sometimes far and sometimes near, and it was not real. She didn't even notice when Kailan left.
When Elizabeth regained consciousness, she saw the black witch had returned and was standing beside her bed.
Elizabeth opened her dry lips and said, "Hurry up...let's start."
Kailan still didn't know about her agreement with the black witch. She didn't have the energy to explain it to him just now, but even if it was a deal with the devil, she didn't care at all.
Shen Jiang found a candle in the kitchen, and thus there was a fire.
She asked Princess Elizabeth to lie on the bed, carefully spread out the spider webs she had just collected, and covered the blisters on her waist with a thin layer.
Elizabeth didn't know what she was going to do to herself, she just felt something sticky around her waist.
"What's this?"
"Don't move." Shen Jiang was about to burn the spider web with fire, but unexpectedly the princess turned her head and looked at him, causing her body to move, and the flames almost burned her originally intact skin.
While the princess was still in a daze, Shen Jiang quickly aimed the candle wick at the spider web.
Elizabeth watched helplessly as the flames ignited her waist. A thin layer of white skin on her waist was burned away in an instant. The fear from her body instinctively made her scream out: "What did you do to my body?!"
She regretted that she shouldn't have made the devil's deal with the black witch.
Shen Jiang tilted his head: "Okay."
Elizabeth trembled: "What's good?"
"Look, the blisters on your waist are gone. After three or four days of drying, this place will be as smooth as before." Shen Jiang said as he stood up.
"That's it? Okay?" Elizabeth didn't react at all, but the pain in her body had not disappeared yet, and she still felt unbearable.
She met a liar!
"It's not over yet. There's still one crucial step. Wait here for me."
Elizabeth was feeling both amused and annoyed when a commotion came from the valley.
The little guy sleeping next to her was almost woken up, but fortunately, the little guy smacked his lips twice and did not wake up.
Shen Jiang hurried out with a candle and came back with a small bowl filled with yellowish-brown powder in her hand.
Elizabeth was almost vomiting due to the fishy smell in the bowl, but she didn't expect the black witch to bring the bowl of powder to her and ask her to eat it.
"What's this?"
"This is the best medicine that will relieve your pain. Don't think about anything else, just take a sip and you'll be fine."
Shen Jiang thought, you don't want to know what this is.
Elizabeth hesitated as she took the bowl. She glanced at the changes behind her. The pain continued, but it had eased somewhat. With a steely determination, Elizabeth closed her eyes and swallowed the fishy-smelling powder.
Shen Jiang was by her side, and now she could finally distract herself and look at the furnishings here, and the baby she had never seen before.
Yes, Elizabeth's child is human.
Shen Jiang was a little hesitant to look in that direction, having never imagined that it would be a very cute human baby. This made Shen Jiang's face reveal a subtle surprise.
"I don't feel any pain anymore!"
Elizabeth's exclamation interrupted Shen Jiang's divergent thoughts.
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After the ceremony, Godwin found that his followers had gone somewhere and were not waiting for him at the original location. Godwin simply found a secluded place and looked at the purple dragon in his hand again.
Even with his eyes closed, Godwin could still remember every detail of the little dragon, but he seemed unable to get enough of it and looked at it over and over again.
When Godwin returned, he found the valley filled with noise and confusion.
"Either you call Godwin out and give us an explanation! Or you take out the Holy Spring of Life in your hand and save my Quick." The speaker was a huge red dragon, and her voice was obviously full of exasperation.
Godwin thought about it and realized that he had not killed the red dragon just now, so how come the red dragon had to rely on the Holy Spring of Life to save its life?
This is too useless. There was obvious contempt in the black dragon's golden eyes.
"No, I can't give the Holy Spring to you. Elizabeth is sick and I have to save her. Sorry." Kailan's face was full of apology.
After all, the Red Dragon Quick was injured in his territory. If his wife had not been suffering from a strange disease, he would definitely be happy to take out the Holy Spring of Life.
"You're going to use the Holy Spring on a human?" The Red Dragon asked in disbelief. "What effect can the Holy Spring have on an ordinary person like her?"
You know, the Holy Spring's function is to cleanse a dragon's soul wounds, and sometimes even allow it to evolve precious dual-element magic. At the same time, the wounds on a successfully evolved dragon will disappear. This is exactly why she asked Kailan for the Holy Spring.
Quick's injuries will heal with some rest, but it would be a shame not to fight for such a precious treasure as the Holy Spring of Life.
"Elizabeth is my wife, and it is my right to give her the Holy Spring if I choose."
"Then call out that guy Godwin to me!" roared the red dragon.
"Are you looking for me, ma'am?" Godwin walked in slowly.
The Red Dragon, originally furious, saw the Black Dragon, and a flashback of the old Black Dragon's heroic spirit flashed through her mind. Her aura suddenly weakened, but she didn't retreat. "Godwin, Quick is just a child. You're being too harsh!"
Godwin raised his eyebrows and said lazily, "Really? I think it's okay."
Quick's mother choked, thinking of the Black Dragon's powerful strength and the wounds on her son's body. She couldn't help but curse Quick, the unlucky child, for fighting with Godwin.
At that moment, Princess Elizabeth, dressed in her finery, arrived with her guests. The noise was too loud, and they could hear it clearly from within the dragon chamber. When Kailan was about to leave for the Holy Spring, she was stopped by the other dragons.
Otherwise, Elizabeth would not have been able to eat the bowl of powder with such determination.
"Elizabeth, are you okay?" Kailan's face was full of surprise, but joy flashed in his eyes, "That's great."
Only then did he realize that he had not seen Elizabeth so radiant for a long time.
Elizabeth nodded gently. "It was this guest who cured my pain. I have promised to give her the Holy Spring of Life."
The red dragon was a little wary of Godwin, but not of a human princess. She roared, "Kailan, what did you just say? You said that if this human princess wasn't sick, you would definitely be willing to give the holy spring to Quick to heal his wounds!"
A hint of impatience flashed in Kailan's eyes. "Didn't you hear Princess Elizabeth say that she has decided to give the Holy Spring to this human? Now, she is the owner of the Holy Spring."
Seeing several murderous eyes shooting straight at him, Shen Jiang's scalp numbed and he quickly locked his sights on the black dragon.
She walked quickly to Godwin, raised her head, and said tentatively and uncertainly: "Lord Godwin, I don't want to give it."
The medicines she currently uses for Grandma are mostly made from the finest herbs. If she could transform the water used to boil the medicine into holy spring water... the recipe would be perfect. Grandma is old, and any further delay will only make her recovery increasingly difficult. The sooner she wakes up and begins rehabilitation, the greater her chances of returning to a normal life. She'll seize every opportunity she has.
She wanted to go back and see her grandma wake up.
"You don't want to give it to me?" Godwin raised an eyebrow and said dissatisfiedly, "Don't you even know how to refuse?"
His tone was so casual, as if rejecting the Red Dragon was a trivial matter.
Shen Jiang was slightly stunned. Could the problem really be solved so simply and crudely?
Looking at the murderous red dragons over there, she felt she would be splattered with blood the next second if she dared to say no. And Godwin was speaking so loudly, was he afraid that others wouldn't hear him and wouldn't attract hatred?
Shen Jiang stretched out his hands and gave them a friendly smile, trying to calm those angry eyes. "Calm down, calm down. We can discuss this."
"Hand over the Holy Spring, otherwise you will not be able to leave the Dragon Valley today." The red dragon gritted his teeth and whispered a threat to the only human in front of him.
Shen Jiang was a soft-hearted person, and facing this naked threat, it only aroused her rebellious nature. She stated the facts very seriously: "Actually, I don't have to go out. Lord Godwin will take me out."
Godwin was amused by the serious look of the believer. Seeing that the red dragon opposite was choked and speechless, he actually nodded in cooperation.
"Yes, it will be more convenient to fly back."
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