The person in the medicine vat—something that could be called a person for the time being—found it amusing that Ji Mofan was frightened, baring his teeth in a smile that looked as if he could devour a child.
He's practically rotten himself, yet he still has the time to laugh at others.
Ji Mofan was pulled back to his senses by his smile, which could only be described as miserable. After the initial panic subsided, the emotion that followed was boundless anger.
Who on earth was it? And what were their motives? To turn a perfectly healthy person into this state?
As a young man, Ji Mo Fan knew very little about the darkness of the cultivation world, and had never even heard of a "medicine person." He carried his sword as he approached the medicine vat, feeling as if his heart was bleeding with every step he took.
"Is there anything I can do to help you?" Ji Mofan heard himself say.
The person in the medicine vat seemed to be stunned for a moment, and their already shrunken eyelids twitched as if trying to blink.
It seems that the damage wasn't just to his appearance; his throat was also burned by the medicine, so he could only utter dry, single syllables when he spoke.
He raised his finger and pointed to Ji Mofan's chest.
Ji Mofan was stunned, and only when he looked down did he realize that his clothes were also stained with blood.
Although the process was slow, the area of the bloodstain was indeed gradually expanding.
Okay! So the heartache I felt earlier wasn't a feeling, but a sensation of touch!
He raised his hand and touched himself, only to realize later that he found it very strange.
His five senses seemed to have become somewhat confused?
If it weren't for the person in front of him... uh, reminding him, Ji Mofan probably wouldn't have realized that his injuries were quite serious.
The cellar was dimly lit, and the smell of medicine and blood mingled together, so he didn't notice anything unusual.
Is it because these smells have a numbing effect?
Ji Mofan touched himself, looking for any healing medicine, only to find that all his belongings had been taken away.
The only things he still had on him, besides his clothes, were the iron sword in his hand.
But the sword was chipped in the recent battle with the monster, making it difficult to even cut vegetables.
He was somewhat annoyed and worried, because he clearly felt that he didn't have enough spiritual energy in his body to heal his wounds, let alone support him in finding a way to escape from here.
Perhaps that's why the bad guys who captured him just casually threw him on the ground without even tying him up with a rope.
"Ah, ah..." The mutilated person in front of me let out a dry, hoarse voice again.
Ji Mofan looked up and saw the man lift his forked arm out of the medicinal liquid.
All five fingers were dry and withered, like deep-fried chicken feet, with wrinkled skin wrapped around the bones.
But there was still some flesh on his arms, though it was patchy and uneven, with some areas even showing bone.
Because it was constantly soaked in the medicinal solution, the whitish wound, despite not receiving any treatment, did not bleed at all.
However, Ji Mo Fan didn't understand what this person meant.
The oddly shaped person gestured incoherently to him from inside the medicine vat, leaving Ji Mofan completely bewildered.
It's not like he should be the one to pull himself out of the medicine vat.
His body is so badly damaged that without the medicine, he would probably die on the spot in less than the time it takes for an incense stick to burn.
The dark, corrosive liquid was also keeping him alive.
Seeing that Ji Mofan was not moving, the man seemed to get a little anxious.
After gesturing for a while, he finally put his arm in his mouth and bit it.
Suddenly, Ji Mofan had a flash of inspiration, "You want me to bite you?"
He nodded forcefully at the withered part of his head.
The people of Jimo were dumbfounded.
At the time, he had no knowledge of drugs and people, and he only felt that the other party's request sounded absurd.
He's not a pervert, so why would he eat human flesh that's been soaked in drugs?
The man pointed to the wound on Ji Mo Fan's chest and shook his hand again.
He kept making "hey, hey" sounds, trying his best to make Ji Mofan understand that he was the medicine that could save him.
But Ji Mo Fan didn't understand, and was greatly shocked.
Five or six years later, Ji Mofan, who is almost twenty-one years old, recalls this past event again and is still disgusted by what he saw back then.
He pulled his thoughts back from his memories and looked at Nan Xun, who was wearing a mask, his gaze becoming somewhat complicated.
When I first saw the skin peeking out from the edge of his mask, I thought it looked quite smooth and fair...
How could it not be white and smooth? It's all been soaked in chemicals and lost its color and become soggy.
“You’ve already repaid that life-saving debt when you were there,” Ji Mofan said.
He was badly injured and completely unable to break out on his own. If they waited for others who knew his condition to come back and rescue him, it would be too late.
At that time, Nan Xun had almost been completely refined into a medicine man. His flesh and blood could not be said to cure all diseases, but ordinary external injuries were definitely easy to treat. Ji Mo Fan was given a bite of meat by him, which gave him the ability to break through the cellar and take him out.
But thinking of this, he couldn't help but turn around and ask, "Aren't you the son of the Human Emperor? Why are you here cultivating immortality now?"
Although he rescued many drug addicts from that cellar, most of them had been ravaged to the point of losing their self-awareness and were difficult to heal back to their original state.
Many of them died within days of leaving the medicine vat.
Nan Xun was among the more lucid ones. Although he couldn't speak, he was able to write after some simple treatment.
He told Ji Mofan that he came from a small country in the mortal realm, the Crane Kingdom, and was a member of its royal family.
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