Seeing her father and fifth senior brother covered in blood, Xu Changhuan couldn't even cry. After arranging for them to lie down in a room, she ran off to fetch Li Mai.
The clan doctor was Xu Changqing's father, so Xu Changhuan dared not use him and could only ask Li Mai to come and help her treat her father and fifth senior brother.
Li Mai already sensed that Zhou Quan had returned, bringing back two wounded patients. Before Xu Changhuan arrived, she quickly made some preparations in her spatial dimension.
She filled a water bag with the spiritual spring water, which made exactly three bowls.
In addition, I prepared a few medicinal herbs for stopping bleeding and relieving pain, and put them in a small bamboo basket.
She had just finished getting ready when Xu Changhuan casually invited her over, and Li Mai quickly followed her there with her things.
Upon seeing Zhou Quan and Elder Yang using their spiritual power to protect the heart meridians of Clan Chief Xu and Fifth Senior Brother, Li Mai dared not delay and quickly took over to begin saving them.
The clan chief is named Xu Xing, and the fifth senior brother is named Xu Changhe. Five years ago, when Xu Xing left, he took Xu Changhe, who had no parents, with him.
Xu Changhe was kind and filial to his master. After his parents and grandparents passed away, his master took him in and made him his fifth disciple. He usually lived in the main house.
However, Xu Changhe has a major flaw: he is timid and has never seen the world. He is hesitant and timid in his actions, and he does not dare to make decisive decisions.
Originally, Chief Xu planned to take his fifth son out for more experience. If the boy could become bolder and grow up, he intended to adopt him as his godson and hand over the Xu clan to him in the future.
Although Huanhuan is the most suitable person to be the clan leader, she is decisive and responsible, but she is ultimately a young woman who will eventually get married and have children, and this large clan cannot be her responsibility.
However, Xu Xing did not expect that during the five years they were away, they had encountered too many pursuers and dared not return, for fear of bringing back those who were hunting them to their people.
The fifth brother has matured a lot, but they still haven't found out who was behind the Xu family's misdeeds.
Finally, when he had a clue and evidence pointing to the Jiang and Yang families, he couldn't believe it and decided to return to Yongzhou to investigate in secret.
Unexpectedly, he fell into someone else's trap. That information was intentionally leaked to him by someone with the aim of luring him back to Yongzhou, capturing him, completely destroying the Xu family, and obtaining the Xu family's Incense Scripture.
This time, the master and apprentice were seriously injured.
Xu Xing remained unconscious, his consciousness wandering in darkness as if in a dream, unable to find an exit. His body was constantly being pierced by swords that suddenly appeared in the darkness. He could feel the pain of each sword, but he just couldn't die. He kept running away, trying to find an exit, but he just couldn't find one.
He even thought, "Let me die. Death would be a relief. No more pain, no more toil, no more responsibilities." But he couldn't die because he still had attachments. He had two daughters. One daughter was settled, but the other was a member of the Xu clan who was protecting him.
He cannot die; he still has over a hundred clansmen to protect. He must lead the Xu clan to find out what happened back then, and he must once again lead the Xu clan out of the deep mountains and back to Yongzhou City, so that the Xu clan can once again stand at the top of the four major incense-making families.
But he was eventually tired.
After a sharp pain all over her body, Xu Xing suddenly felt light and floated upwards.
He wept. He knew he was dying, his soul about to leave his body.
He cried and murmured, "Huanhuan, Huanle, I'm sorry, Father is going to disappoint you."
As Xu Xing felt herself floating and her consciousness gradually faded into darkness, it was also the moment when Li Mai's treatment of Xu Xing ended.
Xu Xing's injuries were too severe; one of her arms had been severed, and the other party had not treated the wound. The wound was seriously infected, so Li Mai had to remove the rotten flesh and hanging flesh that were infected by bacteria from the wound again before applying medicine to stop the bleeding and bandaging the wound.
After finishing the treatment, Li Mai sat down to rest, sighing inwardly. She wondered what had sustained Chief Xu to keep going until now, with such a severe wound, not only excessive blood loss but also a high fever.
When she removed the necrotic tissue, if it weren't for Elder Yang protecting Xu Xing's heart meridian with his spiritual power, Li Mai was afraid he wouldn't have been able to withstand the pain of the second wound.
"Xiaomai, how is my father?" Xu Changhuan looked at his father's pale face covered with small wounds and asked Li Mai in a low voice.
"You're still in the danger zone. Observe for a day and see. If you wake up within a day, then you'll be fine. If you don't wake up within a day, then you need to be prepared."
Looking at Xu Changhuan, whose eyes were red, Li Mai sighed and continued, "Your father's arm has been cut off for a day now. You had that dream a little late, and you lost too much blood. No one has treated the wound, and the infection is serious."
“If it weren’t for your father’s hope, he probably wouldn’t have made it this far. He might already be dead and wouldn’t have been able to wait for us to rescue him. Huanhuan, you have to hold on. You are your father’s motivation to live. He must have been worried about you, which is why he’s been holding on until now.”
"It seems that what they want is for your father to die from excessive blood loss, rather than for them to kill him outright. So, you need to think carefully about who is behind this."
Xu Changhuan gave a soft "hmm," wiped away her tears, and turned to look at Zhou Quan, "Where did you find my father, brother-in-law?"
Zhou Quan was still using his spiritual power to protect Xu Changhe's heart meridian. He looked up at her and said, "In the basement of a manor in the south of Yongzhou City, your father and your senior brother are locked in separate rooms."
"How did you know it belonged to her fifth senior brother?" Li Mai asked him curiously.
“There were two guards, that’s what they said,” Zhou Quan said.
After figuring out Xu Xing's general direction, he used his hearing to listen to the surrounding sounds.
It was only after hearing the complaints of the two guards that they realized the person locked up next to Xu Xing was his apprentice.
After Zhou Quan returned and told him where he had knocked out the two guards and where he had thrown them, Yun Chang had already led her men to capture them. Therefore, Yun Chang was not here at the moment.
Li Mai rested for a bit, took a sip of water, and then went back to treat Xu Changhe.
His condition was slightly better than Xu Xing's; he hadn't had his limbs severed, but he was beaten to the point of barely clinging to life, his body covered in countless bloody welts, and his face was a bloody mess.
Li Mai treated him by directly using water-based spiritual power.
Everyone in the room except Xu Changhuan was a cultivator. So when Li Mai used water-based spiritual power to directly heal Xu Changhe, Xu Changhuan stared wide-eyed in disbelief. It was the first time she had ever seen such a situation.
The water in the bowl suddenly flew out of the bowl and turned into countless droplets after Xiaomai raised her finger and made a stroke. The droplets then entered the Fifth Senior Brother's body directly through the wound.
Then, she saw blood slowly seeping from her fifth senior brother's previously mangled wounds.
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