Chapter 1194 Body temperature
Her eyes scanned Di Xuanming's face with difficulty, and landed on the hideous wound on his shoulder that was soaked in blood. The black energy at the edge of the wound made her heart tighten.
"Your...injury..." She tried to raise her hand to touch it, but her fingertips only moved weakly, causing a tearing pain in her meridians. She couldn't help but gasp and curl up slightly.
"hiss……"
"Don't move!" Di Xuanming shouted in a low voice, his tone carrying an unquestionable command, but softened a little because of heartache.
He quickly held down her struggling shoulders and said, "I'm fine! The medicine is working. You're more seriously injured than me, don't move!"
He carefully avoided any part of her body that might be injured and placed his palm on the back of her cold hand, trying to convey a little warmth.
At the same time, he slowly transferred a faint but pure and gentle spiritual power into her body, helping her to sort out her disordered breath and relieve the pain that penetrated deep into her bones.
"How do you feel? Is your mind and spirit still stable?" His voice was low, staring into her eyes, not missing any slight changes in her expression.
The most terrifying thing about the backlash from over-consumption of the laws of heaven and the final impact of the demon's resentment is not the damage to the body, but the shock to the origin of the soul.
Luo Li closed her eyes, feeling the slight comfort brought by the faint warm current, and opened them again after a moment. The fatigue in her eyes was still strong, but her mind seemed to be clearer.
She regained some strength, and with a thought, two pills appeared in her hands.
She took one herself and stuffed the other into Di Xuanming's mouth.
After a while, the injuries of both men were mostly healed.
Luo Li regained her strength and sat up, "Let me take a look at your injuries."
Di Xuanming patted her head and said, "I feel much better now after taking the pill."
Luo Li narrowed her eyes, "Then let me see. The demonic energy erosion is extraordinary. Even the Saint King Pill can't completely eliminate it."
Di Xuanming couldn't resist her eyes, which were tired but extremely stubborn. The worry condensed in them made his heart tremble slightly.
He sighed helplessly and turned slightly to the side, exposing the hideous wound completely to the cold moonlight.
The wound was even more horrific than Luo Li had imagined.
The wound was so deep that bones were visible, the skin and flesh were curled up, and the edges were an ominous charred color. Strands of black air, as sticky as living things, were stubbornly seeping out from deep within the wound. Like countless tiny poisonous snakes, it constantly corroded the new flesh and blood around it, preventing the powerful medicinal effect of the Saint King Pill from being fully exerted.
The black air carried a strong smell of decay and destruction, which was the purest remnant of the devil's resentment. Just getting close to it made people feel a bit chilly.
Luo Li's fingertips carried a faint trace of chaotic power, and she carefully and gently touched the skin at the edge of the wound that was not contaminated by the demonic energy.
Her movements were performed with an almost religious concentration, for fear of hurting him.
"Hiss..." Di Xuanming's body tensed up instantly, his teeth clenched, but a muffled groan still escaped from between his teeth.
It wasn't all pain, but rather the intense repulsion and confrontation that occurred when the chaotic power came into instant contact with the demonic energy that had invaded his body. It was like the collision of ice and fire, stirring up a wave of burning pain and coldness deep within his flesh and blood.
"Bear with it." Luo Li's voice was low and calm, and all her fatigue seemed to be forcibly suppressed by the injury in front of her.
"The demonic energy is entrenched in the bone joints and major spiritual vein nodes. The Saint King Pill can only suppress the outer edges. The erosion at the core is like a maggot attached to the bone. The power of the pill alone cannot remove it. It must be guided and purified by external force."
She withdrew her fingers, and a faint trace of black air stained her fingertips, which was instantly purified and annihilated by the chaotic spiritual light lingering around her fingertips.
Her face turned even paler due to this brief exploration.
"What needs to be done?" Di Xuanming's voice was hoarse, and fine beads of cold sweat oozed from his forehead.
He tried to maintain a sideways posture, exposing his most vulnerable back to her completely.
"It will hurt, even more than before." Luo Li stared at him, her eyes grim. "I will use the power of the origin of chaos as a guide, deep into your wound, and force out the core demonic energy. The process cannot be interrupted, otherwise the demonic energy will backfire, and the consequences will be disastrous. You... must remain absolutely lucid, practice the skills and cooperate with me, and guide my power to impact those demonic energy nodes."
She paused, her tone unquestionable and resolute, "Believe me."
"I believe you." Di Xuanming said it firmly without any hesitation.
He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and when he opened them again, there was only rock-hardness in his eyes.
"bring it on."
Luo Li said no more.
She sat cross-legged behind Di Xuanming, slowly raised her hands, and placed them just an inch above the wound on his back.
The original power of chaos slowly seeped out from her palm, like the rising dawn light, gentle yet sacred and inviolable.
The halo carefully penetrated into the twisted wound of Emperor Xuanming.
“Ugh—!”
At the moment the halo touched the core of the demonic energy, Emperor Xuanming's body shook violently, as if his spine was hit hard by an invisible giant hammer.
He suddenly raised his head, the veins on his neck bulged, and he let out an extremely suppressed roar of pain.
It felt as if countless red-hot steel needles were piercing into the bone marrow at the same time, or as if the coldest ice cones were stirring wildly in the internal organs.
The black energy at the wound surged wildly like an enraged beast, trying to devour and contaminate the invading source of chaos. The violent rejection reaction caused the skin and flesh around the wound to begin to twist and spasm strangely.
Sweat instantly soaked his tattered clothes, mixed with blood, and dripped onto the sand beneath him.
"Circulate spiritual power! Guide it!" Luo Li's voice also carried a barely perceptible tremor.
Her face was paler than the moonlight. Forcibly activating the origin of chaos was also a huge burden for her at this moment. Her meridians seemed to be torn apart inch by inch, and the dizziness in her soul hit her will like a tide.
But the milky white halo in her palm was extremely stable, like the most accurate probe. Under the painful guidance of Emperor Xuanming, it struggled to lock onto a spiritual vein node that was occupied by demonic energy.
Di Xuanming gritted his teeth, and the taste of blood filled his mouth.
With his unimaginable willpower, he forcibly suppressed the severe pain that was enough to make a person faint, and circulated the remaining spiritual power in his spiritual veins as instructed.
The spiritual power in his body was as weak as a candle in the wind, but he extremely accurately guided the trace of purification power that Luo Li had brought in, and rushed towards the core of the demonic energy that exuded a decaying aura inch by inch!
Time seemed to stand still.
The desert night wind howled, blowing up fine sand and sweeping past the two of them. The cold moonlight fell quietly, illuminating Di Xuanming's profile, which was distorted by severe pain but still handsome, and also illuminating Luo Li's pale and beautiful face.
I don’t know how long it took, it seemed like a century.
Finally, a wisp of black air as condensed as ink, emitting a strong sense of decay and evil, suddenly shot out from the depths of Emperor Xuanming's wound like a poisonous snake forced out of its nest.
As soon as the black energy left the body and came into contact with the cool air outside and the remaining chaotic jade aura in Luo Li's palm, it began to emit a sharp "sizzling" sound like the wailing of countless resentful souls, and twisted violently. Finally, it unwillingly turned into a wisp of foul-smelling green smoke and completely dissipated under the moonlight.
Sweat dripped down Luo Li's forehead, and she breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay."
Di Xuanming's body, which was as tense as a bowstring, instantly collapsed. He gasped for breath, and every breath involved the wound on his back, which had been purified but still hurt.
Sweat mixed with blood soaked his entire back, and gravel stuck to it, causing a rough and stinging pain.
But he clearly felt that the cold and rotten feeling like a maggot in the tarsal bone completely disappeared as the wisp of black smoke dissipated, leaving only the physical trauma.
Luo Li steadied her body, moved her fingertips slightly, and a pill emitting a soft glow appeared in her palm.
She passed it to Di Xuanming's lips, her tone carrying an unquestionable command: "Eat it."
Emperor Xuanming opened his mouth and took the pill without any hesitation.
The pill melted in his mouth, turning into a mighty and warm current, like a sweet rain pouring into the dry and cracked earth, and instantly rushed to his limbs and bones.
Wherever the warm current passed, the torn meridians felt a tingling and healing sensation, and the exhausted spiritual veins began to slowly generate strength again.
The charred edges of the hideous wound on his back quickly faded, and the curled flesh was wriggling at a speed visible to the naked eye. Although it had not healed completely, the severe pain that penetrated deep into his bones was finally greatly relieved.
"Huh..." Emperor Xuanming let out a long sigh, and his tightly furrowed brows relaxed a little. Although his face was still pale, there was finally a hint of life in it.
The two of them lay down on the sand, looking at the brilliant night sky, slowly recovering their soul power.
The brilliant Milky Way stretches across the desert night sky, cold and distant.
The two men lay side by side on the rough sand, exhausted, but with a kind of tranquility of surviving a disaster flowing silently.
The medicinal power of the elixir was like a gentle stream, continuously washing their broken spiritual veins and repairing wounds so deep that the bones could be seen.
The wound on Di Xuanming's back no longer bleeds, and the hideous crack is slowly closing, but he can still feel the dull pain of tearing with every slight rise and fall of his breath.
Luo Li felt as if a piece of her soul had been hollowed out, leaving behind a lingering weakness and heaviness. Forcibly inducing the backlash of the laws of heaven was far from something that could be immediately alleviated by a single pill.
The night wind blew fine sand across their cheeks stained with blood and dust, bringing a hint of coolness.
Di Xuanming turned his head and his eyes fell on Luo Li's pale profile.
The moonlight outlined her delicate features, and her long eyelashes cast tired shadows under her eyes.
She closed her eyes, her chest rising and falling shallowly with her weak breathing, like a fragile glass beauty.
His heart seemed to be gripped by an invisible hand, and the fear and heartache were like a cold tide, drowning him again.
He reached out his hand, his fingertips trembling with caution, and gently brushed away a grain of sand on her cheek.
The cold touch made his heart tighten.
"Ari..." His voice was low and hoarse, but it was particularly clear in the silent night.
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