Chapter 152: Strange Injury
The courtyard wall, built from a mix of stone bricks and clay, enclosed an area of about fifty square feet, separating the main house from the back room. The girl, dressed in bloody clothes and suspected to be Nanling Yaohua, lay in the open space in front of the back room door.
It seemed she had attempted to escape into the back room, but perhaps due to her severe injuries, she fainted before she could reach it.
Lu Yibei stared at the wind chime on Nanling Yaohua’s ankle and, after a moment of distraction, quickly walked over, crouched down, and reached out to pick her up. Yet, as if remembering something, she furrowed her brow and withdrew her hand.
She suddenly realized that Nanling Yaohua appeared gravely injured. In addition to the visible external wounds in her eyes, there was a high possibility of internal injuries. Without knowing the specific condition, moving her recklessly might cause secondary harm.
The correct approach would be to check Nanling Yaohua’s injuries first and confirm that moving her wouldn’t cause further damage before attempting to move her body.
However…
Even if I could sense her injuries through my spiritual perception, I don’t have any effective treatment methods! Lu Yibei thought with some headache.
Although she knew quite a few healing spells, she had never practiced them.
Those healing spells were either stolen from Fu Xinyi or obtained for free from the memories of the Great Serpent God or some other random sources. She couldn’t be 100% sure they wouldn’t go wrong and was hesitant to use them directly on Nanling Yaohua.
This was similar to some doctors who, despite performing thousands of surgeries, hesitate when it comes to operating on their own family members.
After all, her spirit pattern ability amplification was quite unstable, and with the Blessing God Copper Coin “locked” in the God Realm Prototype, it was impossible to gauge the general range. If she wasn’t careful, she might cast a healing spell amplified by forty to fifty times.
And healing spells, when amplified to a certain degree, carried the risk of “exploding” in the process.
In that case, even if she healed Nanling Yaohua’s injuries, she might unintentionally cause her body to develop extra bones or other internal tissues, which would not be good.
“……”
If only the passage to the God Realm Prototype could be opened, she could take some healing alchemical potions out and pour them directly on her.
Like watering flowers.
Before she fully controlled the power of the Hundred-Armed Giant inside her and after acquiring the alchemical potion formula from Dachunyang Palace, she had made a large batch of subpar healing alchemical potions.
Although those potions weren’t high quality, they were ample and could fill a need!
Even if they were all “beginner bl**d bottles,” reality isn’t a game where there are item use cooldowns. If worse comes to worst, I could give Nanling Yaohua a “bl**d bottle” bath to at least stabilize her injuries.
While Lu Yibei secretly thought this, she was checking Nanling Yaohua’s injuries. After a moment, she seemed to realize something unexpected, suddenly furrowing her brow and voicing her confusion.
“Eh? Strange, how could this be?”
After checking, Lu Yibei discovered that Nanling Yaohua’s injuries didn’t seem as severe as they appeared.
Although Nanling Yaohua had at least twenty penetrating wounds on her body, and the most dangerous wound was merely a couple of centimeters away from her heart, for an ordinary person to suffer such injuries, the probability of d*ath would be extremely high.
However, Nanling Yaohua was not an ordinary person but a high-level spiritual ability user. Moreover, those wounds on her body, while seemingly located in dangerous areas, actually avoided critical points.
For most high-level spiritual ability users, this level of injury would only cause excessive bl**d loss and fainting, not d*ath.
Realizing this, Lu Yibei temporarily suppressed her doubts and picked up Nanling Yaohua, quickly walking into the back room of the courtyard and placing her on the bed.
The most important thing was to help her treat the wounds, not how Nanling Yaohua got injured.
Although those wounds could self-heal over time due to the physique of a high-level spiritual ability user, treating them slightly could assist in her faster recovery.
“Rip——Rip——!”
Accompanied by the sound of tearing fabric, Lu Yibei tore off the sleeves and part of the dress of Nanling Yaohua, exposing the wounds while also creating a cleaning cloth and some simple bandages.
Carefully crafting a water-type spell comparable to the Red Flame Flash level, she took water and cleaned the cloth. Turning back, she was just about to wipe the dirt off Nanling Yaohua’s body when she suddenly froze.
Earlier, when Lu Yibei was anxious to treat Nanling Yaohua’s wounds, she didn’t think too much. Now, she suddenly noticed that after tearing off some clothing, Nanling Yaohua’s arms, thighs, and one shoulder were exposed, her skin possessing a texture akin to Hetian jade from the Gobi Desert, smooth and warm to the touch.
What was even more concerning was that she was weak, unconscious, and had no ability to resist.
One might ask, with a tattered-clothes beautiful girl, completely able to be at the mercy of others, who wouldn’t be tempted?
And that was Lu Yibei, who, under the influence of ordinary human emotions, felt no wicked thoughts at all.
Yet…
Isn’t this a bit inappropriate?
Although she was just helping her treat wounds, it still seemed a bit like taking advantage of someone in distress, as some of those wounds were near her chest and abdomen.
Should I just close my eyes and use spiritual perception… No, that would be self-deception! It would be like covering my eyes with my hands while leaving a gap between my fingers.
Lu Yibei thought, quickly taking care of the wounds on Nanling Yaohua’s arms and legs. Then, she turned away and sent a message to her coat through the bond.
It was a simple matter of cleaning and bandaging wounds, not complex, and the coat could handle this…
【Little cutie, I’ll leave her to you!】
【Mm-hmm, leave it to me!】
(>Ω･*)ﾉ
The next moment, accompanied by a rustling movement, several tendril-like cloth strips extended from Lu Yibei’s back, picking up the cleaned cloth and helping to treat Nanling Yaohua’s wounds.
Like smart mechanical arms.
A few minutes later, when Lu Yibei received a notification from the coat through the spiritual bond and turned back, she saw Nanling Yaohua wrapped in cloth strips, her enticing curves fully displayed.
Bandaged Nanling Yaohua·JPG
Why does it seem even more tempting than before?
The originally helpless beauty had transformed into a still defenseless and now cleanly wrapped beauty on the bed, with some key parts adorned with exquisite bows. Did the coat misunderstand something? Why…
Eh, forget it, let’s just leave it at that!
Lu Yibei pressed her forehead with one hand, rubbing her slightly swollen temples, and then fell into thought.
While treating Nanling Yaohua’s wounds earlier, she discovered something even more astonishing.
Although there were strong spiritual energy fluctuations lingering around the edges of Nanling Yaohua’s wounds, she didn’t sense even a hint of foreign spiritual energy within her body.
The one who inflicted such injuries on Nanling Yaohua seemed to have retracted their spiritual energy fluctuations the moment they broke through her defense and stabbed her.
In fact, the weapon used to injure Nanling Yaohua didn’t appear to be a spirit energy item. Otherwise, there would definitely be residual spiritual energy waves of the item deep within the wounds.
In other words…
The person who injured Nanling Yaohua not only stabbed her numerous times while carefully avoiding her vital points but might as well have used an ordinary weapon not much better than a cheap kitchen kn*fe bought for twenty-nine yuan at the market…
Thinking deeply gives one chills! Just how strong was that person? Lu Yibei’s expression changed at this thought.
Nanling Yaohua was already very strong and could almost be considered among the strongest under the calamity level, able to contend with somewhat weaker Cataclysm Grades.
The existence that left such injuries on Nanling Yaohua had a fighting strength that was at least crushingly superior, several levels stronger than her.
According to Huaiyuan Jun, this being, considerably stronger than Nanling Yaohua, was likely the Shaman Queen, who had just been released from the half-urban legend and was currently on a rampage.
“……”
If it was really the Shaman Queen who injured Xiao Hua, that would be too strange.
Wasn’t it said that they would k*ll anyone they saw, regardless of friend or foe?
So why did they spare Xiao Hua? Lu Yibei wondered.
