Chapter 8: Rescue Beauty

  "The bloodstain on her chest seems to have spread, could she be injured here?"

  Zhang Shan checked and frowned.

  "Desperate times call for desperate measures, little beauty, don't blame me."

  Muttering to herself for a moment, she reached out and undid the buttons on the girl's chest.

  A vast expanse of snow-white softness unfolded before his eyes, with peaks rising and falling in waves, stirring a ripple in Zhang Shan's heart.

  "Doesn't look like it from the outside, but it's actually quite substantial..."

  Settled his mind, threw away the distracting thoughts in his heart, and looked carefully. He found that the girl indeed had a half-inch wide sword wound on her left chest, which was slowly seeping out fresh blood.

  Zhang Shan took out a bottle of water and cleaned the wound with clean water. Then he took out a band-aid and applied it to stop the bleeding.

  After rearranging her clothes, he was a bit worried. He could deal with external injuries himself, but there was a cold ice true energy in her body that was running wildly through the meridians, what to do?

  "Shouldn't a novice disciple of the Tian Xuan Sect carry life-saving pellets?"

  He muttered to himself, but after searching the girl's body thoroughly, he didn't find a single medicine bottle, only a ring on her hand.

  "This should be the Susano'o seal, but I can't open it myself."

  Hesitated for a moment, suddenly eyes lit up, thinking of his own Sen Luo Wan Xiang Jue, its secret formula had said that it could refine and absorb all yuan qi and zhen qi.

  "Let's give it a try then, after all, treat a dead horse as if it were alive."

  Thinking of this, Zhang Shan sat cross-legged, placed his palms on the girl's back and started to operate the Xuanwu Wanxiang Jue.

  The primordial energy of the universe began to surge towards his body, and what surprised Zhang Shan was that the cold true energy in the girl's body seemed to be attracted as well, surging from her meridians into his palm and being absorbed into his body.

  "What a pure and true aura!"

  Zhang Shan took a deep breath and began to refine it.

  As the cold and gloomy true energy was frantically absorbed into his body, Zhang Shan's refining speed began to fall behind the influx of cold and gloomy true energy. At this time, a layer of frost also slowly condensed on his skin.

  "Give me a little more speed!"

  Zhang Shan shouted loudly in his heart, using all his strength to cast the "Forest of All Things" spell. He didn't want to fail to save someone and end up losing himself instead.

  After his overworked operation, the speed of refining the cold and gloomy true energy suddenly accelerated, and Zhang Shan's meridians began to emit a burst of tearing pain.

  He gritted his teeth and persevered, having been racing against the god of death all these years, with an unyielding determination that was unparalleled, so the intense pain in his meridians couldn't crush his will.

  Those cold and gloomy true gases were refined and purified, then injected into Zhang Shan's dantian qihai, rotating in the qihai, transforming into his own true yuan, and then wandering through his limbs and bones, tempering his body and orifices.

  "Crack..."

  Like the sound of porcelain shattering, Zhang Shan's ninth spiritual aperture opened, and he advanced to the 9th rank of Qi Wu Realm.

  As he advanced to the ninth level, the speed at which he refined and transformed the cold yin energy also increased exponentially. The frost that covered his entire body was slowly disappearing, and the speed at which he absorbed and refined it had already surpassed the rate at which the cold yin energy poured in.

  When the last wisp of cold true energy was refined and absorbed by him, Zhang Shan's palm left the girl's back, and he opened his eyes after withdrawing his technique.

  With a soft sigh, the girl slowly woke up from her sleep.

  She opened her bewildered eyes to find herself leaning against a strange man. She let out a startled cry, raised her jade-like hand, and Zhang Shan was caught off guard, flying out and crashing into the wall of the cave.

  "What are you doing? Are you burning your bridges after crossing them? I should have known better than to save you, and just let you die instead."

  Zhang Shan flipped over and got up, and couldn't help but let out a loud cry.

  He took a deep breath and hastily checked his body, fortunately the girl had only subconsciously pushed him away without using much force, except for a slight bruise on his back, he hadn't suffered any other injuries.

  The girl also came back to her senses at this time, remembered the situation before she fainted, and took another look at Zhang Shan, vaguely recognizing that he was the person she met before she fainted.

  "Was it you who saved me?"

  The girl hesitated for a moment, then asked in a soft voice.

  "Besides me, is there anyone else here? Consider yourself lucky to have met me."

  Zhang Shan patted the mud off his clothes and said with a bad temper.

  "Thanks then, you weren't hurt just now, were you?"

  The girl asked with some embarrassment.

  "It's okay, just bumped a bit, no big deal."

  Zhang Shan walked back to the bonfire and sat down again.

  The girl nodded slightly and began to introspect, then let out a sound of surprise.

  "Is the Xuanming True Qi in my body also something you can dissolve? Looking at your mere Qi Wu Realm cultivation, how could you possibly achieve that?"

  Before he could respond, the girl suddenly discovered something else.

  "She trembled and said: 'My... wound, was it also treated with your medicine?'"

  Zhang Shan looked at her face which was filled with shame and anger, and his heart skipped a beat.

  "Miss, I'm in a hurry and had no intention of offending you."

  He jumped up alertly and took two steps back, hastily explaining himself.

  The girl's chest heaved a few times before she finally regained her composure and hung her head in silence.

  Zhang Shan let out a sigh of relief. It seemed that this exceptional beauty was not the kind of unreasonable and arrogant young lady, at least she still knew what's good for her.

  He coughed and broke the awkwardness: "Miss still has some internal injuries, it's better to rest for a while, I... will go catch some wild game back."

  After finishing speaking, he left the cave without looking back.

  The girl looked at his back as if he was running for his life, biting her lip and suddenly revealing a hint of a smile.

  After leaving the cave, Zhang Shan caught a few rabbits and pheasants nearby, then came to the stream to skin and pluck them, and also caught a few fish.

  While collecting the spoils, she considered whether to take advantage of the situation and leave. But thinking that the other party was a disciple of the Xun Tian Sect, and might even have a high status, making friends with her might bring benefits for herself.

  Since she didn't blow up on the spot when I gave her medicine and saw her body, it means that nothing will be pursued afterwards.

  After making up his mind, Zhang Shan cleaned up the prey and headed towards the cave.

  In his previous life when he was in college, he liked outdoor tourism and adventure, camping and barbecue, cooking wild game was still quite skilled, this time entering the mountain to practice also prepared a lot of seasonings.

  After entering the cave, I saw that the girl was sitting cross-legged in the depths of the cave, cultivating and healing her injuries.

  He withdrew his gaze and walked to the bonfire, moved it away, dug a hole in the ground, buried the wild chicken wrapped in leaves, and then moved the bonfire back.

  After adding some firewood, Zhangshan strung up the wild rabbit and fish with branches, brushed on seasonings, and started his barbecue business.

  Half an hour later, the cave was filled with the aroma of game, making one's fingers move with craving.

  Enticed by the fragrance, the girl also made a move and walked towards the bonfire.

  "Miss, does it suit your taste?"

  Zhang Shan smiled and handed over a roasted wild rabbit with crispy yellow skin and an appetizing appearance.

  The girl whispered a thank you, took the wild rabbit and sat down by the fire pit, lightly biting into it, chewing twice before her eyes lit up involuntarily.

  "It's delicious." She softly praised.

  Zhang Shan secretly rejoiced in his heart, it seemed that the purpose of getting closer had made good progress, while thinking about it, he picked up another wild rabbit and started devouring it.

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