Chapter 38 (1/2)
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Shen Zhe had a strong sense of crisis after he left the room.
The patriarch of the Zhao family realized it right away because he was involved. However, other people would not be easily fooled. They would find out sooner or later!
Everybody in this world was intelligent and responsive!
“I have to improve myself… My top priority is to repair my veins!”
He had to cure his veins first. Otherwise, he couldn’t become a Mage or a Martial Artist with only two illuminated stars.
He would be cursed instead if that were the case!
“Shen Zhe…”
Zhao Chen greeted him.
“Do you have medications or treasures that can boost vein recovery?” asked Shen Zhe directly.
“Vein recovery? Are you hurt?”
“Something happened during my training yesterday, but it wasn’t severe…” said Shen Zhe.
He decided to keep his illuminated stars to himself after the lesson he just learned.
“That will be easy!”
Relieved, Zhao Chen said, “Veins are the foundation of cultivation. The power of the stars, spiritual energy, or the soul have to circulate in them. They must be treated when they are damaged. However, different treatments are required according to the specific damages.”
“Is it that complicated?”
“Veins are mysterious; their injuries have to be examined before making any prescription. One tiny mistake may result in even greater damages!”
Zhao Chen explained, “It so happens that Uncle Qi is here. He’s a medical counselor of my family, I can ask him to examine you. If it’s not serious, you’ll be fine after you take his medication for a while!”
“Thank you!” Shen Zhe nodded.
He knew nothing about treatments and could certainly use a doctor.
A middle-aged man arrived shortly after and laid his finger on Shen Zhe’s wrist. He soon frowned and asked, “I wonder… have your veins been burnt, Mr. Shen?”
“Indeed. I was accidentally hit by a lightning strike yesterday!” said Shen Zhe.
Cui Xiao and Ling Xueru had both seen him being struck, so the plain fact could be revealed. However, he couldn’t tell them he had absorbed the power of lightning.
“A lightning strike?” Uncle Qi remarked, “That explains why your veins carry the violent power of lightning, even though they are damaged…”
He sensed something wrong during the examination, but he didn’t know that it was caused by lightning.
It was the first time he had seen such injuries in all his medical career.
Hit by a lightning strike… How unlucky was he?
“Uncle Qi, do you know any treatment?” Zhao Chen couldn’t help but ask.
“Yes, however…”
Pondering for a moment, Uncle Qi shook his head and said, “His injuries are very strange. I can only make a list of herbs according to his conditions. However, those herbs are very precious and it’s not easy to refine them into herb liquid, even if you can collect them. Honestly… even Mr. Xin Qi might not be able to refine them!”
Shen Zhe was stunned.
Thinking his injuries were simple, he had not expected for the treatment to be so complicated.
“The lightning’s fury is too much even for Mages. You could’ve been killed if your body was any less tougher, Mr. Shen…”
Uncle Qi smiled bitterly.
“What do you think is severe if being hit by lightning isn’t?”
It was probably Nature’s greatest punishment!
“Thank you, Uncle Qi. Please write me a prescription…” said Shen Zhe, not knowing what was in the doctor’s head.
He could refine the herbs himself if Mr. Xin Qi couldn’t, just as long as he had a good griddle.
Thinking about it, he also had to prepare more oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar.
“Okay!” Uncle Qi soon wrote a whole page. Then he said in embarrassment, “The herbs are prescribed according to your injuries, but I’m not sure what liquid they should be refined into, or how they can solve the power of lightning…”
You would need to have a deep understanding of every herb and their properties to refine them, so that they melt perfectly in the furnace after following a proper sequence.