Chapter 27: Cloud Leopard (1/2)
Chapter 27: Cloud Leopard
As soon as he regained consciousness, Cloud Leopard instantly flipped into the air and jumped to a corner of the room. He covered himself in the shadows while simultaneously preparing an Origin Skill. It was only then that he surveyed his surroundings.
Everything had happened in a blur to Su Chen. He discovered that the sick person who had just been passed out on his bed a moment ago had suddenly isolated himself in a corner of the room, like a leopard stalking its prey, waiting for the right moment to strike.
Su Chen was startled, but he laughed and said, “You’re awake? Don’t worry, nothing will harm you here.”
The youth’s vigilant gaze calmed down somewhat upon discovering that it was Su Chen.
In the instant that his vigilance relaxed, the pain in his body came surging back, causing him to let out a whimper of pain.
Su Chen said, “You were injured thirty-two times and three of them were life-threatening. It took me a long time to treat the wounds, but your movements just now opened them up again.”
Cloud Leopard lowered his head to look at his own body. Indeed, it was covered with wounds that had been bandaged together. Blood began to seep through some of his bandages.
“Thank you,” Cloud Leopard replied in a hoarse voice. His voice seemed slightly airy because his throat had also been cut.
“There’s no need to thank me. If you don’t want all of my hard work to go to waste then go lie down on the bed.”
Cloud Leopard obediently returned to the bed.
“Here, drink this.” Su Chen handed Cloud Leopard the medicine that he had prepared. “You have to drink this one while you’re awake. After you drink it, activate your absorption technique to absorb the medicinal power and allow it to diffuse throughout your entire body. It’s a bit hot.”
Cloud Leopard drank it quickly.
He felt a wave of heat rise from within his body and spread through every channel in his body. It grew hotter and hotter until it was so hot that Cloud Leopard almost let out a scream.
“Activate your absorption technique to absorb the medicinal power!” Su Chen said.
The wave of heat began to slowly dissipate after Cloud Leopard started furiously absorbing medicinal power. .
Despite this, the furious momentum of the medicinal power made it so that Cloud Leopard wanted to die. However, Cloud Leopard had a strange temperament; he gritted his teeth and kept silent the entire time, continuously absorbing the medicinal power as Su Chen had instructed.
This continued for the time it takes a stick of incense to burn until Cloud Leopard finally let out a sigh. His body stopped trembling after the heat had receded. Su Chen knew that Cloud Leopard had finished absorbing the medicine.
“How do you feel now?” Su Chen asked.
Cloud Leopard inspected himself and then replied, “My internal injuries have healed significantly, but my external injuries were not affected much. Some of them even got worse.”
“That’s good enough.” Su Chen was very satisfied. Cloud Leopard’s internal injuries were extremely severe. To be able to recover that much in such a short period of time was still impressive. Su Chen replied, “That’s not very strange. The Whitestone Medicine mostly exists to treat internal injuries anyways.”
“Whitestone Medicine?” Cloud Leopard was curious. “What kind of medicine is it? How come I’ve never heard of such an effective medicine before?”
Su Chen smiled. “That’s because this medicine doesn’t exist anywhere else.”
After a brief pause he said, “I invented it.”
“You invented it?” Cloud Leopard’s eyes were about to fall out from their sockets.
“Well…… It’s probably more accurate to say that someone invented half of it and then I finished the other half,” Su Chen said.
The Whitestone Medicine’s original creator was Master Feng. After killing him, Su Chen had obtained all of the information he had left behind, including the recipe for this medicine.
The medicine wasn’t originally called Whitestone, nor was it used to treat internal injuries.
It was a kind of medicine that was meant to cause one’s Origin Energy to surge and begin to boil. It excited one’s Origin Energy upon use, dramatically increasing one’s Origin Energy temporarily and greatly increasing the force of any Origin Skills used.
However, this was a failed product. Master Feng was only experienced in putting together medicine, not controlling Origin Energy. He discovered that the chaotic Origin Energy was extremely difficult to control so he gave up on it.
After obtaining Master Feng’s notes, Su Chen wanted to try his hand at making this medicine after he realized that his ability to control Origin Energy was much better than Master Feng’s. He could put into practice what he learned about alchemy and also increase his strength at the same time.
However, the notes only kept details on the ingredients, not how to prepare the medicine. This lead to Su Chen failing many times.
Su Chen inadvertently discovered during one of his failures that one of the side effects from concocting this Origin Energy Surging Medicine cured internal injuries.