Chapter 403: Saving Ma Rong (2/2)
”No! He said he has away. Let's wait. I will help if nothing happens in a minute,” Zhou Mei said. However, she too was nervous since she had never seen anyone in such pain before.
Fan Ruogang was starting to tear up on the side from seeing so much pain being expressed through Alex's face and screams.
Alex himself however was focusing on his pain the least. He let himself scream and emote as much as he could to relieve some of the pain, instead of withholding it. That should help him somewhat was what he believed.
He kept what little wit he could into feeling the power ripping away from his master's hands into his own. There was also the notification that was going off that he had to keep track of.
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It was the same notification over and over again, without a hint as to when it was going to stop. He kept on screaming for what felt like a long time when something changed.
<Congratulation, the Yang Qi in your body has been purified and condensed>
<Yang purity at 70
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His Yang purity reached 70% and condensed once more, meaning his Qi was a little thicker and denser than before. Most of the time when he would eat a Yang Jade, the Purity part was where it all ended, but right now, it kept ongoing.
There was more Yang energy in Ma Rong than a normal Yang jade.
He prepared himself for more screams, but suddenly, he felt nothing. He found himself on the ground, along with Zhou Mei who seemed to have pulled him away as well.
”Are you alright?”
Before he could even say anything, the worried faces of the girls were up close to his face. Seeing them, he didn't have the heart to scold them for taking him away.
He pulled his cloth out of his mouth and said, ”I'm fine. Sigh, you should have let me be… argh.” He looked down at his hands that had the whole surface charred to black. Without question, his hands were hurting quite a bit.
Fan Ruogang quickly brought out a healing pill and fed him. The sweet scent of the pill wafted up to his nose and he quickly swallowed it.
The energy released from his stomach as it passed throughout his body, looking for anything to heal. The yellow tendrils going up his arm reduced until they were not visible anymore.
His black charred hands that were unrecognizable were healed as the flakes of his skin fell onto the ground to reveal new skin underneath. They still looked very bad, but at least they were healed to the point where one could start to see the palm lines.
”What? That was a 40% harmony pill!” she was surprised. Alex got not a single Qi as all of the healing factors from the pill had gone to his hands. She rummaged to get another one, but Alex stopped her.
”Thanks, Fanfan, I should be able to continue it a little more,” Alex said.
”What? No way! Look at how to hurt you got from that just now. We won't let y—”
”Senior sister!” one of the girls interrupted her.
Fan Ruogang turned around to see the girl who just called her pointed at something. They all twisted their heads to see what it was.
”Urghh….” Ma Rong grunted a little. ”W-What's… going on? It hurts…” she said.
”Master!” Alex called out.
”Sect leader!” the girls called out as well.
They all got close to her but immediately stepped back due to the intense heat. Only Alex could stay there.
”Master are you alright?” he asked, but there was no response. However, just the fact that she talked back was enough of a change that he knew what he was doing was working.
”Let me try once more.”
He immediately shoved the cloth into his mouth and started grabbing his master's hands once more.
Pain shot through his body as his hands started to get back to being worse. The yellow tendrils returned as the Yang energy in Ma Rong's body was pulled into Alex.
His hands started to char once more, but not at the same speed as the first time. Even the pain was quite manageable compared to the first time.
The notifications kept appearing, but he no longer believed he would reach the 80% mark.
”Ughh…” his master grunted. He too was grunting at this point as the pain wasn't strong enough to make him scream.
Ma Rong turned and slowly opened her eyes as she saw Alex's face.
”A… A… Am I dead?” she asked with a monotone voice.
”No master, You are okay. You are fine,” Alex said, but he didn't let go of her hand. What little Yang energy remained was still being dragged onto him.
”Yu Ming?”
Her eyes went wide as shock filled her face. She was about to stand up to look at him, but just then, Alex fully took away the last bit of Yang energy in her body.
However, it did not stop there. Suddenly, he absorbed something else, something cold, something dark. He immediately felt a connection between his master and himself.
Ma Rong slumped back onto the bed and Alex immediately left her hand. However, he couldn't help but look at his arms as he thought…
”What was that?”