Chapter 657 Price of greed (7)
After recollecting himself, Wu Shen continued.
"After we got poisoned, as Daoist Xin explained, we were all transported to the Moon Essence Cauldron Sect for treatment.
Of our four organizations, and even in consideration of the organizations within the range as a whole, they were the only organizations we could trust to have a way to handle the issue.
But we underestimated how vindictive the tricolored white-eyed tortoise was. It may have not wanted to fight us to the death, but that didn't mean it would let things go just like that.
It sacrificed its blood essence ignoring the long period of weakness it would suffer because of it just to ensure we would have the most painful death possible.
The pain was like nothing I had ever experienced. Even getting cut by the ghost blade mantis didn't hurt as much.." Wu Shen said as he smiled bitterly.Trace the roots of this material to n0v★lbin
"Our sect's core art grants us a certain level of defense against toxins and it also boosts our vitality and regenerative capabilities.
I have survived this long because of those qualities.
There have been moments where those attributes have been overwhelmed but never to this extent.
Whether it was regeneration, vitality, or a slight level of toxin immunity, all of it was rendered useless in front of the venom from the tricolored white-eyed tortoise.
The refined body I was so confident of in its defense and strength, started breaking down like dry cracked clay, and I was too helpless to stop it, and so was the Moon Essence Cauldron Sect.
The situation was hopeless and none of our organizations could do anything about it...that was until Long Zemin showed up.
I don't know what he did, or how he did it, but when he removed the toxin, it felt like my body had been submerged in a soothing hot pool filled with cleansing herbs that slowly knit my body to full health, washing our away the pain and exhaustion I had endured.
Meditation doesn't work either, every time I try, my mind feels foggy and at times it feels like a dam that has been overrun by a flood and is about to burst which results in a sharp piercing pain coming from my mental sea.
Just like Daoist Xin, I can't cultivate or meditate either no matter what means I try, they always end in the same way which is me bleeding from a part of my body accompanied by sharp pains..."
Chief Elder Wu Shen paused as he let out a sigh.
"I do hope the Order can help us find Long Zemin, so I can ask him what he did to me and if he can reverse what he did to my fellow Daoists..
But as for me...truth be told I find it hard to begrudge him for my current state. No matter how much I want to, I just can't seem to find it in myself to blame him, but instead what I have, even after knowing what he did..... is gratitude.." said Chief Elder Wu Shen.
"Wu Shen, how can you say that?! Because of what that bastard did, none of us can ever improve our cultivation base again! What he did is no different than crippling us!! He may have alleviated the torment we went through, but he got compensated for it, more than enough even, especially in helping him collect herbs in those dangerous territories.
Long Zemin cheated us and has essentially destroyed our lives!! He is no different than the tricolored white-eyed tortoise. Just as cunning and vindictive, at least with that damn tortoise, it was an enemy, unlike that bastard!!!" said Hua Ying with a vehement tone filled with displeasure.
Wu Shen sighed again with a sympathetic look as he said,
"That may be true Daoist Ying, but I don't know for me when he removed that toxin just as it was about to completely break me, I can't explain it, but I intrinsically felt like something precious had been protected, which had it broken, I would never get back.
I have no idea why or what that thing is, but intrinsically I feel that Long Zemin's act, no matter his intentions, helped me hold on to something vital to me, something as vital as my own life.
lightsnοvεl That is why I'm finding it hard to blame him..."
"Settle your nerves, Miss Hua Ying.."
Just as Hua Ying was about to have another outburst, Yang Qing's calm voice shook her soul, silencing her entire body.
