The warm makeshift house was filled with steam.
Amidst the dense steam, Luo Li grumbled as he poured bucket after bucket of hot medicinal water into the huge wooden bucket.
Tang Ling was sitting cross-legged on the floor in a pair of shorts.
Ro Xin's forehead was covered in sweat as she poked the silver needles soaked in the yellow potion into Tang Ling's body.
Each time the silver needles were inserted, a burning sensation would follow, but Tang Ling did not even grunt. Instead, he entered his visualization state and gathered as much of his energy as he could into his dantian according to Ro Xin's request.
Ro Xin's treatment was not just her alone. She had to work with Tang Ling to complete the treatment.
The theory was simple. Tang Ling would suppress the blue energy and his own energy would devour it bit by bit.
The process was not something that could be completed in one go. It would take time.
Regardless, the first treatment must be successful to prove that Ro Xin's theory was correct.
The potion soaked in the silver needles was a potion that could slow down the flow of energy.
And this Silver Needle Technique was a family heirloom of the Luo clan. Only Luo Li had learned it.
The needle technique that Tang Ling was using was a special locking needle that could lock the energy within a certain meridian.
Energy, meridians, and acupoints were things that the medical science of the old civilization could not see and could not prove. However, the strange thing was that the ancient Huaxia of the old civilization had been practicing acupuncture since ancient times, and it targeted these invisible things.
She placed the last needle in.
Ro Xin wiped the sweat off her forehead and asked Ro Li, whose face was still swollen, "Bro, is the potion ready?"
"Almost." Ro Li wiped the sweat off his forehead and grumbled, "Why do I have to serve him?"
"Aren't you my bro? You aren't serving Tang Ling! You are helping me! "Ro Xin walked over and hugged Ro Li's arm, swinging it back and forth.
Ro Li was out of ideas. He could never resist his sister's coquettish ways.
"Alright, let him come over. I don't think the kid can take it. " Ro Li stood aside and looked at the steaming, spicy medicinal liquid that resembled the hotpot soup of the old civilization. He could not help but shudder.
Ro Li also had some basic knowledge of herbs. He knew that this wasn't a tub of a complete tonic. Instead, it was a tub of hot medicinal herbs that were filled with heat. Moreover, it was specially made with some herbal dressings that amplified the heat and integrated the heat to create a hot medicinal soup.
You can also call it a barrel of 'hot poison'.
Ro Li felt terrible just thinking about the feeling of soaking himself in the pool. He was worried that Tang Ling would get hemorrhoids the next day after he soaked himself in the pool.
In particular, his sister's acupuncture, although she had locked some of the meridians, she had also opened some of them. The heat toxins would not only enter the body through the blisters, but they would also enter the depths of the body through the opened meridians.
Would Tang Ling be turned into a cooked prawn if the method was so cruel?
Ro Li pitied Tang Ling.
However, Tang Ling did not know how dangerous the solution was because she did not tell him anything. Similar to a doctor performing surgery on a patient, the doctor would not tell the patient how to cut open the patient's body and how to remove the lesion.
The patient would be scared to death.
Of course, even if Tang Ling knew, he would not care because he was thinking about something else.
It was about the Horror Lullaby. When he took off his clothes and put away the Horror Lullaby, he found that there were words written on it.
The words were bronze and there was only one name on it — Ro Li!
What does it mean? Ro Li is one of the people on the Horror Lullaby?
After he noticed it, he carefully inspected the Horror Lullaby and noticed some faint blood stains on it.
It reminded him of when he beat Ro Li up in the morning. Ro Li was beaten until he bled from all seven orifices, so the blood stains might have come from that.
Is this the reason why the Horror Lullaby reacted? It should not be. If the Horror Lullaby had to be stained with blood to confirm whether the person was on the list or not, this thing would be useless.
They could not possibly smear the blood of everyone in the world on it and confirm the person on the list, could they?
If that was the case, wouldn't the Stardust Council be exhausted?
Tang Ling firmly believed that there was more than one Horror Lullaby, and the Star Searcher from the Stardust Council must be related to the Horror Lullaby as well. This primitive method of smearing blood on the Horror Lullaby was definitely not the right way to use it.
Filled with doubts, Tang Ling sat down in a pair of shorts in the tub of hot poison in Ro Li's heart.
The moment he sat down, the scorching heat engulfed him in an instant, causing him to feel a stinging sensation.
Despite his perseverance, Tang Ling could not help but gasp in pain. It was painful.
It hurt, it was too painful. It was as if countless sharp knives were slowly cutting every part of his body, and then a handful of chili was sprinkled on the cut wounds.
Tang Ling's face flushed red.
"Don't move. Start with what I taught you." Ro Xin was exceptionally calm as she stood beside Tang Ling.
The method of expelling the poison was considered an unconventional and dangerous method. If Tang Ling could not endure it, the method would fail.
"I'm fine." Tang Ling quickly regained his calmness and followed Ro Xin's instructions to absorb the poison bit by bit.
Then, he would use his own energy to transport the heat toxins to the area that was invaded by the blue energy bit by bit. He would then use the heat toxins to wear out the blue energy's cold toxins. The blue energy would slowly become weak and harmless, and he would be able to devour the energy in his body.
The theory behind it was simple, but each step was not easy.
However, each step was not easy. If she did not lock down the blue energy, it would resist fiercely and it was not something that the hot poisonous soup that she brewed could resist. Instead, due to the strong resistance, the blue energy would spread even further.
Therefore, the most important step was to lock down the blue energy and devour it.
On top of that, the process of transporting the poison was also very dangerous. If Tang Ling was slightly distracted during the process, his energy would not be able to contain the poison and he would be poisoned as well.
However, the process was excruciatingly painful. It was like moving a knife inside his body and it was a huge challenge to his willpower.
In the end, Tang Ling's body was soaked in the poison. He had to distribute his limited energy perfectly and consume the whole tub of poison. Otherwise, he would still be poisoned.
From the looks of it, Ro Xin was a genius since she was able to come up with such a treatment method.
If she could grow stronger, she would surely stir up a storm in the medical field.
She was definitely an extreme doctor. Her methods were fast and precise, but it was not hard to imagine that once she resorted to such extreme methods, her patients would either live or die.
"Can he take it?" Ro Li moved a stool over and sat beside Tang Ling. She splashed some water on Tang Ling's face from time to time, but Tang Ling did not react at all.
However, with his eyes closed, Tang Ling did not react at all. Beads of sweat rolled down his face from time to time and dripped into the medicinal soup.
"That's the way to treat him. If he can't take it, it's because he's weak." Whenever it came to her profession, Ro Xin was extremely rational and cold.
During the treatment, if the doctor poured sympathy, heartache, or sadness into the treatment, it would definitely interfere with the treatment.
In times like this, the best way was to focus on the result and effect and ignore the human side of things.
At least, Ro Li was Ro Xin's patient, so he had to cooperate with her with his willpower.
Ro Li shuddered when he saw how cold his sister was. He was thinking about whether he should die or not if he was severely injured. No matter what, he would not let Ro Xin heal him.
Tang Ling had no idea what was going on.
He was fully focused on resisting the cold poison. Ro Xin's method was effective. The heat poison was slowly consuming the cold poison in the active energy, but the process was very slow. Every little bit of energy consumed required three to four times to transport the heat poison back to his body.
Of course, it was not that Tang Ling did not have a better way, such as releasing the little seed.
His energy would definitely be at its strongest during the treatment.
However, the little seed could only last for five minutes, and five minutes was not enough for a long treatment.
Moreover, the treatment would be more than once. During the treatment, Tang Ling could not replenish his energy because it would only strengthen the active energy.
If the little seed released its energy and could not be replenished, would it starve to death?
Tang Ling might not admit it, but deep down, he might have treated Ro Xin as his father and would worry about the little seed starving.
Therefore, Tang Ling had to fight the active energy bit by bit.
Seconds turned into minutes.
Ro Li was so bored that he went to bed, but he refused to leave. He said that he could not let his sister stay in the same room with a man in a pair of shorts.
Ro Xin rolled her eyes at him and let him be.
However, the result was gratifying. The two siblings saw with their own eyes that the color of the boiling, bright red medicinal soup was fading bit by bit.
This time, Tang Ling's goal was to consume the active energy that was half the size of a palm near his heart.
They also saw with their own eyes that the color of the active energy was slowly fading, and then disappearing bit by bit.
"Is this kid even human?" Ro Li grumbled. He had been sitting in the hot soup for two hours.
In order to maintain the activity of the heat toxin, Ro Xin would order Ro Li to light up a brazier beside him from time to time to maintain the temperature of the water.
"He's good." Ro Xin's eyes shone with admiration. From her point of view, the effect of the first treatment should be good enough.
However, Tang Ling was determined to last until the end.
The treatment went from 2 pm to 6 pm.
The sky turned from a drizzling grayish-white to a deep, dark blue.
The Purple Moon was about to rise.
The red medicinal soup turned into white normal hot water and the blue active energy in front of Tang Ling's chest disappeared.
"Great." Ro Xin heaved a breath of relief.
Ro Li was also impressed by Tang Ling.
It was then that Tang Ling slowly opened his eyes. The pain from the treatment was over, and after the treatment, all he was left with was excitement.
After devouring a small amount of active energy, it actually increased his strength by a third! What did that mean?!
This meant that after devouring, would he achieve the perfect strength of nine oxen? It was even faster than eating vicious beast meat! It was like riding a rocket!
At the same time, Tang Ling felt a little regretful. The energy that he consumed was the energy after the cold toxin was depleted. There was no such thing as cold toxin, but a part of the energy was cold energy.
In other words, the energy that Tang Ling consumed was depleted by half or even more. If he had not consumed it, he would have grown a lot stronger.
Of course, one should not be greedy.
However, Tang Ling could not help but feel a lingering fear. If he had not used the demon ape that day and faced the Purple Moon Warrior who intercepted him, what would his chances of survival be?
Even if he used his Precise Instinct to calculate and add in all the factors such as the terrain, the answer would be zero.
Yes, the chances of survival were zero.
"Hey, Dumbo, are you crazy?" Ro Li hated Tang Ling ever since he was beaten up by Tang Ling, and his way of revenge was to call Tang Ling Dumbo for the rest of his life.
Tang Ling did not care about the bearded loli. Instead, he nodded at Ro Xin to express his gratitude.
"It's great that it's effective. I have to record the reactions and process right away. I want to see if I can adjust the formula and the way I apply the needles to be more efficient so that the treatment can be more effective. "Ro Xin did not even care about Tang Ling's gratitude. She was in a state of excitement.
It was the kind of excitement that a doctor felt after curing a difficult and complicated disease.
"Gosh." Ro Li touched his nose and was speechless when he saw his little sister run away. He then turned around and shouted at Tang Ling fiercely, "Stand up. The girl is gone. You don't have to be shy anymore."
"As a man, I won't laugh at your size."
What the hell?! Tang Ling stood up. His shorts were wet, so it was a little indecent, but the size was not a problem. Tang Ling had never been afraid of anything.
Ro Li glanced at Tang Ling in disdain. He looked at Tang Ling again and again, and his heart broke.
Does it make sense? I'm so buff, so manly, and even my beard is so lush!
Damn it! This is fake! Tang Ling must have stuffed something like a sock in his shorts as a cover!
"I'm leaving." Ro Li decided not to expose Tang Ling's trick and preserve his dignity.
"Hold on." Tang Ling hesitated for a while before he called out to Ro Li. Regardless of whether it was the blood that caused the Horror Lullaby to react, Ro Li did appear on the lullaby. Should he tell Ro Li about it?
However, did Ro Li know about the Horror Lullaby?
"F * ck off! I'm not interested in men! What a hypocrite! "Ro Li spat in disdain.
Tang Ling was stunned. Since when was I a hypocrite?
However, at that moment, a dignified voice came in. "Let him go. He's an idiot. He'll only mess things up."
Without a doubt, the voice belonged to Ro Yan.
As he spoke, he walked into the makeshift house. His timing was impeccable, so he must have been waiting outside for a long time.
Tang Ling was calm. He knew what would come would come. Ro Yan would definitely come for him.
As for Ro Li, he was even more heartbroken. Why am I an idiot? He buried his face in his hands and ran away, leaving a series of sobbing noises.
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