Chaotic Times and Disasters: I Hunt Down Martial Arts Masters and Become a God

The high priest's body lay motionless in the rubble of the stone temple.

Leo lay down beside the pile of rubble, scratching at his cracked bronze hammer with his paws, then looked up at Fu Qing standing beside the high priest's corpse.

A complex expression appeared on the blood-stained lion's face, a mixture of shock, lingering fear, and an indescribable sense of awe.

"Fu...My lord, you really did outlive him to death just now!"

The Leo slammed the bronze hammer down on the ground, still shaken.

"Even if he's seriously injured, he's still a Golden Body Realm cultivator! You, a mere Qi Refining Realm cultivator, dragged him down until he was completely exhausted. I've seen many ruthless individuals in the Demon Emperor's Palace who can kill enemies beyond their level, but I've never seen someone with Qi Refining Realm kill a Golden Body Realm cultivator."

"Compared to you, those arrogant geniuses of our Lion Clan are nothing. I used to think it was an insult for you to make me your mount, but now I don't think it's shameful at all."

He reached out a paw and scratched his mane, letting out two dry laughs.

Just as Fu Qing was about to speak, he suddenly raised his hand and covered his chest.

That feeling returned, a chilling sensation surging from the depths of his dantian, as if an invisible hand was gripping his internal organs, tightening inch by inch.

The spleen is the first to convulse, followed by the liver, lungs, kidneys, and finally the heart, with each convulsion being more intense than the last.

His face turned deathly pale in an instant, cold sweat poured down his face, and he knelt down on one knee on the gravel ground.

"My lord!"

Leo was startled and, without even bothering to pick up the bronze hammer, scrambled over.

"What happened to you? Did you suffer internal injuries when you fought the High Priest just now?"

Su Wen rushed to Fu Qing's side, squatted down, and ripped open Fu Qing's clothes at the chest. She pressed her fingers on his pulse point, and the pale green medicinal aura seeped in from her fingertips to examine the condition of his meridians.

Her face was already pale from activating the Five Elements Compass, and now it was even whiter, without a trace of blood.

She released her grip, then lifted Fu Qing's eyelids to examine his pupils. She then pricked his finger with a silver needle, drew a drop of blood, and smelled it.

"It's not an internal injury..."

She said in a deep voice

"It was the High Priest. The white mist he sprayed on you before he died was his life-bound Gu Qi. He used his last Gu Qi to activate the Gu Qi he planted in your body, and your internal organs were activated, causing the poison to take effect."

Su Wen placed her hand on Fu Qing's chest, feeling his heart pounding violently and erratically inside his chest cavity.

"The poison in your internal organs was originally suppressed by my suppressing medicine, but the high priest's poison energy was too strong and directly broke through the suppression. Now your spleen and liver have begun to fail, and the attack is happening faster than last time. Last time it was just your spleen, but this time it's both your spleen and liver."

"Can this liver prolong my life?"

Fu Qing took out the jade box from his pocket, his fingers trembling slightly. He opened the lid, and a pale green halo spilled out of the box, illuminating his face, which was covered in cold sweat.

Su Wen remained silent for a long time, looking at the still slightly pulsating remains, then at the sweat on Fu Qing's face, nodded, then shook her head.

"It can prolong life, but not now. The remains of the Medicine God are indeed full of vitality, but you are not a practitioner of medicine and cannot directly absorb the life essence of the remains. You must use medicinal energy as a guide and a secret method to extract the vitality from the remains and then transfer it into your meridians in order to suppress the Gu poison."

"But there's nothing here. There's no medicine furnace, no medicinal catalyst, no basic medicinal herbs. I can't extract the medicinal properties of the remains at all. I can't extract it out of thin air."

Fu Qing stuffed the jade box into her hand, gave a wry smile, and said, "Then let's go out first. You can help me refine it when we get back to the camp. Let's go now and let Leo carry us."

Without saying a word, Leo revealed his true form, lowered his body, and let Suwen help Fu Qing ride on his back.

Fu Qing gripped Leo's mane, feeling his internal organs convulsing with every breath.

Leo walked back along the underground passage, much faster than when they came, but the mountain path was too long...

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Fu Qing suddenly swayed and slid off the back of the Leo seat, falling heavily to the ground and spitting blood onto the gravel.

"Fu Qing!"

Suwen jumped off Leo's back, knelt beside him, and examined his eyelids to see that his pupils were beginning to dilate!

She pressed her fingers against his neck; his pulse was so weak it felt like a thread that might break at any moment.

The Leo paced anxiously, "What happened to him? What happened to him? He was fine just now, how did he suddenly collapse..."

"Shut up."

Suwen raised her head and looked around, her gaze landing on the entrance of a hidden stone cave.

The cave was small, and the entrance was completely covered by vines. Inside, one could vaguely see the ground covered with dry grass, which was probably the nest left by some animal.

She gritted her teeth, helped Fu Qing up from the ground, and put his arm on her shoulder.

Fu Qing was a whole head taller than her, and his entire weight was pressing down on her shoulders, which she couldn't lift.

"Leo, carry him into that cave, then you stand guard at the entrance and don't come in no matter what noise you hear."

Leo carefully used his mouth to grab Fu Qing by the back of his collar, dragged him into the cave, placed him on a pile of dry hay, and then came back out and lay down at the cave entrance.

His body was so large that his buttocks completely covered the opening of the hole.

He licked his still-bleeding wound.

"She said we're not allowed to go in no matter what noise we hear. What if we hear fighting? They probably won't start fighting, right? Oh well..."

The cave was very dark, with only a thin crack in the ceiling letting in a sliver of light that shone directly onto the haystack.

Suwen placed Fu Qingping on the dry grass, took out the jade box and the dim copper plate from the medicine bag, placed them side by side next to the dry grass, and then looked down at Fu Qingping.

His lips had turned purple, and cold sweat streamed down his forehead.

She remained silent for a long time before speaking.

"There is another secret method that can save you..."

Fu Qing's consciousness was already somewhat blurred, but he still heard those words.

He struggled to open his eyes, his voice barely audible. "What secret technique?"

"My constitution is the Medicine Spirit Body, the rarest type in the Dao of Medicine. The Medicine Spirit Body can directly extract the medicinal energy from the remains with its own bloodline power, and then transfer the medicinal energy into your body through a special secret method. It does not require a medicine furnace or a medicinal guide, only me and the remains."

"How do I need to cooperate?"

Suwen did not answer, but opened the jade box, took out the remains that shimmered with a pale green halo, placed them in front of him, and sat down cross-legged.

Her hands hovered above the remains, a pale green medicinal aura emanating from her fingertips. The moment the aura touched the remains, the surface of the remains suddenly glowed.

The halo of light climbed up her fingers and up her arm, seeping into her veins little by little.

This process lasted for quite some time, until the halo on the surface of the remains noticeably dimmed. Only then did she withdraw her hand, put the remains back into the jade box, and close the lid.

She turned to look at Fu Qing, her face suddenly turning red, a stark contrast to her usual icy demeanor.

"Why aren't you doing it yet?" Fu Qing looked at her with difficulty, waiting for her to administer acupuncture or feed him medicine.

Suwen turned her face away. "This secret method doesn't use needles. It requires the union of yin and yang between two people... dual cultivation and qi transfer. The medicinal qi extracted from the remains cannot be directly transferred into your meridians. It must be transferred through my medicinal spirit body as a medium."

"Your current physical condition cannot withstand the direct infusion of external medicinal energy; it must be passed through gradually, one strand at a time, at an extremely slow pace..."

"The fastest and most reliable way is through... dual cultivation, where the Qi in your meridians flows between you, guiding the medicinal Qi to penetrate your five internal organs through the fusion of Qi. This is the only way!"