Chapter 391: Pollution Cleansing Medicine
Chapter 391: Chapter 391: Pollution Cleansing Medicine
As the team’s highest in Combat Power, Lan Xin faced off against a Starry Sky Beast hundreds of meters long. The other warriors fought and killed the normal-sized Exotic Beasts that poured endlessly from spatial rifts.
Ning Xuan led her medical team, treating the severely wounded in the medical bay.
Although Ning Xuan couldn’t see the battle on the front line, she knew it had to be brutal just by looking at the stream of severely wounded patients being sent to the medical bay.
The air in the medical bay was thick with the mixed scent of disinfectant and blood. Red alarm lights spun endlessly across the ceiling. Another batch of wounded was brought in on robotic stretchers. The warrior at the front had a face charred black, and a rasping sound came from his mouth. His entire left arm looked like charcoal, and his protective suit had melted into a gelatinous mass stuck to his collarbone.
Ning Xuan took one look. "Seventy percent burn area. Severe burns with respiratory tract damage. Prioritize him!"
The moment she spoke, a debridement robot moved forward, raised an arm, and sprayed the patient. It then tore open his collar. The motion ripped away a large swath of carbonized tissue, exposing raw, red skin beneath. The center of his neck began to swell rapidly. A red warning box popped up from the medical console: "Airway obstruction at 87%. Please take immediate emergency measures."
Ning Xuan had handled countless similar cases and was very experienced. Following standard procedure, she quickly stabilized the patient.
So far, the majority of patients she had treated were burn victims. The very first burned warrior brought in had 90% of his body covered in blisters, his features were unrecognizable, and his entire back was fused to the medical stretcher. Large patches of his skin had sloughed off. It took a great deal of effort, but in the end, she saved him.
Besides burns, most of the other patients admitted to the medical bay had critically high levels of spiritual pollution!
Ning Xuan remembered a wounded soldier from the other day, who had been crouched in a corner. His eyeballs had suddenly bulged, his irises turning an unnatural purplish-red. A black mist emerged from beneath his scorched skin, looking identical to the aura coiling around the Exotic Beasts.
Before anyone could react, this suddenly transformed warrior attacked everyone around him.
Caught completely off guard, his attack resulted in massive casualties.
After that incident, whenever Ning Xuan admitted a patient, she would first check the condition of their Spiritual Sea. If she found any spiritual pollution, treatment began immediately. Any warriors whose pollution could not be eradicated even after treatment were sent to the third quarantine zone.
A holographic screen in the medical bay’s main hall displayed the current tallies: wounded admitted, deaths, patients healed and discharged, and patients under observation. The numbers changed almost every moment, but Ning Xuan was too busy to even notice. The hem of her white coat was stained with carbonized human tissue, and her cuffs were burned through with holes from corrosive Exotic Beast fluids.
The wounded from the front line were an endless stream. To free up beds, any patient whose life was no longer in danger was immediately discharged.
When Ning Xuan saw the Star Sky Beast that was hundreds of meters long, she knew she was no match for it. So, she had decisively taken charge of the rescue efforts in the medical bay instead.
It was thanks to Ning Xuan’s treatment that many critically wounded warriors were saved from the brink of death.
This sudden battle lasted for a full eight days. By the third day, there were almost no more severely burned patients, but the number of those suffering from spiritual pollution had increased.
There were too many patients with spiritual pollution; Ning Xuan couldn’t treat so many simultaneously using her Golden Needle technique. Furthermore, the Spiritual Calming Potion could only alleviate the symptoms, not eradicate the pollution itself. After two days and two nights of research, Ning Xuan finally developed a brand-new medicine that could completely clear spiritual pollution. She named it the Pollution-Clearing Potion.
Once the Pollution-Clearing Potion’s efficacy was confirmed, Ning Xuan holed herself up in a hastily set up alchemy lab and focused all her energy on producing it.
By the sixth day of the battle, she had produced enough Pollution-Clearing Potion not only to treat all current patients, but also to send a surplus to the front line.
From that point on, the number of patients sent to the medical bay decreased noticeably. Finally, on the eighth day, the battle entered its final phase.
On the seventh day, Ning Xuan suddenly felt a deep sense of unease. She couldn’t focus her spiritual power, and the blood coursed through her veins, sometimes fast, sometimes slow. It felt as though she were wide awake, yet trapped in a nightmare.
Ning Xuan had a premonition that something had happened to Lan Xin. Disregarding the protests of the soldiers, she rushed to the front line. The Water Mirror that had been floating in mid-air was long gone. The thirty-meter-long Ice-winged Blue Snake had been burned to the point of looking like a piece of charcoal; his beautiful, gleaming blue scales were now scorched black.
Of course, the massive Starry Sky Beast wasn’t faring well either. Scales were missing from its hundreds-of-meters-long body, which was covered in wounds. From the looks of it, both Lan Xin and the Starry Sky Beast were grievously injured. It was now just a matter of who could hold on longer.
Seeing this, Ning Xuan mobilized her Bloodline Energy and summoned the Fire Spirit Vermilion Bird. Stepping onto a Flying Artifact refined from Flying Elephant Ant Wings, she soared into the sky.
In his daze, Lan Xin saw the fiery red Vermilion Bird flying toward him, and his fading consciousness instantly sharpened.
"Don’t," Lan Xin shouted.
But it was too late. The Starry Sky Beast, which had also been on its last breath, suddenly grew agitated upon sensing Ning Xuan’s aura. Its tail swayed, and it opened its gaping maw, lunging toward her.
Despite its colossal size, it moved with the speed of lightning.
"No!" Zhou Shi and the others who had rushed after Ning Xuan shouted in despair. They cursed their inability to fly in front of her and shield her from the attack.
Feeling the Starry Sky Beast’s scorching aura, Ning Xuan fled swiftly toward Lan Xin. Just as that presence was about to overtake her, she violently poured her own spiritual power into Lan Xin’s Sea of Consciousness through their Spiritual Link Channel.
Upon receiving Ning Xuan’s spiritual power, Lan Xin’s flight speed instantly accelerated. With a sweep of his long, serpentine tail, he knocked Ning Xuan out of harm’s way.
With the immediate crisis averted, Lan Xin, boosted by Ning Xuan’s spiritual power, quickly finished off the Starry Sky Beast.
After Lan Xin killed the Starry Sky Beast, the already grievously wounded snake could no longer maintain his flight and plummeted from the sky.
Ning Xuan flew over and caught him, heading straight for the medical bay.
"Master, don’t worry. I’m fine." Cradled in Ning Xuan’s arms, Lan Xin sensed her anxiety and immediately spoke to reassure her.
"You’re completely scorched, and you say you’re fine? Then what would count as not being fine?" Ning Xuan retorted, exasperated. However, seeing that Lan Xin was conscious and lucid, the tension that had gripped her finally began to ease.