Chapter 648: The Injured Person

Li Yi arrived at the Golden Academy and rested for two simple days.

During those two days, he focused entirely on replenishing his blood and qi, filling the voids in his body, and promoting the birth of divine blood—luckily, the Bald Daoist and the others had left him a large stock of elixirs, so Li Yi didn't have to worry about food or drink for a while.

With this massive influx of blood and qi, Li Yi's five viscera and six bowels operated rapidly, and his divine blood gushed forth like a clear spring.

This divine blood began to overflow his acupoints, nourishing his body, causing his physical form to continue transforming at an astonishing rate.

This transformation should have been completed in the world where incense deifies gods, but it had stalled due to lack of resources; only now, back on Earth, could it resume.

Inside a palace within the Tianyi Hall.

Li Yi sat with closed eyes, silver lightning weaving around him, his silver divine blood filling every part of his body, as if forming a dappled tiger crouching beside him—yet on the other side of his body, golden energy surged, the bloodline of a golden dragon also stirring into being.

The dragon and tiger bloodlines intertwined, one golden, one silver, and combined with the Technique of Subduing the Dragon and Taming the Tiger, they forcibly merged these two incompatible bloodline powers into his own, becoming Li Yi's unique Dragon-Tiger Force.

Thus, as the two divine bloodlines continued to gestate, his physical strength steadily increased.

If he could successfully fill all sixty acupoints with divine blood, Li Yi's Dragon-Tiger Force would reach an extremely terrifying level—he wouldn't even need to channel magic power; his bare body could lift mountains.

But to reach this point, the elixirs the Bald Daoist had prepared for him were insufficient—he needed even more blood and qi essence to nourish himself.

And this was only sixty acupoints.

Remember, when the god within the lightning demonstrated his martial arts, all three hundred and sixty-five acupoints on his body glowed—he could punch and reverse rivers and mountains, shake the sun and moon.

On the morning of the third day, Li Yi ended his recuperation due to a message.

"It's Hu Fei's text—he says he has important news for me?" He glanced at his phone, his expression shifting.

But Hu Fei lived right next door, not far away—Li Yi decided to go out and see for himself, lest he miss something critical; after all, he had just returned across worlds and knew little about recent events at the Golden Academy.

When he stepped out of his cultivation chamber, he found Hu Fei already waiting at the door.

Upon seeing him, Hu Fei immediately asked: "Li Yi, do you know a woman named Lin Yue in the Golden Academy?"

Lin Yue?

Li Yi replied at once: "I know her—she's my relative. What's wrong? Do you know her too?"

"I don't know her personally, but I have a friend at the Golden Academy who works in the medical department. Yesterday, a severely wounded woman was brought there. Since she had no money, they refused her proper treatment and told her to find someone to borrow from or guarantee her fees."

Hu Fei continued: "Later, Lin Yue mentioned your name, so my friend notified me—after all, you're somewhat of a celebrity here now, and few people know you, so I thought it was important to tell you, to avoid any misunderstandings."

"This matters greatly to me—I'll go to the medical department right away. Thank you for informing me in time," Li Yi said.

"It's nothing," Hu Fei said. "Hurry over—hopefully your relative is safe."

Li Yi nodded and wasted no time—he immediately activated the Technique of Soaring on Clouds and Riding Mist, vanishing from sight. Though he didn't know where the medical department was, the Golden Academy was small enough that, with Blue Ji 's guidance, he quickly found a white, sci-fi-style building.

Clearly, that was the medical department.

Inside a ward of the medical department, several wounded cultivators lay on hospital beds—some had lost arms, others legs, some had caved-in chests, bleeding profusely.

Had they not been Evolvers with immense vitality, such injuries would have killed them long before they could return to the Golden Academy.

On one of the beds, Lin Yue lay pale, drenched in blood; though her limbs were intact, her entire body was cracked, like a fragile porcelain vessel that would shatter at the slightest force.

Worse still, she had used her heart's blood.

Warriors of the Four Seas and Eight Continents all store a drop of heart's blood by the time they reach the Acupoint Refining stage. Once released, their bodies briefly return to peak condition and their power surges—but afterward, their blood and qi collapse severely; if their physical frame is weak, they die the moment the heart's blood's effect ends.

Lin Yue didn't die because she cultivated multiple arts—she was not only an Evolver but also a Gene Warrior.

That's precisely why she had clung to life until now.

"Patient on bed four, Lin Yue, is in critical condition. Her life force is continuously declining. We must immediately activate the Life Repair Chamber—only then can we save her. If we delay further, she will die."

At that moment, an Evolver named Wei Shaoxing spoke—he was one of the medical department's staff, responsible for treating the Golden Academy's Evolvers.

But he was not the head here.

Thus, he had no authority to use the Life Repair Chamber; each use required approval from the supervisor.

"Wei Shaoxing, you know perfectly well that patient on bed four has no money to pay for this treatment. The medical department's rules state that using the Life Repair Chamber costs one thousand points—it was painstakingly acquired from World Six and cannot be used for free," replied the supervisor, Liu Guanghui.

"But the medical department also has a rule: in emergencies, we may treat students first and collect payment later," Wei Shaoxing said. "And just now, when Lin Yue was conscious, I asked—she knows Li Yi. Li Yi will surely pay for her treatment."

Liu Guanghui sneered: "Everyone claims to know Li Yi. How do I know if it's true? Am I supposed to go track down Li Yi for a thousand points? He kills cultivators like swatting flies—I think you're trying to get me killed so you can take my position."

He didn't believe the patient knew Li Yi—Li Yi had angered the Xuan Immortal Continent and the Demon God Realm, frequently vanished across worlds, and had almost no friends in the Golden Academy.

"I won't grant access to anyone who hasn't paid. But I warn you: these patients are your responsibility. If any of them die, I'll hold you accountable. Understood?"

Wei Shaoxing's face turned ashen—he realized Liu Guanghui was using this to settle a personal grudge, endangering the students' lives to torment him.

How infuriating—he had no money himself, or he would have paid it himself.

After all, he wasn't a formal student, just a medical staff member assigned here—he had no way to earn Golden Academy credits.

"Cough! Cough!"

At that moment, a weak cough echoed—Lin Yue, lying on the bed, suddenly began spewing blood, and the cracks covering her body widened abruptly, as if her wounds had torn open all at once.

!

Any warrior from the Four Seas and Eight Continents would recognize this: Lin Yue had reached her limit—she could no longer control her blood and qi, could no longer seal her wounds, and her injuries were worsening.

"Damn," Wei Shaoxing thought. Though not a warrior and unfamiliar with the secrets of blood control, as a medical professional he understood—Lin Yue couldn't hold on any longer.

She needed the Life Repair Chamber now—or she would die.

Unlike the other Evolvers with missing limbs, her injuries were internal. Those others could simply stop the bleeding, wait, and slowly pay for limb regeneration—they faced no immediate threat to life.

"Liu Guanghui, are you really going to stand there and watch a Golden Academy student die from lack of treatment?" Wei Shaoxing roared.

Every student admitted to the Golden Academy was a cultivator with immense potential—future defenders against Earth's crises.

He simply couldn't understand why the medical department charged these students, why such an irresponsible coward was made supervisor.

"I'm not refusing to save her—rules are rules," Liu Guanghui said, turning away without another word.

But as he turned, he froze abruptly.

For without warning, a man clad in crimson-feathered purple-gold armor, black hair flowing over his shoulders, silver lightning weaving around him, had suddenly appeared in the ward—he didn't look like an Earthling, but an outsider from another world.

Yet in the Golden Academy, Evolvers wore all kinds of bizarre attire—it wasn't unusual, since they frequently crossed worlds and encountered diverse civilizations.

But Liu Guanghui's first reaction wasn't to the man's strange clothing—it was the terrifying aura radiating from him.

"This isn't an ordinary student. His power is terrifying," Liu Guanghui thought, his heart sinking. He quickly adjusted himself and asked politely: "Hello, may I ask who you're looking for?"

Li Yi said nothing. His gaze fell on Lin Yue, spitting blood on the bed. He stepped forward—suddenly appearing beside the bed—and immediately pulled out a Life Repair Chamber from his Five Elements Bracelet.

Everyone stared, stunned at the sudden appearance of the Life Repair Chamber.

Spatial storage treasure? Life Repair Chamber?

Who is this man? Why does he possess such priceless items?

Though these items meant nothing to Li Yi, to most ordinary students of the Golden Academy, they were extraordinary treasures—many dreamed of saving up to buy a spatial storage treasure, but the price was far beyond their reach.

And carrying a Life Repair Chamber? Such a setup was unimaginable for anyone else.

Li Yi ignored everyone else. He activated the Cloud Soaring Technique—a blessed cloud lifted Lin Yue from the bed and gently lowered her into the Life Repair Chamber.

"Blue Ji, activate the Life Repair Chamber—treat Lin Jie immediately," Li Yi ordered.

Blue Ji? Lin Jie?

Hearing those two words, Director Liu Guanghui's face turned deathly pale.

A storage treasure, a Life Repair Chamber, an artificial intelligence, overwhelming power—and that address: "Lin Jie." He instantly recognized the man's identity.

Li Yi?

(End of Chapter)