Chapter 207: Countermeasures

Could this be a Divine Pattern Battle Technique?

It certainly seems strange and powerful.

Xu Chen was both shocked and delighted at this moment, certain that he had indeed discovered something extraordinary.

However, this experiment was too reckless, so he hurriedly withdrew his Divine Sense and restrained his Yuan Qi; sure enough, the cyan mountain phantom flickered slightly and then vanished.

The Elder and a group of Feng tribespeople were all looking at Xu Chen with faces full of terror.

"Xu Chen, what exactly was that aura on your body just now?" the Elder asked via Divine Sense Transmission, his face pale.

Xu Chen withdrew his Divine Sense from the Blue Light Treasure Bottle, thought for a moment, and replied with a strange expression via transmission: "Elder, perhaps I have discovered a Divine Pattern?"

"A Divine Pattern?!" the Elder couldn't help but exclaim.

"Indeed, the aura and the mountain light-shadow released from my body just now were the Divine Pattern Battle Technique strengthened in the Creation Pool that you mentioned earlier. Actually, this is just a simple defensive function, and I have only just come into contact with it, so I am not very clear on how to use it; otherwise, I wouldn't have caused the accident just now. I am truly sorry!"

The Elder, however, looked at Xu Chen as if he had seen a ghost; his mouth hung open for a long time before he trembled and asked via transmission: "You, are you certain it is a Divine Pattern Battle Technique? How did you obtain it?"

Xu Chen smiled and pointed at the dormant man lying before them who was nearly rotting: "In the process of treating him, I felt from his newly grown flesh that the Blood Poison patterns might not be as simple as Blood Poison; they seemed similar to an ancient type of Ancient Rune I have seen before, so I tried to fuse them. I didn't expect it to actually succeed. I can now confirm that the Blood Poison you have been drinking and storing in your bodies is not a toxin, but a very powerful and miraculous power; it is just that you no longer know how to refine and use it, and because too much has accumulated, your bodies cannot withstand it and are slowly collapsing."

The Elder was stunned, completely unable to believe Xu Chen's claim.

But they were indeed somewhat familiar with the aura on Xu Chen just now.

Therefore, he forcibly controlled his emotions and asked, trembling all over: "If the Blood Poison pattern is truly a Divine Pattern, can you teach us how to use it?"

Xu Chen thought for a moment and shook his head: "Sorry, you saw it just now; I have only just come into contact with the Divine Pattern and am completely unable to control it. But I think as long as I am allowed to study it properly for a period of time, or perhaps after I fully wake this tribesman up, you might get the answer you want."

Upon hearing this, the Elder was full of surprise and said: "That is easy to arrange. You can experiment on all the dormant people in the tribe. Whether you can save them or not is not important, as long as it is useful for studying the Divine Pattern."

Xu Chen nodded slightly and said: "It is too early to say. Let me try to continue waking this warrior. If he can wake up smoothly, perhaps the surprise the Feng tribe receives will be even greater. You three Elders should also go outside and wait; I am worried that there might be some accidents later."

"Alright, then we will go outside and wait!"

The Elder nodded hurriedly, took the two pale-faced middle-aged physicians and exited the stone room, and chased away the group of Feng tribespeople who were watching the excitement in the corridor.

Without anyone watching or interfering, Xu Chen was able to focus wholeheartedly on reviving this middle-aged warrior, while constantly observing and collecting different Ancient Runes from his newly grown flesh, then copying them one by one into Jade Pieces inside the Blue Light Jade Bottle.

Time slipped away silently.

Xu Chen did not know how much time had passed, until after repeated observations showed no new Divine Pattern Marks appearing in the man's newly grown flesh, he finally withdrew his Divine Sense from the man's body.

At this time, there were already over a hundred blue Ancient Rune Jade Pieces on the Blue Light Treasure Bottle, emitting a gold and red intertwined light amidst a phantom blue starlight, looking exceptionally clear.

And after he continuously introduced white Qi to strengthen the Soul and repair the physical body, the dormant man's internal organs had already begun to take shape, and the other areas that had been completely blasted away and cleared by the white Qi also began to grow and recover in terms of tendons, bones, skin, and flesh.

The vitality on the man's body was already very clear, and the speed at which his collapsed body tissues were recovering was getting faster and faster; the white Qi had gradually gained the upper hand.

But as the area of the man's flesh and body tissues recovered, Xu Chen felt that the white Qi released daily by the Blue Light Treasure Bottle could no longer meet the speed required for this repair. After about another quarter of an hour, the growth speed of the flesh on the man's body almost completely stopped.

To say it stopped completely was not quite right; it was just that because there were too many body tissues to recover, the white Qi was no longer enough to distribute, so everything was growing extremely slowly.

Xu Chen hesitated for a moment and tried to circulate the Demon Refining Art, but as a powerful torrent of white light rushed into the man's body, not only did the remaining body tissues begin a new round of violent explosions, but even the parts that had already grown flesh were destroyed again.

In just two breaths, Xu Chen stopped the operation of the Demon Refining Art.

The man's body was too severely dormant and decayed to withstand the impact of the Demon Refining Art. No matter how he controlled the output speed of the white Qi, the man's body, which was decayed to the extreme, could not withstand it at all. If he didn't stop, the man would be completely blown into ashes within a few breaths at most.

But if he continued to guide the daily state of white Qi to repair him, it would take at least five days to fully repair this person to a normal state and save him.

If saving one ordinary tribesman consumed such great energy and time, Xu Chen absolutely could not accept it at the moment.

Because if he could save one, the Feng tribespeople would beg him to save everyone else.

Counting the dozen or so, not to mention the consumption of Yuan Qi, the time alone would take more than a month, and he would have to go without sleep or rest during that period.

Therefore, Xu Chen kept pondering in his heart how to deal with this situation.

Soon, he had a vaguely feasible idea.

The man's Soul was now several times stronger than before, with almost no risk of death, and the internal organs, tendons, bones, and flesh that had been eroded and decayed by Underworld Qi had been repaired by about ten percent. Although he could not wake up yet, if he first repaired the Meridians and blood vessels in his body to be roughly complete, then the Qi and blood in his body would have the conditions for self-circulation, and then with the assistance of pills that stimulate flesh growth to continuously supplement, he would be able to recover slowly by himself, and there would be no need for him to continuously channel white Qi like this, wasting time and energy for nothing.

Thinking of this, Xu Chen began to change his approach, guiding the white Qi to abandon the repair of unimportant bones and muscles, and instead using it all to repair important tissues such as Meridians and blood vessels.

Soon, in Xu Chen's Divine Sense perception, tissues like blood vessels and Meridians began to appear in a crisscross pattern inside the man's decayed body, slowly building a complex Qi and blood circulation network.

About two quarters of an hour later, Xu Chen suddenly withdrew his hand and let out a long breath.

At this time, the life aura in the middle-aged man's body was already very stable; although he hadn't woken up, it was already dozens of times stronger than the dried-corpse state he was in at the beginning.

The Elder stood at the doorway, his emotions in a very unstable state; one moment he wanted to cry, the next he wanted to laugh, but he clenched his fists tightly, not daring to make any sound.

The impact of Xu Chen's words just now was truly too great, unprecedented.

Divine Pattern, what an ancient topic of inheritance.

Although many ancient tribes in Minghuang still circulated stories of Divine Patterns, in reality, it had almost become a legend, because for a very, very long time, all the Nether Human Race had been unable to activate Divine Pattern Battle Techniques.

Of course, legends were legends, but everyone firmly believed in the matter of Divine Pattern Battle Techniques and had always been looking for ways to activate them.

It was just that as time went on, more and more inheritances were cut off, there were fewer and fewer strong people, and hope became increasingly slim.

But the appearance of Xu Chen was like a ray of dawn, illuminating the hope of the Nether Human Race.

Seeing Xu Chen withdraw his hand, but the tribesman did not seem to have woken up, the Elder, although feeling some regret, hurriedly transmitted his comfort: "A failure this time doesn't matter; we can find someone with better symptoms to continue the experiment."

Xu Chen, however, smiled and shook his head: "Elder, rest assured, this one is already considered saved. It's just that for him to fully wake up, I need to keep casting spells for a long time, which is a great burden for me. Besides, so many of your tribespeople are still in dormancy; if I want to save them all, it is impossible for me to spend so much time on each one. Therefore, I need to think of another way. Please trouble the Elder to arrange a stone room for me; I need to rest and think about a method quietly!"

Upon hearing this, the Elder was overjoyed and hurriedly led Xu Chen out of the stone room, personally arranging for him to stay next to his own sleeping stone room, and even had someone spread a beast skin with a strange color on the ground.

Although Xu Chen did not ask about the origin of this beast skin, he knew that ordinary Nether Beasts could not possibly have skin, not even flesh; they would completely collapse into Black Mist upon death, leaving only a Soul Bead.

However, that was not entirely true, because there was still a huge pitch-black Shell outside; it didn't collapse after death, which showed that in the Underworld, Nether Beasts of a certain level still possessed real bodies, it was just that their numbers might be very small.

In order not to disturb Xu Chen's thinking, the Elder arranged for Feng Zhao and Feng Xing, the two strongest warriors of the tribe, to guard outside and not let anyone approach.

After Xu Chen went in, he did not think about countermeasures, but lay down directly to rest.

Since falling into the Underworld, he had not rested wholeheartedly for a long time. Although he couldn't say he was physically and mentally exhausted, he had actually been in a state of extreme tension, and his mental pressure was very high. If it weren't for his powerful Soul and strong body, he estimated that if any other Zhenyuan Realm cultivator were in his place, they would have already collapsed.

(End of chapter)