Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Long Chen's Recovery! Unfamiliar Memories?
"Wake up… my little Chen'er, wake up, please wake up for your mom!" an unknown but seemingly familiar and warm voice called out.
Long Chen slowly opened his eyes. His blurry vision gradually became clearer, and a woman's face appeared before him.
The woman appeared to be in her thirties, and she was extremely beautiful. However, in the corners of her eyes were some deep wrinkles that did not match her young age.
Currently, this woman was tearfully looking at Long Chen with eyes full of care and worry, making Long Chen's heart feel a burst of warmth.
She yelled at him while also crying, "Long Chen, how dare you try to cultivate knowing that you are unable to cultivate? Do you know how worried I was because of you!" Hearing this, Long Chen made a shocked expression, unable to figure out what was happening as his memories were unstable and unclear. His previous expression was replaced by a pained one due to his headache.
His mother, seeing her son's headache, properly placed him in a sleeping position and said, "You need to rest for now. As you have recovered your health and consciousness, everything will be alright. I will cook some food and medicine for you."
Along with her, a maid was present who followed behind her to help.
Long Chen gazed blankly at the ceiling above as he felt severe pain throughout his body, especially at the back of his head, which was bursting with a swollen, aching pain.
Just what happened? I'm Long Chen, and so Mrs. Long is my flesh and blood mother. How could I have such an unfamiliar feeling?
And all these confusing memories, where did they come from? I have memories that I'm an arrogant, exceedingly powerful person, the Revered Pill God… but at the same time, I remember that I'm an often bullied and extorted bitter trash? Also, I am a person named Long Shen from a world with highly advanced technologies and have a familiar feeling of this name and world like I have heard and known about it before?
He questioned himself, "Who am I?"
Confusion enshrouded his mind as memories flooded in, some being half-remembered and some not being remembered at all. It continued until Long Chen thought, "Whatever, it doesn't matter because right now I am Long Chen. If I'm the Pill God or Long Shen, it doesn't mean anything right now; the most important thing is that I'm still alive."
"I have three sets of memories that have mixed together, one being completely memorable, and the other two not only incomplete but also vivid. So, how would I even try to fix this kind of insane problem? Instead, what I need to do now is let myself recover as quickly as possible."
"Huh, although I have no way to condense energy, my Spiritual Strength appears to be extremely powerful. I can actually sense everything within thirty meters of my body."
Long Chen was pleasantly surprised. According to his garbled memories, Spiritual Strength was extremely invaluable, and it was especially the most important thing to Pill Cultivators!
Profit, profit! Whether he was the reincarnation of the Pill God from another life or just a mix containing the Pill God's memories, the present him had definitely greatly profited.
The previous him had lived a whole lifetime as a Pill God, and now that allowed the current him to possess an exceptionally strong spirit; just what kind of awesomeness was this?
Sensing his body's current condition, he quickly located many problems such as broken meridians and cracked veins, sealed acupoints, as well as cracked bones all over his body that made his expression aggrieved.
However, when he carefully examined his body, his expression worsened. "My Spiritual Root has been taken away. My abdomen's Spirit Bone is also missing a piece that appears to have been dug out. And my heart has a hole? Just who would be this ruthless and take my Spirit Root, Spirit Bone, and Spirit Blood? No wonder I can't cultivate," Long Chen was completely infuriated.
The current him's Spiritual Strength was exceptionally strong, even to the point where just a quick glance allowed him to solve the mystery of why the current him was a completely useless cripple.
The Spirit Root was located in the Dantian's energy source; it was a cultivator's foundation. Without the Spirit Root, there was no way to sense heaven and earth's spiritual energy, let alone absorb it for cultivation.
Spirit Blood was something that people were born with; it was a trace of Xiantian blood. While basically all people were born with it, the majority of cultivators didn't know anything about it.
The Spirit Bone was found in the pit of a person's abdomen and slightly bulged out. Ordinary people wouldn't have a Spirit Bone. Even amongst cultivators, maybe only one in ten thousand might have it, which marked them as a genius.
However, Long Chen's Spirit Bone's location was obviously missing a piece, which had clear marks of being dug out by some person.
His face became exceedingly unsightly. If his memories were not all mixed up, then how could he not remember just who had done this to his body?
Although these three things were precious, they wouldn't have any use once they left the owner's body. If they wanted to harm him, then why did they have to use such a harsh method? Using this kind of method was practically causing him to live a life worse than death.
However, anger only brought on more anger, and since he was already missing them, being angry did not have any use.
You better not let me find out who did this.
Long Chen couldn't help but gnash his teeth in anger. This was an extremely great blow to him. With him possessing a Spirit Bone, even if he were an idiot, he would still have been an absolute genius.
But now some despicable bastard had caused him to become a useless person who was incapable of cultivating, causing him to be humiliated and receive condescending looks from practically everyone.
Just when Long Chen was about to be unable to hold back his anger, the room's door was gently pushed open, and a pretty thirteen-year-old maiden walked in. This was Long Chen's maid who was called Bao-er.
"Young lord, it's time to take some more medicine."
"Medicine? What medicine is it?" Long Chen's nose moved slightly as he asked.
"This is something Mrs. Long paid an enormous price for. It's a Tiger Bone Pill that can quickly heal the young lord's injuries," Bao-er replied.
She opened the elaborate small case in her hand, revealing the medicinal pill inside. "It is said this medicinal pill came from Pill Master Yun Qi. The medicinal strength is very strong."
Looking at the thing, Long Chen's face became a bit strange. Even this kind of plaything could be called a pill? Its shape was extremely uneven and seemed more like a meatball.
Even not talking about the shape, its color was completely black, and there wasn't even a trace of luster. If it wasn't emitting a very faint medicinal aroma, then Long Chen might even suspect it was a ball of sheep dung.
After staring at the thing in his hand for a long time, Long Chen finally sighed. Someone who had lost over eighty percent of the medicinal pill's essence could still be called a master? Long Chen bewilderedly wondered how someone had managed to create something that could become so soft and mushy.
Pills could be divided into five grades: low grade, middle grade, high grade, top grade, and peerless grade. As for the pill in his hand, it couldn't even count as one of the five grades. Long Chen suddenly realized that this was just a defective good. It was a trash pill. Normally Pill Masters would definitely not sell these kinds of medicinal pills since they couldn't afford to lose their customers. Oftentimes they would be turned into medicinal liquids or just directly thrown out.
"Young lord, don't daydream. In order to obtain this precious pill, Mrs. Long already sold off one tenth of the overall household's money. You should hurry and take it," urged Bao-er.
Long Chen couldn't help but feel some pain in his heart. His impression of his mother was that she loved him very dearly, to the point where it was like drowning in love and pampering. It reached the point where his mother would basically never refuse any of his requests.
His mother had done everything and anything for him. She had given birth to him while she was still young. She had grown up innately beautiful, but now she was barely thirty-something years old and already had wrinkles in the corners of her eyes. Seeing those deep wrinkles, Long Chen knew that she had already sacrificed far too much for him.
Looking at the medicinal ball in his hand, he observed that although it was a defective good, the medicinal ingredients were still not bad. Although impurities took up over eighty percent of it, it wouldn't have any problems healing his injuries.
Taking the ball of medicine, Long Chen ordered Bao-er not to leak any news of him out, excluding his mother, of course.
Although Bao-er didn't really understand, she still trusted Long Chen and obediently nodded.
After taking the medicine, although Long Chen had no way to use cultivation to absorb the medicinal strength, he managed to guide the medicinal energy to his wounds by using his formidable Spiritual Strength, making his speed of recovery extremely quick.
The second day, Long Chen slowly opened his eyes and had a smile plastered on his mouth as he exercised his muscles.
Excellent! Although that medicine was pretty bad, the medicinal ingredients themselves were of high quality. Other than my hindbrain, the majority of my injuries have already healed, and the amount of energy left is more than enough to heal completely.
He slowly walked towards the mirror. Looking at his reflection, he saw a nothing-out-of-the-ordinary handsome youngster with eyebrows like swords and bright eyes. Long Chen took a deep breath, "From today onwards, I, Long Chen, will no longer be the previous Long Chen. I will rise above others."
Although his body was still slightly weak, walking was no longer a problem. Long Chen left the room and saw that the sun had already risen from the east.
After pondering deeply for an hour, he called over Bao-er and gave her a list of medicinal ingredients for her to find.
Bao-er's expression became a bit embarrassed as she herself didn't have any money and Long Chen remembering the fact started searching the room where he found 5 gold coins which was more than enough to buy those medicinal ingredients so he also told her buy some food for herself and him that she liked from the streets.
Bao-er worked diligently, and not even two hours later she had managed to buy the medicinal ingredients and returned home. Long Chen immediately set about dividing and measuring them into different portions before boiling them in a large bowl.
Six hours later, a very thick medicinal liquid was releasing a medicinal aroma. When Long Chen saw the bowl with the cheap medicinal liquid, a smile appeared on his mouth.
"I, Long Chen, will rise above others, starting from this one bowl of medicinal liquid."
The medicinal liquid entered into his stomach, and Long Chen hastily used his mind to guide the medicinal energy throughout his body, allowing it to merge into his bones.
Normal martial artists would let the medicinal energy assimilate inside the Dantian in order to absorb it, and only later would they spread it throughout their body. However, Long Chen didn't have a Spirit Root, and so his Dantian was completely empty and had no way to store energy.
The only thing he could do was allow the medicinal energy to scatter into every cell. Although this medicinal liquid was formed from only ordinary medicinal herbs, it displayed a surprisingly great medicinal effect after going through Long Chen's pairings and proportions.
As the medicinal energy rushed throughout his body, countless pores opened up and every single cell seemed as if it had been in a state of suffocation as they all began to crazily absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
BOOM!
A muffled explosion came from within Long Chen's body. His originally sealed meridians were all forced open, and Long Chen couldn't stop himself from letting out a muffled groan.
When others cultivated, they would use the Dantian's Qi to little by little open up their meridians in a step-by-step manner, which would not cause any pain.
However, Long Chen couldn't do so; he could only borrow an outer energy source. This energy was like the ocean's water flowing into a river field; its violent and ferocious power wasn't something that just anybody could withstand.
"This pain… I will definitely remember this pain," Long Chen gnashed his teeth. If it weren't for some person stealing his Spirit Root, how could he have been forced to choose such a crazy method?
BANG BANG BANG!
To be continued...
(P.S.: Sorry There were some mistakes which now have been edited)