Free Web NovelChapter 1250: Chapter 1249: The Wrong Direction
The whole Penglai Island was shrouded in a layer of gloom.
Originally they had come here to save Yang Chen, but now even Yang Chenxi had fallen into a coma.
They had no choice but to isolate Yang Chenxi in a separate ward as well, with all kinds of tubes connected to her body to keep her alive...
Professor Yang and the others seemed to have been provoked, frantically carrying out all sorts of experiments, testing every possible approach in an attempt to develop an antidote.
They worked overtime day and night, and the research was progressing very quickly.
On the other side, Jianfeng led the search team to comb through the nearby islands and found a few more clues.
Tattered life jackets, rusty pistols... all kinds of signs indicated that after the maritime incident back then, their other personnel had indeed been washed up here.
It was just that... so far they hadn’t found a single corpse, nor any sign that any teammate had survived.
These things made Jianfeng feel as if a bone were stuck in his throat; unless he got to the bottom of it, he couldn’t sleep at night...
After searching the reef area, their target shifted to the underwater zone.
Because if nothing was found on the surface, it was very likely that everything had sunk to the seabed, which made the search even more difficult... freeweɓnovel.cøm
The Sea Region around Penglai Island was vast, and searching it was a huge project, so the progress was still not fast. In order to ensure that nothing would be overlooked, Jianfeng demanded an extremely meticulous search; every inch had to be checked, which slowed the speed even more.
In the blink of an eye, five days had passed.
Jianfeng’s side still had no real gains.
It was the laboratory that finally ushered in new results.
The fish glue extracted from the fish in the Forgetful Pool had a very good detoxifying effect. Although it couldn’t directly neutralize the poison, with the cooperation of some other elements, they believed they would soon be able to formulate an antidote!
This success made everyone quite delighted.
Over the following days, they used large amounts of Soul Returning Powder and experimented on white mice, formulating antidotes.
Even though they had found the fish glue, testing the other ingredients was still extremely difficult.
During this period, they used up a large number of white mice yet still hadn’t found the right formula, while the Soul Returning Powder and fish glue were being consumed in great quantities. If this continued, the fish in the Forgetful Pool simply wouldn’t be able to sustain further experiments.
After all, there weren’t many fish in the Forgetful Pool; once used up, they were gone. Only the fish from the Forgetful Pool produced fish glue with detoxifying properties; other fish didn’t have this effect.
Professor Qian called a halt to the experiments—he had to ensure there was enough fish glue left to make the final antidote.
For the moment, Professor Qian also wore a deeply furrowed brow; the experiments had hit a bottleneck.
They had already been here for half a month; now, for them, every day was torment, and each day could be the last!
The more it was like this, the more pressure they felt, and the more tense they became.
Ye Liangcai said to Professor Qian, "I know you’ve already done your best. Even if in the end there’s nothing you can do, I won’t blame you. After all... you tried."
Ye Liangcai didn’t want to pressure him, but his words only made Professor Qian feel even more burdened.
Professor Qian took his leave from Ye Liangcai and went outside Penglai Island for a walk, trying to calm himself down.
Kun Yao followed him, partly to protect Professor Qian, and partly because there were some things he wanted to say to him.
"I heard... you’ve always been in charge of logistics for the Saintess, providing intel and supplies when she carried out missions, right?" Kun Yao asked.
Professor Qian nodded slightly.
At this point, there was no need for him to conceal anything.
Basically, this was already something everyone knew.
Kun Yao said, "I heard you watched the Saintess grow up?"
Professor Qian thought for a moment and replied, "You could put it that way, but strictly speaking, I started looking after her when she started working. She began working quite early, and because of the nature of her work, we spent a lot of time together. I watched her grow from a shy little girl into a mature woman bit by bit. You could say I watched her grow up. In my eyes, she’s like my own daughter, only... what a pity... sigh!"
Thinking of Ye Xin, who lay unconscious, Professor Qian’s face was full of sorrow.
"Then do you know why I call Ye Xin the Saintess?" Kun Yao asked.
"That..." Professor Qian frowned. He really didn’t understand why.
He knew about the existence of the Shangqing Sect; when they came back then to look for Ye Xin, he was already aware of it.
But at the time they had only said that Ye Xin had secretly become a disciple of the Shangqing Sect, and he didn’t know who her master was.
As for why they called Ye Xin the Saintess, that he truly didn’t know.
Kun Yao said, "You should know that there’s a violent power inside Ye Xin’s body, right?"
Professor Qian frowned and said, "You mean Xiaoxin’s war aftereffects? It’s also called post‑war manic syndrome; a lot of people have this symptom. During that mission abroad, she spent two full months fleeing pursuit and fighting the enemy, killing at every moment, which led to a psychological disorder. Wasn’t that also the reason you people insisted on taking Ye Xin away back then? Saying you were afraid she’d go off the deep end!"
After speaking, Professor Qian stared at Kun Yao; back then they had all been on edge over this matter.
Kun Yao smiled faintly and said, "Do you really still want to use that kind of medical theory to explain these things now? You’ve seen the abilities of those Martial Arts families in Ancheng—how do you explain those? Some things simply can’t be explained. Think about it: where did that sudden violent power in Ye Xin’s body come from? Aftereffects? A mental illness? It’s none of that! She carries the noblest bloodline in her body! That’s why our Shangqing Sect took such an interest in her from a very young age! Because from that moment on, she was destined to be the Saintess of our Shangqing Sect!"
Professor Qian furrowed his brows, sighed, and continued walking forward.
Kun Yao caught up with him. "The reason I’m telling you all this is to make it clear that we cannot lose Ye Xin! Ye Xin is the hope of our Shangqing Sect! And you understand even better that our Shangqing Sect is this country’s last line of defense! We need her!"
"I need her too!" Professor Qian stopped and said angrily, "I watched her go from a girl who hadn’t even graduated yet all the way to now! I watched her go to the battlefield, watched her kill for the first time, watched her hide by the campfire at night and cry! She’s all of my painstaking effort! Do you think I don’t want her to wake up? Of course I do! Otherwise what am I doing here? Isn’t it all to save her? But right now we can’t formulate an antidote for Yang Chen’s poison. If he doesn’t wake up, there’s no way to awaken Ye Xin!"
"Things turn into their opposites! Life goes on endlessly! Soul Returning Powder is indeed a very potent toxin; even the Pharmacists of our Sect are helpless before it! But they told me that near any poison, there is often an antidote! I’ve looked over your experimental methods; in my opinion, your entire line of thought and approach is completely wrong. Soul Returning Powder was made using ancient Alchemy techniques and ground according to ancient medical methods. You’re now relying entirely on Western pharmaceutical methods, and those methods may not be suitable for the antidote to Soul Returning Powder. You could try another approach." Kun Yao said.
"Another approach? Ancient medicine?" Professor Qian’s eyes lit up, as if he had suddenly understood something.
