The Time-Limited Elixir of the Ruined Clan - Chapter 181

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The Fallen Clan’s Limited Lifespan Medicine — Chapter 181

Among all the Hong Hwa Ja harvested that day, she had selected only the finest specimens, and among those, only the ripest ones—soft and yielding to the touch.
‘This will work, won’t it?’
At the sight of Bing Xue Yan’s face, her heart thundered against her ribs.
“Grandmother, Grandfather. These are the ones I gathered from the Hot Spring…”
Grandmother could recover completely. She could regain the strength she’d lost.
But it was possible this would fail.
It was possible nothing would come of it but pain.
The thought of saying those words made her throat tighten as though she’d swallowed stone.
Uncertain hope was like a sweet glass of wine studded with thorns—her chest burned with warmth, yet somewhere deep inside it ached, as if she were dying from the sting.
“So this…”
Dan Mok Ryeon struggled to find words.
Bing Xue Yan opened the box and thrust a red berry straight into her mouth.
“G-Grandmother!”
“Ugh!”
Her face twisted sharply.
Dan Mok Ryeon and Dan Mok Cheon Gi rushed toward her in alarm, but Bing Xue Yan, her mouth firmly closed, performed a strange expression of inflating and deflating the space inside her mouth as she spoke.
“Extraordinarily sour… though hawthorn berries were always like that…”
“D-Does it burn? Are you alright? No strange sensations? But taking it like that all at once—”
“You brought this for me to eat, didn’t you? Yes, yes, my granddaughter brought it for me, and it’s sweet. Perfectly sweet.”
Bing Xue Yan quickly changed her tune and, to prove her words, popped another berry into her mouth—with the composed bearing of a master who had once swept across the Martial Arts World of the Central Plains.
Dan Mok Ryeon stared back and forth between the berries and her grandmother in disbelief, then carefully bit into a small one.
Under normal circumstances, she would never have let a Spirit Elixir or Spirit Medicine touch her tongue, but now that her body had stabilized considerably in Beijing, it was a risk she could afford to take.
“Eeegh!”
And at the same moment, she clamped her hand over her mouth.
Otherwise, the berry she’d half-bitten through would have tumbled from her mouth of its own accord.
“Why are you both—”
“Sweet. Honey-sweet. Won’t you have one too? It’s alright, isn’t it, Dan Mok Ryeon?”
“W-Well, yes, it’s good for the body, but… ah, if you perform Internal Energy Circulation while eating it, it would be even better.”
Because this is Spirit Medicine…
Dan Mok Cheon Gi cautiously placed a small berry in his mouth, then covered his face with his hand for a long moment without speaking.
In the meantime, Bing Xue Yan had eaten two or three more. Dan Mok Ryeon stared at her in astonishment.
“Ar-Are you really alright? It’s incredibly sour. I should have candied them. But whenever I cook, they turn bitter…”
“What? The primary heir of the Dan Mok Clan working in a kitchen? What nonsense is this!”
“That’s not what I meant—”
Dan Mok Cheon Gi couldn’t get another word out, too busy struggling to swallow what was in his mouth. He seemed to be crying a little.
“My child in the kitchen! You’re meant for greater things than that, and here you are with such talk. This…”
Bing Xue Yan, about to launch into a lengthy lecture about how the Dan Mok Clan did not raise its granddaughter as a pampered child, suddenly clapped her hand over her mouth.
“Grandmother! Internal Energy Circulation! Circulation!”
Normally, Internal Energy Circulation meant sitting properly in full lotus, drawing up one’s internal energy to let it flow along the meridians of the body—but the three of them were in complete disarray, gasping at the sourness of the Hong Hwa Ja.
Yet Bing Xue Yan, who had spent a lifetime as a martial artist cutting through the Battlefield of Asuras, had little difficulty closing her eyes and steadying her breathing with practiced calm.
“I can help you, Grandmother. If you need to spit it out, just do so immediately.”
Dan Mok Ryeon moved closer to her grandmother. Though one normally avoided touching another during Internal Energy Circulation, she carefully placed her hand on her grandmother’s lower back, just below the waist.
‘Without even a chance to explain, and she’s already eating them…’
Dan Mok Ryeon blamed herself—her expression must have been terrible. Seeing the weight on her granddaughter’s face, Bing Xue Yan had popped a Hong Hwa Ja into her mouth to cheer her up.
‘Purification, purification, purification…’
Dan Mok Ryeon slowly closed and opened her eyes.
Above her iris, light like starshine began to shimmer, and her hair and the thin cloth of her collar fluttered as if caught in wind.
Through her fingertips flowed a luminous Spiritual Energy, purifying Bing Xue Yan’s faint internal energy and the essence of the Hong Hwa Ja, then returning it back to her grandmother.
‘Ah, so this is why the Hong Hwa Si was necessary…’
The flow of internal energy wrapping around her grandmother’s body told Dan Mok Ryeon the answer.
What differed between Bing Xue Yan and Hwang Gyou On?
Both had resisted the power of Blood Poison, but Hwang Gyou On’s body had never learned martial arts, whereas Bing Xue Yan had mastered the cold Beijing Ice Palace Martial Arts.
With Hwang Gyou On, the lingering Blood Poison in her body could be expelled—but with Bing Xue Yan, the Blood Poison had frozen deep within the icy embrace of the Beijing Ice Palace Martial Arts that permeated her body.
The poison required both warmth to dissolve it and the cold energy to restore Bing Xue Yan’s internal energy afterward, which was why she’d needed to find a Red Fruit that had drunk hot spring water and grown beneath the Ice Palace Cold Energy.
‘Thank goodness it didn’t have to be the exact fruit.’
She’d been asked to find a Red Fruit, but what she’d managed to create was merely a Red Berry—and how anxious that had made her.
Then it happened.

Luck consumed in Purification of Internal Energy!
Luck consumed in Purification of Internal Energy!
Luck Points: 101 / 120 (15▼)

At the sudden drop in her luck, Dan Mok Ryeon snapped to attention.
Direct intervention in another person’s internal energy meant even a small mistake could rebound as serious harm. The luck was likely being spent to prevent such errors.
‘Use whatever you need—please.’

Luck consumed in Purification of Internal Energy!
Luck consumed in Purification of Internal Energy!
Luck Points: 91 / 120 (10▼)

She deepened her concentration and repeated the Purification. As her focus sharpened, the luck consumed with each cycle decreased.

Luck consumed in Purification of Internal Energy!
Luck consumed in Purification of Internal Energy!
Luck Points: 85 / 120 (6▼)

How much time had passed?
At last, when Dan Mok Ryeon completed one full cycle of Purification—the Red Berry’s energy and Bing Xue Yan’s meager internal energy—through her hands.
‘Fade now, Blood Poison.’
Bing Xue Yan coughed up a torrent of blood, staining the front of her clothes a deep black-crimson.
“Xue Yan!”
“Grandmother, now I’m—urgh.”
And at the same moment, Dan Mok Ryeon turned her head away. There was too much blood for her grandmother to swallow, so she barely managed to raise a hand to contain it.
“Ryeon!”
“Ryeon, Ryeon!”
Dan Mok Cheon Gi and Bing Xue Yan’s faces turned ashen, and they moved to call for a physician, but Dan Mok Ryeon shook her head.
Though blood so vivid it seemed to burn against her eyes stained her clothes and hands, her pale face remained soft, her eyes closed, smiling.

Residual Blood Poison has been successfully eliminated.
You have gained some understanding of the method to completely eradicate Blood Poison.
Current Luck Points: 100/120 (15▲)

As the System Message appeared before her eyes, ash-gray powder began to scatter. The blood the two had coughed up was turning to dust and drifting away.
“Wait! This! We should preserve this and study it!”
“What?”
There was no ignoring his granddaughter as she spoke urgently through blood-stained lips.
Dan Mok Cheon Gi quickly upended the box that had held the Red Berry and cut off the sleeve of Bing Xue Yan’s robe where she’d coughed up blood, stuffing it inside before snapping the lid shut in haste.
By the time the commotion ended, even the bloodstains Dan Mok Ryeon had left had vanished as if washed away. Only her slightly pallid face bore witness to what had just transpired.
Yet Dan Mok Ryeon had no time to examine her own face. Hadn’t the System Message already told her—grandmother was completely healed!
“Grandmother, how do you feel? Are you well now……?”
“Your body is the concern? You just coughed up blood without warning! Didn’t you do the same before? I let it pass then, thinking it was your first and last time. But you—to do it again like this—so I could recover—how could you!”
“But this is temporary, and I’m not actually injured anywhere. It’s just that blood came out, that’s all. With this, grandmother will be completely well…….”
“Nonsense!”
Bing Xue Yan’s cry rang out sharply. Dan Mok Ryeon, unprepared for such a scolding, could only widen her eyes.
“What grandmother wants to survive on her granddaughter’s blood!”
“That’s not what I meant, grandmother…….”
“If you don’t get a spanking, you’ll never learn not to do such things again!”
“Yes, but……?”
“Ah, no—Xue Yan, the girl…….”
Dan Mok Cheon Gi tried to interject in confusion, but Bing Xue Yan’s eyes blazed and she pulled Dan Mok Ryeon toward her.
Yet with Dan Mok Ryeon standing before her, she couldn’t bring herself to strike. Her hands moved as if to hit, but they would not.
She merely trembled, and with shaking hands, she grasped Dan Mok Ryeon’s wrist, tracing down from her shoulder and arm.

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