Chapter 1668 — Very Strange
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"Enough. Let me have a look at that leg of yours first," You Zhentian said, waving a hand. He bent his head and examined You Panhu's leg; after a few glances he gave it a few casual manipulations, then fished a bottle of pills from his robe, took one out, and handed it to You Panhu. "The acupoints on your leg have been sealed by someone. I have opened most of them by manipulation. Take one of these Sinew-Relaxing, Blood-Quickening Pills and you will be fine."
"Yes. Thank you, Uncle!" You Panhu hastily swallowed the pill You Zhentian handed him, and at once felt sensation return to both his legs.
Having finished with You Panhu, You Zhentian rose to examine Lan Mao's injuries. Lan Mao was an Earth-rank expert, and in the hidden You family he counted as a considerable asset; whatever could be saved should be saved. So whether or not Lan Mao was You Panhu's trusted man, You Zhentian would do his utmost to heal him, for he was now the head of the You family, and what he weighed was the overall condition of the whole clan.
If the hidden You family and the hidden Tang family were joined in marriage, it would undoubtedly bring the two families one step closer. In truth, marriages between clans were often staged for others to see: useful or not, to outsiders the two families would appear allied and their strength would seem to have grown, so that any clan thinking of making an enemy of the hidden You and the hidden Tang would have to think twice.
"Eh?" When You Zhentian laid his hand on Lan Mao's meridians, he started in surprise. "He has taken a severe blow to the head?"
But even as he asked, You Zhentian shook his own head, for whether Lan Mao's head was injured was plain at a glance. Lan Mao's injuries were all concentrated in his chest; there was no wound on his head at all.
Yet the results of the examination left You Zhentian thoroughly puzzled.
Lan Mao's chest was injured, several ribs were broken, and some of the meridians in his chest were severed, but taken altogether it was not too difficult to cure. One Channel-Unblocking Pill and proper rest, and he would have no trouble recovering his strength.
Rare and precious as the Channel-Unblocking Pill was, that was only so for other hidden clans. As an alchemist clan, the hidden You family would hardly begrudge a single Channel-Unblocking Pill. You Zhentian himself had some chance of refining such a pill, though the odds were pitifully small; the old master of the You family, however, could refine them, with a success rate of about fifty percent.
For an Earth-rank expert like Lan Mao, the hidden You family still had a high regard, and giving him a Channel-Unblocking Pill after an injury was no great matter.
But the crucial problem now lay not in the wound on his chest, but in his head.
You Zhentian was well versed in alchemy and medicine. For Lan Mao's injuries he needed only to send his true qi coursing once through the man's body to be certain: the meridians of Lan Mao's chest were blocked, and the meridians of his head were blocked as well, and the blockage there looked even more serious than in the chest.