After saying that, he went outside to check if the medicine that Lu Shuang was supposed to drink had been prepared.
Lu Shuang hadn't expected to be alive. The intense pain from the crushing tree had overwhelmed him, causing him to lose consciousness instantly. He thought he was going to die...
Lu Shuang felt a slight pain in his legs. He propped himself up and sat up. After seeing that his legs were intact, Lu Shuang was even more puzzled.
He remembered that the giant tree had pinned his lower body down; if he hadn't run fast, he would have been crushed underneath.
But his leg is fine now, could it be that I remembered it wrong?
But apart from my legs feeling a little sore, I don't feel any pain anywhere else. What's going on?
When Tu Dong brought in the medicine, he saw Lu Shuang propping himself up on the wooden bed with both hands, his head swaying back and forth as he looked around at Lu Shuang's legs, which he couldn't move yet.
She put down the bowl of medicine in her hand, somewhat angrily. "Didn't I tell you not to move around? The priest spent a lot of effort to restore your leg to this state."
The priest said your leg hasn't fully recovered yet; the bones inside need time to heal properly, so you can't move it around too much. But you, you woke up and started causing trouble! What will you do if you can't walk later?!
Lu Shuang immediately stopped moving and obediently lay back down, but his eyes kept darting around Tu Dong's figure.
Thinking about what Tu Dong had just said, he voiced his doubts: "After that giant tree fell and crushed me, I thought my leg would probably be crushed like mud. But now, apart from not being able to move it and feeling some pain, my leg is exactly the same as before, as if it had never been injured."
Lu Shuang was filled with doubt and couldn't imagine how her legs had recovered. She could only ask Tu Dong, "What method did the priest use to bring my legs back?"
Tu Dong's expression turned serious as he said solemnly, "Our priests possess divine magic, and your leg was restored by a priest using divine magic."
Upon hearing this, Lu Shuang's entire body stiffened for a moment.
Divine magic?
Could it be that the powerful force he sensed while unconscious was because the priest had used divine magic?
Because he is now awake, that mysterious and powerful force has disappeared.
Lu Shuang thought it made sense, so he stopped thinking about it. He just hoped that his leg would heal soon so he could continue learning how to make a crossbow from Shi Xia.
When Shen Nong arrived, Lu Shuang had just been forced to drink a bowl of bitter medicine by Tu Dong.
With a bitter taste in her mouth, Lu Shuang complained to Shen Nong with a wrinkled face, "The priest's life is so bitter!"
Shen Nong chuckled, "Good medicine tastes bitter, but drinking it will help your leg heal faster."
Knowing that the bitter liquid would help her legs recover faster, Lu Shuang wasn't so bothered by the taste anymore.
Shen Nong examined Lu Shuang's body again and confirmed that there was nothing wrong with her; she just needed to take good care of herself.
Besides examining Lu Shuang, he also wanted to ask about the power that had suddenly erupted within him.
That power was able to push his spirit core to break through and advance, and it felt a lot like the water-based superpowers in interstellar space. This made Shen Nong a little strange. Does the beast world also have spirit cores and superpowers?
"When I was healing your wounds, I discovered a power within you. Do you know why?"
Lu Shuang's eyes widened. What? He really had a powerful force within him? And it wasn't a priest's divine magic?
Chapter 58
Bonus chapter
Lu Shuang knew even less about Shen Nong's question than Shen Nong did. Seeing Lu Shuang's bewildered and shocked expression, Shen Nong knew that he didn't understand anything.
Shen Nong sighed softly, "You should rest well and not move around too much."
Lu Shuang nodded and said she understood.
Even after Shen Nong left, Lu Shuang's emotions remained unsettled for a long time. Was there really a powerful force within him?
Lu Shuang's eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and he soon fell asleep. He had been seriously injured before, and even with Shen Nong's wood-type ability to recover and the support of his ability to choose, his energy was now very limited.
I need to rest for a few more days to fully recover my energy.
Not long after Shen Nong left Lu Shuang's place, she heard a clansman outside the earthen house where they were holding a meeting announce, "Priest, Bao Qiu has returned, and he wants to see you."
Leopard Autumn? Wasn't he out trading with the Feather Tribe? Why is he back now?
"Let him in."
To ensure ample light inside, Shen Nong always keeps the wooden door of the earthen house open during the day.
His tall figure blocked the sunlight from shining into the earthen house. Shen Nong looked up and asked, "What happened?"
At Shen Nong's prompting, Bao Qiu sat down in a chair and recounted everything that had happened in the Wushan tribe to Shen Nong.
He described in great detail the abilities of the priests of the Wushan tribe, in particular.
The more Shen Nong listened, the more her brows furrowed.
He had some doubts when he sensed that power within Lu Shuang's body before.
Now, Bao Qiu's words directly confirmed his suspicions.
In the Beast World, there truly exist natural elemental superpowers similar to those in interstellar space.
He tapped the system and asked, "Is there any connection between the Beast World and the interstellar world I traveled to?"
The system checked for Shen Nong, but a forbidden sign popped up on the screen. After staring at the sign for a while, it replied, "I do not have permission to view this."
Shen Nong was slightly taken aback. She didn't have permission to view the information?
The system rarely gave him such a reply, which made Shen Nong even more suspicious. Could there really be some kind of connection between the Beast World and the Interstellar World?
Currently, based on what Bao Qiu said, the wood-type ability has been confirmed.
There is also a water-based ability. Although Lu Shuang doesn't seem to have noticed it, he did feel it before.
After finishing their business, Shen Nong asked Bao Qiu to take him to see the four children he had rescued from the Wushan tribe.
The door to the mud house was closed, with only the window half-open, providing a faint light into the dark interior. The four children huddled in a corner.
From the moment they entered the Mu tribe, they were filled with curiosity about this place.
Because this tribe has many things they have never seen before in every place, and even the place where they are now is something they have never seen in the Wushan tribe.
Although they were incredibly curious, they didn't dare to look around too much.
After the only familiar and powerful orc left, they dared not move rashly.
Until the wooden door of the earthen house was pushed open, strong sunlight shone into the house, dispelling the cold and darkness inside.
The four children all looked up at the same time, and that one glance was enough to make them unable to look away.
The sunlight shone on the person who came in, and the children felt as if the person was radiating light.
The person was more beautiful than the most beautiful flower they had ever seen, and the smile on their lips felt like the spring sunshine.
The fear and apprehension they felt upon entering an unfamiliar place vanished almost entirely upon seeing this person. They even felt an irresistible urge to get close and let this person touch their foreheads.
But they quickly dismissed the idea; the person in front of them was as white as a cloud, while they themselves were filthy.
Shen Nong looked at the emaciated children, slowly squatted down in front of them, and then exchanged four pink peach-flavored candies from the store, saying softly, "Here, have some candy."
Leopard Autumn couldn't help but swallow hard when he saw the four round candies placed in the priest's outstretched palm.
He had eaten this candy once before; it was given to them by the priest through Tiger Roar after the caravan was established.
He ate this color back then, and he still remembers the taste vividly.
Leopard Autumn tried his best to make his words sound natural, reminding Shen Nong, "Priest, they're timid, they won't accept. I gave them meat soup in the Feather Tribe before, and they waited a long time before..."
Before Bao Qiu could finish speaking, Shen Nong felt a slight itch in his palm; the children had taken the candy from his hand.
Because I was careful not to touch his palm, some of the candies slipped through his fingers and rubbed against his palm, which is why they felt a little itchy.
"You took it already?" Leopard Autumn asked in surprise.
Shen Nong laughed and said, "It's because you look too fierce."
Leopard Autumn touched his face and glanced at Shen Nong again, looking rather fierce.
The sweet candy melted in their mouths, sweeter than any fruit they had ever tasted. The four children, candy in their mouths, dared not move their tongues, afraid they were dreaming and that the slightest movement would wake them.
Shen Nong's legs were a little numb from squatting. He stood up and said to Bao Qiu, "When Yu Cao and the others come back from herding the sheep, let them go find Yu Cao."
These four children are about the same age as the little kids in Yucao's group, and they would be better off with their peers.
"Priest! Priest!"
Hearing someone call him, Shen Nong poked his head out of the earthen house. "What's wrong with Tu Dong?"
Tu Dong finally found the person, stood there catching her breath, and finally caught her breath. However, her breathing was still a little unsteady. "Lu Shuang asked me to come find you, saying she has something important to say."
Shen Nong was taken aback. Something important?
After Lu Shuang fell asleep, in her hazy consciousness, she seemed to have returned to her childhood.
He sat in the old priest's lap, listening to the old priest tell him about the ancestors of the water tribe in his hoarse voice.
Time has passed so far, and he was very young back then. Every day, he thought about the rabbits on the mountain, the birds in the trees, and the insects on the ground.
The old priest said a lot, but he remembered nothing.
But one sentence the old priest said left a deep impression on him, because after saying that, the old priest let him go out to play.
He remembered those words in this dream.
“Our ancestral priests possessed the ability to control water, and the Water Tribe is one of the ancient tribes of the Beast City.”
As a child, he had no idea what the sentence meant. Later, when he took over as priest, the old priest stopped talking to him about his ancestors.
He naturally forgot.
When Shen Nong arrived, she saw Lu Shuang lying on the bed, excitedly waving her arms and legs, "Priest, I know what that power is!"
Shen Nong walked to his bedside and gently pressed his hand down. "Don't move, I'm listening."
Lu Shuang felt the priest's warm hand press down on her arm, the force was very light, and she could easily break free. But Lu Shuang obediently didn't move, and then told Shen Nong what she had heard from the old priest when she was a child.
However, Lu Shuang was still somewhat uncertain, saying, "That power disappeared after I woke up, and I don't know how to awaken it again."
“Priest, Rabbit Winter said you restored my leg with divine magic. I've never felt that power before,” Deer Frost said, offering her guess. “Could its appearance this time be related to your divine magic?”
Shen Nong did not doubt that Lu Shuang might have misremembered what he said, after all, many years had passed, and he was still a teenager at that time.
Lu Shuang's words further confirmed that the power within him was a water-based ability.
Upon hearing Lu Shuang's guess, Shen Nong scrutinized him carefully and said, "Close your eyes."