Broken Night

Chapter Seventy-Five ─ Stone into the Pattern

With Xu Tian's teaching, he is not only a tattoo artist, but also a tattoo doctor.

In the pattern of this world, Qi Palace dominates pattern strength and Qi sea. Therefore, for tattoo artists, the Qi Palace is the top priority. The stronger the Qi Palace, it is almost equal to the main combat power of the tattoo master.

The heart palace is the body and mind.

The stronger the heart palace, the more control the number of lines will have a direct impact. The physique is relative to the combat power of those who influence the tattoo.

Because the heart is the most important point of human beings, and it is also the starting point and the end point of qi and blood running.

If the heart is injured, the qi and blood running in the limbs will also be weakened, and the more serious heart injury will even cause the qi and blood to not flow to the body, affecting the body's operation - this is Xu Yan's current situation.

Xu Yan, who was born with a weak heart, coupled with the engraving that broke through the limit, caused Xu Yan's blood to run poorly now, and the whole person has lost all the ability to move. Being able to move a finger is already the pinnacle of what can be done.

Regarding Bai Yun and Zuo Chengzhe's worries, Xu Yan instead comforted: "It's okay, the situation is not as bad as I imagined. But I need medicine, find a big city to settle down, and take medicine to gradually recover."

...

The situation is not as optimistic as expected.

Bai Yun, Zuo Chengzhe, and Xu Yan drove into various cities in a durable carriage, but it was found that the prescriptions prescribed by Xu Yan were missing some of the key herbs. Xu Yan was also a little speechless about this. Although he had been practicing medicine for several years, it was the first time that he had actually prescribed a prescription.

As for the knowledge of medicine, he is still aware of the various medical books given by Xu Tian and the [Da 6 Planting Tree Illustrated Book] in the previous collections. It's just that some of them specifically state rarity.

But the few flavors he prescribed clearly didn't say how rare they were.

Even so, no is no.

And the medicinal materials that lacked a few key flavors could still serve as well.

In about two weeks, Xu Yan was able to sit up by himself. But he couldn't stand up because the wound had not healed. Xu Yan was also shocked by this result.

Just over the limit of two minutes.

What if three minutes...or more?

He couldn't imagine it, but it was also a warning to himself.

In the past, he always wanted to challenge himself what would happen in fifteen minutes if he exceeded his limit, but now he no longer dared.

When they passed by those small cities, they also tried to inquire about the medicinal materials, but invariably said that if they wanted those rare medicinal materials, probably only the big cities would have the opportunity to find them.

Therefore, their current destination is a big city other than Nancheng—Yeshi City.

...

Xu Yan was helped off by Zuo Chengzhe and sat beside the fire.

Xu Yan, who hadn't gotten off the carriage for a long time, was instantly relieved.

He raised his head and looked at the night sky with mixed feelings in his heart.

He is twelve years old.

As if in the blink of an eye, he had really come to this strange world for twelve years.

Once upon a time, the self who was out of place here began to have feelings for the world. Xu Tian, ​​the mother he had never met, Lan Ming, Qiao Zhigang, Baiyunyuan, Zuo Chengzhe...the lives of each other were intertwined, and then various fates were born.

"how did you do it?"

Zuo Chengzhe suddenly spoke, which woke Xu Yan from his deep thoughts.

"what?"

Zuo Chengzhe looked at Xu Yan with a strange look.

He is not an ordinary person, but he is from the Zuo family. Since he was a child, he has seen countless geniuses and eccentrics. Even himself, is one of them. The three palaces in their thirties, whichever side they put in the north and south, are extremely evil spirits.

But Xu Yan in front of him was not so simple.

"I'm not talking about how you learned about the [Coiling Dragon] pattern that has been passed down from generation to generation in my family... Yes, I really want to know. But that's not what I want to know the most."

"What happened, I heard Dean Baiyun say it. You used ore into the pattern?"

Zuo Chengzhe's eyes were very complicated: "You know why the north and the south are so incompatible?"

Xu Yan nodded slightly, this was the limit of what he could do: "I've read that book, [The Origin of the North-South Split]." Zuo Chengzhe glanced at Xu Yan in surprise, but he didn't expect Xu Yan to see it this way. The tiger doll, who is so carefree, can read that kind of book. It's just that when there are too many surprises in a person, it starts to normalize things like that.

"Yes. The south advocates nature and believes that the pattern is a gift from God, so the engraving into the palace should also be made of the natural things of the heaven and the earth—the pattern; while the north is violent and thinks that the pattern is a battle, so Made of tattooed beasts.”

"The patterned beast is the material, in addition to being very particular about which part is used as the material, it is also necessary to use the hardwork of the patterned beast as a guide to engrave the pattern into the palace. This means that the patterned beast must be killed."

Zuo Chengzhe nodded with a solemn expression: "We southerners think this kind of killing is against the sky, so we strongly oppose it."

"And the northern tattooed people who entered the palace with tattooed beasts also became more straightforward...or violent because of the tattooed beasts. Love and hate are clear, and the South has always been dubbed as a hypocrite and sissy, and disdain."

"The more the two sides look at each other, the more they look at each other, and after hundreds of years of fighting, they finally turned into the irreversible situation they are today."

"And the origin—is the material for the engraving of the palace."

Zuo Chengzhe stared at Xu Yan: "Do you know how much impact it will have on the world if it can be spread out with ore into the pattern?"

...

Xu Yan wanted to shrug, but he couldn't, so he could only say in a nonchalant tone, "You think too much about this."

"The reason why the tattoo can be inserted into the tattoo is that the tattoo originates from nature and is gentle in nature, and what can be called a tattoo is born with various patterns and has a magical effect."

"Ore, also comes from nature. Where do you think the stone came from?"

Xu Yan continued, "The one I used to help you get tattooed that day was the [Frost Dragon Stone]."

"That stone, according to legend, is from the dragon beast [Fengshuanglong]... ahem, it's made of the feces of the windfrost dragon."

When Zuo Chengzhe heard the words, his expression was so wonderful that he was speechless. And Xu Yan also thought with disgust that Zuo Chengzhe, who had always been dull, could have such a wonderful expression.

"It's just that the feces have been weathered for hundreds of years, and finally turned into frost dragon stone. Fengshuang dragon is a very powerful tattooed beast. It's an ice sculpture. Even a strong man in the fourth palace can't be careless."

"And the frost dragon stone is also a material with cold properties. After hundreds of years of weathering, it turned into ore, and it even has a pattern inside itself."

"Wenzhi and tattooed beasts can be carved into the palace, not just because they have patterns. Ore... I call it a pattern, and they can naturally enter the pattern. Of course, all this is my speculation, and you at that time. There is no choice."

Zuo Chengzhe was speechless: "What do you mean, I am your first test subject?"

"There was no choice at that time, and I didn't have any other material in my hand that was suitable for tattooing."

Xu Yan repeated this sentence very slowly, as if he wanted to make a statement about the emergency situation at that time.