Chapter 267: I'm Sorry, Could You Please Describe Your Problem in Detail?

Chen Huaian felt that at this moment, Dan Bai had officially broadened her path.

Her words clearly meant she was ready to follow him now. To put it bluntly, wasn’t he just the chosen one?

The #1 anti-cancer warrior, blessed with a Digital Girlfriend game, and could grow stronger just by swiping his card. What other cultivator in the Cangyun Realm was as overpowered as him—and this was only his projection. Let’s not even talk about his real body.

Dan Bai gave each of the four injured people a Primordial Heaven-Mending Pill, and then fed them a second type of pill. Before Chen Huaian could ask, she explained:

“Valley Master Yun’s Dantian only has internal injuries, so the secondary medicine is mainly nourishing. The effects are mild and won’t affect his cultivation. As for the three Sword Pavilion disciples, their Dantian was completely destroyed and needs to be rebuilt. So the secondary pills focus on stabilization, and I’ve adjusted the medicinal herbs based on their different Spiritual Roots. These stabilization-based pills have aggressive properties, so after the Dantian is restored, the three disciples will experience a temporary drop in cultivation. But it won’t be a big deal—they’ll recover soon.”

“I see. So even though all the injuries involve the Dantian, the secondary treatment still has to be tailored precisely to the individual. That’s true medical cultivation. That’s what a real alchemist looks like!”

Elder Liu was full of admiration, his expression when looking at Dan Bai was... strange. It was like he was looking at a granddaughter. This was already the second girl he’d wanted to adopt as a granddaughter in his twilight years.

Unfortunately, both of them were way too talented. He could only look on with envy. Truth be told, he’d always had a dream of becoming a pill cultivator. You could tell just from how obsessed he was with playing with spirit herbs. But knowing how to plant herbs didn’t mean knowing how to use them. In alchemy, his talent might only be slightly better than the rest of the Sword Pavilion.

“Dan Bai, you and your mother have studied alchemy for many years. Do you know if there’s any way to resurrect an ordinary person?” Chen Huaian turned his gaze from the three disciples to Dan Bai.

Those three were definitely stable now. Their vital energy was returning. It wasn’t just thanks to the Primordial Heaven-Mending Pills. After the bearded guy died, he’d asked Elder Liu and Su Qinian about it in roundabout ways. He’d even tried a Heavenly Fate Calculation. Their responses were mostly the same. Ordinary people had fragile souls—resurrection was nearly impossible.

For cultivators, as long as the soul was intact, resurrection was pretty simple—just rebuild the body. Even if the soul was broken, there were secret arts to restore it. As for the Heavenly Fate Calculation—it reported that Luo Haisheng was no longer in the Cangyun Realm, so it couldn’t provide a resurrection plan. Still, Chen Huaian hadn’t given up.

You’ve reached the point of cultivating immortality, and you still can’t bring back an ordinary person? What kind of immortal are you? Seeing Dan Bai’s incredible medical skill today, how effortlessly she operated—he started seriously considering reviving the bearded guy again. “Resurrect an ordinary person?” Dan Bai tilted her head. “Now that’s an interesting question.

My mother and I actually discussed it before. Theoretically, once an ordinary person’s soul enters reincarnation, the concept of resurrection no longer applies. Even if you bring them back, it’d just be an empty shell. So to resurrect someone, a fragment of their soul must still remain. Besides that, you’d need some extremely rare materials. For example—Nuwa Earth…”

Chen Huaian blinked. Nuwa Earth? He had that! He had a ton of it! Back then, he’d thought Nuwa Earth was just some colorful mud. He nearly threw the whole pot—herb and all—into the trash. As for the soul fragment… Chen Huaian vanished on the spot in front of everyone. The first thing he did after logging off was take out the crystal containing the last preserved cell of the bearded guy.

Over time, even with daily injections of high-purity nutrients, the cell inside had started to shrivel. This cell was nothing like a normal one. It couldn’t be cultured at all. Like a fish out of water—barely hanging on.

“Modern stuff should be able to go into the Cangyun Realm, right? Through the player’s inventory…”

Chen Huaian thought about how he’d brought in a pair of stockings—albeit as a gift item from the Digital Girlfriend game. He needed to let Dan Bai see the cell. With her Spirit Eyes, maybe she could tell if there was any soul residue.

Chen Huaian tried putting the crystal into his inventory. —He tapped open the player inventory on his phone, placed the crystal on the screen, and waited quietly for a minute. Nothing happened. “F***! How is this supposed to go in?!” Chen Huaian was losing it. Fine. Let’s try a Heavenly Fate Calculation.

【Heavenly Fate Calculation complete. This calculation is free: To prevent pollution of the Cangyun Realm, you cannot bring modern items into it.】

“Can’t bring them in? Then how come the stockings went through?”

【I’m sorry, could you please describe your problem in detail?】

“I said—why stockings could go in?”

【I’m sorry, could you please describe your problem in detail?】

“F*** your mom!” Chen Huaian rolled his eyes in fury.

【Detected offensive language. You’ve been muted for 30 minutes.】

Chen Huaian: “…” Fine.

Fiiiine.

Chen Huaian let out a snort of laughter. You think this kind of thing can stop me? Just one second of activating my super brain— Boom, solution found. He thought for a second, eyes gleamed, and he put the helmet back on to log in again. So everyone saw the Sword Pavilion Patriarch vanish and reappear in an instant—then dash straight into the little hut without looking back.

“Whoa—Old Liu, our Patriarch’s escape technique is nuts. No spatial ripples at all. Like a ghost!” Elder Liu gave Su Qinian a side-eye, huffing through his beard: “Stop talking nonsense! If the Patriarch is a ghost, what does that make us? Ox-headed demons? Black-and-white spirit wardens? Still… the Patriarch’s escape technique is something else. Maybe that’s why the Holy Land of Jade Pool couldn’t catch him.”

Inside the hut— Li Qingran froze when Chen Huaian suddenly burst into her room. She instinctively pulled her robe over her chest, but seeing it was her Master, she relaxed again.

“Master? You…”

It was the first time she’d seen her Master look so flustered. Usually, he was always calm and unhurried. “Emergency!” Chen Huaian looked at his little disciple with a desperate gleam in his eyes.

“Qingran, I have a very pretty crystal orb. Say it—you want it!”

“Eh?” Li Qingran stared at her Master’s face, so close to hers. Her breathing quickened, and her soft earlobes flushed pink. “M-Master… I don’t know…” “It’s okay. Just say ‘I want Master’s crystal orb.’

That’s all.”

Li Qingran blinked. She didn’t really get what this was about, but she obediently went along with him. Pouting slightly, she hesitated and said: “Disc—Disciple wants Master’s crystal orb…?”

【Your Digital Girlfriend has wished for a gift from you.】

A prompt popped up in his field of vision. “Hahahaha!” Chen Huaian threw his head back and laughed wildly, hands on hips. Then—logged off at the speed of light. Li Qingran stared at the now-empty room in a daze for a long while.

“…Master seems a little different from before…”

She lay down on her pillow, gazing out the window at the moonlight, her mind drifting through memories of her Master—so cold, aloof, unapproachable… But also so handsome, so dashing. He was still handsome now, still dashing. But compared to before—he felt a little more human. Honestly? She liked this version of Master more. Li Qingran’s eyes curved into a crescent-shaped smile.

Her little feet swayed gently to the sound of the wind chimes. The room echoed with a girl’s soft murmur:

“The old Master was way up high… unreachable…”

“The Master now… feels much closer.” …