Blue Phoenix Chapter 16 – Refining Bone Marrow

As blood filled the tunnels, fewer and fewer beasts made their way towards the stone chamber which Hui Yue had claimed as their own. Even the original owner seemed to have decided to flee rather than to try its luck by attacking the youngsters.

As soon as the influx of magical beasts stopped, Hui Yue gave the order to his friends that all the blood from earlier be removed, to not allow for any evidence to be left behind. He had no idea how long it would take before the Dragon Corps arrived, but when they did, everything had to look as normal as possible.

The first few days went by in peace. The meat was getting smoked while Hui Yue spent some time on analyzing the phenomena of the caves from within his dantian qi cave.

The red mist had grown by a noticeable amount. It was roiling as if it was filled with anger, locked up within the cave in which it usually resided.

Next to it was the blue cloud which also seemed to have grown in size. Unlike the constantly turbulent and frenzied red mist, the blue cloud of tranquillity was calm and composed, staying still within its designated cave.

The green pearl was slowly rotating. With each swirl qi from within the qi cave slowly flowed into the pearl. It was then refined into whatever kind of energy the green pearl was made of.

Observing the pearl, Hui Yue furrowed his brow and started various experiments. In some of them, he intentionally injured himself by cutting, others were injuries inflicted by his friends when he asked, and finally, some of the tests occurred while he was sparring and was wounded in battle.

No matter which experiments Hui Yue underwent he found that the pearl would sometimes start healing his wounds and yet at other times completely ignore the injuries. It seemed as if the healing was completely random as to whether or not the green pearl activated.

Trying his very best to understand the pearl, Hui Yue was frustrated beyond words as soon as he realized that the results of the pearl were different from time to time. That even if the same wound was infl

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