Chapter 315: Initial Treatment

After the box was opened, the Hellish Dark Butterfly, which no longer had any trace of life force, disappointed everyone present. However, their understanding of the Hellish Dark Butterfly was indeed limited, and they weren’t sure whether this was normal or not.
Ye Feng, who had already researched information about the Hellish Dark Butterfly, didn’t express any opinions and simply watched the situation unfold.
It wasn’t long before the man in golden armor and the young boy also found their respective graves. They chanted spells, and two boxes slowly rose from the graves.
Unlike the Hellish Dark Butterfly, everyone could clearly sense the immense power of the Gu Kings inside those two boxes—it was the aura of a divine rank, which Ye Feng could also sense clearly.
After taking out the boxes, the two of them held them in front of everyone, who stared at them intently.
Then, the box lids were slowly opened, and two extremely powerful auras surged upward, forcing everyone to take a step back. The auras lingered for a long time, leaving everyone deeply alarmed.
“As expected of a divine rank Gu King—even after death, its body still emits such an aura,” the Second Elder said, unable to take his eyes off it.
“But logically, the Hellish Dark Butterfly should be far stronger than these two divine rank Gu Kings. Yet why is there complete silence, with no trace of aura left?” the Third Elder asked, expressing his confusion.
“Maybe it’s because the Hellish Dark Butterfly is a creature of the netherworld!” Wu Ze, not wanting to dwell on the issue further, turned to Ye Feng. “Let’s start the treatment!”
“Mm, the First Elder is in the worst condition. I’ll treat him first,” Ye Feng nodded.
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The group went to the First Elder’s room. The three of them handed Ye Feng the boxes containing the Gu Kings’ corpses.
“This is the Lost Scent you wanted. Be careful when using it—make sure the scent doesn’t enter your body,” Wu Ze said as he took out a bunch of plants from his ring. Green vines were covered with tiny purple flowers the size of fingernails. Under normal circumstances, Ye Feng would have been tempted to smell the fragrance, but given the danger of these plants, he kept his distance, shutting down his sense of smell and pores to avoid being affected.
“I need two people to stay and help,” Ye Feng said. “Once the Lost Scent enters the First Elder’s body, he might also fall into a state of confusion. Someone needs to stop him.”
“I’ll stay with my brother,” Wu Ze nodded.

“Second uncle, my father and I will take care of it. You are the leader of our clan with many responsibilities. Besides, it’s unclear how long this treatment will take!” The young man volunteered to take on this task.
“He’s right,” Ye Feng nodded. “It’s my first time performing this kind of treatment either, so I’m not sure exactly how long it will take.”
“Well then, if it’s just a few days, I can spare the time. But if it takes longer, I’m worried there might be other matters to handle in the clan.” After hearing Ye Feng’s words, Wu Ze gave up.
After seeing Wu Ze and the others leave, only the father and son, Ye Feng, and the eldest elder lying on the sickbed, barely breathing, remained in the room.
“Brother Dao Feng, if you need anything, just give the order. Your father and I will wait nearby,” said the man in the golden armor, pulling his son back to the wall out of Ye Feng’s sight to avoid interfering with his treatment. “It’s been so long since we returned that I forgot to introduce myself. I’m Wu Kuang, and my son is Wu Tian.”
“Okay, I won’t be polite!” Ye Feng smiled and nodded.
Under their watch, Ye Feng arranged the three boxes containing the corpses of the Gu Kings in a row, then opened them, exposing the three Gu Kings to the air. Several strange odors emanated from the boxes—neither the smell of rotting flesh nor a pungent stench, but rather something similar to the scent of traditional Chinese medicine. Ye Feng temporarily shut off his sense of smell and didn’t notice it.
Wu Kuang and Wu Tian also closed all their pores and sense of smell, observing Ye Feng’s actions from a distance without making a sound.
Ye Feng picked all the flowers from the bundle of Lost Scent and arranged them around the eldest elder’s body, sprinkling the rest on him.
An increasingly strong fragrance spread out, which was one of the characteristics of the Lost Scent—once picked, it released its scent even more intensely.
After calmly completing all this, Ye Feng placed his hand on the eldest elder’s pulse point, forced open all his pores along the meridians, and patiently waited for changes.
Ye Feng’s hand remained on the eldest elder’s wrist, and his true energy had fully penetrated the elder’s body as he observed the internal changes.
“Dad, why isn’t he moving?” Wu Tian whispered curiously to his father.

“Brother Blade Edge is already treating him,” Wu Kuang, truly a half-god-level powerhouse, had already noticed the changes in the room. “Concentrate your vital energy in your eyes, and you’ll be able to see it.”
Wu Tian immediately followed his father’s instructions, focusing his vital energy in his eyes. Now he could finally see what was happening in the room—the space was filled with thick red mist, which was slowly enveloping the Elder’s body.
An hour passed, then two hours…
The Elder still showed no reaction, which made Ye Feng frown.
Wu Tian also looked at his father in confusion. “Several hours have passed already. Why is there still no reaction? The Elder is clearly absorbing that red mist!”
This time, Wu Kuang didn’t answer his son’s question. Instead, he said to Ye Feng, “Brother Blade Edge, don’t worry. The Elder is already absorbing the scent of the Lost Scent. But with his strength approaching that of a god and his mental fortitude far beyond ours, even if I tried my best to absorb its scent, it would take about three days and nights before I could find a weakness and invade his mind sea. If I resisted consciously, it would take around seven days before I’d be confused. Since the Elder is stronger than me, it will take at least ten days to induce illusions in him.”
Hearing Wu Kuang’s words, Ye Feng finally calmed down. He now understood why the Elder showed no reaction. The parasites were hidden deep within the Gu King’s body, and the Gu King’s skin was almost impregnable, so the Lost Scent couldn’t penetrate at all. Therefore, it was necessary to first put the host in a hallucinatory state. Only after that would the Gu King lower his guard, allowing the Lost Scent to invade his body and reach the parasites. While the Lost Scent could easily induce hallucinations in the parasites, it would take a considerable amount of time to do the same to the Elder and the Gu King inside him.
“No matter how powerful the Lost Scent is, it’s still something from the Demon Realm, and its effect on us half-god-level powerhouses is limited,” Wu Kuang said to his son. “We won’t be affected unless we resist nothing and stay there for a long time. Moreover, even if we’re affected, the Gu King inside us remains conscious and will warn us. But since the Elder knows that Blade Edge is treating him, he’ll willingly cooperate with Blade Edge to enter a hallucinatory state, thereby drawing the Gu King inside him as well, allowing the Lost Scent to penetrate more deeply and reach the parasites Blade Edge mentioned.”

Watching the scent of Lost Fragrance slowly penetrate the Elder’s body, Ye Feng gradually felt at ease. He knew he had already succeeded by half; all that remained was to wait…