“The effects should have taken effect immediately, but they disappeared without a trace, as if the injection had been completely absorbed by Mu Yanxi’s body.”
“What’s going on?” Shangguan Yun asked, puzzled.
“I—I don’t know what’s going on either.” Mu Yanxi could only play dumb.
‘What else can I say? It’s not like I can tell them the immortal brain absorbed the medicine.’
“Could it be that this injection is expired? Or is it a fake?” Shangguan Yun looked at the vial in her hand and said, puzzled.
“It’s not expired either.”
“Come with me. Let’s go ask Teacher Wei.” Shangguan Yun pulled Mu Yanxi and walked toward Wei Dai.
“Th-this… is it really necessary? Maybe it’s my problem.”
Mu Yanxi panicked immediately. She didn’t dare let Teacher Wei Dai examine her body.
‘What if he finds something?’
“Stop talking nonsense and come here! This clearly can’t be your problem. If it’s the medicine’s problem, of course we should ask the teacher!” Shangguan Yun said.
Mu Yanxi immediately didn’t dare say much more and was forcibly dragged in front of Teacher Wei Dai.
“Huh? Shangguan Yun, and you—you’re the disciple who just came to get the medicine. Haven’t you taken the injection yet?” Teacher Wei Dai looked at Mu Yanxi’s calm body and asked, puzzled.
The other disciples, upon receiving the vial, had been eager to inject it immediately.
“She did, but it had no effect. Teacher, what do you think is going on?” Shangguan Yun asked directly.
“No effect? How is that possible? Did you really inject it into her body? Did you inject the wrong spot? Only injecting it in the buttocks will achieve the best effects.”
Wei Dai’s first reaction was disbelief. The effects of this medicine were so strong, but Mu Yanxi’s body remained calm—not a trace of blood energy was stimulated.
It didn’t look like she had taken the injection at all. He even suspected that the girl might have hidden the medicine to trick them into giving her a second vial.
“She really did take it. I injected it myself, absolutely true. Teacher Wei, you wouldn’t not even believe me, would you?” Shangguan Yun said, handing the empty vial to Wei Dai. “See for yourself.”
Teacher Wei Dai took the vial and examined it carefully. Indeed, only the needle cap had been removed; the vial opening and the needle were intact.
The sealed medicine inside could only have been injected through the needle.
Although there were other ways to extract and save the medicine from the vial, Teacher Wei Dai really didn’t believe that Shangguan Yun would deceive him over a single vial of medicine worth one hundred spirit stones.
After all, she was the young lady of the Shangguan family—she could buy a dozen vials without batting an eye.
“Could it be that there’s something wrong with the medicine?” Teacher Wei Dai came to the same conclusion as Shangguan Yun.
He closed his fingers and crushed the vial, then sniffed the remaining liquid. A pungent medicinal smell entered his nostrils.
“There’s nothing wrong. It’s a standard injection. Smell it yourselves and see.” Wei Dai handed the broken vial back to Shangguan Yun.
Shangguan Yun sniffed it. Indeed, she could clearly smell the medicine and felt her blood energy being stimulated, which meant there was nothing wrong with the medicine.
This time, she looked at Mu Yanxi in confusion. “Could it really be a problem with your body?”
“Let me have a look.” Teacher Wei Dai reached out his hand toward Mu Yanxi.
With the physical disparity between him and Mu Yanxi, it felt like a bear grabbing a chick, which instinctively made Mu Yanxi a bit fearful.
But she suppressed the urge to step back, keeping in mind what Shangguan Yun had said—never resist the teacher. She stood still and waited for Wei Dai to take her arm.
Wei Dai gently pinched Mu Yanxi’s arm a couple of times. His fingers were almost as thick as a forearm.
“Hmm, not a bad body. Although your physical strength is a bit weak, your foundational Body Refinement Stage training is very solid, and you’ve cultivated a high-level physical art. Your family must be quite wealthy, right?”
Mu Yanxi didn’t know how to answer.
Before her grandfather’s accidental death, the family had indeed been quite wealthy, which was why the original host’s Body Refinement Stage training was quite solid.
But the high-level physical art—the Spirit Snake Skin-shedding Bone-changing Art—was obtained through the immortal brain and had nothing to do with her family.
“Her family used to be fairly well off. She had a high-level cultivator elder.” Shangguan Yun helped explain for Mu Yanxi.
“That makes sense. Have you ever experienced this kind of complete lack of effect from injections before? Some people are naturally resistant to medicines—many drugs don’t work on them.” Teacher Wei Dai nodded and asked again.
“No.” Mu Yanxi shook her head.
It wasn’t that she had never experienced a case where the injection didn’t work; it was that she had never taken any injection before, and in neither of her two previous lives had she had a situation where a pill didn’t work either.
Besides, she was well aware of the real reason the injection was ineffective. It wasn’t the medicine’s problem, nor her body’s problem—it was just that she couldn’t speak the real reason.
“How strange. Your physical constitution doesn’t look like something that could forcibly suppress the medicinal properties.”
“Could it be that you’re only resistant to this Jade Maiden Body Shaping Injection? Here, take another injection. Let me see how it’s ineffective.”
Teacher Wei Dai took out another vial and said.
“Th-this… isn’t that a bit too much? One vial costs a hundred spirit stones.” Mu Yanxi said cautiously.
It wasn’t that she couldn’t afford a hundred spirit stones—she could grit her teeth and pay that price. It was just one Mid Grade Spirit Stone after all.
The problem was that if she injected the medicine in front of Teacher Wei Dai and the immortal brain absorbed the medicinal properties again, the teacher might discover the existence of the immortal brain.
Then she would be unable to explain herself. Mu Yanxi had already vaguely sensed that her immortal brain was different from others’.
“Just take it quickly. This vial won’t cost you any spirit stones. One or two vials of injection—the Great Sect’s allocation for the elite class is sufficient.” Teacher Wei Dai impatiently shoved the vial into Mu Yanxi’s hand.
The Spiritual Moon Sect had set a loss allowance for each teacher, each class, and each course.
As long as they didn’t exceed the loss allowance, cultivation resources could be freely allocated by the teachers. It was also tacitly understood as a small welfare for the teachers—everyone kept it to themselves.
Mu Yanxi had no choice. She could only follow along, mimicking the technique Shangguan Yun had used to give her the injection earlier.
She lifted the hem of her clothes and injected herself in the same spot, praying inwardly that the teacher wouldn’t notice that the medicinal effects were being absorbed by the immortal brain.
***
However, this time, as soon as the cool liquid entered her body, it immediately transformed into scorching medicinal properties that spread throughout her entire body.
Mu Yanxi’s blood energy was instantly stimulated, racing through her body like a wild stampede, eventually bursting out from her various meridian points.
“Ahhh!” Mu Yanxi couldn’t help crying out a few times.
It was really painful at first, like being thrown into a furnace. No wonder those female disciples couldn’t help moaning.
But this time, the immortal brain did not absorb the medicinal properties. It was completely silent and made no move. Did it know someone was watching, so it chose not to absorb them?
“This is clearly normal! Where’s the ineffectiveness?” Teacher Wei Dai spread his hands and asked.
Shangguan Yun was also puzzled. Earlier there was no effect at all, so why did it explode as soon as she injected it now?
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