The hidden compartment gives up its secret at last, and the jade vials sit exactly where the old records promised. Their green pulse matches the rhythm Wújì noticed before, calm on the surface, hungry underneath.
He flips through the brittle slips again. The notes are plain, almost clinical, describing how these pills nourish flesh, blood, marrow, and meridians when taken with steady breath and controlled circulation.
Wújì lifts one vial. The green light bends the air, and the same faint hum from the earlier beads answers inside his dantian, as if the inheritance remembers the cadence and approves.
He swallows the pill. Heat spreads through his body in measured waves, not explosive, but deep, dragging strength into places that have long gone thin and damaged.
Zhāng Wújì
The pulse is matching my breathing.
For a moment, the chamber’s green glow sharpens around the seal disc in the floor. The earlier rhythmic light is not just support, it is being drawn through the same hidden channel, feeding the refinement as Wújì absorbs it.
His frame steadies. The pain settles into pressure, then into density, and the next vial waits in his palm while the records’ final line points deeper into the cache.
✓ Quest Accepted
Fortify the body with medicinal refinement
+ New Item Acquired
jade vial
“Wújì consumes the Primordial medicinal essence and immediately begins the corresponding body-refinement method recorded by the Primordial Ancestor. He circulates the medicine through his flesh, organs, blood, bones, marrow, and meridians, enduring the complete refinement until its power is fully absorbed and his physical constitution is permanently strengthened.”
SUCCESS (Good Health, rolled +2)
Wújì keeps the vial low and obeys the old method exactly, breath first, then circulation. The medicine sinks through his chest and splits into warm streams across flesh and bone.
Zhāng Wújì
The notes were right. It moves cleanly.
He guides the heat through his organs, then down into the marrow. The chamber’s green pulse answers at once, but this time it does not pull at him, it settles with him.
A faint crack of light runs along the seal disc, then steadies. The humming wall-rings fall into a quieter beat as the medicine is fully accepted.
Wújì exhales, and the breath comes out smoother than before. His frame carries a new density, a quiet weight that holds itself together without strain.
The final warmth drains into his meridians and vanishes there, leaving no excess to burn. The next vial waits nearby, while the chamber’s silence grows watchful around the opened cache.
Quest Complete
Fortify the body with medicinal refinement
Attribute Upgrade: Health Good→Great
