The room keeps cooling, just as it did before. Only now Zhāng Wújì can feel why. The chill is not weather, it is the final seal drinking the chamber dry.
He swallows the Primordial vitality elixir. Heat floods inward at once, then vanishes into his flesh, organs, blood, bones, marrow, and meridians like water finding a sealed riverbed.
The jade beads answer with the same rhythm as his heartbeat. Once, twice, then faster, a perfect pulse of light that makes the old chamber seem to breathe with him.
Zhāng Wújì
The chill is the seal pulling everything in.
His constitution settles deeper, denser, more stable. The elixir does not burst outward, it roots itself, turning strength into something permanent and hard to move.
Behind him, the monument fractures a little more under the emptying chamber. Fine cracks spread through the stone, and a low groan runs through the hall as if the inheritance itself is making room for what he has become.
✓ Quest Accepted
Permanently strengthen Wújì's physical constitution.
“Wújì completes the recorded circulation of the vitality elixir already within his body, guiding its remaining medicinal power through his flesh, organs, blood, bones, marrow, and meridians until it is fully absorbed. His increased vitality settles permanently into his constitution. With the refinement complete, the cultivation chamber returns to its normal stable state.”
SUCCESS (Superb Health, rolled -1)
The last warm thread of medicine sinks inward and vanishes. What remains is not a surge, but a settled density in his frame, as if his body has finally agreed to keep what it has taken.
Zhāng Wújì
It has rooted in place.
The jade beads dim, their rhythm no longer pulling at his breath. The chamber answers with a slower hush, and the seal's hungry draw weakens.
Cracks web farther across the black monument, then stop with a dry, brittle tick. A thin crack of light shows on the seal disc before the glow steadies.
Heat begins to return to the stone floor in faint waves. The crushing chill loosens from the air, and the refinement arrays fall back into waiting silence.
Xùn
That is cleaner than before. Your body keeps the elixir now.
Xùn shifts in the shadows, watching the monument and then Zhāng Wújì, as if measuring what the inheritance can still demand. Somewhere deeper in the hall, stone gives a low groan, and a seam in the wall flickers open with a hairline spill of light.
Quest Complete
Permanently strengthen Wújì's physical constitution.