This canyon is easy to enter but hard to leave—no, it's hard to enter and even harder to leave. Joe Di was certain that if he hadn’t arrived here inside the Quantum Spaceplane, and been brought by that strange Void Rift, his fate might have been no better than in his previous life.
Carefully weaving through all sorts of thorny undergrowth, he was injured countless times. Even with a stone that could stop bleeding, after half a day, he was still covered in wounds.
After two days of stop-and-go travel, Joe Di finally crawled out of the canyon, but he still couldn’t tell which direction he should go.
Thanks to that beam of golden light, his eyesight had improved several times over, yet even looking in all directions, he still saw nothing but a hazy mist.
He truly didn’t know how his previous self had gotten in here, or why he would have come. Maybe in his past life, he came for that Scarletblood Flower.
Choosing a direction at random, Joe Di walked for nearly another day before finally stopping beside a small lake.
After three days in this place, Joe Di survived on wild fruits and rations. If not for the pot of water in the Quantum Spaceplane, he wouldn’t even have had anything to drink.
Now that he’d reached a lake, Joe Di naturally wanted to replenish his strength—at the very least, catch some fish or roast a bit of wild meat.
Two hours later, Joe Di caught two wild black fish, each over a foot long.
He cleaned and roasted them, and even without salt, they tasted delicious. In just over ten minutes, Joe Di finished both fish.
After eating the two grilled fish, Joe Di felt his strength greatly replenished—far more than what rations could provide.
After resting by the lakeside for nearly an hour, Joe Di filled both pots with fresh water, preparing to find a place to sleep for the night. He hadn’t rested well in days. Just then, he heard faint sounds of crying.
Someone? Joe Di sprang up, short dagger in hand. This was a remote wilderness, even a primeval mountain range—he hadn’t seen a soul in three days. How could there be crying? And it was evening.
After a few minutes, more sobbing came, and this time Joe Di heard clearly—it was indeed someone crying, though far away. Only his keen hearing picked it up.
Joe Di quickly shouldered his pack and followed the sound. After more than ten minutes, he stopped.
There really were people ahead: two girls. One, in a pale red top, faced away from him and sobbed quietly; the other lay on the ground, seemingly in trouble.
"Do you need help?" Joe Di spoke, no longer in the Jade Nation language. His words were a bit awkward, but he didn’t stumble.
"Ah..." The girl turned suddenly, half-collapsing to the ground, her eyes full of terror as she looked at Joe Di.
Seeing the girl's frightened eyes, Joe Di quickly added, "I’m just here traveling, too. You don’t have to be afraid."
After a while, the girl calmed down. Maybe because of Joe Di’s words, her fear lessened a bit. She hesitantly asked, "Are you really human?"
The girl's face was slightly round, but still quite pleasant to look at.
Joe Di’s hair was a mess, his clothes hung on him like rags. Where skin was exposed, scabs of blood could be seen. In a place like the Primal Mountains, it would be strange not to mistake him for a wild man.
Joe Di looked at the girl helplessly and said, "My clothes are a bit torn, and my hair is a bit messy, but you can’t just say that. Anyway, shouldn’t you get up so I can check on the girl who was poisoned?"
"No, no," the girl in pale red quickly waved her hands. She’d calmed down and was sure Joe Di wasn’t a wild man or a danger. Then she remembered her companion and hurriedly got up, anxiously saying, "Yu Mo was bitten by a snake. There’s no antivenom here..."
The girl in red stepped aside, and Joe Di finally saw the snake-bitten girl.
The girl wore a loose purple top, her jeans torn in several places. Her face was pale, lips dry and purple, and she lay on the ground completely unconscious.
Even so, Joe Di could see she was very beautiful. He bent down and checked her eyes.
"Big brother, can Xiao Mo be saved?" The girl in red asked urgently, her eyes filled with worry.
"She can be saved," Joe Di nodded. The purple-clad girl was deeply poisoned. In his previous life’s experience, only immediate hospital care could save her, but with him here, it wasn’t a problem.
His medical theory was unsurpassed in Jade Nation. If not for seeking the medicine to awaken martial roots, and not truly practicing medicine, Joe Di would have been famous throughout Jade Nation as a master of medicine.
The snake-bitten girl's wound was on her left calf, her pant leg rolled up, showing a purple mark from the bite. Judging by the look, the poison had already been squeezed out once.
Joe Di used his dagger to make two cuts at the wound, squeezed out some dark blood, then took several herbs from his backpack, chewed them into a pulp, and applied them to the wound.
He then took out golden needles and pierced several acupuncture points on the purple-clad girl.
In less than five minutes, Joe Di put away his dagger and needles, saying, "She’s fine now. She’ll wake up in a few minutes."
"Ah..." The round-faced girl looked at Joe Di in disbelief, hesitating, "But big brother, I see there’s still poison in the wound."
She had seen Joe Di apply herbs to Yvonne Moore, but hadn’t seen him completely clear the poison.
“It’s fine, I’ve already drawn the poison into the herbs...”
“Faye...” Before Joe Di finished speaking, the purple-clad girl woke up, called out Faye, then saw Joe Di standing nearby like a wild man, and was momentarily speechless. If she’d seen Joe Di first, she might have screamed like Faye.
“Yvonne, you’re really okay! That’s wonderful...” Faye Snow was overjoyed, and quickly said, “Yvonne, this big brother saved you.”
Joe Di saw the lingering worry in their eyes and quickly said, “I’m just a traveler too, lost in here, which is why I look like this.”
Hearing Joe Di was also a traveler, Yvonne Moore relaxed and struggled to sit up, “Thank you, big brother, for saving my life. I was bitten by a venomous snake—if not for your help, I’d be dead. Your medical skills are amazing.”
Yvonne Moore studied medicine herself and knew exactly what snake venom she’d been poisoned with. She’d thought she was doomed, but was rescued here, showing her savior’s skills were extraordinary.
Joe Di waved his hand, “I just learned a bit from watching others. I wouldn’t call myself skilled. By the way, do you have a map to get out of here?”
He had a map in his own bag, but he couldn’t make sense of it.