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Chapter 538 Definition of Disease

Outside the valley, Xi stood in the heavy rain, looking at the devastated Red Spirit Flower Valley, feeling more and more guilty.

This dry land cannot be saved by a heavy rain.

It only takes a drought to turn a beautiful sea of ​​flowers into a wasteland, but it takes more than just a rain to make the wasteland grow lush vegetation.

"Wait for me." Xi said, looking at the dead silent earth.

He will definitely come back and restore Baihua Island to its original state, but now, there are more important things.

"Come with me. I know a hidden route that will quickly get us to the central island..."

"it is good."

……

The route Xi chose was indeed different from the best route Li Luo saw on the map. He did not choose to cross Baihua Island and reach the next island, but found a mountain range and an imperceptible cave between the mountains.

"Go from here."

Xi's light ball illuminated the dark cave. It seemed to be a stalactite cave with broken stalactites everywhere. The long-awaited heavy rain brought new moisture, which dripped down from the rock wall.

"We should be able to get through this cave before the underground river reforms."

Xi led Li Luo into the cave and introduced this shortcut to her.

There used to be a turbulent underground river inside this cave. Because Baihua Island has abundant rainfall, the water source of this underground river is very sufficient. Normally, the underground river here should be overflowing and impossible to navigate.

This underground river will flow all the way to the lower part of Baihua Island, then pass through a waterfall and flow to another empty island.

However, due to the long-term drought on Baihua Island, this underground river has dried up, leaving only the original river channel. Through this river channel, one can quickly reach the next sky island.

Therefore, this road was not shown on Li Luo's map, and only the doctors who were the indigenous people of the Huasheng Islands knew this road.

"In the past, when there was an emergency, we would take a small boat and go through the cave, but now there is no need for a boat."

The water drops from the rock wall flowed down, and at this time there was already a small stream in the river. The stalactites on the top of the cave continued to drip water, hitting the dried-up river.

"The river was very fierce at that time. Even when we were on a boat, we would often get injured. But getting injured was a simple matter for us. We just needed to heal in time."

As they walked, they saw some wooden debris in the river. These should be the ships that Xi mentioned, but these ships no longer looked like their original selves and had all turned into fragments.

Not only that, as he went deeper, Li Luo also found some broken bones on both sides of the river.

"Those are the bones of the healer." Xi explained, "Our bodies are very fragile. When we pass through here, we often hit the rock walls and break our limbs."

"like this……"

As Xi spoke, he exerted force and pried off his skinny left hand.

"Because the river water is fierce, the broken limbs will be directly washed away. In that case, we have no way to recover the limbs."

Xi threw his severed left hand to the riverside.

"We can only wait until we pass through the river to heal it. It's just a hand and a foot anyway, it's not a fatal wound."

As he spoke, Hina's severed left hand grew back, apparently he had used his healing powers on himself.

However, what seemed like a trivial matter to Xi was like a horror movie to Li Luo, and it was very thrilling. Li Luo was stunned on the spot, standing there, looking at Xi's left hand.

"What's wrong?" Xi asked in confusion.

"Don't you feel any pain?" Li Luo was very curious.

"Of course it hurts. Doctors are also living beings. Our body structure is very similar to that of humans. It is almost exactly the same except for the head. The pain we feel is similar to yours." Xi explained seriously.

"But..." Li Luo pointed at Xi's left arm: "Didn't you just... break it off?"

Xi suddenly understood what Li Luo meant.

"This... Of course we feel pain, but we're just used to it."

"You know, we are doctors and we often use ourselves as experiments. Only by experiencing illness and pain ourselves can we understand what the patient is going through and better understand the cause of the disease. Over time, we will become numb to pain. For us, a broken limb is not considered a very severe pain."

"After the pain exceeds a certain threshold, the nerves will become numb and will not transmit pain signals, so it is more of a psychological effect."

"Compared to the pain of a moment, chronic diseases are more painful, slowly torturing patients and making their lives worse than death."

When talking about things like illness and pain, Xi seemed to open up. As a doctor, he kept talking about the pain caused by various diseases.

"I've learned about the human medical system. Humans have a disease called trigeminal neuralgia. Have you heard of it?"

"When the disease occurs, severe pain will spread from a certain point on the face, mouth or mandible, spreading to one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve. Unexplained severe pain will occur in the distribution area of ​​the trigeminal nerve on the head and face, making the patient feel like dying..."

"It's a neurological disease. There's actually no definite wound, but the pain is more terrible than any disease with wounds. It makes the patient always in pain and fear that is worse than death."

"Pure pain..." The ball of light above Xi's head trembled slightly: "Disease can bring pain, but pain itself is also a disease."

"The reason why human nerves transmit the feeling of pain is to remind humans of the existence of disease, but disease takes advantage of this in turn, making nerves sick, causing humans the purest pain and the most extreme harm."

"Don't you think this is scary?" Xi stopped and said to Li Luo.

Li Luo nodded. It was indeed terrible. She touched her face and listened to Xi's mumbling. Her face began to hurt.

After getting a response, Xi started to chatter again. He had been asleep for too long and it was hard for him to find someone to talk to. Besides, Li Luo was not as ignorant as those red spirit flowers, so he obviously didn't want to waste this opportunity.

“The Council of Elders, and the entire community of healers, have been exploring one question: What is disease?”

"Because our ability comes from our definition of disease, we can cure whatever we think is a disease, even something very outrageous."

As Xi spoke, he picked up a piece of stalactite fragment from the ground.

"I think this stone should not be a stalactite. It is sick. It should actually be a piece of gold."

As Xi spoke, the surface of the stalactite fragments began to flash with golden light.

"see it?"

Xi handed the gold in his hand to Li Luo.

"Isn't it... outrageous?"

(End of this chapter)