Chapter: 4895

Ye Chen nodded slightly, just as Wan Ba Jun led his subordinates to start moving the bodies of the crazy Hua Lese members down. He then said to Wan Ba Jun: "Wan Ba Jun, bring all these victims up and find a place for them to rest."

"Understood!" Wan Ba Jun immediately followed orders and said to a few people: "Please follow me."

The old lady suddenly thought of something and stretched out her right hand to pull up the sleeve of her clothes, removing a wristband made from chicken blood vine that had been passed down in their family for over 1,000 years. She handed it to Ye Chen and said: "Mr. Ye, I don't have anything to repay you with, but this wristband is the only valuable thing left in our family, and please don't despise it!"

Ye Chen smiled and said: "Respectfully, since it's something passed down in your family, you should keep it well."

The man standing beside the old lady, who was helping her walk, suddenly subconsciously muttered: "This...isn't chicken blood vine? Ah, grandma, this chicken blood vine wristband is quite common in our country's southwestern region. You can buy one for 10 yuan at a street stall. How did it end up being passed down in your family for over 1,000 years?"

The old lady looked sternly and said: "This isn't chicken blood vine, this is phoenix bone vine!"

"Phoenix Bone Vine?"

In the recorded accounts of "Nine Heavens Scripture", there is indeed a mention of "Phoenix Bone Vine" as a rare medicinal material. And this rare material is extremely difficult to find, with only a few cases documented in the book.

The reason it's so rare is that not only is it extremely rare, but its growth process is also very fragile and easily leads to death.

Most phoenix bone vines die off within three to five years after germination, and fewer than 10% of them can survive for more than 50 years. For this plant, it takes at least 50 years for the vine to start transforming into wood, which is a process known in botanical terms as lignification.

The process of lignification is extremely slow, requiring at least over 100 years to complete from start to finish.

What's even rarer is that only when the phoenix bone vine has undergone thorough lignification can it possess medicinal value.

However, this rare material is already scarce by nature, with most of them unable to survive long enough to begin lignifying. Even if they do manage to live that long, few will be able to complete the process of lignification.

Finding a true and genuine phoenix bone vine is equivalent to finding someone who has lived for over 120 years, or even 150 years, without any physical impairments.

Its rarity can hardly be overstated.

Moreover, this rare material also has another extraordinary aspect: if it doesn't have spiritual energy acting as a catalyst, its medicinal value will be no different from ordinary herbal remedies.

But once it is catalyzed by spiritual energy, it will be able to unleash its true powerful therapeutic effects.

In a nutshell, this thing is like nuclear fuel - it only reacts when neutrons strike its atomic nucleus. Moreover, this material serves as the core ingredient for several high-level elixirs. Currently, with his skills, Xi Ye can refine one type called Reshape Elixir. Reshape Elixir lives up to its name and excels at reshaping. Humans have no ability to reshape their limbs or organs like geckos, which can regrow their tails even after being cut off. If a limb or organ is damaged, it may result in lifelong disability, loss of mobility, and self-care abilities, or even immediate death, regardless of modern technology's efforts to save them. In such cases, using Reshape Elixir makes no difference whether the body has any damage; it can always regrow and restore itself to its original state. Itoh Naoki and Tanaka Hiroshi, who had their limbs cut off, as well as Hei Xiu, who lost his arm, would all recover to normal if they had Reshape Elixir. As for Li Yalin, whose organs were almost completely destroyed except for his brain, frozen at the Fei Family Ice Center like an ice popsicle - with Reshape Elixir, he too could revive and come back to life. With this Phoenix Bone Vine, all these people have been given a second chance!

At first, Ye Chen thought that this Phoenix Bone Vine only appeared in legend - he might not encounter it even after several decades. But he never expected to meet it here in Mexico, in an underground operating room where no sunlight penetrates. His heart was racing with excitement, and at the same time, he carefully observed the old woman's pendant she was handing him. It looked like a deep brown color, with at least one-third of the pattern resembling fresh blood, roughly the thickness of a thumb, and it seemed to be a whole wooden vine that had been heated by fire and then carefully bent into shape.

This thing looks different from what I normally see, mainly because this Phoenix Bone Vine seems more refined, almost invisible surface details. Its color is extremely vivid, like fresh blood, with a texture that's hard to replicate artificially.

But Ye Chen couldn't help but wonder if this was really the Phoenix Bone Vine mentioned in the "Nine Heavens Canon". So he subconsciously asked, "Old lady, are you certain that this pendant is made of Phoenix Bone Vine?"

"Of course!" The old woman replied firmly: "This pendant has been passed down from our ancestors. I heard my grandmother say that our ancestors practiced medicine for over two hundred years during the Tang Dynasty. Later, during the An Lushan Rebellion, all four generations of our family died except for a six-year-old child. After that, our ancestral medical skills were completely lost. However, the ancestor who survived inherited this pendant from his grandfather, and at that time, his grandfather told him that this pendant was made by Phoenix Bone Vine and was extremely precious, so he must pass it down to the next generation. And that's why this pendant has been passed down to today."

The young man on the side heard this and couldn't help but mutter: "Old lady, I've studied plants a lot, but I've never heard of Phoenix Bone Vine before. Besides, what makes this wooden pendant so precious?"

The old woman shook her head vaguely: "What is Phoenix Bone Vine? I don't know. What does it look like in nature? I'm even more unclear. And what's so special about this pendant that makes it different from others...?"

As she said this, she looked at Ye Chen with a bit of shame and began to speak: "Mr. Ye, the old lady didn't mean to spin a yarn to deceive you. It's just that you saved my child, and as someone who has nothing but poverty, I'm grateful for your kindness, so I'll give you this unique thing as a token of appreciation. This thing may not have any actual value, but it's historically valuable because it was passed down from our ancestors in the Tang Dynasty, even if it doesn't have much practical value..." JrNovels.com