The water in the underground river was ice-cold. Duan Pengfei immediately plunged two fingers into the water, stirring them constantly, trying to relieve the unbearable burning pain with the icy water.

Fatty and the others knew that being injured by radiation meant that everything was in vain except for amputation, but they couldn't bear to puncture Duan Pengfei's psychological self-deception, so they all remained silent.

Duan Pengfei's hand stirred in the river for a while, but the burning pain in his fingers not only did not alleviate, but the stinging pain became stronger. This pain intensified, and finally he couldn't bear it and roared.

"Ugh, ah!..."

Duan Pengfei felt as if his fingers were inserted into concentrated sulfuric acid. The river water was corroding the skin of his fingers little by little—muscle—bones… He wanted to pull his hand out, but the pain spread to his wrist, then to his arm, and then to his entire body. He was in so much pain that he couldn't move at all.

Duan Pengfei wanted to tell everyone that there was something wrong with the river water, and wanted them to quickly help him pull his hand out of the river.

But the pain prevented him from opening his mouth, and he could only make "咿咿呀呀" sounds.

Duan Pengfei's body gradually tilted, and he was about to fall into the water. Fatty rushed forward and pulled Duan Pengfei out.

After leaving the river water, Duan Pengfei seemed to have broken free from a cage. He rolled painfully on the ground, shouting: "Ah, it hurts, it hurts so much, quickly, quickly help me cut off my fingers, please, please help me cut off my fingers..."

Duan Pengfei pleaded with everyone, but no one was willing to raise a knife and cut off his pain.

Seeing that Duan Pengfei was in so much pain that he was about to faint, Fatty thought that Duan Pengfei would definitely die from the pain if he continued like this. Finally, he made up his mind to help Duan Pengfei solve the pain.

Fatty drew out his knife and approached Duan Pengfei, while asking Rouyi next to him to prepare cloth strips or something similar for bandaging.

Fatty grabbed Duan Pengfei's hand. Duan Pengfei's two fingers had turned black. From the outside, it looked like the two fingers were already necrotic.

Duan Pengfei looked at Fatty with pleading eyes and said painfully: "Please...please..."

Fatty put the knife against Duan Pengfei's black fingers and cut hard.

"Hmm?"

Fatty made a puzzled sound.

Rouyi, who was waiting to bandage the wound, asked, "What's wrong?"

Fatty replied: "It doesn't seem right."

Fatty used the knife horizontally, then chopped and shaved, removing the black shell-like substance from Duan Pengfei's hand.

After removing the black shell-like substance, two intact fingers appeared in front of everyone.

When Fatty raised and lowered the knife just now, Duan Pengfei closed his eyes tightly, not daring to see his fingers being cut off with his own eyes. After the pain gradually subsided, Duan Pengfei slowly opened his eyes. He thought that Fatty had already cut off his fingers and was about to accept this fact in frustration, but when he took a closer look, his two fingers had actually recovered, intact as before.

Duan Pengfei couldn't believe his eyes for a moment. He repeatedly rubbed these two fingers with his other hand, clenching and releasing his palm. Feeling that there was no effect at all, he was relieved and wept with joy. The river water actually healed his hand.

Everyone looked at this bizarre scene, rejoicing for Duan Pengfei's regained two fingers. At the same time, they also turned their attention to Wang Tienan's hands. Since the river water could heal Duan Pengfei's hand, it would definitely heal Wang Tienan's hand as well.

There was gradually light in Wang Tienan's eyes, and hope was rekindled. Under Duan Pengfei's guidance, he walked to the river and plunged his hands into the water.

In less than a moment, a sharp pain struck. Wang Tienan couldn't resist it and almost plunged into the river. Fortunately, Duan Pengfei pulled him from behind.

Wang Tienan's painful wailing echoed throughout the ancient city, as if he had suffered extremely harsh torture. Others felt chills down their spines after hearing it.

After Duan Pengfei felt that it was almost time, he pulled Wang Tienan's hands out of the river. Although there was still a layer of black substance covering his hands, they looked much fuller overall, no longer like two chicken feet.

Fatty used a knife to peel off the black shell-like substance. After the black shell-like substance was removed, a pair of complete hands appeared. Wang Tienan's hands were restored to their original state.

Wang Tienan also burst into tears, touching each other with his hands, cherishing this pair of hands that he had regained.

Professor Chen stared at everything in front of him in a daze, thinking he was in a dream: "This river can actually remove rot and generate flesh, and even damage to the bones can be repaired. It's unbelievable!"

Not only Professor Chen, but even Fatty, Rouyi, and Liu Xiaojuan were dumbfounded. Everything that happened just now would never be seen in reality.

However, Fatty and Rouyi quickly realized that similar things had happened in the underground palace in the Himalayas before. The young master had been resurrected from the dead because of a crystal stone. The degree of bizarreness was no different from what happened before them.

Duan Pengfei and Wang Tienan also planned to use a container to hold some river water, and then study the magical principle of this river water after they went out, but they had no choice but to give up because they didn't have any containers with them.

Everyone reluctantly left the small river and searched towards the Taoist temple.

A stone tablet at the entrance of the Taoist temple attracted everyone's attention.

Two lines of characters were engraved on the stone tablet in official script and an unknown script. Everyone could understand the official script at a glance. It clearly said "Taiping Dao" (Way of Great Peace), but the unknown script was out of the question.

However, this special text attracted the attention of Professor Chen and Rouyi.

The plaque on the main hall of the Taoist temple also had two types of characters. Fatty pointed to the characters on the plaque and read them one after another: "Guan - Ping - Tai."

Rouyi rolled her eyes at Fatty and said, "You got the order wrong. You should read it from right to left. It's called 'Taiping Guan' (Temple of Great Peace)."

Fatty knew that he was made to look uncultured by this correction from the foreign girl, so he wanted to get back at her. He deliberately made things difficult and said: "Ah, that's amazing. Then, can you recognize the other script, or rather, symbol?"

Fatty looked at Rouyi triumphantly, thinking, see what you can do, you're stumped, right?

At this time, Professor Chen took over Fatty's words and said: "This is Tocharian. Tocharian is an extinct centum language in the Indo-European language family, belonging to the Tocharian branch of the Indo-European language family. Fragments of this language were discovered in Xinjiang at the beginning of the 20th century. After textual research, this language has two dialects: Tocharian A, Agnean; Tocharian B, Kucha. The spelling alphabet is derived from the Sanskrit alphabet in India, and the time may be between the sixth and eighth centuries. The text on the stele is more like Tocharian C used by the Shanshan people."

Rouyi glanced at Fatty with disdain and said: "No wonder I find these characters so familiar. It turns out that they evolved from the Sanskrit alphabet. Let me study it carefully."

Professor Chen was not too obsessed with the interpretation of the text. He frowned and said: "Hiss, why is there a Taiping Temple here?"