After Yan Xiao and Lou Guyu reached an agreement, they began to follow the original plan, learning martial arts and Gu poison while simultaneously trying to detoxify Lou Guyu.

Yan Xiao not only had to detoxify Lou Guyu, but also herself.

The poison had been residing in her body for many years and had become integrated with her meridians, making it much more difficult to detoxify her than to detoxify Lou Guyu.

If she had only been detoxifying herself, it would have taken her about a month to completely eliminate the toxins from her body.

Now, with Lou Guyu added to the mix, for safety reasons, they can't use up all their supernatural energy each time.

Therefore, at this rate, it would take half a month to detoxify Lou Guyu, and at least two months to detoxify himself.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye. During these days, Yan Xiao learned a lot of offensive and defensive skills from Man Yi, and also learned some basic knowledge of Gu techniques from Lou Gu Yu.

With her rich combat experience, she can absorb martial arts moves relatively easily and even apply them in different situations.

Man Yi said that she really had a talent in this area, and he didn't hold back much when teaching her. He would even spar with her occasionally.

However, she struggled to learn the art of Gu poison, so much so that Lou Guyu's gaze towards her these past few days has been filled with undisguised contempt.

In Lou Guyu's words, these are just the most basic theoretical things. To achieve the later stages of controlling insects and creating Gu, that is truly difficult.

Originally, seeing that Yan Xiao was so young yet had such good medical skills, I thought he might be some kind of genius, but it turns out he has no talent for Gu magic at all.

Yan Xiao was also helpless. She knew absolutely nothing about medicine and relied entirely on her supernatural abilities to swindle and deceive.

Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Lou Guyu taught her Gu techniques in a way that was not suitable for beginners, and she couldn't understand many of the medical terms.

It felt like being forced to skip grades and go straight to university while still in elementary school.

But she couldn't say it outright, otherwise she wouldn't be able to explain her medical skills.

So she came up with a compromise.

She asked Lou Guyu to explain things in a simpler way, because if it was too complicated, Shen Qiyue wouldn't understand, and she would have to explain it to Shen Qiyue later, which would affect her studies.

Lou Guyu had not agreed to teach Shen Qiyue, so naturally he would not personally agree.

So, Lou Guyu took back Yan Xiao's IOU for four taels of silver, and Yan Xiao also had to ensure that they had meat with every meal afterward.

I won't go into how much Yan Xiao cared about her little money, but Shen Qiyue was definitely moved to tears.

She felt that her sister-in-law was truly the best person to her in the world besides her brother.

She secretly resolved that she must study hard so that she could help her sister-in-law in the future, instead of always having her sister-in-law protect her.

Yan Xiao merely used Shen Qiyue as a shield, unaware of the profound resolve this beautiful misunderstanding would spur Shen Qiyue into.

With this reason, it became much simpler for Lou Guyu to teach her, at least it wasn't like listening to gibberish as before.

A few more days passed peacefully, and Yan Xiao frantically studied the skills, while also working to detoxify herself and Lou Guyu as planned.

At this moment, after she had finished detoxifying herself for the day, she made an unexpected discovery.

Now that she has some knowledge of Gu poison, she suddenly discovered that the way the toxins in her body operate is very similar to the Gu poison in Lou Guyu's body.

It gave her the feeling that they were from the same clan.

"Is this just my imagination?"

"Sister-in-law, what are you saying?"

"It's nothing, I..."

"Bang!"

Before the joke was finished, various noises came from outside, and if you listened carefully, you could even hear the sound of swords clashing.

She frowned, got out of bed, gestured for Shen Qiyue to hide, then took the dagger and walked towards the guest room door.

As soon as I opened the door, I ran into Man Yi and Lou Guyu, who had also come out of their rooms. People from other rooms in the alley were also coming out one after another, startled by the noise.

Yan Xiao walked up to Lou Guyu in a few steps, looked him up and down, and asked in confusion:

"They weren't here for you?"

Lou Guyu had applied something to his face again, making him look much more ordinary and less conspicuous in a crowd.

He almost rolled his eyes when he heard Yan Xiao's words, and said speechlessly:

"You think too highly of me."

Yan Xiao thought about it and felt that Lou Guyu's words made sense.

The Miao Queen poisoned Lou Guyu with this almost incurable poison, and in her eyes, Lou Guyu was already a dead man.

Sending assassins out was simply to confirm whether he was dead or not; only by seeing the body could they be completely at ease. It was impossible for them to cause such a commotion.

After all, this is not Miao territory, nor is it barbarian territory.

In the short time it took for the two to speak, the fighting had become much more intense than before, and flames could even be seen rising from the hull of the ship.

Holy crap!

Yan Xiao couldn't help but swear. Although the fight wasn't aimed at them, judging from the current situation, the ship was probably doomed.

She paid eight taels of silver to board the ship; if she gets off halfway, who will she ask for a refund?

No, that's not the point.

The key question is, what will they do if the boat is lost? Will they swim to the north bank of the river?

Even if a swimming champion comes, he still has to be fed to the fish!

At this moment, the passengers on the ship also realized this, and their faces showed panic. Some people even cried out to find the ship's manager, but no one dared to take a single step towards the location of the fight.

Yan Xiao wasn't one to sit idly by and wait for his fate. He grabbed Lou Guyu, tossed him into his guest room, and whispered:

"Keep an eye on my sister. I'm going with Man Yi to check what's going on."

Lou Guyu is skilled in martial arts and also knows poison. Although his body is not fully recovered yet, he still has the ability to protect himself.

He was a person who could distinguish between what was important and what was urgent. Upon hearing this, he immediately nodded in agreement and then closed the guest room door.

Yan Xiao and Man Yi didn't delay. After Lou Guyu closed the door, they each grabbed their weapons and quickly approached the direction from which the fighting was taking place.

When they reached the corner near the sound of fighting, the two hid in the shadows and peered ahead. They saw two groups of people fighting on the deck of the boat.

By the light of the fire on the ship, they could barely make out most of the scene.

A group of men in black were seen beating another group of people.

The men in black outnumbered the opposing group by nearly half, and their attacks were ruthless, each move aimed at taking lives.

The group of people being beaten and suppressed seemed to be in a bad state, and were doing their best to protect the man and woman they were protecting in the middle.