It took Li Mu more than ten minutes to reach the nearest foot of the mountain, where a long bamboo fence, about a hundred meters long, appeared before him.

Inside the fence, there are several plots of land enclosed by dense netting, mostly planted with Chinese medicinal herbs. One of these enclosures even houses dozens, if not hundreds, of snakes of various kinds. Outside these enclosures, there are several neat two-story buildings.

Li Mu could have taken a detour, but apart from finding people living here, there was no one else around.

Li Mu walked over the fence toward the house, intending to ask for directions before leaving.

Li Mu sensed someone in one of the houses. Out of politeness, he did not use his divine sense, but simply knocked lightly on the door.

Shortly after, the door opened, and Li Mu was startled to see a girl with her face covered. He sensed a trace of spiritual energy emanating from the girl's body; was she a cultivator?

Li Mu quickly determined that she was not a cultivator, but had recently consumed some kind of spiritual substance.

"Excuse me, is there something you need?" the masked girl asked in surprise.

Although this place is remote and not a tourist area, few people visit them when they live here. Occasionally, someone will come, but they are all acquaintances, and it is all arranged in advance.

"Oh! I'm awake. I was wandering in the mountains and got lost. I don't know how I ended up here. May I ask how far it is from here to Gaojing?" Li Mu said.

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"Who is it!" Before the girl who opened the door could speak, another girl came out of the room.

The girl's features looked exactly like the girl who opened the door, except that the left half of her face was covered with a black birthmark, which was covered with fine hairs, and she exuded a cold, deathly aura.

Two girls, one radiating vitality, the other deathly aura—how strange. Li Mu curiously scanned the girl who opened the door with his divine sense. Similarly, this girl had half her face covered by a birthmark, only this time it was on the right side. This condition, where a birthmark covers half the face, is commonly known as a "ghost face."

"You who asked for directions, you should rest and not come out." The girl who opened the door explained the purpose of the visitor and then scolded the girl who had just appeared in a concerned tone.

Then, he said to Li Mu, "It's dozens of kilometers from here to Gaojing, and there's no road access. If you want to go, you'll have to walk. If you're not in a hurry, I'll go out tomorrow and can take you down the mountain."

"Thank you! My name is Li Mu. I'm not in a hurry to leave the mountain, but I'm afraid it might be inconvenient for me to stay here with you," Li Mu said.

Because the girl kindly offered to take him out of the mountains, Li Mu's heart was touched by her and he decided to stay. His purpose in staying was to save someone—the girl who exuded a deathly aura was deeply poisoned, and if he didn't intervene, she would soon die.

"There are plenty of rooms available, so stay here," the girl who appeared later said casually.

"If you don't mind, then stay. My name is Liang Xiao, and I'm the younger sister. This is my older sister, Liang Huan," Liang Xiao said with a troubled expression.

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If the person wanted to stay, Liang Xiao immediately led his men to choose a room.

"I think your sister seems to be poisoned. I studied medicine for a few years, so I should be able to help her detoxify. And yours too..." Having decided to save her, Li Mu said directly. But before he could mention that he could help remove the birthmark on her face, Liang Xiao interrupted him.

"Oh! You're studying medicine too! But I doubt you can cure her illness, so I won't trouble you," Liang said with a smile.

The two sisters were academic high-achievers from a young age, and they both studied medicine in college. They know their own situation well. This Li Mu looks too young. Even if he studied medicine, how could he possibly compare to experts and professors?

"Oh! No need, then never mind. I just want to say that your sister has probably been poisoned by snake venom, and you guys injected the venom into her body yourselves."

Li Mu hadn't expected that the other person would refuse his kindness. Given his nature, if they refused, he would simply let it go. However, his purpose in staying was to treat the patient; if that was the case, he might as well leave now to save time.

"Ah!" Liang Xiao, who was walking in front, was surprised after hearing Li Mu's words. He turned around and looked Li Mu up and down. He had never seen this person before. Could this young man really be more capable than the experts and professors?

"Um, Li Mu, how did you figure out my sister was poisoned by snake venom? Can you treat snake venom? I'm so sorry, I must have misunderstood. My sister and I are both medical students, so..." Liang Xiao was genuinely embarrassed; she had underestimated Li Mu earlier.

"Oh! There's nothing to be embarrassed about. I can indeed cure this kind of poisoning. If you still feel it's unnecessary, then forget it and I'll leave." If the two sisters weren't kind-hearted, they wouldn't have stayed here saying anything more.

"Li Mu, you can't leave. Go and treat my sister's illness now." Liang Xiao was originally a lively person, but she was so worried about her sister's incurable poisoning these past two days. Now that Li Mu insisted that he could cure her, how could she let her go?

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As Liang Xiao pulled him toward the previous room, Li Mu wore a helpless smile. He had really gone all out to help someone get treatment, even resorting to the little trick of pretending to leave.

Liang Xiao pulled Li Mu into Liang Huan's room, gave a brief explanation, and then urged Liang Huan to go to another room.

This room is less of a room and more of a large laboratory. There is a small bed for treatment, and the room is filled with all kinds of glassware and some experimental instruments.

When Li Mu took out the silver needles, the two sisters were not too surprised. Without medical equipment and conditions, Li Mu said he could cure diseases, so they probably guessed that Li Mu was using traditional Chinese medicine methods.

As a cultivator, if one cannot be immune to all poisons in the mortal world, then one's cultivation has been in vain. The toxicity of snakes, insects, rats, and ants is not even considered poison to Li Mu; it's just that the poison is in someone else's body. He can resolve it by simply inputting a wisp of spiritual energy, which is much simpler than treating the poison of meteorite iron.

If it weren't for the fear that the two sisters would think his treatment was too bizarre, Li Mu could have simply shaken Liang Huan's hand and said they were good friends to remove the snake venom from her body. Now, he had to put on a show and make her lie on the treatment bed.

Li Mu first pressed Liang Huan's sleeping acupoint, then sealed her heart meridian with silver needles. Afterwards, he channeled a wisp of spiritual energy into her body. Spiritual energy has a natural suppressive effect on snake venom, and since snake venom only invades the bloodstream, he introduced the spiritual energy into her blood vessels and then left it alone.

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If Li Mu guides the spiritual energy to circulate through Liang Huan's blood vessels once, the snake venom will dissipate on its own. There's no rush to dissipate the snake venom now; we need to remove the melanin poison from her body first, and then expel it all at once.

The birthmark on the girl's face was caused by melanin poisoning. This virus, which is incurable for humans, was only a little more troublesome for Li Mu than snake venom.

In about twenty minutes, Li Mu removed the melanin poison from Liang Huan's body, then guided spiritual energy to remove the snake venom. The two poisons were wrapped in spiritual energy by Li Mu and sent into the stomach, then entered through the esophagus and were expelled from the mouth.

"Wow! That fast?"

Liang Xiao had been watching anxiously from the side. Just over twenty minutes later, she saw Li Mu remove the silver needles, turn her sister over onto her side, and then some black blood flowed from her sister's mouth.

"Get a clean towel and help your sister wipe herself down. It's not over yet," Li Mu said, seeing Liang Xiao's wide-eyed surprise as she asked him.

After Liang Xiao cleaned her sister up, Li Mu activated his divine sense again, using wind blades to cut away the birthmark on Liang Huan's face. Wind blades kill silently, so cutting away this kind of birthmark was child's play. The real challenge was to remove the birthmark without disfiguring her, which required considerable mental effort.

Half an hour later, Li Mu used a silver needle to pick up the entire birthmark and threw it into the air. With a casual flick of his wrist, he used a small fireball to burn it completely.

"Ah! This is..."

Seeing that Li Mu not only treated his sister's snake venom but also helped remove her birthmark, and then even witnessed a rather fantastical fireball, Liang Xiao was once again dumbfounded. What kind of divine power had he witnessed today? He was a medical student; this was illogical.

Hearing Liang Xiao's exclamation, Li Mu was speechless. He had gone too far with his boasting.