Mu Jin's lips slowly returned to a pale pink, and her pulse gradually returned to normal. She slightly opened her eyes and looked at the three men in front of her who were overjoyed at her awakening.

Especially Su Yi, seeing that she was gradually regaining consciousness, snatched her away from Nangong Min's arms.

Nangong Min's arms suddenly felt empty. He instinctively wanted to snatch Mu Jin's hand back, but he restrained himself and pulled back, clenching his fist and forcibly suppressing everything in his heart.

"Is there anything else that's bothering you?" Su Yi asked Mu Jin anxiously. Mu Jin, however, propped herself up from Su Yi's arms and sat up. She didn't answer Su Yi's question, but turned to Nangong Min and smiled, "Thank you, Min, you saved me again."

Nangong Min shook his head, his face filled with guilt: "It's all my fault. It's been so long, and I still haven't been able to kill him. This time, he hurt you again."

Mu Jin had always been very clear about Nangong Min's kindness. Back then, Nangong Min wanted to leave the capital and go to Nangong Shenzong to kill Nangong Ce, but because Nangong Ce repeatedly tried to hurt Mu Jin, he made up his mind to return to Nangong Shenzong.

“You don’t need to blame yourself.” Mu Jin comforted Nangong Min: “This time it was just my own carelessness. Besides, he is him and you are you. You don’t need to blame yourself for everything.”

When Nangong Min heard Mu Jin comfort him like this, his eyes welled up with tears. This time, he helped Nanshu entirely because of Mu Jin. After all, their ancestral teachings clearly stated that they could not participate in the struggles between countries.

However, he was even more relieved that he had arrived in time; had he been any later, even a divine being couldn't have saved Mu Jin. The thought of Mu Jin nearly dying from the corpse poison filled him with a sense of panic.

He whispered, "I've found a way to kill him. My first purpose in coming down the mountain this time was to cure the corpse poison, and my second purpose was to kill Nangong Ce."

Mu Jin smiled at Nangong Min. She didn't ask him if he needed her help, nor did she ask him how he would deal with Nangong Ce. She believed that Nangong Ce would definitely have a way to solve everything.

But Su Yi didn't want Mu Jin to owe Nangong Min, so he looked up and stared at Nangong Min.

"I thank Sect Leader Nangong for saving Ajin. Whatever you ask for, as long as it is within my power, I will grant it."

When Nangong Min heard Su Yi ask this question, his expression turned cold in an instant. He had saved Mu Jin out of his own heart, and he coldly replied, "I don't need any reward for saving A Jin."

Mu Jin could tell that the atmosphere between Nangong Min and Su Yi was not right, so she quickly spoke up to interrupt them.

"Min, is this corpse poison from your Nangong Divine Sect?"

Nangong Min nodded, and his gaze towards Mu Jin softened again.

"I suppose so. This corpse poison originated from a secret poison from the Miao Palace. It was given to my ancestor by the first Miao Spirit Maiden. Because the poison was so vicious, the formula was sealed in the pavilion of the sect. It is likely that Nangong Ce stole this secret formula when he was the sect leader."

"This poison is made by refining the juice of the Heart-Eating Grass together with a corpse that has been dead for a long time. The poison is then used to feed a white Gu worm. This Gu worm crawls into the human brain through food and then multiplies new Gu worms throughout the body."

Mu Jin then asked, "So how is this corpse poison transmitted?"

"Those infected with this corpse poison can be controlled by the poisoner. They will also lose their minds and will rush forward to bite at the scent of humans. Moreover, they are incredibly strong. As long as the Gu worms are not killed, those infected with the corpse poison will never stop moving."

"But those Dongyue soldiers we killed in the valley that day didn't resist," Mu Jin asked in confusion. "And even after we shot them with arrows and buried them, they didn't attack."

Upon hearing this, Nangong Min's eyes turned cold and sharp: "So, that night, Nangong Ce was nearby controlling these Dongyue soldiers, making them stop moving, and when the Nanshu army was moving the Dongyue soldiers who had been infected with the corpse poison, the Gu worms crawled up the Dongyue soldiers and onto the Nanshu soldiers."

“Many soldiers clashed with the wounded today, and I don’t know how many are like me.” Mu Jin thought for a moment, looking at Nangong Min’s injured hand, but she found it difficult to speak.

Nangong Min smiled and said, "You mean, do I have a way to save them?" As he spoke, Nangong Min looked at his palm and smiled, "You suddenly fainted just now, so I could only use the fastest method."

As he spoke, Nangong Min took out a medicine bottle from his sleeve and handed it to Mu Jin: "This is the antidote for corpse poison. It is only effective when it is in the early stages of infection. If it has already started to attack people, there is no cure. The only thing to do is to kill it to prevent it from harming the world."

Upon hearing this, the three men in front of Mu Jin couldn't help but feel fortunate. Luckily, Mu Jin had provided timely treatment today; otherwise, they couldn't imagine that Mu Jin would have been as incurable as the wounded soldier today.

Seeing the unpleasant expressions on the faces of the three men in front of her, Mu Jin understood what they were thinking. She then asked Nangong Min a question.

"How should this medicine be used?"

Nangong Min said, "One drop of the antidote can dissolve a whole pot of medicine. However, this method will not be effective immediately, but it will curb the spread of the corpse poison in the body. It needs to be drunk for three consecutive days to be completely eliminated. In addition, people who have not been poisoned by the corpse poison can also take this medicine as a preventative measure."

"On behalf of the soldiers of Southern Shu, I thank you."

"There's no need for these words between us," Nangong Min said to Mu Jin in a low voice, seemingly with a touch of sadness.

A drumbeat pierced the air in Liangcheng, interrupting the conversation of the group. The drumbeat signaled an impending enemy invasion.

As the group walked towards the door, they saw the soldier who had delivered the message running towards them in a panic.

"Your Majesty, ten thousand Dongyue soldiers are attacking outside Liangcheng Pass."

The group frowned upon hearing this, especially Mu Yan, who immediately cursed, "You're scared like this by just ten thousand Dongyue soldiers?"

The soldier swallowed hard and said, "General, please calm down! Those Dongyue soldiers are really strange. They didn't ride horses, but walked slowly, and the air was filled with an extremely foul stench, just like those soldiers in the wounded soldiers' camp who had poisoned their feces today."

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