"Your Majesty, let me check your pulse first."
Cang Wanhe's face gave Yun Che a rather scary premonition, but he did not dare to make a decision. He took a few steps forward, came in front of Cang Wanhe, tapped his pulse with two fingers of his right hand, and then closed his eyes.
Lan Xueruo immediately held her breath, and Cang Wanhe did not speak anymore. With his cloudy eyes, he silently looked at the man chosen by his daughter. But in his heart, he did not expect him to be of any help to his condition. He might have outstanding medical skills, but he was too young after all. Medical skills are not something that can be learned, but require years of accumulation and precipitation.
Yun Che did not spend too much time testing the pulse. After a dozen breaths, he whispered, “Your Majesty, I will use my profound energy to travel through your internal organs. Please do not resist.”
"Okay, just do what you want. I've said before, you are the person brought by Yue'er, and I absolutely trust you." Cang Wanhe nodded.
At that moment, Yun Che released a small amount of his profound energy, which flowed towards Cang Wanhe's internal organs. It also didn't last too long before he retracted his profound energy and opened his eyes with a complicated look.
"How is it?" Lan Xueruo asked hurriedly. Although Yun Che's visit time added up to less than a minute, in the eyes of everyone, even Gu Qiuhong was helpless with the "disease", what could a 17-year-old boy see in such a short visit. But a girl who has someone in her heart will always have a blind trust in her man. Lan Xueruo, as the princess of Cang Yue, can't get rid of this girl's mentality.
Yun Che was silent for a while, then asked, “Your Majesty, do you have a not-too-long scar on your chest? If so, was it left there about three years ago?”
Cang Wanhe thought for a moment, then nodded, surprise in his eyes: "Yes, there is indeed a scar on my chest, about an inch long, and it was indeed left three years ago... How did you know that I have this scar?"
Seeing Cang Wanhe nod, Yun Che’s expression suddenly turned a little ugly.
Yun Che's expression immediately made Lan Xueruo feel uneasy, and she asked nervously, "Junior Brother Yun, what is the condition of my father? Did you see anything?"
“Hu…” Yun Che let out a long breath and said with a heavy face, “The emperor’s illness is indeed not a disease, nor is he poisoned. However, it is not at all the damage to his lifeline as Gu Qiuhong said… Instead, he has been poisoned by someone!”
"Ah? Gu?" Lan Xueruo opened her lips wide, her face full of surprise.
"Oh? Why do you make such a judgment?" Cang Wanhe was indifferent. Obviously, he did not believe Yun Che's words. This was not because he did not trust Yun Che, but because he trusted Gu Qiuhong more. In the past three years, his body has remained stable under Gu Qiuhong's treatment. Moreover, one is the first divine doctor who is famous in Cangfeng, and the other is a boy of only seventeen years old. No one would choose to believe the words of a boy and question the first divine doctor who has a hundred years of holy reputation.
Yun Che frowned and said, “This Gu is called ‘Soul Devouring Life Gu’. It is planted into the human body in the form of a Gu seed and grows by the blood of the person. After it grows up, it lives near the heart meridian of the person and feeds on the person’s vitality. This Gu is very small, but the vitality it needs to grow is extremely large. Almost half of the host’s vitality will be devoured by it. The reason why the emperor has been extremely weak and aged rapidly in the past few years is because half of your vitality has been devoured by this ‘Soul Devouring Life Gu’.”
Cang Wanhe's expression was still very calm. He showed a little doubt and said, "If it is true as you said, such a powerful Gu was planted in my body, Gu Qiuhong's medical skills are unrivaled in ancient and modern times, it is impossible that he could not find it. If you say that he could not find it after one diagnosis, it is understandable. In the past three years, Gu Qiuhong has diagnosed me dozens of times, it is definitely not that he could not find it every time. Yun Che, could he have made a mistake?"
“No!” Yun Che shook his head without hesitation: “Absolutely not. I know Your Majesty will definitely not believe it, so please give me a chance to prove it… Allow me to cut open the scar on your chest, and I will make the Gu appear in front of Your Majesty.”
Cang Wanhe frowned immediately. His emperor's body was so noble, how could he be cut open by a little boy like this? Before he could say anything, Lan Xueruo had already said, "Father, I believe what Junior Brother Yun said, and I believe in his character even more. He would never do anything to hurt Father. Father's condition has not improved, and even Master Gu can't help. Even if Junior Brother Yun can't bring about a change, at least it won't be harmful."
Cutting a wound on the emperor was of course a serious matter. But Lan Xueruo still persuaded Cang Wanhe without hesitation. On the one hand, she hoped for a turnaround, and on the other hand, she had a deep trust in Yun Che. As soon as she opened her mouth, Cang Wanhe swallowed the words he wanted to say and nodded slowly: "Well... If this wound is cut in vain later, you don't have to be nervous and blame yourself."
Yun Che nodded and stopped talking. He pulled open the clothes on Cang Wanhe’s chest and saw a scar about an inch long on his chest. Over time, the scar had become very shallow, but it was still visible clearly.
Yun Che stretched out his finger, and the profound force surged to his fingertips. Just as he was about to slash at Cang Wanhe's heart, his movements paused for a moment, because at that moment, he felt a profound force aura firmly locked onto him. This profound force aura was well concealed, and it was difficult for ordinary people to detect it, but Yun Che's perception was so sharp, and he could feel that this profound force aura had an incomparably terrifying background and strength, at least at the Tianxuan realm!
After a moment of surprise, Yun Che immediately calmed down. How could there not be top masters protecting the emperor? But he didn't want to harm the emperor, so he didn't care. He then lightly scratched Cang Wanhe's chest with his fingers, directly cutting the one-inch long scar, and drops of blood quickly flowed out. Yun Che's other hand quickly pressed on the upper part of the wound, and the Phoenix Flame Power carefully poured in, and instantly found the hiding place of the "Soul Devouring Life Gu".
Gu are naturally afraid of fire, and the Phoenix Flame is the king of all flames. The frightened "Soul Devouring Life Gu" immediately fled in the opposite direction of the Phoenix Flame, and was led by Yun Che little by little to the location of the wound.
“It’s out.” Yun Che opened his eyes and whispered.
As soon as he finished speaking, the wound on Cang Wanhe's heart suddenly began to move abnormally, and then a half-inch long, slender golden insect poked half of its body out of the wound and struggled violently.
"ah!!!"
Lan Xueruo screamed in shock, her face pale. Even the Emperor Cang Wanhe was horrified, his whole body frozen...
“Don’t move!!” Yun Che roared, stopping Lan Xueruo, Cang Wanhe, and the person in the dark from making any possible movements. He quickly raised his left hand and used the Phoenix Flame to force the golden poisonous insect back into Cang Wanhe’s blood. He then released his profound energy to seal Cang Wanhe’s wound and stop the blood from flowing out.
"I... There is actually such a thing in my body!" Cang Wanhe seemed to have calmed down, but the stiffness of his whole body showed that he was still in shock.
“Junior Brother Yun… why didn’t you get that… that Gu out, and instead let it go back into father’s body? It was clearly… it was clearly lured out by you.” Lan Xueruo’s face was pale. The girl had a natural fear of this kind of strange insect, not to mention that it existed in Cang Wanhe’s body.
Yun Che shook his head and said, “It’s not that I don’t want to get it out, but I simply can’t. If this is any other Gu, no matter how terrible it is, as long as we find its location, we can find a way to lure it out or kill it directly. But this kind of Gu… The reason why it is called ‘Soul Devouring Life-Sharing Gu’ is because it not only devours a large amount of the host’s vitality, but also, after it is born from drinking the host’s heart blood in the form of a Gu seed, it uses the host’s lifeline as its own lifeline and coexists with the host. In other words, the Soul Devouring Life-Sharing Gu in the emperor’s body shares the same life with the emperor! If the emperor dies, it will die. Conversely, if it dies, the emperor will also die!”
“Ah!!” Lan Xueruo’s beautiful eyes widened and her eyes trembled violently.
"What...what? There actually exists such a vicious thing in this world!" Cang Wanhe also looked panicked.
Yun Che continued, “And it needs to absorb the emperor’s vitality to survive. Once it leaves the emperor’s body, it will die immediately. Moreover, it will only have one host in its lifetime. Even if it is immediately transferred to another host after leaving the body, it will be useless. Therefore, this Soul Devouring Life Gu cannot be taken out of the emperor’s body. Instead, it must be well ‘nurtured’. We can only helplessly let it devour the body’s vitality all the time, and we must not let it die.”
Yun Che paused and said in a heavy voice, “Senior Sister Xueruo, Your Majesty, what I am going to say next will be a little cruel… The lifespan of Gu worms is not very long. As far as I know, the lifespan of the Soul Devouring Life Gu is five years. And it has been in Your Majesty’s body for more than three years. In another two years, this Soul Devouring Life Gu will die, which means… Your Majesty only has two years left to live.”
“How could this be… How could this be…” Lan Xueruo covered her lips, already unable to sob.
Cang Wanhe gasped for air. The Gu hidden in his body and Yun Che's words undoubtedly made him completely confused and even terrified. He said in a low voice: "Who on earth... who actually gave me this vicious Gu! I must find him out... and tear him into pieces!!"
Yun Che looked at Cang Wanhe and said, “If Your Majesty wants to know who cast the poison, you can find out right away.”
Cang Wanhe's body trembled, and he immediately asked: "Yun Che, do you know the person who cast the poison?"
“I don’t know, but the emperor must know.” Yun Che said calmly: “This kind of ‘Soul Devouring Life Gu’ can only be planted into a person’s body in the form of a Gu seed, and it must be immersed in the host’s heart blood to grow. A person’s heart blood is in his heart. Therefore, to plant this Gu in a person’s body, you must make a wound in his heart and put the Gu seed directly into the wound. Gu seeds that enter the body through food and water will not grow at all, and the same is true for those planted in other parts of the body through blood. The emperor only needs to remember who made that scar on your heart three years ago, and he will know who planted the Gu.”
As soon as Yun Che said these words, Cang Wanhe and Lan Xueruo were both stunned.
"No... Impossible! It can't be Master Gu who cast the poison. Master Gu has been treating my father carefully over the years, and has always had a good relationship with my royal family... It can't be him! He has no reason to harm my father." Lan Xueruo was horrified... She knew that the person who cut the wound on her father's heart three years ago was the medical saint Gu Qiuhong. That time, Cang Wanhe had caught a severe cold, and Gu Qiuhong claimed that the cold was too severe and needed to release some cold blood from his heart...
But she had always had deep respect, admiration and gratitude for this medical saint since she was a child, and for a moment she could not associate him with a vicious poisoner.
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