The Third Prince had already ordered his servants to prepare the guest rooms, awaiting the arrival of his two distinguished guests. Although the toxins in his body had been completely suppressed since Eryi's help, the uneasy feeling of having his life in someone else's hands hung like a sword over his head, never knowing when it would fall.
Unlike when Er Yi was invited that day, Xi Xue and Cui Yan were invited to the presence of the Third Prince as soon as they arrived at the mansion.
The two men were ignorant of court etiquette and had only a vague understanding of the martial arts world. They performed the formalities of respecting their elders and began to treat the Third Prince.
"I'll go first. Please give me your left hand." Xi Xue was even more skilled in poison, and even from the moment they met, she knew what was going on. "Excuse me." She lifted the Third Prince's sleeve, revealing a long, thin purple line emerging from the skin at his wrist.
Xi Xue had gotten the answer she wanted. "Where was the injury originally located? Has it already formed rotting flesh?"
Ren Quan stepped forward to reply on the prince's behalf: "Doctor Xi, the injury has healed."
This answer surprised Xi Xue. "Where is the injury?"
Seeing Ren Quan hesitate, Xi Xue was about to ask again, but Cui Yan, already guessing, spoke up to stop her. "Does the Third Prince have a skilled physician?"
"What do you mean?" The Third Prince looked at Cui Yan and asked with interest.
"Xi Xue, now that you know the origin of this poison, tell us everything." Cui Yan secretly winked at Xi Xue.
Xi Xue took over the conversation: "This is Tengxue from the country of Jiaer. It is a poison that is almost fatal on contact with blood. The poisoned person's face will turn pale, the ends of the eyebrows will turn white, and there will be purple lines on the wrists." The three princes were all poisoned.
"This poison is considered extremely precious in the country of Jiaer, and it is extremely toxic. Not to mention scratching the skin, even if the skin touches it, it will cause redness and swelling. Then the wound will fester. If it is not treated in time, the festering area will spread throughout the body, causing people to suffer and die." Xi Xue took a sip of tea, and seeing that the Third Prince's expression did not change after hearing this, she continued.
"The simplest way to detoxify is to completely eliminate the entire area where the poison has spread in the first place. This poison is so weak that even a master of the innate realm cannot force it out with their internal energy. As for the antidote, not even the nation of Jiaer has it. The prince has been poisoned for a long time, but I see that his face looks as if he is not poisoned. It's just an appearance. He must be receiving help from a highly skilled physician."
The Third Prince deliberately tested him: "I have taken the detoxification pills and life-extending pills from Medicine King Valley."
"Although the detoxification pills made by Yaowang Valley are good, they cannot cure this poison. At best, they can suppress it by 90%. " Xi Xue knew all about the special pills made in Yaowang Valley.
"Ren Quan, bring Mr. Er's incense burner here." The Third Prince ordered.
Ren Quan looked at the Third Prince's expression, took out the detoxification storage device, and placed it in front of everyone.
"What is this?" Cui Yan saw that the incense burner had a strange shape and moved closer to take a closer look.
Ren Quan opened the lid of the storage container and explained, "This thing is made of meteorite iron and contains a spice developed by a doctor in Liuyue City. Earlier, due to a shortage of antidote pills, the prince had no choice but to find a doctor in Liuyue City for help. Only then was the poison suppressed."
"A doctor in Liuyue City?" Cui Yan and Xi Xue exchanged a glance. "But is it the female doctor who has become famous in Liuyue City recently?"
"My last name is Er." Xi Xue added after recalling.
"It's her." The Third Prince recalled that he had previously investigated Eryi's background but found nothing. "Do you two know her?"
"I just saw him." Cui Yan replied truthfully.
"Hmm?" The Third Prince leaned forward slightly. "Is she a top disciple of Medicine King Valley?"
"I haven't seen her in Yaowang Valley." Cui Yan's answer was ambiguous. Although he felt that Eryi should be from the same school as him, she herself refused to recognize her.
Upon hearing this, the Third Prince leaned back in his chair again and nodded slightly, "This prince has a slight guess. If he is not from Medicine King Valley, he is probably the only descendant of the Second Poison Patriarch as rumored."
Xi Xue had been huddled over the storage device, sniffing carefully, trying to identify the spice. After hearing what the Third Prince said, she raised her head and said seriously, "If the Second Poison Ancestor has only one successor, it must be me, not her."
The Third Prince's heart moved. He originally thought that the two people who came this time were disciples of the Medicine King Valley, but he didn't expect that this girl had a more important background.
Most people only know about Yaowang Valley and not Guanyaomen, simply because Guanyaomen specializes in poison techniques and has very few disciples, only one or two in each generation. However, in the eyes of some, Guanyaomen is more famous than Yaowang Valley.
Compared to Medicine King Valley, the Guanyao Sect operates with even greater freedom of will. A descendant of one generation, driven by personal vengeance, single-handedly wiped out an entire sect, earning them the status of a first-rate demonic cult. Legend has it that every direct descendant of the Guanyao Sect possesses a unique poisonous formula. Even a celestial being would die within a breath of contact with this poison; it must not be provoked.
Cui Yan carefully inquired about the Third Prince's condition after being poisoned, and the changes he experienced after receiving Er Yi's treatment. Cui Yan believed that he could suppress the toxins through daily acupuncture and moxibustion, but that this could not be achieved using only the One Incense Formula.
Then he took the Third Prince's pulse.
"This pulse condition." Cui Yan confirmed again. If he were to use acupuncture to remove the poison, the situation would probably not be any better than it is now.
"Did she use the prescription to stop the disease?" Ren Quan asked.
"No." Cui Yan shook his head. "The Third Prince is fine for now, but we need to discuss the detoxification method before we can give you the final prescription."
Cui Yan considered his words carefully: "Your Majesty, could you please give me some of the incense in this incense burner?"
Seeing the Third Prince's expression, Ren Quan stepped forward to explain, "It's not that Your Highness is unwilling to distribute the incense, but the incense burner has a peculiar structure that prevents the incense from being removed. If you two don't mind, I would like to demonstrate how to use the incense burner to you."
Upon hearing this, Xi Xue moved closer to take a look and saw that Ren Quan did not use any fire. He just pressed the center of the incense burner with his hand, and smoke rose. She was about to marvel at it.
However, her face suddenly turned pale, and she stood up and walked back.
…
It was finally decided that the Third Prince would stop using the incense provided by Eryi for one day, and Cui Yan would prepare medicine and perform acupuncture to remove the poison.
After the first acupuncture treatment, the Third Prince put on his outer robe.
Ren Quan knelt down and said, "I deserve to die. I didn't even know that the girl was the direct descendant of the Second Poison Patriarch!" No one noticed while escorting him all the way.
"Ren Quan." The Third Prince didn't let him get up. "Did you see her reaction when the smoke rose just now?"
"I'll check it out immediately!"
"Medicine King Sun Yipu, you have given me a great gift."
…
After Eryi finished dealing with things in the Doomsday Plane, he returned to the Martial Arts Plane again in the evening.
Xi Xue and Cui Yan were both waiting in the hall.
Seeing Er Yi coming out, Xi Xue walked up to her with a serious expression and handed over something. It was the detoxification storage device that Er Yi rented to the Third Prince every day.
"What kind of incense is in this incense burner?"
"Are you really my senior sister?" Xi Xue blinked and looked at Eryi.
“…”
?
…
Xi Xue had been raised in a world of poison, and had long since become immune to all forms of it. But within the Guanyao Sect, there was a person who could control her.
A descendant of the Guanyao Sect destroyed a sect due to personal vendettas. This incident not only caused a stir in the martial arts world, but also served as a warning to another descendant of the sect. To prevent such a recurrence, this descendant devoted his entire life to developing a remedy. This remedy was useless except for its ability to control the direct descendant of the Guanyao Sect.
The person who developed this method was none other than Xi Xue's master, Guan Erdu Zu.
At the Third Prince's residence, Xi Xue felt extremely unwell as soon as the smoke from the incense burner rose. She hurriedly left the scene, and it took her a long time to recover.
No matter how much Eryi said she was not her senior sister, she didn't believe it.
…
"This incense burner is filled with detoxifying spices. I am not your senior sister." Eryi was puzzled and had already explained it this morning.
"Impossible!" Xi Xue insisted. "Your master is a tall, horse-faced, sweet-natured old man who always gets soup stuck in his beard when he eats and washes it after every meal."
"no."
"My master also gave me something made of meteorite iron," Xi Xue took out a black object, "but it's different from yours. It's not an incense burner." It was a hidden weapon.
“…”
I am speechless.
From that day on, Xi Xue and Cui Yan stayed at the Third Prince's residence to treat him, and whenever they had free time, they would come to Eryi's place. However, Eryi was usually not in the clinic, so with nothing to do, they helped to take on a few cases that Eryi would never normally take.
Despite their youth, these two are both highly skilled practitioners. Xi Xue's prescribing angles are tricky, while Cui Yan's approach is steady and measured. With one stroke, they can cure any ailment.
Eryi had been making a lot of money in the Doomsday Plane these days thanks to her cloning technology. Unbeknownst to her, the Wulin Plane had also seen its reputation rise to new heights thanks to Xi Xue and Cui Yan.
"That miraculous doctor isn't often in the clinic now, but there are two new people."
"I wonder where she recruited these apprentices from. How come their medical skills are better than those of the famous old doctors in Liuyue City?"
"Her clinic used to only treat external injuries, but now it's starting to treat more common illnesses as well."
“How’s the effect?”
After hearing this, one person quickly came forward to share his experience: "I live on West Street. The old woman next door has been coughing for three years. Sometimes at night I feel uncomfortable just listening to her." He shook his head as he said this.
"I have a relative who is like this too. What happened next?" someone else asked quickly.
"She has seen many doctors, but they only relieved her symptoms a little. The medicine is expensive, and it's not very effective to take it all the time. I don't know what she was thinking that day, but she actually ran to that clinic. The young man in the clinic gave her one dose of medicine, and her cough stopped that day. She felt better the next day, and he prescribed some tonic medicine. Recently, I haven't heard her cough late at night." The man looked proud, as if he was the one who cured the disease.
"That's amazing! I'll tell my relatives about it," someone else responded.
"But the clinic is so expensive, how can she afford it?"
"I don't know if it's true or not, I'm just telling you this." The man said mysteriously, "It's said that they wrote me a prescription without asking for money, and the old woman got the medicine herself from another pharmacy with the prescription."
Everyone was shocked when they heard this: "Do these two new apprentices know the rules? The female healer loves money so much, if she knew about this, wouldn't she be furious?"
Another person shook his head and said, "I've heard about this as well, but it's different from what you said. Although the prescriptions those two apprentices wrote were free, the medicine they prescribed was extremely expensive. I wonder if they were in collusion with other pharmacies."
"Is it still possible?"
Everyone was talking about it.
In this way, the clinic had gained two itinerant doctors who prescribed expensive medicines and didn't know how to charge for them.
Somehow, Yang Rong'er and Xi Xue hit it off. From then on, whenever Yang Rong'er had free time, she would take them out for drinks and fun, and they were so happy.
The martial arts tournament is drawing to a close, and the competition has reached a fever pitch. To compete for first place, each sect is using every possible means.
On this day, Eryi did not return from the doomsday plane.
Yang Ronger took Xi Xue and Cui Yan to the street to buy cakes. They happened to pass by a clinic and saw a group of people surrounding the clinic.
"What's going on?" Xi Xue put the sugar man she had just bought into Cui Yan's hand and pushed through the crowd to get in to watch the fun.
"Wait, I want to go too."
After a while, Xi Xue nimbly maneuvered back and forth and took the candy man back from Cui Yan's hands. "Cui Yan, I think it's your turn now."
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