"Wait!" Lin Wanyi's cold voice suddenly rang out. She walked up to Qi Huaiyu, her gaze falling on the wound on his right wrist that Xin Jiuwei had stabbed. The edges of the wound were a bluish-black, similar to the wound on Xin Jiuwei's left shoulder. "The poison he was afflicted with... is the same kind as the poisonous thorn in Miss Xin's left shoulder! It's 'Bone-Piercing Maggot'! Although this poison isn't fatal, it specifically damages the meridians, causing paralysis in half the body and excruciating pain. Without an antidote, one will be permanently disabled!"
Lin Wanyi's words were like cold knives. Qi Huaiyu's face instantly turned deathly pale! He knew, of course, what kind of poison he had been given! He knew even better what "lifelong disability" meant! It was a torment far worse than death!
Looking at the undisguised fear in Qi Huaiyu's eyes, Lin Wanyi's voice was as cold as ice: "Tell me how to use the antidote and how long it takes to draw out the poison, and my father can suppress the 'Bone-Piercing Maggot' poison for you, ensuring you won't be crippled immediately. Otherwise..." She shook the golden needles and black medicine bottle in her hand.
Qi Huaiyu's will finally crumbled in the face of his own paralysis and the cold, ruthless methods of the Lin family. He glared venomously at the unconscious Xin Jiuwei and the dying Xiao Xun on the bed, and hissed, "Soul-guiding incense... three qian of soul-guiding incense powder... mixed with a pot of warm, strong liquor... administered in three doses within half an hour... the poison must be drawn... it must take a full six hours... during which... it cannot be interrupted... otherwise... all previous efforts will be in vain... the poison will attack the heart... even a god cannot save him..." After he finished speaking, he collapsed to the ground as if all his bones had been removed.
"Quickly! Prepare as he says!" Judge Lin stopped looking at Qi Huaiyu and immediately began giving instructions.
The soul-guiding powder was quickly mixed into the warm liquor, emitting a strange medicinal fragrance. Judge Lin personally helped the unconscious Xiao Xun up, and Lin Wanyi carefully used a specially made silver spoon to pry open his jaw and feed him the mixed medicinal liquor spoonful by spoonful with great difficulty.
As the medicinal wine went down his throat, Xiao Xun, who was still unconscious, suddenly convulsed violently! His face instantly turned even more ashen, veins bulged on his forehead, and large beads of cold sweat poured down his face! It felt as if countless steel needles were piercing his meridians! The agonizing process of drawing poison back into his meridians had begun!
Judge Lin and Lin Wanyi held him down tightly to prevent him from hurting himself due to the excruciating pain. You Ye and the guards were all in their throats.
Time passed slowly amidst the oppressive, agonizing pain. Each dose of medicine was accompanied by Xiao Xun's violent spasms and silent agony. Six full hours passed! From dawn to noon, and then to dusk! The atmosphere in the bedroom was as heavy as solidified lead. Imperial Physician Lin stayed by his side, constantly observing the changes in Xiao Xun's pulse and wounds.
Xin Jiuwei was also placed in the warm pavilion next door, where Lin Wanyi took the time to treat the poisonous thorn on her left shoulder and applied a special ointment to counteract the "bone maggot" poison, temporarily suppressing its spread. However, she remained unconscious, pale, and weak.
When the last spoonful of medicinal wine was painstakingly fed into Xiao Xun's mouth, the six hours had finally passed.
The terrifying dark purple bruise on Xiao Xun's arm was visibly receding! Although the wound was still gruesome, the blood flowing out had turned dark red! His ashen face gradually regained a very faint trace of color, his tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly, and although he was still unconscious, his breathing became much more steady and long!
"It's done! The poison has been drawn out!" Chief Judge Lin breathed a long sigh of relief, a relieved smile spreading across his tired face; he was almost completely exhausted. Lin Wanyi also breathed a sigh of relief, a hint of satisfaction in her cool eyes.
"Your Highness... Your Highness is saved?!" You Ye's voice choked with emotion, his tiger-like eyes filled with tears.
"Your life is temporarily out of danger!" Judge Lin nodded affirmatively, "but your vital energy has been severely damaged, and the remaining poison in your body still needs to be slowly removed. You will need to rest for at least a month. These six hours of drawing out the poison were like having your tendons pulled out and your skin peeled off, causing great loss."
"That's wonderful! That's wonderful!" You Ye rubbed his hands excitedly, then looked towards the warm pavilion, "Miss Xin, she..."
Lin Wanyi's expression was grave: "Miss Xin has lost too much blood and her vital energy is severely depleted. She has also been poisoned by the 'Bone-Piercing Maggot' poison. Although it has been suppressed, this poison has damaged her meridians, making recovery difficult. In addition, her old heart wound has not yet healed. This forced activation has only made matters worse... It is still unknown when she will wake up."
You Ye's heart sank again. He looked towards the warm pavilion next door, then at Xiao Xun on the bed, whose face was still pale but who was finally out of danger. His heart was filled with complex emotions. If it weren't for Miss Xin risking her life to chase after him out of the city and desperately retrieve the antidote, His Highness might have…
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