Upon reaching the shore, Yun Qingran looked at the Cave King Serpent with a somewhat conflicted expression. The Cave King Serpent lay obediently at her feet, like her pet.
"What's wrong?" Wu Yuan looked at her expression and couldn't help but smile. Why did she have so many adorable expressions?
"Well, now that the Rock Cave King Serpent is one of us, should I take its gall bladder or not?" Yun Qingran asked the Rock Cave King Serpent.
The Rock Cave King Serpent just saved her; it's like it saved her life.
"It's up to you, I don't know either," Wu Yuan said, shaking his head.
Yun Qingran looked at the Cave King Serpent, which gently flicked its tongue at her. She really couldn't bring herself to kill it and take its gall bladder.
The gallbladder is a very important digestive organ in the human body. Its main function is to store and concentrate bile, and it can also help with the digestion and absorption of food.
Humans are different from snakes. Humans don't have a gallbladder, but their biliary system can compensate for its function. Snakes are different; without a gallbladder, they have difficulty digesting food and simply cannot survive.
But if the snake gall is not removed, Jun Molin will die.
After hesitating for a while, Yun Qingran came up with a solution. The Cave King Serpent is so large; its gallbladder must be huge too. Why not perform surgery to extract some of its gallbladder? That shouldn't be a problem.
"Snake, I have a favor to ask. I want some of your snake gall." Yun Qingran squatted down and touched the Rock Cave King Snake.
Its scales were hard and slippery, and its massive body exuded power. It must be said, although it was docile now, it still inspired a sense of fear.
The Cave King Serpent tilted its head, as if it hadn't fully understood Yun Qingran's words.
Yun Qingran walked to the spot where his snake gall bladder was, tapped it, and then pointed to herself.
The cave king cobra understood that its new owner wanted its gallbladder.
"Waaaaah..." The Cave King Serpent cried out sadly.
This isn't a master, this is clearly a living Yama! The old master even said that anyone who could open his jade coffin was a kind person, and that he should recognize her as his master—all lies, all lies!
After the cave king cobra roared a few times, it looked at Yun Qingran, who understood that it had agreed.
"Don't worry, I'll be careful," Yun Qingran assured the Rock Cave King Serpent.
The cave king cobra couldn't understand; all it knew was that its new master, the living Yama, wanted its gallbladder.
The master's orders cannot be disobeyed; if she wants the snake gall, give it to her!
Yun Qingran remembered that there were several jars of wine in the previous room. She came to this room, found the jars, and opened them. Only about a third of the wine remained after evaporation. However, these jars together were still enough.
She first wiped the area where she was going to have the surgery with white wine to ensure a sterile environment. Then she wiped the gallbladder of the rock cave king snake with wine to disinfect it. Finally, she wiped the Zhanlang sword with wine and then applied anesthetic cream to it.
This anesthetic ointment was made by Yun Qingran based on Hua Tuo's Mafeisan (麻沸散). It consists of six herbs: one pound of Datura flower and Solanum nigrum flower, four mace each of raw Aconitum carmichaelii, Angelica dahurica, Angelica sinensis, and Ligusticum chuanxiong, and one mace of Arisaema heterophyllum.
Although it is not as effective as modern anesthetics, it can still reduce a lot of pain.
After everything was ready, Yun Qingran patted the Rock Cave King Serpent's head and said, "It might hurt a little, but just bear with it."
The cave king serpent couldn't understand, but it could guess that its new master, the living devil, was about to take its gallbladder, so it voluntarily relaxed its scales.
"Wow, the scales can be opened!" Yun Qingran exclaimed with surprise and delight. Without the scales, it would be much easier for her to extract the snake's gall.
She reached the location of the snake's gall, raised the Wave-Slaying Sword, and thrust it in. The Wave-Slaying Sword was incredibly sharp, piercing straight into the body of the Rock Cave King Serpent.
The Rock Cave King Serpent twitched its body slightly before calming down; the sword strike did not cause the pain one might have imagined.
"I see the snake gall." Yun Qingran said happily as she used her sword to cut open the meat, and then began to extract the snake gall and bile.
"OK, the surgery was a great success." Yun Qingran took out a piece of snake gall the size of an infant's fist, then pulled out the sword, and began to suture the wound with needle and thread.
A giant snake, over ten meters long, lay obediently on the ground while people extracted its gallbladder. After the gallbladder was removed, the wound was stitched up with needle and thread. Watching this scene, Wu Yuan felt it was somewhat surreal. Even though he had seen many things, he still found this scene utterly unbelievable.
"This is the catgut I made; it should be absorbed on its own. For the next few months, avoid water and try to eat liquids as much as possible," Yun Qingran advised the doctor.
Cave King Snake: What is my living Yama master saying to me?
After rambling on for a while, Yun Qingran realized that the Cave King Serpent probably couldn't understand her, so she started communicating with it using sign language.
Wu Yuan found it even more mysterious!
"Wuyuan, could you please go out and find some bird eggs and chicken eggs?" Yun Qingran said to Wuyuan after stitching up the wound of the Rock Cave King Serpent.
The cave king snake is currently injured and can only eat liquid food.
Bird Egg and Chicken Egg: You're so high and mighty, you're so clever, you even used me to nourish the King Snake in the Rock Cave!
"How much do you want?" Wu Yuan asked her.
"Let's find one that weighs around 100 jin (50 catties)." Yun Qingran looked at the size of the Cave King Serpent.
Wu Yuan: ...Searching for hundreds of chicken and bird eggs in the desolate mountains and wilderness!
"It is indeed a lot, thank you for your hard work." Seeing that Wu Yuan did not answer, Yun Qingran smiled gracefully at him.
"Okay, I understand." Wu Yuan looked at her radiant smile, a fleeting, elusive desire flashing in his eyes, before turning and leaving.
Yun Qingran stayed inside the cave to guard the King Serpent, worried that it might be in danger.
Fortunately, there was no problem with the wound, and apart from weakness and lethargy, the cave king snake had no other symptoms.
Cave King Snake: It seems my new master, the living Yama, is quite capable.
Seeing that there was no problem with the cave king snake, Yun Qingran relaxed and took a nap next to it.
When she woke up, Wu Yuan had already returned with the bird and chicken eggs. Besides himself, there were also the Shadow Guards and Zhao Xingyun. Each of them carried two or three catties of bird or wild chicken eggs.
No wonder Wu Yuan was able to return so quickly; it turns out he encountered them, and more than sixty people searched the entire mountain together.
"My goodness, such a huge snake." Pei Chen got goosebumps all over when he saw the Cave King Serpent.
If it weren't for Young Master Wu's prior warning that there was a large snake in the tomb but it wasn't dangerous, they would have been terrified when they saw it.
The Rock Cave King Serpent glanced at the loud and boisterous Pei Chen, then continued to rest on the ground.
"Miss Yun, are you alright?" Seeing that the giant snake was relatively calm, Eagle Feather was more concerned about his master's well-being.
If anything were to happen to their master, the emperor would certainly not forgive them when they returned.
"I'm fine. How about you guys?" Yun Qingran looked at them. Several of them seemed to be injured.
"Fortunately, a few brothers were bitten by snakes, but they were all fine after taking the antidote you gave them," Eagle Feather replied.
"That's good. Your sudden disappearance scared me to death." Yun Qingran's heart, which had been hanging in suspense, was finally at ease.
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