After holding out for a while, several guards were injured, and the bamboo raft was about to give way.
"Master, save me!" Green Immortal's clothes were bitten by a crocodile, and he struggled desperately, clinging to the bamboo raft.
Yun Qingran lightly touched the ground with her toes and immediately leaped to Green Immortal's side, slicing his clothes in half with a single sword stroke.
"That scared me to death." Green Immortal patted his chest.
Just then, the crocodile pounced again. Yun Qingran pushed Green Immortal aside and thrust her sword towards its eye.
Unexpectedly, the crocodile opened its big mouth and bit her sword, then pulled her forcefully into the swamp.
Nangong Xu thrust his spear forward, the sharp blade piercing the crocodile's eye.
The intense pain drove the crocodile mad; it spun around and lashed its massive tail at the three of them.
The speed was too fast; Yun Qingran didn't have any light-footed skills, so she couldn't dodge the giant tail's attack at all.
Just as the crocodile's tail was about to strike her, Nangong Xu lunged forward and shielded her from the attack.
"Pfft!" Several hundred pounds of force slammed into his chest, and Nangong Xu spat out a mouthful of blood, flying away like a kite with a broken string.
"Your Highness Xu." All the guards looked at Nangong Xu in astonishment and fear.
"Nangong Xu." Yun Qingran ran over immediately. She didn't dare move him, afraid of causing a second fracture. She first reached out and touched his chest.
"Princess Rongchang, how is our Prince Xu?" The head guard ran over and asked in a trembling voice.
"Your sternum is fractured." Yun Qingran's expression was grave, and her hands trembled slightly.
Upon hearing this, the head of the guards seemed to collapse from exhaustion, and immediately knelt before Yun Qingran, pleading, "Princess Rongchang, I've heard of your superb medical skills. You must save our Highness!"
"Don't worry, I will save him," Yun Qingran said.
When the giant crocodile's tail swept down, Nangong Xu must have used his internal energy to protect himself, so although his sternum was fractured, it wasn't too serious and didn't shift.
If the sternal fracture has not been displaced, it can be treated conservatively, meaning that surgery is not necessary; medication and bed rest are sufficient.
Fortunately, surgery wasn't necessary. Otherwise, in ancient times, there was no sterile environment required for open-chest surgery, and the surgical equipment and tools were also unavailable, so the surgery couldn't be performed, and Nangong Ye would have been left to die.
However, he just vomited blood, which could indicate organ damage. If so, surgery would be necessary.
Yun Qingran took Nangong Xu's wrist, took his pulse, and checked whether his organs were damaged and to what extent.
After quickly taking his pulse, Yun Qingran breathed a sigh of relief. His only internal organ damage was his lungs. His vomiting blood was likely caused by bleeding from the damaged lungs, which could be treated with medication without surgery.
Yun Qingran quickly took out hemostatic medicine and some life-saving medicine from her small bag and fed them to Nangong Xu.
After taking the medicine, Nangong Xu's breathing stabilized a bit.
"Princess Rongchang, how is our prince?" the head guard asked Yun Qingran anxiously.
"His life is temporarily saved, but he needs to see a doctor immediately, otherwise he might not survive," Yun Qingran said.
"Brothers, His Highness is in grave danger! Break out of here as quickly as possible! Kill!" The guard leader picked up Nangong Xu's tasseled spear, returned to the bamboo raft, and continued fighting the giant crocodile.
Yun Qingran looked at Nangong Xu lying on the bamboo raft. He was unconscious, his mouth was full of blood, and he looked rather disheveled.
"Why do you have to do this to yourself?" Yun Qingran sighed softly. She already had Jun Molin, so there was no way she could fall in love with him.
Immediately, something flashed through Yun Qingran's mind. She then took Nangong Xu's wrist and took his pulse. Just now, her attention was entirely focused on his internal organs. Now, thinking back, it seemed that besides the lung damage, there was something else wrong with him.
"The Thousand Charms Poison!" Yun Qingran carefully took Nangong Xu's pulse again and discovered that he had the Thousand Charms Poison in his body.
Wu Yuan was also poisoned by the Thousand Charms Poison!
She had only seen the name "Qianjiao Baimei" in the Yun family's "Book of Ten Thousand Poisons," and she didn't know the source of this poison, only its specific pulse description. This showed that the poison was not common, and it was rare to encounter two people with it.
Yun Qingran looked at Nangong Xu's face. Could Wu Yuan be Nangong Xu? Could Nangong Xu be Wu Yuan?
Thinking about it now, both of them were indeed suspicious. Wu Yuan claimed to be a江湖人 (jianghu person, a person from the martial arts world), yet he exuded an air of nobility; I had long suspected that he was someone from the elite circles of some country.
As for Nangong Xu, he withdrew his hand both times when I tried to take his pulse, as if he was very reluctant to let me take his pulse.
Yun Qingran is now certain that Wu Yuan and Nangong Xu are the same person.
This makes things a bit awkward, especially since Wu Yuan saved him twice today and is his savior, while Nangong Xu and Jun Molin are mortal enemies.
Forget it, now's not the time to think about these things. Let's think about how to get out of here first.
Yun Qingran regained her composure, and just as she was about to withdraw her fingers from Nangong Xu's wrist, she noticed something was wrong again.
There seems to be something wrong with Nangong Xu's bones.
Whether bones are healthy or not is not easily reflected in the pulse; it is only because of Yun Qingran's superb medical skills that she can sense it.
She reached out and touched all of Nangong Xu's bones, and her expression changed.
“Master, I thought you were a pure lover, but I didn’t expect you to be a pervert. Nangong Xu is almost dead, and you’re still groping him.” Green Immortal came running over excitedly.
“A perfectly normal person, yet he has a mouth.” Yun Qingran glared at him, then said, “Come and feel his bones.”
"What's wrong with his bones?" Green Immortal said, his hand already touching Nangong Xu's bones.
After touching it, the Green Immortal's expression changed slightly. "His joints seem to have some problems, but also nothing."
“Hmm.” Yun Qingran nodded, then said, “My grandfather had a friend who was a tomb raider. Some of his bones and joints were like this, but Nangong Xu’s were not as severe. And this was caused by practicing bone shrinking techniques.”
"Is Nangong Xu out of his mind? A perfectly good prince has actually become a tomb raider," Green Immortal exclaimed.
“What’s in your head? Of course not,” Yun Qingran said. “What I mean is, the Bone Shrinking Technique can change body shape, and Nangong Xu has the ability to change body shape.”
No wonder Wu Yuan and Nangong Xu's figures are different. She originally thought it was because of their outfits that caused the difference, but she didn't expect it was because he knew the art of bone shrinking, which can change body shape.
“Master, do you think Nangong Xu might be our Valley Master? I felt he looked a lot like our Valley Master when I first saw him, but I ruled it out because of the difference in their physiques. Since he knows the Bone Shrinking Technique, he could very well be our Valley Master,” said Green Immortal, looking at Nangong Xu.
Yun Qingran remembered that when Green Immortal first saw Nangong Xu, he said that he looked like the Valley Master of the Demon Valley of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
"We can tell if you have tattoos on your backs by looking," Yun Qingran said.
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