There are no hot springs in Yanyang, and Jiang Qi'an's wounds have not fully healed yet, so it is not advisable for him to soak in water to resist the poison.
Su Ruojin and her master developed the suppression formula together; now it was up to Su Ruojin to administer the acupuncture.
Everything is ready; we're just waiting for the right time.
As night falls, the midnight watchman's drum sounds precisely on time.
A cloud drifted by, obscuring the moonlight and leaving only a hazy glow.
Inside the room, Jiang Qi'an, whose hands and feet were tied to the bed, began to have reddening eyes. The black lines on his wrists suddenly started to move, slowly spreading upwards as if they were alive.
As the black lines spread, Jiang Qi'an felt as if thousands of magma were flowing through his body, scorching every inch of his skin.
His whole body quickly turned red, like a cooked shrimp, and large drops of sweat poured out from his forehead, neck, and back. In just a few breaths, his clothes were completely soaked, and you could even vaguely see steam rising from them.
Before he could even react to the intense heat, a chilling sensation emanated from his very bones, instantly extinguishing the heat. Before he could even feel any relief, an extreme chill began to freeze his entire body.
A thin layer of ice had begun to form on Jiang Qi'an's clothes, which were still soaked with sweat. Ice flowers were visibly floating on Jiang Qi'an's lips and eyelashes, and his whole body began to tremble uncontrollably.
The pain of such a rapid and extreme clash between ice and fire is something no ordinary person could endure.
Although Jiang Qi'an tried his best to endure it, he still let out a muffled groan of pain.
When the next wave of scorching heat arrived, Jiang Qi'an's eyes had turned bloodshot, and he began to roar, desperately trying to break free of his restraints, as if he were about to go mad.
"Yanluo!" Su Ruojin shouted.
Yan Luo immediately handed over the prepared medicine bowl, which Su Ruojin took and poured directly into Jiang Qi'an's mouth.
Then he took out silver needles and quickly inserted them into various acupoints, this time inserting a total of eighteen needles.
Twisting, turning, and flicking, she continuously manipulated each needle, sweat dripping from Su Ruojin's forehead.
As the silver needles were inserted, Jiang Qi'an gradually felt that the burning and freezing sensations were being isolated by a wall, and as long as he stayed inside the wall, he would not be harmed.
For the first time in so many years, he felt that the poisoning wasn't so painful anymore.
Even when he was soaking in the hot springs before, with Mu Jingshan's help, he still had to endure this torment for a full three hours before it would end.
Mu Jingshan could only guarantee that he would maintain a sliver of clarity amidst such extreme pain and would not choose to end his own life during the poisoning process.
Now, as long as this wall is there, these pains cannot hurt him.
But because of the protection of this wall, he was unable to speak or move, and could only lie there and be manipulated by others.
"Jiang Qi'an, I need to take your blood to test for poison now." As soon as Su Ruojin finished speaking, Jiang Qi'an felt a needle prick his left middle finger. Su Ruojin squeezed out a few drops of blood and dripped them into the medicine.
The liquid, which was originally yellow and transparent, slowly turned blue after drops of bright red blood were added.
It really is the Soul-Devouring Shadow!
Looking at Jiang Qi'an lying on the bed with his eyes closed, Su Ruojin felt a pang of emotion.
Jiang Qi'an once said that this poison was something he was born with, and it would flare up once a month. He must have suffered so much over the years.
The Soul-Eating Shadow has a unique characteristic: those poisoned will not die on the spot, but will suffer the pain of alternating between scorching flames and extreme cold every month.
During the onset of the poison, it amplifies a person's perception of pain several times over, and no matter what you do, you will not fall into a coma; you can only endure the pain.
People with weak willpower often cannot bear this kind of pain and choose to end their own lives.
Even if one could endure such pain and survive, their internal organs would slowly rot and they would die fifteen years after the poisoning began.
However, if a pregnant woman is poisoned, she will be fine, but the fetus will absorb the poison of the Soul-Eating Shadow.
The child will not experience poisoning before the age of ten, but after the age of ten, he will suffer from the pain of poisoning every month, and the pain of poisoning will increase with age.
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