Wei Yuan understood, completely understood.
Compared to Ji Jinmo, Nan Shiying was truly no less.
This was a pair of heartless, black-hearted, insidious, and cunning scoundrels!
Nan Shiying ignored the gaze behind her, which seemed to be burning with fiery anger and wanting to pierce a large hole in her back, and walked step by step towards Yin Silan.
Yin Silan had nowhere to retreat. She suddenly bit her tongue hard.
The mere thought of the torture worse than death made her prefer to end herself immediately.
However, the silver needle in Nan Shiying's hand was much faster than Yin Silan's movement. The silver needle pierced the air, directly sealing Yin Silan's actions.
Want to die?
You're not worthy!
Nan Shiying called out to Wei Yuan, "Come, disinfect and set up the bed!"
Wei Yuan: "..."
Damn it!
Wei Yuan cursed inwardly, but his body obediently put down the medicine box. As he took out the disinfectant alcohol and gauze, he also understood why Nan Shiying had asked him to bring a set of clean bedsheets.
After he disinfected, he spread the clean white sheets and was then instructed to lift Yin Silan and place her on the bed.
After doing all this, Wei Yuan was panting heavily from exhaustion.
Nan Shiying drew her dagger and cut open Yin Silan's clothes. As a large area of pallid white was exposed to the air, Wei Yuan glanced at Nan Shiying with some astonishment.
A cold air brushed against Yin Silan's skin, causing goosebumps to appear all over it. Her pupils quivered and trembled. The fear and despair in her eyes made Wei Yuan feel a trace of pity for her.
But before Wei Yuan could speak, Nan Shiying spoke first, asking him, "Do you know who put the蛊 on Ji Jinmo?"
What?
Wei Yuan was only stunned for a second before he instantly understood Nan Shiying's meaning.
"It was her?"
Nan Shiying nodded, "It was her!"
Her voice was still unhurried, and her tone had not changed much, but faintly, boundless malice seemed to spread and clamor. Wei Yuan understood the hatred in her voice.
Before Nan Shiying married into the royal mansion, it was Wei Yuan who had been using all his methods to suppress the蛊 poison within Ji Jinmo. Every year during the Mid-Autumn Festival, when families reunited, it was the most painful time for Ji Jinmo. In the most severe years, when he had just been poisoned, scales of a greenish hue would grow all over his body during the outbreaks. He would be seen curled up in a corner, wailing. He would ferociously rip off the scales from his body, tearing away large patches of flesh. Each wound was so shocking.
And this pain did not even amount to a fraction of the pain during the蠱 poison's outbreak.
At that time, Wei Yuan had sworn that if he could find the person who had put the蛊 on Jinmo one day, he would make them suffer a fate worse than death.
The pity in his eyes faded, leaving only coldness.
Wei Yuan was even somewhat angry that they hadn't told him sooner. If he had known it was her earlier, he wouldn't have treated it so meticulously. He would have let her live, but live in pain.
Nan Shiying didn't say anything further. Instead, she used a needle to seal Yin Silan's meridians. The previous wound was still there, making this dissection much easier.
Nan Shiying moved aside slightly, allowing Old Poison to step forward.
"Old man, are you ready?" Nan Shiying asked.
Old Poison snorted and nodded without speaking.
Nan Shiying sliced open Yin Silan's chest with a knife, her precision impeccable. Besides breaking open her chest, she did not injure any organs.
Yin Silan's miserable screams once again echoed in the prison cell.
Wei Yuan's scalp tightened.
She had already removed the蠱 worm from Yin Silan's body last time. This time, she intended to place the worm-蛊 she had obtained earlier into Yin Silan's heart.
For the蛊 masters of Miao territory, the蛊 worms needed to be infused into the body from a young age. Her crude action of directly opening the蛊 master's heart after adulthood to insert the worm-蛊 was akin to how蛊 masters administered蛊 to others.
In essence, it was administering a蛊.
After Nan Shiying broke open Yin Silan's chest, Old Poison took out a small porcelain bottle from his embrace, opened it, placed the worm-蛊 in his palm, and then brought his hand close to Yin Silan's heart.
The worm-蛊 seemed to have smelled the most delicious thing in the world. It suddenly sprang up in Old Poison's palm and rapidly rushed towards Yin Silan's heart.
Nan Shiying bent slightly, her eyes instantly filling with gold.
With the enhancement of her ocular ability, Nan Shiying clearly saw the worm-蛊's trajectory after entering the heart. It first entered the left atrium, then flowed to the left ventricle, and along the left ventricle into the right ventricle, and then into the right atrium.
The left atrium connects to the pulmonary veins, the left ventricle connects to the aorta, the right atrium connects to the superior vena cava, and the right ventricle connects to the pulmonary artery.
It circulated within the body according to the flow of blood.
Then, Nan Shiying discovered that not long after it entered Yin Silan's heart, it seemed to secrete a milky white liquid. The liquid mixed with the blood and flowed to every part of the body.
In other words, to completely resolve Ji Jinmo's蠱 poison, besides surgically removing the蛊 worm from the heart, it would also require a full blood transfusion to clear the toxins from his body?
After understanding the trajectory of the worm-蠱 when it first entered the human body and seeing the liquid it secreted, Nan Shiying broke open Yin Silan's heart again and removed the worm-蠱.
After being separated from the body, the worm-蛊 suddenly lunged towards Nan Shiying's hand, trying to break her skin and burrow into her body. Fortunately, Old Poison was prepared and grabbed the worm-蛊 in his palm.
"Old man?"
Nan Shiying looked at Old Poison nervously. Old Poison's extremely foul-smelling face finally showed a hint of a smile, and he reassured her, "It's nothing. Compared to the mother worm within me, its toxicity is like a drop of water in the vast ocean; it has no effect at all."
Seeing Old Poison's confident assertion, Nan Shiying finally felt relieved.
However, upon hearing that he possessed the mother worm within him, Yin Silan's eyes, which were gradually blurring from pain and blood loss, forcefully opened, wanting to get a clear look at Old Poison's face.
Wei Yuan was slightly stunned upon hearing this.
Old Poison actually had the mother worm within him, which meant he was... a remnant of the Miao territory!
"You, you..."
Yin Silan's words were difficult to form into coherent sentences, but Old Poison knew what she wanted to express. However, he had already died years ago, and after his relatives were all dead, he had no feelings left for the Miao tribe.