"Don't rush, we haven't figured out what's going on here yet."
Wan Yunting shot a glance at Niu Qiuling, ignoring the girl, and then went to check on Xu Lingwei and her junior brother Li Zihang. "How are you two?"
"I've only sustained minor injuries, I won't die."
Li Zihang lifted his left hand, his forearm wound already bandaged and bleeding stopped.
However, he was more concerned about his senior sister Xu Lingwei's arm wounds, where the puppet Luosang Zhuoma's black fingernails had dug deep. "But my senior sister's injuries are a bit troublesome."
"Let me see."
Saying that, Wan Yunting squatted down, grabbed Xu Lingwei's sleeves with both hands, and tore them open directly, revealing her fair skin and the five nail wounds on her arm. Since the puppet's nails were covered in corpse poison, the wounds had already turned black.
"She's been poisoned by corpse poison, we need to treat her quickly," Wan Yunting said with a frown.
"Corpse poison? How do we treat it?"
Li Zihang's eyes widened, while Xu Lingwei's face was pale and slightly blackened. The severe pain from the wounds made sweat bead on her forehead, and her weak eyes looked at Wan Yunting. He said, "In any case, we'll take you to the hospital first. Otherwise, in a few more hours, the corpse poison will attack her heart, and it will be troublesome."
"Then let's not wait, let's get out quickly."
Li Zihang, anxious for his senior sister's safety, immediately helped Xu Lingwei up. Zhou Dong saw this and said, "Yunting, whatever you need here, you guys should go to the hospital quickly. We'll come find you later."
"Understood, Captain Zhou."
Wan Yunting nodded, then pulled Fang Yanxi along, preparing to escort Xu Lingwei and Li Zihang out.
"I'll go..."
A police officer near them lifted the wooden lid of the water vat next to the wine jars in the corner. Upon seeing a head emerge from inside, the officer was so terrified that his soul almost flew out. He exclaimed, "Captain Zhou, come look quickly! There's someone in the water vat..."
Immediately, Zhou Dong and other officers rushed over. Wan Yunting seemed to have thought of something, asking Xu Lingwei and her junior brother to wait a moment, and he also hurried over to look at the water vat. Indeed, there was someone inside.
And this person was none other than the missing Tian Guofu!
"It's Tian Guofu."
Wan Yunting's eyes widened; he recognized Tian Guofu at a glance.
At this moment, Tian Guofu was also conscious. His pupils were blood-red, his eyes filled with terror, and his mouth was agape. However, because his tongue had been cut off, he could not make any sound.
Then, Wan Yunting and the others also discovered that Tian Guofu was not sitting in the water vat!
Rather than sitting, he had been stuffed into the water vat, because Tian Guofu's limbs had been chopped off by Guan Hongyu. He had not been allowed to die, but instead was immersed in a water vat containing a special medicinal solution using a uniquely cruel method, keeping him alive.
The purpose was obvious: to torture Tian Guofu!
After all, death is not scary; torturing someone often causes more pain, satisfying one's hatred.
Fang Yanxi, upon seeing this, covered her mouth in shock. Looking at Tian Guofu's state, she found it too cruel.
"This is truly tragic..."
Zhou Dong, Wu Lei, and the others looked on, deeply shocked. Guan Hongyu's methods were truly barbaric; such cruel torture methods were probably only seen on television...
Wan Yunting sighed. He finally led Fang Yanxi and Xu Lingwei with Li Zihang out of the underground chamber of the well. Zhou Dong and Niu Qiuling found nothing else below. Tian Guofu, along with the water vat, was also transported out of the well's basement...
As for Guan Hongyu and his puppet Luosang Zhuoma, they were apprehended and directly put into a vehicle, escorted back to the police station by the armed police for further investigation...
Due to the severity of Xu Lingwei's injuries, Zhou Dong instructed Wu Lei and Huang Yongxin to accompany Wan Yunting directly back to Southern Hospital...
However, expelling the corpse poison from Xu Lingwei's body was not something that current medical technology could achieve. Therefore, Wan Yunting took Xu Lingwei to the Traditional Chinese Medicine department, returned to his own consulting room, and had her sit on the bed behind the screen.
"I'm going to circulate my internal energy to expel the corpse poison for your senior sister, so you wait outside," Wan Yunting said to Li Zihang.
"Oh, alright." Li Zihang could only nod.
Wan Yunting then said to Fang Yanxi, "Yanxi, I might need about an hour. I'll have Old Wu send you back to rest first."
But Fang Yanxi shook her head. "No, I'll wait here for you."
Wan Yunting knew the woman had been frightened tonight and didn't want to go back alone. "Alright, then you two wait outside."
"Hurry up and go save my senior sister," Li Zihang urged anxiously.
Wan Yunting nodded at Fang Yanxi and, without further ado, turned and entered the consulting room, closing the door. He went behind the screen and looked at Xu Lingwei, who was lying on the bed. She was very weak.
Especially the black and purple wounds on her arms had spread to her shoulders. The corpse poison had already entered her body. If they delayed for another hour, the corpse poison would likely attack her heart, and she would die. At that point, even a divine immortal couldn't save her.
"Can you still move?"
Wan Yunting approached with his silver needle bag and asked Xu Lingwei.
"Mmm..."
Her face was darkened, her lips purple, and she weakly nodded.
"I'll first use silver needles to seal your acupoints and temporarily slow down the corpse poison from entering your body, and then I'll use internal energy to force out the corpse poison..."
Wan Yunting prepared the silver needles while explaining. Then he came to the bedside and looked at Xu Lingwei, saying, "But you'll need to take off your clothes."
Xu Lingwei's expression faltered, but Wan Yunting had already reached out, saying sternly, "I'm a doctor now, so don't have any psychological burdens. Come, sit up first..."
Saying that, Wan Yunting helped her sit up. Xu Lingwei didn't say anything. Although her hands had lost sensation, she still cooperated very well with Wan Yunting, unfastening her Taoist robe and pulling it down, revealing her fair shoulders and delicate collarbone. Wan Yunting's gaze lowered, and Xu Lingwei's body trembled slightly a few times, clearly still shy.
After all, this was the first time she had been like this in front of a man...
Of course, at this moment, Wan Yunting's mind was not wandering. The Xu Lingwei in front of him was a patient, so he didn't waste any more words. He picked up the silver needles and inserted them into several acupoints on Xu Lingwei's shoulders, sealing the corpse poison from spreading further into her body.
Then, Wan Yunting turned around and sat cross-legged on the bed behind Xu Lingwei, placing his hands on Xu Lingwei's fair back, above her shoulders...
Instantly, he secretly circulated the internal energy from his dantian, channeling it into Xu Lingwei's body through his hands. Relying on his powerful internal energy, he instantly blocked the two strands of deteriorating corpse poison and slowly forced the corpse poison out of Xu Lingwei's body through the wounds on her arms...
Ah...
The intense pain made Xu Lingwei's expression contorted with agony, but she gritted her teeth and persevered, beads of sweat falling from her forehead, down her cheeks and swan-like neck, collecting in her collarbone to form a small pond of perspiration...
At this moment, Xu Lingwei felt a powerful surge of internal energy flowing through her body...
Before, she had seen Wan Yunting fight Guan Hongyu and knew his martial arts were high, but she had not expected his internal energy to be so strong and vigorous. It was clear that he had already reached the late stage of the Huajin realm in traditional martial arts!
It should be known that Xu Lingwei herself was only at the early stage of Huajin, yet she was already hailed as a martial arts prodigy of the Wuliang Daoist Temple.
But this Wan Yunting seemed to be around the same age as her, so why was his cultivation so powerful?
"Don't get distracted. Cooperate with me and circulate your internal energy."
Wan Yunting, sitting behind her, said with a solemn expression to the distracted Xu Lingwei.
Instantly, she put away her distracting thoughts and secretly circulated the internal energy from her dantian, cooperating with the strong internal energy that Wan Yunting had infused into her body, to jointly expel the corpse poison from her body...