She said, pulling Feng Xiwu's hand away, and said with a serious expression, "But Senior Martial Brother Ziyi's wine should have one more ingredient than the imperial wine of the Turkic royal court, right?"
She looked back at Chi Yaoyao, who was unconscious on the couch, "The roots of the extreme ice lotus, watered with strong liquor, are permeated with its flavor, and there is no trace of a strange smell in the wine.
However, the Hundred Poisons Gu seems to have a particular fondness for this extremely yin and cold aura."
She watched Chi Yaoyao on the couch, her body covered in sweat from the torment of the蛊 poison within her, tears streaming down her face even in her unconsciousness, her affection unwavering.
Then she asked coldly, "Is this the method Senior Martial Brother Ziyi has spent so many days devising to cure my friend of the Gu poison?"
As she spoke, her fingers moved almost imperceptibly, and a faint medicinal fragrance immediately wafted into the air. Chi Yaoyao's condition gradually stabilized.
Feng Ziyi's enchanting phoenix eyes slightly lifted, and the hand holding the water pouch twitched. Lu Qingwan had already stood up.
"To be entrusted by others and fulfill their wishes, I believe this is a basic principle of being human. Now it seems that Senior Martial Brother Ziyi and I do not share the same values. You may leave."
As she spoke, she strode to Chi Yaoyao's side, and a silver needle, flashing with cold light, was quickly inserted into the major acupoints around Chi Yaoyao's body.
She then said without looking back, "I invited you here to save her, not to torture her.
Whatever your intentions, do not attempt to harm my friend again, or I will not let this rest."
As the silver needles entered the acupoints, Chi Yaoyao's trembling body gradually calmed down. Lu Qingwan then used her internal energy to stabilize her breathing, placed the Teng Snake on her chest, and then got up to leave.
All these actions took less than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea. Feng Ziyi had already shed her guise of a wanton demoness.
She sat up straight and said, "It's truly rare. Liu Hanyan, a person as selfish and hypocritical as she is, actually gave birth to a daughter as fierce and righteous as you.
No wonder the old man decided without hesitation to let you inherit the position of Saintess after meeting you only once.
You are much more pleasing to the eye than your utterly hypocritical mother."
Lu Qingwan's attitude did not change despite Feng Ziyi's few words of praise. "I don't know what grudges you have with Liu Hanyan, nor do I wish to know.
I was protected by my mother and taught by my father since I was young. Liu Hanyan, apart from giving birth to me, never raised me for a single day.
I don't believe that because I share half her blood, my way of handling things should be influenced by her."
As she spoke, she expressed her dissatisfaction with Feng Ziyi without any reservation.
"As for you, Envoy Ziyi, whether you are dissatisfied with me as the new Saintess, or whether you are testing my medical skills.
Using the body of a critically ill patient as a test for me, do you not think your actions are any different from that Gu-crazy person who refined her into a poison carrier?"
Just moments ago, the medicinal wine brewed with the extreme ice lotus roots watered by strong liquor, used by Feng Ziyi, had awakened the Hundred Poisons Gu within Chi Yaoyao's body.
This caused the Hundred Poisons Gu to lose its defensive capabilities and, like ordinary Gu worms, to attack and bite other Gu worms within Chi Yaoyao's body.
It must be admitted that if Xue Hongyi had made Chi Yaoyao's Hundred Poisons Gu strong enough, this method could also help Chi Yaoyao get rid of the Gu.
But this method was like letting a group of Monkey Kings fight inside the Princess Iron Fan's belly; no matter which Monkey King won, Princess Iron Fan would not be well.
The same was true for Chi Yaoyao. With a group of Gu worms fighting in her body, the pressure on her meridians and internal organs was imaginable.
Moreover, if the Hundred Poisons Gu was not strong enough and was eliminated by other Gu worms, then Chi Yaoyao would surely die.
Feng Ziyi, as a master of Gu poison from Xue Hongyi's Samsara Hall, would not be unaware of this.
The fact that she knew the seriousness of the matter and still dared to do it meant that she simply did not value Chi Yaoyao's life.
Feng Ziyi smiled dismissively, "Isn't she fine now?
And don't you want to know why that Gu-crazy person put the Gu on her?"
Lu Qingwan remained silent, only looking at her with cold eyes.
Chi Yaoyao had been infected with the Gu for so long, and her confession about the former Nanzhao royal witch had not been kept from Xue Hongyi. Lu Qingwan did not believe that Feng Ziyi would come to help her without knowing anything.
Feng Ziyi's superfluous question at this moment either meant she was bored and trying to amuse herself, or that there was someone else behind that Gu-crazy person.
Seeing this, Feng Ziyi stood up directly, "I knew you wouldn't believe me. Come here."
She said, not caring whether Lu Qingwan responded, and walked towards Chi Yaoyao on the sickbed.
Lu Qingwan hurried to follow, and Xue Hongyi and Feng Xiwu also followed.
The few of them gathered around the bed. Feng Ziyi, as if no one else was there, took a dagger and cut open Chi Yaoyao's left palm, signaling to Lu Qingwan, "Hold it."
Lu Qingwan vaguely guessed what Feng Ziyi intended to do, and silently held Chi Yaoyao's hand, exposing her palm.
Then, they all saw Feng Ziyi take out a small bamboo tube from her sleeve. As soon as she opened the lid, a jet-black butterfly landed on the wound on Chi Yaoyao's palm.
The originally bright red blood suddenly turned a dark, dull red upon contact with the black butterfly.
Lu Qingwan immediately activated her X-ray vision to observe Chi Yaoyao. A group of Gu worms of various colors were struggling and twisting in Chi Yaoyao's meridians and internal organs. They wanted to stay in place but were driven by a powerful force straight towards the wound.
Although Lu Qingwan was not skilled in Gu removal, she possessed extraordinary medical skills and had her space laboratory. Of course, Lu Qingwan knew that this was a sign that the Gu worms were about to leave their host.
However, her gaze fell on the black butterfly. "Is this... the Origin Gu King?"
There were countless methods for removing Gu, but almost every one of them would cause the host immense pain.
Only one method could make all the Gu worms obedient and cause no harm to the host, and that was to use a Gu King to drive out the other Gu worms.
The phenomenon before her told Lu Qingwan that this black butterfly was a Gu King, but it did break Lu Qingwan's conventional understanding of Gu Kings.
Fortunately, the Gu King itself carried potent poison, and the moment it appeared, it triggered the alarm in the space laboratory.
The poison analysis report on the black butterfly gave Lu Qingwan a brand new concept: "The Origin Gu King is like a congenital poison physique in humans. The Origin Gu King is rare and unpredictable.
But once encountered and tamed by someone, all other Gu worms are like younger brothers before the Origin Gu King."
Feng Ziyi actually possessed such a powerful trump card, which made Lu Qingwan extremely surprised.
Feng Ziyi was as surprised as she was, "You know about the Origin Gu King, you are very capable!"
Lu Qingwan ignored her insincere flattery. "You have the Origin Gu King that can cure all Gu poisons in the world, so why did you go through such a performance, using medicinal wine steeped with extreme ice lotus roots to stimulate the Gu poison in her body?"
"Don't worry, you'll know soon enough."
Feng Ziyi said calmly, her gaze fixed on Chi Yaoyao, as if she had forgotten Lu Qingwan's existence.