At this moment, hurried footsteps echoed from the entrance of the dungeon.
"Your Highness, something has happened. Yin Chen has been poisoned. Divine Doctor Chu has returned to Ghost Valley, and the two physicians in the Prince's manor are at a loss." Ye Ying said urgently.
Jun Mohan's handsome brows furrowed. "Let's go. I'll go take a look. Ye Ying, you go to the palace to summon the imperial physician."
Leng Ruo Li, who was suspended in the middle of the cell, heard the conversation between Jun Mohan and Ye Ying. Her bright apricot eyes lit up, and she called out to Jun Mohan:
"Hey, that... Your Highness, let me down. Perhaps I can help your subordinate detoxify."
Jun Mohan stopped in his tracks. After a moment of thought, he continued walking towards the dungeon entrance, disregarding her words.
"Hey, hey, wait a moment, listen to me first..."
Leng Ruo Li kept shouting at Jun Mohan and the others, but Jun Mohan did not stop again. He walked out of the dungeon with several guards.
...
In the room, Yin Chen had already fainted. His entire left hand had been poisoned black, and the poison was slowly spreading to other parts of his body.
The two manor physicians paced anxiously in the room. They were helpless in the face of this situation.
"Doctor Han, Doctor Yang, stop pacing. We must quickly find a way to help Commander Yin detoxify," Ye Yi said anxiously.
Although Commander Yin was not his direct superior, he was his brother who had gone through life and death together for many years. Seeing his brother in mortal danger now made his heart ache.
At this moment, Jun Mohan walked in.
Everyone in the room respectfully bowed to Jun Mohan. "Greetings, Your Highness!"
Jun Mohan waved his hand, signaling them to dispense with the formalities.
"Your Highness, Doctor Han and Doctor Yang cannot diagnose the poison in Commander Yin," Doctor Han said with shame.
"How much longer can he hold on?" Jun Mohan asked calmly. His deep purple eyes seemed lost in thought.
"Commander Yin can probably only last for half an hour," Doctor Han replied honestly.
Jun Mohan calculated in his mind. The time for Ye Ying to travel from the manor to the palace and back would take an hour.
Jun Mohan's handsome brows knitted tightly. He glanced at Yin Chen, who had fainted from poisoning on the bed, and felt a sense of urgency.
It was clearly too late for Yin Chen to wait for the imperial physician to arrive and detoxify him.
At this moment, Jun Mohan suddenly remembered what the woman he had locked in the dungeon had said.
Perhaps he could trust her this once. Maybe she could truly save Yin Chen.
"Someone, go and bring the woman from the dungeon here."
A guard heard Jun Mohan's command and dashed towards the manor's dungeon.
A moment later, Leng Ruo Li was brought before Jun Mohan by the guard.
"You said in the dungeon just now that you can detoxify?" Jun Mohan's purple eyes, filled with complex emotions, swept over Leng Ruo Li.
"Yes, I can try to help your subordinate detoxify, but I can't detoxify all poisons."
"If you can detoxify Yin Chen today, I will release you immediately and forgive all your past transgressions against me."
Leng Ruo Li scoffed at Jun Mohan's words. She, Leng Ruo Li, was not afraid of him. However, it might not be a bad thing to easily resolve the conflict between her and Jun Mohan.
Then, Jun Mohan added coldly.
"However, if you cannot detoxify Yin Chen, I will have you executed immediately."
Leng Ruo Li was instantly angered by this statement.
"You are too outrageous! Didn't I just say that I can try to help your subordinate detoxify, but I can't guarantee that I can detoxify the person, after all, I am just a physician, not an omnipotent immortal."
"Woman, you have no room to negotiate with me."
"Alright, who asked you to be the most formidable prince in the Tianwu Kingdom?"
At these words, everyone in the room was filled with confusion.
"Formidable, what is formidable? Is it a fork used in the village to scoop cow dung?"
This woman was too bold! She actually dared to ask the Prince to scoop cow dung.
Leng Ruo Li couldn't be bothered to explain to these people. She glanced coldly at the man lying on the bed and directly said, "Let me first examine what poison that person has been infected with."
Jun Mohan nodded slightly.
Leng Ruo Li walked to Yin Chen's bedside. She looked at the handsome, pale-faced, and dark-lipped man with a slight shock. Wasn't this the man standing beside Jun Mohan in the cave during the day, reporting the situation?
At this moment, he was slowly being consumed by the black toxin. The poison on his left hand had already spread to every part of his body.
This person was fine in the cave during the day. How did he become like this in such a short time?
Leng Ruo Li quickly took his pulse. She activated the detection instrument in her portable system space using her mind, and soon detected that the man was poisoned.
She said faintly to Jun Mohan, "Your subordinate has been poisoned by corpse poison."
At these words, everyone in the room showed expressions of horror.
"Young Master, are you sure Commander Yin has been poisoned by corpse poison?" Doctor Han asked.
"Certainly!" Leng Ruo Li said confidently.
However, she didn't overlook the term "Young Master." She was wearing men's clothing at the moment, so it wasn't strange for Doctor Han to call her Young Master. Moreover, someone hadn't exposed her as a woman.
"It is said that people poisoned by corpse poison first experience muscle stiffness, then loss of sensation, rapid skin ulceration, and finally, they are slowly tortured to death. Judging by Commander Yin's current symptoms, it is indeed possible that he has been poisoned by corpse poison," Doctor Yang added from the side.
"Your Highness, in the current Jianghu, there is only one person who uses corpse poison, and that is Poison Granny, one of the Ten Great Killers of the Dark Night Pavilion," Ye Yi said.
"It is her," Jun Mohan said calmly.
"Then what should we do? The antidote for this corpse poison is only on Poison Granny. But Poison Granny is highly skilled in martial arts and elusive. We no longer have time to find Poison Granny to retrieve the antidote. Will Commander Yin then have no hope of being saved?" Ye Yi said with great sadness.
"Who says he has no hope? I can help him detoxify the corpse poison," Leng Ruo Li suddenly said.
Everyone in the room thought they had misheard. All eyes turned to Leng Ruo Li.
"Can you really detoxify corpse poison?" Jun Mohan asked disbelievingly.
"Yes. Hurry up and have someone prepare two sets of silver needles for me. Then, I will write a prescription. You find someone to get two portions of medicine according to the prescription, and then use two large pots to boil the medicinal soup for the poisoned person to bathe in."
Jun Mohan immediately ordered someone to follow Leng Ruo Li's instructions.
When Leng Ruo Li mentioned using silver needles, the two senior physicians beside her quickly took out their sets of silver needles for Leng Ruo Li.
This instantly increased Leng Ruo Li's good impression of these two senior physicians. They did not use their seniority to stop her from treating Yin Chen, which surprised her.
Afterward, Leng Ruo Li immediately called for two guards to help her remove Yin Chen's upper clothing. Then, she took out a surgical knife from her "sleeve" and pricked the fingertips of Yin Chen's left hand.
Then, she picked up the silver needles one by one and inserted them into the acupoints on Yin Chen's arm.
At this moment, Leng Ruo Li was using a set of detoxification acupuncture techniques. Her skill with silver needles was superb, even better than that of senior physicians with decades of medical experience.
Doctor Han and Doctor Yang, who were standing by to help, were stunned. They hadn't expected a child of only a little over ten years to have mastered such excellent acupuncture techniques.
Jun Mohan's gaze deepened. Although he didn't understand the acupuncture technique this woman was using, he could see that the force, speed, and depth of her needle insertion were truly not something a sixteen-year-old girl could achieve. Instead, it was more like that of an elder who had been practicing medicine for decades.
After Leng Ruo Li completed the first round of acupuncture, the toxic blood within Yin Chen slowly gathered in Yin Chen's arm, and then flowed out from the broken skin on his fingertips. This black blood was foul-smelling and extremely unpleasant.
When she finished the second round of acupuncture, the blood flowing from Yin Chen's fingertips slowly returned to its normal color. At this point, Leng Ruo Li was so tired that she could barely stand upright.
After a while, Leng Ruo Li concentrated again and carefully removed the silver needles from Yin Chen one by one. During the entire process of needle removal, she could not make any mistakes. Once she removed the needles in the wrong order, it would cause massive bleeding in Yin Chen's left hand, and even if she detoxified him, his hand would be crippled in the future.
After Leng Ruo Li finished the detoxification, the medicinal soup for Yin Chen's bath, prepared by the Prince's manor, was also ready to be boiled.
Due to the distinction between men and women, the task of helping Yin Chen bathe fell to the two senior physicians of the Prince's manor.