“Divine Doctor Chu, what exactly is the Beauty Gu?” Leng Ruoli asked curiously.
“It’s a Gu that can make oneself beautiful and rapidly heal wounds,” Chu Mingxuan explained simply.
“Damn! That’s amazing! No wonder this old woman, despite being fifty or sixty, has such well-preserved skin.” Even Leng Ruoli had to admire the powerful effects of the Beauty Gu.
“However, this Beauty Gu is extremely difficult to cultivate. When they are still eggs, they must be fed with one’s own blood daily, and the survival rate is extremely low. As far as I know, only two people can successfully cultivate the Beauty Gu currently. One is your Aunt Lan, and the other is… my master.” Chu Mingxuan sighed after speaking.
Leng Ruoli felt he had something on his mind, but she couldn’t ask him in front of everyone.
“Do you know of any drawbacks to this Beauty Gu?”
“I do. If the Gu is removed from a person who has been infected, their body will suffer a backlash from the Gu. Their beautiful appearance will vanish, and they will instantly age by several decades.” Chu Mingxuan frowned as he said this.
At this moment, Aunt Lan, who was restrained, suddenly spoke, “Is your master the Valley Master of Ghost Valley?”
“Yes, you know my master?” Chu Mingxuan asked curiously.
“No… I don’t know,” Aunt Lan quickly denied. Actually, Aunt Lan knew the Valley Master of Ghost Valley. She had even learned the technique of cultivating the Beauty Gu from the Valley Master of Ghost Valley. However, she later betrayed the Valley Master of Ghost Valley for a man, and since then, the Valley Master of Ghost Valley had hated her to the bone. Therefore, she flatly denied knowing the Valley Master of Ghost Valley.
Chu Mingxuan scanned Aunt Lan’s awkward expression intently. He remembered his master once telling him about a woman who had betrayed him in the past. Could this woman be Aunt Lan? The more Chu Mingxuan thought about it, the more likely it seemed. Aunt Lan should be that woman.
“Then, Divine Doctor Chu, how should I remove the Beauty Gu from her?”
“I know the Consort has a treasure. You just need to make an incision on her and use your treasure to lure the Beauty Gu out.”
“Haha, that’s easy.” Leng Ruoli smiled and took out the scalpel again, making an incision on Aunt Lan’s face.
Aunt Lan looked at her with a face full of terror. “You little slut, what are you going to do to me?”
“Heh heh, my little treasure hasn’t had a full meal in a long time. Tonight, it gets to feast again.” Leng Ruoli smiled maliciously, then took out a small box from her sleeve. She carefully opened the box, and a gust of cold air emanated from it. Following that, a white snow toad, about the size of a thumb, jumped out of the box.
“Croak! Croak!” it croaked twice. It immediately jumped to the wound on Aunt Lan’s face, spat out a bit of foam, and settled directly on the wound. At this moment, several people watched as worms moved beneath the skin on Aunt Lan’s face.
“Go away, get away! You stinky toad, don’t eat my Gu worm.” Aunt Lan was completely frantic.
“You little slut, quickly take your stinky toad away.” Aunt Lan was extremely anxious. She felt the Gu worms in her body slowly crawling out. She desperately wanted to break free and remove the snow toad attached to her face. This was because if she lost the Beauty Gu, the consequences would be unimaginable.
In less than fifteen minutes, the Beauty Gu crawled out of the wound and was swallowed by the thousand-year-old snow toad. Leng Ruoli immediately put the snow toad back into her ice box and returned it to her sleeve.
At this moment, Aunt Lan shook her head in discomfort. The skin on her face rapidly shriveled, and the skin on her hands instantly became wrinkled.
“Ah—!”
“My face!!!”
“It hurts so much!”
“You little slut, if I don’t kill you, I won’t die in peace…” Aunt Lan continued to curse Leng Ruoli with extremely foul language. Then, Yin Chen sealed her acupoint, rendering her unable to curse. Seeing Aunt Lan’s face become extremely disgusting, Ye Ying also moved to restrain her body, creating a distance from her.
At this moment, Aunt Lan could neither move nor cry out, her expression filled with extreme pain. She gradually transformed from a beautiful woman into an old woman with a wrinkled face and white hair, looking even more disgusting than Poison Grandma had. Even Leng Ruoli couldn’t bear to watch.
“Yin Chen and Ye Ying, you two cripple her martial arts and then lock her in the royal manor’s iron prison,” Leng Ruoli said calmly.
“Yes, Consort.” The two immediately took Aunt Lan away.
After Yin Chen and Ye Ying left, Chu Mingxuan pursed his lips and asked, “Consort, how is the King’s condition now?”
“He’s doing alright, but his internal energy has been significantly depleted recently. I don’t know if he can survive this full moon night this month,” Leng Ruoli said with a headache.
“Does the Consort have a way to treat the King’s wolf poison?” After hearing this, Leng Ruoli didn’t answer directly but asked him back.
“Weren’t you the one following the King’s illness? Don’t you know his current physical condition?” Leng Ruoli cast a cold glance at him.
“No, Consort, it’s… it’s… alas, I’ll tell you the truth.”
“The pill that my master developed to control the wolf poison for the Cold King is not edible. Taking it will accelerate the frequency of the wolf poison’s outbreaks. This is because my master never intended to, nor could he, help the Cold King remove the wolf poison. He was simply using the King to test the medicine.”
“What? Your master’s heart is too wicked! To test medicine on a living person, why are you only telling me now?” Leng Ruoli scolded angrily.
“Consort, I only found out last time I returned to Ghost Valley when I accidentally overheard my master talking to a black-clothed person wearing a hooded cloak. After I learned this secret, I was also hunted by people sent by my master. Fortunately, the Cold King sent Ye Ying to find me, and I managed to save my life. You know the rest of the situation.” Chu Mingxuan’s expression was filled with pain as he said these words. This was because he had been a disciple of the Valley Master of Ghost Valley for over ten years. Although separated by a generation, their relationship was like that of father and son. When he learned that his master intended to send people to hunt him, he was completely broken. He never expected that when his master caught up to him, he would pretend to apologize and then, while sharing a reconciliation drink, he would also place the Long Slumber Gu on him. This was also the reason for his recent颓废.
“Alright, let the past be the past. That person isn’t worth you being like this. However, do you still have that pill on you? Give me one.”
“Yes, I have two left. I’ll give them both to you.” After speaking, he took out two pills made by his master from his sleeve pocket and handed them to Leng Ruoli. Leng Ruoli took them and smelled them, the scent seemed somewhat familiar.
“Consort, if neither of us can cure the King’s wolf poison, perhaps there is one other person in this world who can.”
“Who?”
“It’s the woman who saved the King on the full moon night a few months ago, but the King didn’t get a clear look at her appearance.”
“Oh!”