84: Chapter 84 Don't underestimate Qin Mu, this cowherd is actually the Great Ruins Divine Doctor

"Count on me?!"

Qin Mu widened his eyes, shaking his head like a rattle-drum, while casually waving the butcher knife in his hand.

"Brother Ye, stop joking! My knife is good at slaughtering pigs, killing the Demon Race, and hacking old monsters, but you want me to treat the Empress Dowager?

If I make one cut, Your Majesty will surely execute my entire clan!"

"Stop playing dumb with me."

Ye Xiu unceremoniously slapped the back of Qin Mu's head and scolded with a laugh:

"Grandpa Apothecary from Canlao Village passed his entire medical and toxicological knowledge on to you.

When it comes to healing the sick, saving lives, detoxifying, and pulse diagnosis, all the imperial physicians of the Yankang Kingdom's Imperial Academy of Medicine combined cannot compare to a single finger of yours, you Cowherd Boy."

"Today, you must wade through this muddy water, whether you want to or not!"

Ye Xiu didn't give him a choice and grabbed Qin Mu's shoulder firmly.

"Let's go! Follow me to Cining Palace!"

...

Inside Cining Palace, the atmosphere was already bleak and sorrowful.

The dozen or so white-bearded old imperial physicians from the Imperial Academy of Medicine were all kneeling on the ground, trembling, their backs soaked through with cold sweat.

In front of the phoenix bed, the usually heroic and domineering Seventh Princess Ling Yuxiu was kneeling on the footstool, completely unconcerned with her image.

She held tightly onto the Empress Dowager's withered, cold hand, sobbing until she was out of breath.

"Grandmother Empress... please don't scare Xiuer... Xiuer has only just returned..."

The Empress Dowager on the phoenix bed had a face like gold paper, and her lips displayed an extremely eerie purplish-black color.

Her breathing was extremely weak, barely there, like a flickering candle in the wind, ready to be extinguished at any moment.

"Your Highness, please restrain your grief... Regarding the Empress Dowager's pulse, we, your humble servants, are truly... powerless!"

The head of the Imperial Academy of Medicine knelt on the ground and kowtowed heavily, his voice choked with sobs.

"Get out! All of you, get out! A bunch of useless fools!"

Ling Yuxiu roared with red eyes, then turned to look at Ye Xiu, who had just stepped into the palace.

She lunged at him like someone grabbing onto a last straw of hope, clutching his arm tightly:

"Husband... Ye Xiu! Please save Grandmother Empress. You were even able to cripple an old monster in the Divine Bridge Realm; you must have a way, right?!"

Looking at his fiancée crying like a pear blossom in the rain in his arms, Ye Xiu gently patted her back, a flash of coldness in his eyes.

"I cultivate the sword of killing, not the art of healing the sick and saving lives."

As soon as Ye Xiu said this, the light in Ling Yuxiu's eyes instantly dimmed, and her face was filled with despair.

"However..."

Ye Xiu changed his tone, a playful curve appearing at the corner of his mouth. He very roughly dragged the Cowherd Boy, Qin Mu, who was hiding behind him, to the front.

"Although I cannot treat her, I have brought you the person in this world who can pull the Empress Dowager back from the gates of hell."

"Him?!"

Not only Ling Yuxiu, but the group of imperial physicians kneeling on the ground were also stunned.

Looking at this rustic youth dressed in coarse cloth, holding a butcher knife, and smelling of dirt, the head of the Imperial Academy of Medicine couldn't help but rebuke angrily:

"Prince Consort!

The Empress Dowager's phoenix body is so noble, how can you allow a Cowherd Boy from The Great Ruins to mess around? This is simply the biggest joke in the world!"

"Old thing, if you can't cure the illness, shut your dog mouth!"

Ye Xiu's eyes turned cold suddenly, and a terrifying pressure of the Pure Yang True Dragon exploded within the palace, directly pinning the head of the Imperial Academy of Medicine to the ground, leaving him unable to even catch his breath.

"Muer, stop hiding your skills."

Ye Xiu patted Qin Mu's shoulder, his voice not loud, but filled with absolute trust.

"It's time to let this group of frogs at the bottom of the well see what Grandpa Apothecary from Canlao Village taught you. Go, save the Empress Dowager."

Qin Mu originally wanted to shrink back; after all, this was the Empress Dowager of the Yankang Kingdom, and if he treated her to death, his entire clan would be executed.

But seeing Ye Xiu's trusting gaze and Ling Yuxiu's pleading eyes,

the pride and ruthlessness in the bones of this youth who walked out of The Great Ruins were ignited.

"Brother Ye, you are the one who asked me to treat her; if something goes wrong, you have to take responsibility!"

Qin Mu took a deep breath, lifted his butcher knife, and walked to the phoenix bed.

He didn't use the hanging thread pulse diagnosis like those imperial physicians; instead, he closed his eyes tightly.

When he opened them again, a layer of extremely complex and profound flowing light of Formation patterns appeared deep within his pupils!

Heavenly Eye, open!

Under the gaze of this Heavenly Eye capable of seeing through the illusions of heaven and earth, the flesh, blood vessels, and organs inside the Empress Dowager instantly became transparent.

The flow of blood, the movement of Origin Qi,

and even the wisps of eerie black gas hidden in the deepest parts of the extraordinary meridians were all presented with absolute clarity in Qin Mu's vision.

"Hiss—!"

After just three breaths, Qin Mu couldn't help but gasp, his originally relaxed expression instantly becoming incomparably solemn.

"What a vicious method! What a complex and extraordinary poison!"

Qin Mu frowned tightly and turned to look at the group of imperial physicians lying on the ground, shouting sternly:

"Did you just try to use Spirit Medicine like the Hundred Herb Pill to forcibly suppress the toxicity in the Empress Dowager's body?!"

The head of the Imperial Academy of Medicine, intimidated by the Aura on Qin Mu, answered while trembling subconsciously:

"Yes... The Empress Dowager's poison was attacking her heart, so we could only use the Hundred Herb Pill to protect her heart pulse first, but who knew that the more we suppressed the toxicity, the more severe the backlash became..."

"Extremely stupid! Quack doctors kill people!"

Qin Mu scolded them unceremoniously: "You almost sent the Empress Dowager away directly!"

He ignored the flushed faces of the imperial physicians and turned to look at Ye Xiu and Ling Yuxiu, explaining in a heavy tone:

"This is not an ordinary poison; this is called [Thousand Machine Poison]!"

"This is an unparalleled, extraordinary poison created by the Southern Border Poison Sect, or rather, by the once world-renowned Jade-Faced Poison King!

Later, it was passed down to the Little Poison King, Fu Yuanqing.

This poison is refined from exactly one thousand and twenty-three types of extraordinary poisons from across the world!"

Hearing "one thousand and twenty-three types," a chorus of gasps suddenly rang out in the palace.

"What is even more terrifying is that among these one thousand and twenty-three types of toxins,

there is one that is hidden the deepest and is the most inconspicuous, known as the 'Central Great Poison,' which is the 'Monarch' of this poison!"

Qin Mu pointed at the Empress Dowager's purplish forehead: "This 'Monarch Poison' governs the other one thousand and twenty-two toxins.

The characteristic of Thousand Machine Poison is 'ever-changing, the more it is treated, the more poisonous it becomes'!"

"Any conventional antidote can only resolve or suppress a small portion of the surface toxicity.

But this suppression will immediately stimulate the hidden 'Monarch Poison'!

Once the Monarch Poison is alarmed, it will be like a general arranging troops, immediately catalyzing the other toxins to produce completely new mutated combinations, causing the condition to worsen tenfold in an instant!"

Ling Yuxiu listened, cold sweat breaking out, her voice trembling:

"Then... then how can it be cured? Qin Mu, you must save Grandmother Empress!"

"Don't worry, Sister-in-law. Although this poison is complex, Grandpa Apothecary taught me the method to break it."

Qin Mu rolled up his sleeves and shouted loudly: "Eunuch Li! Go immediately and call one thousand and twenty-three literate palace maids for me! Be quick!"

Although Eunuch Li did not understand why,

but with the fierce Prince Consort Ye Xiu holding down the fort, he dared not delay and scrambled out of the palace to call for people.

Before long, one thousand and twenty-three palace maids stood in perfect rows within the spacious Cining Palace.

"Hold these blank wooden tablets well! I will call out the name of a poison, and you will write it down! Then stand in the positions I tell you!"

Qin Mu's brain operated at high speed, and his mouth began to frantically recite a series of hair-raising names of poisonous substances, like someone reciting a menu.

"Seven-Star Begonia, Red-Crowned Crane, Pulling-Machine Medicine, Heartbreak Grass, Green-Scaled Snake Venom, Southern Border Gu Powder..."

One thousand and twenty-three palace maids, each holding a wooden tablet, stood in an extremely massive and complex Formation within the palace.

"He... what is he doing? What kind of medical treatment is this?"

The head of the Imperial Academy of Medicine watched, completely bewildered.

"Shut up and watch carefully."

Ye Xiu sneered, "This is using a human abacus to deduce the toxicology of heaven and earth!"

Sure enough, Qin Mu stood in the center of the palace, his hands forming seals as fast as a butterfly flitting through flowers.

He had actually perfectly combined the medical and toxicological knowledge taught to him by Apothecary with the blind monk's Formation and Yin and Yang numerology he had learned from the village chief!

"Heaven and Earth Infinite, borrow the power of Yin and Yang! Numerological deduction, move for me!"

With Qin Mu's sharp shout, the one thousand and twenty-three palace maids began to constantly change positions under his direction.

Some palace maids had the wooden tablets in their hands removed, while others were combined together by several people.

Qin Mu's eyes were fixed intently on this constantly changing "human toxicological Formation," and fine beads of sweat seeped out on his forehead.

A full half an hour passed.

Qin Mu's eyes suddenly burst with two beams of sharp light, and he pointed to a position at the very core of the Formation, the most inconspicuous one.

On the wooden tablet held by that palace maid were four words — [Shadowless Heart-Erosion]!

"Found it! This is the 'Monarch Poison' of the Thousand Machine Poison!"