I don't want to be the favorite concubine of this palace anymore

In a mountain forest in the southwest, spruce trees stand tall, and below them are knee-high weeds with vines entwined among them, making it difficult to walk a few steps.

The sky was obscured by dense trees, and a faint green smoke was floating in the forest. Even during the day, the visibility in the forest was less than ten meters.

Li Rui dealt with the Southwest Heavenly Sacrifice Ceremony two days after arriving in the southwest. He then used the excuse that he was in a hurry to return to the imperial capital to report and politely declined the invitation to a banquet from the officials here.

He led his men to the foot of Fanyin Mountain, which was the place where the Shadow Pavilion had heard about the appearance of a snake containing a black crystal.

The mountain is towering into the clouds, with dense vegetation on the mountain and mist shrouded on the top, adding a sense of mystery and danger.

Li Rui specially asked two hunters from a village at the foot of the mountain to act as guides. The two said that a few years ago someone in the village found a yellow-brown stone in the mountain. They had all seen it with their own eyes.

Then it was accidentally discovered by a herbalist, who bought it for a high price of 1,000 taels. They then realized that this was an extremely rare and miraculous herbal medicine, Snake Containing Black Crystal.

Since then, villagers have often gone into the mountains to look for it, but it has never been found again.

When Li Rui heard him say this, he felt a little relieved. At least it meant that the snake containing the black crystal had indeed appeared in this mountain.

They brought enough dry food and water for a week, and also prepared some necessary supplies. They got a horse-drawn carriage and went into the mountains.

Li Rui and his men all rode horses, which was more convenient in the mountains.

There was already a dense spruce forest ahead, and horses could not enter. Li Rui had people set up several tents on the spot with oilcloth.

He arranged for one group of people to go in and explore the route every day, and another group to be on standby. He also distributed the anti-poison sachets that An Muxi brought him, because there were only a dozen of them, just enough for one group of people.

He originally wanted to go in and search together every day, but his subordinates strongly opposed it, so he had to go in every other day.

Thanks to the anti-poison sachets given by An Muxi, there were no casualties in the past few days. Only a few people inhaled a little poison gas. Li Rui gave them detoxification pills and they recovered quickly.

They searched for three days, and finally one day when Li Rui went into the mountain, they found several yellowish-brown stones halfway up a cliff.

The guides were sure that it was the snake containing the black crystal. Li Rui arranged two people with good physical strength to carry the rope and continue climbing up. When they reached the top of the mountain, they tied the rope to a big rock and threw it down.

This time Li Rui wanted to go up himself, and it was useless no matter how his subordinates tried to stop him. In the end, it was decided that Jianfeng would follow Li Rui, each with a rope, and go up together.

Others piled up lots of weeds underneath, just in case.

Just when they were about to reach the halfway point of the mountain, two vultures suddenly flew in from the sky and rushed straight towards Li Rui and Jian Feng. For the sake of convenience, Li Rui and Jian Feng only brought their short knives with them.

Fortunately, I had an iron hook tied around my waist with a rope attached, so I could free up one hand to deal with the vultures.

Finally, the two worked together and finally killed the two vultures. Only then did they discover that there was a bird's nest next to them with several vulture eggs in it.

There are still some weeds in the bird's nest, but there are also some golden weeds mixed in, which make them look particularly dazzling.

Li Rui didn't know what herbs were, but he felt that this one was unusual, so he put the golden weeds into his sleeves.

The two continued to climb up and finally saw those yellowish-brown stones. Li Rui was overjoyed.

Just as he was about to reach out to grab it, Jianfeng suddenly saw a small blue-gray snake in the crevice next to the stone, sticking out its tongue and looking at them with its green eyes.

The color of this little snake is almost exactly the same as the rocks on the mountain. If it weren't for its green eyes, it would be impossible to spot it.

Jianfeng saw that the little snake was about to attack Li Rui, and it would bite him if Li Rui dared to take it.

He quickly warned: "Be careful, my lord, there is a snake!"

Li Rui hesitated for a moment and was about to withdraw his hand, but at this moment the little snake rushed out and was about to bite Li Rui's hand.

Jianfeng reached out and grabbed the little snake. The little snake was very dissatisfied with being caught, so it turned its head and bit Jianfeng's hand.

When Li Rui saw the urgency of the situation, he quickly took out a short knife and grabbed the snake by its seven inches, pressing it against the stone wall. With one cut, the snake's head was separated, and the snake finally opened its mouth.

Li Rui threw the snake's body out and asked Jian Feng: "How are you?"

I saw that Jianfeng's lips had turned purple and his face had turned black. The venom of this little snake was so strong.

Li Rui quickly took out the detoxification pill given by An Muxi and fed one to Jian Feng.

Jian Feng's complexion improved a little. He smiled bitterly and said, "My Lord, don't worry about me. Hurry up and get the snake to hold the black crystal."

Li Rui then took a closer look at the surrounding stone walls, and after making sure there was no danger, he reached out to take the three yellow-brown stones.

After getting it, the two of them went down slowly. When they were about ten meters from the ground, Jianfeng suddenly ran out of strength and fell down.

Fortunately, there were weeds piled underneath and no one was injured.

Li Rui came down soon. The people below surrounded Jianfeng. Li Rui approached and saw that Jianfeng was still conscious, but his whole body was weak, as if the snake venom had paralyzed him.

It seems that the antidote pills did not completely eliminate the snake venom this time.

The things have been obtained, and Li Rui immediately decided to set off back to the imperial capital.

In the Rui Palace, there is the best doctor in Tiansheng, Dr. Gao, who can definitely save Jianfeng. And there is also the woman he misses day and night.

He had been out for more than ten days, and now he didn't want to delay any longer. He just wanted to go back and see her as soon as possible.

So the journey, which was supposed to take five days, ended up arriving at Prince Rui’s Palace in the imperial capital late at night on the third day.

When Li Rui came back in the middle of the night, he alarmed many people in the front yard of Prince Rui's Mansion, and Jian Feng was quickly sent to Doctor Gao.

Doctor Gao checked Jianfeng's condition. Although the detoxification pills prescribed by An Muxi temporarily protected his heart meridian, the toxins had not been completely eliminated.

Doctor Gao is very good at curing diseases and saving lives, but detoxification is his weak point. In the past few days, he followed An Muxi to study the detoxification of Dai Meng and learned a lot.

Dai Meng's poison was almost cleared, and he suddenly thought that An Muxi must be able to cure the poison.

So he quickly asked the guards to invite An Muxi over. Jian Feng had been delayed for three days and had to race against time. He didn't care that it was already midnight.

The guards were with them going to the southwest, and knowing the urgency of the situation, they rushed out and arrived at Furong Courtyard.

An Muxi was having a sweet dream. In her dream, she was in Tianyue Kingdom, and became the prime minister who was second only to the emperor, and kept several handsome men in her mansion.

I was enjoying the beautiful man playing the piano with my arms around him. Suddenly, I heard the sound of Xiaoqin.

"Master, get up quickly, the prince has been poisoned!"

She suddenly sat up in shock, all her romantic thoughts gone: "The prince was poisoned? Is this a dream? Isn't she still in the southwest?"

At this time, Xiaoqin knocked on the door hurriedly: "Master, are you awake?"

An Muxi agreed: "I'm awake."

Xiaoqin came in at this moment, looking anxious: "The master is back, but he seems to have been poisoned. He is now with Divine Doctor Gao."

An Muxi hurriedly got down from the ground, Xiaoqin helped her put on her clothes quickly, and then An Muxi rushed out with Xiaoqin.

The two of them trotted to Doctor Gao's residence, and An Muxi pushed the door open and went in.

"How is the prince?"

Then she saw several people inside suddenly turn their heads and look at her. The scene was a bit awkward for a while.

Because Li Rui was among them, Li Rui looked at An Muxi with his narrow eyes, filled with joy of reunion after a long separation and a hint of indescribable emotion, and he really wanted to hug her in his arms regardless of anything.

But his face suddenly turned pale, he covered his chest, and almost fell down.

Doctor Gao saw that Li Rui looked a little off, and quickly said to An Muxi, "Hurry, the prince is poisoned."

OK, this is really a problem. Dr. Gao was speechless.

An Muxi also hurried forward to support Li Rui. Doctor Gao took out a white porcelain bottle, poured out a pill, and stuffed it into Li Rui's mouth.

Said to Jianying: "Take the prince to the cold pond."