Crown Prince of the Empire, I quit!

Chu Ying was greatly encouraged and shouted immediately.

"Military doctor! Quick! Follow Master Liu's instructions and test the medicine immediately! Give it to General Chang first!"

"slow!"

Liu Yueli stopped him sternly. Her eyes swept over the patients huddled in the corners of the camp with symptoms of varying severity, and finally fell back on the unconscious Chang Baishan.

"This medicine is strong and its effects are unknown. General Chang has taken the Red Blood Pill and is extremely weak. We must not take any more risks!" She took a deep breath, with an almost cold clarity.

"Get the medicine, let me try it first!"

"Master Liu!" Chu Ying and the military doctor exclaimed at the same time.

"I'm the only one here who hasn't contracted the disease! And I'm the only one who can identify the medicinal properties!"

Liu Yueli's tone was unquestionable. She looked at Chu Ying with eyes as sharp as a knife.

"If I'm ill, you adjust the dosage and use the medicine as I just said! If I'm fine... give it to all patients immediately! Including him!" Her last gaze fell firmly on Chang Baishan.

Chu Ying looked at Liu Yueli's resolute eyes and knew that any dissuasion would be futile.

This Lord Liu has long disregarded his own life and death.

He gritted his teeth and said in a deep voice:

"Okay! Get the medicine! Brew it! I will personally protect Master Liu!"

Soon, a clean copper pot was placed on the newly lit campfire.

Under Liu Yueli's personal guidance, several roots and insect shells with strong and strange smells were thrown into the water, and the spicy and sweet aroma spread.

In another small pot, dark purple flower buds emitting an icy aroma were simmering.

The medicine was boiled into a bowl of thick, turbid, and pungent dark brown soup.

The other bowl contained a clear, lavender liquid with a hint of chill.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Liu Yueli.

She picked up the bowl of dark brown medicinal soup, and the strong smell made her frown.

Without any hesitation, she raised her head and drank the bowl of boiling hot and extremely strange-tasting medicine in one gulp, just like swallowing hot molten iron!

The burning sensation went from my throat to my stomach, as if I had swallowed a ball of burning thorns.

Liu Yueli's body shook violently, her face turned pale in an instant, and beads of cold sweat oozed out of her forehead.

She suppressed the intense nausea and burning sensation, picked up the bowl of pale purple cold medicine, and drank it in one gulp!

The extreme feelings of ice and fire collided violently in her body!

She curled up in pain, gripping the cold mud with her hands so tightly that her nails almost broke.

The body began to tremble violently and uncontrollably, sometimes as if falling into an icy cave, chilling to the bone marrow; sometimes as if being thrown into a furnace, with all the internal organs burning!

Chu Ying and the military doctor were extremely nervous and ready to provide rescue at any time.

Time passed slowly in agony. The crackling bonfire illuminated Liu Yueli's struggling figure.

After an unknown amount of time, her violent trembling finally subsided.

The abnormal red and white on his face faded away, replaced by a paleness that came from exhaustion, but his breathing gradually became steady.

She slowly raised her head, and although she looked weak, her eyes were surprisingly bright.

She looked at the military doctor, her voice hoarse but with undeniable strength:

"The medicine is effective. Reduce the dosage... by half... and give it to the sickest patient first... then give it to him."

She pointed toward Changbai Mountain, exhausting every word.

"Hurry...time...is running out..."

Chu Ying looked at Liu Yueli's eyes, which were still burning with the flame of indomitable will after suffering so much pain, and a sense of heroism suddenly arose in his heart.

He stood up suddenly, like a sword drawn from its sheath.

The voice echoed throughout the resurrected refugee camp:

"Follow Lord Liu's prescription! Prepare the medicine! Save him! Save General Chang!!"

"The poison of the Northern Sage King and the medicine of Toru Khan can't save their lives!"

"Before dawn, I want to see no more dying creatures in this camp!"

As he roared, the soldiers moved as if they were their arms, throwing precious herbs into more pots.

The military doctors took the prescription that Liu Yueli had risked her life to develop and began to race against time to treat the patient.

Hope, along with the strange and strong smell of medicine, truly burned fiercely on this scorched earth once shrouded in death.

In the dim light of the lookout fire in the distance at the Frost Edge Fortress, a figure seemed to clearly see the sudden rise of vitality and medicinal smoke in the camp.

The figure was silent for a moment, turned around, and disappeared into the cold shadow of the barrier like a ghost.

The news was spreading at the fastest speed to the core of the royal court where the Northern Sage King Toruhan was located, where the clouds were the thickest.

The medicinal herbs brought by Chu Ying, prepared by Liu Yueli, gradually suppressed the plague in the camp. However, the situation in Changbai Mountain remained unstable.

Although the dark red flesh sores did not spread, they formed spider-web-like purple-black lines under his skin.

It was like something alive swimming in his blood vessels. The military doctors were helpless and could only barely keep him alive with the Red Blood Solidifying Yuan Pill.

Liu Yueli sat in a makeshift military tent, with the fragments of a secret letter seized from the Toruhan embassy spread out before her. Written on it in divine wood code were a few lines of words:

"The poison of the Frost Edge requires the 'Cold Heart Pear' as an inducement... This fruit grows in the extremely cold regions of the northern border. It resembles a snow pear, and its flesh is purple-black. Eating it can cure all poisons, but its nature is extremely yin, and an ordinary person would die if they took it."

She tapped the table with her fingertips, her brow furrowed.

"Hanxin Pear..."

She murmured, and suddenly remembered that she had seen similar records in ancient books in the North.

This thing is not an ordinary pear fruit, but grows on frozen soil where corpses pile up, and uses dead air as nourishment.

Therefore, it can overcome "frost and plague poison".

However, this plant is extremely difficult to find, and if you touch its juice while picking it, your skin will immediately ulcerate.

There were hurried footsteps outside the tent, and Chu Ying came in with a gloomy face:

"Lord Liu, the spies report that the Northern Sage King has sent the 'Black Scale Guard' to blockade Jackdaw Valley, the only place in the North where the Frostheart Pear can possibly grow!"

Liu Yueli sneered: "Sure enough, Toruhan had already predicted that we would find an antidote."

She stood up, her eyes sharp as a blade. "Send the order, prepare the horses. I will go to Jackdaw Valley myself."

Chu Ying was shocked. "No! The Black Scale Guards are the most elite warriors under the command of the Northern Sage King. They are all infected with the 'Corpse Poison' that causes rot upon contact! If you go, you will surely die!"

Liu Yueli had already put on a cloak and pulled out a slender silver needle from her waist. The tip of the needle was shining with a cold blue light. This was the "sealing meridian needle" she had found in the box of the Shenmu Mission. It could temporarily block the spread of the poison.

"Who said I want to force my way in?" A hint of coldness appeared on the corner of her lips. "If the Northern Sage King can use poison, we can use poison too."

Jackdaw Valley is covered with snow all year round, but the bottom of the valley is a strange warm and humid area formed by underground hot springs.

The rotting corpses piled up into hills, with black and purple vines entwined around them, producing fist-sized fruits.

Cold Heart Pear.

Liu Yueli did not enter the valley directly, but hid on the high cliff at the entrance of the valley with three death warriors.

She took out a small porcelain bottle and poured out a few crimson pills - these were "blood-attracting pills" made by mixing Toru Khan's "secret medicine of the sacred tree" with the pus and blood of the patients in the camp.