Your Highness, please stop chasing me.

Cang Lin has returned. He has changed his clothes and is sitting angrily in the place furthest away from Mu Xue, ignoring her.

Mu Hu placed Ye Yi and Leng Quan together so that it would be easier for him to take care of them.

He figured it out: he'd have to take care of these two people; the rest were all freeloaders!

Mu Hu came over with another set of clothes and said, "Your Highness, please make do with these clothes. It would be better if you changed them."

“Okay.” Ye Shangyuan nodded, and Ren Muhu helped him change out of his blood-stained outer clothes.

After he changed, Mu Xue took his hand. His fingers were slender and long, with distinct knuckles, fair and well-proportioned, and calloused on the fingertips. This was the hand of someone who had been holding weapons for many years.

The moment Mu Xue placed her hand on his pulse, she revealed a knowing look; the poison he had been given was indeed harmless.

She said directly, "It's a miracle that you've survived a deadly poison attack without any injury."

Nightfall Abyss: ...There really is no need to be so blunt.

He was also very surprised; Mu Xue's medical skills were indeed superb, and she had identified the poison he had been afflicted with in such a short time.

He calmly said, "Yes, I was planted with the poison when I was very young, and it only started to take effect a few years ago."

"So you stepped down not to assist the new emperor, but because you couldn't use force anymore?" Mu Xue asked curiously.

"In a way, my elder brother suddenly fell ill, and my youngest son is still very young," he explained.

Even without personally going to the battlefield, he could still be called a god of war.

"Tch, all that high-sounding talk, it's only good for fooling little girls," Cang Lin said dismissively.

Nightfall Abyss: ......

Mu Xue asked, "Uncle, you're not angry anymore?"

"Hmph, I'm angry." Cang Lin turned his head away from her.

"Uncle, you're so childish." Mu Xue's lips curled slightly.

Ye Shangyuan kept a close eye on Mu Xue, and when he saw her smiling expression, his eyes darkened.

The way the two of them got along so well was what he longed for.

At this moment, Mu Hu shouted, "Master, something bad has happened! Ye Yi has a fever!"

Mu Xue quickly walked over and saw that Ye Yi's face was flushed and her forehead was covered with beads of sweat. She quickly went over to check on her and breathed a sigh of relief. She said, "This is normal, but the medicine is already working."

She took out a fifth-grade Heavenly Spirit Pill and said to Mu Hu, "Boil some hot water, dissolve the pill in it and apply it to his wound. Wipe his forehead with clean, cool water, and the fever will go down."

"Yes, I'll go boil water right away." Mu Hu took the pills and turned to boil water by the fire.

"Miss Mu, how is Ye Yi?" Ye Shangyuan asked. His body was exhausted and he could hardly move an inch.

"It's nothing, fever is a normal phenomenon, it's just the body's immune system working," Mu Xue explained.

"Immune system? Work?" Ye Shangyuan was confused.

"Oh, it's just that the human body is amazing. Take typhoid fever for example. If you take medicine, you'll get better faster. If you don't take medicine, as long as you're careful, you'll still get better, it just takes longer. That's because the body's immune system is working... Anyway, just know that as long as I'm here, he'll be fine. You should rest for a bit. I'll go find some medicine to temporarily suppress the poison in your body." Mu Xue scratched her head and explained.

After turning around, Mu Xue stuck out her tongue, accidentally letting something slip.

She called out to Cang Lin, "Uncle, let's go find some herbs."

"Hmph, I don't care whether they live or die," Cang Lin said childishly.

"Aren't you going?" Mu Xue asked.

"I'm not going," Cang Lin replied decisively.

"Alright, if you're not going, I'll go by myself." Mu Xue said, and without waiting for him, she turned and went into the woods.

"Hey, can't you coax me one more time? Ask me one more time and I'm going." Seeing that Mu Xue was really about to leave, Cang Lin hurriedly got up and chased after her.

Before he could run a few steps, he saw Mu Xue leaning against a tree, smiling at him.

They must have known he would come after them!

Right? Yes!

"You're really not cute," Cang Lin said sullenly.

Mu Xue comforted him, "Alright, Uncle, don't be angry. Let's hurry up and find them before dark, then we can go home tomorrow. I'll make you something new and exciting that you've never had before."

Cang Lin looked at Mu Xue in surprise, and stammered, "You, you called me, called me little, little uncle? Is that right?"

"Is there someone else here?" Mu Xue asked, amused.

"You finally called me! Hahaha!" Cang Lin laughed excitedly, startling the birds in the trees into taking flight with a chirping sound.

The two were not far from their camp, and Ye Shangyuan could still hear their voices intermittently, along with Cang Lin's laughter.

He clenched his sleeves, and the veins on the back of his fair hands bulged.

It took him a while to calm down. He took a deep look in the direction where Mu Xue had disappeared, and gave a self-deprecating smile. What right did he have to be angry or upset now?

It has been five years since the poison was induced.

For five whole years, every full moon night, he had to endure the feeling of ice penetrating his body and pain piercing to the bone, as if his whole body was being crushed again and again.

He has suffered so much torment, especially when the poison takes effect. He wished he could die immediately, but time and time again, he survived. In the last six months, he has been able to clearly feel that the time between poisoning attacks is getting shorter and shorter, and he is even starting to lose hope.

Heaven is fair; at this moment, he encountered that light.

He had never lived for himself in his entire life. Fortunately, he met Mu Xue at this time. He suddenly hoped that he could see her every moment of the rest of his life, just by looking at her.

He slowly closed his eyes, unseen by anyone, a tear slid down the corner of his eye and disappeared into his collar.

Mu Xue and Cang Lin were very lucky.

As soon as she entered the inner circle, Mu Xue began to place some pills in a regular manner. These pills were third-order poison pills that she had refined in advance before coming.

This third-tier poison pill is the only one in ancient medicine alchemy that cannot cure diseases or save lives, because it is made from highly toxic poison and is specifically designed to attract poisonous insects and beasts.

Soon, it attracted many poisonous insects and beasts. Mu Xue handed Cang Lin a pill and said, "Hold it in your mouth, and it can cure all poisons."

Cang Lin obediently put it in his mouth. He looked at the increasing number of poisonous insects in the distance and asked, "You didn't attract all the poisonous insects in the entire forest, did you?"

Mu Xue said uncertainly, "It shouldn't be. I've made special modifications. At most, it should only attract some small poisonous beasts."

Cang Lin: Not big, but lots, a lot!

The two did not have to wait long; before nightfall, they indeed encountered two adult blackfin snakes.

Cang Lin finally saw the blackfin snakes being lured over, and he asked excitedly in a low voice, "Do you want both of them?"

Mu Xue nodded and said, "Of course, we can't leave empty-handed."

"Yeah, you've got personality, just like me," Cang Lin said smugly.

Mu Xue: What do we have to do with each other?

"Do you remember what I just said?" Mu Xue asked.

On the way here, she had already told Cang Lin the method.

He nodded and said, "Don't worry, I remember everything, I'll definitely get it."

After saying that, he leaped up into the tree, and a red thread shot out from his hand, firmly wrapping around the tree where the two black-finned snakes were. He grabbed Mu Xue and, with her in tow, darted over. Mu Xue skillfully grabbed at the black-finned snakes.

The speed of his hands and the way he handled the object showed great skill; he held one snake in each hand and firmly pinched the blackfin snake at its vital spot.

With their weakness exposed, the two legs immediately became listless, allowing Mu Xue to stuff them into the bamboo tube that had been prepared beforehand.

This action happened in the blink of an eye, and the two returned to their original positions. Mu Xue and Cang Lin did not linger.

Mu Xue turned around, threw out three pills, and grabbed Cang Lin as they ran.

Cang Lin was pulled a long way before he remembered to use his luck to fly up the tree with Mu Xue and jump over the trees one by one.

Finally, before nightfall, the two returned to their temporary camp.