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Wang Yuqing was pushed to the ground by Leng Yi and felt bewildered. Then she looked up and saw Leng Yi stabbing Hong E in the abdomen with a sword.

Hong'e screamed in pain and quickly released the dagger and retreated. The moment the sharp sword left her flesh, she grimaced in pain again. She clutched her stomach, feeling warm blood flowing from her body. Her face was pale and contorted as she stared at Leng Yi with hatred.

"So what if you can wound me? You've been poisoned by my carefully crafted concoction, and you'll die soon. You're just struggling in your death throes!"

"You should say that to yourself." Leng Yi's cold smile remained unchanged.

Seeing Leng Yi's calm demeanor, Hong E was instantly enraged, her face contorted with anger.

"Let's see how long you can keep up this act. You'll die soon with festering skin, blackened lips and teeth!"

“You can’t see it.” Leng Yi retorted calmly. As she spoke, she circulated her inner energy, and the light of the sword in her hand shone even brighter, its power visible to the naked eye. “Do you really think your poison is that powerful? I won’t be poisoned to death by you; instead, you will lose your life here.”

"Why? Why can you still circulate your internal energy!" Hong'e screamed in disbelief.

Even martial arts masters would seal their meridians and internal energy when poisoned to prevent the poison from spreading further, but Leng Yi did the opposite and was completely unharmed!

The answer is actually quite simple. It was precisely because Leng Yi circulated her internal energy that she was unharmed; if she stopped, the poison might have taken hold. Leng Yi had been poisoned by countless poisons, had lost her sight, had been force-fed poison, and had even been poisoned by Hong E. The first two times, it took her a long time to clear the poison, but Leng Yi recovered quickly from Hong E's poison. It wasn't that Hong E's poison wasn't potent, but rather that her body had undergone significant changes.

The internal energy that Zhao Yin passed on to her seemed to be able to suppress the spread of the poison.

She had been cultivating her internal energy for a year and sensed that Zhao Yin's internal energy had a somewhat sinister quality. Every time she circulated her internal energy, she would enter a state of emptiness and indifference. It was hard to explain, but if she had to describe it, she would have the illusion that she had become a powerful villain, both strong and evil.

It's true that people are born with the right skills... In short, Zhao Yin's internal energy maxed out her poison resistance.

"No, impossible, this is absolutely impossible." Hong'e couldn't accept that her prized poison had no effect on Leng Yi. Her Dao heart was about to shatter, and her gaze towards Leng Yi seemed to want to tear her to pieces.

"Besides why it's impossible, what else can you say?" Leng Yi had little patience for Hong E and was about to draw her sword when the guards of the Prince's Mansion arrived just in time.

"Catch the assassin! Protect the Princess!" the head guard shouted, and a dozen guards behind him rushed towards Hong'e. Even at her peak, Hong'e couldn't face so many people head-on, especially since she had already been stabbed by Leng Yi. She decided that fleeing was the best option, so she took out poison powder hidden in her sleeve, scattered it in the air, and flew away.

Leng Yi closed her eyes and raised her hand to shield herself. She wanted to chase after them, but the guards of the Prince's Palace blocked her way and the other half of them went after them, so she didn't follow.

Now it was time to check on Yuqing's condition. Lengyi turned around and saw Wang Yuqing being helped up.

"Yuqing, are you alright? I only pushed you because the situation was urgent."

"I'm fine," Wang Yuqing said, steadying herself. She only looked slightly disheveled, but was otherwise unharmed. Then, her gaze shifted to the wound on Leng Yi's right forearm. She hurriedly stepped forward, picked up Leng Yi's arm, and saw that the wound had turned black. She said anxiously, "But you have been poisoned by Hong E. We must quickly fetch the imperial physician!"

Leng Yi also looked at her wound and nodded in agreement, saying, "We really need to call the imperial physician."

Just because she looks fine now doesn't mean she's really okay...