Chapter 586: So breezy and carefree (2/2)

I’m going to go blind! What can I do now?

How can I shoot any arrows with a blind eye? How can I still be the Nether Clan Head?

“Doctor! Someone! Hurry and find a doctor! Quick!”

“A doctor!”

His loud ravings alarmed all the archers around him in silence. Cloud Realm Continent’s most formidable doctor was right there in their ranks, but the most compassionate doctor could also be the most merciless executioner! Once a doctor had it in his mind to kill, he was the world’s most frightening murderer! They were all too familiar with a body’s vital points.

Where can we find another doctor in this wilderness?

Finally, a brave archer came forth and said, “Clan Head, there’s still a day and night of travel before we reach the closest town. Why don’t…” He wanted to say that rather than send for a doctor, Chu Yunyi should go find them himself instead.

Unfortunately, he didn’t get to finish his sentence before Chu Yunyi turned to glare at him. His eye wouldn’t stop bleeding, and the sight combined with his vicious stare, blood-covered face, and disheveled hair made him seem like some sort of demonic fiend.

The archer quickly retreated in silence. Still, his words were enough to drive reason into Chu Yunyi’s crazed thoughts. He could never leave his party while Empress Xue and Gu Beiyue were still here in his hands, but Gu Beiyue was a doctor himself! He ran like a man possessed towards Gu Beiyue and nearly crushed the man’s heart beneath his foot, but managed to hold himself back. One hand hauled Gu Beiyue to his feet before he roared, “Gu Beiyue, treat me immediately or else I’ll take your life!”

Gu Beiyue’s body was very weak. The only reason he was able to spit out that needle was because he’d sealed up one of his body’s meridians to simulate death. He’d been playing dead for one day and one night—the absolute limit for a human body. From a medical standpoint, playing dead like this was akin to a real death, so he would have died for real if he stayed there any longer. This was a medical technique that went against Heaven’s law and cast heavy retribution on its caster. The effects on his already weak body was like adding frost to snow.

Despite this, he was still smiling—not a self-mocking grin, or a conceited smirk, or a craze sneer or savage leer. He’d even lost the disdainful air to his lips and was simply smiling faintly, making him completely unreadable. Perhaps he might have been so tranquil and indifferent for the rest of his life if he had never met her.

His white clothes were covered in blood, his body exhausted without even the strength to stand, yet he didn’t look half-dead or pitiful at all. Instead, it was Chu Yunyi who found himself the weaker party despite his flare and bluster.

“What are you smiling about?”

“Gu Beiyue, our Nether Clan never mistreated you. Why did you repay our kindness with treachery?”

“Gu Beiyue! Do you hear me? Speak! Are you going to treat me or not?”

Chu Yunyi had Gu Beiyue by the collar as he jostled the man, completely ruining his dignity and demeanor as the head of an entire clan.

“I’ll kill you!” Chu Yunyi reached for an arrow and aimed it at Gu Beiyue’s heart, but Gu Beiyue spoke up.

“Give me medicine so I can treat my wounds. Otherwise, I promise no medicine will save you!”

“Heal my eye first!” Chu Yunyi shouted in reply.

“You only have two choices. Either give me medicine…or kill me,” Gu Beiyue intoned.

Chu Yunyi screamed in rage before he finally had to ask, “Are you or aren’t you going to treat this old man’s eye?”

“I’ll treat your eye after I’ve recovered. If I don’t get well, you’ll have no choice but to lose that eye,” Gu Beiyue said, before adding, “It’ll be useless even if you invite the head of the medical academy to help you.”

“You!” Chu Yunyi felt stifled. But he had no choice but to order his men to deliver medicine to Gu Beiyue. There was only Jinchuang Medicine, but Gu Beiyue didn’t fret. Chu Yunyi would know that the longer he left his injury unattended, the more dangerous it’d be. The man would find him better medicine without even being asked.

By the time they reached the town, Chu Yunyi immediately set off to find a doctor, but they were powerless before his injury. All they did was treat the injury and wrap it up with cloth, declaring that he’d go blind in his right eye. Chu Yunyi had no other options but to accept Gu Beiyue’s threats. As the man had predicted, he immediately prepared a pile of precious ingredients for him.

Chu Yunyi expected that Gu Beiyue would recover quickly and set up strict guards to prevent his escape, but Gu Beiyue had truly been seriously injured this time. His wounds simply refused to close up. Whether or not this was reality or Gu Beiyue’s own schemes, Chu Yunyi couldn’t tell. But as far as he knew, the man had no reason to fool him intentionally.