Chapter 623: Hmph, I’ll bite you all to death (2/2)

Each time he called out a name, Han Yunxi immediately took an ingredient from her pouch. In the end, all 17 items were placed before the spectators.

This…

Both Pill King and the examiner were staring with wide eyes, thoroughly terrified out of their wits. Their jaws were hanging from their faces! Both of them came to examine the items, but Han Yunxi avoided them.

“Long Feiye, cough, cough….boil the water!” The frequency of their coughs was increasing. They had to take the medicine now!

Despite his shock, Long Feiye quickly grabbed a kettle. Han Yunxi filled it with water and dumped all of the ingredients inside, then asked Gu Beiyue, “Doctor Gu, do you want to try a taste?”

Gu Beiyue drank and sip and was stunned. Not only were all 17 ingredients correct, their quantities were completely identical even after being dissolved into the water!

“This is it!” Gu Beiyue said after two more sips, before handing the drink to Han Yunxi. “Three sips should do it!”

Han Yunxi and Long Feiye both drank their filled. As the examiner said, the medicine would do in a pinch to cure the illness! The pain in their throats immediately vanished, and a few light coughs had them feeling better than before.

This…this was truly defying the Heavens! Even the miracles before this couldn’t compare. Both Pill King and the examiner were flabbergasted. They would rather believe they were dreaming than face the reality before them.

“Old thing! Keep to your word and immediately take us to the third trial!” Han Yunxi demanded loudly.

The old examiner finally recovered his senses. Judging from their complexions, Han Yunxi’s group had truly recovered from the illness, but he was still harboring suspicions in his heart. Or rather, he was still holding on to the belief that they’d gotten by with a lucky fluke.

“This old man…this old man has to verify by taking your pulse first,” he said listlessly.

Han Yunxi was about to extend her wrist when Long Feiye pulled her behind him. He was over a head taller than the examiner as he glared and stuck out his arm. “Hurry up!”

The old man shivered involuntarily before backing away. “No…no need, time’s about up… You guys….you guys should have all recovered. Otherwise, the disease should have flared up long by now, right?” He smiled as he spoke, but his expression looked absolutely ghastly! He didn’t even want to look at Long Feiye’s face and those emotionless, icy eyes, much less touch that hand.

“Then why aren’t you leading the way yet?” Long Feiye retorted coldly.

Spooked again, the old examiner quickly started walking. “Please follow this old man this way…”

It wasn’t until they were far off that Pill King recovered his wits to chase after the quartet. His eyes were fixated on Han Yunxi’s medical pouch as if it held all the mysteries in the universe. This is too much of a coincidence. How can that tiny pouch fit so many things? And not only that, it was powders precisely prepared for the decoction. There has to be a secret with that pouch. Maybe it’s even a rare medical treasure!

When Han Yunxi glanced back, Pill King immediately averted his gaze. Still, she had long figured out what he was after. This wasn’t the first time someone had coveted her pouch, so she remained calm. In fact, she even gave a disdainful snort and looked down on Pill King before resuming her walk.

Her medical pouch was no different from those of many female medical practitioners across Cloud Realm Continent. There wasn’t even anything particularly eye-catching about it. This one had been hand-stitched and left to her daughter by Lady Tianxin and was part of Han Yunxi’s dowry. She’d picked it up on a whim because she just happened to spot it. The inside contained nothing but ordinary medical supplies and acupuncture needles. It was more useful as a cover while she took things out of the detox system or poison storage space. The one precious thing about it was the hand-sewn Xin (心) character on the outside. But in anyone else’s hands, this pouch would be nothing but trash.

The old examiner led the way forward while Pill King brought up the rear. Whatever made up the third trial was still a mystery because they’d already passed two checkpoints without any ill effects.

“Doctor Gu, how’s your body doing?” Han Yunxi asked softly.

“Many thanks to His Highness Duke of Qin for saving this one’s life with true qi,” Gu Beiyue said sincerely.

Long Feiye was still curious as to how Gu Beiyue had expelled the true qi in the end. But he wouldn’t discuss too many martial arts matters with Han Yunxi present. Since it was a difficult topic for Gu Beiyue to continue, he simply led them on a tangent. “Esteemed wangfei, how did your medical pouch just happen to have those ingredients? And even ground up and ready to brew?”

Gu Beiyue had long harbored curiosity about her pouch. He had also secretly peeked at her when she materialized a bottle of medicine out of mid-air. Long Feiye too, had once spotted Han Yunxi’s similar skies while hiding in the ceiling. He even searched her pouch personally and found nothing of note. Though he didn’t ask the question, he was waiting for the answer, too. Han Yunxi had been forced to dig out the 17 ingredients by circumstances at hand. She knew that Gu Beiyue and Long Feiye would get suspicious, but she hadn’t thought up an answer yet.

This is going to be complicated!

Han Yunxi thought over the question for a long time. Gu Beiyue was usually a tactful man, but the recent events had been too shocking for him to consider her feelings. Seeing her silence, he teased, “Esteemed wangfei, your medical pouch does seem like a Hundred Medicines Bag.”

Han Yunxi really wanted to say that everything was a coincidence, but even she felt that was a lame excuse. She was stuck!

Right at that moment, the old examiner freed her from her problem. “Everyone, we’ve arrived at the last trial of the Medicine Requesting Cave.”

What would the last trial be?

Behind them, Pill King narrowed his eyes dangerously!