Chapter 198: That person is very dangerous!

How is it?

How is the Dean? Has the Dean woken up?

Is there still danger? Has the body recovered? What herbs are needed? I'll arrange it.

Each sentence, each question, represented the children's concern.

Wait a moment, don't speak, it's giving me a headache." Ningguang's complexion hadn't improved much, and her hand taking the pulse never let go.

Moreover, her brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

Not right!" She softly said three words, then looked toward Zi Su on the side, "Have you been guarding Yun chu all along?"

Zi Su's face was full of fatigue; these days she barely ate, hardly slept, and just guarded the Princess Consort like that.

When the Princess Consort was injured before, she was also anxious, but not as worried as now; this is probably what the Princess Consort meant, a family, right?

It's not the superficial rank hierarchy, but respect that comes from the heart.

Yes, I've been guarding all these days!" Zi Su firmly nodded.

But soon, her complexion changed: 'Last night, when I fell asleep for a moment, I thought I was just too tired—did something happen?'

Zi Su has no martial arts, yet being able to endure these many days shows her willpower is extremely firm.

Yesterday she leaned against the Princess Consort's bedside, unintentionally fell asleep, but it was only a short while; after washing her face with clean water, she dared not let herself doze off again.

Come here, let me take your pulse." Ningguang said.

A moment later, Ningguang's brows furrowed further; even if another person were changed, one couldn't tell that Zi Su's body contained a mild sedative—so slight that not only would someone without martial arts like Zi Su miss it, but even a martial artist might not notice.

Someone gave you medicine!

But... it should be a friend, not an enemy." Ningguang thought, then looked at Zi Su and said.

During these days that Yun chu was unconscious, the Wang Fu remained orderly, all thanks to Zi Su holding things together; now the four chief maids have each formed their own faction, each responsible for their own stall, and even if Jiang Yun chu lets go for a few days, nothing will go awry anywhere.

What do you mean?

Zi Su's whole body was tense, even her face full of regret—what if an enemy came to harm the Princess Consort?

Outside, the Cao clan watches covetously; inside the palace, Noble Consort Cao constantly whispers pillow wind; the Young Master and Miss are young, the Regent Prince's manor faces internal and external troubles.

At this time, how could I be careless?

Someone had cleared Yun chu's meridians, and the pulse showed something unusual; likely they gave Yun chu some medicine that, while suppressing the poison, quickly guided the sword qi." Ningguang pondered.

It's not that she couldn't help Yun chu clear the meridians; it's that Yun chu's body has been suppressing a toxin planted since childhood, and the toxin has remained suppressed without being triggered.

The last time Ningguang was injured on the top, this toxin wasn't triggered either, and there wasn't even any sign.

But this time the sword qi was triggered, and she discovered the toxin suppressed within Yun chu's body; Yun chu must have realized it long ago, and at the dantian suppressing the toxin, one could clearly feel her meridians expanding; moreover, the toxin's corrosive effect, together with internal energy, turned her dantian into a battlefield.

If not for the special medicine suppressing it, the balance of her dantian would be broken—either her internal energy would explode, or the toxin would invade.

This is also why she couldn't intervene.

Who could it be?" Zi Su frowned, thinking it over in her mind, but still had no clue.

No matter who it is, as long as it's good for the master." Bai Zhi, at this point not caring about anything else, only worried about the master's safety, said, "Everyone Ningguang, when will our mistress wake up?"

Soon.

Ningguang replied, her heart also easing a sigh; not knowing who it is, then let it be unknown.

As far as we can see, this person bears no hostility toward Yun chu.

However, the toxin in Yun chu's body needs to be asked of Kang Mengxian; does the Kang clan and the Jiang family know about Yun chu's poisoning?

This will be soon…

Three days passed, and Jiang Yun chu slowly opened her eyes; if someone saw the moment she opened them, they would notice a red sword flash in her black pupils.

It was exactly the appearance of the Crimson Sky.

A red soft sword, the Crimson Sky Sword.

An San!" Jiang Yun chu shouted the instant she woke up.

Zi Su had just gone to wash her face; these days she could barely hold on, and upon hearing the master's voice, she turned back in delight, and suddenly saw the master's icy-cold face, like a deity in the heavens, as if looking down upon all beings.

Master!" Zi Su excitedly looked at her and immediately knelt down.

She furrowed her brows, looking at Zi Su before her, and said helplessly, "Zi Su, are you still waiting for me to help you up? I have no strength left."

Her coquettish tone fell straight from the divine realm into the mortal world.

No need, no need, I'll get up right now." Zi Su's excited face showed no sign of calming; if not for her naturally restrained nature, she would even have burst into a scream.

I'm hungry." All one saw was the master pursing her lips, then that pitiful little gaze, which made her heart soften.

I'll have the kitchen start congee right away; master, I'll be back shortly.

Zi Su said that and hurriedly ran out, as if a second's delay would let her starve to death...

Master." An San knelt on the ground, fists clasped.

These days, since the master triggered the sword qi, he has been guarding from the shadows.

Who came by?

Jiang Yun chu spoke directly; she knew her own condition well—at that time the white sword qi was already about to erupt, which she forcibly suppressed; later she imagined the soft sword as a dagger, applying all assassination techniques to it, with elusive angles and surprise attacks that fascinated her more than orthodox swordsmanship.

……

Until the three strands of sword qi could no longer be suppressed, they then burst forth completely, breaking free of her control; those three sharp strands of sword qi—one orthodox and sharp, one elusive, one massive and heavy—this is why she could neither suppress the toxin nor contain the surging internal energy.

These days she has constantly suffered, but she knows that this trial must be passed by herself.

Until……

A strand of pure medicinal power spread from her dantian, suppressing the toxin; thus, as one waned the other waxed, when the internal energy counterattacked, a foreign internal energy, like an embracing sea, extremely close and slow, helped her tidy the meridians, guiding all the internal energy, and only after gradually clearing them did it slowly withdraw from her meridians; these days, though she was unconscious, her consciousness remained all along.

It was that man." An San answered truthfully.

Master, that person is very dangerous; I can't beat him.

He and that person crossed swords a second time, only then realizing his strength—that internal energy that embraces all rivers, carrying immense oppressive force; if it weren't for that person not intending to harm him, he probably wouldn't be kneeling here now.

Jiang Yun Chu smiled. Yeah, a youthful war god—how could it not be dangerous?