Volume 1: The Ghost Hand's Heavenly Doctor, Hidden Fangs 029 - Peril in the Mountains, Encounter with a Mysterious Man

  Early in the morning, Emperor Xian, Liu Shaobai and Su Zhen Nan made an appointment to visit Prime Minister's mansion today. When they arrived at the gate of Prime Minister's mansion, however, they found that the large red wooden door was tightly closed, and there were no guards outside the door. The several people looked at each other, with deep thoughts flashing in their eyes.

  "It's strange, it's broad daylight, why is the Left Prime Minister's mansion closed? Won't something be wrong?" Liu Shaobai was always someone who spoke his mind, and if he didn't understand something, he would directly ask. He swung his fan lazily and saw that the two people beside him hadn't spoken up, so he said: "I'll go knock on the door to take a look."

  Di Shang Mo and Su Zhen Nan stood shoulder to shoulder, watching him walk up and knock on the two iron door rings on the red wooden gate. The iron door rings struck the door panel, producing a loud knocking sound. Before long, several people heard footsteps coming from inside.

  "Ahh!"

  The gate was opened a small gap, and a maid stood inside the door and looked out to see a handsome young man standing in front of the door with a white dress and a fan in his hand. She couldn't help but be slightly stunned, her face turned red, and she asked softly: "May I ask what brings you here, sir?"

  Liu Shaobai revealed a sunny smile that he thought was to die for, and said gently: "I am Liu Shaobai, the two people behind me are Di Shangmo, the young master of the number one Zhuang in the world, and Su Zhen'nan, the young master of the Su family. We have come to visit your mansion specially, would you please announce our arrival?"

  The maid glanced at the three of them and thought of the young master's orders, saying: "Our young master has given orders to decline visitors, please return, gentlemen!"

  Seeing her about to close the door, Liu Shaobai hastily blocked it: "Hey, wait a minute, we're still friends with your young master and mistress..." But before he could finish speaking, the maid, seeing him approach in a panic, slammed the door shut with a bang.

  Liu Shaobai was stunned, staring blankly at the red wooden gate that had been shut in his face.

  While Emperor Xian and Su Zhen Nan had a deep thought in their eyes, as if they were thinking of something, looking at the closed gate. Su Zhen Nan said in a low voice: "Is it possible that something has really happened to the Prime Minister's mansion? It's daytime, but the door is closed and no guests are allowed?"

  "Let's go back! Ask around and see what happened at the Xiang Mansion." Emperor Miao said, glancing at the two of them before turning to head back.

  "Shao Bai, what are you still standing there for? Let's go!" Su Zhen Nan shouted at him, glancing at the closed gate with a flicker of his eyes.

  On the other hand, inside the prime minister's residence

  Upon hearing the maid's report, knowing that it was Emperor Mo and several others who had arrived outside, Tang Zihao merely hummed in response and didn't say anything more. At present, it wasn't clear yet who wanted to harm them; his father's safety was of utmost importance, so naturally he couldn't receive guests at this time.

  However, thinking that he still hadn't received any news from his sister after a night, he was still somewhat worried. After all, she was also a high-ranking martial artist, could she handle it?

  "Master, you haven't rested since last night, have a cup of ginseng tea!" Xia Xue brought the ginseng tea forward and saw that his brow was slightly furrowed, so she softly asked: "Is Master worried about Miss?"

  Tang Zihao looked up at her and nodded: "How can I not worry? And I don't know how my sister is doing now?" As he spoke, he took the tea and drank a mouthful.

  "The young lady is probably looking for some herbs to detoxify, she will be back soon."

  Xia Xue was absolutely right, at this moment, Tang Xin was in the deep mountains and forests, finding the herbs that could remove the severe poison from Tang Zhengyu's body. She climbed up the mountain, searching for the last herb, Snake Spirit Grass.

  When she found the snake spirit grass on a steep and dangerous cliff, she was worried that she couldn't pick it. Although she had a strong spiritual energy, she didn't know how to use it, nor could she fly in the air like Xia Xue and others who practiced martial arts, so she could only rely on external forces to get the snake spirit grass from the bottom of the cliff.

  Fortunately, due to the depth of the forest, there were many vines and she used her dagger to cut some and tie them together into a rope. One end was tied to a large tree and the other end was tied around herself, and she carefully climbed down the steep cliff.

  "It's really a pity that I won't be able to fly! It's inconvenient even when picking herbs." She muttered softly as she climbed down.

  As she saw the snake spirit grass getting closer and closer, she couldn't help but reveal a smile, slowly crawling towards it, yet always missing by just a little bit. She could only tightly grasp the vines with one hand, push off the wall with her foot, and swing over.

  "Ah! Finally got it." She let out a light breath, put the Snake Spirit Grass into her bosom, and was just about to climb up when suddenly a dark green double-headed snake darted out from a small hole in the cliff wall and bit her inner thigh with a "hiss", causing her to cry out in pain.

  "Ah!"

  She quickly drew out her dagger to attack the two-headed snake, but because she was tied up in the vines, the two-headed snake attacked with both heads, and its speed was extremely agile. In a flash of shadow, one of the heads wrapped itself around her vine, and its sharp teeth dripping with venom lunged at her.

  The double-headed snake was a highly venomous viper, its toxicity so severe that her thighs were throbbing with pain, and cold sweat seeped from her forehead. She gritted her teeth and swung the dagger in her hand, accurately cutting off one of the snake's heads. However, due to the dagger's unparalleled sharpness, it also cut through the vines, leaving her body suspended in mid-air as she plummeted downwards.

  "Damn it!"

  As she fell, she landed on a thick layer of leaves. The branches broke under the force of her fall, and she rolled down the slope until she hit a tree trunk and stopped. At this point, the toxin had spread throughout her body, her lips were turning purple, and her body was becoming limp and powerless due to poisoning.

  She supported the last bit of will, took out a small bottle from her bosom and poured out the remaining dan medicine to take, darkness struck, her hand softened, the bottle also rolled into the grass thicket, and she also lost consciousness and fainted...

  When the sun shone obliquely through the dense foliage onto the ground, a pair of black boots embroidered with golden dragons stepped steadily to her side. The woman's face had turned dark and her lips purple from poisoning. A hint of mysterious darkness flickered in his deep black eyes, his thick sword-like eyebrows furrowed slightly, and his thin lips pursed into a line.

  He bent down to examine the abrasions on her body, but didn't see any poisoned wounds. A deep thought flashed in his eyes, and he searched again carefully, finally finding a dark bloodstain on her skirt. However, if the wound was in that place...

  He stretched out his hand, hesitated for a moment, glanced at the unconscious woman, and still lifted her skirt. Sure enough, he saw black blood stains on her underwear. Without delay, he tore open the underwear by the wound, revealing alabaster-like skin. However, on the inside of her thigh, there were two deep snakebite marks.

  If it were another man, he would probably find it difficult to remain calm when facing such a beautiful woman and seeing the inside of her thighs so intimately exposed. However, this man was single-mindedly focused on how to help her expel the poison.

  His eyes flickered slightly, and he was injured on the inside of his thigh. He couldn't use his true energy to force it out. It seemed that's all he could do...

  Digression

  After a thousand calls and ten thousand summons, he finally agreed to come out. Dear friends, guess who this man is? What will he do next? Hehe