Chapter 271 — A Pair of Twin Sisters
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" The Little Poison King said mockingly, "The Imperial Preceptor of Jingping may die at my hands, but it is your tonic that will have killed him!
" Shen Mu retorted, "The Emperor may die at my hands, but it is your poison that will have killed him, and you will not leave this palace alive! " The two glared at each other, eyes blazing, each longing to poison the other on the spot. Ling Yuxiu was furious.
"You two!
If you doctor my father and the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping to death, neither of you will leave this palace alive!
Where are the axemen? The axemen!
" Emperor Yanfeng and the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping both breathed a sigh of relief.
"Yuxiu (the Sixth Princess) is the sensible one after all," they thought. "Otherwise, if these two bastards keep fighting, we will die even if we were not going to.
" The imperial guards of the palace came swarming and stationed themselves outside the hall. Ling Yuxiu, murderous in her bearing, planted her hands on her hips and said to the two of them, "The axemen are right outside.
You will both do as I say!
You cannot hold his tonic in check, and you cannot control his poison, so just trade places! You, the ugly one, you treat my father. Cowherd, you treat the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping! " Shen Mu rose and looked at the Little Poison King.
"Trade patients," he said gravely.
The Little Poison King's eyes lit up.
"You treat the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping, I treat the Emperor, who knows, it might work wonders!
" The two promptly swapped patients and examined the Emperor's and the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping's conditions.
After the examination, both let out a breath and exchanged a glance. A moment earlier Shen Mu had nearly decided to take Long Qilin and hide out in the Desolate Ruins for a while, and the Little Poison King had likewise planned to slip out of the palace and live under an assumed name; as for the palace experts outside who wanted to detain them, that would have been a stretch, no more than the matter of a single dose of poison. But after switching patients, they found that each was exactly the one who could clean up the other's mess, and so there was no longer any need to worry about fleeing for their lives after doctoring the Emperor and the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping to death.
Shen Mu and the Little Poison King each took up a brush and wrote out a pill formula, then had the imperial physicians come in to take the formula and fetch the medicines. The two treated their patients with great care, constantly revising the prescriptions, and after two or three days the hair on the Emperor's body fell away, and the silkworm cocoon around the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping's body sank back inside him.
The Imperial Preceptor's injuries gradually eased; the residual power of the god's divine ability grew ever fainter, and he was gradually able to muster a thread of cultivation again.
As for the Emperor, though his spirit treasury was still in ruins, the Little Poison King used countless venomous spiders to transport vital essence and life force and rebuild it, and with the potent life force in Shen Mu's pills transformed into self-repairing power, there should be no great problem. It was only a matter of time before the two of them recovered from their injuries.
Ling Yuxiu summoned some eunuchs and had them clean out the palace hall. These eunuchs carted off the fallen hair in more than a dozen cartloads, and the tail, wings, and superfluous arms and legs that had dropped from the Imperial Preceptor of Jingping filled another whole cart.
"By and large there is no more danger. " Shen Mu looked at the Little Poison King, and the Little Poison King happened to look his way as well; each gave a cold laugh. Ling Yuxiu, as if facing a mortal enemy, was thrown into a panic.
"No more fighting!