“Other detailed regulations haven’t been announced yet. Today I flew over Yinggong City on a crane and saw that some shops on the main street had already opened for business.”

She stared blankly for a while, then Chen Dachang placed a small wine cup in front of her containing a half cup of pale yellow liquid.

What was this? Before she could ask, she caught the fragrant scent. “Honey?”

“Blood Tree blossom honey.”

Seeing Chen Dachang’s solemn expression, Yu Haizhen pouted: “Just half a cup?” It was truly a very small wine cup, holding at most the amount of two qian of wine.

“This half cup is worth at least five red spirit stones.”

“Stingy.” Yu Haizhen swirled the cup, “Fill it up, I’ll give you twelve!”

Chen Dachang silently watched her until he saw her willow eyebrows rise, then stepped forward and filled the cup.

Yu Haizhen raised the cup and drank it all in one gulp. Chen Dachang felt this action resembled drinking alcohol rather than taking medicine.

As soon as the blossom honey entered her stomach, a burst of vigorous vitality exploded, instantly forcing the corpse poison out of several meridians.

Such powerful spiritual energy was contained within!

Although knowing the corpse poison would soon return, Yu Haizhen was still moved: “Is this Blood Tree blossom honey?” How could the effect be so powerful?

She didn’t know that this Blood Tree grew in a special location, absorbing a trace of the matchless power of true fire from underground.

However, Chen Dachang thought she was questioning the medicine’s efficacy; this was personally made by Feng Miaojun: “It’s genuine. Without it, you would have died from the poison long ago!”

Yu Haizhen blinked, hearing his displeasure, not knowing how her words had offended him. But she felt no need to explain and snorted: “The effect is just passable; it can’t drive away the corpse poison.”

This woman was truly difficult to please. Chen Dachang kept a straight face, refraining from retorting since she was ill.

He stood up intending to walk out, but Yu Haizhen called out to stop him: “Hey!”

Chen Dachang stood still, waiting for the young lady’s command.

After a long silence, Chen Dachang grew impatient and stepped toward the exit.

At this moment, Yu Haizhen said again: “Wait!”

Chen Dachang turned around, folding his arms: “What is it?”

“I can move now and need to go out for a bit, just nearby,” Yu Haizhen bit her lip. “Also, I want to bathe. Heat some water for me.” The Blood Tree blossom honey had temporarily forced back the corpse poison, allowing her to gather a little strength; taking a few steps wouldn’t be a problem.

She had gone two days without bathing and had reached her limit of endurance.

“I’m not your maid,” Chen Dachang flatly refused. “Stay in the cave, you can’t go anywhere.”

“You…” Why did this person have such a wooden head? “I must go out!”

Chen Dachang frowned: “Where are you going?”

Yu Haizhen clenched her teeth until they creaked. Seeing he wouldn’t relent, she had to say with a red face: “Nature calls.”

Chen Dachang blinked, then blinked again, finally showing a look of realization.

He thought for a moment and removed the Immortal-Binding Rope from Yu Haizhen’s hands. After all, her strength was weak now, she was deeply poisoned, and couldn’t escape on her own, so it was better to untie her. “This will make it more convenient for you.”

Yu Haizhen leaned against the wall as she walked out, not at all grateful for his kindness.

However, when she laboriously made her way back, she saw that Chen Dachang had heated another large pot of water.

Two pots could fill a bucket. Chen Dachang carried the water bucket to the depths of the cave, which was very deep and low-lying.

“Be careful, there are snakes here,” he said, then turned and left the cave, leaving the space for Yu Haizhen, taking two male cranes with him.

It was truly cold outside, with snow falling from the sky.

Da Hei shook his long feathers in dissatisfaction. Chen Dachang was about to speak when he heard a scream from inside the cave!

There was no one else there; of course, only Yu Haizhen could have made that sound.

Chen Dachang dashed back in and looked around: “What’s wrong?”

He thought some other demon had sneaked in since there were several small cracks behind the cave. Bears couldn’t get through, but snakes and ants could. But looking left and right, up and down, where was there a third living creature besides himself and Yu Haizhen kneeling on the ground?

The bucket was filled with hot water, and Yu Haizhen stared fixedly at the water’s surface, her eyeballs frozen in place.

She trembled as she said: “My, my face…”

The water surface had already calmed, and she saw her reflection. Her originally beautiful oval face was swollen like a large pancake, squeezing her eyes until they looked small.

The arrangement of human facial features is interesting; even if someone was originally a great beauty if their nose is slightly flattened, eyes a bit smaller, or mouth slightly askew, they immediately become as ugly as a toad mother.

Added to that, she had been infected with corpse poison, darkening her skin. The visage reflected in the water’s surface made her feel as if she had been struck by five thunderbolts!

Chen Dachang rubbed his nose, stating a fact: “You’re poisoned.”

Corpse poison naturally causes skin swelling; she was critically ill, so of course, the swelling was more severe.

She had been walking around with such a face for many days… Yu Haizhen knew that the early stages of corpse poison would cause swelling, but didn’t know it would be this terrifying! She wanted to cry but had no tears, and gritted her teeth: “Get out!”

For a natural beauty like her, the most frightening thing wasn’t just becoming ugly, but also having someone see through this ugliness, see it… for several days!

Her voice became somewhat hysterical.

Chen Dachang scratched his head, thinking that Madam Yu was quite pitiful, having tried her best yet failed to prevent her country’s destruction, and now suffering from corpse poison. The originally stunning beauty had become such a sight. If the poison ultimately couldn’t be cured, she would look like this until death. But as he opened his mouth, he felt this wasn’t the right time for comfort.

The wisest course of action was to leave quickly.

Back outside the cave, he patted Da Hei’s long neck and sighed:

“Women are so troublesome.”

The crane demon let out a low cry, expressing deep agreement.

Compared to Yu Haizhen, Feng Miaojun’s injuries were healing remarkably quickly. Soon she recovered to a rosy-cheeked state where she could run and jump, making her even more impatient to leave the tiny bottle.

Staying here for long, how was it different from being imprisoned?

Lu Ming had brought back news that Yan Kingdom’s cultivators, including the black-robed Nü Ba, were searching throughout the city for her and Yun Ya, presumably under King Yan’s orders.

Now she understood King Yan’s motives and knew it was best to stay as far away from this powerful ruler as possible.

The existence of that Sovereignty Artifact fragment had imperceptibly pushed her into Wei Kingdom’s camp.

This day, as she finished the meditation, she suddenly saw Yun Ya sitting in the chair opposite her. He had entered the tiny bottle without her noticing and was staring intently at her.

He hadn’t expected her to open her eyes so suddenly and didn’t have time to conceal the inquisitive look in his eyes, which she caught.

That gaze was deep and cold, something Feng Miaojun had only seen when he was scheming against others.

What was he plotting now?

“What is it?”

Yun Ya blinked, and that strange look instantly vanished. He smiled affectionately again and handed her an oiled paper package:

“Eat while it’s hot.”

Feng Miaojun opened it and saw it contained sugar-roasted chestnuts.