CHAPTER 443: CHAPTER 443: THE HEROINE’S GOLDEN FINGER

Lin Shiyao’s eyes were filled with intense hatred.

"Pei Shu’er, you’d better not let me survive, or I’ll never stop until you’re dead."

When she said this, she seemed like a demon from Hell, intending to drag Pei Shu’er down into Hell as well.

Pei Shu’er looked completely baffled.

"Haven’t we been destined for a fight to the death for a long time? Besides, it was always you who provoked me first. Don’t act like you’re standing on the moral high ground."

Pei Shu’er injected her with a hefty dose of sedatives again; her hand was steady without a trace of a twitch.

Lin Shiyao’s space was actually a space that hadn’t fully evolved yet.

She inherited this space from the pendant of the former Holy Daughter, so it wasn’t hers.

However, this space had a predatory nature.

Thanks to this space, Lin Shiyao was able to go from being a loser to plundering others’ fortunes all the way along.

Relying on reincarnation, she knew the outcomes and orchestrated her path to the pinnacle of life.

When Lin Shiyao lost all consciousness, strange items from the space fell into Pei Shu’er’s arms.

Taking advantage of no one noticing, Pei Shu’er put some items that weren’t antidotes into her own space.

At the moment, in her pocket, there were two petals of the Heavenly Snow Lotus and various antidotes for the Gu worms.

There were antidotes for Corpse Gu and Obsessive Love Gu, but none for the Golden Silkworm Gu.

Pei Shu’er fed Mrs. Xiao Lin the antidote for the Corpse Gu, then cut open a slit on her arm.

Mrs. Xiao Lin still seemed oblivious to pain, staring blankly with wide eyes.

However, the poison of Forget Sorrow Powder was visibly spreading within her body.

Once it spreads to the heart meridian, not even the deities could save her.

There was a sign of a worm wriggling within her body from the wound, and soon a worm crawled to the wound.

It was a black worm, tainted with blood.

Once the worm exited the body, it fell into the basin below.

Soon, after a few struggles, the worm shriveled into a small, dry clump, completely deprived of life.

At this moment, Mrs. Xiao Lin was also nearly breathless.

Her eyes closed again, her complexion ashen, looking more dead than the expired.

Pei Shu’er immediately fed a Heavenly Return Pill into her mouth, causing Mrs. Xiao Lin’s complexion to improve slightly, and there was a noticeable pulse.

Xiao Shen looked at Pei Shu’er in shock.

"How many of these pills do you have? Can you sell me a bottle?"

Pei Shu’er shook her head, "I don’t have many of these pills."

She drew more blood from Mrs. Xiao Lin’s body and then started testing the antidote nearby.

The reason she hadn’t concocted the antidote earlier was entirely because the Corpse Gu also carried toxins. The antidote made under those conditions, though correct in appearance, was useless in reality.

While concocting the antidote, Pei Shu’er added many medicinal herbs, including some antidotes she had researched in modern times, a Thousand-year-old wild ginseng, and a petal from the Heavenly Snow Lotus.

She knew the recipe for Forget Sorrow Powder; Xiao Shen had already obtained it.

She based her antidote concoction on this recipe, achieving twice the result with half the effort.

After several rounds of trial and error, the antidote was finally correct.

Mrs. Xiao Lin’s black blood had noticeably returned to a normal color.

Pei Shu’er immediately fed the antidote to Mrs. Xiao Lin, whose black-purple complexion quickly faded away, then settled onto her face.

Pei Shu’er promptly took out a silver needle, roasted it with alcohol, and inserted it into the acupuncture point on Mrs. Xiao Lin’s head.

Xiao Shen frowned, about to stop her, "That’s not possible, the Imperial Physician said the deepest part of my mother’s poisoning is in her head."

"If the needle is inserted into her head, the toxins might spread rapidly; even if she revives, she might be a vegetable for life."

Pei Shu’er curled her lips into a smile.

"Rest assured, the antidote can’t penetrate the head, causing your mother to be comatose. My use of the Ghost Style Twelve Needles will clear the meridians; your mother’s body will improve."

Xiao Shen hesitated but, realizing his mother had less than two hours of life left, agreed, though reluctantly.

After Pei Shu’er’s acupuncture, roughly a stick of incense later, she removed the silver needle, and Mrs. Xiao Lin’s face noticeably paled.

Xiao Shen was a bit tense, "Why hasn’t the antidote worked fully for my mother?"

Pei Shu’er looked at Xiao Shen amusingly, "The poison has been in her system for years; it can’t be cleared in a day or two."

"However, don’t worry, your mother’s life is now safe."

Afterward, Pei Shu’er gave Xiao Shen three more Heavenly Return Pills with a sigh.

"Believe it or not, these pills are worth an entire Heavenly Snow Lotus."

The refining process for this pill was truly complex, using a lot of Spiritual Spring Water, ultimately condensed into thirty pills.

She had given Shen Wanqing ten pills and Tang Zan ten, leaving herself with only six.

Xiao Shen naturally knew the value of these Heavenly Return Pills.

Even when a person has barely a pulse, they can take a breath through the Heavenly Return Pills, no other medicine can achieve this.

Not even the Heavenly Snow Lotus has such effects.

To say a few pills can exchange for an entire Heavenly Snow Lotus is elevating the Heavenly Snow Lotus.

After all, Heavenly Snow Lotus doesn’t have the "reviving the dead" miraculous ability, it can only detoxify.

Xiao Shen said, "Someone, bring one thousand silver for Pei Shu’er."

When the silver was brought, Pei Shu’er only took six hundred pieces.

She smiled, "Consider it making a friend; I don’t need to profit, but I do need to recover my costs."

She had spent too much on precious Chinese medicinal herbs.

Xiao Shen smiled with gratitude and thanked Pei Shu’er, finalizing the time.

"You’re coming tomorrow at noon, aren’t you?"

Pei Shu’er nodded.

As she was leaving, Pei Shu’er looked at Lin Shiyao.

"Imperial Uncle, if you want to keep Lin Shiyao under control, it’s best to confine her in a sealed room. Don’t let others interact with her and ensure no physical contact, even feeding her. Her poisons and Gu worms are very potent."

After all, during Lin Shiyao’s confinement at the Gulan Military Camp, people were bitten by poisonous scorpions she released from her space.

She also relied on the scorpions to imbue the guards with Gu worms, causing them to release Lin Shiyao themselves.

Otherwise, there was no way for Lin Shiyao to escape.

Currently, Lin Shiyao’s space was out of control, dropping some items, but it’s unclear if it’s completely emptied.

As for killing Lin Shiyao, she had attempted before; every time she tried, something would either distract them or cause them misfortune.

The fortune surrounding this heroine was incredibly sinister.

Xiao Shen nodded, "Thank you for the warning."

After Pei Shu’er left, she saw a tall, extraordinary gentleman standing at the door outside.

Just by his silhouette, one could tell his status was extraordinary.