"I'll go with you."

Qin Ruomeng's face was full of worry.

"You wait here!"

Ye Tianfan's expression changed, his words were as firm as a nail being driven in, an imposing aura emanating from him.

Qin Ruomeng was slightly taken aback, not understanding why Ye Tianfan's attitude suddenly changed, but she trusted the Ye Family's medical skills. Since Ye Tianfan didn't want her to go, perhaps it was because her presence might affect his treatment of Elder Qin.

"Then I'll wait for you here."

"Okay."

Leaving Qin Ruomeng alone in the restaurant, Ye Tianfan quickly walked towards Elder Qin's room.

He pushed open the door,

The room was very dark, with no lights on, but the window was open and moonlight streamed through, shining on the chair beside the bed.

At this moment, Elder Qin sat in the chair with a somewhat dejected look, his eyes gazing out of the window. The moonlight cast on his face made him look very weathered, with his gray temples stirred by the wind, adding more pallor to his already pale face.

"You've come."

Elder Qin's throat moved slightly, but he didn't turn to look at Ye Tianfan.

"Let me take your pulse." Ye Tianfan took two or three steps to stand before Elder Qin and placed his hand on Elder Qin's wrist.

"It's useless, my time is near." Elder Qin's voice was very weak, but his expression was calm, as if it was the final voice of a dying person.

"This...this is..." Ye Tianfan suddenly raised his head, his eyes full of astonishment staring at Elder Qin: "This is the Heart-Piercing Poison!"

The Heart-Piercing Poison is known as the king of all poisons. Its toxin travels through the bloodstream across the entire body, eventually converging at the heart. Once the toxin enters the heart, death is certain, and the victim will experience heart-wrenching pain for seven consecutive days before ultimately succumbing to death.

Elder Qin nodded with a smile, not denying it, just calmly said, "Can you cure it?"

When he spoke, Elder Qin's gaze remained dim, seemingly without hope.

"This... it's possible, but we're missing a key ingredient."

Although the Ye Family's medical skills could force the Heart-Piercing Poison out of the body, it required a very rare Chinese medicinal herb, Lingxi Poria! But this herb had been extinct for decades, even Medicine King Valley didn't have it.

Even the most skilled cannot cook without the proper ingredients. Without the herb, even the miraculous medical skills of the Ye Family are powerless.

And right now, Elder Qin's Heart-Piercing Poison had already reached the blood vessels below the heart. Just half a centimeter higher, it would enter the heart, at which point death would be unavoidable.

At this moment, Ye Tianfan suddenly paused, looking at Elder Qin, exclaiming in surprise: "No, this... this is the Yao Family's Vein Cutting Technique!"

Three needles sealing acupoints, extraordinary meridian cutting veins.

This is the secret skill of the Yao Family!

Although it couldn't drive out the Heart-Piercing Poison, it could interrupt the flow of blood vessels, blocking the poison at the vessels below the heart.

This way, the toxin wouldn't attack the heart, but the Vein Cutting Technique is just a palliative method, as it blocks both the toxin and the blood.

In the short term, Elder Qin wouldn't have too big of a problem, but over time, with insufficient blood supply to the heart, even without being poisoned, one would die.

In other words, these three-needle sealing and extraordinary meridian cutting techniques are both life-saving and killing methods of the Yao Family, and they kill invisibly. People who are killed by this seem to die from symptoms similar to a heart attack, often being diagnosed as natural deaths.

"Did you meet someone from the Yao Family? Yao Lingshan?"

Elder Qin shook his head, "It was Yao Juechen."

"Yao Juechen?"

A flash of astonishment appeared in Ye Tianfan's eyes. Yao Juechen is the Valley Master of Medicine King Valley, the elder of the Yao Family, who rarely acts to save people.

Elder Qin sighed and slowly spoke, "After being poisoned, I went to your Ye Family's Ancient Mansion to find your grandfather to save me, but he couldn't either, just as you said, lacking a herb."

"Then did you go to Medicine King Valley?"

Elder Qin nodded, slowly standing up, unable to help frowning, as he instinctively held his chest with his right hand, "Yes, I went to Yao Juechen, but unfortunately, the Yao Family didn't have the herb either, they could only temporarily suppress the Heart-Piercing Poison for me."

As he finished speaking, a hint of desolate smile appeared on Elder Qin's face, "But it's only a matter of buying time."

Ye Tianfan's expression became heavy as well, surveying the entire China, with the Ye Family's medical skills being the best, and the Yao Family accumulating all kinds of rare medicines under heaven. If these two families couldn't save someone, that person truly seemed destined to die.

"Who poisoned you?"

Ye Tianfan's face was gloomy. Given that the Heart-Piercing Poison is the king of poisons, its compounding method is naturally very complex, and absolutely impossible for an ordinary person to concoct.

"Was it the Yama Hall?" Ye Tianfan pressed further.

"No." Elder Qin shook his head, "The Yama Hall was almost entirely exterminated by your Ye Family a thousand years ago. What's left now are just remnants, unable to create a major disturbance."

These words by Elder Qin made Ye Tianfan momentarily stunned. He understood the Ye Family deeply! He even knew things from a thousand years ago!

What exactly is Elder Qin's identity?

Even if he had a sworn brotherly relationship with the Ye Family elder, it wouldn't be possible to know things from a thousand years ago. The Ye Family elder wasn't someone who spoke randomly about such things, especially things from a thousand years ago.

Yet Qin Wujue knew.

This filled Ye Tianfan's heart with doubt.

This old man was hiding something profound.

"If it wasn't the Yama Hall, then who? The Yaqi Society?" Ye Tianfan frowned, instantly dismissing this as he spoke.

The Yaqi Society is a force from Japan, but the Heart-Piercing Poison is a Chinese poison, passed down through Chinese history to this day.

The Yaqi Society couldn't possibly concoct such a poison.

But in Jiangzhou City, the only two forces Ye Tianfan knew were the Yama Hall and the Yaqi Society. If it wasn't either, Ye Tianfan couldn't think of any other force capable of creating such a poison.

Elder Qin looked out the window, letting out a heavy sigh, and said, "There are some forces hidden in the shadows, their strength far beyond what you can imagine. For now, we don't want you to come into contact with them, so don't ask, Tianfan."

We?

Ye Tianfan felt a slight tremor in his heart. He didn't know who Elder Qin referred to as "we", wanting to ask further, but was sure Elder Qin wouldn't disclose anything.

Elder Qin slowly turned around and patted Ye Tianfan's shoulder, whispering, "Don't overthink things for now. What is to come will come, what you need to face, what you need to know, in time, you will understand. Go rest, the day after tomorrow is the wedding banquet for you and Ruo Meng, rest well, I don't want my grandson-in-law looking listless on his wedding day."

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