Chapter 89: Detoxification: Pain Of The Lingering Death
“Imperial Consort Xi has been afflicted with Fantasy Beauty,” Ye Jiuge explained.
Fantasy Beauty was a very strange poison that could repress injuries. On the outside, while the injury may have seemed to recover, inside, the wound was festering continuously. The even stranger thing about Fantasy Beauty was that a patient could not consume medicine capable of clearing internal heat or detoxifying. The more powerful the Spiritual Medicine, the greater the pushback from Fantasy Beauty.
The Thousand Mountain’s Snow Lotus, which Emperor Xuanwu had obtained, was practically a lethal poison for Imperial Consort Xi. As Fantasy Beauty was a very elusive poison, when they checked her pulse, the Spiritual Doctors had not been able to tell that Imperial Consort Xi had suffered a miscarriage or that she’d been poisoned. As such, they’d blamed her condition on a strange illness.
“How did the Empress obtain all these poisons?” Dongfang Que’s heart sank.
None of the Spiritual Doctors have heard of either the King Poison in his body or the Spiritual Poison afflicting Imperial Consort Xi. How can they fight the Empress like this?
“I am not sure about that. However, the world is vast and full of extraordinary things. You may find these poisons bizarre, but they are commonly used in other places. Take this Fantasy Beauty, for example. When used on Imperial Consort Xi, who’d had a miscarriage, it acted as a poison. However, if used on an ordinary woman, it can have the effect of retaining her youthful looks. As such, nobles from some of the smaller kingdoms consume it regularly for detoxification,” Ye Jiuge said.
Imperial Consort Xi was from Dongfang Que’s mother’s generation. She was also older than Bai Linglong. No amount of care could prevent the effects of the passage of time. The poison was why she still looked as tender and lovely as a young lady. However, this method of maintaining beauty was extreme and very dangerous. One could face eternal damnation if care was not taken.
Elderly Lady Zhou wiped away her tears and asked, “Then, how can this poison be cured?” It was too late to save Imperial Consort Xi’s child. The more important thing now was to cure the poison.
“The blood clotted inside Imperial Consort Xi needs to be drained using some medicine before the Fantasy Beauty can be forced out. Although the solution seems simple, the process is agonizingly painful. When the clotted blood is drained, there will be a recoil from the repressed Fantasy Beauty. Her flesh will rot, and as the Fantasy Beauty is forced out, the rotten flesh will peel off. The feeling will probably be akin to that of Lingering Death,” Ye Jiuge said with a sigh.