Chapter 42: The Woman in White
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
Duan Gujin moved like lightning, darting around those enemies swiftly. With each punch thrown like a hammer, he felled an adversary.
The faces of those enemies changed dramatically as they saw Duan Gujin move so fiercely, his punches hammer-like.
"How is this possible?"
They had thought their strength was on par with Duan Gujin's, estimating that if one or two of them faced him in combat, they might not gain the upper hand.
Therefore, they sent a group of five or six people to surround and attack Duan Gujin.
They had believed they could encircle and kill Duan Gujin, but to their surprise, they were ultimately defeated by him.
In Duan Gujin's eyes, the movements of those enemies had too many flaws; once he spotted the flaws, he could effortlessly eliminate them all.
Seeing an orange Martial Soul wielder suddenly emerge and defeat those enemies, the lady in white breathed a sigh of relief.
She deduced that this young man was probably not her enemy.
"Thank you for your strong assistance just now, my friend!"
The lady in white bowed deeply to Duan Gujin in gratitude.
"You're welcome! Tell me what happened here; I want to know exactly what transpired."
Duan Gujin said.
"It's pretty simple. After my servant and I came here, we were ambushed by this group of people for some unknown reason. I think they must be a gang of bandits who wanted to rob and kill."
The woman in white explained.
"Is that so?" Duan Gujin's eyes twinkled; he felt that the woman in white might be hiding something in her words.
"That's what happened. My two servants and I came here to gather herbs, and unexpectedly, we encountered an ambush. I also don't understand why we were ambushed here." the lady in white said.
Duan Gujin furrowed his brows, feeling that while the woman's words seemed plausible, she might be concealing something.
"So, what medicinal herbs did you come here to gather?"
Duan Gujin probed further.
"I mainly came here to gather three-day intestinal-breaking grass."
The lady in white replied.
"What do you need the three-day intestinal-breaking grass for?" Duan Gujin asked.
"I need it to craft a type of Elixir Pill." the lady in white said.
"What Elixir Pill? A Poison Pill?" Duan Gujin asked cheerfully.
"Yes! I have a reason for crafting this Poison Pill!"
Unexpectedly, the lady in white admitted it straightforwardly to Duan Gujin's surprise.
"Do you have enemies that you wish to eliminate?" Duan Gujin's eyes flashed as he continued to question.
"Yes, my enemy is very powerful; I must use some very special methods to deal with him!"
The lady in white answered honestly.
After hearing her words, Duan Gujin's gaze flickered, and he was moved to inquire which family she was feuding with.
"It's the people from Qiankun Country. I escaped from Qiankun Country and came here to seek refuge!" the lady in white said.
"Oh, so that's how it is!"
Duan Gujin exhaled a breath of turbid air. He knew little about Qiankun Country and felt it improper to ask more.
The woman in white quickly gathered a lot of poisonous herbs nearby, and then bid farewell to Duan Gujin.
Shortly after saying goodbye to Duan Gujin, she employed a concealment movement technique unique to her family, attempting to evade his possible tracking.
The reason she talked so much to Duan Gujin before was that she felt this place was extremely dangerous, and she needed to flee Country Gulai immediately.
Therefore, she didn't mind talking so much with Duan Gujin previously.
Once she left, she used every possible means to shake off any tracking from Duan Gu.
She did not trust Duan Gu before, but she hadn't lied to him, because she felt that she would no longer have any interactions with Duan Gu in the future.
Even if Duan Gujin was an assassin sent by her enemy, she didn't believe he could find her.
She had carefully observed Duan Gujin's facial expressions before. She felt that Duan Gujin's demeanor was calmly indifferent, not at all like a young man.
"A young man couldn't possibly be so calm. Only now do I realize that the young man's expressions earlier were overly calm, calm to the point of resembling an old-timer experienced in the troubles and bloodshed of the worldly society. This is too strange!"
With a flash, the young woman in white suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable in her body, her head throbbing to the point of nearly fainting.
She hurriedly swallowed a large amount of poisonous herbs, hoping to use the medicinal properties of poison to regain consciousness.
If Duan Gujin saw this, he would definitely think the white-clothed woman's current actions were very peculiar.
The next moment, the woman in white hurriedly spat out mouthfuls of black blood, her clothes instantly turning pitch black like ink.
Intending to avoid Duan Gujin, she did not expect to succumb to her severe internal injuries and fainted on the ground.
Duan Gujin did not follow the woman in white, but she fainted not far from him.
Seeing this, he flashed over to her side, picked her up, and found a relatively shady spot nearby.
Using his Divine Sense to look within the woman in white, he furrowed his brows a moment later.
"This woman has been poisoned heavily, I must detoxify her!"
Duan Gujin immediately inspected the woman's body and found many Elixir Pills in her storage ring.
Upon examining those Elixir Pills, his disappointment was that although many could stop bleeding, none could detoxify poison.
A while later, the woman in white's face remained deathly pale.
"There's too much deadly poison in her body! I must detoxify her immediately!"
Duan Gujin thought for a moment and hurriedly bled the woman to alleviate some poison after tasting the blood. He then roughly identified the type of poison in her body.
"So, this woman had been poisoned severely, and she used the method of poisoning against poison to suppress the deadly toxins in her body. This method is very dangerous; one careless move and she would have lost her life!"
Duan Gujin had some Spiritual Medicine with him, but their effects were not good.
To save the woman in white, he could only choose to bleed her first to temporarily subdue the deadly poison in her body.
Moments later, the ground was covered in thick black Poison Liquid, which was released by the woman in white.
As time ticked by, two hours later, under Duan Gujin's healing cultivation, the woman in white slowly opened her eyes and looked at Duan Gujin with a face full of terror.
"You, you, you!"
At this moment, the young woman in white was overwhelmed with fear, her mind reeled, and she fainted once more.
"She passed out!"
Duan Gujin did not expect that she would faint again within a few breaths of waking up.