Dugu Bo, Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, and Xue Ye's younger brother, Prince Xue Xing, were gathered by the window, their expressions grave as they watched the emperor.
Prince Xue Xing urgently asked Dugu Bo, "Dugu Mianxia, what exactly is the emperor's condition?
This is already the third time he has fainted from the poison flaring up."
Several months ago, Xue Ye had suddenly begun collapsing whenever the toxin inside him erupted.
At times like this, it was thanks to Dugu Bo's method of using poison to counter poison, neutralizing the toxin erupting within him, that the emperor's life had barely been preserved.
But as time passed, the toxin was not cured at the root, so it kept relapsing.
Dugu Bo's method of using poison to counter poison could not cure the Snow Empress's toxin. He could only wait until the toxin erupted most violently, then choose to neutralize it and suppress it.
Yet this method was gradually losing its effect. The poison was flaring up faster and faster, and with increasing intensity.
Dugu Bo sighed. "The toxin in the emperor's blood is a Mixed Poison unlike anything I have ever seen before. This toxin has an extremely powerful ability to change.
Every time I use my own poison to neutralize it, after a while, it changes into a new deadly poison.
At this rate, by the seventh time at most, when this toxin erupts again, it will very likely take the emperor's life directly.
I no longer dare to keep using the method of using poison to counter poison without pause. If we cannot find a way to cure the toxin at its root, this is no different from drinking poison to quench thirst."
After hearing this, Prince Xue Xing's face turned deathly pale, and in his panic, his steps